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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><a name="_Hlk490052374"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">**Notes for the national championship meet are attached**<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk490052374"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – </span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">April
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">No. 1 Baylor A&T Collects Individual Event Titles<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Bears named event champions ahead of title meet
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">contact:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> Madelon Allen, 254-252-7168, </span><a href="mailto:Madelon_Allen@Baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Madelon_Allen@Baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> <b> </b><br>
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EUGENE, Ore. –</span></b><span style="background:white"> No. 1 Baylor acrobatics & tumbling earned four individual event titles on Saturday in Matthew Knight Arena ahead of the National Championship at 9 p.m. CT.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The first event to take a title for the day was the seven-element acro, with Bayley Humphrey as the base, Jordan Gruendler as the top and Tori Harris
as the counter. They won the title with a score of 9.750, besting four others to win.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">BU took the Inversion Pyramid title with a score of 9.90, overtaking five other teams for the victory. Gruendler serves as the top with Humphrey
as her mid-level base. The main bases were Katherine Shiffer, Briana Harris, Kate Puentes, Raffaela Scotto, Faith Coor, Tori Harris and Alayja Reynolds served as the counter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">In the trio pass, Katie Shiffer, Aundria Crittenden and Tori Harris took the title with a score of 9.250 over four other teams.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Rounding out the individual event champions, graduate Briana Harris scored a 9.925 in the open pass to earn the title.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Overall, the Bears competed in 12 of the 15 heats. They competed in five, six and seven-element acro, inversion, synchronized and open pyramid, synchronized
and open toss, as well as the duo, trio, Emily Tobin’s six-element and Briana Harris’ open tumbling passes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">NEXT UP<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The Bears face third-seed Gannon for the title with a start time set for 9 p.m. CT at Matthew Knight Arena. It’s the Golden Knight’s first time competing
for an NCATA Championship.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The meet will be streamed on
</span><a href="https://baylorbea.rs/3OLWAys"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">ESPN+</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> and live scoring can be
found on Oregon’s website </span><a href="https://baylorbea.rs/3LtBDGr"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">here</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">A full recap and final stats will be made available on BaylorBears.com after the conclusion of the meet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">To stay up to date throughout the season on all things Baylor acrobatics & tumbling, follow the team on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram: @BaylorAcroTumb.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#385623">Madelon Allen</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#385623"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">| </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Associate
Director of Athletics Communications (VB, MTEN, A&T)</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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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