The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Thursday, March 28
Stillwater, OK
6 PM CT
University of Texas
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Oklahoma State
No. 2/2 Softball preview: at No. 8/10 Oklahoma State
03.27.2024 | Softball
Texas returns to Stillwater for final regular season Big 12 matchup with the Cowgirls
STILLWATER, OK – For the final time as members of the Big 12 Conference, The University of Texas softball program will play Oklahoma State during the regular season when the two programs meet at Cowgirl Stadium for a three-game conference series that begins at 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 28.
Television:
ESPN+: Thursday, Saturday (Casey Kendrick, play by play) and Rachel Becker (analyst)
ESPN2: Friday (Kevin Brown, play by play) and Amanda Scarborough (analyst)
Radio:
Andrew Haynes can be heard with the series radio call at https://texas.leanplayer.com/.
LEADING OFF
- Texas traveled up I-35 with a 16-16 all-time record against Oklahoma State in games played in Stillwater, Okla., but also carried a 41-32 all-time record against the Cowgirls as well.
- The Longhorns are looking for their first win over the Cowgirls in Stillwater since May 29, 2021, when Texas won 4-2 in Game 2 of the Stillwater Super Regional.
- UT has not beaten OSU in Stillwater during the regular season since March 31, 2019, when the Longhorns won 4-3.
- However, despite the road woes, Texas will enter Thursday night's game riding a five-game winning streak over Oklahoma State dating back to June 6, 2022, when the Longhorns won, 5-0, in Oklahoma City.
- With her next home run, Reese Atwood will tie Lexy Bennett (2012), Amy Hooks (2011) and Courtney Craig (2010) for 10th on the program's single-season home run list.
- Mary Iakopo (second place, 16 home runs) and Shannon Rhodes (fourth place, 15) were the most recent student-athletes to join the list when they both joined the list during the 2021 campaign.
- Additionally, Reese Atwood will begin Thursday evening's contest tied with Viviana Martinez (52, 2023) for sixth on the program's single-season RBI list.
- Atwood is three RBIs back of tying Shannon Rhodes' 2021 total of 55 for fifth place on the list.
- With a potential three-game sweep over Oklahoma State this weekend, Texas would move to 31-3 on the season, matching the best start to a season under sixth-year head coach Mike White.
- The Longhorns also opened the 2021 season with a 31-3 mark before heading into a three-game series against then-No. 1 Oklahoma.
- Texas will enter this week's three-game conference series at Oklahoma State as the only softball program in the Big 12 Conference to rank among the top four Division I softball programs in both team batting average and earned run average (ERA).
- The Longhorns are currently second in the country with a .391 batting average and fourth in the nation with a 1.26 ERA.
- With her 52 runs batted in (RBI) on the season, Reese Atwood is the only Division I softball player — enter Thursday's action — with 50-or-more RBIs this season.
- As a result of their offensive productive throughout Texas' three-game sweep of conference foe UCF last weekend, Mia Scott and Bella Dayton are the only active Longhorn softball student-athletes with 100-or-more career hits and 100-or-more runs scored during their time on the Forty Acres.
- Scott, in 155 games played at Texas, has been credited with 186 hits with 149 runs scored.
- Dayton, in three seasons since transferring from Arizona, now has 100 hits and 100 runs scored in 148 games on the Forty Acres.
FOLLOW US
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