Baseball Ranked #14 in D3baseball.com/NCBWA Week 7 Poll
The Centenary baseball team is ranked No. 14 in the nation in the latest 2021 D3baseball.com/NCBWA Week 7 poll.
Shreveport - The Centenary baseball team is ranked No. 14 in the nation in the latest 2021 D3baseball.com/NCBWA Week 7 poll.
See the complete poll here: https://www.d3baseball.com/top25/2021/2021Top25-week-7
The No. 14 Gents (23-2) moved up three spots in the poll from last week and improved to 9-0 in Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play with a weekend sweep of the Dallas Crusaders at home
Centenary has won a program-record 17 consecutive games following its 8-4 win on Saturday at Shehee Stadium. The Gents 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.
Live stats and live video are available for all home contests.
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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