Friday, May 1
Lubbock, Texas
6:00 PM
Baylor
27-25, 10-13
8
at
7
Texas Tech
49-5, 20-3
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Runs R | Hits H | Errors E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baylor | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 0 |
| Texas Tech | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 2 |
SB Rallies to Claim the Middle Game against No. 2 Texas Tech
5/1/2026 9:53:00 PM | Softball
BU’s five-run comeback was its largest since 2014
LUBBOCK, Texas – Baylor softball used a late rally and some timely power to outlast Texas Tech, 8-7, Friday evening at Tracy Sellers Field, securing a massive Big 12 victory.
The Bears scored first, only to see Texas Tech reel off six unanswered runs to go up 6-1. From there, it was the Bears who punched back, with four in the fifth, and three more in the seventh, capped by a clutch pinch-hit single from Kaci West to make it 8-6. With Tech threatening one more time, Peyton Tanner came on in the seventh to close it out in the circle for her third save of the season.
The win was Baylor's first road win over a top-five team since beating No. 5 Texas in Austin in May of 2023. With the win and an Iowa State loss on Friday, the Bears officially clinched a spot in Oklahoma City for the Big 12 Tournament next week.
RUNDOWN
Baylor struck first, with a couple of balls off the wall as Brooklyn Carter got the inning started with a double and later scored on a Sa'Mya Jones base hit to take the 1-0 lead.
Texas Tech answered with a big third inning to grab momentum, thanks in large part to a three-run bomb off the bat of Jasmyn Burns for the second day in a row.
Trailing the Red Raiders 6-1 in the fifth, Kaygen Marshall delivered a solo home run to get Baylor back on the board, and just a few batters later, Brooklyn Carter followed with her first home run of the season, a three-run shot to pull Baylor within a single run.
Baylor nearly added two more, but Texas Tech's Mihyia Davis went over the wall to rob a two-run home run off the bat of Cran and preserve the Red Raiders' advantage.
In the seventh, Sa'Mya Jones and Amber Toven reached on a couple of infield hits to set the table. Jones came around to score on a ball off the bat of Cran, tying the game and setting the stage for the decisive moment.
With the bases loaded and the game hanging in the balance, Kaci West delivered one of the biggest hits of her illustrious Baylor career, driving in two runs as a pinch hitter to give the Bears an 8-6 lead.
Texas Tech answered with a run in the bottom half to cut it to 8-7, but Peyton Tanner came on in relief and shut the door, getting the final two outs with the tying run at third base.
GAME NOTES
WHAT'S NEXT
Baylor will look to claim the series in the regular-season finale on Saturday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. The game will be featured on ESPN, Baylor's first nationally-televised game since 2024 against Texas.
All games can be heard on-air and online at 101.3 COOL FM.
Follow @BaylorSoftball on X, Instagram and Facebook for additional updates.
The Bears scored first, only to see Texas Tech reel off six unanswered runs to go up 6-1. From there, it was the Bears who punched back, with four in the fifth, and three more in the seventh, capped by a clutch pinch-hit single from Kaci West to make it 8-6. With Tech threatening one more time, Peyton Tanner came on in the seventh to close it out in the circle for her third save of the season.
The win was Baylor's first road win over a top-five team since beating No. 5 Texas in Austin in May of 2023. With the win and an Iowa State loss on Friday, the Bears officially clinched a spot in Oklahoma City for the Big 12 Tournament next week.
RUNDOWN
Baylor struck first, with a couple of balls off the wall as Brooklyn Carter got the inning started with a double and later scored on a Sa'Mya Jones base hit to take the 1-0 lead.
Texas Tech answered with a big third inning to grab momentum, thanks in large part to a three-run bomb off the bat of Jasmyn Burns for the second day in a row.
Trailing the Red Raiders 6-1 in the fifth, Kaygen Marshall delivered a solo home run to get Baylor back on the board, and just a few batters later, Brooklyn Carter followed with her first home run of the season, a three-run shot to pull Baylor within a single run.
