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BASEBALL: ORANGE, California (2/6/15) - Scoring 15 runs in the final game on Saturday for a three-run win over Chapman University, the East Texas Baptist University baseball team split the double header but took the overall three-game series. ETBU fell in game one, 4-3, but then bounced back for a 15-12 win in the last game. With the 12-7 win from last night, ETBU starts off the 2016 season at 2-1.

MARSHALL, Texas (1/28/16) - The East Texas Baptist University Department of Music will present a program of Musical Theatre Scenes in Mabee Recital Hall on campus, Thursday through Saturday (Feb. 4-6), at 7:00 p.m. Students will present selections from seven different musical theatre productions, including Die Fledermaus, Pirates of Penzance, Sweeney Todd, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Porgy and Bess, Guys and Dolls and The Music Man.  

MARSHALL NEWS MESSENGER: (2/4/16) - East Texas Baptist University President Blair Blackburn is headed to the nation's capital to support the university's fight for religious liberty, he said Tuesday.

U.S. Supreme Court justices are set to begin hearing oral arguments at 10 a.m. on March 23.

The university, joined in the suit by Houston Baptist University and Westminster Theological Seminary, is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a recent lower court decision that requires the school to provide contraceptive coverage in its employee insurance or face federal fines.

BASEBALL: MARSHALL, Texas (2/3/16) - On national signing day, the East Texas Baptist University baseball team signed their best recruit for their program yet in Team Impact partner Mark McCullough from the Shreveport, La., area. Mark is a Down Syndrome child living out his dream being a part of a college athletic team.

MARSHALL, Texas (2/1/16) - The 2016 Meyer Lecture Series went on as planned on Monday, Jan 25 at East Texas Baptist University even though the keynote speaker, Peter Greer, President of Hope International, could not attend. Meyer was unable to travel to Texas due to the northeastern snowstorm.