Baylor SB Set for Penultimate Big 12 Road Series at No. 23 Kansas

Thu Apr 9 14:00:23 CDT 2026

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BAYLOR BEARS (23-16, 6-6 Big 12)
Location: Waco, Texas
Conference/Affiliation: Big 12
Head Coach: Glenn Moore (Northwestern St., 1993)

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BAYLOR (23-16, 6-6 Big 12) at Kansas (27-11, 8-4 Big 12)— April 10 • 5 p.m.
BAYLOR (23-16, 6-6 Big 12) at Kansas (27-11, 8-4 Big 12)— April 11 • 2 p.m.
BAYLOR (23-16, 6-6 Big 12) at Kansas (27-11, 8-4 Big 12)— April 12 • 12 p.m.
Lawrence, Kansas • Arrocha Ballpark (1,100)

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Kansas Jayhawks (27-11, 8-4 Big 12)
Location: Lawrence, Kan.
Conference/Affiliation: Big 12
Head Coach: Jennifer McFalls (Texas A&M, 1997)

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Story lines
• Baylor softball hits the road for its longest remaining road stretch capped by a three-game set in the Sunflower State against No. 23 Kansas, with all games available on ESPN+

• BU is in the midst of a busy stretch, playing 12 games in just nine days, before returning home to face No. 13 Texas A&M

• The Bears lead the all-time series with the Jayhawks 47-35 with BU boasting an 18-14 mark in Lawrence

• Baylor is coming off a weekend series against Houston, where the Bears and Cougars combined for second-longest regular-season game in league history, and the second-longest game in Baylor History

• Cambree Creager threw all 15 innings for the Bears, the second-most in program history, trailing only Cristin Vitek's 16 inning performance in 2004.

• Creager established the new program record with 250 pitches in the hard-luck loss

• Senior Amber Toven set a new program record with seven at-bats in the game as well

• This Baylor team has shown a great ability to come from behind, winning five times this season, when trailing after four innings, including last Saturday against the Cougars where they trailed 2-0 entering the bottom of the sixth only to reel off a seven-run inning and even the series

• Facing a 6-1 deficit on Monday against a red-hot Lamar team, BU's comeback attempt came up just short as it was the Cardinals who rallied for a run in the seventh and two in the ninth to take the 10-8 win

• Monday was Baylor's first loss this season when leading after six innings, they are now 21-1 when leading after six this year

• With its last Friday against Houston, Baylor eclipsed 500 all-time wins at Getterman Stadium, Baylor's next win at home will mark its 26th home winning season in 27 seasons of the venues existence

• BU has a 500-201 mark all-time at Getterman Stadium

• With a 12-3 win over UCF on March 14th, Glenn Moore surpassed 1,100 career wins, the ninth-most among active D1 coaches and the sixth-most among active power-conference head coaches

• Moore is in his 30th season as a head coach, making him the fifth-longest tenured power-conference head coach

• Ranked 34th in the RPI entering the weekend, the Bears have been as high as 16th this season

• Baylor put together a conference-opening sweep over ISU, BU's first conference-opening series win since sweeping Texas Tech in 2021 and its first sweep of Iowa State since 2018

• Baylor's rise has been buoyed by its pitching staff spearheaded by a couple of Texas natives who transferred back to their home state in Georgetown's Creager (Arizona St.) and Lake Jackson's Peyton Tanner (Tennessee)

• Creager enters this weekend in the top-5 in the conference in innings (99.2) and top-10 in strikeouts (59)

• Tanner has 60 strikeouts, giving Baylor two pitchers with at least 50 K's since 2024

• Sadie Ross has established herself as a reliable third option, tying a career-high with six wins, boasting a staff-best 3.19 ERA to go along with a 6-2 record

• Senior Amber Toven is in the midst of her best collegiate season, ranking second on the team in batting average (.369) and has a team-best 41 RBIs, the most by a Baylor player since Shaylon Govan's 54 in 2024.

• Named to Softball's America's top-15 midseason shortstops, Toven enters this weekend working on a career-best 20-game on-base streak

• Toven and Brooklyn Carter have shared the leadoff spot for much of the season, Carter who is batting .357 with a .424 OBP, creating chaos on the bases with 14 stolen bases, which is fourth-most in the league

• Cran enters the weekend leading the team with 16 extra-basehits on the strength of 11 doubles, which is tied for the third-most in the Big 12

• Freshmen Kaygen Marshall leads the team with seven homeruns, the most by a Baylor Freshman since KassidyKrupit hit 10 in 2019

• Olivia Buettner has worked herself into a lineup regular appearing in 30 games with 21 starts and ranks second on the team in on-base% (.451)

• Freshman Gianna Gusman has also contributed in her first season on campus appearing in 28 games with 25 starts, hitting .246, with several highlight-reel plays in the outfield

• Moore has used 38 different lineups in 39 games this season, repeating nine players in the same nine spots just once

• Toven (Arizona, 2022), Carter (Washington, 2023) and Tanner (Tennessee, 2025) all boast Women's College World Series experience at their former stops

• Picked eighth in the Preseason Big 12 Coaches Poll, Baylor has met or outperformed its preseason expectations in 17 of Moore's 25 previous seasons at Baylor

• The Bears have 17 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. 15 Texas A&M (4/15) and No. 21 Oklahoma State (4/24-26), with road contests scheduled at No. 3 Texas (3/20) and at No. 2 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

Matt Roberts | Director of Athletic Communications
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
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