{"id":235561,"date":"2026-04-05T02:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/235561\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T02:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:20:07","slug":"sb-drops-series-finale-against-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/235561\/","title":{"rendered":"SB Drops Series Finale against Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WACO, Texas \u2013 Baylor softball dropped a 10-1 run-rule decision to Houston on Saturday afternoon in the 700th game played at Getterman Stadium.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Bears had opportunities but went 1-for-11 with runners in scoring position, while Houston capitalized on Baylor&#8217;s defensive miscues, scoring eight runs in the last two frames.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Bears moved to 23-14 overall and 6-6 in Big 12 play, while the Cougars improved to 20-22 and 3-12 in the conference.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nRUNDOWN<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHouston struck first with a two-run third inning, using a pair of hits, including an RBI double from Makenna Mitchell, to take an early lead.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBaylor answered in the bottom half, cutting the deficit to 2-1 as <a href=\"https:\/\/baylorbears.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/brooklyn-carter\/14549\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14549\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Carter<\/a> singled, stole second and later scored on a sacrifice fly from <a href=\"https:\/\/baylorbears.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/leah-cran\/14550\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14550\" target=\"_blank\">Leah Cran<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Cougars broke the game open in the fifth, plating five two-out runs on four hits, extending their lead to 7-1.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHouston continued to add on in the sixth, hitting a pair of home runs to push the margin to 10-1 and secure the run-rule victory.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nGAME NOTES<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tBaylor is now 32-17 all-time against Houston, going 11-2 in the last 13 games against the Coogs.&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe Bears are now 500-200 all-time at Getterman Stadium.&#13;<br \/>\n\tBaylor used its 37th different lineup combo in 37 games this season.&#13;<br \/>\n\tBU is 5-2 this season when wearing its gold jerseys with green pants.&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/baylorbears.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/amber-toven\/14559\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14559\" target=\"_blank\">Amber Toven<\/a> extended her career-best on-base streak to 18 games, and has now tied her longest hitting streak of the season at nine games.&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/baylorbears.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/brooklyn-carter\/14549\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14549\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Carter<\/a> picked up two more hits, finishing the series with five in three games.&#13;<br \/>\n\tPicking up a hit in her fifth-straight game, <a href=\"https:\/\/baylorbears.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/sa-mya-jones\/14572\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14572\" target=\"_blank\">Sa&#8217;Mya Jones<\/a> has now reached base safely in seven-straight games, both career highs.&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/baylorbears.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/kaygen-marshall\/14564\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14564\" target=\"_blank\">Kaygen Marshall<\/a> recorded her second triple of the season, just one behind the team lead (3).&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nQUOTABLE <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/baylorbears.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/coaches\/glenn-moore\/2624\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"2624\" target=\"_blank\">Glenn Moore<\/a> on the series finale \u2014 &#8220;In a nutshell, I just told them they&#8217;ve never quit on me, I&#8217;m not going to quit on them. It was a very frustrating weekend. Everything we felt we failed at is fixable, though. We&#8217;ve seen pitching much better \u2014 statistically \u2014 than we saw this weekend, and we did better against it. I&#8217;m disappointed in that performance there, but I tip my hat to that pitching staff. I don&#8217;t want to discredit what they did. We have to certainly go back to work, try to figure out what&#8217;s going on. I don&#8217;t have the answers to something that. I don&#8217;t know that anybody does right now.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMoore on the response he wants from his team\u2014 &#8220;I want to get the response that they&#8217;re unhappy with this. It&#8217;s not just upperclassmen that have to respond now \u2014 You expect it from them, but everybody&#8217;s been playing this game long enough to where we&#8217;re going to find out how much they hate losing. If they can&#8217;t do that themselves, then it&#8217;s my job to make them uncomfortable enough until they do. It&#8217;s one thing whenever your ability is not getting you there. It&#8217;s another thing whenever you&#8217;re not playing at a level you&#8217;re capable of. They&#8217;ve got to have enough pride \u2014 and honestly, I feel like I&#8217;m insulting a bunch of girls when I say that \u2014 they have given me their heart and soul to this point. I expect that out of them. I&#8217;ll be disappointed if I don&#8217;t see that. We&#8217;ll find out how they respond.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nWHAT&#8217;S NEXT<br \/>\nBaylor will close down its five-game homestand with a 5 p.m. game against Lamar on Monday at Getterman Stadium.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAll games for the remainder of the season will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/search\/_\/q\/baylor\/o\/watch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">televised on ESPN+<\/a> and heard on air and online via <a href=\"https:\/\/listen.streamon.fm\/kbhthd2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">101.3 COOL FM.<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFollow @BaylorSoftball on X, Instagram and Facebook for additional updates.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014BaylorBears.com\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WACO, Texas \u2013 Baylor softball dropped a 10-1 run-rule decision to Houston on Saturday afternoon in the 700th&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-235561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}