MARSHALL, Texas – With only five team moments left for the 2021-22 East Texas Baptist University athletic season, the softball team is the number five moment with their, 3-2, win over #16 Trine University. In extra innings, the Tigers won their 10^th game of the year in a top 25 battle as Tristen Maddox singled in Denver Starkes for the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning.
 
Bouncing back on day two of the NFCA Leadoff Classic in Georgia after dropping two games on day one, ETBU opened the day with a one-run win over #16 Trine and then defeated #2 Virginia Wesleyan, 5-2. Sarah Bledsoe and Maddox led the team with two hits each. Maddox, Corley Carpenter, and Amber Thibodeaux all recorded a RBI. Hannah Kelley went nine innings for her fourth win of the year tying a career-high with 11 strikeouts.
 
ETBU started the game with a run in the third inning on a Carpenter sacrifice fly as Thibodeaux scored. Thibodeaux then made it 2-0 in the fourth inning with a RBI single. Trine tied the game in the seventh inning with two runs but ETBU then won it in the ninth inning on the walk-off single.   
 
ETBU finished their season hosting the NCAA Division III Marshal, Texas Regional Tournament making their 15th NCAA Tournament Appearance winning 33 games.