Speaker 1: Raging Cajun Softball is continuing to try to build out
their twenty twenty seven roster. Let's discuss it here on
Raging Rundown. What's good, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to
another episode of Raging Rundown where it's all Cajun's all
the time. I'm your guy, your Marcus Fitzpatrick, but you
know you can always call me Fits. And in today's episode,
we will be talking about the latest transfer portal addition
to the Raging Cajun softball program. And then we will
also check in on the football program. With their latest
addition to their twenty twenty seven classes, it's continuing to
climb in the double digits. Let's lead off with softball,
as Alison Habits and company had been extremely quiet during
this offseason transfer portal section of their twenty twenty six
campaign as they are transitioning to twenty twenty seven. They've
been extremely quiet as they had only added just one
player up until this point. But here on Monday, June
to twenty ninth, they add Angelina Conde, who is a
Texas Tech transfer. So she was a part of that
team that were the runners up in the national championship
game of the Women's College World Series, but the contributions
that she had to the team were not nearly as
big because of all the other players that they had
ahead of her. She was a very young player coming
in as a true freshman and just didn't get as
much burned to be able to play. She comes in
and as of the new age based model that the
NCAA approved, she will have four years of eligibility remaining.
You remember your five years in five five seasons, five
years to be able to play. She has burned one
of them, so she would have four more years remaining.
She is an infielder. Like I mentioned, in her long
season with the Red Raiders, she recorded just one run,
she drew a walk in two played appearances in that
one game, or she appeared in three games, excuse me
recording one run, drawing a walk two played appearances during
that freshman campaign. But what we can look at is
in her high school career, she played in one hundred
and nine career games. She collected one hundred and ten
hits while batting three twenty four. She totaled twenty doubles,
nineteen home runs, and eighty eight rbi. Showcasing a little
bit of consistency there at the plate and some slight
power as well. Obviously that continues to come along as
you continue to get stronger in the weight room in
your career. And like I mentioned, based on the New
Age eligibility model, she will have four years of eligibility remaining.
So as it stands, the Cajuns have about five more
roster spots available. They have twenty total players on their team,
two of them being from the transfer portal, and I
will read them off as follows. If you'd like to
be able to write it down, go ahead and pull
your pen and paper out so I can give you
a moment to be able to get to that. As
it stands, your pictures are as follows. Stage Hoover leads
you off as your most experienced picture out of the bullpen.
After that you have Bailey Michaels, Emily Adams as a
true freshman, a Kayla Ranicky as a utility player, but
she also pitched, so I'm throwing her name there in
the mix. And then South Carolina transferred pitcher KG Favors.
So you have five total pictures, four for sure, potentially
five that are in the mix. After that, your infielders
are as stands, you have eight of those. Your returners
are Mei, Lescatto, Broocatto, Madison Man named Hailey Hard, Emily Smith.
Your freshmen are Ali ra Rios, Tour Gonzalez and now
Angelina Conde as the transfer from Texas Tech. So that
is eight infielders. Your outfielders you have five of those.
Dajah Williams is a returner, me and Norwood, Lillie Knox
and Kennedy Stuts and then freshman Hayley Johnson is rounding
that group out. And then you have two catchers Kennedy
Morris So who we've talked about multiple times on the show,
and zoeheringon the North Vermilion product is it coming in
as a true freshman. So you have twenty total players,
two catchers, five outfielders, four for sure pictures potentially five
and then eight infielders to round you out at twenty.
So I know, you know right now it's extremely quiet
and people are probably saying, what is it that coach
Habits is working on. I have not spoken with her
at a great length to kind of understand what their
philosophy is, but very similar to how I'm looking at
how coach Diggs and company attacked a portal. I'm now
looking and just assuming based on what I'm seeing and
the way that they're doing is that instead of going
and trying to spend a bunch of money to get
the big splash player out of the portal, they are
taking their time. They're evaluating young players that they believe
can help them in the long run, and they are
going the long route with things the developmental piece, Right,
g Favors only played one season at South Carolina, so
she's going to have four years of eligibility remaining. And
now Angelaine and Conde comes in and has four years
of eligibility remaining as well. So you have two young
players that you're bringing in that were a part of
big time programs. Ul Obviously the standard of this program
is to be big time, but in these past couple
of years that has not happened. Right, Texas Tech played
in the National Championship back to back seasons. South Carolina
is a program that plays in the SEC and getting
those type of players that have been around, you know,
big time softball and elite players that is going to
help them and some of that can be able to
off and help you build to what you ultimately want
to be. So I know it's a word that many
Cajun fans are not gonna want to hear, but patients
is probably going to be the thing that's gonna be
needed in some instances. Right the pressure is on. I'm
sure this coaching staff understands that these past two seasons,
you haven't broke thirty wins, and you've been bounced out
of the Sun Belt Conference tournament this past season, of course,
happening in your own backyard, and you did it against
your biggest in state rival in Ulm, which hurts. So
the word patience is not gonna be something that people
are going to want to hear, and I totally understand that.
