LAFAYETTE – The Louisiana Ragin’ Cajuns Softball group will begin Yr No. 6 of the Gerry Glasco period among the many group of groups which can be ranked within the D1Softball Prime 25 preseason rankings.

D1Softball launched its first rating for the upcoming 2023 collegiate softball season on Tuesday (Jan. 17, 2023). Louisiana was listed at No. 20 within the ballot.

The Ragin’ Cajuns (47-13, 23-4 Solar Belt in 2022), the three-time defending Solar Belt Convention common season and match champions, have appeared in each version of the group’s preseason rankings.

D1Softball’s Prime 25 rankings are headlined by lead writers Rhiannon Potkey and Tara Henry.

It is the twentieth consecutive season during which Louisiana can be preseason ranked by no less than one nationwide media outlet. This system has been preseason ranked by the NFCA every year since 2004, and listed in each version of the ESPN.com/USA Softball preseason ballot which started in 2006.

Louisiana, an NCAA Match participant every year since 1999, begins the 2023 season at Yvette Girouard Subject at Lamson Park from Friday-Sunday, February 10-12 internet hosting the thirty seventh Annual Louisiana Classics.

The official season opener is ready for Friday, Feb. 10 at 4:30 p.m., when the Ragin’ Cajuns start play within the Louisiana Classics with a matchup in opposition to Lafayette Faculty.

To view the entire 2022 season schedule, click on right here [ragincajuns.com].

There are 9 (9) groups listed within the 2023 D1Softball Preseason Prime 25 that seem on the Ragin’ Cajuns’ season schedule: No. 2 UCLA, No. 3 Oklahoma State, No. 4 Florida State, No. 5 Florida, No. 8 Arkansas, No. 14 Texas, No. 15 UCF, No. 17 LSU and No. 25 Ole Miss.

Louisiana is coming off this system’s twenty third consecutive 40-win season and NCAA Match look. Within the 2022 season, the Ragin’ Cajuns positioned a conference-high 9 gamers on the All-Solar Belt group, produced 5 NFCA All-Central Area performers, recorded a program-record .351 season batting common and generated probably the most house runs in Glasco’s tenure (82).

ABOUT LOUISIANA 

As he heads into Yr No. 6 guiding the Ragin’ Cajuns, Gerry Glasco goals to proceed molding his inflow of younger expertise – the majority from the No. 1 recruiting class that debuted in Spring 2022 – into a robust and sturdy nationwide postseason contender.

Final spring, Glasco directed and mentored a lineup that featured at most two upperclassmen and as many as 5 freshmen, and developed them right into a championship and NCAA Match group. Regardless of the youthfulness, Louisiana superior to Championship Sunday of the NCAA Clemson Regional.

Quick ahead to now, and the youthful Ragin’ Cajuns group is a yr wiser and nonetheless has many different veteran items in place to type a harmful mixture.

The three key items to final season’s pitching success stay intact (Meghan Schorman, Kandra Lamb and Sam Landry) and all however two starters within the lineup return headlined by main house run hitters Alexa Langeliers and Karly Heath (13 every), main run-producer Stormy Kotzelnick (51 RBI), prime hitter for common Jourdyn Campbell (.392) and stolen-bases chief Maddie Hayden (28-of-34).

SEASON TICKETS ON SALE 

Season tickets are at the moment on sale and will be bought by cellphone at (337) 265-2104, on-line at RaginCajuns.com utilizing Account Supervisor, or by visiting the Cajundome Field Workplace in-person Monday-Friday from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and prolonged hours throughout Ragin’ Cajuns basketball occasions. A minimal $50 donation to the RCAF Annual Fund is required to buy Louisiana Softball season tickets.

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