Where: Stephenville, TX
Stadium: Tarleton Softball Complex
Times: 12 p.m. / 2:30 p.m. CT (Saturday)
Video: WAC Digital Network
TEXAN SOFTBALL GAME DAY
Tarleton will grace its home field one more time Saturday afternoon with a noon doubleheader against Houston Baptist in Stephenville. It will be the season finale for the Texans. Live stats will be available for both games. There will also be live video for the games on the WAC Digital Network. Links can be found at the softball schedule on TarletonSports.com.
WHAT'S AT STAKE
Tarleton fell into a conference bye week on the last week of the regular season. So, the rest of the WAC will be competing against league rivals. The biggest WAC matchup of the weekend resides in Nacogdoches where SFA hosts Abilene Christian in a three-game series. If SFA wins the series, Tarleton will finish the season in second place in the Southwest Division. The Texans have already secured a top-three finish.
In addition to the second-place finish, the Texans have submitted a bid and are among contention to continue their season in the National Invitational Softball Championship (NISC). The Texans are looking to improve their season resumé in order to claim a spot in the lone postseason softball event away from the NCAA tournament. The NISC will name its tournament field on Sunday, May 15 following the NCAA selection show. The tournament will be played May 20-26 in Fort Collins, Colorado. For more information on the NISC, visit www.womensnisc.com.
ABOUT THE SERIES
- Tarleton and Houston Baptist will meet in the season finale for both teams for a noon doubleheader Saturday in Stephenville. It will be the first meeting between the programs.
- Tarleton head coach Mark Cumpian has a 4-7 record against teams actively in the Southland Conference with two of those wins coming this season against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (5-4) and at McNeese State (5-4).
- This will be the first time since the 2006 season that the final games of the season were not scheduled conference games. It will be the first time since 2001 that the final home games of the season weren't played against a conference opponent.
QUICK HITS
- Last weekend, Mark Cumpian eclipsed 350 wins as part of the Tarleton Softball program, including his 190th as the team's head coach. Cumpian joined the Texan coaching staff ahead of the 2011 season.
- Georgia Capell leads the team with 14 home runs. She also leads all Division I reclassifying players in home runs. This marks her third career season with 14 or more long balls.
- Georgia Capell enters the weekend having reached base safely in 18 consecutive games, which is the longest streak by any Texan this season. She is the third Texan to have such streaks extend beyond 10 straight games, joining Austin Germain (14) and Katy Schaefer (15).
- Reagan Chism enters the weekend as the Southwest Division's ERA leader (2.63) and has allowed two earned runs or fewer in 13 of her last 14 games.
- Tristan Bridges has 98 strikesouts this season, which is a new career high for her in a season. With two more punchouts, she will record her first 100-K season and the first by a Texan since Jordan Withrow in 2020 (106).
- Amanda DeSario ended her debut season with the Texans by having ripped through WAC pitching. The freshman centerfielder from Keller ends the season with an 11-game WAC hitting streak still in tact.
CAPELL REWRITING THE RECORD BOOKS
Georgia Capell has put together a Hall of Fame worthy resumé. Against SFA, Georgia Capell claimed the program's all-time hit record, which marked her eighth statistical school record. Capell is now the program's all-time leader in games played, hits, runs scored, doubles, total bases, RBI, home runs, and hit by pitches. She is also on pace to be among the all-time leaders in batting average and slugging percentage.
BRIDGES CLIMBING THE ALL-TIME STRIKEOUT LIST
In addition to her longevity in the circle, Tristan Bridges has also moved into the Tarleton top-10 list for strikeouts. The junior enters the weekend with 302 career strikeouts. She now has her sights set on Brooke Saulters at No. 7.
