Media Scrum Schedule (Tuesday, Feb. 25)

Watch Live on YouTube @CMUMavericks, to catch interviews with CMU Coaches & Student-Athletes

1:45 – Baseball
2:00- Softball
2:15- Track & Field
2:30- Men's Basketball
2:45- Men's Wrestling
3:00- Women's Basketball

Home Event Schedule

Thursday, February 27
1 p.m.- Baseball vs. MSU Billings (Home Opener)

Friday, February 28
Noon-  Baseball vs. MSU Billings (Doubleheader)

Saturday, March 1
Noon- Baseball vs. MSU Billings
Noon- Softball vs. Colorado School of Mines (Doubleheader)
1 p.m.- Women's Basketball vs. Western Colorado (Make-A-Wish Day)
3 p.m.- Men's Basketball vs. Western Colorado (Make-A-Wish Day)

Sunday, March 2
11 a.m.- Softball vs. Colorado School of Mines (Doubleheader)

Complete Composite Schedule: https://cmumavericks.com/calendar?date=2/24/2025&vtype=list

Women's Wrestling

• The Mavs won their third straight regional title, claiming the NCWWC Region 8 Championship on Saturday in Denton, Texas.
• The Mavs scored 192 points to win by 25 over Fort Hays State and the rest of the 11-team field.
• The Mavs had four individual champions, the most of any team in the tournament, and had seven in the finals.
• The Mavs' individual champions were Jennesis Martinez (103), Lorianna Piestewa (124), Erica Smith (145) and Gretchen Donally (160).
• Donally defeated Simon Fraser's Lene McCrackin, ranked seventh in the country, 4-2 in the final, handing McCrackin her first loss of the season.
• Martinez is still undefeated at 9-0 this season.
• Piestewa and Donally are two of the seven freshman that qualified for the NCWWC National Championships, which will be on Mar. 7-8 in Coralville, Iowa.
• The Mavericks qualified ten wrestlers overall with Madison Heinzer (4^th, 103), Sophia Cornish (2^nd, 110), Jojo McDaniel (3^rd, 117), Brooke McCurley (2^nd, 124), Alison Evans (2^nd, 180) and Isabeau Shalack (3^rd, 207) joining the regional champions.
• McDaniel was named as the RMAC Co-Freshman of the Year alongside McCracken in a vote of RMAC head coaches.  Those awards were announced last week in conjunction with the All-RMAC Teams, which were based on results of the RMAC Championships.
• CMU had nine total All-RMAC wrestlers with five first team honorees and four second team picks.

Women's Basketball

• The Mavericks clinched at least a share of the RMAC Regular Season title with wins over South Dakota Mines and Black Hills State last Thursday and Saturday.
• The Mavs have now won 12 RMAC Regular Season titles, including seven under 13th Year Head Coach Taylor Wagner.
• The Mavs have now won 14 straight games and have a 21-4 overall record, including their 16-2 RMAC record.
• They were ranked 24^th in last week's D2CIDA Media Poll and were receiving votes in the WBCA Division II Coaches' Poll.
• The Mavericks were included in the alphabetized NCAA Division II South Central Regional rankings.  The first set of numerical rankings will be released on Wednesday.  CMU is likely to sit fourth or fifth.
• They are undefeated (14-0) in the 2025 calendar year.
• The 14-game winning streak matches a 2018-19 winning streak.
• The program record is 25 straight wins during the 2013-14 season, when CMU went 30-2 and advanced to the regional championship game.
• A win in either of the Mavs' remaining two games of the regular season would give the Mavs the outright title and guarantee them of the No. 1 seed for next week's RMAC Tournament.
• The Mavs play on the road at Westminster on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. before hosting second place Western Colorado on Saturday at 1 p.m.
• The official selections for the NCAA Division Championships will come out on Wednesday afternoon.
• Olivia Reed Thyne scored 21 points and added eight rebounds, six assists, two blocked shots and a steal in Saturday's 77-74 win over third place Black Hills State.
• Three other Mavericks also finished in double figures with Brooklyn Palmer adding 16.  She made a career-high four 3-pointers.
• Reed Thyne had 23 points and 12 rebounds to record her 16^th double-double of the season in Thursday's dominant 73-44 win over South Dakota Mines.

