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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">BAYLOR BEARS (0-0)</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Location:</span></strong> Waco, Texas <br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Conference:</span></strong> Big 12<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Head Coach: </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Steve Rodriguez</span></strong> (Pepperdine 2001)<br>
<a href="https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?path=softball"><span style="color:#00220F">Roster</span></a> | <a href="https://baylorbears.com/cumestats.aspx?path=softball"><span style="color:#00220F">Stats</span></a> | <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://baylorbears.com/documents/2019/2/14/BU_Baseball_Notes_vs_Holy_Cross_.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color:#00220F">Game
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">February 15-17, 2018 </span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Waco, Texas • B</span></strong></span><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">aylor Ballpark</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">
(5,000)</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
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<b>STATS: <a href="http://www.baylorstats.com/"><span style="color:#00220F">Live Stats</span></a></b><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Holy Cross (0-0)</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Location:</span></strong> Worcester, Mass.<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Conference:</span></strong> Patriot League
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Head Coach: </span></strong>Greg DiCenzo (St. Lawrence, 1998)<br>
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<p class="p1"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Story Lines</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Bears welcome Holy Cross to Baylor Ballpark to open up play on the 115th season of Baylor Baseball. This is the first meeting in program history between Holy Cross and the Bears.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• The Bears enter the 2019 season with the highest preseason rankings since they were ranked No. 8 to start the 2009 season. They are ranked No. 12 in the Perfect Game preseason rankings and No. 15 in the D1Baseball
Rankings.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Projected Pitching Matchups<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Fri., Feb. 15 • 6:35 p.m. CT • RHP <b>
Hayden Kettler </b>vs. RHP Zane Hedaya<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sat., Feb 16 • 1:05 p.m. CT • LHP <b>
Tyler Thomas</b> vs. RHP Liam Dvorak<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sat., Feb. 16 • 4:05 p.m. CT • LHP <b>
Cody Bradford</b> vs. RHP Declan Cronin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sun., Feb. 17 • 12:05 p.m. CT • RHP <b>
Anderson Needham</b> vs. TBA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Overall the Bears enter the 2019 season ranked in all the major preseason rankings. In addition to the No. 12 ranking by Perfect Game and No. 15 by D1Baseball, the Bears are No. 16 in the Baseball America poll,
No. 16 in the NCBWA Poll, No. 18 in the USA Today Coaches Poll and No. 21 in the Collegiate Baseball Poll.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• The Bears are the preseason No. 2 pick in the Big 12 and earned two first place votes, collected 58 total points, behind No. 1 Texas Tech’s 61 points. The second place finish ties the highest in program history,
first time since 2004 the Bears were picked second and fifth time in program history.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 74-24 all-time in home openers, has won 6 of last 7 and 11 of last 13.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor is 62-34 all-time in season openers and has won 4 of last 5.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor returns 20 letterwinners after losing eight from the 2018 squad, including Preseason All-Big 12 selections Cody Bradford, Shea Langeliers, Davis Wendzel and Nick Loftin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor welcomes 11 newcomers to the 2019 team. Seven of those are pitchers, including true freshmen in RHP Ryan Segner, RHP Anderson Needham, RHP Blake Helton, RHP Branson Wilson, sophomore RHP William Gilbert
and junior junior college transfers LHP Paul Dickens and RHP Logan Freeman. One newcomer, Brooks Helmer is a two-way guy, first baseman in the field and a RHP on the mound. The Bears then have three position player newcomers in freshman infielder Ricky Martinez,
freshman catcher Jake Walsh and junior college transfer outfielder/first baseman Mack Mueller.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• Baylor returns all nine position starters, plus the entire pitching rotation from 2018. On the mount the Bears return 95 percent of their starts (55 of 58) from 2018 and 73 percent of their wins.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="p3"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">• The Bears are coming off the 2018 season where they collected 37 wins (37-21), improving upon 2017’s 34 wins, the most since 2012. The Bears finished with 13 wins in Big 12 play (13-11), the most since 2013.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#006132">Rachel Caton</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#006132"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">| Associate Sports Information Director</span><span style="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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