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Incarnate Word
SB Readies for Five-Game Homestand, Beginning Tuesday
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RV/RV BAYLOR BEARS (21-12, 5-4 Big 12) Location: Waco, Texas Conference/Affiliation: Big 12 Head Coach: Glenn Moore (Northwestern St., 1993) Roster | Stats | Game Notes (PDF) |
INCARNATE WORD (22-11, 7-5) vs. BAYLOR (21-12, 5-4)— March 31 • 5 p.m. Waco, Texas • Getterman Stadium (1,250) LIVE STATS: BaylorBears.com/stats WATCH: ESPN+ Jared Brown (pxp), Kelly Harrell (analyst) LISTEN: Cool 101.3 FM Talent: Dan Ingham Baylor Social Media:    |
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UIW Cardinals (22-11, 7-5 SLC) Location: San Antonio, Texas Conference/Affiliation: SLC Head Coach: Kim Dean (Wisc.Parkside, 2006) Roster | Stats | Game Notes (PDF) |
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Story lines
• Coming off a nine game stretch against eight ranked teams, Baylor begins a five-game homestand that wraps around the Easter, beginning with the UIW Cardinals on Tuesday night at 6:30 p.m. CT on ESPN+
• On the heels of one of its toughest regular-season stretches since 2011, Baylor's strength of schedule is up to No. 10 in the nation, which enters the week as the toughest schedule in the Big 12
• BU jumps back into Big 12 Play over the Weekend with the Houston Cougars coming to town, with Baylor winning 10-straight in its series with the Cougars. Houston's last win over the Bears came in March of 2021.
• The homestand wraps Baylor putting its 19-0 all-time record on the line against Lamar on Monday, April 6th
• Baylor enters Tuesday chasing just two victories to reach 500 all-time victories at Getterman Stadium
• BU has a 498-198 mark all-time at Getterman Stadium and, having a winning record in all but one full season of competition since its doors were opened in 1999
• In the last home game Freshman walk-on Ella Brown delivered the final blow in an 8-0 victory, collecting her first-career hit and first-career RBI in her first-career at bat
• With a 12-3 win over UCF on March 14th, Glenn Moore surpassed 1,100 career wins, the ninth-most among active D1 coaches and the sixth-most among active power-conference head coaches
• Moore is in his 30th season as a head coach, making him the fifth-longest tenured power-conference head coach
• Ranked 27th in the RPI to open the week, the Bears have been as high as 16th this season
• Baylor put together a conference-opening sweep over ISU, BU's first conference-opening series win since sweeping Texas Tech in 2021 and its first sweep of Iowa State since 2018
• Baylor's rise has been buoyed by its pitching staff spearheaded by a couple of Texas natives who transferred back to their home state in Georgetown's Cambree Creager (Arizona St.) and Lake Jackson's Peyton Tanner (Tennessee)
• Creager entered this week eighth in the conference in innings (80.0) and top-10 in strikeouts (50)
• Tanner has 46 strikeouts, giving Baylor two pitchers with at least 45 K's since 2024
• Sadie Ross has established herself as a reliable third option, tying a career-high with five wins, boasting a staff-best 3.08 ERA to go along with a 5-1 record
• Lexie Warncke has shown a great ability to miss bats ranking in the top-15 in the Big 12 in opponent batting average (.250)
• Senior Amber Toven is in the midst of her best collegiate season, leading the team in batting average (.374) and RBIs (29) while serving as the lynch-pin for 11 double plays this season
• Toven enters this week working on a career-best 14-game on-base streak
• Toven and Brooklyn Carter have shared the leadoff spot for much of the season, Carter who is batting .364 with a .434 OBP, creating chaos on the bases with 12 stolen bases, which is fourth-most in the league
• Karynton Dawson possesses a true speed and power threat leading the team in extra-base hits with 14, including three homeruns and three triples, which is tied for the Big 12 lead
• Freshmen Kaygen Marshall leads the team with six homeruns, the most by a Baylor Freshman since Kassidy Krupit hit 10 in 2019
• Olivia Buettner has worked herself into a lineup regular appearing in 25 games with 18 starts and ranks third on the team in on-base% (.456)
• Freshman Gianna Gusman has also contributed in her first season on campus appearing in 22 games with 20 starts, hitting .245, with come highlight-reel plays in the outfield.
• Toven (Arizona, 2022), Carter (Washington, 2023) and Tanner (Tennessee, 2025) all boast Women's College World Series experience at their former stops
• Picked eighth in the Preseason Big 12 Coaches Poll, Baylor has met or outperformed its preseason expectations in 17 of Moore's 25 previous seasons at Baylor
• The Bears have 17 matchups against teams featured in the ESPN/USA Softball Preseason Top 25 including dates with both of the Preseason No. 1 teams (Texas Tech and Texas)
• BU has remaining home dates with No. 15 Texas A&M (4/15) and No. 21 Oklahoma State (4/24-26), with road contests scheduled at No. 3 Texas (3/20) and at No. 2 Texas Tech (4/30-5/2)
• Marshall (Robinson), Harper Haas (Midway) Savanna Pogue (Crawford) all played their high school ball within 25 miles of Getterman Stadium, with Haas and Marshall playing less than 10 miles away from their college home
• Haas (2025), Marshall (2025) and Pogue (2022) all led their teams to UIL Texas State Championships
• Baylor debuted it's new Peggy Hawkins Softball Locker Room this January after a five-month renovation. Loyal softball supporters helped BU fund a transformational project that exceeded half a million dollars
• It's fitted with flat-screen TVs, a lounge, a nutrition center, a hallway vanity and several other State-of-the-Art amenities
• Working with the local architecture firm, RBDR, Former Baylor player Zadie LaValley (2021-24) was instrumental in helping design the new space for her former team