Men's Basketball

• The Maverick men extended their winning streak to four games, claiming home wins over South Dakota Mines and Black Hills State on Thursday and Saturday, respectively
• Those wins secured a spot in the upcoming RMAC Tournament.
• The Mavs (17-9) are currently tied for fourth place in the RMAC standings with a 11-7 record and would clinch a first round home game with wins in their remaining two regular season home games.
• They were in seventh place entering last week.
• Their 4-game winning streak is equal to their longest of the season.
• Yaak Yaak recorded his third straight and fourth double-double in the last five, tallying 16 points and 12 rebounds in the 69-51 win over South Dakota Mines.
• The Mavs held the Hardrockers without a field goal in the final 8:58.
• Four different Mavs finished in double figures in the 64-57 win over Black Hills State on Saturday. Yaak and Mason Honeyman had 13 points apiece.
• The Mavs matched a school-record and a season-high by blocking ten shots in that win.
• CMU held the Yellow Jackets without a field goal for the final eight minutes.
• The first set of ordered regional rankings will be released on Wednesday and could see the Mavs in the top 10.  They were not in the top 10 in the initial rankings, which were released in alphabetical order.
• The Mavs will be on the road at Westminster in Salt Lake City on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. before hosting Western Colorado in their regular season finale on Saturday at 3 p.m.

Baseball

• The nation's 24^th-ranked Mavericks split a 4-game road series at Northwest Nazarene.
• The Mavs swept a doubleheader on Friday before losing both games of Saturday's doubleheader.
• CMU is now 4-6 overall.
• The Mavs have traveled nearly 4,800 miles and have been on the road for 15 of the last 21 days on the road, making trips to Pomona & Chico, California and Nampa, Idaho, just outside Boise.
• Christos Stefanos hit .583 (7-12) while Kolby Felix hit .412 (7-17) with two doubles, a triple and two home runs while driving in four and scoring five runs.
• Ethan Voss picked up the win in Game 1 of the series, allowing just one run on eight hits while striking out three in six innings of work.
• Liam Hoehnstein had a no decision in Game 4 despite allowing just two runs on five hits in six innings.  He struck out seven Nighthawks.
• The Mavs will host MSU Billings in a 4-game set this week, their first home games of the year at The Diamond at Bus Bergman Field.
• Thursday's game has been moved up an hour to 1 p.m.
• It will be followed by the program's annual Leadoff Dinner in the Meyer Ballroom of the CMU University Center.  Tickets are available at: https://engage.supportingcmu.org/event/2025-leadoff-dinner/e654720
• Friday's doubleheader is slated for Noon and a single game will be played at Noon on Saturday.

Softball

• The Mavs (6-8, 4-4 RMAC) split a 4-game series at MSU Denver over the weekend.
• The Mavericks swept Saturday's doubleheader, winning 9-3 and 8-3 games.
• The Mavs then led 5-2 with two outs in the bottom of the seventh before the Roadrunners rallied to score four runs to claim a 6-5 win on Sunday.  They then held on for a 7-5 win in the series finale.
• Myah Arrieta went 9-for-15 (.600) with two home runs, one double and four RBIs.  She slugged 1.067.
• Makayla Westmoreland also went 7-for-15 (.467).
• Five other Mavericks also homered throughout the weekend as the team hit seven.
• Ally Distler now has six home runs while Arrietta has three.
• Jessalyn Gallegos earned the Saturday Game 1 victory and finished the weekend with a 1.20 ERA, allowing 13 hits and just two earned runs with 13 strikeouts in 11 2/3 innings.
• Sophia Tassinari also picked up the Game 2 win.
• CMU will return home to face the Colorado School of Mines (5-13, 5-3 RMAC) in a 4-game set this weekend at the CMU Softball Stadium.  Doubleheaders will get underway at Noon on Saturday and 11 a.m. on Sunday.

