Baylor
Texas State
No. 11/13 SB Slips to Texas State, 5-2
3/14/2018 12:00:00 AM | Softball
WACO, Texas - No. 11/13 Baylor softball (17-4) jumped to an early lead, but failed to add on after a late push by the Bobcats, dropping a 5-2 decision to RV/NR Texas State (19-7) on Wednesday evening at Getterman Stadium.
Gia Rodoni (9-3) got off to a strong start, keeping the Bobcats off the board through the first four frames, but struggling late. She finished with 5.1 innings of work, allowing six hits and five runs, but striking out eight with two walks.
Regan Green closed out the final 1.2 scoreless frames, allowing two hits with no runs and a strikeout.
For the Baylor offense, a quick attack in the home half of the first grabbed the early lead for the Lady Bears.
Five-straight singles plated two runs for BU, led off by a single through the middle from Nicky Dawson.
Jessie Scroggins legged out another infield single, moving Dawson to second. Both would advance into scoring position on a passed ball for Goose McGlaun.
McGlaun laced a single to centerfield to score Dawson, moving Scroggins to third.
Carlee Wallace dropped a single in between the Bobcat defenders in shallow centerfield, scoring Scroggins to give BU the 2-0 lead after one.
The teams kept each other off the board until a two-run TXST home run drew the game back even in the top of the fifth.
The Bobcats would take a three-spot in the top of the sixth to take the lead, closing out the 5-2 win to spoil the Baylor team's return to Getterman Stadium after an extended trip away from home.
TOP QUOTES
"I think we're seeing the pitches well, but we weren't seeing it well enough to score enough runs. It's something we're going to work on and hopefully we have it together by next week." - Baylor senior Jessie Scroggins
"First, I have to tip my hat off to Texas State. I'm not sure I've seen a team that was dominated the way they were for the first few innings of the game continue to fight, chip away, and then all of a sudden get to us the way they were able to. More so than discredit what we did, I have to credit what Texas State did." - Baylor head coach Glenn Moore
"There's some things we have to do better and we talked about how we're going to come back tomorrow. I don't think we can write it off because we're going to face teams with pitchers like that and we're going to face them real quick here as we start Big 12 play and we've got to learn from it. We've got to make sure that we don't just walk away from here and think 'Hey, it was just a bad night,' because we could have done things a lot better than we did." - Baylor head coach Glenn Moore
HIGHLIGHTS
- The Texas State win snaps an 18-game, non-conference home win streak for the Lady Bears, dating back to a Feb. 19, 2017, 3-2 (8) loss to North Texas.
- Jessie Scroggins went 2-for-4 with a run scored, pushing her career multi-hit game total up to 68, one off of the program record (Naomi Fitzgerald, 1998-2001, 69).
- Carlee Wallace posted a 2-for-3 effort at the plate, driving in a run.
- Goose McGlaun drove in her club-best 23rd RBI of the season.
- The Baylor defense went back-to-back games without committing an error for the third time this season and the first time since Feb. 17-18 (at Southern Miss, vs. Alabama).
- Baylor has totaled eight or more hits at the plate in six-straight games but snapped a five-game streak of double-digit hit totals.
WHAT'S NEXT
Baylor will enjoy a rare weekend off, with its next contest coming Tuesday, March 20, vs. North Texas at 6:30 p.m. at Getterman Stadium. The game will be broadcast on FOX Sports Plus, Baylor's second standard television game of the season.
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