Softball Drops SCAC Championship Opener To Trinity
The No. 6 seed Centenary softball fell 6-2 to the No. 3 seed Trinity University Tigers on Friday as the Ladies opened play in the 2025 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championship at Roberts Family Field on the campus of Concordia University.
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Austin, Texas – The No. 6 seed Centenary softball fell 6-2 to the No. 3 seed Trinity University Tigers on Friday as the Ladies opened play in the 2025 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championship at Roberts Family Field on the campus of Concordia University.
The Ladies (19-21) led the Tigers (31-10) by a score of 1-0 after four innings but Trinity scored four times in the fifth and two in the sixth to pull away for the win. The game was originally scheduled to be played on Thursday at Taylor-Sanders Field on the campus of Southwestern University but was postponed due to weather and moved to Concordia's campus.
Trinity, which did not get a hit until one out in the bottom of the third inning, improved to 4-0 against Centenary this season after sweeping the Ladies last month in San Antonio.
The Ladies return to action on Saturday at 10 a.m. against the loser of the McMurry-Texas Lutheran game which is being played on Friday afternoon.
Championship Central: https://www.scacsports.com/tournament/spring/softball/25championships/index
The Ladies and Tigers are joined in the championship by No. 1 seed and regular-season champion Texas Lutheran University, The No. 2 seed University of St. Thomas, No. 4 seed Concordia University, and No. 5 seed McMurry University.
See the official bracket here: https://scacsports.com/tournament/spring/softball/25championships/25bracket.pdf
The Ladies have now made nine-consecutive SCAC Tournament appearances and their 14 conference wins this season are the most in a single season in the division III era (2013-present) and their 19 overall wins are one shy of a D3-program high 20 accomplished in 2018.
Senior LHP Emma Shepherd (Athens, La.) started in the circle for the Ladies and suffered the loss to fall to 8-9 as she allowed four runs (three earned) and five hits with two walks and one strikeout in four innings. She faced 21 batters, hitting one, and threw 79 pitches – 50 for strikes.
Senior P Anna Scarbrock (Alexandria, La.) relieved her and pitched the final two innings and allowed two runs, one earned, and five hits with no BB and one K. She faced 11 batters and threw 26 pitches (19 strikes).
Josephine Koelewyn (15-2) started for the Tigers and went six innings to pick up the win as she allowed just one earned run and five hits with two BB and two K's. She faced 25 batters and threw 80 pitches – 53 for strikes. Jordan Arce came in to relieve her and pitched the seventh and allowed on unearned run with a BB and a K but no hits. She faced five batters and threw 19 pitches (10 strikes).
Sophomore CF Noelle Sandmann (Huntsville, Texas) singled to lead off the game and was sacrificed to second by freshman SS Kaitlynn Alello (Denham Springs, La.). Senior 3B Viviana Rivero (Redondo Beach, Calif.) then grounded out to short and Sandmann advanced to third base. Senior C Abby Touchet (Shreveport, La.) then delivered a clutch two-out double to make it 1-0.
Trinity LF Hayden Del Toro reached on an error to open the fifth inning which allowed her to reach second base. SS Angela Baltzell then singled to left and advanced to second on the throw as Del Toro went to third. Shepherd then hit RF Ella Whitacre with a pitch to load the bases with no outs.
C Hannah Boudreaux then singled through the left side to score a pair and 1B Carsyn Lee followed with an RBI single to make it 3-1. Scarbrock relieved Shepherd and struck out 3B Mariana Garcia but DP Leah Gonzalez followed with an RBI single to make it 4-1. Scarbrock, though, got Koelewyn to ground into an inning-ending double play.
Whitacre had an RBI groundout and Boudreaux had an RBI single in the sixth as the Tigers added to their lead. Two singles followed but Scarbrock retired CF Sydney Watson on an inning-ending fielder's choice to leave the bases loaded. Allelo reached on an error in the top of the seventh but that was all the Ladies could muster.
Centenary finished with five hits, drew three walks, struck out three times, left seven on base, and made two errors. Trinity had 10 hits, two BB, two K's, eight left on, and two errors. Touchet and Sandmann each had two hits as both of Touchet's hits were doubles and Alello and Touchet had the Ladies' RBI. Sandmann, Allelo, and junior RF Emma Crow (Krotz Springs, La.) each had one BB.
See the complete Ladies' season schedule here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/sball/2024-25/schedule
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