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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 – Oct. 11, 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 Heads to Austin for Betsy Rawls Invite<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">Bears have finished fourth in all three tournaments this season</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="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">WACO, Texas –
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Baylor women’s golf is headed to Austin to play in the 46<sup>th</sup> annual Betsy Rawls Invitational, which runs Saturday and Sunday at UT Golf Club.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">BU is competing at the tournament for a 14<sup>th</sup> time and fourth consecutive season. Baylor’s third-place finish at last season’s Betsy Rawls Invite tied the best in program
history, matching the results from 2007 and 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Bears will take on a 15-team field featuring No. 4 Texas, No. 6 Kent State, No. 21 Denver, No. 22 Oklahoma State, No. 29 Baylor, No. 46 Maryland, North Texas, TCU, Colorado,
Miami, New Mexico, Yale, UNLV, Texas State and SMU.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Teams will play 36 holes on Saturday and a final 18 holes on Sunday. Saturday’s first round is an 8:30 a.m. CT shotgun start with Baylor paired with North Texas and Colorado
starting on the fourth through seventh holes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Baylor’s lineup is led by junior Gurleen Kaur in the No. 1 spot. She’s followed by junior Diane Baillieux, graduate transfer Elodie Chapelet and seniors Erica Chiang and Fiona
Liddell. Chiang and Liddell will tee off from No. 7, while Kaur, Baillieux and Liddell will start from the fourth, fifth and sixth tees, respectively.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Kaur leads the Bears with a 71.56 stroke average and five rounds at par or better through nine rounds played. Chapelet is next at 72.22, followed by Liddell at 73.33 and Baillieux
at 73.44. Chiang has played only three rounds this season with a 71.67 stroke average.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Kaur has recorded a pair of third place individual finishes, while Chapelet has earned two top-10s. Liddell and Baillieux also have top-10 finishes, giving BU six individual
top-10s through three tournaments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">BU is coming off a fourth-place finish at the Schooner Fall Classic, which was the Bears’ third consecutive fourth-place result to open the 2019-20 season. Following the Betsy
Rawls Invite, BU wraps up its fall season with a trip to the Bahamas to play in the White Sands Invitational, Oct. 28-30 at Ocean Club. The spring season starts Feb. 9 with the SMU Spring Invite at Dallas Athletic Club.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Live scoring for the Betsy Rawls Invitational is available at www.Golfstat.com. Follow @BaylorWGolf Twitter, Instagram and Facebook for updates throughout the season.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">BETSY RAWLS INVITATIONAL FIELD (Golfweek Ranking as of 10/9/19)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Texas (No. 4)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Kent State (No. 6)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Denver (No. 21)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Oklahoma State (No. 22)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Baylor (No. 29)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Maryland (No. 46)<br>
North Texas (No. 51)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">TCU (No. 52)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Colorado (No. 56)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Miami (No. 60)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">New Mexico (No. 67)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Yale (No. 75)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">UNLV (No. 99)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Texas State (No. 101)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">SMU (No. 125)<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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