Baylor nearly added two more, but Texas Tech's Mihyia Davis went over the wall to rob a two-run home run off the bat of Cran and preserve the Red Raiders' advantage.
In the seventh, Sa'Mya Jones and Amber Toven reached on a couple of infield hits to set the table. Jones came around to score on a ball off the bat of Cran, tying the game and setting the stage for the decisive moment.
With the bases loaded and the game hanging in the balance, Kaci West delivered one of the biggest hits of her illustrious Baylor career, driving in two runs as a pinch hitter to give the Bears an 8-6 lead.
Texas Tech answered with a run in the bottom half to cut it to 8-7, but Peyton Tanner came on in relief and shut the door, getting the final two outs with the tying run at third base.
GAME NOTES
- Baylor's five-run comeback was its largest since a seven-run comeback against Kentucky in 2014
- Baylor beat a top-five team on the road for the first time since May of 2023 at No. 5 Texas.
- BU knocked off a top-two team for the first time since beating No. 1 Oklahoma on Feb. 19, 2023.
- The Bears lead the all-time series 67-27, with a 30-6 mark in the Hub City.
- Baylor is 18-7 this season when scoring first.
- Seven of Baylor's nine starters recorded a hit in Friday's game.
- Baylor used its 46th different lineup in its 52nd game of the season.
- Friday is the first time this season the Bears have used the same lineup in back-to-back games.
- Kaygen Marshall belted her 10th homerun of the season, the most by a freshman since Kassidy Krupit's 10 in 2019.
- Marshall is one of just five freshmen in the Glenn Moore Era with double-digit home runs.
- Brooklyn Carter hit her first home run of the season with a three-run blast in the fifth, extending her on-base streak to a career-best 18 games.
- Carter tallied her 46th-career multi-hit game and her ninth-career multi-RBI game.
- Sa'Mya Jones picked up the second multi-hit game of her career.
- Kaci West delivered her first hit since March 20th at Texas.
- Leah Cran is the only player to collect a hit in each of the first two games against the Red Raiders.
- Sadie Ross induced a double-play ball in each of the first two innings on Friday, giving her three in her first three innings of work on the South Plains.
WHAT'S NEXT
Baylor will look to claim the series in the regular-season finale on Saturday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. The game will be featured on ESPN, Baylor's first nationally-televised game since 2024 against Texas.
All games can be heard on-air and online at 101.3 COOL FM.
Follow @BaylorSoftball on X, Instagram and Facebook for additional updates.
—BaylorBears.com—
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Warncke, Lexie (4-4)
L: Nijaree Canady (20-4)
S: Tanner, Peyton (3)
Batting:
2B: Carter, Brooklyn 1
HR: Carter, Brooklyn 1 ; Marshall, Kaygen 1
RBI: Carter, Brooklyn 3 ; Jones, Sa'Mya 1 ; Marshall, Kaygen 1 ; West, Kaci 2
SH: Gusman, Gianna 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Carter, Brooklyn 2 ; Jones, Sa'Mya 1 ; Toven, Amber 1 ; Cran, Leah 1 ; Marshall, Kaygen 1 ; Lindsey, Gigi 1 ; Gusman, Gianna 1
SB: Jones, Sa'Mya 1 ; Toven, Amber 1 ; Marshall, Kaygen 1
Batting:
HR: Mia Williams 1 ; Jasmyn Burns 1
RBI: Mia Williams 3 ; Jasmyn Burns 3 ; Lauren Allred 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Mia Williams 2 ; Jackie Lis 1 ; Jasmyn Burns 2 ; Kaitlyn Terry 1 ; Makayla Garcia 1
SB: Taylor Pannell 1 ; Kaitlyn Terry 1
HBP: Hailey Toney 1
Game Leaders
AB
4
R
2
H
2
RBI
3
AB
4
R
1
H
2
RBI
1
AB
4
R
1
H
2
RBI
0
AB
4
R
0
H
2
RBI
0
Players Mentioned
OF
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INF
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UTIL
/ Softball
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