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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>BAYLOR ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS – Oct. 19, 2024<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Bears Rout Texas Tech in Lubbock<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>Cameron, Robertson Shine as Bears Roll Past Texas Tech on Homecoming<o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>For more information contact: </b>Brent Ingram; 210-845-8651,
<a href="mailto:brent_ingram@baylor.edu">brent_ingram@baylor.edu</a><u> </u> or Max Calderone; 254-265-1639,
<a href="mailto:max_calderone@baylor.edu">max_calderone@baylor.edu</a> or Josie Hutton; 254-709-7720,
<a href="mailto:josie_hutton@baylor.edu">josie_hutton@baylor.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i>By Jerry Hill, BaylorBears.com | <a href="https://baylor.app.box.com/s/kmivkwskpgdkj2u6v7ixn774v5634pjf">
Baylor Media Materials</a><o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>LUBBOCK, Texas --</b> Quite the homecoming for Sawyer Robertson.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Baylor’s redshirt junior quarterback, a Lubbock native who won Gatorade Texas Player of the Year four years ago at Coronado High School, threw for 274 yards and a career-high five touchdowns to lead the Bears to a resounding 59-35 victory
Saturday at Jones AT&T Stadium to knock the hometown Texas Tech Red Raiders out of first place in the Big 12 standings.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Even though Robertson had a relatively quiet first half, the Bears (3-4, 1-3) took a double-digit lead into the locker room, 24-14, when Robertson connected with Josh Cameron for the first of the junior receiver’s three touchdowns on the
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tech (5-2, 3-1) scored on its opening drive of the third quarter to make it a one-score game, 24-21. But the Bears reeled off 28 unanswered points and scored touchdowns on six of their last seven series of the game.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Robertson created some cushion with third-quarter TD passes of 11 yards to Cameron and 35 to Hal Presley for his only catch of the day. Continuing the second-half scoring outburst, Baylor added touchdown passes of 24 yards to Monaray Baldwin
and a 12-yarder to Cameron that made it 52-21 with 9:41 left in the game. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cameron had six catches for 75 yards and the three touchdowns and also had a 73-yard punt return to inside the 1-yard line. Redshirt freshman running back Bryson Washington had his second 100-yard day, rushing for a career-high 116 yards
and two touchdowns. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sandwiched between a pair of late scores by the Red Raiders, Toledo transfer Dequan Finn saw his first game action since Week 2 against Utah and scored on a 31-yard TD run.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Special teams played a huge role in a first half that saw the Bears go up 24-14 on Tech, their first halftime lead in a Big 12 game since the conference-opening 38-31 overtime loss at Colorado.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Washington scored the first of his two first-half touchdowns to get Baylor on the board first. After a 43-yard run that was initially called a TD, the redshirt freshman running back punched it in from one yard out on the very next play
to give BU the 7-0 lead. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Tech wasted no time in answering, tying it up on the first of two first-half touchdown grabs by Florida transfer Caleb Douglas. This one was a 12-yard strike from Behren Morton after the Red Raiders converted a fourth-and-one with a four-yard
run by Tahj Brooks. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The first big special teams play was a Cameron’s 73-yard punt return. In a replay of Washington’s first-quarter run, it was initially ruled a touchdown but reversed on review and placed just inside the 1-yard line, where Washington once
again got the scoring honors. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On the ensuing kickoff, East Carolina transfer Rara Dilworth recovered a muffed return by Tech’s Drae McCray at the Red Raiders’ 19-yard line. But the Bears had to settle for a 31-yard field goal by Isaiah Hankins that pushed the lead to
17-7 with 10:30 left in the half. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Douglas scored again, this time from tight end Jalin Conyers, who made a move toward the line of scrimmage before backing up and tossing to the Tech receiver for a 20-yard touchdown.
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<p class="MsoNormal">With just under two minutes remaining and holding all three timeouts, Baylor drove 75 yards in nine plays and scored on Robertson’s five-yard TD pass to Cameron in the back of the end zone. That play came after a big first-down pickup with
a 19-yard pass to tight end Michael Trigg, who had been called for an offensive pass interference two plays earlier.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Bears finished with a season-high 529 yards, including a season-high 255 yards rushing, while Tech had 306 yards through the air and 455 yards total.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Back home for its next two games, Baylor will host Oklahoma State (3-4, 0-4) for Homecoming at 2:30 p.m. next Saturday at McLane Stadium. The Cowboys dropped their third in a row, falling on the road at No. 13 BYU, 38-35, Friday night in
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>- BaylorBears.com -<o:p></o:p></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#385623;mso-ligatures:none">Brent Ingram</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#385623;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">|
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