SUWANEE, Ga. - Millsaps swept Hendrix over the weekend and has now won six of its last seven games improving to 6-2 in conference play. Megan Yglesias help lead the Majors over the weekend batting .600 in four games with nine hits, including two home runs, nine RBIs 1.200 slugging percentage with two huge game-winning hits (HR and Single).
- AROUND THE SCAC -
Austin College went 0-4 on the
week with all four losses coming on the road at conference foe
Trinity. Trinity limited the ‘Roos to just five runs in the
four game series. Austin College will return to action Saturday,
April 2nd on the road at Hendrix.
Birmingham Southern won their second
straight conference series, defeating Rhodes in three of four games
with a split on Saturday and a sweep on Sunday. Playing with only
10 players, BSC is 15-7 overall and stands at second in the East
Division with a 6-2 record. The Panthers have out-scored their
opponents 154-63 so far this season, and out-hit them 196-146.
BSC's pitching staff, consisting of only two players, has a 2.19
ERA with 117 strikeouts and a .251 opponent batting average. The
Panthers are at home again this weekend, hosting Sewanee in a
four-game conference series, Saturday and Sunday at 1
p.m.
Centre played in six games over Spring Break week and the
Colonels went 2-4. The Colonels opened up action for the week on
Wednesday, March 23 with a double-header against Mount St. Joseph
in Cincinnati, Ohio. During the first game Centre won handily 17-0.
The Colonels led in the second game 3-1 after the third inning
until the bottom of the seventh inning when the Lions scored three
runs to take the 4-3 win. Centre then faced a good Covenant team on
Friday, March 25 and they ended up losing both games 3-2 and 10-5
in Lookout Mountain, Ga. The Colonels were then suppose to face
nationally ranked Piedmont on Saturday, March 26, but due to
inclement weather the game was moved to Sunday, March 27. Centre
took the first game 9-6 before dropping the second game 3-2 in the
bottom of the seventh inning. The Colonels are 8-10 on the season
and 1-3 in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference. Next up for
Centre will be a double-header against Georgetown College on
Wednesday, March 30 with the first game starting at 5:30
p.m.
#8 DePauw posted a 5-1-1 record during
the week and stands at 12-2-1 on the season. The week started with
a 1-0 win at LaGrange in 10 innings before a doubleheader split at
Piedmont (1-7, 7-5). The Tigers then handed top-ranked Emory its
first loss of the season in the opening game of a doubleheader,
7-6, while the second game ended in a 9-9 tie when the contest was
suspended after 10 innings due to darkness. DePauw then swept a
twinbill at Sewanee by scores of 10-4 and 18-1. The final
doubleheader at Sewanee was canceled due to field conditions. For
the week, DePauw hit .355 with a .46 slugging percentage. Rachel
MacBeth led the way with a .519 (14-27) batting average and Brianne
Weeks followed at .444 (12-27). Haley Buchanan and Jen Kosinski
each hit two homers and Buchanan drove in 10. in the second game at
Sewanee, Buchanan tied a school single-game record with two homers
and seven RBI. Emily Bichler posted a 4-1 record in six
starts in the circle.
Hendrix played eight games in the seven-day span and
finished with a 2-6 record after wins over MacMurray and Illinois
on March 23 and 24. The Warriors dropped two at Westminster
(Mo.) and finished the week with four-straight setbacks at SCAC
West foe Millsaps on Saturday and Sunday. Hendrix now stands
at 8-18 on the year and 0-8 in league action. Westminster
handed Hendrix a pair of one-run losses, 10-9 and 11-10, while the
Warriors cruised to mercy-rule victories against MacMurray (12-0)
and Illinois (15-3). Millsaps held Hendrix to just 10 hits in two
games to complete the series sweep on Sunday afternoon. The
Majors took a walk-off 4-3 win in the opener and then a 4-1
decision in the night cap. On Saturday, Hendrix fought back
from an early 4-0 deficit to own an 8-6 advantage heading into the
bottom of the seventh. The Warriors scored three runs in the
seventh on a one-run triple, one-run single and a wild pitch.
Millsaps junior Jade Hewitt then smashed a walk-off three run homer
to center field in the Majors’ final at bat with two
outs. The Warriors saw another lead slip away in
Saturday’s night cap as the Majors erased a 6-3 deficit with
six runs on five hits in the bottom of the fourth. Yglesias
highlighted the rally with a three-run bomb to left field.
