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<a name="_Hlk490052374"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS –
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Baylor BSB Opens 2022 Season Against Maryland<br>
</span></b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Bears begin seven-game homestand at Baylor Ballpark
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</span></i><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">For more information contact:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> Max Calderone, 254-265-1639,
</span><a href="mailto:Max_Calderone@Baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Max_Calderone@Baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
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</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">(0-0, 0-0 Big 12) vs.
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<p class="BasicParagraph"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">Fri. Feb. 18 • 6:30 p.m. • Watch: Big 12 Now on ESPN+ • Listen: ESPN 1660/92.3 FM
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<p class="BasicParagraph"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">Sat. Feb. 19 • 3:00 p.m. • Watch: Big 12 Now on ESPN+ • Listen: ESPN 1660/92.3 FM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">Sun. Feb. 20 • 1:00 p.m. • Watch: Big 12 Now on ESPN+ • Listen: ESPN 1660/92.3 FM<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;letter-spacing:-.1pt">• Stats: BaylorStats.com
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">• Waco, Texas. • Baylor Ballpark (5,000) • Social Media: @BaylorBaseball | #SicEm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;text-transform:uppercase">Storylines<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;text-transform:uppercase">baseball is back</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">• Baylor opens its 2022 season on a seven-game homestand with series against Maryland and Duke sandwiching a midweek tilt vs. Houston Baptist.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">• After dropping four of its final six games of the 2021 season, Baylor was coined the “First Team Out” of the NCAA Tournament, missing the postseason
for the first time since 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">• The Bears are 64-35 all-time in season openers, with wins in 6 of its last 8 Opening Days.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">• Baylor is 76-25 all-time in home openers, having won 8 of its last 10 games at home to start the year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="BasicParagraph"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;text-transform:uppercase">SERIES HISTORY by the numbers
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<p class="BasicParagraph"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">• This is the first meeting between Baylor and Maryland all-time.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">• Baylor last faced a Big 10 opponent to begin the 2020 season, taking two of three from Nebraska.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;color:#EC008B"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">• BU holds a combined 7-2 record all-time against its first three opponents of the 2022 campaign.</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;color:#EC008B"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="BasicParagraph"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;text-transform:uppercase">Projected Pitching MatchupS</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">Friday, Feb. 18 • 6:30 p.m. CT • LHP
<b>Tyler Thomas (5-2, 2.49 ERA) </b>vs. RHP Nick Dean (3-1, 2.87 ERA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">Saturday, Feb. 19 • 3:00 p.m. CT • RHP
<b>Blake Helton (4-3, 3.44 ERA)</b> vs. LHP Ryan Ramsey (5-0, 1.67 ERA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">Sunday, Feb. 20 • 1:00 p.m. CT • RHP
<b>Jake Jackson (5-4, 5.45 ERA)</b> vs. RHP Jason Savacool (7-3, 5.97 ERA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="BasicParagraph"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;text-transform:uppercase">TESTED RIGHT FROM THE START</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">• Baylor is facing a Power 5 opponent in its season-opening series for just the third time in the last seven years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">• BU has not faced back-to-back P5 opponents in the first two weekends since hosting Duke and Georgia in 2010.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">• The Bears will play 22 games against 10 teams who competed in the 2021 NCAA Tournament, including five teams that reached a Super Regional
and two that reached the College World Series.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">•
<span style="letter-spacing:-.2pt">The Bears will stay close to home in 2022, as 46 of its 52 regular-season contests will be played in the state of Texas.
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<p class="BasicParagraph"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">• Baylor doesn’t leave the state of Texas until April 8-10, when it travels to take on West Virginia in Morgantown.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="BasicParagraph"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif;text-transform:uppercase">what’s new?</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">• BU returns 27 players from its 2021 team to the 2022 active roster, and adds 12 newcomers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">• Of the newcomers, six are freshmen and six are transfers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">• Graduate seniors RHP Jake Jackson and LHP Matt Voelker are expected to see significant work on the mound in 2022, along with fourth-year sophomore
RHP Brett Garcia. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">• Second-year sophomore LHP/OF Kobe Andrade will join the mix, while fellow transfers Harrison Caley and Ian Groves will see time behind the
plate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="BasicParagraph"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">•Baylor returns 78.3% of its offense with seven position starters returning. Former All-American catcher Andy Thomas and longtime right fielder
Davion Downey are the only two departures from the 2021 starting nine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Univers Condensed",sans-serif">• Only 47.4% of BU’s 2021 innings pitched return, as seniors Jacob Ashkinos, Luke Boyd, Logan Freeman, Hayden Kettler, Ryan Leckich and Jimmy Winston all depart.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#154734">Max Calderone</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> | Associate Director of Athletics Communications (BSB, FB, EQ)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Department of Athletics | Baylor University</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">C: 254-265-1639</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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