No. 19 SB Splits Day Two at Wooo Pig Invitational

Friday, February 28

Fayetteville, Ark.

10:00 AM

Baylor

16-2

Florida State

7-5

Baylor

Florida State

No. 19 SB Splits Day Two at Wooo Pig Invitational

2/28/2020 7:22:00 PM | Softball

Box Score 1 Box Score 2

Lady Bears are 4-0 vs. ranked teams this season

THE RUNDOWN
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – No. 19 Baylor is 2-1 to start the Wooo Pig Invitational as the Lady Bears defeated No. 8 Florida State and fell to Villanova on Friday.

Lou Gilbert and Maddison Kettler continued their solid play at the plate with a 3-for-6 showing on the day. Aliyah Pritchett threw her third complete game and picked up her sixth win of the season in the circle with the win over Florida State.

GAME 1: BAYLOR 2, FLORIDA STATE 1
Baylor recorded its sixth-straight one-run win with a 2-1 victory over No. 8 Florida State Friday morning at Bogle Park. The Lady Bears are now 8-0 in one-run games this season and have four wins over ranked opponents.

Kyla Walker started things off for Baylor as she battled through an eight-pitch at-bat for a lead-off walk. She moved to third when Aliyah Pritchett hit a double off the left-field wall and then scored off a sac fly to right field from Josie Bower.

Two innings later, a leadoff walk would turn into a run for the Lady Bears as Alyssa Avalos drew a walk and then scored off Pritchett's second double of the day. Both Baylor runs came with two outs on the board.

In the field, Campbell Selman made her first career start and was kept busy over at second base. She finished with a team-high eight assists. Baylor turned its seventh double play of the season in the top of the first when Emily Hott fielded a grounder at shortstop, threw to Selman at second who turned and fired the ball to Goose McGlaun at first. In total, Florida State stranded seven runners on the morning.

Pritchett went the distance for the Lady Bears in the circle as she gave up one unearned run off five hits with seven strikeouts. She is responsible for both Baylor wins to start the Wooo Pig Classic and is 6-0 on the season.

Pritchett also led the way at the plate as she went 2-for-3 with two doubles. She, Kettler and Lou Gilbert each had doubles to give Baylor four total in the game.

GAME 2: VILLANOVA 7, BAYLOR 3

Baylor dropped its first game in nearly a month against Villanova in the second game of the day of the Woo Pig Classic on Friday.

After Villanova plated a run in the bottom of the first, the Lady Bears answered right back in the top of the second. Josie Bower led things off as she reached second base off an error by the center fielder. She then advanced to third off a single by Lou Gilbert.

With runners on the corners and one out, Goose McGlaun popped out to the shortstop, but an errant throw to first base allowed Bower to score and tie the game up at one.

Villanova broke things open with three runs in each of the next two innings, but Baylor put more runs on the board in the sixth.

With two outs, Gilbert singled up the middle, and Hott singled to left field to put two runners on for McGlaun. The senior hit her sixth double of the season to score two runs for the Lady Bears.

HIGHLIGHTS

Baylor has turned seven double plays this season.
Baylor now has 38 Top-10 wins in the Glenn Moore era.
Baylor is 8-0 in one-run games this season.
Prior to the loss vs. Villanova, Baylor's 14-game winning streak tied for the longest in program history. It marked the 14^th double-digit win streak by the Lady Bears and the third streak of 14 (2011, 2014, 2020). Neither of those two streaks, however, included wins over ranked teams. The 2020 streak included three wins over ranked teams (No. 15 Minnesota, No. 21 Arkansas, No. 8 Florida State).
Josie Bower has tied Taylor Ellis with 11 RBI on the season to lead the team.
Aliyah Pritchett recorded her fourth career multi-hit game as she went 2-for-3 against Florida State.
Campbell Selman made her first career start vs. Florida State.
Maddison Kettler has a hit in five-straight games. She recorder her fifth multi-hit game of the season with a 2-for-3 showing against Villanova.

STAT OF THE GAME
4 – Number of wins over ranked teams this season for Baylor

TOP QUOTES
Glenn Moore on the day…
"A "sweet-bitter" day two of the Wooo Pig Classic. I'm certainly pleased with two wins against Top 25 teams. We've played extremely consistent for a long time but broke down against Villanova. Although we made a run late in the game, we had dug a hole too deep to climb out of."

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