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<h1 align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – March 23, 2019<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<h1 align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;text-decoration:none">Baylor Women’s Golf Tied for Ninth at Evans Derby<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
<h2 align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-style:normal">Gurleen Kaur tied for individual lead after shooting 4-under 68</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-style:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For more information contact:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">David Kaye, 254-709-5147,
</span><a href="mailto:David_Kaye@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">David_Kaye@baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">THE RUNDOWN <br>
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">OPELIKLA, Ala. – </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Baylor women’s golf is tied for ninth place after shooting 8-over-par 296 in Saturday’s first round of the Evans Derby Experience at Saugahatchee Country
Club in Opelika, Ala. Sophomore Gurleen Kaur shot 4-under 68 to tie for the individual lead with 36 holes remaining.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">No. 39 Baylor (+8) is tied with No. 9 South Carolina (+8) and ahead of No. 18 Alabama (+13), No. 36 Louisville (+14), No. 32 Clemson (+17) and No. 41 Ole Miss (+17).
The Bears trail No. 8 Arkansas (-3), No. 7 Florida (E), No. 2 Texas (+2), No. 13 Auburn (+2), No. 14 Kent State (+4), No. 11 Florida State (+5), No. 3 Duke (+5) and No. 45 Mississippi State (+6). All 14 teams in the field are ranked among the nation’s top-45
teams in the Golfstat rankings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Kaur (-4) is tied with Florida’s Clara Manzalini (-4) atop the leaderboard in the 87-player field. She began on the 10<sup>th</sup> tee and made the turn at 3-under after
a birdie on No. 13 and an eagle on No. 15. Kaur made birdie on her 10<sup>th</sup> and 14<sup>th</sup> holes around a bogey on her 12<sup>th</sup> hole, and she finished with four consecutive pars to post the 4-under 68.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Maria Vesga was 3-over across her first three holes, but she posted 13 pars and two birdies the rest of the way to card 1-over 73, which has her tied for 21<sup>st</sup>
place. Erica Chiang shot 4-over 76 to tie for 50<sup>th</sup> place, and Diane Baillieux recorded Baylor’s final counting score at 7-over 79 to tie for 67<sup>th</sup> place. Emma Bradley is tie for 73<sup>rd</sup> place at 8-over 80, and Amelia McKee, who
is competing as an individual, is tied for 42<sup>nd</sup> place at 3-over 75. McKee made three consecutive birdies on her sixth, seventh and eighth holes of the day to move to 2-under through eight holes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">HIGHLIGHTS</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Baylor is tied for third in the 14-team field in par-5 scoring at 2-over 3.10, seventh in par-5 scoring at 1-under 4.95 and 11<sup>th</sup> in par-4 scoring at 15-over 4.30.</span><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.25pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;layout-grid-mode:char">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.25pt">Kaur made the only eagle of the day out of 87 rounds played.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;layout-grid-mode:char">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.25pt">Baylor’s 62 pars are tied for second-most in the field.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;layout-grid-mode:char">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.25pt">Vesga is tied for the tournament lead in par-4 scoring at 1-under 3.90, while Kaur is tied for sixth at even-par 4.00.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;layout-grid-mode:char">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.25pt">Kaur is tied for the tournament lead in par-5 scoring at 3-under 4.25 and tied for third in the field in par-3 scoring at 1-under 2.75.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;layout-grid-mode:char">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.25pt">Baillieux is tied for third in the field with a 1-under, 2.75 par-3 scoring average.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;layout-grid-mode:char">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.25pt">McKee is tied for 15<sup>th</sup> in par-5 scoring at 1-under 4.75 and tied for 14<sup>th</sup> in par-5 scoring at even-par 3.00.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;layout-grid-mode:char">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.25pt">Vesga, Kaur, Baillieux and Chiang are all tied for 14<sup>th</sup> in the field with 13 pars.<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">STAT OF THE DAY </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt"><br>
1 – Kaur made the tournament’s only eagle in the first round. She needed three strokes on the 491-yard, par-5 15<sup>th</sup> hole. Kaur’s eagle was her first of the season and the third by a BU player this year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Sunday’s second round is scheduled for tee times beginning at 8:30 a.m. CT. Baylor players will start on the 10<sup>th</sup> tee in pairings with golfers from Alabama and Louisville, with Bradley up first at 8:30 a.m. She’ll be followed in 10-minute intervals
by Baillieux, Chiang, Vesga and Kaur, respectively. McKee will tee off at 10 a.m. Live scoring is available at www.golfstat.com. Follow @BaylorWGolf on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook for updates throughout the season.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">www.BaylorBears.com</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#385623">David Kaye</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#385623">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">| Assistant AD for Communications<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Department of Athletics | Baylor University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">C: 254-709-5147<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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