By PATRICK MEEHAN, Centenary Assistant AD for Communications
The Centenary baseball team has found its stride and is home this weekend hoping to sustain its roll in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference race as tournament time nears.
The Diamond Gents (17-17, 12-12 SCAC) are back home this weekend to face St. Thomas (12-19, 11-13 SCAC) in a three-game series. Today’s doubleheader starts at 1. The third game Saturday is likely to start in the late morning; a final start time will be set today with the incoming rain forecast as the wild card.
Last weekend provided another Centenary SCAC series win, this time against the McMurry War Hawks in Abilene, Texas.
Centenary swept a doubleheader last Friday, 6-4 and 11-1. The War Hawks salvaged the final game of the series on Saturday, 6-4.
Sophomore right-hander Treyson Martin had a superb weekend on the mound for the Diamond Gents – pulling the rare feat of winning both games of a doubleheader sweep, highlighted by his first-career complete game in Game 2.
Martin worked a total of 11 innings and allowed just one earned run and six hits with two walks and six strikeouts. He worked the final two innings of the opener and tossed a pair of scoreless, hitless frames. In his complete game, he recorded a career-best six K’s in a career-high nine innings.
TRACK & FIELD: The Ladies and Gents were in action for the final time prior to the postseason in the Stallion Transportation Bryan Phillips Open last Saturday hosted by Harding at the Ted and Marcie Lloyd Track Complex in Searcy, Ark.
Rookie Malcolm Pierce had a personal-best time in the 200 meters with a time of 22.7 and another PR in the 400 meters (51.02). Pierce was also a member of the Gents’ 4 x 400 relay team that ran a school record time of 3:23.68.
The Ladies and Gents will return to action in the annual SCAC Championships set for April 24-26 in Abilene, Texas.
LACROSSE: The Gents fell 26-6 to Rhodes College last Saturday afternoon in their home finale at Atkins Field. Centenary (10-3) will finish its season on April 25 at Colorado College.
Centenary, which finished with a 5-2 home mark, received three goals from former Parkway High School star Ethan Hewett to lead the offense.
Contact Patrick at pmeehan@centenary.edu