Speaker 1: Team one Pint thirteen is adding the finishing touches to
its roster. Let's discuss it here on Raging Rundown. What's good,
ladies and gentlemen, and welcome into another episode of Raging
Rundown where it's all Cajuns, all the time. I'm your host,
JaMarcus Fitzpatrick, but you know you can always call me Fits.
And in today's episode, we will be talking about yet
another portal commitment by the Raging Cagens baseball program. Will
talk about how they will be a part of the
Bruce Bolt College Classic this upcoming season or next season
that is, and then we will get into football ad
and get another commitment to their twenty twenty seven class.
Let's start things off with the latest portal commitment by
Raging Cagen's baseball as they have added a local product
to their roster, Tanner Hornback, who played on the roster
for ut Tyler this past season where the Patriots made
it all the way to the Division two College World
Series semi final round. So a very very good baseball
program that he is coming from. He was originally from
Saint Thomas Moore. He's a Lafayette product, so he is
coming back home. Hornback played in two seasons at ut Tyler,
and this past season he started all sixty three game
for the Patriots, I believe at second base, sporting a
three fifty six batting average, he had seventy three hits
sixty six runs on two hundred and five at bats,
adding ten doubles, a triple, two homers and forty three rbi. Now,
before he actually came to ut Tyler, he was a
member of the bad Rouge Community College roster back in
his freshman campaign. He spent one season there where he
played in fifty two games. He had a three to
ninety three batting average, thirty RBI, forty two runs scored,
and also forty stolen basis with two home runs. He's
not a huge power hitter, but the dude can absolutely
find contact with the baseball, which is exactly what you're
going to need adding to this roster and it gives
you options once again, like what we've talked about, and
not to mention, he is also playing in summer league,
so he is back home and he is getting reps
in He's a member of the Akkadiana Kinge Cutters, the
Texas Christian League or the TCL League. I can't remember
what the seed stands for at the top of my head,
but the TCL League for the Akkadana Kinge Cutters. Shout
out to Cajun's syndicate for these stats that I'm rid
in Texas Collegiate League. There it is. So far this summer,
he has a three eighty five batting average in fourteen
games of action, recording twenty hits, seventeen runs, and fifty
two at bats, adding on four doubles, triple and nine
RBIs so a talented guy, a former local product that
you are now adding to your roster. Things are shaping
up extremely well for this team right now, and it's
only going to continue to get better as we get
closer to fall ball of how exciting things are really
going to be looking. So, as it stands, you have
thirty five total players on your roster. I've been told
that this is about as close as we're going to
get to the final roster. They are looking for potentially
one more pitcher to add to the bullpen, but this
is what things are looking like as of now. So
you're looking extremely solid across the board with what you
have on your roster. You have nineteen total pitchers. You
now have nine infielders. You have five outfielders and two catchers.
I will read them off to you as we always
do so you can know exactly what it is. So
if you have a pen and paper, if you were
to put this in slow motion or anything like that
to be able to sketch this down, you have the
to do that. It is as follows. We'll start with
pictures Ty Rowman. This is part of your returners. Ty Rowman,
Gared Carter, cam Riley Parker, Smith, Hayden, Pearson, Sawyer, Prewett,
Case Morgan Jr. Ta led Landon, Victorian, Bryce Wilson. Those
are your returning pictures. Evan Vincent Urlin's Catholic product is
a freshman. He will be coming in your transfer pitchers
Trenton Lape, Dagan Kogat, Maddix Sullivan, Charlie Cribs, Blaine Albright, Griffin, Miller, Kendall, Dove,
Jackson Evers. Those are your nineteen pictures. Moving over to infielders,
your returners Drew markle Blaze, Rodriguez, Josh Lim Those are
your three. Miles Ledeaux is a freshman coming from barb
After that your transfers are Eric Fernandez, Jeremy Kuiper, Micah Kendrick,
Manny Salz, and Tanner Hornback. So those are your nine infielders.
Next are your outfielders, and from what I've been told,
Steven Spalita will be moving to the outfield, but obviously
he has an opportunity to still catch if you need
him to. So you have five outfielders in total. Four
of them are your returners. They are as follows, Donovan LaSalle,
Mark Collins, Noah Lewis, Steven Splita, and then the transfer,
Kell Pasano coming in as an outfielder for five of them.
