Baylor SB Heads to OKC for Phillips 66 Big 12 Softball Championship

Thu May 13 10:23:08 CDT 2021

BAYLOR at PHILLIPS 66 BIG 12 SOFTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
• Pool A
    • No. 4 Baylor vs. No. 6 Texas Tech - Friday at 11 a.m. (CT) | Integris Field
    • No. 1 Oklahoma vs. No. 4 Baylor - Friday at 2 p.m. (CT) | OGE Energy Field
    • No. 1 Oklahoma vs. No. 6 Texas Tech - Friday at 7:30 p.m. (CT) | OGE Energy Field
• Pool B
    • No. 2 Oklahoma State vs. No. 3 Texas - Friday at 11 a.m. (CT) | OGE Energy Field
    • No. 3 Texas vs. No. 5 Iowa State - Friday at 2 p.m. (CT) | Integris Field
    • No. 2 Oklahoma State vs. No. 5 Iowa State - Friday at 5 p.m. (CT) | OGE Energy Field
• Saturday
    • Pool A 3rd Place vs. Pool B 3rd Place - 10:30 a.m. (CT) | Integris Field
    • Pool A 2nd Place vs. Pool B 2nd Place - 10:30 a.m. (CT) | OGE Energy Field
    • Pool A 1st Place vs. Pool B 1st Place - 3 p.m. (CT) | OGE Energy Field
Site:
• USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium | Oklahoma City, Okla.
TV:
• Big 12 Now on ESPN+
• Saturday's championship game on ESPN2
Radio: 101.3 FM | Stream<http://listen.streamon.fm/kbhthd2>
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Twitter Updates: @BaylorSoftball

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STORY LINES
• Baylor softball heads north to Oklahoma City for the 2021 Phillips 66 Big 12 Softball Championship this weekend. The fourth-seeded Lady Bears will take part in a pair of pool play games on Friday against sixth-seed Texas Tech (11 a.m.) and top-seed Oklahoma (2 p.m.). BU will then play a team from the opposite side of the bracket (No. 2 Oklahoma State, No. 3 Texas or No. 5 Iowa State) on Saturday to close things out.
• Baylor is 13-26 in the Big 12 tournament. Against current conference foes, BU is 7-16. The Lady Bears are 1-3 against Texas Tech in the tournament (W 1-0 in 1997, L 0-8 in 2001, L 4-8 in 2007, L 5-6 in 2018) and 0-4 against the Sooners (L 2-3 in 1998, L 0-1 in 2003, L 2-5 in 2004, L 4-6 in 2018).
• The Lady Bears advanced to the Big 12 title game in 2018, their most recent appearance in the conference tournament. After splitting the action on Day 1 (7-1 win over OSU, 5-6 loss to TTU), No.3 seed BU battled in a 6-4 loss to top-seeded Oklahoma.
• That was the last championship game played at the tournament as th final day in 2019 was canceled due to inclement weather and unplayable field conditions.
• The NCAA Selection Show is slated for 8 p.m. on Sunday and will be aired on ESPN2. BU looks to return to postseason action after missing the tournament in 2019 before the 2020 season was canceled due to COVID-19.
• Glenn Moore<https://baylorbears.com/coaches.aspx?rc=1633> picked up win No. 800 at Baylor last Friday in BU's 7-1 victory over Kansas. Moore is the wins leader across all sports for Baylor Athletics. Last season, he reached the 900-win milestone for his career.
• Lou Gilbert<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10383> and Emily Hott<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10385> were named to the All-Big 12 Second Team on Wednesday afternoon. The duo moved up to the top two spots in the Baylor lineup against Sam Houston (4/21). During that time, Hott is hitting .400 with 14 hits, four doubles, a homer and five RBI, while Gilbert is hitting .361 with 13 hits, four doubles, a triple, three homers and four RBI. The two combine for 22 runs scored.
• Gilbert moved into the leadoff spot with Nicky Dawson's<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10380> injury. Gilbert has both the short game and power as she has 48 hits to lead the team. Of those 48 hits, 20 of them are for extra bases (13 doubles, 2 triples, 5 home runs) and 12 of them are bunt singles.
• Hott recently saw her 29 game on-base streak come to an end in the series opener at Texas. However, her .491 on-base percentage for Big 12 play is good for sixth in the conference.
• Taylor Ellis<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10382> has a hit in 10-straight games, a streak that marks a career high for the fifth-year senior. During this stretch that started in the second game at Iowa State, Ellis is hitting .414 with three extra-base hits, a team-high 12 hits and four RBI with only one strikeout. After hitting a homer in Game 2 vs. Kansas, Ellis followed that with a bomb short of the cycle in Game 3 with a bunt single, a double and a triple.
• Aliyah Binford<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10397> tied a Getterman Stadium record with six RBI on April 30. She hit back-to-back three-run home runs. It marked the first multi-home run game by a Lady Bear since Hannah Thompson<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10395> on March 10, 2020. Binford is the 55th BU player to go yard multiple times in a game.
• Binford (3/16) and Gia Rodoni<https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=10391> (3/30) have eached been named the Big 12 Pitcher of the week this season, marking the first time since 2016 and the fourth season in program history (2004, 2014, 2016, 2021) that multiple Baylor pitchers have earned the weekly conference honors.
• After 20 seasons as an assistant coach for the Lady Bears, Mark Lumley retired in October before he passed away in December after his fourth bout with cancer. The Baylor players and coaching staff have all been wearing blue ribbons in his honor. This season is for Lum.

Krista Pirtle | Associate Director of Athletics Communications
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
O: 254-710-3065 | C: 254-447-8610

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