Men's Wrestling

• The Mavericks will be at the NCAA Division II Super Region VI Championships, hosted by Western Colorado in Gunnison on Saturday.
• Action beings at 10 a.m. in the Mountaineer Fieldhouse.
• The Mavs are now ranked 24th (tie) as a team in the NWCA Rankings, which is determined by a point system of the individual rankings.
• The Mavs have four individually ranked wrestlers in Dayson Torgerson (#8, 125 lbs.), Owen Cline (#13, 157), Gabriel Carranza (#8, 197) and Tyler Doyle (#12, 285) in the latest national rankings, which were released on Monday.
• Carranza and Doyle were both voted to the First Team All-RMAC squad by a vote of the conference's head coaches.
• Eleven teams, including all eight RMAC squads, plus Cal Poly Humboldt, Fort Hays State and Nebraska-Kearney, will compete.  Including the Mavs, five of the 11 squads are nationally ranked.
• The top three finishers in each weight class will qualify for the Mar. 14-15 NCAA Division II National Championships.

Indoor Track & Field

• The Mavericks had a good-sized but partial squad competing at the RMAC Last Chance Meet in Gunnison on Friday.
• Sprinters Gaby Horton and Jordan Burnett both claimed wins with RMAC-leading times in the 200 and 400 meters, respectively.
• Horton's mark of 24.25, which converts to 24.02 with track-size and altitude-adjustments, will likely get her into the NCAA Division II Championships.  She currently ranks 12^th on the national performance list.
• The Mavs had 28 season-best marks throughout the meet as other Mavericks secured qualification for this week's RMAC Championships.
• The conference meet will be held Friday and Saturday at UCCS in Colorado Springs.

Men's Lacrosse

• The Mavericks moved to 3-0 on the season and recorded their eighth straight win overall dating back to 2024, crushing William Jewell by a 12-3 margin on Sunday.
• JJ Brummett scored three goals and added an assist to lead the Maverick offensive attack.
• He had gone over the 100 goal mark for his career in last Monday's 16-5 win over Dominican.
• Connor Jensen had four goals in that win and now leads the Mavs with ten goals on the season.
• Goalkeeper Shaden Shields was named as the initial RMAC Defensive Player of the Week honoree, which was based solely on the Mavs' 13-8 win over CUI to start the season.
• The Maverick defense held the Cardinals without a goal for more than 50 minutes.
• CMU won 16 of 19 faceoffs as Mike Edwards won 10 of 12 while scooping up seven groundballs.  He also scored a goal.
• The Mavs moved up one more spot to 14^th in this week's USILA Poll, released on Monday.  They were 15^th last week.
• CMU will play Rockhurst, receiving votes in the poll, in their second half of a trip to Kansas City on Tuesday.  That trip was pushed back from an original Friday/Monday schedule because of recent winter weather in the Kansas City area.

Women's Lacrosse

• The Mavericks were off last week after going 1-1 on their season-opening road trip to Missouri.
• They will be on the road again this week, playing two nationally-ranked opponents in No. 21 Florida Tech and No. 9 Saint Leo in Florida this week.
• Those games are on Thursday night at 5 p.m. MST in Melbourne and 11 a.m. MST on Saturday in Saint Leo.
• CMU swept the initial RMAC Player of the Week honors, released last Tuesday after the trip to Missouri.  Caroline Ohngemach won the offensive award while Ali Bryant claimed the defensive award.

Women's Tennis

• The Mavericks went 1-2 in their trip to Kearney, Nebraska for a series of indoor matches.
• The Mavs crushed NAIA Hastings, 7-0 in their first match before falling 6-1 to 16^th-ranked Division II foe Nebraska-Kearney and 4-0 to Rockhurst.
• No. 1 singles player Makenna Livingston defeated national ranking No. 22 Fabiana Gamboa of Nebraska-Kearney in Friday's dual against the Lopers.
• The Mavs also received a No. 3 doubles from Catalina Ballon Marin and Jane Steur in the dual against Rockhurst.
• CMU is now 6-6 overall and 3-4 in matches against fellow Division II foes.
• The Mavs will be off this week and will continue their season on Friday, Mar. 7 at Division I Utah Tech in Saint George, Utah.

