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Home Phone: 337-580-0732 Ardoin drafted in 10th June 08, 2005 – After ending the season in a mysterious slump, the St. Edmund High product found out that at least one team wasn’t thrown off by it when the Detroit Tigers selected him in the 10th round of Tuesday’s amateur baseball draft. “I’m very relieved,” Ardoin said. “I was hoping that the past couple of weeks wouldn’t make me slide too far. I talked to quite a few scouts. Some of them were worried that I was hurting, but I was never hurting. Others went on potential and told me that all pitchers have slumps.” Ardoin was picked in the 12th round by Texas after his junior season, but elected to return for his senior season. “I have no regrets at all,” said Ardoin, who was 10-5 with a 3.76 ERA this past spring. “Look at what I got to experience – a conference championship.” UL coach Tony Robichaux also was relieved by Ardoin’s selection. “I would have hated to see him slip too far, because of the message it would have sent to next year’s junior who got drafted,” Robichaux said. “To go a few rounds higher was definitely a relief. And who knows where he could have gone, if not for it (late-season slump).” Robichaux predicted that Cajun left-hander Austin Faught would go early in day two of the draft today. Only 18 of the 50 rounds were completed on Tuesday. Ardoin was one of 22 high school or college products from Louisiana to be drafted on the first day. Tulane’s Brian Bogusevic and McNeese State’s Jacob Marceaux were the top two Louisiana college players selected – both going in the first round. Bogusevic, who excelled both on the mound and in the batting order as an outfielder, went 24th overall to the Houston Astros. Marceaux, a right-handed pitcher, went 29th overall to Florida. Bogusevic, of Oak Lawn, Ill., has won 13 games on the mound with a 2.72 ERA in 119 1/3 innings pitched. He held opponents to a .239 batting average. Marceaux became the highest Major League Baseball draftee in McNeese State history. He was 6-5 last season with a 3.05 ERA. His fastball has been clocked around 94 mph. His fastball has been clocked around 94 mph. He threw four complete games and struck out 105 batters in 100 1-3 innings. Bogusevic was among four Tulane players drafted Tuesday. Pitcher Micah Owings and shortstop Tommy Manzella were drafted in the third round by the Arizona Diamondbacks and Houston Astros, respectively. Catcher Greg Dini was drafted in the 12th round by the Los Angeles Angels. Three LSU players – outfielders Ryan Patterson and Nick Stavinoha and junior left-handed pitcher Greg Smith – were selected in later rounds. Patterson was chosen in the fourth round (118th overall) by the Toronto Blue Jays, Smith was selected in the sixth round (171st) by the Arizona Diamondbacks and Stavinoha was chosen in the seventh round (230th) by the St. Louis Cardinals. Louisiana-Monroe pitcher Matt Green was drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the second round (49th). Green, who would have been a senior in 2006, was 10-2 with a 2.56 ERA and 141 strikeouts this season for the Indians. Daily Advertiser Cajuns slip without top guns June 06, 2005 – Dan McDonald NEW ORLEANS – As it turned out, Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajun baseball team went into battle in the weekend’s NCAA Regional Tournament without its top two pitchers. That’s like asking a football team to play a game without running backs, or a basketball team to concede every rebound. It’s telling Jeff Gordon to drive on only two wheels. “None of these coaches here would let you walk up and cut their number one and number two off before this tournament,” said UL coach Tony Robichaux. So how did the Cajuns hold their three regional opponents to 12 runs, take one elimination-game win and drop their two losses in regional play by a total of three runs? “You’ve got to give our other guys a lot of credit,” Robichaux said. “The rest of the pitching staff did a great job. We knew going in that we’d have to score more