The Majors added their last two runs in the sixth as the Warriors
were held scoreless over the last three innings.
Millsaps (8-16, 6-2 SCAC) got the four-game sweep of the
Warriors this weekend to move four games over .500 in conference
play. Jade Hewitt led the Majors’ offense in the
series-opener with four RBI in the 9-8 win. Three of those four
came in the games’ final at-bat as Hewitt clinched the win
with a three-run blast to center. Megan Yglesias stepped up in game
two, adding three runs in the six-run fourth, in the 11-6 win.
Yglesias got her second home run of the day with a three-run shot
to left that helped the Majors get a little distance from the
Warriors. Sunday’s games were pushed due to stormy weather
dampening conditions at Millsaps Field, but the double header was
played despite the soggy, chilly conditions. The weather definitely
impacted the run production on both sides as the games were decided
4-3 and 4-1 in favor of the Majors. Yglesias broke up the 3-3 tie
in the seventh of game one with a single past the shortstop to
plate Sam Wursteisen in her second game-winning hit of the weekend.
Then in the series finale, Millsaps scored two in the sixth and two
in the seventh for the come-from-behind win to take the series 4-0.
Lindsey Drane performed brilliantly in the final three innings,
getting the Warriors in order in the fifth, sixth, and seventh
innings to get her second win of the series. The Majors will hit
the road this weekend to take on Rust College for a Saturday double
header in Holly Springs.
Rhodes went 1-3 against Birmingham Southern this
weekend. After dropping game one by a score of 3-1, the Lynx
scored 3 in the 7th and two in the 8th to earn an 8-6 win in game
two. Freshman Courtney Williams hit a 2-run home run in the
top of the 8th to secure the win for the Lynx. Sara Bowen picked up
her 10th win of the season in relief. On Sunday, Birmingham
Southern turned the tables on the Lynx, scoring in the bottom of
the 8th to earn a 5-4 win in game one, then holding off a Lynx
rally in game two to win 5-4 and complete the doubleheader
sweep. Williams led the Lynx offense all weekend, going
8-for-11 with two home runs, two doubles, eight runs scored, four
RBI and five walks. She posted a .727 batting average and
.813 on base percentage.
Sewanee dropped all four of its’ games this week,
falling in a doubleheader with Judson College on Wednesday, 12-3
and 18-5, before losing a pair of SCAC contests to DePauw
University, 10-4 and 18-1, on Friday. Against DePauw, the Indiana
Tigers jumped out a 4-1 lead in the fifth inning before Sewanee was
able to draw within one with a pair of runs. DePauw added two runs
in the sixth and four more in the seventh to go ahead 10-3, before
the Tigers added another run in the bottom of the seventh. In game
two, DePauw scored seven runs in the top of the first to cruise to
an 18-1 victory. Sewanee’s only run of the game came in the
bottom of the first when Dana Middleton doubled and advanced to
third on an error. Erin Polena gounded out to second, scoring
Middleton. Michelle Thibodeaux was charged with a pair of losses on
the mound. Dana Middleton went 3-for-3 at the plate in game one
with three stolen bases and three runs scored. Thibodeaux led the
Tigers at the plate with a 2-for-2 effort in the second game.
Sewanee is now 0-2 in conference play and 2-4 overall. The Tigers
will host Hiwassee College in a doubleheader Tuesday starting at 1
p.m.
Southwestern had an off week from conference
action and play two games at home against the University of Dallas
on Saturday. SU made quick work of the games, finishing both in
five innings. They scored 31 runs in the two games and held UD
scoreless. The Southwestern pitching staff was sensational on the
mound with Lyndsy Maus posting a one-hitter and allowing just two
baserunners. Lauren Zearfoss followed with a one hitter as well in
game two. The Pirates sit at 18-10 overall and remain at 4-0 in the
conference. They return to SCAC action to face conference-rival
Trinity for a four game series starting on Saturday at
1pm.
Trinity had its best week of the season, going 4-2
overall, and sweeping its SCAC series against Austin College over
the weekend. The Tigers lost both games of a Friday doubleheader
against Hardin-Simmons. Trinity moved into a tie for first place in
the SCAC West Division with the four conference wins, drawing even
with Southwestern. The Tigers and Pirates will play a four-game
weekend series this weekend in Georgetown. Before leaving for the
road trip, though, Trinity takes on Our Lady of the Lake University
in a doubleheader on Wednesday afternoon.
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