TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Stillman College Softball was crowned HBCU Athletic Conference Regular Season Co-Champions on Tuesday by the conference office. This is the second-straight regular season title for Stillman since joining the HBCUAC.

Stillman (23-18, 19-2) will be the No. 2 seed in the Hope Credit Union HBCU Athletic Conference Softball Championships, hosted at River Run Park in Northport, Alabama from April 25-28.

The Tigers share the regular season crown with the No. 1 seed Dillard University, which swept a doubleheader against Stillman on Feb. 21 to hold the tiebreaker. Stillman took Game 3 of the series with a 7-6 walk-off win on a Lily Stone home run. That sparked a 19-game win streak against HBCUAC opponents.

Stillman will meet No. 7 seed Talladega College at 4 p.m. Saturday, April 25 on Field 1 to begin the championship tournament. The winner will play at noon on Sunday against either Huston-Tillotson or Voorhees. The loser of Saturday's game will play at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday. The tournament is double-elimination to reach a best-of-three championship series on Monday, April 27 and Tuesday, April 28.

No. 1 seed Dillard will play No. 8 seed Rust. That game's winner and loser will meet those from the four-seed Wiley and five-seed Oakwood game.

Stillman College won the 2025 HBCUAC Softball Championship to advance to its second-straight NAIA Softball Opening Round. The Tigers finished third in the Southern States Athletic Conference Tournament in 2024 and earned its first at-large bid to the NAIA.

This season, Stillman out-scored HBCUAC opponents 192 to 64 through 21 games. The Tigers scored 10 or more runs in 11 of their 19 conference wins. Stillman previously swept Talladega College in a three-game series in Tuscaloosa on April 11-12 with wins of 6-1, 12-4 and 8-0.

Alex Erwin leads the conference, hitting .550 against HBCUAC opponents, while Avary Lumpkin is hitting .508 with a conference-leading four home runs. Lumpkin's 38 RBI against conference foes is second in the HBCUAC, while Erwin leads the HBCUAC with 24 stolen bases. Michaela Otts is 3-0 against HBCUAC teams with a 0.81 ERA, while Karli Crocker is a perfect 6-0 in her starts against conference pitchers. Stillman has three of the top four in-conference ERAs.

https://hbcuac.org/sports/sball/2025-26/releases/20260421nj1z6g