#MustangsWin! Softball Sweeps Weekend at LCU Play Day!

Erik Holth, CBC Sports Information Director

            Conway, Ark. – Central Baptist College had a busy weekend of athletics last weekend with winter and spring sports crossing over for the first time. Wrestling competed at the Cumberland Open in Tennessee, baseball opened their season on Friday with a doubleheader against Champion Christian in Bryant and softball opened the season in Louisiana and the Louisiana Christian Play Day against Dillard and Arlington Baptist.

            CBC started the season 2-0 after beating Dillard 26-0 and Arlington Baptist 8-4 this past Friday at the Louisiana Christian University Play Day in LeCompte, La. CBC pounded out 16 hits and three home runs (off the bats of Kinley Johnson, Lauren Anderson and Abi West) against Dillard, including scoring 15 in the first and 10 in the fourth, scoring the third largest shutout win in program history. Hannah Work and Olivia Pickard combined on the two hit shutout, with Work throwing four innings of hitless ball while striking out four and Pickard relieving her in the fifth, allowing the only hits of the game. In the game against ABC, the offense kept going, racking up 13 more hits, including eight of the nine players in the lineup. CBC got runs in the third, fifth, sixth and seventh innings and got doubles on the day from Madeline Bruce, Ysabella Esquivel and West. Alex Jeter went the distance for the win, striking out five around 10 hits and four runs with three walks. Softball is back in Louisiana this coming weekend for the LSU-A Invitational in Alexandria. CBC will play Houston-Victoria and #23 William Carey on Friday before facing Kansas Wesleyan and the hosts, LSU-Alexandria on Saturday. Friday's first pitch is scheduled for 2 p.m.