runs to compensate, and that’s what eventually did us in.” Sunday’s 5-4 elimination-game loss to Alabama was marred by the premature loss of senior left-hander Austin Faught, the Sun Belt Conference’s Pitcher of the Year and a second-team All-America selection. Faught – the only unbeaten starter on any of the country’s All-America teams – was unavailable in UL’s first two tournament games because of a sore elbow. He had thrown some on Saturday and told Robichaux that he could start Sunday’s contest, but after three strikeouts in the first inning he told the Cajun coaches that something wasn’t right. “He came in after the first inning and said he felt a little bit of pulling in his elbow,” Robichaux said. “He’s already had ‘Tommy John’ surgery, and it was in the area where the graft occurred, so it was an area that is dangerous.” Faught went back out for the second inning, under direction that if he kept feeling a pull that he was to signal the bench. He got three easy outs in the second, but no relief from the tightness. “We agreed there was no reason to send him back out,” Robichaux said. “There’s no reason to hurt somebody’s arm.” At least Faught got through seven batters. Cajun senior right-hander Kevin Ardoin only made it through five on Friday before having to leave UL’s opener against Alabama, only this time he was trailing 4-0 after a fourth straight ineffective outing. Ardoin, who was 10-1 at one time this season, was tagged for that 7-5 loss and finished up with a 10-5 mark. It could have been name-a-score for the Crimson Tide, but the Cajun pitching staff got solid performances from Thad Montgomery, Brandt Sanders and Kraig Schambough in relief, with only six hits and three runs allowed over the final eight and two-thirds innings. One day later, Hunter Moody and Micah Cockrell did not allow an earned run to Southern’s Jaguars in a 9-1 Saturday victory that put UL back against the Crimson Tide. Jered Salazar had to come in much earlier than expected in Sunday’s game, probably contributing to him allowing four hits and three earned runs in his three innings of work. But little-used Ian Pecoraro stymied Alabama over the final four innings with a surprising three-hit, four-strikeout effort. “Ian gave us a chance to win,” Robichaux said. “Jered was in an unfair situation, and we told our guys they had to support him. He hung one slider and got hurt by an error, but he never gave up the three-run inning and that’s what we preach.” In all, the Cajun pitching staff allowed only 24 hits in three NCAA Tournament games and only eight earned runs. If someone had offered those numbers to Robichaux before the start of the tournament – especially with his two top guns totaling only two and one-third innings on the mound – he’d have gladly taken them. “That’s something we couldn’t control,” said senior third baseman Dallas Morris. “But if they couldn’t go, we had to play as if it didn’t matter and let the next guy do his job.” But the Cajuns got behind in both games against the Crimson Tide, and their inability to stage late-inning rallies continued. UL never came back from as much as a four-run deficit all season, and only came back from three runs behind three times – all of them coming before the end of March. The Cajuns finished their season 3-15 when trailing after six innings … and 42-2 when leading after six. “When we had Kevin and Austin rolling we won 47 games, and we were a very good club,” Robichaux said. “What I didn’t want to happen was for us to let down when we didn’t have them. We said we weren’t going to worry about what we didn’t have.” The Cajuns weren’t out-hit in any of the three tournament games, but didn’t get hits at key times – a trend that plagued them throughout the final month of the season. “We kept getting more inconsistent one through nine in the order,” Robichaux said. “We didn’t ever get back to where we were earlier in the season. “When you play 60 games, you’re going to have games where you don’t hit consistently, and unfortunately we had those at the end of the