But you're gonna have young players that are gonna be
coming in and you're going to have to do a job,
an amazing job as a coaching staff. Bill Shipman, Kyle Brady,
Lacy Prejohn, and Allison Habits. It's going to be on
them to take these players and mold them into the
stars that they believe they can be so that this
team can overall be a success story. We talked about
it before. The cornerstone pieces that they believe that they're
going to be building this program around Meal Ascano, Brooke Otto,
Kennedy Marceau, and obviously Haley money Hard, the returning Sunbelt
Freshman of the Year, are your cornerstone pieces. Those are
the players that coach Habits named after they lost to
ULM in the Sunbelt Conference tournament. You add on top
of that, Sage Hoover is going to have to be
your age She has no choice, but she obviously would
do that because she was your most consistent pitcher. But
in this case, she has no choice but to be
because she's the oldest and the most experienced. After her,
Bailey Mackles has I think six games of experience at
the collegiate level, and then the rest of them. Ag
Favors has a handful of games of experience and then
two incoming freshmen, So she's going to be leaned on
heavily to rally the truths. After that, You're going to
need a lot from your positional players, right your Meal Ascano's,
your Brookaddos, your Madison Mannings are going to have to
step up. Emily Smith, entering her junior season after having
a great freshman campaign, taking a small step back in
her sophomore campaign. She's gonna have to come up big
in her junior year. We know what Hayley hard is
gonna bring to the table. She's gonna have to be
able to continue that. Dajah Williams out of the outfield,
being a table setter and the speed that she has
on the base paths, they're gonna need a lot out
of her. Me and Norwood, the power that she's brought
to her back, Lilli Knox continuing to build consistency herself,
those outfielders, and then obviously what Kennedy Marsau has been
able to do behind the dish. I've heard potentially words
on the street. This is nothing to report, but this
is just things that I've heard that Kennedy Morsau. There
could be a potential that maybe she moves as an
outfielder or in a different position, and Zoe Harrington you
assumes the role behind the dish. I don't know, but
either way, you're going to need a lot from your
skilled players to step up because this team is going
to be extremely young and it may take a minute
for things to kick into gear for them to eventually
get to where they want to be. So that is
how things stand. You now up to twenty total players
as I mentioned, and two more players coming through the
transfer portal, so things are looking to start shaping up
even more so. There are five more rostersponts because you
can average twenty five, so there will be more names
for certain coming through the Raging Cajun Softball program. Softball
is making headlines now and the alsehol football has quietly
been putting together a solid twenty twenty seven recruiting class.
We're gonna get into that when we come back here
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So before we went to break, like I told you,
softball has added through the transfer portal, but now switching
gears to the grid. Iirre the Raging Cagents are now
up to fourteen total commits as they have just added
a or they earned a commitment. I believe it was
last Friday from Elkins outside linebacker and I'm going to
take my time trying to pronounce his name. It is
a mosa fe Ayame Ray. He is an outside linebacker
from Elkins High School, which is in Missouri City, Texas.
He is six foot two, he is two hundred and
five pounds, and he had offers from the likes of UTSA,
Air Force, Navy, Delaware State ul and it says that
he has six in total. I'm trying to see who
the six to one is and Lamar so you win
once again a head to head recruiting battle. You go in,
you identify a player that you wanted, and you add
him to the class. As I'm looking at his highlight
tape on his Twitter account, if you want to go
and follow him, obviously you can go and check him
out there. He is a hard hitting athlete. I wasn't
able to find any stats on him from his junior season,
but he's a hard hitting athlete. He can drop into
coverage and based on the Cajun's defense, he would probably
assume that role of a jack position. We've seen what
those players can be where they can put their hand
in the dirt, but if need be, they can drop
into coverage and go back and be able to pick
off quarterbacks when they're throwing those slant routes and those
curl routes and all of those different things like that.
