Shreveport– The Centenary baseball workforce will face the Trinity College Tigers this weekend in a key Southern Collegiate Athletic Convention sequence starting on Friday at 6 p.m. at Shehee Stadium.
Dwell stats and reside video can be found for all three video games on the hyperlinks under:
Stats: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports activities/bsb/2021-22/boxscores/20220325_hyji.xml
Video: https://collegetvticket.com/occasion/centenary-college-vs-trinity-university/
The Diamond Gents (11-10, 1-2 SCAC) and Tigers (10-6, 3-0 SCAC) will play a doubleheader on Saturday at 1 and 4 p.m. Centenary opened convention play final weekend by dropping two of three video games at Texas Lutheran however ended the sequence on a excessive be aware because the Maroon and White gained the ultimate sport 2-1. Trinity opened league play by sweeping Southwestern at residence final weekend.
The sequence will function two of the convention’s high offensive groups because the Tigers are hitting .313 as a workforce and the Diamond Gents are batting .306. The Tigers boast 10 gamers hitting .300 or higher this season whereas 5 of Centenary’s common starters are at .300 or higher. Centenary and Trinity are second and third within the convention in workforce pitching because the Diamond Gents have a workforce ERA of 5.35 and the Tigers are at 5.85. Centenary and Trinity are additionally within the high 5 within the league in each fielding share and stolen bases. The Diamond Gents have a .963 fielding share and the Tigers are at .952. Centenary has 36 stolen bases in 48 makes an attempt and Trinity is 30-37.
The Diamond Gents are 6-3 at residence this season and 26-6 of their final 32 residence video games relationship again to the start of final season. Centenary’s offense has been excellent all season, particularly at residence the place the Diamond Gents have averaged 14 runs per sport over their final 4 and recorded a dominating 17-7 win over Millsaps of their most up-to-date residence sport on March 9. Previous to the win over the Majors, the Diamond Gents gained three of 4 video games over Alma Faculty Feb. 20-21, profitable the ultimate three by a mixed rating of 39-7 together with a pair of run-rule blowouts in seven innings to comb a doubleheader.
Centenary has now scored 10 or extra runs in a sport a staggering 26 occasions over the past two seasons and completed so seven occasions this season. Centenary has additionally recorded 10 or extra hits in sport 14 occasions and not less than 13 hits eight occasions. The Diamond Gents have collected 61 extra-base hits this season, together with 14 triples which is the fourth-most within the nation in division III. Centenary additionally has 37 doubles and hit 10 residence runs. The Diamond Gents’ 221 hits are tied for 16th within the nation and their 163 runs ranks 23rd. Centenary is averaging 7.7 run per sport this season.
Centenary and Trinity are yearly two of the highest groups within the convention and this season is not any completely different. The Tigers had been tied with Texas Lutheran within the preseason ballot voted as the favourite to win the convention regular-season title. Centenary was picked to complete third, incomes 44 complete factors. The Diamond Gents misplaced three of 4 video games to the Tigers final season, dropping two of three in San Antonio within the common season after which fell 9-7 of their opening sport of the 2021 SCAC Match in Cleburne, Texas.
Senior 1B/RHP Preston Ludwick (Pflugerville, Texas) lead the workforce in batting common (.415), hits (34), RBI (18), and doubles (6). The versatile Ludwick additionally leads the workforce in video games began (5) and is 2-2 with a 7.94 ERA and 21 strikeouts in 22.2 innings pitched. Junior RHP Parker Primeaux (Lake Charles, La.) leads the workforce in wins as he’s 4-2 with a 4.78 ERA. He has made a team-high 9 appearances, began three video games, and thrown one full sport.
Senior RHP/OF Luke Royle (Dodge Metropolis, Kan.) is 3-1 on the mound this season with a 4.67 ERA and has one full sport. Royle is hitting 263 with an on-base share of .378 and is slugging .474. He has 10 hits, scored six runs, and 6 RBI. Royle has two triples, a homer, and a double. Freshman LHP Tyler Herrera (Spring, Texas) is off to a formidable begin in his rookie season as he’s 2-0 with a 1.00 ERA and 19 strikeouts in his 18 innings of labor with simply eight walks.
Herrera and Primeaux mixed to restrict Texas Lutheran to simply six hits within the Diamond Gents’ 2-1 win in sport two of their doubleheader final Saturday in Seguin, Texas. Herrera began and went six innings, permitting simply 4 hits and an unearned run with two walks and 5 strikeouts. Primeaux got here in with the sport tied at 1-1 and pitched the ultimate three innings to select up the win. He stored the Bulldogs off the scoreboard and allowed simply two hits with one stroll and one strikeout. Senior DH Tyler Welch (Pineville, La.) delivered a game-winning RBI single within the eighth to present Centenary the win. Centenary is 3-2 in one-run video games this season.
Welch, senior SS Brady Robinson (Jacksonville, Texas), and senior 2B/C Tyler Erickson (Houston, Texas) every have 20 or extra hits, led by 27 from Robinson, and every have three or doubles. Erickson and Welch have three and Robinson has 4. Welch is hitting .364 with a .494 OBP and is slugging .455. He has scored 23 runs, has 9 RBI, a team-best 16 walks towards solely 9 strikeouts and has stolen a team-high six bases. Robinson has a team-best three triples to go along with his 4 doubles and has 14 RBI and 4 stolen bases. He’s hitting .307 with a .337 OBP and is slugging .420. Erickson has scored 12 runs and pushed in 9. He’s hitting .299 with an OBP of .347 and is slugging .373.
Senior C Ben Bridges (Beckville, Texas) is hitting .314 this season with an OBP of .443 and is slugging .486. He’s tied with Ludwick for the workforce lead in RBI with 18 and has 22 hits and 16 runs scored. He has walked 14 occasions and solely struck out 9 occasions. He has six doubled and two homers. He completed 3-5 with a game-high 4 RBI versus Millsaps with two runs scored, and a stroll. He blasted a mammoth three-run residence run into the car parking zone past the left-center area wall within the backside of the eighth for the ultimate three runs of the sport.
Junior 2B Cole Collins (Shreveport, La.) is having a stable season on offense as he’s hitting .333 with a .417 OBP and is slugging a team-best .714. He has 17 runs scored, 14 hits, a team-high three residence runs, three doubles, and two triples. He’s tied for the workforce lead in stolen bases (six) with Welch and senior OF Gary Hewitt (Cedar Park, Texas). Freshman OF Cade LaBruyere (Iowa, La.) is having fun with a unbelievable rookie season as he has totaled 16 hits, 14 runs, two doubles, a triple, and 15 RBI. He’s hitting .286 with a .397 OBP and is slugging .357. Sophomore Austyn Benoit (Welsh, La.) is hitting .308 (.383 OBP/.346 slugging) with 16 hits, 10 runs scored, 12 RBI, and two stolen bases.
See the whole Diamond Gents’ season schedule right here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports activities/bsb/2021-22/schedule
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