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SB: HCU begins week on the road with Tuesday tilt at No. 19 Baylor

Huskies and Bears meeting for just the third time



HCU at No. 19 BAYLOR Houston Christian University returns to the diamond for the first time in a week, traveling to Waco to take on No. 19 ranked Baylor University on Tuesday afternoon. First pitch at Getterman Stadium is slated for 6 pm with the game streaming live on ESPN+.
 
The Huskies are now 13-10 overall and 0-3 in the Southland and have not played since concluding a six-game homestand last Tuesday with an 8-1 loss to UT-Arlington. After a seven-game winning streak, the longest in 13 years, HCU has now lost four in a row heading into the Tuesday road affair.
 
Senior catcher Jasie Roberts still tops the stat sheet for HCU with a .375 batting average and 24 hits..She has a .1030 OPS and is second on the team with 14 runs scored, two homers and 12 RBI.
 
The Deer Park product has moved onto the top 10 leaderboards for at-bats and hits, while pulling within one of the Top 10 in RBI. She is also closing in on career leaderboards in triples, walks, runs and games played.
 
Haylie Savage is second on the club with a .313 average at the plate and a team-best 1.073 OPS. She leads the squad in walks, doubles, runs scored, homers and RBI. She needs just five two-baggers to climb into the all-time top 10.
 
Ronni Grofman took two hard-luck one-run losses in the Lamar series to fall to 3-4 on the season. She leads the team with a 2.37 ERA and a 1.55 WHIP, fanning 34 and walking just 17 in 41.1 innings of work.
 
Lyndie Swanson and Katy Janes each have four wins to lead the hurlers.Swanson's outing in the Lamar series was the 100th of her career, making her just the fourth hurler in school history to hit that plateau. She is now at 101 for her career, just four from third and five from second all-time.
 
Only twice have the two schools previously met on the diamond. The Bears took the most recent encounter, a 10-3 decision in Waco in 2015. The lone meeting previous to that game was 21 years prior, as BU defeated HCU 6-0 in Waco in 1996. Baylor was ranked No. 13 last week and is now 16-8 with the most recent poll being released late Monday afternoon.
 
Baylor has a trio of players batting over .300 with 20 or more hits on the season thus far. Shaylon Govan is tops on the club as she continues to flirt with the .500 mark, hitting .483 with a robust 1.275 OPS. She is tied for the team lead in homers (2) and RBI (9) while leading the team in hits with 28. Taylor Strain is second on the squad with a .338 batting average and Emily Hott has two homers and eight RBI while batting .315 on the season.
 
In the circle, the Bears are paced by RyLee Crandall, who is 7-2 with a 1.31 ERA and 51 K's in 59 innings pitched. She sports a miniscule 0.97 WHIP while holding opponents to a .188 batting average. Aliyah Binford is 5-5 on the year with a 2.64 ERA.
 
The Huskies will return to Southland action following the tilt with the Bears as they travel to Hammond, Louisiana to take on Southeastern Louisiana University in a three-game series on Friday and Saturday. SLU is currently tied with Lamar in first place in the SLC standings after two weekends of conference play.
 
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