It is a historic Week at the Hilltop, kicking off the inaugural St. Edward's STUNT season in Dallas for the DBU Tournament. SEU history continues with Track & Field's first Lone Star Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships. 
 
Basketball and Baseball follow track & field out west. Men's and women's basketball are in Portales, New Mexico, on Thursday against Eastern New Mexico, then Canyon, Texas, to face West Texas A&M. Baseball opens with a game against neighboring Huston-Tillotson on Tuesday, then heads to Odessa to fast Texas Permian Basin. 
 
Softball remains in Austin to host Eastern New Mexico and Western New Mexico on Friday and Sunday.
 
STUNT (0-0, 0-0)
Head coach Sean Garland, assistant Sidney McIntosh, and team captains DANICA MORNINGSTAR and CAI GANT lead the Hilltoppers into competition for the first time, participating in the Dallas Baptist University Tournament. 
 
St. Edward's opens against second-year program George Fox on Friday. The Bruins earned third place at nationals in its first season as an NCAA Division III program. Then, they face defending LSC Champion DBU on Saturday. The Patriots have opened the season with five consecutive wins after posting a 2-2 record in the NCAA Tournament last season. 
 
The Hilltoppers close the weekend against NAIA's Hope International University (California). 
 
Indoor Track & Field
St. Edward's first indoor track & field season is almost in the books, with conference championships this weekend. The men's distance runners feature four times in the conference's top 10 of their event. DYLAN SEQUEIRA owns two of those, with the ninth-best in the 3k and seventh in the 5K. ARLO GONZALES and Ben Bayly own the eighth and ninth-best time in the 5K. 
 
JORDON CHAPPELL leads the men's sprinters with the LSC's 15th-best time in the 200 and 17th in the 400. HOGAN HEIKKINEN has the 20th-best time in the mile, 21st in the 800, and 25th in the 3K. 
 
MIA RIVERA continues to rewrite SEU record books and has the conference's 10th-best time in the 3K and 18th in the mile. JULIANA MERLO heads into conference with the 14th-best tie in the 800 and 21st in the mile. 
 
Baseball (9-3, 9-3)
St. Edward's is coming off a 4-0 sweep of Cameron and is fourth in the South Central Region. The Hilltoppers play a single game against the NAIA's Huston-Tillotson (5-7) before traveling to Odessa this weekend for a four-game series against Texas Permian Basin. 
 
Hilltopper pitchers KOBE JARAMILLO and GEORGE HETTRICK anchor a stellar pitching rotation. Jaramillo has the fourth most strikeouts in the nation and is fourth and fifth in strikeouts-per-nine innings in the LSC. 
 
Texas Permian Basin has been swept by Angelo State and Texas A&M-Kingsville and split its series against Texas A&M International. 
 
Three of the four hitters at the top of St. Edward's lineup are hitting .350 or better, not including right fielder DYLAN TATE, who leads the team at .421. St. Edward's also manufactures runs, ranking in the top five of the LSC in stolen bases and sacrifice bunts. 
 
Softball (7-7, 1-3)
Softball is coming off a 1-3 week, dropping two games to No. 11 West Texas A&M and splitting its doubleheader against Midwestern State. 
 
St. Edward's KATIE DILLON is one of the league's top leadoff hitters, batting .500 with six walks, five stolen bases, and 13 runs scored. She's ninth in the nation in hits. Six other Hilltoppers are hitting above .300, with MEGAN MORRIS and SLOANE HILL leading the team with nine RBI. 
 
Eastern New Mexico (10-4, 3-1) swept Texas A&M-Kingsville and split its series against Texas A&M International. The Greyhounds are third in the nation in doubles and first in home runs with 20. Three different hitters have five each: Valeria Contreras, Aylene Lucero, and Alondra Vasquez. Lucero leads the nation in RBI (25). 
 
Western New Mexico (4-9, 1-3) was swept by Texas A&M-Kingsville and split its series against Texas A&M International. 
 
Men's Basketball (17-10, 11-7)
It's a critical week for the men's basketball team, who are sixth in the LSC standings, vying for a spot in the eight-team conference tournament. 
 
The Hilltoppers are a game behind Eastern New Mexico in the win column and a game up on West Texas A&M in the loss column. They play both on the road this week before closing the regular season against third-seeded St. Mary's.
 
St. Edward's lost to Eastern New Mexico and defeated West Texas A&M last year. The Hilltoppers are coming off a pair of wins over Cameron and Oklahoma Christian, with LEWIS ROWE winning LSC Defensive Player of the Week. 
 
Women's Basketball (11-16, 7-11)
St. Edward's split its games against Cameron and Oklahoma Christian last week, defeating the latter on Senior Day while celebrating its 50th anniversary. The Greyhounds swept Western New Mexico and Sul Ross State last week. West Texas A&M (17-9, 11-8) is on a four-game winning streak, having defeated Texas Permian Basin, Angelo State, Sul Ross State, and Western New Mexico.