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William Randall Davis Jr. is an American college baseball coach and former catcher. Davis is the head coach of the Lamar Cardinals baseball team. Davis is the son of former college baseball coach Randy Davis who was an assistant coach at UL-Monroe, LSU, and South Carolina and the head coach at Louisiana Tech. The elder Davis died in February 2022. Will Davis is married to the former Danielle Hall of Bogalusa, Louisiana. She is a former cheerleader for the New Orleans Saints. The couple have three children Everly (2016), Coco (2020), and Crash (2022).
The 2014 Lamar Cardinals baseball team represented Lamar University in the 2014 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Cardinals played their home games at Vincent–Beck Stadium as members of the Southland Conference. The team was coached by Jim Gilligan in his 38th season at Lamar. The Cardinals finished the season 8th in the Southland with a record of 31–25, 16–14 in conference play. They qualified for the 2014 Southland Conference baseball tournament as the 8th seeded team. The Cardinals' season ended after losing to Sam Houston State 4–10 and Northwestern State 8–10 in the conference tournament.
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