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<b><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif; text-decoration:none">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS- April 9, 2024</span></b></h1>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.0pt; font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif; font-style:normal">WGOLF Finishes Tied for Third at the
<span class="SpellE">Veritex</span> Bank Texas Showdown</span></b></h2>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif; font-style:normal">BU’s Hasegawa Improves to 11-1 in BU match-play
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<b><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">For more information contact:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Matt Roberts, 254-227-2280,
</span><a href="mailto:WM_Roberts@Baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">WM_Roberts@Baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"></span></h2>
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<b><span style="background: repeat white; color: black;">DALLAS, Texas. </span></b><strong><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background: repeat white; font-weight: normal; color: black;">– Baylor women’s golf clinched a third-place finish in the
match play portion of the <span class="SpellE">Veritex</span> Bank Texas Showdown with a 2.5-2.5 tie against UCF on Tuesday afternoon at Dallas Athletic Club.</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background: repeat white; color: black;"></span></strong></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background: repeat white; font-weight: normal; color: black;">Junior Sera Hasegawa won both of her matches on Tuesday, extending her career match play record to 11-1. In the morning session, she beat SMU's
Mackenzie Lee 5&4 and then beat UCF's Brittany Shin 3&2 in the afternoon.</span></strong></p>
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<span style="background: repeat white; color: black;">Co-host SMU captured the team title with a 4-0-1 win over Maryland in the championship match.</span></p>
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<b><u><span style="background: repeat white; color: black;">THE RUNDOWN </span></u></b></p>
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<b><span style="background: repeat white; color: black;">Morning Session</span></b></p>
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<span style="background: repeat white; color: black;">Hasegawa won the first two holes to go 2-up, where she would stay through six holes. A win by Lee at No. 9 trimmed Hasegawa’s
<span class="GramE">lead</span> to just one, but the junior got rolling with another win at No. 12, followed by wins at Nos. 14, 15 and 16 to close out the match.</span></p>
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<span style="background: repeat white; color: black;">Rosie <span class="SpellE">
Belsham</span> dropped her match to Emily <span class="SpellE">Odwin</span> 2-up in the semifinals.
<span class="SpellE">Odwin</span> took the first lead with a win at No. 3, only to see
<span class="SpellE">Belsham</span> drawback even with a win at No. 4. Wins at Nos. 5 and 7 by
<span class="SpellE">Odwin</span> lifted the Mustang to a 2-up lead before <span class="SpellE">
Belsham</span> battled back with wins at Nos. 8 and 9. The tug of war <span class="GramE">
continued on</span> the back nine when <span class="SpellE">Odwin</span> picked up wins at Nos. 10, 11 and 13 to build a 3-up lead, eventually winning 2-up.
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<span class="SpellE"><span style="background: repeat white; color: black;">Yoonjeong</span></span><span style="background: repeat white; color: black;"> Huh dropped her match 3&2 against June Song in the morning session. Huh took an early lead with a win at
No. 5 before back-to-back wins by Song at Nos. 7 and 8 flipped the match in her favor. Wins at Nos. 10 and 11 gave Song a 3-up lead, and while
<span class="GramE">Huh</span> would get as close as 1-down through 11, she would eventually fall 3&2.</span></p>
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<span class="SpellE"><span style="background: repeat white; color: black;">Ashleen</span></span><span style="background: repeat white; color: black;"> Kaur fell 4&3 against Ellie
<span class="SpellE">Szeryk</span>. The senior from SMU won each of the first two holes to take a 2-up lead. She would collect wins at Nos. 6, 7, 8 and 11 to 6-up with eight holes to play. Kaur would win at Nos. 12 and 13 to keep the match alive until a pair
of halves ended the match at No. 14.</span></p>
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<span class="SpellE"><span style="background: repeat white; color: black;">Silje</span></span><span style="background: repeat white; color: black;">
<span class="SpellE">Ohma</span> <span class="GramE">fell down</span> early in a 5&4 setback against Ashley Chow. The BU sophomore dropped each of her first four holes to go 4-down.
<span class="SpellE">Ohma</span> would battle back to trim Chow’s <span class="GramE">
lead</span> to 3-up at Nos. 7, 11 and 13, but Lee took wins at Nos. 15 and 16 to close out the match.</span></p>
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<span style="background: repeat white; color: black;">Tess Davenport defeated <span class="SpellE">
BaiMai</span> Seema 6&5 in the semifinal match. Wins on three of the first four holes staked Davenport to a 3-up lead, which would swell to 5-up with two more wins at Nos. 8 and 9.
