SB Falls to Central Arkansas

Wednesday, March 20

Waco, Texas

6:00 PM CT

Baylor

Central Arkansas

Photo by: Baylor Photography

SB Falls to Central Arkansas

3/20/2019 9:19:00 PM | Softball

Box Score

Lady Bears’ rally in the seventh inning falls short

THE RUNDOWN
WACO, Texas – After giving up five runs in the top of the first inning, Baylor (13-12) fought back in the final frame but dropped its midweek contest, 8-5, to Central Arkansas.
The Lady Bears got on the board in the bottom of the first after Nicky Dawson led things off with a walk. She has now reached base safely in every game this season. Dawson later scored when Goose McGlaun grounded out to the shortstop.
It was a tag team effort through the first two innings in the circle for Baylor as Madison Lindsey got the start, and Goose McGlaun came on in relief for a short stint before Sidney Holman took over.
The UCA Bears put up goose eggs on the board with Holman in the circle. UCA stranded 13 baserunners as twice the Bears loaded the bases with one out but failed to plate a run in the fourth and fifth innings. UCA also left the bases loaded in the sixth inning.
Baylor scored two more runs in the second. Hannah Smith led off the frame with a single through the left side before she scored off a single up the middle by Lou Gilbert. Alyssa Avalos – who entered as a pinch runner for Kendall Cross – scored later in the inning on a wild pitch.
The Lady Bears didn't score again until the fifth inning when Goose McGlaun launched her first homer of the year at Getterman Stadium over the left field wall.
After retiring the Bears in order in the top of the seventh, Baylor fought in the bottom of the inning. Kassidy Krupit hit a double down the left field line and later scored on a passed ball. Then with two outs, Taylor Ellis hit a double of her own down the left field line.

HIGHLIGHTS

Goose McGlaun hit her third home run of the season and 28^th of her career. She is now tied for sixth all-time alongside Ashley Monceaux (2006-07) in program history.
McGlaun has at least two hits in each of the last five games.
Nicky Dawson has reached base safely in every game this season, a streak of 25-straight games.
On her birthday, Hannah Smith went 2-for-3 with a run scored. It marked the second multi-hit game of her career.
Kendall Cross made the first start of her Baylor career as the designated player.
Taylor Ellis threw out a runner trying to steal second base in the fifth inning.

STAT OF THE GAME
4 – Number of extra-base hits by the Lady Bears. They all happened in the fifth inning or later.

TOP QUOTE
Glenn Moore on the day…
"We did not perform well until the seventh inning when there was already too big of a hole to climb out of. I thought we had good energy and determination. That is a sign of a very young team and inexperienced players, and we needed our upperclassmen to make sure that doesn't happen. That is what I challenged them to do after the game. Lead the younger ones so that we don't start the game out in that big of a hole. Most of it had to do with pitching, and we dug a big hole there and weren't able to climb out of it. I think if we would have had the determination at the same time we would have probably matched them early on, but the hole was too deep at that time."

WHAT'S NEXT
Baylor opens its Big 12 slate as No. 21 Oklahoma State comes to town this weekend – 6:30 p.m. Friday, 1 p.m. Saturday, 3 p.m. Sunday.