Story Links LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Bellarmine University softball team is set for a 47-game schedule in 2025, head coach Caitlyn de la Haba announced on Wednesday. Bellarmine is slated for 22 contests at Knights Field, including two multi-team events. The Knights’ schedule also features 24 Atlantic Sun Conference games, split evenly between three-game home and […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Bellarmine University softball team is set for a 47-game schedule in 2025, head coach Caitlyn de la Haba announced on Wednesday.
Bellarmine is slated for 22 contests at Knights Field, including two multi-team events. The Knights’ schedule also features 24 Atlantic Sun Conference games, split evenly between three-game home and road series. This season, Bellarmine will play in the ASUN’s Northeast Division along with Austin Peay, Central Arkansas, Eastern Kentucky, Lipscomb and North Alabama. This season will be the first in which the ASUN conference will play a division-based schedule.
“Our ASUN schedule is a little different this year since we were put into divisions to help with some travel costs,” de la Haba said of the conference change. “We’re really excited about the schedule we got and are looking to continue to build off our success from last year and have a shot at our first ASUN Tournament.”
In addition to the team’s competitive conference schedule, the Knights will also play a stiff non-conference schedule, featuring some of the state’s top teams.
“We don’t play a ton of midweeks this season, but we do have some fun ones this year, including going down the road to the University of Louisville and hosting the University of Kentucky at our own field,” said de la Haba. “These are always well attended, fun games that the girls look forward to and help us continue to grow and aspire to put the best product on the field.”
de la Haba’s squad will begin their season on the road February 7-9 at Charleston Southern’s Kickoff Tournament for the second consecutive season. In their first tournament of the season, the Knights will take on Georgetown University and Charleston Southern two times each with a single game against Siena.
Following the season opening weekend, Bellarmine will return home for its first games at Knights Field, playing host to its own multi-team event, February 21-23. In its first home weekend, Bellarmine will face off against both University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and Northern Illinois University twice. Following the event, the Knights will stay in town, making the short journey to the University of Louisville on February 26 for a matchup with the Cardinals.
From there, BU will hit the road again for another tournament, this time returning to The Spring Games in Madeira Beach, Fl. for the second time in as many seasons for a five-game weekend against University at Albany, Binghamton University (twice), Bethune-Cookman and Butler University from February 28 to March 2. The Knights will then make a stop in Cookeville, Tn. on the way home for a game against Tennessee Tech on March 5.
“We are really excited to head to some great places down south for preseason. We got to go to Charleston and Madeira Beach last year and the girls had a really positive experience on and off the field,” de la Haba said of the team’s early road trips. “It’s great when we can take them on trips where they can do some fun things as a team off the field in between games, and spend some time with their families in places that they may not have gotten to go otherwise.”
Following the road trip, Bellarmine will return home for its longest home stand of the season of 10 games, kicking off with its second and final home multi-team event March 7-9, playing host to Ball State University, Stonehill College and Evansville University. The next weekend, the Knights will open their ASUN schedule with a three-game home series against Austin Peay March 14-16. BU will continue its lengthy home stand on Match 19 as the Knights host the University of Kentucky before finishing off and returning to conference action March 22-23 with a three-game series against Eastern Kentucky.
The Knights will then embark on their longest road trip of the season, a seven-game stretch beginning on March 26 at Morehead State. Bellarmine will then play back-to-back road ASUN series, first traveling to Nashville, Tn. March 29-30 for three games at Lipscomb before rounding out the trip in Clarksville, Tn. with three games at Austin Peay. April 4-6.
On April 9, BU returns to Knights Field for a second matchup with Tennessee Tech. Bellarmine will then host Central Arkansas for three more ASUN games April 12-13 before closing out the week at home with a final non-conference game against Northern Kentucky on April 16.
To close out the year, Bellarmine will alternate home and road ASUN series for the last three weeks of the season, first traveling to Florence, Al. for three games against North Alabama April 18-19. The Knights will play their final three home games of the season April 26-27, hosting Lipscomb. BU will conclude its regular season May 2-3 in Richmond, Ky. with three games at Eastern Kentucky.
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