{"id":259930,"date":"2026-04-21T19:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/259930\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:31:12","slug":"sb-continues-crucial-stretch-at-texas-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/259930\/","title":{"rendered":"SB Continues Crucial Stretch at Texas State"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\t\t\tBAYLOR BEARS (26-20, 9-9 Big 12)

\n\t\t\tLocation:\u00a0Waco, Texas\u00a0

\n\t\t\tConference\/Affiliation:\u00a0Big 12

\n\t\t\tHead Coach: Glenn Moore<\/a>\u00a0(Northwestern St., 1993)<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tBAYLOR\u00a0(26-20, 9-9 Big 12) at Texas State (31-17, 11-17 Sunbelt)\u00a0April 22 \u2022 6 p.m.

\n\t\t\tSan Marcos, Texas \u2022 Bobcat Softball Stadium\u00a0(1,000)<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tTalent:\u00a0Jeffrey Cohen

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\n\t\t\tTexas State Bobcats (31-11, 11-7 Sunbelt)

\n\t\t\tLocation:\u00a0San Marcos, Texas

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\n\t\t\tHead Coach: Ricci Woodard (NMSU, 1991)<\/p>\n

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\u2022 Baylor opens a big week down IH 35 for a showdown with Texas State Wednesday night at 6 p.m. on ESPN+<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Bears will then return home for their final home series against No. 14\/17\/18 Oklahoma State<\/p>\n

\u2022 In a crucial stretch to end the regular season, BU will play six of its final seven games against ranked foes<\/p>\n

\u2022 With 15 games against ranked opponents this season and six more scheduled to close the season, BU is looking at 21 ranked opponents this regular season, its most since 2011 when the Bears saw 22 ranked teams en route to the College World Series\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Ranked 43rd in the RPI entering the week, the Bears have been as high as 16th this season, playing the fourth-most difficult schedule in the league<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Bears lead the all-time series with Texas State 44-20, boasting a 15-9 mark in San Marcos<\/p>\n

\u2022 BU will try to continue a recent streak of success against the Bobcats, winning four of the last five<\/p>\n

\u2022 Baylor will try to close the gap in its series with the Cowgirls as OSU holds a 52-33 all-time record, with Baylor leading 17-15 in Waco.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Baylor aims for its first series win over OSU since 2017, as the Cowgirls have won seven-straight series’<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Bears will honor its three seniors (Brooklyn Carter<\/a>, Amber Toven<\/a> & Kaci West<\/a>) following Sunday’s game\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 As teams jockey for one of the top-eight spots in Oklahoma City, Baylor enters the weekend with a game lead on Arizona State for sixth, with Iowa State lurking two games back in eighth (BU owns tiebreaker). BU’s win over Utah last weekend dropped the Utes to ninth place, .5 games back of eighth and 2.5 games back of Baylor<\/p>\n

\u2022 Baylor owns the tiebreaker over three of the five teams jockeying for the final four spots in Bricktown (Iowa State, UCF and Utah)<\/p>\n

\u2022 This Baylor team has shown a great ability to come from behind, winning seven times this season, when trailing after the fourth inning or later, including last Sunday against the Utes where they trailed 2-1 down to its final out before plating a pair on the final play for a 3-2 win.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Baylor has won two of its three conference series’ at Getterman Stadium, where BU has a 502-203 mark all-time<\/p>\n

\u2022 Baylor has been buoyed by its pitching staff spearheaded by a couple of Texas natives who transferred back to their home state in Georgetown’s Creager (Arizona St.) and Lake Jackson’s Peyton Tanner<\/a> (Tennessee)\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Creager enters this weekend in the top-10 in the conference in innings (107.2)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tanner enters the weekend eighth in the league with 79 strikeouts, giving Baylor two pitchers with at least 60 K’s since 2024<\/p>\n

\u2022 Baylor is one of two Big 12 Teams (Texas Tech) with multiple pitchers in the top-12 in the Big 12 in strikeouts<\/p>\n

\u2022 Entering the season with a combined 64.0 innings a season ago, Tanner (94.1) and Creager (107.2) have combined for 202 innings this season<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tanner has allowed just seven earned runs in her last six outings combined. In those six appearances, she has worked 31.2 of BU’s 37.2 innings with 20 strikeouts.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Senior Amber Toven<\/a> is in the midst of her best collegiate season, sitting second among active players on the team in batting average (.356) and has a team-best 44 RBIs, the most by a Baylor player since Shaylon Govan’s<\/a> 54 in 2024.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Named to Softball’s America’s top-15 midseason shortstops, Toven has had a 10-game hit streak and a 20-game on-base streak (both career bests) at different times this season<\/p>\n

\u2022 Toven and Brooklyn Carter<\/a> have shared the leadoff spot for much of the season, Carter who is batting .341 with a .401 OBP, creating chaos on the bases with 21 stolen bases, which is second in the Big 12<\/p>\n

\u2022 Carter is statistically one of the toughest hitters in the conference to strike out K-ing on just 4.6% of her plate appearances this season<\/p>\n

\u2022 Leah Cran enters the weekend leading the team with 18 extra-base hits on the strength of 13 doubles, which is top-10 in the Big 12. Additionally her 13 doubles are the most by a Baylor Player since Aliyah Binford had 15 in 2022<\/p>\n

\u2022 Freshmen Kaygen Marshall leads the team with nine homeruns, the most by a Baylor Freshman since Kassidy Krupit hit 10 in 2019 (6th most by a freshman in the Glenn Moore<\/a> era)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Olivia Buettner<\/a> has worked herself into a lineup regular appearing in 37 games with 27 starts and ranks third among active players on the team in on-base% (.396)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Freshman Gianna Gusman<\/a> has also contributed in her first season on campus appearing in 34 games with 28 starts, hitting .260, with several highlight-reel plays in the outfield, replacing the injured Karynton Dawson<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2022 Sa’Mya Jones<\/a> enters this week putting some good at-bats together, collecting hits in five-straight games and put the ball in play on Sunday that ultimately led to the winning runs against Utah.<\/p>\n

\u2022 In 46 games entering the weekend, Moore has used 44 different lineup combinations<\/p>\n

\u2022 Toven (Arizona, 2022), Carter (Washington, 2023) and Tanner (Tennessee, 2025) all boast Women’s College World Series experience at their former stops<\/p>\n

\u2022 Picked eighth in the Preseason Big 12 Coaches Poll, Baylor has met or outperformed its preseason expectations in 17 of Moore’s 25 previous seasons at Baylor<\/p>\n