Southern coach Roger Cador prefers forfeit to makeup

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana  --  The Southern University baseball team is scheduled to return to Houston to play a makeup doubleheader against Texas Southern on May 9.

But Jaguars coach Roger Cador said he’s prepared to forfeit the games to save the expenses of a trip that isn’t in the budget and avoid the strain on players who will be taking final exams that week. Additionally, the makeup date is the same as the university’s commencement.

Southern and Texas Southern played just one of three scheduled games in Houston last month because of rain. The Southwestern Athletic Conference has a “100 percent rule,” which requires that all divisional games be played.

“We don’t have the money,” Cador said. “Just the bus is $3,000. You’re looking at $1,600 or so for a hotel and another $1,000 or so for food. So you’re talking about another five or six thousand dollars easy that you don’t have. That’s money I wish I had for recruiting.

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