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Series Notes: Cowgirls Embark on Longest Road Trip of Season
March 07, 2019 | Cowgirl Softball
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STILLWATER – The No. 19 Oklahoma State softball team heads on its longest road trip of the season, as the Cowgirls make the 1,800-mile journey to Eugene, Oregon, to face the 24th-ranked Ducks in a three-game set beginning Friday, March 8. It will be the first time that the two historic programs, who have faced each other 18 times previously, will meet at a non-neutral site.
In the Rankings
Oklahoma State is ranked in both national polls this week, sitting at No. 19 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 16 of the last 18 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 incites 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 40-26 in games decided by two runs or less since the start of the 2016 season.
- Oklahoma State is 39-6 during Kenny Gajewski's tenure when hitting at least two home runs.
- Oklahoma State starting pitchers have gone at least five innings in 15 of the Cowgirls' last 19 games.
- Madi Sue Montgomery has started 202 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 and Kiley Naomi have all drawn at least one walk in 11 of 20 games so far during the 2019 campaign. Rylee Bayless has done so on 14 occasions.
- Rylee Bayless has drawn at least one walk in 27 of her last 40 games.
- Taylor Lynch has logged at least one hit in 62 of her last 80 games played, including in 16 of her last 22.
- Kiley Naomi has reached base safely in every game but two so far this season.
- Lynch has recorded a hit in 14 of 19 contests, while Naomi has recorded a hit in 13 of 20 thus far.
- Chyenne Factor has recorded a hit in four of five games she has started this season, and in six of her last seven games overall.
- Samantha Show has recorded a hit in 15 of 20 games this season and posted four multi-hit outings.
- Samantha Show has pitched at least six innings in five of her eight 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 four times in her last 40 appearances.
STILLWATER – The No. 19 Oklahoma State softball team heads on its longest road trip of the season, as the Cowgirls make the 1,800-mile journey to Eugene, Oregon, to face the 24th-ranked Ducks in a three-game set beginning Friday, March 8. It will be the first time that the two historic programs, who have faced each other 18 times previously, will meet at a non-neutral site.
In the Rankings
Oklahoma State is ranked in both national polls this week, sitting at No. 19 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 16 of the last 18 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 incites 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 40-26 in games decided by two runs or less since the start of the 2016 season.
- Oklahoma State is 39-6 during Kenny Gajewski's tenure when hitting at least two home runs.
- Oklahoma State starting pitchers have gone at least five innings in 15 of the Cowgirls' last 19 games.
- Madi Sue Montgomery has started 202 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 and Kiley Naomi have all drawn at least one walk in 11 of 20 games so far during the 2019 campaign. Rylee Bayless has done so on 14 occasions.
- Rylee Bayless has drawn at least one walk in 27 of her last 40 games.
- Taylor Lynch has logged at least one hit in 62 of her last 80 games played, including in 16 of her last 22.
- Kiley Naomi has reached base safely in every game but two so far this season.
- Lynch has recorded a hit in 14 of 19 contests, while Naomi has recorded a hit in 13 of 20 thus far.
- Chyenne Factor has recorded a hit in four of five games she has started this season, and in six of her last seven games overall.
- Samantha Show has recorded a hit in 15 of 20 games this season and posted four multi-hit outings.
- Samantha Show has pitched at least six innings in five of her eight 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 four times in her last 40 appearances.
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