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Belton, Texas – The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor football team returns to Crusader Stadium to open a two-game home stand with an American Southwest Conference showdown against Howard Payne University this Saturday. The Cru and Yellow Jackets will kick off at 1:00 PM at Crusader Stadium in the 16
th all-time meeting between the two teams.
UMHB is 7-0 overall and has a 3-0 mark in American Southwest Conference play after posting a 63-7 victory at Hardin-Simmons University last Saturday in Abilene. UMHB enters this weekend ranked #2 in the country by the American Football Coaches Association and #3 in the nation by D3football.com. The Yellow Jackets are 3-4 overall on the year and have a 1-3 mark in conference play. Howard Payne is coming off a 47-36 victory over East Texas Baptist University last Saturday in Brownwood and two of the Yellow Jackets' three league losses have come by a combined total of six points against Louisiana College and Mississippi College.
"They (Howard Payne) are doing a nice job and really coming along," Cru Head Coach
Pete Fredenburg said. "It looks like they have a real good scheme and do some things to cause mismatches for a defense. They are mixing it up pretty well and this is going to be a challenge. We've been concerned about feeling better about ourselves as a team each week and I really feel like we were able to do that after our game last Saturday."
The Cru leads the all-time series with Howard Payne 13-2 and won last year's meeting 68-6 in Brownwood. For more information on parking, traffic flow and game day events, please visit the following link:
http://news.umhb.edu/article/game-day-instructions. There will be parking reserved for Howard Payne University fans in the parking lot at the corner of 9
th Street and College Drive. Yellow Jacket fans are encouraged to enter the stadium through ticket window #3 at the southeast corner of Crusader Stadium.
Saturday's game will also be broadcast live on K101.7 FM and through the station's web site with the pre-game show starting at 12:30 PM. UMHB will provide live video streaming and live statistics for the game with links to both available by clicking here:
http://client.stretchinternet.com/client/umhb.portal. Tickets are still available and the gates will open at 11:00 PM on Saturday.
