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Softball
10:00 a.m. & noon | Emory & LaGrange | Emory Classic, Atlanta, Ga.
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The Scots are back in action Sunday against Emory and LaGrange after suffering single losses to those teams Saturday.
Brecca Williams went a combined 4-for-7 on the day to keep her hot start in tact, and both
Ryleigh Maples and
Olivia Harris delivered two-hit games. This weekend's contests against LaGrange do not count toward the conference standings.
Women's Tennis
Noon | Indiana-Southeast | Maryville
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Tennis season is upon us, and the Scots' women's tennis team is looking to field another competitive team after a successful 2024 campaign. Last season, MC made it to the semifinals of the CCS tournament before falling to Covenant, thus ending their season. The team finished with a 12-9 overall record, an improvement of four matches from the previous year, and a 5-2 conference record. Returning production from last season include seniors
Abby Diggs and
Elizabeth Shwaiko. The two have combined to appear in 103 matches and helped the Scots to achieve the best overall team record in at least 20 years in the 2023-24 season. Sophomore
Alyssa Smith was named to the 2023-24 Academic All-Conference team and won a CCS Rookie of the Week honor that season as well. She appeared in 19 matches and posted 12-9 singles record and a 16-6 doubles record (6-1 in conference play), the best mark on the team.
Josie McRae, the other returning sophomore on the team, appeared in 11 matches her first season and posted perfect 1-0 records at the four and five positions. She received 2023-24 CCS Academic All-Conference recognition. New to the women's tennis team this season are freshmen
Calliana Kondolios and
Jasmine Muecke, and sophomore
Ella Reyes.
Men's Tennis
Noon | Indiana-Southeast | Maryville
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Maryville head coach
Doug Corbett cannot wait to get his team on the court for the spring season. The Scots open their 2025 spring campaign hosting Indiana U.-Southeast this Sunday at 1 p.m. A Friday match against Pfeiffer was moved to April 12 because of wintry weather. Maryville is picked to finish fourth in the preseason poll taken by Collegiate Conference of the South head coaches, but Corbett has higher hopes than that. Senior team members are
Kaleb Burke and
Ben Wyrick, while the junior class consists of
Jonathan Crane,
Jackson Meyer and
James Smith. This year's sophomores are
Gabriel Villalonga Serra and a pair of transfers in
Ian Martin and
Field Myatt, with the first-year portion of the roster made up of
Eli Cauthorn,
Pedro Cunha and
Luka Romano.
Baseball
1:00 p.m. | Oberlin | Scotland Yard
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The undefeated Scots secured the Series against Oberlin with a 2-0 Saturday performance, taking game one 9-8 and game two 8-1. Oberlin would go on to score the next seven runs of the game, hitting one home run, two doubles, one single, and a sac fly to take an 8-6 lead in the eighth inning.
Not backing down from the challenge, Daniel Montana pinch hit for
Matt Hall with two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of the eighth. Montana hit a deep shot down the right field line that was dropped by the right fielder to allow Montana the base and score Whitaker and
Hunter Thaxton to tie the game at eight.
Reece Jordan singled to right center, scoring
Frank Derner from second to take a 9-8 lead.
Mitchell Grannan earned his first win of the season after 1.2 hitless and run less innings to end the game. Grannan struck out two of the final three batters to close out the game for the Scots after the Yeomen threatened to take the game lat
A better defensive game for the Scots was game two aas they pulled out an 8-1 victory and allowed only three hits. After giving up the first run of the game to the Yeomen in the top of the second inning, MC scored eight straight to clinch the series in two games with the series finale coming up.
Not to be outshone by the offensive production, Maryville's pitching staff was elite as well.
Kyle Timko picked up the win after throwing six complete innings, allowing a mere three hits and one run with four strikeouts in 20 batters faced.
Kaden Wimsatt came in relief and picked up a save in the process, pitching three full innings of hitless baseball to seal the game for the Scots. Wimsatt threw four strikeouts against 11 batters faced, while walking only two in the process.The two pitchers have now pitched in two games, combining to allow only five hits and one run in 14 combined innings pitched. Timko's ERA is 0.90 and Wimsatt's is 0.00.
