Date/Time/Location (All Times MT): Saturday, March 21 at 12 and 2 PM at Yellow Jacket Field in Spearfish, S.D.
Sunday, March 22 at 11 AM and 1 PM at Yellow Jacket Field in Spearfish, S.D.

Live Streaming: Beginning in the 2025-26 season the RMAC Network will now move to Pay-Per-View. Fans can purchase a single game pass ($10), monthly ($25) or annual subscription ($130). Individuals with bhsu.edu or yellowjackets.bhsu.edu email address can still take advantage of the Peak Pricing Promotion by using the code Y26-RMACEDU.

Linear TV: BHSU Athletics has partnered with Forum Communications to bring you BHSU games to your live TV. You will now be able to watch all home events on cable at the KNBN-2 Station in Rapid City and the KSFL-TV station in Sioux Falls. Channel numbers and schedules for each of those channels for all sports can be found at the link above.

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• Black Hills State currently sits at 13-14 and 10-6 in RMAC play after completely dominating the Chadron State Eagles and getting their first sweep since the opening RMAC weekend of last season over Adams State. BHSU had three run-rules and outscored the Eagles 49-14. BHSU scored double-digit runs in three of their games including a season-high 18 runs in game two. BHSU’s only non-run-rule game was a 13-11 win in game three. It was the second straight series win for BHSU this year as they 
• BHSU broke the D2 era record for home runs in a series with 1, which broke a record that had held since 2018 versus Highlands when they had ten. BHSU also set the single series record for runs scored in a series with 49 beating the previous record of 45 from that Adams Series last year. BHSU had seven different players with batting averages over .400 and five with batting averages over .500. Seven different girls hit a home run and four girls had two. 
• Outside of BHSU’s Oklahoma trip, five of the Green and Gold’s nine other losses have come by less than two runs including both of the losses to Adams State. Seven of BHSU’s wins have also come by that same margin. 
• The Yellow Jackets are currently top 50 in the country in ten different stats. They are 27th in home runs (22), 28th in hit by pitches (19), 29th in RBIs (151), 37th in doubles (43), 39th in total runs (159), 40th in RBIs per game (5.59), 42nd in strikeouts per seven innings (5.80), 42nd in walks (89), 43rd in hits (226), and 44th in home runs per game (.81).
• The team took BHSU to their first ever RMAC tournament last season after leading BHSU to a 27-27 (25-19 RMAC) record, which finished sixth in the conference. They had five All-RMAC players, one RMAC Pitcher of the Year, and one All-Region player last year.
• Last year, the Yellow Jackets set 20 separate team records. They were single-season doubles (102), single-season triples (12), single-season walks (177), single-season wins (27), single-season road wins (20), single season RMAC wins (25), single-season hits (468), single-season RBIs (272), single-season runs (290), single-season total bases (699), single-season at-bats (1487), single-season games played (52), single-season pitcher strikeouts (295), single-season sacrifice flies (20), single-season sacrifice bunts (43), single-season hit by pitches (39), single-season batting average (.315), single-season on-base percentage (.397), and single-season slugging percentage (.470).
• BHSU landed at seventh in the RMAC Preseason Coaches' Poll with 64 points. It is the highest ranking BHSU has received in a preseason coaches' poll in their RMAC history. They are currently in a tie for fourth at 10-6.
• The three wins in the first weekend at the Bubble was the most wins in the first weekend in the D2 era. It is also the second time BHSU has entered the second weekend at .500.
• Kaitlyn Geschwill, a newcomer for the Yellow Jackets, made probably the biggest impact a newcomer can make in her first weekend with her new team: she won RMAC Pitcher of the Week. She has a 4.61 ERA in 65.1 innings and has appeared in 19 of the 27 games this season. She has an RMAC-leading 71 strikeouts compared to only 43 earned runs. She has only allowed 21 extra base hits. Besides strikeouts, she’s also leading the conference in strikeouts per seven innings (7.5) and is second in pitching appearances (19). The Central Lakes College transfer had a huge weekend out of the bullpen for BHSU in her RMAC POTW weekend. She pitched in five of the six games, threw 15 innings with a 2-1 record, only allowing two earned runs and seven hits on a .93 ERA and 22 strikeouts. She bounced back after a rough outing in Oklahoma, where she had a 3.15 ERA, 17 strikeouts and only six earned runs in 13.1 innings, including a complete game shutout in game four versus Adams. She then dominated in her home debut versus NMHU pitching two complete games and winning both in pitcher’s duels only allowing four earned runs in those two games and in game two she went seven innings with only three hits allowed and one earned run in the 2-1 win. She then pitched a 5-inning complete game in game one versus Chadron, where she only allowed five hits and two earned runs.
• Brooklyn Theiler has been on absolute fire as of late. The freshman of Buckeye, Arizona has started each of the last nine games and has just became a qualified hitter this week. She leads the entire team in batting average sitting at a .441 clip, while having a .529 slugging percentage, a .500 on-base percentage and recording 15 hits, 15 runs, 10 RBIs, a double, a triple, and five stolen bases. Theiler had a major weekend versus New Mexico Highlands in her first full series of the year, where she hit .583 with five RBIs and three runs scored. She then continued that momentum this past weekend versus Chadron, where she had a .600 batting average with four RBIs, five runs scored, and a .600 slugging percentage. 
