By PATRICK MEEHAN, Centenary Sports Information Director
For the ninth straight year, Centenary’s softball program has earned a spot in the postseason, reaching the Southern Collegiate Athletic Association Championship tournament.
The Ladies are Centenary’s lone remaining active spring sports team. The Diamond Gents baseball club didn’t reach the SCAC Tournament for the first time since Centenary joined the conference in 2013. Track and field competed at last week’s SCAC Outdoors.
Centenary hits the road this weekend for the conference tournament in Georgetown, Texas. The Ladies tied with McMurry for fifth place in the standings but due to losing two of three to the War Hawks in the regular-season series, the Maroon and White got the No. 6 seed. Centenary will open the double-elimination event against No. 3 seed Trinity on Friday at 1:30 p.m.
The Ladies finished their regular season on a high note as they blanked the Schreiner Mountaineers by a score of 5-0 on Sunday afternoon in a conference contest at Kerrville, Texas.
Centenary improved to 19-20 overall and 14-15 in SCAC play. The teams split a doubleheader on Saturday with the Ladies rallying to win 7-5 before being edged 4-3.
Junior Alexis Roach tossed a complete-game shutout on Sunday as she allowed just one hit with three strikeouts on just 49 pitches (29 strikes) to finish off the Mountaineers. Roach now has seven complete games in her career and three shutouts.
Junior left fielder Laine Sullivan was red-hot for the Ladies over the weekend as she hit .500 (4-8). Sullivan had seven RBI, a double, two runs scored, three walks, a stolen base, and did not strike out all weekend in her eight at bats. She finished with a .636 on base percentage and slugged .625. She had a career-high four RBI in Friday’s win and had two hits in her sixth multi-hit game of the season.
BASEBALL: The Diamond Gents finished their 2025 season last weekend as they were swept by the McMurry War Hawks in a three-game conference weekend series in Abilene, Texas.
Centenary ended 16-24 overall and 12-18 in SCAC play, sixth in the SCAC standings. The Diamond Gents were picked to finish third in the league this season in the preseason coaches’ poll.
The All-SCAC teams will be announced this weekend at the conference championship held at Dell Diamond in Round Rock, Texas.
Junior left fielder Lenny Forth was named to the D3baseball.com Team of the Week last Wednesday after his impressive performance April 18-19 at home against the University of Dallas.
The Team of the Week is D3baseball.com’s weekly honor roll, in its 14th season of recognizing the top performers at each of nine positions from the previous week. Players are selected from nominations from their school’s sports information directors.
Forth, who earned a spot on the prestigious team for the first time in his career, was named the SCAC Baseball Hitter of the Week on April 21 after he was red-hot against the Crusaders, finishing a sizzling 8-for-11 (.727) with a .750 OBP and slugged a whopping 1.273 with eight RBI, a home run, three doubles, and seven runs scored.
Forth also stole two bases and did not strike out in his 11 at-bats all weekend. Forth was 4-for-4 with a career-high five RBI, four runs scored, and a pair of doubles in a 14-1 win in the nightcap of a doubleheader, and finished 4-for-5 with three RBI, two runs, a home run, and a double in the series finale.
TRACK & FIELD: Some Centenary competitors had an impressive weekend at the SCAC Championships in Seguin, Texas.
Freshman Gabrielle Malagarie highlighted the championships as she recorded a runner-up finish in the high jump with a mark of 1.52m to earn All-SCAC honors. The rookie earned the Ladies’ best finish in program history in the conference championships as she ended her impressive debut season on a high note.
Freshman Grayson Shugart earned eighth in the triple jump on Saturday (10.24m) as her top-10 finish and Malagarie’s runner-up helped the Ladies finish eighth for the weekend. The Gents finished 12th.
Freshman Jay Scott had an impressive meet as he finished ninth in the triple jump with a season-best mark of 12.25m.
Sophomore Christian Cormier had the Gents’ top finish in the prelims of the 100 meters (10th) with a career-best and school-record time of 10.69 as he just missed qualifying for the finals.
Contact Patrick at pmeehan@centenary.edu