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BAYLOR
vs.
MISSOURI

APRIL 18 * 5:00 P.M. CDT
APRIL 19 * NOON CDT
GETTERMAN STADIUM
WACO, TEXAS

Radio: None
Live Audio: None
Live Stats: www.BaylorBears.com

Baylor plays its final two home games this weekend, hosting Missouri for a pair of games. The Lady Bears and the Tigers play Friday at 5 p.m. CDT and Saturday at noon. Baylor (28-23, 2-11) dropped a 4-0 decision at home Wednesday against fourth-ranked Texas. Missouri (26-15, 7-6) swept a doubleheader Tuesday at home against Missouri-Kansas City, winning 5-3 and 5-1. Gametracker stats for both games will be available online at www.BaylorBears.com, the official website of Baylor athletics and a member of the Official College Sports Network.

QUICK NOTES
* Baylor and Missouri meet for the 22nd and 23rd times this weekend. The Tigers lead the all-time series 13-8, but the Lady Bears have won five the last six meetings.
* Baylor has now swiped 105 bases on the season, tops in the Big 12. The Lady Bears need just two steals to match last season's school record of 107.
* Kim Wilmoth and Kelly Osburn combine to lead the Big 12 Conference in five of 12 offensive statistical categories.
* Wilmoth leads the conference in hits, triples and stolen bases; she also ranks second in batting average.
* Osburn leads the conference in runs and on base percentage; she also ranks third in batting average.
* Sarah Caudle needs three RBI to become the first Lady Bear to ever reach 100 career RBI.
* Stacey Hundley is in the midst of an eight-game hitting streak. That matches her career long and is the third-longest this season by a Lady Bear.
* Baylor is 47-3 over the past two seasons when scoring at least four runs.
* Baylor is 35-5 over the past two seasons when collecting at least eight hits.
* Baylor is 61-8 over the past two seasons when out-hitting its opponent.
* Baylor is 43-13 over the past two seasons at Getterman Stadium.

HEAD COACH GLENN MOORE
Glenn Moore is in his third season as head coach at Baylor, coming to Waco after a stellar three-year tenure at Louisiana State. In his first season at Baylor, Moore led the Lady Bears to a 38-22 overall record and a sixth-place, 7-9 mark in the Big 12 Conference. Last season, he guided the Lady Bears to even greater successes with more than 50 team and individual, single-game and single-season school records. Baylor finished 46-18 overall and 10-8 in the Big 12 Conference, establishing school marks for victories in a season, conference victories in a season and highest conference finish (fourth). Moore also led Baylor to a national ranking for the second straight season and two wins over top 10 teams, as many top-10 victories as the Lady Bears had amassed in the previous 16 seasons of the program's existence. Earlier this season, Moore claimed his 100th victory as Baylor's head coach with the Lady Bears 3-0 triumph against Texas Tech. He is now 112-63 (.640) in three seasons at Baylor. Moore has a career record of 251-105 (.705); he posted a 22-17 mark in his first year as a collegiate head coach at William Carey in Mississippi. Moore is 229-86 (.727) at the Division I level.

HOME, SWEET HOME
Baylor is 18-7 at Getterman Stadium this season, 14-0 in non-conference games. That home-field success is a stark contrast from the 10-16 mark the Lady Bears have posted in games away from Waco. Last season, Baylor was 25-6 at home and established a school record for home wins in a season. The Lady Bears also enjoyed a school-record 24-game home winning streak that dated back to 2001 season. In three years under head coach Glenn Moore, Baylor is 58-19 (.753) at Getterman Stadium. The Lady Bears are 72-32 (.692) in the stadium's five-year existence.

WHO'S GOT GETTERMAN FEVER?
After shattering the school record for attendance last season, Baylor appears to be well on course to do the same again this season. Through 16 home dates, Getterman Stadium has drawn 7,405 fans for an average of 462 per date. Wednesday's game against Texas saw a stadium-record crowd of 979, the third-largest in the Big 12 this season. Nationally, only Fresno State, Arizona, Cal State Fullerton and Texas have enjoyed larger crowds in 2003. That attendance topped the previous Getterman record, established just 11 days earlier when 840 people attended Baylor's game against sixth-ranked Nebraska. Four of the top 10 and six of the top 13 attendances in the stadium's existence have come this season. Baylor finished 13th nationally in total attendance for 2002 and 20th nationally in per-game attendance.

THE MISSOURI SERIES
Baylor and Missouri meet for the 22nd and 23rd times this weekend with the Tigers holding a 13-8 advantage in the all-time series. The teams first met in 1980, splitting a doubleheader in Waco. Last season, Baylor swept a two-game set at Columbia, winning the first game 5-4 and the second game 4-1. The Lady Bears have won five of the last six meetings; prior to that, the Tigers won eight consecutive meetings. Missouri leads the series 8-5 in Waco; however, the Lady Bears swept a two-game series in Missouri's last visit to Getterman Stadium (2001).

