MIDWESTERN STATE (8-35, 7-21 LSC)
vs TEXAS WOMAN'S (10-33, 5-23 LSC)

Saturday, April 30 -- 1 and 3 p.m.
Mustangs Park
All-Time Series | MSU leads 33-23

WICHITA FALLS, Texas -- Midwestern State faces Texas Woman's in a Lone Star Conference doubleheader Saturday afternoon at Mustangs Park. First pitches for the season finale are set for 1 and 3 p.m.

The games are set for broadcast on the Lone Star Conference Digital Network at MSUMustangs.com/streaming.

All video streams on the LSC Digital Network are also available on Over-The-Top (OTT) apps on Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV and Roku by searching "LSC Digital Network."

GOING TO THE GAME? All fans at Mustangs Park must purchase tickets online, then present the QR code to can at the gate for admittance. No walk-up sales are available. Purchase your tickets at www.msumustangs.com/tickets.

SENIOR DAY

Midwestern State honors seniors Maddy Holder, Daylan Inkman, Ashley Turner and Kathryn Wells in a ceremony following the conclusion of the season second game of Saturday's doubleheader against Texas Woman's.

LSC POSTSEASON PICTURE

The top 10 teams in the Lone Star Conference standings advance to the league's postseason tournament set for May 5-7 at the site of the regular season champion. Midwestern State (7-21) heads into the weekend 14th in the standings, but are two games out of 10th place and remain mathematically alive. To make the postseason for the first time since 2016, the Mustangs must first sweep TWU then receive help. One win by either St. Edward's (vs. St. Mary's) or Texas A&M International (vs. Texas A&M-Kingsville) eliminates MSU. Two wins by either UT Permian Basin (vs. Western New Mexico) or Eastern New Mexico (vs. West Texas A&M) also eliminates the Mustangs. If MSU sweeps TWU and St. Edward's, Texas A&M International, UT Permian Basin and Eastern New Mexico all lose two games, then a three-way tie for 10th results with MSU, SEU and TAMIU. The Mustangs hold the tiebreaker advantage in that scenario. All other scenarios possess multiple ties at numerous places in the standings.

BY THE NUMBERS

323 |  Number of games played by Midwestern State seniors Ashley Turner (146), Daylan Inkman (108), Maddy Holder (39) and Kathryn Wells (30).

157 |  Senior Ashley Turner needs six hits to match Lauren Craig's 157 hits for 15th on Midwestern State's all-time list.

18 |  Junior Bailey Brenek boasts a team-high 18 multiple-hit games. She has two hits in three of her last six games.

13 |  Midwestern State's has won two of its 13 games this season decided by one run.

12 |  Sophomore Hanna Hetherington's 12 home runs rank fifth in the Lone Star Conference and 38th in NCAA Division II. The 12 homers are tied for the 12th most in a single season in program history and are the most since Carli Woolsey hit 13 homers in 2019.

11 |  Texas Woman's has been shutout a Lone Star Conference high 11 times this season, while Midwestern State not recorded a shutout since Jacey Henry beat Southwestern Oklahoma State 8-0 in five innings on Feb. 15, 2020 -- a span of 97 games.

11 |  Eleven of Midwestern State's 43 games have been against teams currently ranked in the top seven of this week's National Fast-pitch Coaches' Association Top 25. That includes two games against No. 1 UT Tyler, three games against No. 3 Texas A&M-Kingsville, three games against No. 4 Central Oklahoma, one game against No. 6 Rogers State and two against No. 7 Angelo State.

6 |  Midwestern State has scored first in six of its eight wins this season.

4 |  Freshman Mikey Dominguez' four triples rank fifth in the Lone Star Conference and 55th in NCAA Division II. Of Dominguez' 32 hits this season, 13 have been for extra bases also including three doubles and six home runs.

AT THE HELM

HEAD COACH BRITTANIE TALLEY is in her first season at the helm of the Midwestern State program. Talley amassed a 129-75 record (.632) over the past five seasons at Vernon College including a 42-12 run while leading Chaps to the 2021 NJCAA regional tournament. That came on the heels of a 21-1 start in 2020 before the season was cut short by the pandemic. Prior to Vernon College, Talley played a role in a successful three-year run at Alabama State helping the Lady Hornets to a Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) title and a trip to the NCAA Division I regionals in 2016. She competed professionally for the Skovde Saints winning the Swedish championship as the league's pitcher of the year in 2011. She enjoyed a standout collegiate career at Jackson State where she earned second-team All-SWAC honors earning 27 career wins while posting seven shutouts. She also hit .320 in 172 career at bats.

ABOUT THE PIONEERS

Texas Woman's has dropped 17 of their last 18 games heading into the final weekend of the regular season. The Pioneers are 15th in the Lone Star Conference standings with a 5-23 league record. Senior Paige Tomayo leads TWU hitting .352 with six doubles, a triple and three home runs while driving in 14 runs. Freshmen Lily Wilson (.303) and Kristin Rodriguez (.300) also boast .300 batting averages for the Pioneers, while freshman Nya Brown is TWU's top threat on the base paths with 27 stolen bases. 

ABOUT THE SERIES

Midwestern State and Texas Woman's meet for the 56th and 57th times on the diamond Saturday afternoon at Mustangs Park. MSU leads the all-time series which dates back to the 2004 season by a 33-23 margin. The Mustangs have won five of the last six meetings including a doubleheader sweep of the Pioneers in last season's finale in Denton. Midwestern State is 12-6 all-time against TWU in Wichita Falls.

UP NEXT

If Midwestern State rises to 10th in the Lone Star Conference standings, the Mustangs move on to the first round of the LSC Postseason Tournament at the site of the regular season. MSU would play the No. 3 seed on Thursday, May 5.