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MARSHALL, Texas (3/10/16) – Setting their lures to become the best collegiate program in the United States for collegiate bass fishing, East Texas Baptist University will enter the bass fishing world starting a new program for 2016-17 and will be sponsored by Skeeter Boats. This club sport will allow anglers to fish on the best lakes in East Texas and the United States on the best boats in the nation.

SOFTBALL: BROWNWOOD, Texas (3/5/16) – Doubling in the game winning run in the top of the seventh inning, Linzie Lewis put the East Texas Baptist University softball team on top, 2-1, on Saturday afternoon at Lady Jacket Field over Howard Payne University. The victory wraps up a three-game series sweep for ETBU, which goes to 10-3 overall and 8-1 against American Southwest Conference competition.

BASKETBALL (M): MARSHALL, Texas (3/14/16) – A veteran of coaching NCAA Division I, II, and junior college men’s basketball, Brandon Curran has been named the new head men’s basketball coach for East Texas Baptist University. Curran has made stops at Dallas Baptist University, Centenary College, Jacksonville College, and the University of Texas-Austin.

BASKETBALL (W): TYLER, Texas (2/25/16) – Rallying in the fourth quarter to come back from a seven-point deficit, the East Texas Baptist University women’s basketball won their first post-season game in eight years upsetting the West Division #3 seed the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, 73-70, as they advance to the second round of the American Southwest Conference Championship Tournament. ETBU now has 17 wins which is the most since the 2006-07 season when they won 22.

BASKETBALL (W): MARSHALL, Texas (2/24/16) – With an overall of 16-9 and an ASC record of 8-7, the East Texas Baptist University women’s basketball team have qualified for the American Southwest Conference Tournament for the first time since the 2012-2013 season and eight overall in the program. They finish as the third seed in the ASC East Division and will be heading to Tyler, Texas, where they will competing for a chance to win the ASC Tournament. They start the tournament against the second place team in the West Division, Mary Hardin-Baylor, in the first round.