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Earning his fourth All-American award for play, East Texas Baptist University baseball player Conner Combs has been named to the ABCA All-American second team. This is the second straight season being named an ABCA All-American. Earlier this week he was named a D3baseball.com All-American which was his second from that organization.

In a winner-take-all finale to the 2017 NCAA Marshall Regional, the East Texas Baptist University defeated Whitworth University to advance to the Super Regionals in the NCAA Tournament. ETBU improves to 38-9 overall this season, while Whitworth ends their season at 37-11.

ETBU's softball team opened up the NCAA Regionals with a win 6-3 win over Whitworth Friday night and a 5-3 win over UT-Dallas Saturday. The game against the Comets was immediately followed by a rematch against Whitworth where the Pirates came out on top 3-1 to force a third battle between the two teams on Sunday.

ABILENE, Texas - Coming down to a single match for the American Southwest Conference women's tennis championship, East Texas Baptist University clinched their first ever championship with a 5-3 win over top seeded University of Texas at Tyler. ETBU now receives the automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament which will be a first for the program. ETBU has only had women's tennis for six years and head coach Jeff Bramlett is in his fourth year.

East Texas Baptist University presents their second annual Hilltop University, a spiritual retreat catered to senior adults where they experience student life on campus at ETBU. The conference will provide worship, Biblical teaching, fellowship, and entertainment from May 31-June 2, 2017.