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Tournament Notes: OSU Set for 20th Season at Cowgirl Stadium
February 27, 2019 | Cowgirl Softball
PDF Notes - OSU/Tulsa Invitaitonal
STILLWATER – The Oklahoma State softball team hosts its first action at Cowgirl Stadium this week, as the Cowgirls welcome Seattle, Syracuse, McNeese State and Northern Iowa to the corner of Duck and McElroy as part of the OSU/Tulsa Invitational. The tournament will mark the beginning of the 20th season of play at Cowgirl Stadium, which opened April 5, 2000, against OSU's Bedlam-rival Oklahoma.
In the Rankings
Oklahoma State is ranked in both national polls this week, sitting at No. 21 in the USA Today/NFCA Coaches Poll and at No. 18 in the ESPN.com/USA Softball Top 25 this week. The Cowgirls have been ranked in at least one of the national polls for 15 of the last 17 weeks, peaking as high as No. 15 and falling out of the top 25 only twice.
Oklahoma State From a Distance
Slowly, but surely, the Oklahoma State softball program has returned to the forefront of college softball under fourth-year head coach Kenny Gajewski, and in 2019, the Cowgirls will be hoping to reclaim their perch among the sport's elite teams.
Gajewski has assembled a roster of 22 star student-athletes that can go toe-to-toe with any team in the country on any given field and on any given night. Through grueling fall camp, winter workouts and beyond, the Cowgirls have seen and heard about the potential this year's team possesses, but now is their chance to show that Oklahoma State does more than talk the talk.
In Taylor Lynch and Madi Sue Montgomery, Oklahoma State fields two strong pillars to anchor the program. As the only players to be active on the roster through Gajewski's first four years in Stillwater, the Texas tandem stands as a driving force for whatever success lays ahead for OSU. Beside them, the Cowgirls boast talented names like returning senior Rylee Bayless, sophomore captain Sydney Pennington, rising pitcher Logan Simunek and a former Texas A&M two-way standout in Samantha Show.
For the first time under Gajewski, Oklahoma State has a lineup that will incite fear in the opposition at every spot, and a pitching staff that contains five arms, each with a dynamic skillset to send opposing hitters back to the bench in a hurry. The Cowgirls, for all of the flash and hype that has been heaped upon the 2019 squad, have remained focused on their goal – Oklahoma City.
Notable Streaks and Trends
- OSU is 39-26 in games decided by two runs or less since the start of the 2016 season.
- Oklahoma State has won 50 of its 79 (.633 win pct) neutral-site invitational games during Kenny
Gajewski's tenure as head coach.
- Oklahoma State is 36-6 during Kenny Gajewski's tenure when hitting at least two home runs.
- Oklahoma State starting pitchers have gone at least five innings in 11 of the Cowgirls' last 14 games.
- Madi Sue Montgomery has started 197 consecutive games, giving her a chance to set the OSU records for most games played, most games started and most consecutive games started in 2019.
- Madi Sue Montgomery, Kiley Naomi and Rylee Bayless have all drawn at least one walk in nine of 15 games so far during the 2019 campaign.
- Taylor Lynch has logged at least one hit in 60 of her last 76 games played, including in 14 of her last 18.
- Kiley Naomi has reached base safely in every game but one so far this season.
- Lynch has recorded a hit in 11 of 15 contests, while Naomi has recorded a hit in 10 of 15 thus far.
- Rylee Bayless has drawn at least one walk in 23 of her last 35 games.
- Samantha Show has recorded a hit in 12 of 15 games this season and posted three multi-hit outings.
- Samantha Show has pitched at least six innings in five of her six starts in 2019.
- Logan Simunek has starred against the best competition, allowing only four earned runs in 22.0 innings against top-10 ranked opposition since the start of the 2018 season.
- Samantha Clakley has walked more than two batters only three times in her last 37 appearances.
STILLWATER – The Oklahoma State softball team hosts its first action at Cowgirl Stadium this week, as the Cowgirls welcome Seattle, Syracuse, McNeese State and Northern Iowa to the corner of Duck and McElroy as part of the OSU/Tulsa Invitational. The tournament will mark the beginning of the 20th season of play at Cowgirl Stadium, which opened April 5, 2000, against OSU's Bedlam-rival Oklahoma.
In the Rankings
Oklahoma State is ranked in both national polls this week, sitting at No. 21 in the USA Today/NFCA Coaches Poll and at No. 18 in the ESPN.com/USA Softball Top 25 this week. The Cowgirls have been ranked in at least one of the national polls for 15 of the last 17 weeks, peaking as high as No. 15 and falling out of the top 25 only twice.
Oklahoma State From a Distance
Slowly, but surely, the Oklahoma State softball program has returned to the forefront of college softball under fourth-year head coach Kenny Gajewski, and in 2019, the Cowgirls will be hoping to reclaim their perch among the sport's elite teams.
Gajewski has assembled a roster of 22 star student-athletes that can go toe-to-toe with any team in the country on any given field and on any given night. Through grueling fall camp, winter workouts and beyond, the Cowgirls have seen and heard about the potential this year's team possesses, but now is their chance to show that Oklahoma State does more than talk the talk.
In Taylor Lynch and Madi Sue Montgomery, Oklahoma State fields two strong pillars to anchor the program. As the only players to be active on the roster through Gajewski's first four years in Stillwater, the Texas tandem stands as a driving force for whatever success lays ahead for OSU. Beside them, the Cowgirls boast talented names like returning senior Rylee Bayless, sophomore captain Sydney Pennington, rising pitcher Logan Simunek and a former Texas A&M two-way standout in Samantha Show.
For the first time under Gajewski, Oklahoma State has a lineup that will incite fear in the opposition at every spot, and a pitching staff that contains five arms, each with a dynamic skillset to send opposing hitters back to the bench in a hurry. The Cowgirls, for all of the flash and hype that has been heaped upon the 2019 squad, have remained focused on their goal – Oklahoma City.
Notable Streaks and Trends
- OSU is 39-26 in games decided by two runs or less since the start of the 2016 season.
- Oklahoma State has won 50 of its 79 (.633 win pct) neutral-site invitational games during Kenny
Gajewski's tenure as head coach.
- Oklahoma State is 36-6 during Kenny Gajewski's tenure when hitting at least two home runs.
- Oklahoma State starting pitchers have gone at least five innings in 11 of the Cowgirls' last 14 games.
- Madi Sue Montgomery has started 197 consecutive games, giving her a chance to set the OSU records for most games played, most games started and most consecutive games started in 2019.
- Madi Sue Montgomery, Kiley Naomi and Rylee Bayless have all drawn at least one walk in nine of 15 games so far during the 2019 campaign.
- Taylor Lynch has logged at least one hit in 60 of her last 76 games played, including in 14 of her last 18.
- Kiley Naomi has reached base safely in every game but one so far this season.
- Lynch has recorded a hit in 11 of 15 contests, while Naomi has recorded a hit in 10 of 15 thus far.
- Rylee Bayless has drawn at least one walk in 23 of her last 35 games.
- Samantha Show has recorded a hit in 12 of 15 games this season and posted three multi-hit outings.
- Samantha Show has pitched at least six innings in five of her six starts in 2019.
- Logan Simunek has starred against the best competition, allowing only four earned runs in 22.0 innings against top-10 ranked opposition since the start of the 2018 season.
- Samantha Clakley has walked more than two batters only three times in her last 37 appearances.
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