By PATRICK MEEHAN, Centenary Sports Information Director

As the 2025-26 athletic year approaches, there’s still a couple of weeks left to reflect on the best moments by Centenary’s male student-athletes and teams this past year.

We presented the women’s top 10 over the past two weeks. Today, in my humble opinion, here are the latter half of the Gents’ top 10 sports accomplishments in 2024-25.

Go Forth, young man!:  Diamond Gents’ junior left fielder Lenny Forth was named to the D3baseball.com Team of the Week on April 23 after his impressive performance at home against the University of Dallas.

The Team of the Week is D3baseball.com’s weekly honor roll, a national team that recognizes 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 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. He also stole two bases and did not strike out in his 11 at-bats all weekend.

Lacrosse explodes offensively: The Gents capped their season with a flourish, posting a 27-9 victory over Northland College on April 19 at Atkins Field. Centenary exploded for a program record number of goals against Northland on Senior Day and scored 20+ goals for the third time during the season. Centenary flexed its offensive muscles all season long as the Maroon and White scored 161 goals, averaging 14.6 goals per game, and added 90 assists for 251 total points.

Freshman Gamble Harvill scored a team-leading 38 goals to set a new single-season program record and scored eight in the win over Northland. Sophomore Gibson Harvill matched his younger brother with eight goals of his own on in the regular-season finale and scored 26 for the season.

Back on the floor, Beverly is Gents’ bright spot: Junior guard Quentin Beverly missed the first six games of the season but flourished in the 18 games he played. He averaged 18.6 points per game and reached double figures a whopping 16 times while scoring 20+ points eight times and 30 or more twice.

Beverly, who was named third-team All-Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference, finished the season by scoring in double figures nine times in a row with four 20+ point games and one 30+ point performance. He scored a career-high 32 points twice – on Jan. 7 against LeTourneau and again on Feb. 9 against McMurry.

Swimmers finish strong: The Gents finished fourth at the SCAC Championships and earned 292 points as they recorded their best finish in the event since 2021.

The Gents were impressive in the championship final of the 200-yard butterfly as senior Antonio Barbee finished fifth with a time of 1:58.68 and freshman Adam Stelly was eighth with a time of 2:07.19.

Freshman Hunter Hedges finished eighth in the finals of the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:00.04 which was preceded by a time of 59.67 in the prelims- the eighth-fastest time in school history. Hedges also swam the 10th-fastest time in the 100-yard butterfly (51.68).

Cormier’s sprints highlight track team’s spring: The Gents finished 12th in the 2025 SCAC Championships, but sprinter Christian Cormier had a superb sophomore campaign for the Gents. He  was one of the top competitors in the conference all season, named the SCAC Men’s Track Athlete of the Week (April 22) after sharing the honor a month earlier (March 18).

Cormier ran a season-best time of 10.69 in the 100 meters in the SCAC Championships, which tied for the 11th-fastest time all season in the event in the conference.

Next week: my top five feats for 2024-25.

Contact Patrick at pmeehan@centenary.edu