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.
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.
ABILENE — The goal was put in place 170 days before it was achieved.
ABILENE — The shot was good from the moment it left Karlee Cronk’s hands.
ABILENE — When two teams are meeting for the third time in five weeks, as UMHB and ETBU did in Friday’s American Southwest Conference Tournament semifinal, there is very little about either side’s gameplan that comes as a surprise for the opponent.
BELTON — UMHB men’s soccer has displayed the strength of its scoring attack more than once in the 2025 campaign. But on Thursday night, The Cru took it to another level, finding the back of the net six times in a 6-0 shutout over Howard Payne.
BELTON — For the fifth-straight season, UMHB women’s soccer is heading to the ASC Tournament title game.