Shreveport - The Centenary softball team earned a doubleheader split with the Arlington Baptist University Patriots on Tuesday evening, winning game one 3-1 and dropping the nightcap by the same score at the Centenary Softball Complex.
The Ladies (4-4) were finally playing on their home field for the first time since last spring after playing their first six games on the road. Centenary went 2-2 in the 2022 Warrior Spring Fling hosted by Hendrix College in Conway, Ark. Feb. 19-20 after opening the season with a DH split with Millsaps on Feb. 5. The Patriots improved to 3-11 on the season with the game two win.
Game 1 recap:
Freshman P Katelyn Moss (Olive Branch, Miss.) pitched her first-career complete game and picked up the first win of her young career and the Ladies pounded out 11 hits to seal the 3-1 win. Moss (1-0) allowed just one earned run on seven hits with two walks and two strikeouts. She threw 74 pitches, 51 for strikes, in her third start of the season and longest outing so far.
Centenary collected at least 11 hits for the fifth-straight game, drew three walks, and stole three bases. The Ladies committed one error, drew three walks, and left 10 on base. The Patriots walked twice, made one error, and left four on base. Arlington Baptist starting pitcher McHailee Danner suffered the loss as she went the distance and allowed three runs, all earned, on 11 hits with three walks and 13 strikeouts. She threw 135 pitches, 91 for strikes.
The Patriots took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first on an RBI single by Zoey Breadleau, but the lead did not last long as the Ladies responded with single runs in the second, third, and fourth innings. Junior CF Mallory Stout (Trinity, Texas) smacked a game-tying RBI double to left field to score freshman DH Alyssa Akers (Maurice, La.).
Senior 2B Jaymee Wilkinson (Brazoria, Texas) drove in freshman 3B Viviana Rivero (Redondo Beach, Calif.) with a single in the third for a 2-1 lead and then Rivero capped the scoring with an RBI double scoring sophomore LF Mackenzie Cox (Alexandria, La.) in the fourth and Moss made the lead stand.
Akers and freshman 1B Kaitlyn Dickey (Church Point, La.) each had two hits to lead the Ladies' offense and Cox was 1-1 with a run scored, three walks, and two stolen bases from the leadoff spot. Bredleau and C Brianna Escalante each had two hits for the Patriots.
Game 2 recap:
The Patriots, like in game one, jumped out early 1-0 after an inning on an RBI single by 1B Greer West and then the game remained that way for the next five innings. ABU then added a pair in the top of the seventh and held off a late rally by the Ladies in the bottom half to secure the win.
The Ladies had a chance to tie the game in the fifth but Cox was thrown out attempting to steal home for the third out of the inning. Centenary left two on base in the third, fourth, and sixth innings as the Maroon and White put pressure on the Patriots throughout the game but could not cash in. Freshman P Anna Scarbock (Alexandria, La.) made her third start of the season and pitched a complete game as she allowed three runs, none earned, with a walk and four strikeouts. Danner started again for the Patriots and went the distance as she allowed just one earned run and seven hits with one walk and nine strikeouts.
Stout led the Ladies with two hits and five other players each had one. Stout, Cox, and junior LF Kaylea Patridge (Las Vegas, Nev.) each stole a base. Dickey hit her first-career homer with one out in the bottom of the seventh to get the Ladies on the scoreboard and Patridge followed with a single but Danner got Rivero on a flyout and Lewis on a lineout to seal the win. West had two hits to lead the Patriots on offense.
Centenary and Arlington Baptist will play another DH on Thursday at 5 and 7 p.m.
See the Ladies' complete season schedule here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/sball/2021-22/schedule
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