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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Complete results and statistics attached.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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 6, 2020<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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 Third at Darius Rucker Intercollegiate<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">Four Bears among top-25 individually after first round</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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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">HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. – </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Baylor women’s golf is tied for third place after shooting 10-over-par 294 in Friday’s first round of the ninth-annual Darius Rucker Intercollegiate.
The Bears are seven shots back of the lead in a 17-team field comprised entirely of top-40 ranked teams.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">No. 20 Baylor (+10) trails only No. 7 Wake Forest (+3) and No. 14 UCLA (+8). The Bears are tied with No. 1 Texas (+10) and No. 19 Auburn (+10) and lead No. 36 North Carolina
(+12), No. 12 LSU (+15), No. 6 Duke (+15), No. 18 Arkansas (+16), No. 22 Vanderbilt (+18), No. 4 South Carolina (+19), No. 33 Furman (+19), No. 21 Florida State (+20), No. 34 Virginia (+24), No. 13 Alabama (+27), No. 40 Northwestern (+27) and No. 28 Georgia
(+27).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Four Bears are among the top-25 individuals after the first round. Elodie Chapelet and Gurleen Kaur are tied for 15<sup>th</sup> place after shooting matching rounds
of 2-over 73, while Diane Baillieux and Erica Chiang are tied for 21<sup>st</sup> place at 3-over 74. Hannah Karg is tied for 82<sup>nd</sup> place at 10-over 81.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Bears started on the back-9 and got off to a tough start with the four counting scores combining to shoot 4-over on No. 10. Those four players combined for one birdie
over the first nine holes and took the at 11-over par, but they turned it around with a 1-under combined total on the front-9. Chiang and Baillieux made two birdies apiece, Kaur added one birdie with eight pars and Chapelet finished her round with 11 consecutive
pars. Baillieux and Kaur carded 1-under on the front-9, while Chapelet shot even-par and Chiang posted 1-over.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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;letter-spacing:.25pt">Baylor is tied for the tournament lead in par-5 scoring at 1-under 4.93, ranks third in par-3 scoring at 1-over 3.05 and tied for 11<sup>th</sup> in par-4 scoring at 20-over
4.36.<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">Baylor led the tournament with 59 pars in the first round and tied for 10<sup>th</sup> with seven birdies.<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">Chiang is tied for second in the 90-player field in par-3 scoring at 1-under 2.75, while Baillieux and Chapelet are tied for 13<sup>th</sup> 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">Kaur is tied for fourth in par-5 scoring at 1-under 4.67, while Baillieux, Karg, Chapelet and Chiang are tied for 15<sup>th</sup> at even-par 5.00.
<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 and Chapelet are tied for 18<sup>th</sup> in par-4 scoring at 2-over 4.18.<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">Chapelet leads the tournament with 16 pars across 18 holes, while Kaur is tied for second with 15 pars.<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">Chiang is tied for eighth in the tournament with three birdies.<br>
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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-under – Baylor’s four counting scores combined to shoot 1-under over their final nine holes after taking the turn at 11-over. After teeing off on the back-9, Chapelet and Kaur combined for 17 pars and one birdie on the front-9, while Baillieux finished with
birdies on two of her final three holes to shoot 1-under on the front-9 and Chiang carded 1-over.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">WHAT'S NEXT</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Tee times for Saturday’s second round begin at 7:30 a.m. CT from the first and 10<sup>th</sup> tees. Sunday’s final round pairings will be set based on standings through
36 holes with tee times beginning at 7 a.m. Live scoring is available at </span>
<a href="http://www.golfstat.com"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">www.golfstat.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt">. Follow @BaylorWGolf on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook for updates throughout the season.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText" align="left" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">-- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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