By PATRICK MEEHAN, Centenary Assistant AD for Communications
Centenary’s softball team is home for a three-game Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference series with Dallas beginning today after posting a doubleheader sweep earlier this week.
The Ladies took two from the Howard Payne Yellow Jackets by identical 4-1 scores Tuesday evening at the Centenary Softball Complex.
The Ladies improved to 9-11 overall and 7-2 at home while the Yellow Jackets fell to 2-12 and lost their ninth game in a row. Centenary lost two of three SCAC games to LeTourneau last weekend in Longview, Texas.
Centenary welcomes University of Dallas for an SCAC twinbill starting at 4 today. The teams wrap up the series Saturday with a single game at noon. The Crusaders are 1-10 overall and 1-10 in SCAC play as all 11 of their contests this season have been in league play.
GYMNASTICS: The Ladies and their fellow conference counterparts will compete in the annual Midwest Independent Conference Championships tonight in Normal, Ill. and hosted by Illinois State University.
The Ladies posted a 188.750 team score last Sunday afternoon to finish second in a non-conference dual meet against Bowling Green State in Bowling Green, Ohio.
The Falcons won the meet with a score of 193.575. Centenary, which finished second to Greenville University with a 187.900 on Friday in Greenville, Ill., has completed its regular season.
Senior Amy Foret had an impressive weekend for the Ladies as she won on beam against the Panthers on Friday, was runner-up on vault, and tied for fourth place on floor with a season-high tying 9.60. In Sunday’s meet at BGSU, she earned two more top-five finishes as she tied for fourth on floor with a season-best 9.80 and tied for fourth on vault (9.525).
WOMEN’S GOLF: Sophomore Amber Shaw was named the SCAC Women’s Golfer of the Week on Wednesday after leading the Ladies to a fourth-place finish on Tuesday in their annual home tournament, the Hal Sutton Invitational, at The Golf Club at Stonebridge in Bossier City. Shaw finished eighth at 24-over par 168 as she recorded her first career top-10 finish. Shaw posted back-to-back 84’s to card a two-round total of 168 and finish as the top SCAC athlete in the field.
LACROSSE: The New Jersey Athletic Conference is adding Centenary and Colorado College as affiliate members in t men’s lacrosse beginning in the 2026-27 academic year.
The NJAC will begin sponsoring men’s lacrosse as a conference championship sport for the first time. The conference will feature six lacrosse teams including Kean University, Montclair State, Stockton and SUNY New Paltz, in addition to the two new affiliates.
With six sponsoring institutions, the NJAC will be on track to secure an automatic qualification to the NCAA Division III Men’s Lacrosse Championship Tournament beginning in the 2028 season following a one-year waiting period as mandated by NCAA legislation.
NJAC men’s lacrosse will be comprised of two divisions – a three-team Gold Division and a three-team Blue Division. Centenary and Colorado College will always remain in the Gold Division, while the third Gold Division team will be based on a rotation that will feature one of the NJAC core member programs rotating into the Division for a two-year period.
The two divisional winners will advance to the NJAC Men’s Lacrosse Championship Game which will take place annually on the Saturday prior to the NCAA automatic qualification deadline.
Contact Patrick at pmeehan@centenary.edu