The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Friday, April 26
Austin, TX
6 PM CT
University of Texas
vs
Iowa State
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04.26.2024 | Softball
Texas looks to extend winning streak against Iowa State with upcoming three-game weekend
AUSTIN, Texas – Looking to stay in prime position for a Big 12 Conference regular season championship this season, The University of Texas' softball program will open a three-game series against Iowa State at 6 p.m. CT on Friday, April 26 with games being played at Red & Charline McCombs Field.
TELEVISION: Alex Loeb (play by play) and Cat Osterman (analyst) will serve as the talent for the Longhorn Network broadcast.
RADIO: Andrew Haynes can be heard with the series radio call at https://texas.leanplayer.com/.
LEADING OFF
- With its next win, The University of Texas softball program will have earned its 40th victory on the season, marking the fourth consecutive season with 40-or-more wins and fifth in the last sixth complete seasons.
- The Longhorns had 24 wins in 27 games before the COVID-19 pandemic halted the 2020 season before the start of Big 12 play in March.
- If Texas wins one game against Iowa State over the weekend, the Longhorns will set a new program single-season record for most conference wins with 18.
- The 2022 team set the mark with 17 victories in 18 Big 12 games.
- A victory against Iowa State in the first game of the weekend series will mark the 11th straight win for Texas, tying the program's longest winning streak this season.
- The Longhorns began the season with an 11-game winning streak with the first seven wins coming in California and Florida, respectively.
- Texas will enter this weekend's three-game conference series riding a 10-game winning streak over Iowa State, dating back to the Longhorns' last loss to the Cyclones on May 10, 2019 in Oklahoma City, Okla.
- Additionally, Texas is 28-3 all time against Iowa State in games played in Austin and has won each of the last six straight in the Lone Star State.
- The Longhorns have not lost to the Cyclones in Austin since dropping a 4-2 contest on April 23, 2017.
- Additionally, Texas is 28-3 all time against Iowa State in games played in Austin and has won each of the last six straight in the Lone Star State.
- Texas freshman Kayden Henry not only leads the Longhorns with 21 stolen bases, but the Dickinson, Texas native leads all of the Big 12 with 13 swipes in conference-only games.
- Henry is the only Big 12 softball student-athlete to successfully steal more than eight bags in conference play.
- Her 21 stolen bases on the season are three shy of tying for 10th on the program's single-season stolen base list.
- Henry is the only Big 12 softball student-athlete to successfully steal more than eight bags in conference play.
- Not only will Reese Atwood enter the weekend series tied for the program's single-season RBI record (66), but Texas' sophomore catcher is just two RBI's back of Miami (OH)'s Jenna Golembiewski's nation leading 68 runs batted in.
- With five more runs batted in (RBI) as a team, the Texas offense will have been credited with 316 RBI on the season, which would tie the 2013 squad for the fifth most in a single season in program history.
- The 2022 team holds the program's single-season record with 355 RBI.
- Additionally, if the Longhorns manage to score 17 runs throughout the course of the weekend's three-game series against Iowa State, the 2024 Texas offense will tie the 2013 team for fifth on the program's single-season runs scored list.
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