Utah Evens Series with Baylor SB After 8-2 win Saturday

[Roberts, Matt]

BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – April 18, 2026

Utah Evens Series with Baylor SB After 8-2 win Saturday
Both teams battled through multiple delays as rain moved through Central Texas
For more information, contact: Matt Roberts, 254-227-2280, WM_Roberts at Baylor.edu<mailto:WM_Roberts at Baylor.edu>

WACO, Texas – Baylor softball suffered an 8-2 setback to Utah on Saturday afternoon in a stop-and-start contest that featured nearly 90 minutes of weather delays at Getterman Stadium.
In a game defined by shifting momentum, the Bears trailed 3-2 into the sixth inning before lightning halted play for one hour and 10 minutes.

Baylor briefly regained control out of the delay, with a strong 1-2-3 inning by Lexi Warncke, but Utah capitalized late, scoring five runs with two outs in the seventh to pull away and seal the win.

RUNDOWN
Utah struck first in the second inning, taking advantage of a Baylor error before an RBI single put the Utes ahead 1-0.

BU responded in the bottom half with its best offensive stretch of the day. Faith Piper opened the inning with a single before Olivia Buettner roped an RBI double to right-center. Abi Flores followed with a double of her own, plating the go-ahead run and giving the Bears a 2-1 advantage.

The Utes answered immediately in the third with a solo home run to even the score, and added another run in the fifth on a solo shot to take a 3-2 lead.

After the lengthy lightning delay in the sixth inning, Lexi Warncke returned to the circle and retired Utah in order, keeping Baylor within striking distance with two more cracks at the plate.

After Baylor could not capitalize on scoring chances in the sixth, Utah broke the game open in the seventh with two outs. A walk and hit-by-pitch extended the inning before a two-RBI single pushed the lead to 5-2. Moments later, a three-run home run capped the five-run outburst, stretching the lead to 8-2.

Baylor was unable to respond in the bottom half, as Utah closed out the contest to even the series.

GAME NOTES

  *   25-20 (8-9) this season, Baylor is 14-9 at home
  *   Baylor leads the all-time series with Utah 5-3, with a 1-1 mark as conference foes.
  *   Baylor enters the series finale with a chance to win or sweep the series for the fifth time this season, they are 2-2 in the previous four chances
  *   Baylor used its 43rd different lineup in its 45th game of the season.
  *   BU is 501-203 all-time at Getterman Stadium.
  *   Brooklyn Carter has now reached base in a career-high 11-straight games
  *   Carter stole two bases on Saturday, her second multi-steal game of the season
  *   Lexi Warncke set a new career high with 6.2 innings pitched
  *   Olivia Buettner had two doubles, a new career high.
  *   Six of Buettner’s 16 hits this season have gone for extra bases
  *   Sa’Mya Jones has a hit in each of her last four games, setting a new career high
  *   Abi Flores connected on her third double of the season, one off her career high (4) set last season
  *   Faith Piper picked up another hit on Saturday and now has five in her last three games
  *   Kaygen Marshall upped her career-best on-base streak to 12 games

QUOTABLE
Baylor Head Coach Glenn Moore on the stop-and-start nature of the game — “We had so many opportunities with the runners in scoring position and producers in the box. [Anna Reimers] shut us down, so I tip my hat to her. I was frustrated on our side, of course, but sometimes you’ve got to give credit to the pitcher. It was a game that was difficult to get the rhythm going, but more often than not when you have a delay, the momentum shifts to the team that's losing, and I've seen that 80-90% of the time it seems like, we had opportunities to come out and make that happen, we had something cooking there in the sixth, but we couldn't push across the run.”

WHAT’S NEXT
Baylor will go for the series win on Sunday morning at 11 a.m. All games for the remainder of the season will be televised on ESPN+<https://www.espn.com/search/_/q/baylor/o/watch> and heard on air and online via 101.3 COOL FM.<https://listen.streamon.fm/kbhthd2>

Follow @BaylorSoftball on X, Instagram and Facebook for additional updates.

—BaylorBears.com—


Matt Roberts | Director of Athletic Communications
Department of Athletics | Baylor University
C: 254-227-2280
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