Baylor SB Opens Florida Swing at Stetson

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RV/NR BAYLOR BEARS (17-6, 3-0 Big 12)
Location: Waco, Texas
Conference/Affiliation: Big 12
Head Coach: Glenn Moore (Northwestern St., 1993)

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RV/NR BAYLOR (17-6, 3-0) vs. Stetson (15-10, 0-0 ASUN) — March 11 • 5 p.m. CT
DeLand, Fla. • Patricia Wilson Field (500)

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STETSON HATTERS (15-10, 0-0 ASUN)
Location: Ames, Iowa
Conference/Affiliation: Big 12
Head Coach: Jamie Pinkerton (Tulsa, 1997)

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Story lines

• RV/NR Baylor takes its five-game win streak to the Sunshine State for a midweek against Stetson and three games at No. 22/22 UCF with all four games on ESPN+

• The Bears are receiving six votes in the ESPN/USA Softball Poll, marking the first time since February of last year they have been ranked or receiving votes

• The Bears entered the week ranked 23rd in the NCAA's initial RPI, its highest place in the initial rankings since 2023 (14th)

• A win would over Stetson match Baylor's season-best six-game win streak, marking the first time since 2024 BU had multiple win-streaks of 6+ games

• The Bears head to Orlando looking for their first ranked win since beating No. 4 Florida 5-2 in the Super Regional in May of 2024

• In search of the latest in a long line of Milestones, Glenn Moore enters Wednesday with 1098 career wins, putting him ninth among all active coaches (6th among power-conference coaches)

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

• While Wednesday will be Baylor's first-ever meeting with Stetson, the Bears hold a 12-3 edge in the all-time series with the Knights, with a 2-2 mark in Orlando

• Baylor is aiming to start 4-0 in conference play for the first time since 2016 when it started 5-0. BU has only started 4-0 in B12 play three other times in the Big 12 Era

• BU has won each of the first two series' between these programs as conference foes, going 6-1 over the last two years

• In the last series in Orlando between these programs, BU took 2-of-3 in 2017 en route to a College World Series Appearance

• The Bears are coming off a series-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

• BU's big week was buoyed by a dominant showing in the circle, by Cambree Creager earning her D1 Softball's National Pitcher of the Week honors, becoming Baylor's first pitcher since Dari Orme to be named a National Pitcher of the Week

• Creager went 3-0 with a 0.49 ERA, tossing 14.1 innings while striking out 17 and allowing just one earned run across three appearances, and enters the week 7th in the Big 12 in innings (54.2) and is tied for 6th in strikeouts (47)

• The ASU transfer is spearheading a 1-2 punch at the top of the rotation joining Tennessee transfer Peyton Tanner who enters the week 11th in the Big 12 in strikeouts (40) and tied for second in saves (2)

• Over Creager's last 11 appearances, she has compiled a 6-1 record with 43 strikeouts and a 1.42 ERA across 49.1 innings

• Over Tanner's last 12 appearances she is 6-2 with 33 strikeouts, a 2.44 ERA and two saves across 37.1 innings

• Lexie Warncke has provided a strong lift in the circle, limiting opponents to a .194 average, which is 7th-best in the Big 12

• Brooklyn Carter is coming off a big week, hitting .615 wreaking havoc on the base paths at the top of the order

• The senior put pressure on the opposing defense all week reaching base at a .688 clip with multiple hits in all four games, scoring four-runs including the game-winner on Sunday, when her speed forced an errant throw from ISU, allowing BU to walk off with the series sweep

• Carter now enters the week 7th in the Big 12 in batting average (.439) and ranks 4th in stolen bases (9)

• Carter and fellow senior Amber Toven are setting the tone at the top of the lineup, with one of those two leading off in all but two games this season, combining to hit .391 out of the top spot in the batting order

• 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. 3 Texas (3/21), No. 11 Texas A&M (4/15) and No. 20 Oklahoma State (4/24-26), with road contests scheduled at No. 22 UCF (3/13-15), at No. 3 Texas (3/20) and at No. 2 Texas Tech (4/30-5/2)

• BUs Freshman trio of Kaygen Marshall, Olivia Buettner and Gianna Gusman have worked themselves into being lineup regulars, with Marshall starting 21 of 23 games, sitting second on the team in homeruns. Buettner has seen action in 18 games, with four of her 10 hits going for extra bases, while Gusman has played a solid right field, contributing a .267 average with three extra-base hits

• 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

• Baylor has a 497-197 mark all-time at Getterman Stadium and, BU has had a winning record in all but one full season of competition since its doors were opened in 1999

• Baylor debuted it's new Peggy Hawkins Softball Locker Room this January after a five-month renovation. Loyal softball supporters helped BU fund a transformational project that exceeded half a million dollars

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