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Speaker 1: Ragon Cagen's Baseball is heading to start Vegas for the

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NC Double A Regionals. Let's break it all down here

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on Raging Rundown. What's good, Ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to

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another episode of Raging Rundown, the show where you will

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know all things ul sports. I'm your guy, Ja Marcus Fitzpatrick,

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but you know you can always call me fitz And

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on today's episode, we will be talking about Louisiana baseball

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getting back into the NC DOUBLEA tournament and they will

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be heading to Starkville, Mississippi to be a part of

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that regional. The field of that regional bracket will be

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the likes of Mississippi State as the number fourteen overall

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seed lifscom and also Cincinnati along with the Raging Cagents

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the Cajuns getting the number three seed in that bracket

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or in that field as well. Also kudos to the

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Sunbelt for getting five teams in Texas State, Troy with

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a part of the last four in obviously Louisiana and

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then Coastal and Southern Mists getting into the NCAA tournament

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as well. So what we'll do is, obviously we know

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what the field will look like. We'll do a preview

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of the matchup that the Cajuns will have against Cincinnati,

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and then we'll talk about the other games that are

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going to be happening in the potential matchups that the

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Cajuns could face in the regional over this upcoming weekend

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that will begin on Friday at six pm with the

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Cajun's matchup against the Cincinnati bear Kids. So, obviously, this

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season has been a lot of a roller coaster for Louisiana.

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They start off the year playing really well in non conference.

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They would end up being ranked in the top twenty five,

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and then they hit a bussault in the middle of

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the season where they were swept by Texas State. They

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would lose a series to James Madison to ULM, and

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then after that they flip the switch. They get wins

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over Southern Miss, Arkansas State, Georgia State, app State, and

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then close out the regular season getting two of three

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against Coastal Carolina. Once the regular season was over, we

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talked about on the show multiple times how I believed

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that this team needed to win the Sunbelt Conference Tournament

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or at least get to the championship game in order

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to get a regional bid, and that's exactly what they

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would go ahead and do. The only loss that they

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would suffer would be against Texas State in game nine

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of the tournament. They would beat Coastal Carolina two more

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times in this tournament, making it four or five on

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the season. They beat Texas State twice and then they

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lost to Southern miss on Sunday yesterday for the championship game.

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So now they find themselves here in the Starkville Regional

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and they will take on a Cincinnati team that is

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a member of the Big Twelve that, according to Warren Nolan,

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is number twenty four. They have the number twenty two

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best RPI in the country. They finished sixth in the

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Big Twelve. They beat the likes of number four Auburn.

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They beat Kansas one time, I believe, and then they

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got two or three against West Virginia. They have hit

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eighty four home runs this season. That's thirty seventh in

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the country. So this is a team that can hit

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the long ball extremely well. They are averaging seven point

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four runs per game and they have hundred bating average,

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which is forty seconds in the country. And then their

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runs per game is seventy fourth in the country. So

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you're going to be playing against a very quality opponent

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that can hit the baseball really well. But as we know,

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the Cajuns do really well on the defensive side of things,

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and they have been pitching really well also, So I'm

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expecting to probably see Cody Brash run out there on

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Friday against the Bearcats, and then you'll manage it from

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there of how you want to go, whether that's running

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Andrew Herman out there. But he's been throwing quite a bit.

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He threw quite a bit there in the Sunbelt Tournament,

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so he might be limited on rest, but he's a

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senior and I know he's gonna want to give it

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his all for his team. So we'll see how the

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team manages the pitching rotation for this upcoming weekend. But

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it should fear to be a really really good matchup

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between these two teams. Like I said, Cincinnati, you know,

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finished the season thirty seven and twenty and finished sixth

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in the Big Twelve standings, And I told you some

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of the big wins that they had. They lost the

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first game that they played in in the Big Twelve tournament,

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they lost to Arizona State ten to two, and outside

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of that and when you look at some of the

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wins that they have, like they were ten and nine

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against Quad one opponents, seven and six against Quad two,

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nine and two against Quad three opponents, and then nine

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and four or seven and one, excuse me against Quad

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four opponents in terms of RPR, eleven and three in

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terms of Quad four. I'm looking at two different things

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at the same time. So they are kind of in

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the middle of the pack as well, very similar to

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the way you were, but they didn't get hot in

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the conference tournaments exactly like the way that you did.

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So this is a very winnable game for you, and

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to be honest, this entire site Starkville is a winnable

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site for you as well. So you draw a very

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winnable regional for you. And now it's just about being

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able to go out and continue to play quality baseball

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and win three games in four days. That's what it's

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going to boil down to. If you keep winning, you

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stay in the winners bracket, but ultimately win three games

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in four days. That's all it's going to take to

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be able to win said regional. So I'm gonna take

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a quick time out. When we come back, we'll talk

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about the other two teams that are in this regional,

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that's Lipscomb and Mississippi State. Will talk about their matchup

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and what it could look like if Louisiana can beat

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Cincinnati and go to the winner's bracket or if they

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have to play through the losers bracket, what the matchups

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could look like with those teams. And then we'll also

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look ahead to what the Starkville Regional is matched up

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with the other regional that it's matched up with in

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the entire field of sixty four. We'll discuss it when

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we come back here on Raging Rundown. Hey, guys, thank

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you so much for tuning into another episode of Raging Rundown.

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We're going to get back into the action in just

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a second, but before we do, please do me a favor.

