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Baseball: Rams reunited at UL

Joshua Parrott • jparrott@theadvertiser.com • April 15, 2010

The left side of UL’s infield this baseball season certainly boasts a local flavor.

Junior Greg Fontenot is starting at shortstop for the second consecutive year, while fellow Acadiana High School grad Tyler Frederick has started 18 games at third base as a redshirt freshman.

Frederick leads the Ragin’ Cajuns with a .364 batting average, logging 28 hits in 77 at-bats. Fontenot is tied for the team lead with 42 hits and is second with a .344 batting average.

The former prep teammates are expected to be in the lineup again this weekend as UL (19-14, 7-8 Sun Belt) goes on the road for a league series against Arkansas-Little Rock (21-14, 4-8).

“We’ve been playing together for five or six years now, since our freshman year of high school,” Fontenot said. “We know each other pretty well. We talk about it (having played together for so long) every now and then.

“It’s just good that we’re both producing.”

The tandem has also helped the Cajuns calm down defensively.

After other players struggled in the field early on at third base, Frederick got his chance and has committed only three errors in 58 chances since moving into the lineup.

Fontenot has made only six errors in 156 opportunities this year. That’s an improvement over last season, when Fontenot had a team-high 19 errors in 255 chances.

According to Fontenot, the addition of volunteer coach Brooks Badeaux has helped him do a better job of attacking groundballs and improving his fielding position. Badeaux was a former Teurlings Catholic and Florida State standout before playing 10 years in the minors.

“I think coach coming in has helped me tremendously,” Fontenot said. “We worked really hard in the fall and spring and took a lot of groundballs and did a lot of drills. It’s really helped a lot.”

Another honor
Zach Osborne, named the Sun Belt Pitcher of the Week on Monday, was honored as the Southeast Pitcher of the Week by CollegeBaseballInsider.com.

The senior right-hander fired a one-hit shutout last Friday in UL’s 6-0 win over Troy, allowing only a third-inning single while striking out seven.

UL coach Tony Robichaux plans to start Osborne again Friday against UALR with senior righty Justin Robichaux getting the nod on Saturday.

Coach Robichaux considered swapping those two after Osborne threw 136 pitches in his previous start.

Bowman update
Sophomore outfielder Brian Bowman sat out last weekend’s three-game series against Troy due to a sore wrist. Bowman, tied for third in the Sun Belt this season with 14 steals, could be used as a pinch-runner this weekend but is not healthy enough to hit yet.

Griffen will travel
Righty Thad Griffen threw live to hitters earlier in the week and will travel to Little Rock. Coach Robichaux said that the junior could throw out of the bullpen on Sunday.

Griffen, last year’s starting catcher before a knee injury in the fall forced a position change, has been out since undergoing an emergency appendectomy on March 2. At the time he had emerged as the team’s top closer with a 1-0 record and 0.00 ERA in two appearances

Odds and Ends
After working out at Moore Field on Wednesday, the Cajuns travel to Little Rock today before holding a workout at UALR’s Gary Hogan Field. Friday’s start time is 6 p.m., followed by 4 p.m. on Saturday and 1 p.m. on Sunday “» So far this season the Cajuns are 15-5 this year in night games and 4-9 during the day “» The Cajuns have won a season-best five in a row going into the weekend. That’s the best winning streak since they won five straight last May. They won seven consecutive games from March 29-April 8 of last season “» Sophomore left fielder/designated hitter Alex Fuselier (shoulder) could be used in the field against UALR. Last weekend the Teurlings Catholic grad was in the lineup at designated hitter due to shoulder discomfort.