year.” Alabama 4, Louisiana 3 ALABAMA (40-22) LOUISIANA (48-19) ab r h bi ab r h bi Rice dh 5 1 2 1 Coker cf 3 0 0 0 Iorg ss 5 0 1 0 Prcido ph 1 0 0 0 Scott lf 2 1 0 0 Landry lf 3 0 0 0 Bush 3b 3 0 0 1 Lucroy dh 4 1 2 0 Welch 1b 4 0 0 0 Morris 3b 3 1 1 2 Thmly rf 4 1 2 2 Tatford 1B 3 0 0 0 Valverde c 4 0 0 0 Hawke 1b 0 0 0 0 Scelfo 2b 4 0 1 0 McCrthy rf 4 0 1 0 Paiml 2b 0 0 0 0 Morgan c 4 1 2 1 Salem cf 3 1 1 0 Cockrell ss 4 0 1 0 Large p 0 0 0 0 Merndino 2b 4 0 0 0 Downs p 0 0 0 0 Faught p 0 0 0 0 Davis p 0 0 0 0 Salazar p 0 0 0 0 Pecoraro p 0 0 0 0 Totals 34 4 7 4 Totals 33 3 7 3 Alabama 000 220 000 – 4 Louisiana 000 002 001 – 3 E-Morris, Cockrell, Pecoraro. DP-UA 1, UL 1. LOB-UA 7, UL 7. 2B-Rice, Lucroy, McCarthy. HR-Thomley, Morris, Morgan. SH-Salem. SF-Bush. SB-Iorg, Coker. IP H R ER BB SO Alabama Large 4 1 0 0 2 1 Downs (W, 2-0) 4 6 3 3 1 4 Davis (S, 3) 1 0 0 0 0 0 Louisiana Faught 2 0 0 0 1 3 Salazar (L, 6-3) 3 4 4 3 0 2 Pecoraro 4 3 0 0 0 4 Downs faced 1 batter in the 9th. W-Downs (2-0). L-Salazar (6-3). S-Davis (3). WP-Pecoraro. HBP-Scott (by Salazar), Tatford (by Large). U-Barmann, Buck, Hendrickson, Gillis. T-2:50. SCHOOL-RECORD NINE CAJUNS NAMED TO ALL-SUN BELT TEAM, FAUGHT NAMED May 24, 2005 – Chris Yandle, Sports Information – Louisiana-Lafayette’s Tony Robichaux named Sun Belt Coach of the Year MIAMI-For the first time in school history, Louisiana-Lafayette placed Seniors Austin Faught, Dallas Morris and Micah Cockrell were named to Head coach Tony Robichaux was named the Ron Maestri Coach of the Year Earlier this season, Robichaux became the 48th active coach in NCAA Morris followed his stand-out junior season from a year ago with an Cockrell, who had only pitched an inning of relief in college entering Rounding out First Team honors were Middle Tennessee’s Matt Scott, Louisiana-Lafayette also placed six players on the All-Sun Belt Second Senior ace right-handed pitcher Kevin Ardoin topped the list of Hawke followed his All-Sun Belt Second Team nomination from a year ago What started off as a disappointing season for Merendino turned out to Coker and Landry have both been an important part in arguably one of the Coker, known for his excellent defense and the ability to cover a large Landry, known for his clutch hitting, is second on the team behind Capping off the Cajuns’ list of all-conference players is freshman Rounding out the Second Team are Florida International’s David Asher and Florida International’s Yema was named the Sun Belt Conference Player of New Mexico State’s Luke Hopkins was named the conference’s Freshman of Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns, the No. 1 seed in Aeropostale Sun Belt All-Sun Belt First Team All-Sun Belt Second Team Player of the Year: Yahmed Yema, Florida International ARDOIN NAMED TO ROGER CLEMENS COLLEGE PITCHER OF THE YEAR AWARD WATCH April 21, 2005 – Chris Yandle, Sports Information – Ardoin one of three Sun Belt Conference pitchers named to list LAFAYETTE-Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns senior right-handed pitcher Kevin Ardoin (8-1), a native of Eunice, La., has the second-most wins by a Ardoin was one of three Sun Belt Conference pitchers on the revised Other notable nominees from Louisiana include Centenary’s J.C. Biagi, Long Beach State’s Jered Weaver won the first Roger Clemens Award last The Roger Clemens Award was named after future Hall of Famer Roger The intial watch list was comprised of all Division I pitchers who were The first round of voting for the Roger Clemens Award is slated to begin The second Clemens Award will be presented to the nation’s top college A complete list of Roger Clemens Award nominees can be viewed at -Information from this release obtained from www.clemensaward.com- Published April 21, 2005 LUCROY, ARDOIN NAMED SUN BELT CONFERENCE PLAYER, PITCHER OF THE WEEK April 18, 2005 – Chris Yandle, Sports Information Louisiana-Lafayette entered Baseball America Top 25 Poll for first time LAFAYETTE-Freshman designated hitter Jonathan Lucroy and senior Lucroy, a native of Umatilla, Fla., became