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of more Raging Cajun fans. Just like yourself. So we

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talked about Cincinnati, the opponent that Louisiana will face initially

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on Friday here in the Starkville Regional. But the other

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two teams that are part of this regional are obviously

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in Mississippi State that was the number fourteen overall seed,

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and then Lipscomb out of the a Sun Conference. So

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we'll start with Mississippi State. They finished with the thirteenth

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best RPI according to Warren Nolan, but the fourteenth overall seed.

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They finished eighth in the SEC, so they were sixteen

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and fourteen in SEC play. They swept a non conference

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series against Lipscombe, so they will be playing this team

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for the fourth time, I believe this season. So it's

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gonna be fairly it's gonna be a winnable game for them.

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Not trying to discredit Lipscomb at all, because they earned

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their right to be in this regional, but Mississippi State

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is expected to win this game. Some of the wins

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that Mississippi State has are the likes of sweeping Old

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Miss in four games this season, they were four and

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six though in the total SEC run the series that

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they won, they won four weekend series and a lot

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of them were not big wins. I think one of

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them was against LSU. If I'm not mistaken, I have

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to go back and look. But I have just some

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quick notes that I have written up. But this team

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can hit really, really well, so it's not gonna be

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easy to just run away and beat them. They haven't

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won a lot of big games, but they can hit

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the baseball really well. So if you're not making it

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hard for them and giving different variation of pitches, if

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you're just giving them fast balls or very simple pitches

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down the middle that they can swing at, they can

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hit it out of the yard. They have one hundred

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and six home runs on the year, which is thirteenth

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in the country. They're averaging eight point five runs a game,

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which is fifteenth in the country, and they have a

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three to thirteen battened average, which is tenth in the country.

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really well. So it's not to overlook them, but it's

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just going to be interesting to see how the Cajuns

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could very well match up with Mississippi States the Bulldogs

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in this particular regional based on how it falls. Let

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me go back and look and see exactly who they

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beat in terms of conference plays. So obviously they have

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the series over Ole, miss which is a quality one.

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They lost to Georgia, the number three team in the country,

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which is also what this regional is matched up with

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the Athens Regional, So if the Cajuns are able to

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get out of Starkville, they will have to go and

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be back in SEC country and will take on Georgia

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in the Super Regional if Georgia is able to get

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out of them, which they should. They lost to Tennessee.

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They beat South Carolina, that's not really an impressive series win.

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They swept them, They swept LSU, They lost to Texas,

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and they lost to Texas A and M, so not

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a ton of quality wins for Mississippi State. In fact,

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they are nine to fourteen in Quad one wins, four

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and three in Quad twos, twelve and oh in Quad threes,

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and then fifteen and oh in Quad four So they

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win the games that they're supposed to, but some of

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the bigger games are the more quality opponents that are

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on their schedule. They haven't played as well against them,

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so again this regional is favored for the Cajuns in

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this one. That's not to say that they're gonna steamroll

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this one and they're not going to lose a game,

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but it's very favorable for them to be in a

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position to potentially be able to win. Said regionally, the

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final team in this week regional is Lipscomb. They won

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the a Sun Tournament. Not a very impressive regular season

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slate that they had, but they can hit fairly well.

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Also they average. They have a two ninety two bat

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and average. Obviously, like I said, Mississippi State beat them

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in three games during the regular season, including I think

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of twenty six to nothing run rule victory over them,

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so that should be a wash game there On Friday,

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I believe their first game is at one o'clock, so

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that should be a wash. But it's thereafter if the

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Cajuns are matched up with them in the loser's bracket

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or by some miracle, they're matched up with them in

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the winner's bracket. It's again going to be about playing

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great defense in great pitching. I believe Ul's bats can

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be able to continue to stay high because they have

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been over tournament play and now as they are carrying

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that over into the postseason. I think that their bats

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can continue to be hot. So it's just going to

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be a matter of thinking up the hitting and the

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pitching together and we'll see how things all fare for

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the Raging Cages here in postseason play. It's going to

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be a fun one there in stark Build. It's about

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a five hour drive from Lafayette, or if you're a

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Raging Cajun fan, make the trip up. We're going to

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see if if we'll be making it up for my

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day job at KTC, and if we don't, I'll still

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be covering here right here on Raging Rundown. We'll figure

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out how we'll be able to get that dumb done

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and be able to do some double duty for you

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guys to make sure that we're covering it on all bases.

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Like I mentioned, if the Cajuns are able to get

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out of this said regional, they would be matched up

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with the Athens Regional with the Georgia Bulldogs near the

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bottom of the bracket, So they would be leaving from

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SEC Country and going to SEC Country once again, going

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from Mississippi State in Starkville to Athens, Georgia to take

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on the Georgia Bulldogs, a team that won the SEC

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regular season and also the SEC tournament and can hit

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the baseball really, really well. Former LSU hitting coach, If

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I'm not mistaken, Wes Johnson is the leader for the

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Bulldogs over there. Before you can get to that, you

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have to win this one. So we'll see how things

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fare for the Raging Cagens as they go through the

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Startville Regional. And not to mention, this is the first

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time the Cajuns re enter postseason play after missing out

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on a regional bid last year. So you're in a

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much better position than what you were last season, nearly

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getting to forty wins, finishing at thirty nine after tournament play.

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So now it's about going and continuing to stack quality

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wins and trying to get out of said the regional.

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So that's going to wrap up this episode of Raging Rundown.

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Cagens are going to They are in the Starkville Regional

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and how will they be able to win it, and

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if they're going to be able to make it to

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that super Regional against the Georgia Bulldogs. If you're listening,

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in front of more raging Cajun fans. Just like yourself.

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I'm your guys, you're Marcus Fitzpatrick. We'll see you guys

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next time.