Southern won the better half of the weekend series against Northwestern State, falling to the Demons 3-5 on Saturday but defeating NSU 5-3 on Friday and 7-4 on Sunday.
“I thought the team did well,” said head coach Roger Cador who is in his 28th season as head coach of the Jaguars.
The Jaguars gave up a total of 24 hits in the weekend series against the Demons.
“We pitch well in all three games, and that’s what’s really been caring us thus far as well as the defense, now we just have to get our timing and hitting together,” said Cador.
The Jaguars Brain Rowry had a good game getting two RBIs in against NSU.
In the bottom of the seventh the Jaguars scored four runs thanks to three errors by the Demon defense that sealed the deal for the Jaguars.
With that win on Sunday the Jaguars gave coach Cador is 800th win of his career.
The coach total career record sits at 800-452-1 in 1,253 games in all, Cador ranks 25th among active Division I coaches in total wins and ranks 28th in his career winning percentage among active D-I coaches (.638).
Cador, a former student-athlete at Southern, received a bachelor of science degree in health and physical education in 1975, and earned a masters degree in guidance and counseling in 1979. In Cador’s 28 years as head coach for the Jaguars he has sent over 40 players to the professional ranks.
Cador likely won’t surpass Robert Henry Lee, who was the head coach at Southern from 1949-60 and has the highest winning percentage of all time by any coach (.831). However, Cador has transformed the Southern baseball program into one of premier HBCU programs in the country and one of the most successful baseball programs period.
“I’ve been coaching a while, and I got good players, and we’ve been extremely fortunate on top of that,” said Cador.
Cador said that one of his his most memorable experiences was in 1987 when his first team defeated Cal-State Fullerton then the No. 2-ranked team in the country in the NCAA regionals.
Cador also mention another memorable experience when in 2003 Ricky Weeks collegiate baseball player of the year and Golden Spikes winner at the time and current Milwaukee Brewers second baseman played for the Jaguars and they went to a hostile environment to play Southern Miss and came away with the victory.
If there is any sport on campus that should draw a crowed every game is baseball, the last time the Jaguars were sub-.500 was 24 years ago in 1988-89, where the Jaguars went 18-26 in Cador’s fifth season as head coach.
Which is a winning habit older than most of the undergraduate students on the bluff.
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Cador notches career win no. 800
February 28, 2012
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