the second Cajuns player this Earlier this season, senior Justin Morgan went 5-for-5 with four RBI in Ardoin received the conference’s weekly honor for the second time this For the first time in five weeks, Louisiana-Lafayette (32-7, 7-2 Sun Louisiana-Lafayette was last ranked in the Baseball America Top 25 Poll Louisiana-Lafayette, winners of nine of its last 10 games, swept a Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns return to action on Wednesday when they travel ARDOIN NAMED TO COLLEGE BASEBALL FOUNDATION NATIONAL HONOR ROLL FOR March 22, 2005 – March 22, 2005 LAFAYETTE-Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns senior right-handed pitcher Kevin The National Honor Roll, released by the CBF, salutes the finest Last week, Ardoin (5-0) struck out a career-high 13 batters en route to Ardoin was one of two Sun Belt players to be recognized on the honor Louisiana-Lafayette, ranked No. 19 by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper, ARDOIN NAMED TO COLLEGE BASEBALL FOUNDATION’S BROOKS WALLACE AWARD WATCH March 09, 2005 – Chris Yandle Teammate Dallas Morris was named to the original watch list released in LAFAYETTE-Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns senior right-handed pitcher Kevin Ardoin is one of 38 student-athletes added to the revised list and joins The Eunice, La., native leads the Cajuns in 14 different pitching Earlier this season, Ardoin was named the Sun Belt Conference Pitcher of Florida International pitcher David Asher, added in the revised list The Brooks Wallace Award is presented annually to the national college LAFAYETTE-Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns senior right-handed pitcher Kevin Ardoin is one of 38 student-athletes added to the revised list and joins The Eunice, La., native leads the Cajuns in 14 different pitching Earlier this season, Ardoin was named the Sun Belt Conference Pitcher of Florida International pitcher David Asher, added in the revised list The Brooks Wallace Award is presented annually to the national college ARDOIN NAMED TO COLLEGE BASEBALL FOUNDATION NATIONAL HONOR ROLL March 01, 2005 – yandle@louisiana.edu LAFAYETTE-Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns senior right-handed pitcher Kevin It is the first National Honor Roll released by the CBF saluting the Last week, Ardoin (3-0) earned his third win of the season, going seven Ardoin was one of two Sun Belt players to be recoginized on the honor Louisiana-Lafayette, ranked No. 21 by Baseball America, is currently KEVIN ARDOIN NAMED SUN BELT CONFERENCE PITCHER OF THE WEEK February 14, 2005 – LAFAYETTE-Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns senior righthanded pitcher Kevin Ardoin, a Eunice native, threw seven innings of one-hit ball in the Last season, Ardoin finished 6-2 with a 3.30 earned run average and a Louisiana-Lafayette, off to a 3-0 start for the first time since 2001, LUCROY, ARDOIN NAMED SUN BELT CONFERENCE PLAYER, PITCHER OF THE WEEK April 18, 2005 – Chris Yandle, Sports Information Louisiana-Lafayette entered Baseball America Top 25 Poll for first time LAFAYETTE-Freshman designated hitter Jonathan Lucroy and senior Lucroy, a native of Umatilla, Fla., became the second Cajuns player this Earlier this season, senior Justin Morgan went 5-for-5 with four RBI in Ardoin received the conference’s weekly honor for the second time this For the first time in five weeks, Louisiana-Lafayette (32-7, 7-2 Sun Louisiana-Lafayette was last ranked in the Baseball America Top 25 Poll Louisiana-Lafayette, winners of nine of its last 10 games, swept a Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns return to action on Wednesday when they travel Originally published April 18, 2005 St. Edmund product excited to be back after telling Rangers no. Dan McDonald LAFAYETTE – Eight months ago, Kevin Ardoin faced the biggest decision of his young life. The number on pitcher on the University of Louisiana’s 2004 baseball squad had been picked in the 12th round of major league baseball’s free agent