SUWANEE, Ga. - Defending SCAC Champion Southwestern swept Trinity over the weekend allowing the Tigers just three runs in the four game series. Junior pitcher Lyndsy Maus was outstanding pitching 12 innings going 2-0 with one shutout, allowing just one run on seven hits while striking out eight and walking just two for a .75 ERA, holding Trinity to a .167 batting average and no extra base hits.
- AROUND THE SCAC -
Austin College team took three
of four games from Hendrix College over the weekend, falling 10-4
in the series opener before rebounding with wins by scores of 7-5,
9-1 and 10-6. The ‘Roos got some tremendous performances at
the plate in the series with Sam Smith leading the way. Smith
batted .625 over the weekend, collecting 10 hits including three
doubles and three home runs, and drove in eight runs while scoring
seven. Stefanie Faith blasted her SCAC-leading 11th home run and
brought her season RBI total to 47 with a pair of runs batted in
while hitting .556 and drawing six walks. Charlotte Trudell also
had a strong weekend at the plate, hitting .500 with four RBI and
Jessica Baker hit .455 with a double and three RBI. Amanda Peiser
and Sam Matulis each picked up a victory in the series, with
Matulis earning her team-best sixth win in the 9-1 victory on
Sunday. Austin College wraps up its season this weekend with a four
game stand against Southwestern as they continue to battle for a
spot in the SCAC Tournament.
Birmingham Southern swept and shut out
Sewanee in all four games of the conference series this past
weekend, with all four games going to only five innings. On
Saturday, BSC won 8-0 and 25-0; the 25 runs tied the single-game
program record for BSC. On Sunday, they won 10-0 and 15-0. In the
first game of the series, junior pitcher Ronni Ferris threw a
perfect game, the second of her career and the fourth in program
history. So far this season, the Panthers are out-scoring their
opponents 212-63 and out-hitting them 253-151. Junior Ashley Bice
leads the team hitting .462 with 27 RBI. The pitching staff -
consisting of juniors Ronni Ferris and Beth Lefler - has a combined
ERA of 1.92 with 147 strikeouts and a .235 opponent batting
average. The Panthers are on the road this weekend for a conference
series against DePauw.
The Colonels were suppose to play Georgetown College on
Wednesday, March 30 in a double-header, but the games were
cancelled due to inclement weather. Centre then
traveled to Memphis, Tennessee to take on conference opponent
Rhodes College in a double-header on Saturday, April 2 and Sunday,
April 3. During the double-header on Saturday the Colonels dropped
the first game by a score of 10-2 and the second game 11-5. On
Sunday, April the 3 Centre would fall in both games by a score of
13-0 and 18-5. The Colonels are currently 8-12 on the season and
1-5 in the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference. Next up for the
Colonels will be a double-header against Wilmington on Wednesday,
April 6. The first game is set to start at 2:00 p.m. in Wilmington,
Ohio.
#6 DePauw posted a 4-0 record for the
week as the Tigers swept a doubleheader against visiting Hope by
scores of 4-1 and 2-0 and then defeated Trine by 2-1 and 4-0 scores
on a neutral field. For the week, DePauw hit just .234, but allowed
the opposition a .229 average. Emma Minx led the way with a .500
batting average, four runs and five hits. Emily Bichler recorded a
4-0 record and allowed just one earned run in 28 innings for a 0.25
ERA. She also allowed just 22 hits. The TIgers played errorless
ball while handling 128 chances.
Hendrix picked up its first SCAC win of the season in the
opener of a four-game series against Austin College on Saturday and
Sunday. Hendrix fell in the last three games of the set and
the Warriors now stand at 9-21 overall and 1-11 in league
play. Hendrix exploded for 15 hits including four doubles in
a 10-4 win over Austin in the opener on Saturday, and then the Roos
outlasted the Warriors in a 7-5 decision for the second game at
Warrior Field. Warriors’ sophomore righty Ashley
Halbert improved to 5-8 on the year after the complete-game
victory. She scattered nine hits, two earned runs and struck
out two in a quality performance. Austin senior Sam Smith
went 6-for-8 with two doubles, two homers, five runs scored and six
RBI to lead the Roos to a 9-1 mercy-rule win and then a 10-6
victory in the nightcap on Sunday. Smith highlighted a
six-run spree by Austin in the second inning of the opener.
