Baylor
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SB Set for Midweek Showdown with SFA
3/2/2026 3:23:00 PM | Softball
BU continues its season-long seven-game homestand
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BAYLOR BEARS (13-6, 0-0 Big 12) Location: Waco, Texas Conference/Affiliation: Big 12 Head Coach: Glenn Moore (Northwestern St., 1993) Roster | Stats | Game Notes (PDF) |
SFA (14-7, 0-0) vs. BAYLOR (13-6, 0-0) — March 3 • 6:30 p.m. CT Waco, Texas • Getterman Stadium (1,250) LIVE STATS: BaylorBears.com/stats WATCH: ESPN+ Talent: Dan Ingham LISTEN: Cool 101.3 FM Talent: Dan Ingham Baylor Social Media:    |
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SFA Lumberjacks (14-7, 0-0 Southland) Location: Nacogdoches, Texas Conference/Affiliation: Southland Head Coach: Jeff Jackson (McMurry, 2011) Roster | Stats | Game Notes (PDF) |
Story lines
• Baylor continues its season-long seven-game homestand with a midweek against the SFA Lumberjacks on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m., on ESPN+
• The Bears are 40-19 all-time against the 'Jacks with a 26-8 mark in Waco
• The homestand concludes over the weekend as the Iowa State Cyclones come to town to open Big 12 Play
• BU is 10-14 in Big 12 openers under Glenn Moore, boasting a .500 or better conference record in 14 of 24 seasons
• Baylor leads the all-time series with Iowa State 46-26 going 23-11 in games played in Central Texas
• The Bears will look to avenge a series loss to ISU in Ames last season, but took two of three from the 'Clones the last time these teams met in Waco.
• The home team has won each of the last three series' between these two programs
• A series win against the Cyclones would give BU it's first win in a conference-opening series since sweeping Texas Tech to open the 2021 Big 12 Campaign
• Baylor has a 493-196 mark all-time at Getterman Stadium and, BU has had a winning record in all but one full season of competition since its doors were opened in 1999
• Boasting the team lead with six doubles, Leah Cran is tied for the third-most in the Big 12
• Cran is one of five regulars in the batting order boasting a .300 average or better
• The BU offense is spearheaded by Amber Toven who has excelled at the top and bottom of the lineup boasting team highs in slugging percentage (.661), RBIs (18) & homeruns (5). Her five homeruns are a single-season career best
• Preseason All-Big 12 selection Brooklyn Carter is leading the team in batting average (.383) and stolen bases (8). The Inglewood, Calif., native ranks second among active power-conference players (8th overall) in career steals (78)
• Sophomore Faith Piper is coming off a huge week where she collected five hits and drove in a team-high six runs across four games
• Piper and Toven are spearheading an effort to best the program record for double plays (31) set in 2023. With five so far this season, BU has averaged 27.6 over the previous three seasons.
• Baylor is leaning on its full pitching staff with four pitchers tallying at least 20 innings so far this season.
• Peyton Tanner and Cambree Creager have established themselves as the front end of the rotation with Tanner boasting a team-leading 34 strikeouts, which is tied for ninth-best in the league
• Over Tanner's last eight appearances, she has picked up five wins, two saves and 28 strikeouts
• Since the opening weekend, Creager has found her footing twirling a 1.80 ERA across 35.0 innings, while holding opponents to a .218 batting average
• Sadie Ross has been a reliable arm out of the bullpen, putting together 23.2 innings solid innings with a team-leading 2.66 ERA
• Freshmen Kaygen Marshall and Olivia Buettner have worked themselves into lineup mainstays starting each of the last five games.
• Marshall (3 homeruns & 1 triple) and Buettner (four doubles) have flashed extra-base power early in the season
• Moore enters his 30th season as a head coach, making him the fifth-longest tenured power-conference head coach
• His 1,094 career wins put him ninth among all active coaches (6th among power-conference coaches)
• The Bears have 14 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. 1 Texas (3/21), No. 11 Texas A&M (4/15) and No. 20 Oklahoma State (4/24-26), with road contests scheduled at No. 12 Clemson (2/21), at RV UCF (3/13-15), at No. 1 Texas (3/20) and at No. 1 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
• Toven (Arizona, 2022), Carter (Washington, 2023) and Tanner (Tennessee, 2025) all boast Women's College World Series experience at their former stops
• 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