draft, and he had a choice – sign with the pitching-starved Texas Rangers, or return for his senior year with the Ragin’ Cajuns. “I really didn’t know what I was going to do for a while,” said the Eunice and St. Edmund High product. “Even after I made a decision, I found myself questioning it and wondering if I’d done the right thing.” What Ardoin finally decided was to finish out his collegiate career, and he’ll make the first appearance of his final college season tonight when he makes UL’s Opening Day start for the second straight year. Cajun coach Tony Robichaux will hand Ardoin the ball for tonight’s 6:30 p.m. season opener against La. Tech at Moore Field, just like he did almost 12 months ago to the day when UL opened with a 4-1 win over UL Monroe. Ardoin didn’t get a win in that game, but struck out eight in five innings and scattered four hits. “Every Friday night, you know what you’re going to get out of him,” Robichaux said of the senior righthander. “He’s going to set the tempo, let our hitters settle in and most of the time go deep into the game and let us get through the lineup a couple of times.” Ardoin finished 2004 with a 6-2 record and a 3.30 ERA, a mark that ranked him fourth in the Sun Belt Conference among starters. He had three complete games and fanned 95 batters and walked only 22 in 106 innings. And he now says he’s a much stronger pitcher. “It wasn’t so much that I worked on my pitches,” he said of his off-season program. “I worked mostly on conditioning and endurance, keeping my velocity through late innings. The scouting report was that I dropped a few miles per hour late in games, so I wanted to make sure that didn’t happen this year.” He could have been working on that in the Rangers’ minor-league system, but he said that as the signing process developed after last June’s draft he became more enamored with one more year of college ball. “It wasn’t like they (the Rangers) put a lot of pressure on,” he said, “but you could tell they wanted me to make a quick decision. It was their job to get me to sign, and you could see that it really was a business. “Here it’s more like a family. Everybody looks after and supports each other. It’s not to say that the minor leagues may not be the same, but I know now it was the right thing for me. “There’s some loyalty, too. I came here as a walk-on and Coach (Robichaux) gave me the chance to pitch and start. I owed something back to him, if nothing else just to thank him for giving me a chance.” He also liked the idea of being a part of what could be the Cajuns’ deepest pitching staff in several seasons. “It’s competitive,” he said, “but there’s also a group of senior leaders here … vocal guys like Austin (Faught) and Dallas (Morris) and Scham (Kraig Schambough), and guys like (Phillip) Hawke and Justin (Morgan) that lead by example. “All of us learned from the seniors we had three years ago, and now it’s up to us to hand that off to the freshmen we have now.” Possible starting lineups and batting orders for tonight’s season opener: LOUISIANA RAGIN’ CAJUNS No. Name Pos. 8 John Coker CF 6 Justin Merendino 2B 32 Josh Landry LF 30 Dallas Morris 3B 27 Phillip Hawke 1B 25 John McCarthy RF 23 Micah Cockrell SS 13 Jeffries Tatford DH 2 Adam Massiatte C LOUISIANA TECH BULLDOGS No. Name Pos. 6 Brandon Haygood 2B 21 Adam Cobb CF 2 Ryan Hamilton 3B 23 Albie Goulder DH 26 Joseph McCarthy 1B 17 Gil Laird RF 40 Mims Boyce C 36 Travis Granberry LF 12 Gary Holik SS Possible weekend pitching rotation: LOUISIANA’S RAGIN’ CAJUNS: Tonight – #31 Kevin Ardoin (RH, 6-2, 175, Sr., Eunice-St. Edmund) Saturday – #22 Austin Faught (LH, 6-1, 195, Sr., Houston-Jersey Village) Sunday – #17 Buddy Glass (RH, 6-2, 200, Fr., Clermont, Fla.-East Ridge) LOUISIANA TECH BULLDOGS Tonight – #22 Clayton Meyer (RH, 6-3, 205, Sr., Victoria, Texas-Blinn JC) Saturday – #7 Mitch Tucker (RH, 6-0, 180, Sr., West Monroe-WMHS) Sunday – #18 Andrew Lassere (LH, 5-10, 160, Fr., Destrehan-Destrehan) Originally published February 11, 2005
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