Ladies To Face Millsaps In Weekend Series
The Centenary softball team continues its longest homestand of the season on Saturday as the Ladies welcome to the Millsaps College Majors to town for a non-conference doubleheader at 2 and 4 p.m. at the Centenary Softball Complex.
Game 1
Game 1
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Millsaps
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0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 0 |
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Centenary (La.)
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0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
Game 2
Game 2
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Millsaps
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0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 2 |
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Centenary (La.)
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1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 2 |
Shreveport – The Centenary softball team continues its longest homestand of the season on Saturday as the Ladies welcome to the Millsaps College Majors to town for a non-conference doubleheader at 2 and 4 p.m. at the Centenary Softball Complex.
Live stats and live video are available for both games at the links below:
Stats: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/sball/2023-24/boxscores/20240309_nsyj.xml
Video: https://www.youtube.com/live/2W3pVkUTdQg?si=e3PrvVbqA1zp-LKW
The Ladies (4-8) had their season-high four-game winning streak on Sunday as they were swept at home in a DH by the Concordia University Tornados, losing 5-4 in game one and 11-4 in game two. The Majors enter Saturday's play at 3-7 overall and have lost seven games in a row.
The teams met on Feb. 9 in Jackson in the season-opening series for both as the Majors recorded a DH sweep over the Ladies by scores of 6-1 and 6-5. Millsaps is 0-3 on the road this season while Centenary is 2-4 at home.
The Ladies are hitting .306 as a team with a .373 on-base percentage and are slugging .348. They have scored 65 total runs for an average of 5.4 per game and have posted six games with 10+ hits and have done so in five of their last six games. The Ladies tallied a season-high 14 hits in their 6-5 loss at Millsaps last month. Centenary has a team ERA of 4.65 and team fielding percentage of .943.
Top Hitter: Senior RF Mackenzie Cox (Alexandria, La.) leads the Ladies with 18 hits and also has drawn a team-high 10 walks in 38 at-bats. She leads the country in stolen bases with a whopping 19 in 20 attempts. Cox is hitting a team-best .474 with a .583 OBP and is slugging an even .500 with a team-high 19 runs scored and has three RBI, a double, and 10 walks compared to just three strikeouts.
Top Pitcher: Sophomore P Riley Myers (Shreveport, La.) owns a team-best 3.59 ERA as she has made a team-high six appearances with one start. She is 1-0 with seven strikeouts in 13.2 innings pitched. Myers picked up her first win of the season on March 2 against Arlington Baptist as she came on in relief and went 2.2 innings and yielded just three hits with no runs and no walks with a pair of K's.
Sophomore C Jaeden Thrasher (Forney, Texas) was named the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Hitter of the Week on Monday after hitting .625 (5-8) with seven RBI, three doubles, two runs scored, and a stolen base in four games against Arlington Baptist and Concordia last weekend. Thrasher went 4-for-7 with six RBI, two runs scored, and a stolen base in the Ladies' DH sweep of Arlington Baptist on Saturday and posted a .750 on-base percentage over the four games and slugged 1.667. She is hitting .324 for the season (.317 OBP/.486 slugging) with a team-leading 13 RBI, 12 hits, team-high six doubles, and five runs scored.
Sophomore 2B Catherine Stokes (Natchitoches, La.) is hitting .325 (.386 OBP/.325 slugging) with 13 hits (second on team), seven runs scored (tied for second), six RBI, four walks, and a stolen base. Sophomore 3B Morgan Dawson (Natchitoches, La.) is hitting .333 (.405 OBP/.361 slugging) with 12 hits (tied for third on team), eight RBI (second on team), five runs scored, a double, and three walks.
Senior 1B Isabelle Dominguez (Newark, Calif.) is hitting .229 (.293 OBP/.257 slugging) with eight hits, seven RBI, three runs scored, four walks, and a double. Senior CF Mallory Stout (Trinity, Texas) is batting .250 (.316 OBP/.250 slugging) with eight hits, seven runs scored, three RBI, two walks, and a stolen base.
Freshman UT Janae Bland (Livingston, Texas) is off to a strong start in her rookie season as she is hitting .310 (.333 OBP/.310 slugging) with nine hits, six RBI, and four runs scored. Junior Emma Shepherd (Athens, La.) is hitting .357 with a .400 OBP and is slugging .429 and has the Ladies' second-lowest ERA (3.62) with a 1-0 record in three appearances. Sophomore UT River Boultinghouse (Saint Gabriel, La.) is hitting .286 with a .375 OBP and is slugging .357 with eight hits, six runs scored, two RBI, four walks, two stolen bases and a triple.
Sophomore Alexis Roach (Pineville, La.) and junior P Anna Scarbrock (Alexandria, La.) are tied for the team lead in games started (five) and Scarbrock is tied with Myers for the lead in appearances with six. Roach is 0-3 with a 6.34 ERA and Scarbrock is 2-3 with a 4.04 ERA. She leads the team in wins and in 26.0 IP she has only walked two and struck out 11, one behind Shepherd's team-high 12. Sophomore P Emma Crow (Krotz Springs, La.) is 0-1 in three appearances and a start and has a 3.75 ERA. She has also had 12 at-bats and has two hits, two RBI, and two walks.
The series concludes on Sunday with a single game at Noon.
See the complete Ladies' season schedule here: https://centenary.prestosports.com/sports/sball/2023-24/schedule
Admission is FREE to all Centenary home athletic contests. Live stats and live video stream are available for all Centenary home contests.
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