• Desi Hernandez is coming off an excellent freshman season where she was named All-RMAC honorable mention. Hernandez is hitting in a tie for second on the team with a .375 with 15 RBIs, five doubles, four home runs, 12 runs scored, and 44 total bases. She has a .611 slugging percentage and a .425 on-base percentage. On the fielding side, she has eight caught stealing, which is second in the RMAC and 15th in the country. She had a career-high four hits three going 4-4 in both games against New Mexico Highlands and Colorado School of Mines while going 4-5 in BHSU’s game two versus NMHU this year. She has hit 19 of 23 games this year and has reached base in 21 of 23 games. In Edmond, Hernandez had five hits and went 2-for-4 against Cameron. She made her way back to the lineup in Pueblo and went 4-for-9 (.444) with a double and an RBI. She had a dominant performance versus the Cowgilrs going 6-for-14 (.429) with five RBIs, five runs, two doubles, and a two-run home run in game two. She had a massive weekend versus Chadron, where she went 5-for-12 (.417), with a .917 slugging percentage, two home runs, seven RBIs, and four runs scored.
• Carly Reyes Mims is also coming off a major freshman season and was also named All-RMAC Honorable Mention last season. She is in the record book once for being tied for fifth in single-season doubles (11). Reyes Mims started the season off very hot. She is hitting .375 with an insane  OPS of 1.203 with a .675 slugging percentage and a .525 on-base percentage. She has 30 hits and 30 runs in 27 games with 20 walks, 15 RBIs, five home runs, two triples, and five doubles. She is third in walks per game (0.73), fifth in runs per game (1.15), fifth in runs (30), fifth in home runs (5), seventh in home runs per game (0.19) and eighth in slugging percentage (.675). In Edmond, she went 3-3 versus Oklahoma Baptist and 1-3 versus Central Oklahoma. In game one versus Adams, she went 1-for-2 with two runs scored. She had four hits and three runs scored in Pueblo with a hit in each of the last three games. She just had the best weekend of her career last year by going 6-for-14 (.429) with six RBIs, five runs, two doubles, a triple, and two home runs with a 1.143 OPS slugging percentage and a .556 on-base percentage. She had two walk-offs in games one and two, including a two-run walk-off home run in game one. She had another huge weekend in Chadron with a 2.286 OPS, a .625 batting average, a 1.500 slugging percentage, and a .786 OPS with five hits, one double, two home runs, four RBIs, and five walks.
• Sammie Kaufman-Warner, a freshman, is absolutely dominating for BHSU and is continuing to make a big impact early. She has a .341 batting average, a .580 slugging percentage, a .398 on-base percentage, and has 30 hits, 28 RBIs, and 20 runs scored, six stolen bases with six doubles and five home runs. This includes a walk-off inside-the-park home run versus Adams in game three. She ranks fourth in the RMAC in RBIs per game (1.08), fifth in home runs (5), fifth in RBIs (28), and seventh in home runs per game (0.19). She has a run in 16 of 27 games, a hit in 19 of 27, an RBI in 17 of 27, and has reached base in 21 of 27. She earned her first RMAC Player of the Week nod two weekends ago for going off in Broomfield with a .636 batting average, a 1.071 slugging percentage, nine RBIs, five runs scored, three doubles, and a walk-off, inside the park home run. After a couple of slow weeks, Kaufman-Warner made a massive impact in last weekend’s series where she hit .467 with seven hits, seven RBIs, seven runs scored, and two home runs. 
• Caylee Mann was the top player for BHSU early and was another transfer who made an immediate impact. She has a .341 batting average with an .897 OPS, a .512 slugging percentage, and has 17 RBIs with ten runs scored, eight doubles and two home runs. She is ranked sixth in the RMAC in sacrifice flies with two. She had an RBI in five of the six games in the Bubble and she has two games with three RBIs while having three hits in both of those games. She had two RBIs in Broomfield and in game two, she went 2-4 with an RBI. In game one versus CSUP, she went 2-for-3 with a home run. She had a massive weekend versus Highlands, where she went 7-for-13 (.538), with four doubles, two RBIs, and an .846 slugging percentage. This past weekend, she hit .300 with four runs, two doubles, an RBI, and three walks.
• Freshman Jessica Melendez is having a great freshman season with a .312 batting average with 18 runs scored, 12 RBIs and six doubles. She saw her seven game hit streak end on Sunday versus Pueblo, but she had a really strong Adams State series where she hit .429 with a .500 slugging percentage and a .500 on-base percentage. She had four runs scored and two RBIs. In game two, she went 3-for-4 with a run scored and then had two RBIs in game three. She had two hits and two runs versus CSUP. In game two versus Highlands, she went 4-for-5 with two doubles, two RBIs, and three runs scored. The four hits was a career-high for her. Melendez had six RBIs in the series versus CSC with four runs scored and two doubles.
• Head Coach Ashlyn Englehorn is the first Jacket head coach to win Coach of the Year since Amy Gurney did it in the DAC in 2008. She is entering her third season as head coach of the Yellow Jackets and has a overall record of 75-126, a BHSU record of 55-77 , and a RMAC record of 49-57. She led BHSU to first RMAC Tournament berth in program history in 2025 after being picked to finish ninth in preseason coaches poll. Helped the Green & Gold finish with their first winning record in program history since 2009. In her first two seasons as head coach, she has won nine RMAC series, with six being this year. In the previous 12 seasons, BHSU had won a total of eight RMAC series. She also helped BHSU break their program wins record, program road wins record, and program RMAC wins record, along with multiple other program statistical records.  statistical records.

