Kansas to meet Baylor at the tournament opener Big 12

Oklahoma City, Okla. – The Kansas Softball Team will travel to Oklahoma City to take part in the OGE Energy Field in Devon Park on Wednesday, May 7th, 66 Big 12 Softball Championship 2025. Kansas enters the tournament as No. 9 and will compete against Baylor No. 8 in the opening round.

“This is the season in which everything can happen. You have to leave everything on the field to get ahead,” said head coach Jennifer Mcfall. “The most important thing is that we only have to believe that we can win.”

After completing the conference season, Texas Tech (42-12) secured the top overall razor with a record of 20: 4. The sowing are rounded off: No. 2 Arizona, State of Iowa, state of Oklahoma, state of Arizona, No. 6 BYU, No. 7 UCF, No. 8 Baylor, No. 9 Kansas, No. 10 Utah and No. 11 Houston.

The Jayhawks (22-27) have a competition season. They scored ten victories before Kansas was exposed to a challenging Big 12 slate and ended with a 6:18 record. Despite some close losses and difficult series against the opponents of the rankings, the Jayhaw's lightning showed lightning of their potential and won series victories against Arizona State, Iowa State, UCF and Oklahoma State. The team wants to use their experience and depth to take a run in the tournament.

In a circle, senior Katie Brooks the Kansa's pitching employees led 15 starts, 85.1 Innerings and eight wins. She holds a 4.59 ERA and recorded 44 strikes. senior Olivia Bruno Was the most efficient arm in the rotation and led the team in ERA (2.88), complete games (5) and strike (47) over 18 appearances and 73.0 Innerings.

The rest of the pitching staff includes junior Lizzy Ludwig and newcomers Kaelee Washington And Kennedy Diggs. Ludwig performed in 18 games and has a 4.42 ERA with three complete games. Washington leads the team into appearances (24) and holds an ERA of 4.24 with 40 strikes.

On the plate, Kansa's three players show over 0.300: Junior Presley LimbauGH (.367), senior Hailey Crip (.329) and junior Olivia Bruno (.326). Limbaugh heads the team in hits (58), doubles (10), triple (2) and runs, which have been achieved (36), and at the same time pays 13 RBIs. Crip has recorded 46 hits and 10 Home Runs. Bruno leads the team in Rbis (40) and Homeruns (12) while adding 44 goals and 24 runs. Junior Aynslee Linduff also contributed consistently, second in the order and a total of 46 hits and 18 RBIs.

How to follow
Kansas will take the field at 2:30 p.m. CT. The Big 12 tournament is streamed live on ESPN+. Fans can follow live updates on the official account Kansas Softball X (Twitter) and access live statistics for every competition.