NATCHITOCHES – From the moment the 2025 Northwestern State softball schedule was finalized, first-year head coach Jenny Fuller had March 11 circled on her calender. 

 

It is the day that the Demons (3-20, 0-3) welcome her alma mater, and former coach, and mentor, Glenn Moore and the Baylor Bears to Natchitoches for a midweek game. 

 

First pitch for the final game of a quick four-game homestand for the Demons is set for 6 p.m. on Tuesday night and will air on ESPN+. 

 

Tickets for the game are available for purchase now online at nsutickets.com starting a $10 per person. 

 

"It's a huge honor just to be able to coach against Coach Moore," Fuller said. "In the softball world, he's a legend up there. What he's done at Baylor and how he's always stayed competitive there. I'm just really proud to have had the chance to play for him and I'm really excited to play against him." 

 

Fuller played two seasons for Moore at Baylor from 2008-09, leading the Bears in both wins with 11 and shutouts with three during the 2008 season. 

 

Baylor (11-13, 1-2) is no stranger to the City of Lights having made the trip to the Demon Diamond to open the 2022 season as part of the Natchitoches Historic District Development Commission Lady Demon Classic. It will be the Bears' first trip for a midweek game since a doubleheader during the 2017 season. 

 

The two teams played each other multiple times a year for five straight seasons in the mid-2010s, due in part to head coach Glenn Moore's connection to Northwestern State. 

 

Moore is a 1993 graduate of NSU where he played on the Demon football team and served as a volunteer coach on the staff of N-Club Hall of Fame coach Rickey McCallister for two years. His beginnings as a Demon and love for the game have translated into more than 1,000 career victories, a national title, four trips to the Women's College World Series and 19 total NCAA regional appearances. 

 

"Ever since I started coaching, I've always had him on speed dial, and he's always been there for me," Fuller said. "I can't thank him enough for that. I think the biggest thing I've learned from him is how to coach with family in mind. 
He always put family first and always preached being there for each other, having a gritty mindset as a player and just competing, even when your backs are against the wall." 

 

Those tenets of coaching Fuller learned first-hand from Moore during her time as a player have carried her to more than 250 wins in her career. And even with the youngest team in Division I softball, those traits of grittiness and competitiveness have been evident this season for the Demons. 

 

The most notable evidence remains the shutout win at #20 Mississippi State but even in their losses this past weekend against HCU, the Demons erased deficits of four or more runs in two straight games, giving themselves a chance to win each time. NSU got the tying or winning run to the plate in the seventh inning of both of those games, before coming up short by two runs each time. 

 

"I think that we're right there as a team," Fuller said. "We just have to put a few more things together and just compete a little bit harder, and I think things will fall our way. We just kind of have been going back to the Mississippi State game that if we can compete with them, then we can compete with anybody on any given day." 

 

The Demons have a 2-4 record in one-run games this year and have lost six games total by two runs or less.