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<b><span style="background: repeat white; color: black;">Afternoon Session</span></b></p>
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<span class="SpellE"><span style="background: repeat white; color: black;">Belsham</span></span><span style="background: repeat white; color: black;"> dominated her afternoon match, winning 5&4 over UCF's Katie Poots. BU’s senior broke the tie with a win on
the third hole of the match at No. 11. After poots tied things at No. 12, <span class="SpellE">
Belsham</span> reeled off three wins in four holes to take the 3-up lead. On the 12<sup>th</sup> hole of the match,
<span class="SpellE">Belsham</span> strung together back-to-back wins at Nos. 2 and 3 to go 5-up and would put things away with a halve at No. 4.</span></p>
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<span style="background: repeat white; color: black;">Hasegawa capped off a 2-0 day with a 3&2 win over Brittany Shin. Hasegawa won the first hole, but Shin fought back to tie her at Nos. 9 and again at No. 12. At No. 14, Hasegawa won twice in three holes to
take her largest lead in the match at 2-up. Leading by one at No. 4, Hasegawa picked up back-to-back wins to push her lead to 3-up and close out the match at No. 5.</span></p>
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<span class="SpellE"><span style="background: repeat white; color: black;">BaiMai</span></span><span style="background: repeat white; color: black;"> Seema battled her way to a tie against UCF’s Jess Baker. Seema took a 1-up lead in the match early before back-to-back
wins by Baker flipped it in her favor. BU’s Seema squared the match a hole later and went back in front with a win at No. 17. She held a 1-up lead through 17, but Baker picked up a win on the final hole to halve the match.</span></p>
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<span class="SpellE"><span style="background: repeat white; color: black;">Silje</span></span><span style="background: repeat white; color: black;">
<span class="SpellE">Ohma</span> dropped her match in the afternoon 1-up to UCF's Molly Smith. BU's sophomore took a 1-up lead at No. 6 and again at No. 10. Smith picked up a win at No. 11, and it would be the last hole won by either player until the final
hole, where Smith carded a par at the par-3 4<sup>th</sup> to take the hole and the match.
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<span class="SpellE"><span style="background: repeat white; color: black;">Ashleen</span></span><span style="background: repeat white; color: black;"> Kaur fell 3&1 in the afternoon to
<span class="SpellE">Pimpisa</span> <span class="SpellE">Sisutham</span>. <span class="SpellE">
Sisutham</span> won the first two holes of the match and would pick up a third win at No. 13 to go 3-up. Kaur would battle back to 2-down at Nos. 15, 1 and 3 before a win by
<span class="SpellE">Sisutham</span> put the match away 3&1. </span></p>
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<b><u><span style="background: repeat white; color: black;">HIGHLIGHTS</span></u></b></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background: repeat white;">Sera Hasegawa never trailed in any of her matches on Monday and was only tied on three occasions.</span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Courier; color: black;">
<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background: repeat white;">Hasegawa improved to 11-1 at BU in her two seasons with the Bears.</span></li><li class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Courier; color: black;">
<span class="SpellE"><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background: repeat white;">Belsham</span></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; background: repeat white;"> improved to 9-6 in traditional match play matches.
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<b><u><span style="background: repeat white; color: black;">QUOTABLE: </span></u></b></p>
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<i><span style="background: repeat white; color: black;">Associate head coach Carly Ludwig</span></i><span style="background: repeat white; color: black;"> — “It would have
<span class="GramE">definitely been</span> nice to get the match-play win today along with the stroke-play win yesterday, but as a team, I think we are building confidence and beginning to show how great we can be. We saw a fantastic performance from Sera today,
again going undefeated in match play. We had a lot of fun this afternoon against a new Big 12 member in UCF, seeing a lot of birdies. I think
<span class="SpellE">Silje</span> and <span class="SpellE">BaiMai</span> had three birdies each in the first seven holes and were still tied. That shows how competitive these matches were; it was great to see the fight. We are looking forward to taking this
momentum into the postseason.”</span></p>
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<b><u><span style="background: repeat white; color: black;">WHAT’S NEXT</span></u></b></p>
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<span style="background: repeat white; color: black;">The Bears will tee it up in the Big 12 Championship April 18-20 at the Clubs at Houston Oaks in Hockley, Texas.
</span><span style="">For more information on Baylor Women’s Golf, follow @BaylorWGolf on X,
<span class="GramE">Instagram</span> and Facebook.<span style="background: repeat white; color: black;">
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<i><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">—BaylorBears.com—</span></i><i><span style="font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"></span></i></p>
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<a name="_MailAutoSig"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">Matt Roberts | Associate Director of Athletic Communications (MBB/MGOLF/ WGOLF) <br>
Department of Athletics | Baylor University<br>
C: 254-227-2280</span></a><span style=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"></span></span></p>
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