She blasted a three-run homer to right center field to give the
Roos a commanding 6-1 lead. Austin outlasted Hendrix in the
second game as the Roos scored two runs in the first and fourth
innings, and three runs in the third and seventh. Hendrix
senior righty Jaclyn Herrera suffered the loss in her last start
from the circle at Warrior Field. Herrera struck out five
batters, walked five, and allowed 13 hits in her 11th loss of the
season.
Millsaps won a pair of games this weekend against in-state
rival Rust College. The Majors took game one 18-0 in five innings
and game two 13-0 in five. Full stats are not yet available for the
games and will be made available as soon as possible. The Majors
will return to action Wednesday afternoon as they travel to
Montgomery, Alabama to take on the Huntingdon College Hawks in a
double header beginning at 3:00 p.m. They will return to Jackson
this weekend to host Trinity for a pair of double headers beginning
Saturday at one and wrapping up Sunday at noon.
Playing the final home games of their careers,
Rhodes’ Class of 2011 lead
the Lynx to a 4-game sweep of Centre this weekend, winning by
scores of 10-2, 11-5, 13-0 and 18-5. The foursome of Liv
Ryan, Sara Bowen, Allison Conn and Cindy Bitters put together some
impressive numbers on the weekend, going a combined 23 for 44 at
the plate (.523), with 4 doubles and 3 home runs. The four
also scored a combined 23 runs and drove in 20 during the
weekend. Bowen picked up a pair of wins in the circle, giving
up just 4 hits and no earned runs in 11 innings of work, and
Bitters picked up the win in Sunday’s second game, improving
to 3-2 on the season. Individually, Ryan, Conn and Bowen all
homered, with Bowen hitting .714 on the weekend (10 for 14) and
driving in 9 runs. Conn hit .438 (7 for 16) with 8 runs
scored and 5 RBI, while Ryan hit .417 with 6 runs scored and 5
RBI. Bitters went 1-2 with a run scored on Sunday, in
addition to picking up a win in the circle. Rhodes is 19-11
and travels to Georgia this weekend for games against Berry, Emory,
and Wesleyan.
Sewanee dropped four conference games to host
Birmingham-Southern over the weekend as they moved to 2-8 overall
and 0-6 in the SCAC. The Panthers took home 8-0 and 25-0 wins on
Saturday, before downing the Tigers, 10-0 and 15-0, on Sunday. Alex
Ginsburg collected the Tigers’ only hit of the day on
Saturday, a single in the top of the fifth in game two, to lead
Sewanee. On Saturday, Dana Middleton picked up two hits in the two
contests to lead the Tigers. Sewanee is back in action Thursday,
April 7, when they host a doubleheader against Talladega College at
1 and 3 p.m.
Southwestern picked up a sweep this weekend of the Trinity
Tigers to remain undefeated in conference action and hold a two
game lead over Millsaps with eight games to play including four
against the Majors. Saturday the two teams were strong defensively
as the pitchers controlled the game most of the way. The Pirates
needed a run in the bottom of the seventh to win game one 3-2 off
an RBI single by Haley Hughes and used a two run sixth to take game
two, 3-1. Southwestern's defense and pitching just got stronger in
the second day of action as the Tigers were unable to score in
either contest. Kaitlyn Pavlicek's homerun in the bottom of the
fourth was the first run of the game for either team and SU pushed
another across in the sixth for a little cushion and closed out the
game on the defensive side to win 2-0. The Pirate bats exploded in
the final game of the series as they scored one run in the second
and a monsterous seven in the third. Southwestern's defense was
stifling once again as they closed the game for the run rule
victory, 8-0. SU improves to 22-10 on the year and 8-0 in the SCAC
and head to Austin College this weekend for a four game series
beginning on Saturday at 1pm.
Trinity was 1-5 last week, splitting a mid-week
doubleheader with Our Lady of the Lake on Wednesday, then losing
all four SCAC games at Southwestern over the weekend. The Tigers
went into the weekend in a tie for first place in the SCAC West
Division with the Pirates, but could not break through against the
defending conference champions. Three of the four losses were by
two runs or less over the weekend. Trinity continues SCAC play this
weekend, facing off against Millsaps for a four-game weekend series
in Jackson, Mississippi. The Tigers return home April 16-17 for
another four-game SCAC series against Hendrix.
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