{"id":5178,"date":"2026-05-17T13:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/on-biggest-stage-jenissa-conway-comes-up-huge-for-michigan\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T13:49:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T13:49:14","slug":"on-biggest-stage-jenissa-conway-comes-up-huge-for-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/on-biggest-stage-jenissa-conway-comes-up-huge-for-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"On biggest stage, Jenissa Conway comes up huge for Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>NORMAN, OK \u2014 In her last two games before Saturday, junior center fielder Jenissa Conway went a combined 0-for-8. Against Kansas on Saturday, she went 3-for-4 and hit the game-winning home run in an elimination game.<\/p>\n<p>Conway has been no stranger to big moments, hitting a walkoff three-run homer to beat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/sports\/michigan-walks-it-off-against-ohio-state-in-back-and-forth-game-8-7\/\">Ohio State<\/a> during the regular season and robbing a home run of the same type against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/sports\/softball\/michigan-three-peat-hopes-extinguished-facing-dominant-nebraska-ace-4-2\/\">Nebraska<\/a> in the Big Ten Tournament. But on Friday, she and the rest of the Michigan softball team were silent at the plate. And against Nebraska in the postseason, she was unable to produce offensively. Saturday, you wouldn\u2019t have been able to tell.<\/p>\n<p>To open the day, the Wolverines faced Binghamton in a do-or-die game. And while Conway went just 1-for-3 that game, her hit was a big one. She notched a triple in the bottom of the fifth inning that would later be scored.<\/p>\n<p>Conway only built upon this performance in the second game.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Facing the Jayhawks later that same day, Michigan and Kansas were locked in a slugfest that resulted in 22 total runs. Conway was a large part of the Wolverines\u2019 12, reaching base three times and batting in four runners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Conway) totally recognized today that today it was Michigan\u2019s at bat,\u201d Wolverines coach Bonnie Tholl said. \u201cShe was the one who actually carried the stick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Conway began her hot streak with a single down the right field line in the first inning, scoring sophomore right fielder Lauren Putz. With smart base running, Conway reached home herself, taking Michigan\u2019s first lead of the game \u2014 something she would have to do once more later.<\/p>\n<p>A triple came for Conway in the bottom of the second inning, where her undeniable speed sent her almost fully around the bases. She scored two batters later, bringing the Wolverines\u2019 lead to five with eight runs total \u2014 eight more than they scored all game on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>But Conway\u2019s big at-bat was yet to come. After Michigan extended that lead, the Jayhawks came crawling back, pushing ahead in the sixth inning. It was just their second lead of the day, after scoring in the top of the first and trailing the rest of the game. In the bottom of the sixth inning, with time winding down, the Wolverines needed a spark.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-2    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>And Conway was the match.<\/p>\n<p>With two runners on and down by one, Conway stepped up to the plate with an opportunity to save Michigan\u2019s postseason hopes. Facing a 1-2 count, Conway smashed the fourth pitch she saw, sending the ball sailing 224 feet and out of the park. While this didn\u2019t walk it off for the Wolverines, it was the go-ahead score that eventually proved to be the last of the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(The Kansas pitcher) had a really good rise ball,\u201d Conway said. \u201cAnd I knew in my last at bat, I was like, \u2018I don\u2019t care what I do, just get on top, I\u2019m just trying to get it on the ground up or pull it so I can move the runner,\u2019 and that didn\u2019t happen, but it went over the fence, and I\u2019m okay with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The whole Michigan team \u2014 Conway included \u2014 was more than okay with it, as that homer sent the Wolverines to the next round. Michigan\u2019s hot bats pushed the Wolverines over Kansas in their rematch \u2014 and none were hotter than Conway\u2019s.<\/p>\n<aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related articles<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NORMAN, OK \u2014 In her last two games before Saturday, junior center fielder Jenissa Conway went a combined 0-for-8. Against Kansas on Saturday, she went 3-for-4 and hit the game-winning home run in an elimination game. Conway has been no stranger to big moments, hitting a walkoff three-run homer to beat Ohio State during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[4631,1323,909,1322,222,813],"class_list":{"0":"post-5178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-biggest","9":"tag-conway","10":"tag-huge","11":"tag-jenissa","12":"tag-michigan","13":"tag-stage"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5180,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions\/5180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}