SAN MARCOS, Texas – Texas State softball was narrowly stopped by Baylor after an eighth-inning homerun would seal the game for the Bears. The Bobcats would fall 3-2 at the end of eight innings to put them at 20-14-1 on the season.
 
"Tonight was a much better ball game for us," said Head Coach Ricci Woodard. "We've lost a ton of one-run ball games but tonight's the group that I like right there. They came out fired up, the came out and swung the bats well. McCann pitched well. [Baylor] just out-executed us when it came down to it at the end of the game."
 
Tori McCann started in the circle for the Bobcats, going three up and three out in the first inning. Ciara Trahan had the second out with a highlight-reel diving catch in left field. The Bobcats were able to get two hits off on their first turn up to bat but were unable to find a run out of them.
 
Baylor's Emily Hott put a run on the board for the Bears in the second inning. The next inning up, the Bears went three up and three out once again.
 
"McCann threw a great game and kept us in it the whole time," Woodard said. "To throw that many innings when she hasn't been, I thought she did a great job."
 
McCann would throw eight-innings in the game, the first time in her career she's gone greater than seven innings.
 
In the third inning, Sara Vanderford hit a single that allowed Ciara Trahan to equalize the game, drawing it 1-1 in the third inning.
 
McCann allowed just one hit that ended up being the demise of the Bears in the fourth inning when Megan Kelnar threw a laser to Hannah Earls who caught Emily Hott stealing at second base.
 
The Bobcats were able to hold the Bears three-hit fifth inning scoreless then came up to bat and took the lead. Once again Trahan would score a run, this time off Piper Randolph's single.
 
Neither team was able to find a run until the top of the 7^th when the Bears would once again equalize the game. In regulation innings the Bobcats were unable to find another run to win the game and it would take an extra-inning to decide it.
 
Baylor's second batter up hit a homerun to center field that would ultimately be the deciding run in the game. The Bobcats went three up and three out in the bottom of the inning to narrowly lose to the Bears. 
 
Woodard was impressed with her team's performance despite the one-run loss.
 
"If you look at how we've been playing," she said. "Even the game we won on Saturday, I don't feel like that was as good of a ball game as what we just played. I feel like if we keep putting the pieces together it'll fall, at some point, our way."
 
Next up the Bobcats will travel to Boone, NC for a return to conference play. The team will face App State in a three-game series beginning on March 31 at 4 p.m. (CT). All games of the series will be streamed on ESPN+.