Beach Volleyball

• The Mavericks went 4-2 in their opening week of the season during a trip to Arizona.
• They recorded a pair of 4-1 win over Benedictine Mesa in Thursday's doubleheader.
• The Mavs then went 2-2 on the weekend at the Grand Canyon University Tournament in Phoenix.
• The Mavs recorded wins over NAIA No. 1 Ottawa (Ariz.) and NAIA No. 4 Arizona Christian on Saturday before dropping a tough 3-2 decision to NCAA Division I Saint Mary's (Calif.) in their third match of the day.
• The Mavs also fell 3-2 to the Gaels in their lone Sunday dual.
• No. 2 pair Riley Daugherty and Lizzy Hood went a perfect 6-0 throughout the week.
• The No. 3 pair of Barrett Nolan and Ania Swartzendruber was 5-1.
• The Mavs will play four opponents from Texas this weekend, competing at the Javelina Beach Showdown hosted by longtime Division II rival Texas A&M-Kingsville.  The Mavs will take on the hosts and new NAIA program Wayland Baptist on Friday.
• The Mavs will then play NCAA Division I UTEP and Tarleton State on Saturday.

Men's Tennis

• The Maverick men were also in Nebraska, and like the women, went 1-2 against the same foes.
• They Mavericks dominated Hastings, 7-0, but fell 6-1 to Nebraska-Kearney and 4-1 to Rockhurst
• The Mavs are now 6-5 overall and 3-3 against Division II oppositions.
• The Mavs won all three doubles matches by 6-0 scores against Hastings and dropped just eight total games  in singles, sweeping all 12 sets.
• Against UNK, William Leschig won at No. 2 singles while Romain Payan and Jamison Pfingston won at No. 3 doubles.
• Payan then claimed a win at No. 4 singles in the dual with Rockhurst, going 4-2 throughout the weekend (2-1 singles, 2-1 doubles).
• The Mavs are off this week and will then host Hawai'i Hilo in a Sunday, Mar. 9 doubleheader at the Elliott Tennis Center.  Those matches will be the first two of just four total home matches this season and will be the first against fellow Pacific West Conference foes.

Men's Golf

• The Maverick men were slated to open their season at the SoCo Intercollegiate last Monday in Pueblo, but that tournament was canceled early in the round and before the Mavs even teed off.
• The Mavs will now open their season this Sunday through next Tuesday (Mar. 2-4) at the UMSL Desert Classic in Las Vegas.
• The Maverick men had a strong fall season, claiming five top-4 finishes in their six events.
• They ended the fall ranked 17^th in the Bushnell/Golfweek Division II Coaches Poll.
• They are also ranked 16^th in the national rankings and third in the South Central Region, according to the end of fall SCOREBOARD Powered by Clippd rankings, which will eventually play a major role in the selection of teams for the NCAA Division II Super Regional Tournaments.
• Cole Beyer, who had two fall wins, is ranked 11^th in the national individual rankings.
• The Mavs will play their first team event from Mar. 2-4 at the UMSL Desert Classic in Las Vegas.

Swimming & Diving

• The Mavericks hosted a Last Chance Meet on Saturday.
• Two more divers set their second necessary qualifying score to become eligible to compete in the NCAA Division II Pre-Championship Qualification meet.  The Mavs now have 12 eligible divers.
• Meanwhile, swimmers John Walgast and Brodie Khajuria likely secured trips to the NCAA Championships with career-best times.
• Walgast, a senior, had narrowly missed on qualification in his three previous years.  Khajuria is a freshman.

Save the Date

• CMU Athletics will host a Casino Night fundraiser on Friday, Apr. 4.  The silent auction and cocktails and conversations begin at 5 p.m. with dinner and gaming tables opening an hour later at 6 p.m.  Prizes will be awarded at 9 p.m.  Tickets can be found at: https://www.supportingcmu.org/event/2025-maverick-casino-night.html