Your two catchers, your returner Colt Brown, and then Jose
Carmona the transfer coming in for you as well. So
that is what your roster is shaping up to look like,
and things are looking extremely polished here. The sky's the
limit for Team one thirteen. We've talked about before, the
recruiting strategy that coach Diggs appears to be having. I'm
gonna work to have that conversation with him one on
one in person wants the transfer portal is officially closed
and all of the recruiting that they are getting done
completely finished. But what I believe their strategy has been
is go and get experienced players. Let's load up, and
let's go play baseball and try to go win a championship.
Because you only have two freshmen incoming freshman on this roster,
you have all of your returners from last season, so
the bulk of this roster from last season, and you
have a boat load of transfers that you've brought in
that you have identify as guys that can truly help you.
From guys like Manny Salaz, Jackson Evers as a reliever pitcher,
Kendle Dove as a relief pitcher. You win, and got
guys that believe in your vision and your coaching staff,
Guys like Charlie Ribs Blaine alright, alright, Griffin Miller, guys
that played under your pitching coach in Taylor Sanderford. They
believe in what you're trying to accomplish. You go and
get a local kid like Tanner hornback to come back
home that played on a championship level team. Right, That
is what you are trying to do when you're trying
to build out a roster as a whole to win
a championship. In order to the championship level team, you
have to get players that have been a part of
championship and winning level programs. So that is what things
look like right now for Team one thirteen headed into
twenty twenty seven. The Kajuns will also be playing in
the Bruce Bolt College Classic come twenty twenty seven. That
was officially announced today Thursday, June to twenty fifth, as
of from the actual website itself. From the Bruce Bolt
College Classic website, they have announced that it will be Houston,
it will be Louisville, Texas A and M Yukon, Utah
and Louisiana in this three day, nine game showcase. It
will be from March to fifth to the seventh. Excuse
me if I'm kind of standering a little bit. I'm
looking back through this press release to get everything correct.
Luisiana will be making its sixth appearance in the event,
and it's first since twenty twenty four. They previously participated
in two to three, twenty sixteen, twenty eighteen, and twenty
twenty four. They will play three games throughout this weekend.
Their first matchup will be against Utah. On Friday, they
will play against Texas A and M a familiar opponent
on Saturday and then Sunday against Yukon. First pitch for
the Utah matchup will be at three oh five, The
Saturday game against AMM will be at seven oh five,
and the Sunday game against Yukon will be at two
to five pm. Obviously, they are coming into this season.
They will be entering that season after going forty one
and twenty five, and the opponents that they're facing. Utah
didn't have the best of seasons. They were twenty six
and twenty five overall. Yukon was thirty two and twenty six,
and they made it to the Big in the Biggest Tournament,
they lost two games and were bounced out immediately. Utah
made it to the Big twelve tournament and were bounced
out immediately by Kansas State. Meanwhile, Texas A and M
hosted their own regional. They won two games, they beat
Lamar Texas State. They make it to the regional final,
and they lose in their own regional to USC, losing
two games fourteen to three and then seven to one
to fall out of the College Station regional. So you
will be facing off against some really talented a talented
program in Texas A and M, and then you will
face off will get some different opponents, so to speak,
in Utah and Yukon. It will be very interesting to
see what this team will look like as we move
through fall ball and how they will be able to
compete against their upcoming opponents in their non conference slate.
But that is what we know as of now. The
roster and the schedule will obviously come out at a
later date, so it'll be truly exciting to see what
that all turns out to be once we get to
that season. Now, baseball has been on a tear and
we have seen that and we've been talking about it
a ton during this offseason. But football has quietly been
putting together an extremely solid twenty twenty seven class and
they just received their thirteenth latest commitment. We're gonna tell
you all about it when we return here on Rage
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Louisiana football has now grown their twenty twenty seven recruiting
class to thirteen total commits after they received a commitment
from Crawford linebacker Cameron Alakij. He is six foot tall,
he's two hundred and five pounds, and he had fifteen
total offers, so fourteen others that you were competing against.
He went on an official visit at Uel during the
weekend of June eleventh, and the only other official visit
that he took was at New Mexico that was on
June fifth, So you beat out the likes of New Mexico,
North Texas, Utsa, Colorado State, Louisiana, TEG, New Mexico State,
Sam Houston, Texas State, Two Lane, Tulsa, Delaware State, Fordham Lamar,
and Northern Arizona where all of his offers. So you
get a commitment from a talented linebacker. I looked at
his film and he can pretty much do a little
bit of everything. Blitzing from the inside linebacker position, he
can come from the edge position and rush the passer.
