Covering UMHB Athletics and the stories behind the score
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 — 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.
It’s a new week in Cru Country, and there’s plenty to watch for as April gets going. This Monday morning breakdown is intended to do just that, highlighting some of the notable moments and accomplishments from the previous seven days, while giving a look ahead at what is upcoming for UMHB Athletics.
It’s a new week in Cru Country, and there’s plenty to keep an eye on. This Monday morning breakdown is intended to do just that, highlighting some of the notable moments and accomplishments from the previous seven days, while giving a look ahead at what is upcoming for UMHB Athletics.
SAINT PETER, Minnesota — For much of the 2025-26 season, Mary Hardin-Baylor was the team that opponents with a halftime lead feared, as The Cru mounted numerous second-half comebacks all the way up to last Saturday’s ASC championship game win over Hardin-Simmons.
SAINT PETER, Minn. — UMHB head coach Sam Patterson calls Hudson Johnson “one of the most fearless guards” he has ever been around. On Friday night in the First Round of the NCAA Tournament, Johnson showed why.
It is NCAA Tournament time for UMHB men’s basketball, who is back in the 64-team field for the first time since the 2022-23 season. The Cru begins its run on Friday in the upper Midwest, playing at the Gustavus Adolphus Regional about 70 miles southwest of Minneapolis. It marks the first time since the 2008 tournament appearance that the Crusaders will play their first round game outside of Texas, as their previous six first round games all came in Belton.
BELTON — After punching its ticket to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2022-23 in Saturday’s ASC Tournament championship, Mary Hardin-Baylor men’s basketball learned of its first round draw—and next destination—on Monday afternoon.