The top-ranked Ragin' Cajuns baseball team saw a record number of student-athletes, seven in all, drafted this season.
Two players were drafted in the first 10 rounds on the second day of the 2014 MLB First Year Player Draft on Friday. Then, two position players and three pitchers were selected on Saturday.
The total of seven draftees is one better than the six that were selected in both 1989 and 2000.
Junior outfielders Seth Harrison and Caleb Adams 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.
Jace Conrad, Austin Robichaux, Ryan Leonards, Carson Baranik and Matt Plitt were drafted on the final day.
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.
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.