He's a downhill type of linebacker that has a nose
for the football, that knows how to go out and
make plays, and he is not afraid to tackle anyone.
You know. Tackling, I always say, is something that's more
of a want two type of thing, and he definitely
wants to go out and hit somebody else and he
is very capable of doing that. In his junior season,
he had one hundred and twenty seven total tackles, seventeen
and a half tackles for lost, a defensive touchdown, four
fumble recoveries, seven sacks, a forced fumble, two pass breakups,
and eleven quarterback hurries. His recruiting process was something that
took some time, obviously, that you cultivated over a little
bit of time. Initially, he received his offer from the
Cajens on March the second he tweeted about it. Coach
Munios was his primary recruiter because he had the conversation
with him, he extended the offer to him. He had
an in home visit on and I'm going based off
of his twitter on May the fourteenth, where coach Munos
and him were at his home. They took a picture together.
He was meeting the staff, creating relationships. He tweeted about
that on March the nineteenth, and like I said, he
had his official official visit the weekend of June the eleventh,
And now you get this commitment again. He makes such
a good impression on a player that after he had
a visit at New Mexico, he comes he received an
offer from I believe it was Lamar a couple of
days ago, and he comes to UL. He goes on
the official visit. He's wild enough that he decides to commit.
That goes without saying like, yes, I know. That's when
you roll out the red carpet and you have snacks
laid on the bed and you feed them all of
this food and you're telling them all these things. But
from the conversations that I've had from a lot of
these recruits and other players that have visited programs, like
even transfers like Tito Chakiri, they told me that this
coaching staff has been genuine with them. They're being real
with them. About what they want, the vision they have
for this program, the development plan that they have laid
out for them as a player, what they believe they
can get accomplished in the Vermilion in White, and that's
why they're willing to come here to laugh Yette. We've
talked about it numerous times on this podcast. I even
said it in the last episode if you want to
go and check that out, when they got two commitments
to reach twelve and I said that even though wins
have not been materialized as of recent six and seven seasons,
we know all about that. There goes without saying how
big it is when guys are still willing to come
to the program even though things are not on the
up and up in the win column. It goes without
saying that you don't have a huge amount of turnover
from your coaching staff. You don't have a whole lot
of guys transferring out because they hate the coaches or
they don't like where they're at. They're literally just going
to try to say, hey, I want to get some
more playing time, or I want to go somewhere and
bet on myself to go to a bigger program. That's it.
And you're not losing a high volume number of players.
So to get a commit after giving him an offer
in Mark and having fourteen other offers, him going on
an official visit before you got a chance to meet
with him. He could have committed to New Mexico after
the official visit and then maybe he shuts down his
recruitment completely. That could have possibly happened. But he comes
to laugh, Yette. He gets the chance to visit your campus,
and now you have a commitment to your twenty twenty
seven class. So if I can pull it up here
really quickly, I will tell you all thirteen of the
players as it stands from this twenty twenty seven class.
It is as follows. We've talked about it before. Your
first commitment to the class was Shadow Creek tight end
Bryce Coleman. Then it was a Boyeals defensive lineman Kobe Smith,
Faraday wide receiver Rob Taylor, Westbrook quarterback Tam Anderson, Angleton
offensive lineman Noah ernz plackmin wide receiver John Walker, University
Lab defensive lineman Mason Smith, Saint Thomas More safety Landon Ortie,
who will be moving to line once he's on campus.
Summer Creek dB Caleb White, Archbishop Rummel, I don't know
why I have such a hard time staying that word,
Archbishop Rummel, dB, Gavin Cooper, junior Wiley athletes Ja Briar
and Blake, Eastview, offensive lineman Adarius Hines, and now Crawford
linebacker Cameron A. La Kij Thirteen players that you've added
to your roster. You have a little bit of everything.
Defensive linemen, tight ends, wide receivers, old linemen, linebacker, safeties,
and like I've said before, coach does believes in building
through the high school ranks, So there's plenty more where
that came from. This will not be the last commitment
that we see and that we talk about here on
this podcast, but you have another player to root for
that will be rocking to Vermilion White and White really
really soon. He has a senior season upcoming to play
before the early signing period in December. If I can
get a chance to, I'll try to bring him on
my day job at KTC and sit down and have
a conversation with it to see how he's feeling about
his commitment. And maybe we'll put some cutups here on
Raging Rundown, as we've done so many other times before.
But that's gonna wrap up this episode of Raging Rundown.
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