Southern baseball aims to end SWAC title drought

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana  --  When he steps out of his office on the bottom floor of the F.G. Clark Activity Center, Southern baseball coach Roger Cador meets a line of team portraits that decorates long stretches of hallway in either direction.

There are 14 portraits in all — one for every Southwestern Athletic Conference champion that Cador, entering his 28th season, has coached. But the youngest of the pictures is three years old.

Southern hasn’t won the SWAC tournament since 2009. When the Jaguars fell short last year, it matched the longest stretch of seasons without a championship that Cador’s program has known.
“There’s been a drought — a long drought,” said senior pitcher Daniel Garcia, a freshman on Southern’s most recent conference championship team. “Unheard of in Southern history.”

“Three years,” Cador said, “is an eternity for us.”

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