Baylor
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SB Heads West to face No. 2 Texas Tech
4/29/2026 11:33:00 AM | Softball
BU is 29-5 all-time in Lubbock
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BAYLOR BEARS (27-23, 9-12 Big 12) Location: Waco, Texas Conference/Affiliation: Big 12 Head Coach: Glenn Moore (Northwestern St., 1993) Roster | Stats | Game Notes (PDF) |
BAYLOR (26-23, 9-12 Big 12) vs. Texas Tech (48-2, 19-2 Big 12) April 30 • 6 p.m. BAYLOR (26-23, 9-12 Big 12) vs. Texas Tech (48-2, 19-2 Big 12) May 1 • 6 p.m. BAYLOR (26-23, 9-12 Big 12) vs. Texas Tech (48-2, 19-2 Big 12) May 2 • 1:30 p.m. Lubbock, Texas • Tracy Sellers Field (1,250) LIVE STATS: BaylorBears.com/stats WATCH: ESPN+ (Thurs. & Fri.) ESPN (Saturday) Talent: Matt Schumacker(pxp), Amanda Scarborough (analyst) LISTEN: Cool 101.3 FM Talent: Jeffrey Cohen Baylor Social Media:    |
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Texas Tech Red Raiders (48-4, 17-2 Big 12) Location: Lubbock, Texas Conference/Affiliation: Big 12 Head Coach: Gerry Glasco (Illinois, 1980) Roster | Stats | Game Notes (PDF) |
Story lines
• Baylor closes out the regular season with a big road series at No. 2 Texas Tech, games one and two will be carried on ESPN+, while Saturday's series finale will be featured on ESPN at 1:30 p.m.
• Saturday is Baylor's first nationally-televised regular season game since April 13, 2024 against Texas
• BU is closing a stretch of six-straight games against ranked foes
• With 18 games against ranked opponents this season and three more scheduled to close the season, BU is looking at 21 ranked opponents this regular season, its most since 2011 when the Bears saw 22 ranked teams en route to the College World Series
• Ranked 41st in the RPI entering this series, the Bears have been as high as 16th this season, playing the third-toughest schedule in the Big 12
• While trying to stop a four-game skid against the Red Raiders, Baylor carries a 29-5 record in this series in the Hub City
• The Bears are looking to avoid their first four-game losing streak of the season, and have not lost four-straight since March of last season (including a three-game sweep by Texas Tech in Waco (March14-16)).
• Baylor is seeking its first regular-season road win over a top five team since May 5th, 2023 at No. 5 Texas
• As teams jockey for one of the top-eight spots in Oklahoma City, Baylor enters the weekend with a half-game lead on Utah for sixth, with Arizona State and Iowa State lurking one game back tied for eighth (BU owns tiebreaker with ISU). BYU is two games back of the Bears hosting Arizona State this weekend.
• Baylor owns the tiebreaker over two of the four other teams jockeying for the final three spots in Bricktown
• This Baylor team has shown a great ability to come from behind, winning seven times this season, when trailing after the fourth inning or later. Three of those wins have come when trailing after six.
• Baylor has been buoyed by its pitching staff spearheaded by a couple of Texas natives who transferred back to their home state in Georgetown's Creager (Arizona St.) and Lake Jackson's Peyton Tanner (Tennessee)
• Creager enters this weekend in the top-10 in the conference in innings (113.1)
• Tanner enters the weekend in the top 10 in the league with 86 strikeouts, giving Baylor two pitchers with at least 60 K's since 2024
• Baylor is one of three Big 12 Teams (Texas Tech & Utah) with multiple pitchers in the top 12 in the Big 12 in strikeouts
• Entering the season with a combined 64.0 innings a season ago, Tanner (108.2) and Creager (113.1) have combined for 222 innings this season
• Tanner has been Baylor's workhorse over the last month or so, pitching 59% of Baylor's innings since April 8th, twirling a 2.59 ERA with 27 strikeouts.
• Creager shouldered a heavier load in March, pitching over half of Baylor's innings during another demanding stretch of the schedule. She tallied four complete games and 27 strikeouts, posting a 3.46 ERA against the likes of No. 22 UCF, No. 2 Texas and No. 13 Arizona
• Senior Amber Toven is in the midst of her best collegiate season, sitting second among active players on the team in batting average (.359) and has a team-best 47 RBIs, the most by a Baylor player since Shaylon Govan's 54 in 2024.
• Named to Softball's America's top-15 midseason shortstops, Toven has had a 10-game hit streak and a 20-game on-base streak (both career bests) at different times this season
• Toven and Brooklyn Carter have shared the leadoff spot for much of the season, Carter who is batting .333 with a .394 OBP, creating chaos on the bases with 22 stolen bases, which is second in the Big 12
• Carter is statistically one of the toughest hitters in the conference to strike out K-ing on just 4.2% of her plate appearances this season, and enters the Tech series with a career-best 16-game on-base streak
• Leah Cran enters the weekend leading the team with 19 extra-base hits on the strength of 13 doubles, which is top-10 in the Big 12. Additionally her 13 doubles are the most by a Baylor Player since Aliyah Binford had 15 in 2022
• Freshmen Kaygen Marshall leads the team with nine homeruns, the most by a Baylor Freshman since Kassidy Krupit hit 10 in 2019 (6th most by a freshman in the Glenn Moore era)
• Freshman Gianna Gusman has also contributed in her first season on campus appearing in 38 games with 32 starts, hitting .232, with several highlight-reel plays in the outfield, replacing the injured Karynton Dawson. With injuries at catcher, Gusman has also been used behind the plate from time-to-time
• Sa'Mya Jones enters this week putting some good at-bats together, collecting hits in nine-straight games
• In 50 games entering the weekend, Moore has used 46 different lineup combinations
• 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
• 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
