Game One Box Score | Game Two Box Score

THE RUNDOWN
WACO, Texas - After 11 games on the road, Getterman Stadium was kind to the No. 16 Baylor Bears at home Tuesday as the home team swept Houston in a doubleheader, winning game one 9-4, and game two, 8-4.

Sarah Beth Toben picked up two wins in relief for the BU pitching staff to improve to 6-0 on the season. The Baylor offense saw a balanced effort with Jordan Strickland and Shelby Friudenberg driving home two runs apiece in game one, and Linsey Hays had two RBI in game two.

Baylor trailed 4-2 in the second game before RBI singles from Hays and Kaitlyn Thumann tied the score at four. The Bears took the lead scoring two runs on a throwing error by the Houston catcher in the bottom of the sixth before adding two more insurance runs on a sacrifice fly from Lindsey Cargill and an RBI single from Shelby Friudenberg.

Despite a 3-run fourth for the Cougars in the first game, Baylor's 6-1 start and an answer with two runs in the bottom of the fourth helped the Bears keep the edge.

GAME TWO NOTES
? Six Bears had multiple hit games. Kaitlyn Thumann (8th multi-hit game), Shelby Friudenberg (9th) and Ari Hawkins (4th) all had three hits apiece while Jessie Scroggins (9th), Christy Lisenby (3rd) and Linsey Hays (4th) all had two apiece.
? Hays drove in two runs for her 24th and 25th RBI of the season. It was the sixth game this season for Hays with multiple RBI.
? Sarah Beth Toben picked up her second consecutive win vs. the Cougars in back-to-back games; this time she allowed just one hit in 3.2 innings of scoreless work to improve to 6-0.
? Baylor's doubleheader sweep gives the Bears seven-straight wins.
? Baylor dropped to No. 16 in the NFCA Top 25 Tuesday but remained No. 13 in the USA Softball poll in Tuesday's weekly release.

GAME ONE NOTES
? Jordan Strickland doubled twice, finishing 2-for-4 with a run scored and two RBI. It was her third multiple-hit game of the season and second game to drive in multiple runs.
? Scroggins finished 2-for-4 with a run scored for her eighth multiple-hit game of the season.
? Friudenberg finished 2-for-3 with a run scored and two RBI. She colleted her 8th multi-hit game of the year, and her seventh game with multiple RBI.
? Friudenberg's seventh home run, a solo shot in the sixth, gave her the team lead. ? Thumann and Robin Landrith each scored two runs apiece.
? Thumann took sole possession of seventh place all-time on the Baylor career total bases list, when her single gave her 277 to pass Harmony Schwethelm (276, 2003-06).
? Brooke Seneshen threw three innings of scoreless relief without allowing a hit to pick up her second save of the season.
? Lindsey Cargill's hitting streak was snapped at eight games.

STAT OF THE GAME I
10 - Sarah Beth Toben picked up two wins in the circle out of the bullpen; 10 of Baylor's 21 wins have come from pitchers out of the bullpen this season.

STAT OF THE GAME I
28 - 10 players combined for 28 hits in both games for the Bears in the doubleheader sweep; Friudenberg led Baylor with a combined five hits.

THEY SAID IT
Glenn Moore on Baylor moving forward after DH win ...
"I think we're getting better, we still have a long way to go to be where I'd like to be with this team. We've got a large upside. I think our pitching is at a stalemate right now, and we need to find a way to juice that up a little bit, and maybe we can focus on that in the next few days as we prepare for North Texas next weekend."

WHAT'S NEXT
Baylor takes on North Texas in Denton March 25 at 6 p.m.