Millington, Tenn. – The Centenary baseball team split a non-conference doubleheader with the Rhodes College Lynx on Tuesday, falling 10-2 in game one and responding with an 11-2 win in game two which gave Centenary head coach Mike Diaz career win number 300 as the Diamond Gents opened their regular season at the USA Baseball Stadium Complex.
The Diamond Gents (1-1) waited an extra 72 hours and drove 300 miles to open their season after weather and conditions due to ongoing construction at Shehee Stadium, Centenary's home field, forced the series to be moved to the Memphis suburb.
Centenary and Rhodes met on the diamond for the first time in each other's history and it was a matchup of two teams with high hopes this season as both are receiving votes in the 2024 D3baseball.com/NCBWA Preseason Top 25 Poll. Centenary was picked to finish second in the conference this season in the preseason poll released on Jan. 31 based on balloting from the league's head coaches while the Lynx were picked to finish third in the Southern Athletic Association (SAA) this season.
Diaz, now in his 14th season with the Diamond Gents, became the all-time winningest coach in program history last season with his 292nd win on April 16, 2023 at home versus Schreiner University and is now 300-212-1, having passed former HC Ed McCann (1999-2010) for the all-time wins mark.
The Diamond Gents will play three games in the Hendrix College Invitational this weekend (Feb. 16-17) in Conway, Ark. and then head to California to play Occidental College three times Feb. 23-24 and Chapman on Feb. 25.
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See the complete Diamond Gents' season schedule here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/bsb/2023-24/schedule
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