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SB - 2026 SENIOR WEEKEND

SB: Huskies host Lamar for final series of regular season

Saturday is "Senior Day" as well as Head Coach Mary-Ellen Hall's final home game



🆚 Lamar University
🏟️ Husky Field - Houston, Texas
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🥎 Friday – April 24 (DH – 4 pm / 6 pm)
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🥎 Saturday – April 25 (12 pm)
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Houston Christian University hosts Lamar University in the final home series of the regular season and the final home games in the illustrious career of Head Coach Mary-Ellen Hall as the when the schools face off this weekend at Husky Field. The doubleheader on Friday begins at 4 pm with the series finale and "Senior Day" on the docket for Saturday at noon as the Huskies will honor six out-going student-athletes following the game.
 
The Huskies will be playing their fourth series since Head Coach Mary-Ellen Hall announced her retirement from coaching on April 7, signaling the end of her 35-year tenure at the helm of her alma mater. With the program since its inception in 1989, Hall took the reins in 1992 after three years as an assistant and has amassed 927 wins to date, which is 29th amongst active coaches across all NCAA ranks. She will step out of the dugout at season's end, but will continue on at HCU in her current role of Senior Woman Administrator, which she has served as since 2009.
 
HCU hits the final weekend of the regular season campaign still in the hunt for the eighth and final spot in the Southland Conference postseason. The Huskies currently sits at 10-34 overall and 7-17 in the Southland, one game behind Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. The top two teams in the SLC will host four-team brackets, with the winner's of those brackets facing off in a best-of-three series for the league crown. Southeastern Louisiana, the two-time defending tournament champions, currently sits atop the SLC standings at 22-2 and have won the regular season title and will be one of the two host schools with the other still to be decided this weekend.
 
A huge week on the road for the Huskies kept their postseason aspirations alive. HCU went 4-2 last week, taking one at McNeese before securing its first conference sweep of the season over the weekend in Commerce.
 
The Huskies won the middle game of the McNeese series behind a 134-pitch, complete game effort from Cara Pitman and first three-hit game of Chloe Foster's career. HCU then started off the ETAMU series another gem from Pitman, who needed just 77 pitches to shut down the Lions for a 1-0 win, the Huskies first blanking of the season. HCU got a three-hit game from Maddy Bailey, who along with Jade Moreno went deep to lead a 5-3 second game win before the offense exploded for a season-high 15 runs in the finale, highlighted by the first career three-hit game by Breana Herrera.
 
Maddy Bailey has her batting average back over .300 after a strong last three series. She has gone 11-29 over the past two weeks against Nicholls, McNeese and East Texas A&M, including an 8-20 (.400) stretch over her last six games. She went a combined 5-8 with two homers and six RBI in the final two games of the ETAMU series last weekend.  The graduate centerfielder leads the Huskies in batting average (.306), multi-hit games (10) hits, runs, doubles and triples.
 
Chloe Foster is the lone Husky to have played in every game thus far in 2026. She hit her first career homer in game two against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and had her second three-hit outing of the season as she went 3-4 with two RBI to help aid the 6-4 win over McNeese on Wednesday. She leads the team with 18 RBI. 
 
Jocelyn Briseno had her first career four-hit game in the 8-6 victory over Prairie View A&M at the Bearkat Invitational (2/21). She posted back-to-back 2-3 outings in the first two games of the series with Nicholls and is 8-27 over her last nine games, raising her average to .272 on the year, second on the club.
 
Madison Dominguez had a 12-game hitting streak and 13-game stretch of safely reaching the bags earlier in the season, snapped at SLU. She is third on the team in hits with 27 and has team-highs of 16 walks and 11 stolen bases.
 
Cara Pitman tossed back-to-back complete games last week on the road, including the club's first shutout of the season. She went the distance on a career-high 134 pitches to defeat McNeese on Wednesday, then came back on Friday with a five-hit blanking of East Texas A&M on an economical 77 pitches, winning 1-0 in Commerce.
 
Jade Moreno batted 6-16 last week (.375) on the road stretch, and now has a five-game hitting streak. She hit her team-best fifth homer of the season in the middle game of the ETAMU sweep, and had six RBI over the six-game road stretch to give her career-high 14 on the season.
 
HCU and East Texas A&M have met just nine times, all coming in Southland action over the past three seasons. Houston Christian holds a 7-2 lead in the series as the Huskies took two of three in Houston last season, winning 2-1 and 3-2 before the Lions captured the regular-season finale 15-1. HCU took two of three in their only ever trip to Commerce, winning 7-4 and 8-7 after dropping the opener of the series 3-1. The come-from-behind victory in the series finale represented Head Coach Mary-Ellen Hall's 900th career victory.
 
The Huskies and Cardinals have met 34 times with LU leading the all-time series 24-10. HCU rallied to take the final two games of the three-game series in Beaumont last year. The Huskies scored six runs in their final two times at bat to claim an 11-10 win in the middle game of the series, then scored five runs in the ninth inning to claim the rubber-game finale 9-4.
 
Now in her eighth year at the helm in Spindletop, Amy Hook has Lamar at 28-21 overall and in fifth place in the SLC at 14-10, one game out of third and two games out of the second spot and an opportunity to host the other bracket.
 
The Cardinals are led offensively by frosh infielder Isabella Flores who is batting .379 with seven homers and 46 RBI, as well as sophomore infielder Cala Wilson, who bats .331 with nine homers and 39 runs driven in. Senior righty Reagan Smith paces the pitching staff with an 11-5 record with 11 complete games in 18 starts to go with a 3.72 ERA and 69 K's in 107.1 innings.
 
Saturday's "Senior Day" finale will see HCU honor six outgoing student-athletes in Breana Herrera, Maddy Bailey, Addy Prasifka, Chloe Foster, Karlie Barba and Christin Haygood with a ceremony postgame.  
 
All three games of the Lamar series can be streamed on ESPN+.
 
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