Baylor
UT Arlington
SB Road Trip Begins With Wednesday Matinee against UTA
4/7/2026 4:01:00 PM | Softball
BU aims to sweep the season series from the Mavericks
 |
BAYLOR BEARS (23-15, 6-6 Big 12) Location: Waco, Texas Conference/Affiliation: Big 12 Head Coach: Glenn Moore (Northwestern St., 1993) Roster | Stats | Game Notes (PDF) |
BAYLOR (23-15, 6-6) at UT-Arlington (16-19, 5-4 WAC)— April 8 • 4 p.m. Arlington, Texas • Allan Saxe Field (622) LIVE STATS: BaylorBears.com/stats WATCH: ESPN+ LISTEN: Cool 101.3 FM Talent: Jeffrey Cohen Baylor Social Media:    |
 |
UTA Mavericks (16-19, 5-4 WAC) Location: Arlington, Texas Conference/Affiliation: WAC Head Coach: Kara Dill (Kentucky, 2013) Roster | Stats | Game Notes (PDF) |
Media Materials Folder
Story lines
• Baylor softball hits the road for its longest remaining road stretch with a Wednesday matinee at UT-Arlington, followed by a three-game set in the Sunflower State against No. 23 Kansas, with all games available on ESPN+
• The Bears will look to sweep away the season series from UTA after BU won in an 8-0 run rule against the Mavericks in Waco last month, highlighted by walk-on freshman Ella Brown hitting a walk-off double to seal the win
• BU is in the midst of a busy stretch, playing 12 games in just nine days, before returning home to face No. 13 Texas A&M
• The Bears are coming off a weekend series against Houston, where the Bears and Cougars combined for second-longest regular-season game in league history, and the second-longest game in Baylor History
• Cambree Creager threw all 15 innings for the Bears, the second-most in program history, trailing only Cristin Vitek's 16 inning performance in 2004.
• Creager established the new program record with 250 pitches in the hard-luck loss
• Senior Amber Toven set a new program record with seven at-bats in the game as well
• This Baylor team has shown a great ability to come from behind, winning five times this season, when trailing after four innings, including last Saturday against the Cougars where they trailed 2-0 entering the bottom of the sixth only to reel off a seven-run inning and even the series
• Facing a 6-1 deficit on Monday against a red-hot Lamar team, BU's comeback attempt came up just short, despite erasing an early 6-1 deficit, it was the Cardinals who rallied for a run in the seventh and two in the ninth to take the 10-8 win
• Monday was Baylor's first loss this season when leading after six innings, they are now 21-1 after six this year
• With its last Friday against Houston, Baylor eclipsed 500 all-time wins at Getterman Stadium, Baylor's next win at home will mark its 26th home winning season in 27 seasons of the venues existence
• BU has a 500-201 mark all-time at Getterman Stadium
• 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 34th in the RPI entering Wednesday, 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 Creager (Arizona St.) and Lake Jackson's Peyton Tanner (Tennessee)
• Creager enters this weekend in the top-5 in the conference in innings (99.2) and top-10 in strikeouts (59)
• Tanner has 60 strikeouts, giving Baylor two pitchers with at least 50 K's since 2024
• Sadie Ross has established herself as a reliable third option, tying a career-high with six wins, boasting a staff-best 3.33 ERA to go along with a 6-1 record
• Senior Amber Toven is in the midst of her best collegiate season, ranking second on the team in batting average (.367) and has a team-best 39 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 enters this weekend working on a career-best 19-game on-base streak
• Toven and Brooklyn Carter have shared the leadoff spot for much of the season, Carter who is batting .359 with a .431 OBP, creating chaos on the bases with 14 stolen bases, which is fourth-most in the league
• Cran enters the weekend tied with Karynton Dawson with 14 extra-basehits on the strength of three homeruns in her last three games
• Freshmen Kaygen Marshall leads the team with seven 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 29 games with 21 starts and ranks third on the team in on-base% (.443)
• Freshman Gianna Gusman has also contributed in her first season on campus appearing in 27 games with 24 starts, hitting .254, with several highlight-reel plays in the outfield
• Moore has used 37 different lineups in 38 games this season, repeating nine players in the same nine spots just once
• 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
