Ladies Set For Belhaven University Tournament This Weekend
The Centenary softball team will play four games this weekend in the Belhaven University Tournament beginning on Friday versus Hardin-Simmons University with first pitch set for 11 AM at McLeod Field.
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Jackson, Miss. - The Centenary softball team will play four games this weekend in the Belhaven University Tournament beginning on Friday versus Hardin-Simmons University with first pitch set for 11 AM at McLeod Field.
The Ladies (3-2) and Cowgirls (3-2) will play again on Saturday at 10 AM. Centenary will face the host Belhaven Blazers on Friday at 1:30 PM and stats and video links for that game are below:
STATS: https://www.statbroadcast.com/events/statbroadcast.php?gid=belh
VIDEO: https://blazers.belhaven.edu/watch/?Live=951
The Ladies and Blazers (2-2) will also play each other a second time on Saturday at 3 PM. Belhaven was ranked No. 14 in the NFCA/Gorout Division III Top 25 Preseason Poll. All of the Ladies' games this weekend will be streamed live at: blazers.belhaven.edu/watch
Centenary enters the weekend riding high after completing a three-game series sweep in Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference play last Friday with an 8-4 victory over the Schreiner University Mountaineers at home.
The Ladies posted a pair of dominating run-rule victories in a doubleheader last Thursday, winning game one 12-1 in five innings and 12-4 in six innings.
Senior C/IF Jaeden Thrasher (Forney, Texas) had a monster weekend for the Ladies as she played both catcher and designated player in the three-game series and hit a sizzling .750 (6-8) with six RBI, three runs scored, and smacked three doubles. She had a stolen base and a sacrifice fly and finished the series with a .667 OBP and slugged a whopping 1.125. Thrasher is hitting an even .500 for the season and will be a major piece to the Ladies' success after she was limited to just 13 games last season as she battled injuries.
Sophomore SS Kaitlynn Alello (Denham Springs, La.) played her normal position last weekend but also caught one game and is hitting a team-best .750 with six hits, six runs scored, four RBI, two doubles, a walk, and a team-best three HBP. She has a an .833 on-base percentage and is slugging 1.000.
Senior 3B Morgan Dawson (Natchitoches, La.) is also off to a hot start as she is hitting .571 with a .529 OBP and is slugging .786. She has a team-best eight hits and is tied for the team lead in both RBI (six) and doubles (three) and has scored three runs. She is tied for second in the conference in batting average.
Senior 2B/SS Catherine Stokes (Natchitoches, La.) has also been clicking early this season as she is batting .429 (.556 OBP/.500 slugging) with six hits, six RBI, for walks, four runs scored, and a double. Senior LF Laine Sullivan (Prairieville, La.) is also off to a solid start as she is hitting .417 with a .563 OBP. She has five hits, a team-best three stolen bases, three walks, and a pair of RBI. She is tied for fourth in the league in runs scored.
Junior UT Hilary Pillaro (Centerville, La.) is hitting .333 with five runs, four hits, two RBI, two stolen bases, and a double. She will face her former team this weekend after playing two seasons at Belhaven before transferring to Centenary. Senior P/UT Abigail Hodgson (Florence, Texas) is hitting .267 with four hits, three RBI, two doubles and a run scored and junior CF Noelle Sandmann (Huntsville, Texas) is batting .263 with five hits, three runs, three RBI, a stolen base and a double
Senior UT Emma Crow (Krotz Springs, La.) is hitting .364 with five RBI (second on team), four hits, two runs, a double, and a stolen base and Crow has also pitched twice and is 1-1 with a 3.50 ERA. Freshman P/INF Haydyn Schexnayder (Egan, La.) is 1-3 at the plate with an RBI and a BB and is 1-1 in two appearances in the circle with a 4.20 ERA.
Senior P/OF Alexis Roach (Pineville, La.) leads the team in both appearances and starts (three) and is 1-0 with a 2.40 ERA and is seventh in the conference in ERA and eighth in innings pitched (11.2). Senior P Riley Myers (Shreveport, La.) and freshman P/1B Dixie Williams (Haughton, La.) have each made one appearance in the circle and each have a 0.00 ERA as Myers has pitched two innings and Williams one.
The Ladies are hitting .368 as a team with a .446 OBP and slugging % of 474 with 14 doubles, 17 walks, 39 runs scored, 49 hits, three sacrifice flies, and are 11-11 in stolen base opportunities.
LOOKING AHEAD:
The Ladies will resume conference play next weekend with a three-game series against Concordia University in Austin, Texas. The series features a DH on Saturday, Feb. 28 at NOON and a single game on Sunday, March 1 at NOON.
See the complete Ladies' season schedule here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/sball/2025-26/schedule
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