News release from Texas A&M Athletics:
The No. 6 seed Texas A&M softball team opens SEC Tournament play against No. 14 seed Auburn Wednesday at 10 a.m. at John Cropp Stadium.
Wednesday’s opener will air on SEC Network with Kevin Brown (play-by-play) and Texas A&M Hall of Famer Amanda Scarborough (analyst) on the call, while Alyssa Lang reports from the field. Fans can also listen on the 12th Man Mobile app or locally on Willy 1550 AM, with Matt Simon calling the action in his 12th season as the voice of Texas A&M softball.
MY-OH-MYA
Mya Perez is the only Division I player to have reached base in every game this season and carries a 55-game on-base streak dating to 2025. The junior led the SEC during conference play with a .611 on-base percentage and 31 walks. In 24 league games, she slashed .352/.611/.685 with eight of her 19 hits going for extra bases, including five home runs and three doubles, while adding 17 RBI and 14 runs scored. Perez was recently named a USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year Top 25 finalist.
Ol’ RELIABLE
Kennedy Powell has been a fixture at the hot corner, starting every game this season at third base. Since joining the Aggies in 2024, she has appeared in 169 games with 168 starts. Her 154 career runs in the Maroon & White rank eighth in program history.
She led the SEC during conference play with 36 hits and nine doubles, setting Texas A&M single-season SEC records in both categories. Nationally, her 76 hits rank 19th and are second most among SEC players.
Over the team’s last 10 games, Powell is batting .359 (14-for-39) with three doubles, one home run, five runs scored and four RBI. She was the lone Aggie to record multiple hits in each game of the series sweep at Ole Miss and tallied at least one hit in every game of the South Carolina series. Powell ranks second on the team with 13 two-out RBI and is batting .390 (16-for-41) with two outs.
OFFENSIVE PROWESS
The Aggies have homered in 41 of 52 games this season, including multiple home runs in 20 contests. The Maroon & White have recorded at least one extra-base hit in all but three games this season.
Since 2023, Texas A&M has been held without an extra-base hit just 20 times, which included a 68-game streak with at least one extra-base hit that was snapped earlier this season. The Aggies have scored 350-plus runs in three consecutive seasons for the first time in program history.
Texas A&M has scored 10 or more runs in 13 games this season and is undefeated in those contests. The Aggies have also recorded double-digit hits and runs in 11 games. Texas A&M is 20-3 when scoring in the first inning and is batting .471 in leadoff situations. The Maroon & White have scored 54% of their runs this season (194 of 357) in the first three innings.
AUBURN SERIES HISTORY
Texas A&M (36-16, 16-8 SEC) has won each of the last six meetings against Auburn (26-27, 4-20 SEC), including sweeps on the road in 2025 and at home in 2024.
Wednesday’s matchup marks the first neutral-site meeting between the two programs since 2001, when the Aggies defeated the Tigers, 4-3, in Santa Barbara, California. Texas A&M also has a connection to Auburn through co-head coach Chris Malveaux, a member of Auburn’s 2001 graduating class.
LAST TIME IN THE SEC TOURNAMENT
The Aggies were declared SEC Tournament co-champions a season ago after the championship game against Oklahoma was canceled due to inclement weather. Texas A&M set SEC Tournament records for batting average (.418), runs scored (26) and RBI (25) while playing just two games.
KK Dement tied an SEC Tournament record with nine RBI, batting 3-for-7 with two home runs, one double and three runs scored, while posting a 1.429 slugging percentage.
Texas A&M’s run-rule victory over Texas marked just the third semifinal mercy-rule win in SEC Tournament history and the first since 2018. The 14-2 victory also stands as the largest margin of victory in SEC Tournament history.