LAST MEETING ... BAYLOR 4, MISSOURI 1 - APRIL 7, 2002
Kourtny Westerfeld went 2-for-4 with two RBI and Joni Miller picked up her 15th victory of the season as Baylor defeated Missouri 4-1 to complete a Big 12 series sweep (4/7/02). Baylor scored a run in the second on two hits and a walk in the second. With runners on the corners and two outs, Westerfeld beat out an infield single to score Danelle Arnold from third. The Lady Bears tacked on two more in the fourth. Westerfeld had an RBI double and two batters later Kelly Levesque plated another run with a single through the left side. In the fifth, Kristen Lancaster led off the inning with her eighth home run of the season, a line-drive shot to straightaway center. However, Missouri did not go quietly. Morgan LeCluyse broke up Miller's shutout bid with a leadoff home run in the sixth. Rachel McGinnis followed with a single to right that chased Miller from the game. However, Katie Decker came in and got a fielder's choice, a fly out and a strikeout to end the game. Miller tossed 5.0 innings, allowed one run on four hits and had three strikeouts with no walks. Decker pitched the final 2.0 frames, allowing two hits and striking out two for her second save of the season.

CAUDLE RECORD WATCH
Senior OF/P Sarah Caudle is nearing several Baylor career records. She already owns the school marks for doubles (38), triples (8) and total bases (298). The following is a list of records she is nearing along with how many she needs to break the school mark. Current record holder and record are in parentheses:

*  games played          1 (Michelle Sorrells, 231)*  games started         2 (Michelle Sorrells, 230)*  runs batted in        3 (Misty Perry, 99)*  walks                 7 (Bri Chambliss, 55)*  stolen bases          7 (Michelle Sorrels, 52)

BAYLOR HONORS SENIOR CLASS
Five Lady Bears play their final games at Getterman Stadium this weekend - Sarah Caudle, Stacey Hundley, Joni Miller, Kourtny Westerfeld and Nan Wilkins. The 2003 class currently stands second in Baylor history with 139 victories, two shy of the mark established by the 2002 class. Caudle, Hundley, Miller and Wilkins have spent four years with the program, while Westerfeld transferred to Baylor after spending one year at McLennan Community College.

BIG 12 STATISTICAL RANKINGS
According to the latest Big 12 Conference statistical rankings (April 14), Baylor ranks second in hitting (.286), seventh in pitching (2.13) and third in fielding (.969). The Lady Bears lead the conference in triples (12), stolen bases (104) and sacrifice hits (53). Baylor's pitching staff is tied for the conference lead with three saves.

OSBURN, WILMOTH DOMINATE BIG 12 STATS
Sophomore SS/2B Kim Wilmoth and freshman OF/1B Kelly Osburn are easy to find in the latest Big 12 Conference statistical rankings (April 14). The two combine to lead or share the lead in five statistical categories. Wilmoth, who ranks second in the Big 12 with a .377 batting average, leads the league in hits (55), triples (4) and stolen bases (19). She is also tied for ninth in total bases (71) and sixth in on base percentage (.424). Osburn is third in the conference with a .362 batting average and leads the Big 12 in runs (33) and on base percentage (.516). She also ranks ninth in hits (42), tied for sixth in home runs (8), tied for 10th in RBI (23), second in stolen bases (16), eighth in total bases (75), second in walks (34) and fourth in slugging percentage (.647).

OTHERS IN THE BIG 12 STATISTICAL RANKINGS
According to the April 14 Big 12 Conference statistical rankings, senior OF/P Sarah Caudle (.323) and junior OF Kelly Levesque (.323) are tied for 10th in the league in batting average. That gives Baylor four of the top 10 hitters in the conference; no other school has more than two in the top 10. ... Levesque and Caudle are tied for sixth in hits (43). ... Caudle is also seventh in runs (28), tied for 10th in home runs (7), tied for third in doubles (10), second in RBI (35), tied for fifth in total bases (76) and 10th in slugging percentage (.571). ... Levesque is tied for eighth in runs (27) and tied for second in triples (3). ... Freshman OF/SS Harmony Schwethelm is third in stolen bases (15).

UP NEXT ...
Baylor plays its final three regular season games on the road, beginning Thursday against Texas A&M at 6:30 p.m. That game will be broadcast on KRZI 1660/1580 AM in the Waco area with live audio online at www.BaylorBears.com. ... The Lady Bears travel to Lawrence, Kan., on the weekend for a two-game set against Kansas.