TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Stillman College is the 2025 HBCU Athletic Conference Regular Season Softball Champions, the conference office announced Monday. Stillman (23-7, 12-0 HBCUAC) clinched the regular season with a three-game sweep at Dillard University on Saturday and Sunday.

This is the first time the Stillman Softball has claimed a share of the regular season championship since moving to the NAIA. The Tigers won the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference West Division in 2015 and shared the overall SIAC regular season title with East Division Championship Albany State University.

This year's team is the inaugural champion for the HBCUAC as the conference sponsored softball for the first time this season.
  Stillman is led this season by 2024 NAIA All-American Lauren Haskins, who is hitting .528 with 31 RBI and 42 runs scored. She has seven home runs and seven triples. Six other Tigers are hitting above .300 this season with at least 50 at bats: Carolyn Carter (.390), Madison Bubel (.378), Lily Stone (.376), Alex Erwin (.355) and Katelyn Lankford (.325).

Let's take a look at how the Tigers captured the regular season crown with a current 12-0 record. 

March 8 & March 10 - at Talladega College

Game 1 - Stilman 12-3, 5 Inn. 
Madison Bubel finished the game 3-for-3 with a pair of RBIs and a double, while Lauren Haskins went 3-for-4 with three RBIs and two triples. 

Jasmine Wade pitched all five innings and scattered four hits with a walk allowed.

Game 2 - Stillman 11-0, 5 Inn. 
Carolyn Carter went a perfect 3-for-3 at the plate with four RBIs, three runs scored, a double, a triple and a steal. 

Faith Byram pitched a complete game, struck out four batters and scattered two hits. 

Game 3 - Stillman 3-2
Katelyn Lankford finished 2-for-3 at the plate with two RBIs and a triple. Haskins and Buble went 2-for-4, and Haskins smashed her fourth triple of the series. Erwin went a perfect 2-for-2 at the plate with a walk.

Mackenzie Smith pitched six innings with three strikeouts to move to 2-0 on the season, while Byram earned her first save of the season by collecting the final three outs. 

March 16-17 - at Rust College

Game 1 - Stillman 13-4, 5 Inn. 
Lankford finished game one 4-for-4 from the plate with two RBIs. Carter went 3-for-4 with three RBIs and three doubles. Lily Stone grabbed two RBIs on 2-for-4 hitting. 

Wade pitched a complete game with seven strikeouts.

Game 2 - Stillman 10-5
Stone and Lankford shined again as Stone posted three RBIs on 3-for-4 hitting with a double and a triple, and Lankford posted three RBIs on a 2-for-4 effort at the plate with a stolen base. 

Buble and Karli Davidson both registered doubles and Haskins stole a pair of bases. 

Byram pitched five innings to earn the win, while Avary Lumpkin finished the final two innings with a strikeout. 

Game 3 - Stillman 16-1, 5 Inn. 
Alex Erwin led the way as she went 2-for-3 with three RBIs. two runs scored, a triple, a walk, and a stolen base. Bubel went 1-for-2 with a walk and three RBIs. Haskins and Lumpkin both hit triples.

Smith picked up the complete game win with a strikeout.

March 22-23 - vs. Voorhees University 

Game 1 - Stillman 16-1, 5 Inn. 
Erwin led the way with five RBIs on 2-for-3 hitting and added a home run, a stolen base and two runs scored. Haskins finished 3-for-3 with three RBIs, a homer and a stolen base. Lumpkin recorded three RBIs and a run scored on 2-for-3 hitting. 

Wade pitched a complete game with four strikeouts and only two hits allowed.

Game 2 - Stillman 10-2, 5 Inn. 
Lankford led in RBIs with two while hitting 2-for-3 with two runs scored. Haskins finished 2-for-4 with a double and a triple. Carter and Lankford both registered doubles in the second contest. Stone was credited with a stolen base. 

Smith pitched a complete game with two strikeouts and four hits allowed. 

Game 3 - Stillman 10-2, 6 Inn.
Bubel had a banner day with a 3-for-4 effort with four RBIs and a triple. Lily Stone and Lumpkin both recorded doubles, while Haskins and Erwin came away with steals.

Wade pitched 4.2 innings of relief with eight strikeouts and only two hits allowed. Byram went 1.1 innings in the start. 

March 29-30 - at Dillard University

Game 1 - Stillman 7-2
Haskins finished as the batting leader, and the senior went 3-for-3 with three RBIs, a home run, and two steals. Lumpkin added two RBIs on 1-for-3 hitting. 

Wade pitched all seven innings and struck out three batters while scattering four hits.

Game 2 - Stillman 7-5
Haskins finished 3-for-4 with four RBIs, a triple, a home run and a steal. Bubel notched two RBIs on 1-for-2 hitting. Carter, Stone and Erwin all hit doubles in the victory. 

Byram tossed six innings in the win and finished with seven hits and four walks allowed. Jasmine Wade earned her first save of the season with a shutdown seventh inning.

Game 3 Stillman 16-4, 6 Inn. 
Davidson finished with three RBIs and a double on 1-for-2 hitting. Haskins once again went 3-for-4 with two RBIs, a homer, a double, and a stolen base. Stone went a perfect 3-for-3 with two RBIs. Lumpkin collected an extra-base hit with a double.

Lumpkin threw five innings in the victory with three strikeouts. Mackenzie Smith recorded the final three outs with no hits allowed.

Despite the clinching of the regular season championship, the year is not over for the Tigers. Stillman hosts Rust College tomorrow in a non-conference doubleheader starting at 2 p.m. Then on Thursday, the Tigers travel to Daphne, Alabama to face the United States Sports Academy. Stillman wraps the week with an HBCUAC series against Oakwood University on April 5-6.