He has that ability from what I'm seeing listed as
an outside linebacker and has a great skill set in
front of him. So, now, like I said, your class
is now up to fourteen total players. They are as
follows Shuttle Creek tight end Bryce Coleman of Oils defensive
lineman Kobe's Smith Ferday wide receiver, Rob Taylor, Westbrook quarterback,
Tam Anderson Angleton offensive lineman, Norah Ernst Blackman wide receiver
John Walker University lab defensive lineman Mason Smith Sat Thomas
More safety who will play linebacker once he gets the
ul Landon Ordy Summer Creek dB Caleb White, Archbishop Rummel
defensive back, Gavin Cooper Wiley athlete Joe Robin Blake Eaveview
offensive lineman of Darius Hines, Crawford, linebacker Cameron Alakijah, and
now Elkins outside linebacker Amosa fay I. You're married, so
you have built up a very even type of class.
We've talked about it multiple times on this episode. What
coach des is trying to build. There are going to
be more and more players that they will work through
to try to get. Obviously, there are guys that they
brought in through recruiting visits during official visits up right now,
it's obviously a dead period, so they cannot bring any
more players or have contact with them at this point.
So it was important to get the guys in that
you wanted and identify as much as you could during
that month of June. Now, as we're getting to transition
through the month of July, it's now going to be about, Okay,
let's get this twenty twenty six football team ready to
play and get an action. Let's roll through this season,
and then as we're going through the season, continuing to
cultivate the relationships that you have with your fourteen commits
and continue to work to build out the twenty twenty
seven class. As you are building toward the future, things
are getting just days and days closer. As we are
now sixty eight days away from the Cajun's opening the
twenty twenty six season against the Lamar Cardinals at Our
Lady A. Lord Stadium on September fifth, with a seven
pm kickoff, And it's going to be an interesting season
to see how things will shake up for this team
because the past couple of years it has been six
and seven outcomes. But as we've talked about on this
show before, there is a ton of talent that they
have that they will be building around and that they
will be working to try to create something special in
this season. Some of the main players that we've talked
about before, we know at quarterback Lunch Winfield, this offense
will go as he goes. The running back room is
extremely young, but we've seen players like Darrell Smith and
JJ Gardner pop off really big plays during the spring game.
You're gonna add in Key Ryan Smith as a true
freshman now, so your running back room is going to
be young, but they have a lot of explosive playmaking abilities.
Shelton Sampson is your one receiver, but then you have
other guys around them like Raji, Dennis Lennon, Struther, that
they're going to be able to make plays, and then
you have a host of others that are waiting for
their opportunity to be able to stand out as well.
Kayden Jensen is such an emotional leader and a huge
part of your offense, not just in the passing game,
but in the run game as well, because as we know,
ul likes to run the football first, and they set
up the pass through the run game and they use
the tight end quite a bit. So he is going
to be huge for you. And then defensively, your things
start and end, I believe at the cornerback position with
Brent Gordon. Junior College Football twenty seven is set to
come out. I think in maybe another week or so.
I'm not mistaken on what the release date is. He
is the highest rated player out of all summed up
players on the game, which that doesn't mean a lot
in real life, but it just goes to show you
how universally he is respected as a young player, even
though he is entering his sophomore campaign. You're young in
the linebacker room, but you have players in there that
are going to be able to step up and make plays.
Caleb Edwards, Michael Johnson, Jake Saint Andre. The list goes
on with that. Your dB room at the safety position,
like Colin Jacob and Cody Jackson are going to be
spear hitting things. And then on the defensive line, you're
going to be anchored by Fitzgerald West, Maxi Bodwin. You
know you're transfers in Tito Chakire, Roger Stewart, Princeton Malbrew
come in as the jack position and he was utilized
a lot at the MIC and Will and Sam positions
as well the inside linebacker position, so he's going to
be an interesting piece for you as well. So we'll
see how this team shapes to be as we get
closer to the season. But that's how things are looking
for the twenty twenty seven class and overall as we
are getting closer to the twenty twenty six campaign for
the Ragon Cagens football program. So that is how things
are shaping up softball as transfer Angelina Conde and football
gets a commitment from Amosa fe Aya Mara an outside
linebacker from Elkins. So that's going to wrap up this
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