Baylor
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SB Returns Home to Host Houston, Central Arkansas
3/18/2019 2:24:00 PM | Softball
Lady Bears will play at Getterman Stadium for the first time in almost a month
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BAYLOR LADY BEARS (13-9) Location: Waco, Texas Conference: Big 12 Head Coach: Glenn Moore Roster | Stats | Game Notes |
BAYLOR (13-9) vs. HOUSTON (19-8) March 19, 2019 (Doubleheader) Waco, Texas • Getterman Stadium BAYLOR (13-9) vs. CENTRAL ARKANSAS (12-16) March 20, 2019 Waco, Texas • Getterman Stadium Baylor Social Media:    |
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HOUSTON (19-8) Location: Houston, Texas. Conference: American Athletic Conference Head Coach: Kristin Vesely Roster | Stats | Game Notes |
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CENTRAL ARKANSAS (12-16) Location: Conway, Ark. Conference: Southland Conference Head Coach: David Kuhn Roster | Stats | Game Notes |
STORY LINES
• Baylor will play at Getterman Stadium for the first time in nearly a month as the Lady Bears host a doubleheader against Houston on Tuesday followed by a contest against Central Arkansas on Wednesday.
• BU is 5-5 at home this season with its last game in Waco a 4-3 win over then-No. 10 Louisiana in extra innings.
• The Lady Bears went 2-1 in their Louisiana road trip last week. After falling 4-1 at Louisiana on Monday, Baylor won both games of its doubleheader at McNeese State on Tuesday, 5-2, 7-2.
• For the first time this season, BU finished with 10 hits in back-to-back games at McNeese.
• In the second game against the Cowgirls, the Lady Bears scored seven runs in one inning, marking the most runs scored in a single frame all season and the most since April 10, 2018.
• Sidney Holman was strong in the circle for BU as she went 2-1 in Baylor's three games last week. She started the first two contests before coming on in relief to pitch the last 4.1 innings at McNeese State. She had 15 strikeouts on Tuesday alone. In all, she gave up five runs off 16 hits as she threw a total of 253 pitches in 16.1 innings of work in two days. While Sidney topped off at 72 MPH at Louisiana, she was consistently in the upper 60s both days.
• Goose McGlaun hit .600 last week as the junior hit two home runs in two days. She's now hit 27 homers in her BU career. In the second game at McNeese, she went 3-for-4 at the plate with an RBI.
• Regan Green was named the Big 12 Pitcher of the Week March 5, marking her first career Big 12 weekly award. It is also Baylor's first weekly award of the season. Green pitched a complete game in the win over Southern Utah and matched her career high with 11 strikeouts. She struck out 50 percent of the batters she faced (22). It also marked her fourth career double-digit strikeout game.
• Nicky Dawson leads Baylor at the plate with a .373 batting average. She's also scored a team-high 15 runs this season.
• Dawson has reached base safely in every game this season, making her 22-game streak a new career-high.
• Kassidy Krupit is the team leader with 18 RBIs. She also leads the team, and is tied for fifth in the Big 12, with six home runs.
• Baylor is 9-3 when scoring first in 2019.
• The Lady Bears are 10-1 when the opponent scores two runs or less this season.
QUICK HITS
• Baylor will play 24 games against 12 programs that advanced to the 2018 NCAA Regionals, including WCWS participants Washington and Oklahoma.
• Baylor is 270-99 over the last 7 seasons, averaging over 38 wins per season since 2013.
• BU was picked 3rd in the Big 12 preseason coaches poll behind Oklahoma and Texas.
LADY BEARS AGAINST HOUSTON
• BU is 19-12 against the Cougars and has won five of the last eight contests.
• Baylor last played Houston in a doubleheader last April at Cougar Softball Stadium. After BU won the first game, 1-0, UH took the second game, 4-3.
• The first game against the Cougars last year went to nine innings. In the top of the ninth, Shelby Friudenberg led things off with a solo homer over the wall in left center field. Meanwhile, Gia Rodoni recorded 10 strikeouts, marking her seventh double-digit strikeout effort of the season and ninth of her career.
• Baylor got off to a slow start in the second game against Houston, as the Cougars led, 4-0, by the fifth inning. The Lady Bears rallied in the sixth to plate three runs.
LADY BEARS AGAINST CENTRAL ARKANSAS
• Baylor hasn't played the Bears since April 26, 2011 and is 3-0 against Central Arkansas.
• BU has prevailed over UCA by a combined overall score of 20-2 (10-2 in 2009, 7-0 in 2010, 3-0 in 2011).
