Shreveport – The Centenary softball team opens Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play on Saturday at home versus the University of Dallas Crusaders with a doubleheader set for Noon and 2 p.m. and a single game on Sunday, march 8 at Noon at the Centenary Softball Complex.
Live stats and live video will be available for all three games via www.gocentenary.com. Dallas enters Saturday's play at 4-9 overall and 0-3 in the SCAC after being swept at home last weekend by Texas Lutheran to begin its conference schedule.
The Ladies (4-5) split a non-conference doubleheader with the Mississippi University for Women Owls Back on Feb. 25 in their most recent action and first two road contests of the season. Centenary won game one, 6-3, but fell 7-6 in eight innings in the second game. The Ladies also split a doubleheader at home with Jarvis Christian on Feb. 22. Centenary is winners of two of its last three games overall.
Senior center fielder Haley Campbell (Erath, La.), fellow senior left fielder Maddie Fremen (Luling, La.), freshman Taylor Mayo (Shreveport), and freshman Kaylea Patridge (Las Vegas, NV) have paced the Centenary offense so far this season. Sophomore second baseman Jaymee Wilkinson (Brazoria, Texas) and junior Brittney Broussard (Rayne, La.) are also among the team leaders in hits and RBI so far.
Campbell has gone 6-10 at the plate over the last three games with an RBI. She was 5-8 in the doubleheader against Jarvis Christian alone. Campbell has hit four doubles this season. Fremen and Mayo each went 3-4 in game two of the doubleheader versus the Owls with Fremen driving in one run and Mayo collecting two RBI. Six other Ladies collected at least one hit and Lanier went 2-4 with an RBI.
Freshman pitcher Zoe Lanier (Hughes Springs, Texas) went 1-3 with a two-run home run and two RBI, a walk and a run scored. She also picked up the win on the mound in game one of the DH as she pitched six innings and allowed three runs, just one earned run, on six hits and walked one and struck out one. She improved her record to an even 1-1 this season.
The Ladies were predicted to finish fourth in the SCAC this season by the league's coaches based on balloting in the annual preseason coaches' poll. Centenary finished 18-23 last season and won four of their final six games as they posted a 12-10 conference record and finished third in the SCAC Championship held on their home field, marking the third time in the last four seasons that the Ladies earned a third-place finish at the conference tournament.
A link to the complete season schedule is available here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/sball/2019-20/schedule
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