#14 Baseball Team Faces ETBU on Road Tuesday Night
The No. 14 Centenary baseball team takes a break from conference play on Tuesday as the red-hot Gents face the East Texas Baptist University Tigers in a non-conference game with first pith set for 7 p.m. at Woods Field.
Marshall, Texas - The No. 14 Centenary baseball team takes a break from conference play on Tuesday as the red-hot Gents face the East Texas Baptist University Tigers in a non-conference game with first pith set for 7 p.m. at Woods Field.
Live stats will be available for the game at the link below:
https://goetbutigers.com/sidearmstats/baseball/summary
The Gents (23-2) and Tigers (16-9) will meet for a third time this season. The Gents defeated the Tigers 7-4 back on Feb. 12 at home and then recorded a 13-5 win in Marshall on March 23. Centenary improved to 9-0 in Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play with a weekend sweep of the Dallas Crusaders at home while ETBU dropped a road series at Texas-Dallas in conference play.
Centenary enters Tuesday's contest having won a program-record 17 consecutive games following its 8-4 win on Saturday at Shehee Stadium. The Gents, who moved up to No. 14 in the nation in the latest 2021 D3baseball.com/NCBWA poll announced on Tuesday morning, tied the previous longest winning streak of 16 games on Friday with a doubleheader sweep, winning 5-1 and 12-5. Centenary is now a perfect 13-0 at home this season, 16-1 in its last 17 home games, and has swept five-straight series and owns the longest current winning streak in the country this season, three better than Washington University (St. Louis), who has won 14 in a row.
The Gents, who are a spectacular 32-6 in their last 38 games, have not lost a game since falling 8-5 at Huntingdon back on Feb. 28. The Maroon and White's winning streak began with a three-game home sweep over Dubuque (March 4-6) and continued with a pair of two-game series sweeps over LeTourneau (March 12 and 13), and then the Gents swept Austin College on the road (March 19-20) and Schreiner last weekend at Shehee Stadium.
Centenary tied the previous longest winning streak record of 16 games set by the 2017 team which made the NCAA Tournament and went 35-10 overall. The longest winning streak by a Centenary team in the division 1 era (1978-2011) was 10 by the 1990 squad. The Gents are now just 12 wins away from matching the 2017 team's season win total.
The Gents currently lead the conference in team batting, team pitching, and team fielding, and are dominating the various individual statistical categories. Centenary has hit 16 home runs this season and is hitting .347 as a team with an on-base percentage of .439 and is slugging .485. The Gents have scored a staggering 214 runs this season (8.6 per game) and have scored 10 or more runs 12 times this season and 13 or more six times.
Senior 2B Tyler Erickson (Houston, Texas) is currently second in the conference with a .427 batting average and ranks fifth in the league in RBI with 26. Fellow senior 1B/P Preston Ludwick (Pflugerville, Texas) is having a superb season on the mound and in the field as he leads the SCAC with 31 RBI and ranks second in the conference with a sparkling 1.98 ERA. Ludwick picked up his team and conference-leading sixth win of the season on Friday in the Gents' 5-1 victory over Dallas as he pitched seven solid innings and allowed just one earned run and one hit with eight strikeouts. Ludwick is a perfect 6-0 on the season and has one complete-game shutout. He has allowed just 22 hits and nine earned runs in 41 innings pitched with 44 K's. Senior Conner Poche (Lutcher, La.) and sophomore Parker Primeaux (Lake Charles, La.) rank third and fourth in ERA in the conference behind Ludwick. Poche is 4-0 this season with an ERA of 2.15. He has struck out 23 against just eight walks. Primeaux, the Gents' late-inning specialist, is an impressive 2-1 with a 2.31 ERA and has a team and conference-leading seven saves. He has 30 K's on the season.
A link to the Gents' complete 2021 schedule can be found here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/bsb/2020-21/schedule
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