Cajuns Fall To Trojans, 7-1

Louisiana's Ragin' Cajun baseball team dropped the opening game of a critical Sun Belt Conference weekend series, on Friday night, falling to the Troy Trojans, 7-1, in Troy, Alabama. Ragincajuns.com has the story, below.

Louisiana saw its five-game win streak in Sun Belt play snapped Friday night at Riddle-Pace Field in Troy, Ala., as the host-Trojans used a complete-game effort from Tyler Ray and 16-hit attack to top the Ragin’ Cajuns 7-1.

Ray limited the Ragin’ Cajuns (26-20, 13-9 Sun Belt) to four hits and the Trojans (33-13, 16-6 Sun Belt) plated six runs over their final four at bats to break open a 1-1 contest.

The teams continue their three-game Sun Belt series on Saturday at 6 p.m. UL will send junior righty Jordan Nicholson (3-2, 2.63 ERA) to the mound and Troy is set to counter with freshman Jimmy Hodgskin (2-4, 4.08 ERA).