| Strikeouts | |||
| # | Player | Seasons | Total |
| 1. | Jordan Withrow | 2017-20 | 676 |
| 2. | Carla Geeslin | 2001-04 | 521 |
| 3. | Randi Fentress | 2011-14 | 445 |
| 4. | Caryn Holbrook | 1997-00 | 384 |
| 5. | Samantha Swanda | 2011-12 | 349 |
| 6. | Haley Freyman | 2015-18 | 333 |
| 7. | Brooke Saulters | 2007-08 | 320 |
| 8. | Tristan Bridges | 2019-22 | 302 |
| 9. | A.J. Bristow | 2003-05 | 280 |
| 10. | Jill Ratliff | 1999-02 | 276 |
WALK-OFF WIZARDS
From April 9, 2021 to March 13, 2022, Tarleton's home victories were done in dramatic fashion. Tarleton has had 12 walk-off wins in that span. Seven of Tarleton's home wins this season came in the last at-bat. The 12 Tarleton walk-off wins in that time are:
| Walk-Off Home Wins since April 9, 2021 |
| April 9, 2021 – 14-5 (5) vs. CBU |
| April 10, 2021 – 3-2 vs. CBU |
| April 21, 2021 – 4-3 vs. UNT |
| April 23, 2021 – 2-1 vs. Seattle |
| May 1, 2021 – 11-1 (6) vs. GCU |
| Feb. 18, 2022 – 2-1 vs. Syracuse |
| Feb. 18, 2022 – 10-2 (6) vs. Prairie View A&M |
| March 1, 2022 – 5-3 vs. Texas Southern |
| March 1, 2022 – 10-2 (6) vs. Texas Southern |
| March 12, 2022 – 4-3 vs. Sam Houston |
| March 13, 2022 – 8-7 vs. Sam Houston |
| April 29, 2022 – 4-3 vs. Lamar |
NOTABLES
- HOME RUN QUEEN OF TARLETON: With a three-run home run against ACU on March 19, 2022, Georgia Capell hit her 59th career long ball to set the Tarleton State University record for most home runs in the school's diamond sport history (baseball and softball). She became the first Texan ever to reach 60 career home runs with a solo home run against Baylor on March 22.
- WINNING SEASON: Tarleton locked in its first winning season as a Division I program in just its second year of reclassification. The Texans secured a winning campaign with a win over SFA on April 22.
- EYEING 30 WINS: Tarleton is one win away from securing a 30-win season. It would be the 12th 30-win season in Tarleton history and the fourth in six seasons under head coach Mark Cumpian.
- DOUBLE-DIGIT HITS: The Texans have had 17 games with over 10 hits in a single game, the most in Tarleton's Division I era. The 16 hits against Sam Houston on April 9 was the most in a single game in Tarleton's Division I history. It's the most double-digit hit games for Tarleton in a season since 2018 (31).
- SCORING 10: The Texans have scored 10 or more runs nine times this season, topping their entire total of 10-run games from the 2021 season (6).
- LEADOFF ON LOCK: There is only one position in the Tarleton lineup that has not changed this season – the leadoff spot. Morgan Medford has started all 50 games in the top position of the Texan lineup.
- LET THE STICKS DO THE TALKIN': Tarleton is 27-5 this season when scoring three or more runs in a game. Within those games, the Texans are 17-3 when scoring six or more.
- WINNING IN THE CIRCLE: Tarleton is 26-11 this season when allowing five runs or fewer, including an 15-2 mark when allowing two runs or less.
- FAMILIAR FACE IN THE CIRCLE: Tristan Bridges has entered elite Tarleton pitching compay. The junior southpaw has moved into the top 10 in four categories that are a testament to her career durability. She enters the weekend among the top-10 pitchers in program history in pitching appearances (91), innings pitched (438.2), complete games (43), and games started (77).
- BRIDGES COMPLETES A SOLID TRIO: Since 2015, Tarleton has developed three of the top pitchers in the history of the program. The combination of Haley Freyman, Jordan Withrow, and Tristan Bridges have combined to start 262 of the 408 games (64%) Tarleton has played in those eight seasons.
- RECORD-SETTING RUN SCORER: Morgan Medford set a new single-game school record with five runs scored against Sam Houston on April 9.
- D1SOFTBALL.COM FEATURE STORY: Graham Hays wrote a feature story entitled "Division II or Division I, Tarleton State's Georgia Capell Defies Labels" which was featured by @NCAASoftball on twitter. The story talks of Capell's success at Tarleton. Check out the entire story, at D1Softball.com. To read the entire story, click here.
- LOVIN' THE LONG BALL: Tarleton is 10-1 this season when they hit two or more home runs in a game.
UP NEXT FOR TARLETON
Tarleton will await the decision of the NISC selection committee to see if their season will continue in Fort Collins, Colorado. The NISC selection will take place Sunday, May 15.
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