• Regis enters this game 5-17 and 4-12 in the conference and are entering this series having lost eight straight games and having been swept in two straight series by Colorado Christian and CSU Pueblo. Regis started the RMAC play with going 1-3 versus Colorado Mesa before winning the series versus Adams 3-1. They only played in one non-conference tournament at the D2 West Coast Challenge in Lake Elsinore, California. They went 0-5 in that tournament including losing 18-2 to #14 Cal State San Marcos.
• During this eight game losing streak, the Rangers have been run-ruled in five of them losing by a combined 68-11 to Colorado Christian and 34-6 to CSU Pueblo. Regis has allowed a run in the first inning in nine-straight games including allowing 15 runs in game one versus Christian. 
• RU is ranked top 100 in five stats. They are 29th in triples per game (0.36), 33rd in triples (8), 42nd in doubles per game (1.68), 66th in doubles (37), and 96th in batting average (.297).
• RU was projected eighth in the RMAC Preseason Poll with 57 points and a second place vote, just behind Black Hills State 64. They currently sit in tenth at 4-12 in RMAC play just ahead of Chadron State and just behind Adams State.
• Belle Akins has been the top pitcher so far for the Eagles after being the lone returning pitcher from last year’s staff. Akins was a one-time RMAC Pitcher of the Week last year after throwing a no-hitter versus Highlands. She has had a pretty solid year this year with six complete games with a 2-7 record to a 5.40 ERA in 57.1 innings pitched with 12 appearances and only 44 earned runs allowed with 40 strikeouts to 22 walks. She has only allowed three earned runs in four of her last five starts including a 9.1 inning outing versus Highlands where she gave up only three. This past weekend versus UCCS, she made two starts only going three innings in her first one before being pulled and then pitching a complete game in the lone win of the weekend giving up only three runs.
• Regis’ top player has been Olivia Wick, who has started all 22 games for them. She currently sits with a .406 batting average, a .667 slugging percentage, and an OPS of 1.128 with 28 hits, nine RBIs, five doubles, five triples, a home run, and 13 runs scored with seven walks. Wick is 13th in the country in triples with four and 21st in triples per game (0.16). She has a hit in 15 of the last 17 games and had a run scored in each of the last four games. Wick had a massive series versus Christian, when she went 8-12 (.666) with four runs scored, a double, a triple, a home run, and two RBIs.
• Jane Quinn has came alive as of late for the Rangers as she is hitting .385 in only 17 games played and has eight RBIs, two doubles, a home run, and eight runs scored with a .942 OPS. She had a hit in nine straight games. Quinn went 4-10 (.400)  and had a double, and RBI, and one run scored in Christian.
• Kiauna Smith is the third solid player on the offense for Regis hitting .375 with 27 hits, 13 RBIs, six doubles, and ten runs scored with seven walks to go along with a team high six stolen bases. Smith had a massive series versus Adams going 5-for-6 with eight RBIs in game one with two doubles and then went 4-for-5 with three RBIs in game four. This performance earned her RMAC Player of the Week. Against Christian, she had a hit in each game going 4-for-14 with two doubles and an RBI.
• The top pitcher for Regis has been Eliza Legge, who is leading the team with a 5.86 ERA and pitching 28.2 innings giving up 24 earned runs and 16 strikeouts to only seven walks. Legge is fourth in the RMAC in walks allowed per seven inning with 1.71. She had a great series against Adams State pitching 8.2 innings only giving up nine hits and one earned run. She only pitched in one game against Christian and pitched a complete game giving up 21 hits and 11 earned runs in the loss.
• Head Coach Candi Letts is in her 27th season as a head coach and her second season at Regis. Letts is a Division I legend coaching at Colorado State, Ole Miss, Utah State, Farleigh Dickinson, and Idaho State. After her last year at Idaho State, she went down to NAIA to coach at St. Katherine College, where she spent three years before making the jump to Regis. She earned West Region Coach of the Year at Colorado State. Overall she has a 553-774 record as a head coach and has  a 26-47 record at Regis in two years. 

 
SERIES HISTORY

• BHSU is currently losing the series to Regis 5-25, but has won three out of their last four. Before last year, Regis had won 21 games in a row dating back to 2014 and BHSU had not won a game since February of 2013. 
• All of that changed last year, when BHSU took three out of four from Regis in Denver. They run-ruled them twice winning 14-6 in game one and 21-1 in game four and also taking game two 5-3. BHSU outscored Regis 43-16 in the series.