Covering UMHB Athletics and the stories behind the score
MARSHALL, Texas — The day before her team took the field for its ASC Tournament opener, UMHB head softball coach Melissa Mojica was asked about her pitching staff. Six different pitchers recorded at least five starts in the regular season, and four threw 45.0 innings or more, neither stat being especially common when it comes to a softball pitching staff.
MARSHALL, Texas — In a sport with a 40-game regular season, it is incredibly rare to go seven days without playing a game, much less 12. But that is the situation UMHB Softball has found itself in over the last two weeks, its regular season slate entirely wrapped up, and a weekend of anticipation at the ASC Tournament waiting ahead.
CLAREMONT, Calif. — Breanna Taylor remembers the conversation well. UMHB head tennis coach Daniel White had gathered Taylor and her women’s tennis teammates together at the start of the spring semester to talk about the months that lay ahead.
MARSHALL, Texas — Twice UMHB experienced the heartbreak of ending up on the wrong side of a walk-off on Saturday. Both came in the span of just over four hours, the second perhaps more painful than the first, a season-ender that seemed to unfold very slowly even as it played out in real-time.
MARSHALL, Texas — With his team trailing Hardin-Simmons, 5-4, in the eighth inning of Thursday’s ASC Tournament opener, Nolan Williams stepped into the batter’s box as UMHB’s season-long leader in RBIs.
MARSHALL, Texas —- It is a “second season”, UMHB head coach Mike Stawski says. The conference tournament does not know the league’s regular season home run leader, or which pitching staff boasts the top season-long ERA. The seeding of the teams is notable and based on conference regular season results, but even the No. 1 seed starts in a 0-0 game just the same.
BELTON — After turning to the Division I ranks for its men’s basketball head coach last spring, Mary Hardin-Baylor has tabbed another former Division I coach to lead the women’s basketball program into the future.
HEWITT, Texas — After leading UMHB’s indoor volleyball program since 2019 and starting the beach volleyball program in 2022, Mark Pryor is heading half an hour north to lead Midway High School’s volleyball program.
BELTON — Alex Hill says he didn’t know what to expect when he toed the rubber for his first start of 2026. The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps lineup—which featured five hitters who hit above .300 in 2025—was undoubtedly the best he had ever faced, stacked with veteran bats whose Game 1 performance in the season-opening series the day before yielded 11 runs.
Photo of Game 2 starter Beth Ann Johnston courtesy of UMHB Athletics BELTON — If UMHB needed any additional confidence in its pitching staff before hosting the ASC’s top-hitting team in a key weekend series, The Cru found it beneath an overcast sky on Tuesday afternoon. Coming off a seven-day break from game action in […]