Toven's Career Night Buoys SB's 10-2 Rout of South Dakota State

Tuesday, February 10

Waco, Texas

5:00 PM

Baylor

5-1

South Dakota State

4-2

South Dakota State

Baylor

Toven's Career Night Buoys SB's 10-2 Rout of South Dakota State

2/10/2026 7:42:00 PM | Softball

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The senior has a team-leading 10 RBIs this season

WACO, TX — Senior Amber Toven racked up five RBIs to help power Baylor softball past South Dakota State 10-2 on Tuesday.

Sophomore Peyton Tanner (2-0) started in the circle and picked up the win for Baylor (5-1). The right-hander went four innings, giving up one run on two hits, allowing one walk and striking out two.

Toven went 2-for-4 with a grand slam run, tallying a career-high five RBIs for the Bears. Junior Leah Cran put together another solid day at the plate as well, going 1-for-3 with a walk and three RBIs. Sophomore Karynton Dawson also chipped in for Baylor, putting together her second multi-hit game of the season with a pair of knocks in three trips to the plate, highlighted by her first triple of the season.

RUNDOWN

On the strength of Dawson's fifth-career triple, The Bears got the scoring started early, as Cran plated the sophomore to take a quick 1-0 lead.

After the Jackrabbits rallied to tie the ballgame at one, in the fourth before the Baylor offense exploded for seven runs, highlighted by a grand slam off the bat of Toven, which brought the Bears lead to 8-1.

South Dakota State narrowed Baylor's lead to 8-2 in the top of the fifth, but the Bears offense wasn't done. Brooklyn Carter's second hit of the game set the table for Toven's fifth RBI of the game. With the bases loaded, Madi Mangulis threw a wild pitch allowing Toven to slide around the tag and send the Bears to 5-1.

GAME NOTES

• BU's 5-1 start is its best since starting 2023, when it began 5-1 en route to an NCAA Tournament Appearance
• The Bears are now 492-195 at Getterman Stadium 
• BU is 2-1 all-time against South Dakota State
• The Bears scored 39 runs in six games on this homestand
• Over her last two starts, Tanner is 2-0 with 11 strikeouts and a 1.75 ERA in eight innings of work
• With back-to-back wins, Tanner is now 5-0 in her career, and one win from tying her career high of three wins, set last year at Tennessee
• Toven's five RBIs set a new career high
• Faith Piper extended her hitting streak to seven games, tying a career-high
• Sa'Mya Jones recorded her career-first hit in the fifth inning
• In addition to notching her first triple of the season, Dawson recorded a career-best five putouts
• Baylor took a 1-0 lead in the bottom half of the first and didn't surrender that lead for the remainder of the game.
• The Bears out-hit the Jackrabbits at an 11-3 clip.
• Baylor went 7-for-13 (.538) with runners in scoring position

QUOTABLE
Glenn Moore on an efficient night from Peyton Tanner — "We had a good meeting yesterday with the pitchers, talking about wanting more efficiency than we had this past weekend. We had too many walks. Our strikeout to walk ratio was not good. Knowing, we are a young team and we have kids with rust on them, I'm gonna be patient with them, but the efficiency was there tonight. I think she [Tanner] had seven first-pitch strikes, and when you do that, you can control the game a little bit better. They barreled up some that didn't leave the park, thank goodness, but, that was pitching, too. If you can get them to miss enough to where you can get fly balls, you get quick innings, This was probably our most efficient outing."

Moore on Toven's Groove — "She's in the zone right now, and I just told her, "Don't think, just swing." Get up there and play the game you've played all your life, and boy, she's having a good time. She's always been fun to watch, but when she's in her zone, she's a threat, because she can play the short game, and she can hit it out of the park, as we've seen a few times already."

WHAT'S NEXT
Baylor will head west for the Campbell/Cartier Classic at San Diego State. The first game will be at 8 p.m. CT televised on the Mountain West Network, with all games broadcast on COOL 101.3. Follow @BaylorSoftball on X, Instagram and Facebook for additional updates.