Kerrville, Texas – The Centenary softball team split a Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader with the Schreiner University Mountaineers on Saturday, dropping game one 11-5 but rebounded with a 9-0 victory in five innings at Mountaineer Softball Field.
The Ladies (15-20, 10-7 SCAC) had their season-high seven game winning streak snapped in the first game but have still won eight of their last nine overall and will go for their third-straight series win on Sunday at Noon against the Mountaineers (15-19, 8-9 SCAC). Centenary is now 6-5 on the road this season.
Live stats and live video are available for Sunday's games at the following link: https://www.schreinermountaineers.com/sports/sball/2022-23/schedule
Centenary's 10 conference wins marks its most since going 12-10 in the 2019 season. The conference played a 24-game schedule (prior to St. Thomas's arrival in 2021) and the Ladies had two rainouts that season against Texas Lutheran. The Ladies also went 12-12 in 2017 as 12 is the most conference games that the Maroon and White have won in a single season in the division III era (2012-present).
The Ladies can set a D3-era single-season record for conference wins with three wins in their final four games. Following Sunday's finale with Schreiner, the Ladies will finish the regular season at home next weekend with a three-game series against Southwestern. The Pirates (19-18, 12-6 SCAC) swept Austin College this weekend on the road and have won six in a row. Southwestern is third in the conference standings with Centenary just behind them in fourth. The 2023 SCAC Softball Championship is set for May 5-7 in San Antonio with Trinity serving as the host. The top six teams in the standings at the conclusion of the regular season qualify for the event.
Game one recap: Schreiner 11 Centenary 5
The Ladies led 3-0 after three innings and added single runs in the fourth and fifth, but the Mountaineers scored twice each in those same innings to cut their deficit to 5-4 heading to the sixth. Centenary did not score in the top of the sixth and Schreiner exploded for seven runs in the bottom half to seal the game one win.
Centenary finished with nine hits, drew four walks, stole two bases, had a pair of doubles, and left eight on base. The Ladies struck out six times and committed one error. Schreiner had 10 hits, drew four walks, did not steal a base, and had four doubles while leaving four on base. The Mountaineers only struck out twice and did not commit an error.
Junior RF Mackenzie Cox (Alexandria, La.) walked to lead off the third and stole second. Freshman 2B Catherine Stokes (Natchitoches, La.) walked but Cox was thrown out trying to steal third. Senior LF Kaylea Patridge (Las Vegas, Nev.) reached on an infield single to put runners at first and second. Sophomore 3B Viviana Rivero (Redondo Beach, Calif.) then put the Ladies up 2-0 with an RBI double. Junior 1B Isabelle Dominguez (Newark, Calif.) fouled out for the second out but freshman C Jaeden Thrasher (Forney, Texas) was hit by a pitch and senior CF Mallory Stout (Trinity, Texas) capped the scoring with an RBI double and a 3-0 lead.
Sophomore SS Brooke Sandefur (Denham Springs, La.) led off the fourth with a single and Patridge delivered a clutch, two-out RBI single to score her and extend the Ladies' lead to 4-0. LF Danielle Pedraza and DH Yadira Lopez had RBI hits in the bottom of the fourth to cut the lead in half at 4-2. Sandefur had an RBI single that scored Dominguez in the fifth to make it a 5-2 game. RF Kendall Lippold had a two-out, two-run double to make it 5-4 in the bottom of the fifth.
Schreiner then scored seven runs in the sixth to take the lead and get the eventual win. The Mountaineers had just four hits but the Ladies made one error and issues four walks and three wild pitches. Sophomore P Anna Scarbrock (Alexandria, La.) started and suffered the loss to fall to 7-9 on the season. She went five innings and allowed seven runs, six earned, on eight hits with no walks and one strikeout. It marked the ninth start this season that Scarbrock has not walked a batter as she has only issued 16 in 105.2 IP all season. Freshman Emma Crow (Krotz Springs, La.) relieved her and went an inning and was charged with for runs, all earned, on two hits. She walked four batters and struck out one.
Trysten Liesman (3-1) went the distance to pick up the win for Schreiner. She allowed five runs, all earned, on nine hits with four BB and six K.
Patridge, Rivero, and Sandefur each had two hits and Rivero led the way with two RBI. Cox drew a pair of walks and stole two bases, Stokes went 0-2 with a sacrifice bunt but had one walk and scored a run, and Patride had an RBI and a run scored. Dominguez was 2-4 with a run scored. Stout finished 1-3 with an RBI and a BB.
Lippold went 2-5 with five RBI, two doubles, and a run scored for Schreiner. Lopez and C Hannah Kollmanberger each had two RBI. Pedraza finished 1-3 with two runs scored, an RBI, and a walk.
Game two recap: Centenary 9 Schreiner 0 (5 innings)
The Ladies wasted no time shaking off a disappointing game one loss as they erupted for eight runs in the top of the first to set the tone and cruised to the win. They added one in the third and blanked the Mountaineers for five innings to seal the run-rule win. Centenary allowed just a season-low one hit in the win. The previous low was two in a 4-0 win at Dallas on April 7. The one-hitter is the first by the Ladies' pitching staff since doing so in an 8-0 win at Dallas on March 27, 2021.
Freshman P/UT Abigail Hodgson (Georgetown, Texas) started in the circle and recorded her first-career win as she went the distance and tossed the shutout. She limited the Mountaineers to just the one hit in her five innings with five walks and a strikeout. Kaedyn Filburn (1-5) started and took the loss for Schreiner as she was tagged for six runs, all earned, and four hits in just 0.1 innings with two walks and one K. She faced just seven batters, hitting two. Kylynne Kusak came in to relieve her and went the final 4.2 innings, allowing three earned runs and six hits with two BB and no K.
Three Ladies – Patridge, Thrasher, and Stout, each had two hits. The Ladies finished with 10 hits, drew four walks, only struck out one time, left six on base, and played error-free ball. Schreiner had just the one hit, a leadoff single in the fourth by Lopez, along with an error and a strikeout. The Mountaineers drew five walks but left five on base and hit into a double play.
Cox was 1-4 with two runs scored and another stolen base, Stokes finished 1-2 with two RBI, a run scored, and a walk, and Patridge was 2-4 with an RBI and a run scored. Rivero was 1-2 with a walk and a run, Dominguez went 1-3 with a run and an RBI, and Thrasher and Stout combined to go 4-6 with two RBI, two runs scored and a stolen base. Sophomore 3B Alyssa Akers (Maurice, La.) went 0-1 but had a walk, an RBI, and a run scored. Junior SS Mackenzie Clark (Upland, Calif.) was back in action for the first time in nearly two months following an injury and had a walk and a sacrifice fly.
Centenary has now reached double figures five times this season and posted 10+ hits in a game 14 times and done so in seven of its last eight games. Cox, who entered the day tied for 20th in the country in division III in stolen bases, increased her total to 26 and has only been caught twice this season. She now has five games this season with two or more stolen bases.
See the Ladies' complete season schedule here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/sball/2022-23/schedule
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