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<h1 align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;text-decoration:none">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – May 19, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<h2 align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-style:normal">Baylor WGOLF in 10<sup>th</sup> After Day One at The NCAA Championships<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
<h2 align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-style:normal">BU was led by its newcomers in the first round at Grayhawk<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
<h2 align="left" style="text-align:left"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">For more information, contact:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Matt Roberts, 254-227-2280,
</span><a href="mailto:WM_Roberts@Baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">WM_Roberts@Baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Sera Hasegawa
and Silje Ohma showed no signs of inexperience in their first career-first rounds at Grayhawk, finishing under par and leading Baylor to a 10<sup>th</sup>-place finish on day one at the NCAA Championships.</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal"><o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Hasegawa burst out of the gates with three birdies in her first four holes and tied for 10<sup>th</sup> at 2-under, a shot ahead of her
teammate, Ohma, who is tied for 21<sup>st</sup>. Hasegawa is six shots back of the overnight leader, Oklahoma State's Maddison Hinson-Tolchard.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;font-weight:normal">Baylor’s 1-over 289 is 10 shots back of Wake Forest, who leads after round one with a 9-under 279. Just five shots separate positions
No. 3 through 12.</span></strong><b><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="color:black;background:white">THE RUNDOWN<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Starting with a birdie at No. 1, Hasegawa added birdies at Nos. 2 and 4 to reach 3-under before her first bogey of the day came at No. 5. After making the turn with a 2-under 34, the sophomore
transfer carded six-straight pars until another bogey came at No. 16. She punctuated her first round at Grayhawk with a birdie at No. 18 for an even-par 34 back nine, and a 2-under 70 for the day.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Ohma started her round with a bogey at No. 1, but settled in with five-straight pars and a birdie at No. 7. The sophomore gave a stroke back with a bogey at No. 8, and made the turn with a 1-over
37. The native of Bergen, Norway, got back to even par with a birdie at No. 10 and closed her round with birdies on two of the last three holes, around a bogey at No. 17 for a 1-under 71 in her NCAA Championship debut.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Rosie Belsham burst out of the gates on Friday with birdies on three of her first four holes, before suffering her first bogey of the day at No. 6. She put a bow on a brilliant front nine with
a birdie at No. 9 to make the turn with a 3-under 33. Belsham ran into a bit of trouble on the back nine with five bogeys at Nos. 10, 11, 13, 15 and 17 to get into the clubhouse with a 2-over 74 and a tie for 66<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Hannah Karg also finished tied for 66<sup>th</sup> on Friday with a 2-over 74 of her own. The senior opened her final tournament with a bogey at No. 1, but reeled off eight-straight pars to close
out the front nine with a 1-over 73. On the back nine, Karg’s only blemish came with a bogey at No. 12.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Britta Snyder finished day one in a tie for 142<sup>nd</sup> with a 7-over 79. Her round began with a quadruple-bogey eight at No. 1, while adding a double bogey at No. 7 and a bogey at No. 9.
The junior got a stroke back with a birdie at No. 10 but suffered another double bogey at No. 14. Snyder played solid down the stretch, recording a birdie at No. 16 followed by a pair of pars to close out the round.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="color:black;background:white">HIGHLIGHTS<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white">BU’s 289 is its best NCAA Championship round since 2018.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white">Friday’s 289 was the sixth-best score among teams in the afternoon wave.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white">Sera Hasegawa has now recorded six-straight rounds under par.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white">Hasegawa is 14 under par in her four NCAA postseason rounds.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white">Hannah Karg tied for the second-most pars on day one with 16.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="color:black;margin-left:0in;mso-add-space:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;background:white">Karg set a new career-best score in the NCAA Championships with a 2-over 74. Her previous best was a 4-over 76 in the 2021 NCAA's.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="color:black;background:white">QUOTABLE: <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:black;background:white">Head coach Jay Goble on the opening round:</span></i><span style="color:black;background:white"> “We hung in there. This championship is a long week, and you can't win it on the first day, so
we just came out here and tried to hold it together through some tough conditions to finish. We faced more wind than the morning wave, and then the last three to five holes got really windy. It got to the point where we saw some of the holes play like we'd
never seen them before. We're in a good spot moving forward for tomorrow, knowing that we're going to have better conditions. Today was always going to be the tough round to get under our belt, so I feel good that we came out in a good position to build on
it tomorrow."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:black;background:white">Goble on Hasegawa and Ohma making their NCAA Debut:</span></i><span style="color:black;background:white"> “They were super impressive, especially going in the No. 1 and No. 3 spot. To go out
on a golf course like this and play in those pivotal positions in this kind of wind was huge for us. It was a hard finish on some of the harder holes on the golf course. I'm proud of them. I think our future's bright with those two, and I think they will have
a good week this week and continue to move us where we need to be.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="color:black;background:white">WHAT’S NEXT<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;background:white">Baylor will play with Texas and Northwestern again at 9:27 a.m. CT on the tenth tee. BaiMai Seema will replace Britta Snyder and be first off, followed by Hannah Karg at 9:38 a.m. Rosie Belsham
will tee off at 9:49 a.m., just ahead of Silje Ohma at 10:00 a.m. Sera Hasegawa will be in the anchor position at 10:11 a.m. Live scoring and stats are available at
</span><a href="https://results.golfstat.com/public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=participants&tid=26045"><span style="background:white">Golfstat.com.</span></a><span style="color:black;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For more information on Baylor Women’s Golf, follow @BaylorWGolf on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.<span style="color:black;background:white">
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">—BaylorBears.com—</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Matt Roberts | Associate Director of Athletic Communications (MBB/MGOLF/ WGOLF) <br>
Department of Athletics | Baylor University<br>
C: 254-227-2280</span><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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