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SB: Huskies host Northwestern State on Thursday and Friday in first SLC series of season

Three-game set moved up a day due to weather concerns; all three games on ESPN+

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🏟️ Sharp Gymnasium – Houston, Texas
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Thursday – March 5 (DH 4 pm / 6 pm)
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Friday – March 6 (12 pm)
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Houston Christian University will host Northwestern State University in the first Southland Conference series of the season starting on Thursday afternoon. The series, originally scheduled for Friday and Saturday has been bumped up a day with impending weather concerns for the Houston area. The two teams will now play the doubleheader on Thursday beginning at 4 pm, with the series finale slated for Friday at noon.
 
The Huskies are coming off a 1-4 weekend at the UNM Invitational in Albuquerque that saw them take two-run losses with a win over UTEP sandwiched in the middle of the five games. Mary-Ellen Hall, now in her 35th season with her alma mater, and the Huskies are now 3-16 on the season at they enter conference action.
 
Madison Dominguez has taken over the team batting lead at .310, having hit safely in her last nine games. She is tied for the team lead with 13 hits while also pacing the Huskies with 10 walks and six stolen bases.
 
Jocelyn Briseno bats .286 on the year and is tied with Chloe Foster for the team lead in RBI with eight and with Ella Herrewig in runs with six.  She posted her first career four-hit game in the win over Prairie View A&M in the finale of the Bearkat Invitational two weeks ago.
 
Foster has started all 19 games for HCU thus far and is batting at a .267 clip.
 
Maddy Bailey has missed six games but is batting .333 after going 7-13 over the weekend which included her fourth career three-hit game in 3-2 loss to UTEP before going 2-2 the next morning in a win over UTEP.
 
HCU and Northwestern State have met 39 times, with the Lady Demons leading the series 27-12. The Huskies have won the last six meetings, sweeping NSU in Houston in 2024 and again in Natchitoches, Louisiana last year, winning 8-3, 7-5 and 8-6 to open the conference slate.
 
Jenny Fuller is in her second year at the helm in Natchitoches and has her Lady Demons at 9-13 on the year after posting a 4-1 mark in their own City of Lights Tournament last week. NSU swept three games from UAPB, opening the tournament with a no-hit, 14-0 win over the Lions.
 
The Demons split a pair of games with Missouri State, with the victory over the Bears coming despite getting no-hit in a 5-3 victory. NSU plated all five runs in the first, loading the bases and scoring on a HBP, back-to-back walks and a fielder's choice and error.
 
Sophomore utility player Brynn Daniel is the leading batter for NSU, hitting .393 on a team-high 22 hits. Three players sit in double-digit RBI for the Demons, led by graduate outfielder JT Smith and junior utility Makynlie Jones, both at 14. Both have one homer on the season with Smith batting .297 and Jones at .290 on the year.
 
Junior transfer right-hander Mattison Buster has been a workhorse in the circle thus far, making 16 appearance with 11 starts and six complete games. She was named the Southland Pitcher of the Week this last week after no-hitting UAPB and getting the win in the Missouri State contest. She is now 7-5 on the season with a 3.20 ERA and 42 K's in 65.2 innings of work.
 
All three games from Husky Field will be available on ESPN+.
 
Following the series with Northwestern State, the Huskies will be off until next weekend when they travel to Hammond to take on two-time defending Southland champion Southeastern Louisiana University in a three-game series.
 
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