A Late Leah Cran Homer Lifts SB Over Incarnate Word 11-9

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Leah Cran and Kaygen Marshall High Five after a homerun against UIW

A Late Leah Cran Homer Lifts SB Over Incarnate Word 11-9

3/31/2026 9:32:00 PM | Softball

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BU hit multiple homeruns at Getterman Stadium for the third time in 2026

By: Matt Roberts

WACO, Texas – Balyor softball's Leah Cran belted a two-run blast to lift Baylor past UIW in an 11-9 thriller on Tuesday night at Getterman Stadium.

Baylor's offense was highlighted by two home runs and a 5-run second inning, which proved crucial in a tight ballgame. BU followed it up with a clutch four-run sixth inning, capped by Cran's homerun to snap a three-game losing streak.

RUNDOWN

The Cardinals took an early lead in the first inning with on a two-run triple to center by Jaisy Caceres, who scored on a throwing error to stake the Cards to a 2-0 lead.

Baylor responded in the second inning, with Leah Cran's single to right field setting up Olivia Buettner's RBI single. Kaygen Marshall stole home on a delayed steal, and Amber Toven doubled to deep center, clearing the bases for three RBIs, to make it 5-2.

UIW regained momentum in the fourth inning, scoring five runs, including a three-RBI double by Bryanna Fuentes, regaining the lead to 7-5.

The Cardinals plated two more in the fifth digging BU a daunting four-run deficit, until Marshall cut the margin in half with a two-run home run to left.

A couple of UIW fielding errors in the sixth helped BU tie the game at 9, before Cran delivered a two-run homer to left field, putting Baylor in front for good at 11-9.

Sadie Ross closed the game by keeping UIW off the board in the final two innings, improving her record to 6-1 on the season and bringing her within one win of matching her career high set last season.

GAME NOTES

· Baylor is now 2-1 all-time against UIW

· Baylor is now 499-198 all-time at Getterman Stadium

· Baylor's three pitchers combined to tie a season high with nine strikeouts, Tuesday was the third time they had nine K's in a game and the first since February 8^th

· BU's four-run comeback was its largest since erasing a four-run deficit against Hofstra on Feb. 15, 2025

· The Bears hit multiple homeruns for the sixth time this season and for just the third time at Getterman Stadium

· Tuesday was just Baylor's second win this season when trailing after five innings

· BU is 6-3 this season in the green tops and green bottoms

· The Bears used a 34^th-different lineup combination this season

· Amber Toven ran her hitting streak to six games, and built on her career-best on-base streak at 15 games

· Toven is now 5-for-7 (.714) with 14 RBIs this season with the bases loaded

· Toven's four RBI's are one off her career high she tied earlier this season against South Dakota State

· Kaygen Marshall's seven home runs are the most by a Baylor freshman since Kassidy Krupit's 10 in 2019

· Entering the season with three homeruns in her career, Leah Cran now has five homeruns this season, including three in her last three games

· Peyton Tanner finished with six strikeouts, tied for her second-most this season and her most since striking out six at SDSU on Feb. 13

· Sadie Ross improved to 6-1 on the season and is now just one win shy of her career high (7) set last season.

QUOTABLE

Glenn Moore on his team's performance against UIW — "The end result was absolutely what we needed. This team has come from behind the whole year, so I never doubt that they're able to do that. I just get frustrated with the fact that we dig such a hole and sometimes unnecessarily and that that first inning to spot them two runs and then to allow that many runs and hits in a midweek. This is no insult or disrespect to them because they've been playing great ball and we know what they're capable of doing, but it's the way we played, and the things we did that are disappointing to me. I didn't feel like in warmups today that we did, uh, what we needed to do in that situation, so, uh, we'll get better from it."

Moore on Sadie Ross Stabilizing the Circle for the final two innings — "I want to give Sadie credit for coming in there and kind of putting water on the fire, so to speak. She keept the ball down in the zone and made quicker adjustments."

Leah Cran on her game-winning homerun "I think we just knew this was a game we had to win and we were going to do anything to make sure of that. So I just had to come up big for the team."

WHAT'S NEXT

The Bears will aim for the 500^th win in Getterman Stadium history when they jump back into conference play against Houston, beginning Thursday at 6:30 p.m. CT

All games for the remainder of the season will be televised on ESPN+ and heard on air and online via 101.3 COOL FM.

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