Five more Cajuns selected on final day of MLB Draft

LAFAYETTE, La. – The top-ranked Ragin' Cajuns baseball team saw a record number of student-athletes drafted this season as two position players and three pitchers were selected on the final day of the 2014 MLB First Year Player Draft on Saturday.
Conrad, the 2014 Sun Belt Player of the Year, was the first player taken on the final day in the 13th round by the Tampa Bay Rays.
Not long after Conrad was chosen, both second team All-Sun Belt selections Robichaux and Leonards had their names called as the Los Angeles Angels selected Robichaux in the 18th round and the Chicago White Sox picked Leonards in the 21st round.
The final two Cajuns selections came in rounds 33 and 37. The Los Angeles Dodgers took Baranik, the Sun Belt Pitcher of the Year, in the 33rd round, while Plitt was selected in the 37 round by Tampa.
Those five players joined Junior outfielders Seth Harrison and Caleb Adams who each had their names called on the second of three days of the draft.
Harrison was picked in the seventh round by the San Francisco Giants, while Adams was selected in the 10th round by the Los Angeles Angels.
Harrison, a junior from Cypress, Texas, is hitting .317 on the season and is second on the squad with 63 RBI.
A two-way player, Harrison has posted seven triples and nine home runs while also recording two saves in four appearances on the mound.
Adams ranks in the top 50 nationally in average (.387), hits (82), runs (66), triples (7), home runs (11), walks (45), slugging (.689), on base percentage (.509) and total bases (146).
A First Team All-Sun Belt outfielder, Adams is a semifinalist for the Dick Howser Award and was tabbed to the Golden Spikes Watch List.
Jace Conrad, Austin Robichaux, Ryan Leonards, Carson Baranik and Matt Plitt join Caleb Adams and Seth Harrison on the list of Louisiana players drafted this season.
The seven draftees is one better than the six that were selected in both 1989 and 2000.
Louisiana returned to action on Monday night at M.L. "Tigue" Moore Field as the Cajuns looked to punch their ticket to Omaha with just one more win in a best-of-three super regional with Ole Miss.

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