{"id":275530,"date":"2026-05-02T03:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/275530\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T03:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:44:09","slug":"sb-rallies-to-claim-the-middle-game-against-no-2-texas-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/275530\/","title":{"rendered":"SB Rallies to Claim the Middle Game against No. 2 Texas Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 Baylor softball used a late rally and some timely power to outlast Texas Tech, 8-7, Friday evening at Tracy Sellers Field, securing a massive Big 12 victory.
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\nThe Bears scored first, only to see Texas Tech reel off six unanswered runs to go up 6-1. From there, it was the Bears who punched back, with four in the fifth, and three more in the seventh, capped by a clutch pinch-hit single from Kaci West<\/a> to make it 8-6. With Tech threatening one more time, Peyton Tanner<\/a> came on in the seventh to close it out in the circle for her third save of the season.
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\nThe win was Baylor’s first road win over a top-five team since beating No. 5 Texas in Austin in May of 2023. With the win and an Iowa State loss on Friday, the Bears officially clinched a spot in Oklahoma City for the Big 12 Tournament next week.
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\nRUNDOWN
\nBaylor struck first, with a couple of balls off the wall as Brooklyn Carter<\/a> got the inning started with a double and later scored on a Sa’Mya Jones<\/a> base hit to take the 1-0 lead.
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\nTexas Tech answered with a big third inning to grab momentum, thanks in large part to a three-run bomb off the bat of Jasmyn Burns for the second day in a row.
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\nTrailing the Red Raiders 6-1 in the fifth, Kaygen Marshall<\/a> delivered a solo home run to get Baylor back on the board, and just a few batters later, Brooklyn Carter<\/a> followed with her first home run of the season, a three-run shot to pull Baylor within a single run.
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\nBaylor nearly added two more, but Texas Tech’s Mihyia Davis went over the wall to rob a two-run home run off the bat of Cran and preserve the Red Raiders’ advantage.
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\nIn the seventh, Sa’Mya Jones<\/a> and Amber Toven<\/a> reached on a couple of infield hits to set the table. Jones came around to score on a ball off the bat of Cran, tying the game and setting the stage for the decisive moment.
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\nWith the bases loaded and the game hanging in the balance, Kaci West<\/a> delivered one of the biggest hits of her illustrious Baylor career, driving in two runs as a pinch hitter to give the Bears an 8-6 lead.
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\nTexas Tech answered with a run in the bottom half to cut it to 8-7, but Peyton Tanner<\/a> came on in relief and shut the door, getting the final two outs with the tying run at third base.
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\nGAME NOTES<\/p>\n


\n\tBaylor’s five-run comeback was its largest since a seven-run comeback against Kentucky in 2014
\n\tBaylor beat a top-five team on the road for the first time since May of 2023 at No. 5 Texas.
\n\tBU knocked off a top-two team for the first time since beating No. 1 Oklahoma on Feb. 19, 2023.
\n\tThe Bears lead the all-time series 67-27, with a 30-6 mark in the Hub City.
\n\tBaylor is 18-7 this season when scoring first.
\n\tSeven of Baylor’s nine starters recorded a hit in Friday’s game.
\n\tBaylor used its 46th different lineup in its 52nd game of the season.
\n\tFriday is the first time this season the Bears have used the same lineup in back-to-back games.
\n\tKaygen Marshall<\/a> belted her 10th homerun of the season, the most by a freshman since Kassidy Krupit’s 10 in 2019.
\n\tMarshall is one of just five freshmen in the Glenn Moore<\/a> Era with double-digit home runs.
\n\tBrooklyn Carter<\/a> hit her first home run of the season with a three-run blast in the fifth, extending her on-base streak to a career-best 18 games.
\n\tCarter tallied her 46th-career multi-hit game and her ninth-career multi-RBI game.
\n\tSa’Mya Jones<\/a> picked up the second multi-hit game of her career.
\n\tKaci West<\/a> delivered her first hit since March 20th at Texas.
\n\tLeah Cran<\/a> is the only player to collect a hit in each of the first two games against the Red Raiders.
\n\tSadie Ross<\/a> induced a double-play ball in each of the first two innings on Friday, giving her three in her first three innings of work on the South Plains. <\/p>\n

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\nWHAT’S NEXT
\nBaylor will look to claim the series in the regular-season finale on Saturday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. The game will be featured on ESPN<\/a>, Baylor’s first nationally-televised game since 2024 against Texas.
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\nAll games can be heard on-air and online at 101.3 COOL FM.<\/a>
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\nFollow @BaylorSoftball on X, Instagram and Facebook for additional updates.
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