Softball Stays Alive And Eliminates Trinity In SCAC Championship
The No. 6 seed Centenary softball team again staved off elimination and in turn eliminated the No. 3 seed Trinity University Tigers by a score of 5-3 on Sunday morning in an elimination game in the 2025 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championship played at Taylor-Sanders Field on the campus of Southwestern University.
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Georgetown, Texas – The No. 6 seed Centenary softball team again staved off elimination and in turn eliminated the No. 3 seed Trinity University Tigers by a score of 5-3 on Sunday morning in an elimination game in the 2025 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championship played at Taylor-Sanders Field on the campus of Southwestern University.
Championship Central: https://www.scacsports.com/tournament/spring/softball/25championships/index
The Ladies (21-21) are right back on the field at 12:30 p.m. to face the nationally-ranked and No. 1 seed Texas Lutheran Bulldogs (38-2) in another elimination game. The winner advances to the championship round to face the No. 2 seed University of St. Thomas Celts (31-10). Trinity finishes its season at 32-12. The Ladies' 21 wins are their second-most in a season in the division III era (2012-present) with their most (23) coming in 2016.
TLU, the regular-season champion, is ranked fourth in the country in the latest NFCA/Gorout Division III Top 25 Softball Coaches' Poll. The Bulldogs fell into the elimination bracket after a 3-2 loss to St. Thomas on Saturday. The Centenary-TLU winner must defeat St. Thomas twice to claim the championship. The Ladies were swept by the Bulldogs in Shreveport during the regular season, falling 6-1, 4-3, and 4-1 in early March.
Centenary, which recorded an impressive 6-1 victory over the No. 5 seed McMurry University War Hawks in an elimination game on Saturday afternoon at Roberts Family Field on the campus of Concordia University, rebounded from a 6-2 loss to the No. 3 seed Trinity University Tigers on Friday and will have a rematch with the Tigers on Sunday at 10 a.m. and the game will be played at Taylor-Sanders Field on the campus of Southwestern University. Trinity eliminated Concordia by a score of 12-6 on Saturday afternoon.
The Ladies finished with six hits, drew three walks, struck out nine times, left four on base, and made one error versus Trinity on Sunday while the Tigers recorded nine hits with two BB, did not strike out, left seven on base, and did not commit an error.
Senior P Anna Scarbrock (Alexandria, La.) started in the circle and picked up the win to improve to 8-6 as he went four innings and allowed two runs, both earned, on six hits with no BB or K's. She faced 18 batters and threw 53 pitches with 37 for strikes. Senior LHP Emma Shepherd (Athens, La.) relieved her and picked up her first save of the season as she worked the final three innings and allowed just one unearned run and three hits with a pair of BB and no K's. She faced 13 batters and threw 47 pitches (25 strikes).
Megan Kriechbaum (6-4) started for Trinity and suffered the loss as she allowed five runs (four earned) and six hits in her 4.2 innings of work with three BB and seven K's. She faced 23 batters and threw 101 pitches (64 strikes). Heather Nugent came in for Kriechbaum and pitched the final 2.1 innings and did not allow any runs or hits with no BB and a pair of K's. She faced seven batters and threw 25 pitches (18 strikes).
The Ladies jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the top of the second as sophomore DP Taylor Good (Flower Mound, Texas) and junior 1B Abigail Hodgson (Florence, Texas) each delivered RBI singles. The Tigers, though, tied the game in the bottom of the fourth with a pair of RBI singles of their own by 3B Mariana Garcia and 2B Samantha Tagawa. Centenary broke the tie and regained the lead in the fifth with three runs as junior 2B Catherine Stokes (Natchitoches, La.) delivered a two-RBI single to make it 4-2 and senior C Abby Touchet (Shreveport, La.) scored on a passed ball to extend the Ladies' lead to 5-2. Trinity scored once in the bottom of the fifth as 1B Carsyn Lee had an RBI single to make it 5-3.
Good and Stokes led the Ladies offensively with two hits each, Touchet was 1-2 with a BB and two runs scored, junior RF Emma Crow (Krotz Springs, La.) had a BB and a run, and freshman SS Kaitlynn Alello (Denham Springs, La.) also had a run scored and a BB. Lee led the Tigers with two hits and seven of her teammates had one hit each.
Game 9 - 12:30 p.m. - Texas Lutheran vs. Centenary (elimination game)
*Game 10 - 3:00 p.m. - Winner of Game 7 vs. Winner of Game 9
*If winner of Game 8 is also the winner of Game 9, then Game 10 will be played on Monday. If Game 10 is moved to Monday, it will start at 10:00 a.m., with the 'if necessary' game following at 12:30 p.m.
Monday, May 5, 2025
Game 11 - 11:00 a.m. - if necessary
See the complete Ladies' season schedule here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/sball/2024-25/schedule
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