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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – March 8, 2019</span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">NO. 21 BEARS FALL TO NEBRASKA
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</span><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">The Bears fall 12-4 in game one of the series. <br>
</span></i><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">For more information contact: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Rachel Caton, 254-652-2061, </span><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563C1"><a href="mailto:Rachel_Caton@baylor.edu"><span style="color:#954F72">Rachel_Caton@baylor.edu</span></a></span></u><span style="color:black"><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">THE RUNDOWN<br>
WACO, Texas</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> – The No. 21 Bears fell 12-4 to visiting Nebraska in game one of the series at Baylor Ballpark.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Bears (9-3) were led at the plate by Nick Loftin, who was 2-for-4 with 2 doubles. Mack Mueller also had a 2-hit performance and drove in one run, while Chase
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Huskers (5-6) got out to a fast start as they touched up Baylor starter Hayden Kettler for four runs coming off two two-run homers in the first inning.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Bears answered with one run of their own in the bottom of the second inning as Mueller delivered an RBI double, pulling the Bears within three, 4-1.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Huskers added three more runs in the top of the fifth inning to chase Kettler as they plated three more runs on two hits and took advantage of two uncharacteristic
Baylor errors. Jimmy Winston made his team-leading seventh appearance of the season to get out of the inning without any further damage.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Kettler’s uncharacteristic day was over, as he went 4.1 innings, giving up seven runs (six earned) on six hits with three walks and five strikeouts.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Bears answered the Huskers’ runs in the top half of the fifth with a run of their own in the bottom half of the inning on an RBI sac fly from Kyle Harper.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> Jacob Ashkinos threw a scoreless sixth inning to keep the score at 7-2 and was followed by Blake Helton, who pitched a scoreless seventh.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Things starter to get away from the Bears in the eighth and ninth innings, as Helton got touched up for two runs on four hits in the eighth and William Gilbert allowed
three runs on three hits in the ninth before Ryan Segner entered to get the Bears out of the jam.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Bears showed fight in the ninth inning against Husker reliever Chad Luensmann, plating two runs on wild pitches in the ninth inning.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Nebraska starter earned the win, throwing 7.0 innings, allowing two runs (one earned) on seven hits with no walks and eight strikeouts.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Catcher Luke Roskam led the way for the Huskers with a 4-for-6 day with 4 RBI and one home run, while Angelo Altavilla had five RBI on two home runs.
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<b>NOTES</b></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">*The Bears recorded four extra-base hits, giving them at least one XBH in all 12 games this season.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">*Jimmy Winston made his team-leading seventh appearance of the year.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">*Josh Bissonette has a team-leading 19-game on-base streak.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">*Nick Loftin was 2-for-4, his team-leading ninth multi-hit game of the season and third-straight multi-hit game.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">*Loftin, Wehsener and Mueller each had multi-hit games.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">*Wendzel has hit safely in 11 of 12 games.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">*Ashkinos tallied his first two strikeouts of the year in his 1.0 inning of work.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">*Helton collected his first collegiate strikeout in a career-high 2.0 innings of work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">*Helton, Segner, Gilbert and Ashkinos each made their second appearance of the season.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">*Mueller and Wehsener each collected their first-career doubles.
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</span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">STAT OF THE DAY</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br>
<span style="background:white">10 – Bears pitchers have struck out 10 or more batters in 11 of 12 games on the year. </span><span style="color:red"><br>
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</span><b>QUOTE OF THE DAY</b><span style="color:red"><br>
</span><b><i>On Nebraska starter Matt Waldron…</i></b><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue"">“He just did a great job, he wasn’t walking anybody. He was throwing his fastballs in and he was able to throw a changeup in. He did a good job mixing up guys. As a senior he came out and did
exactly what you want your senior to do. You’ve got to tip your hat to him. I think our guys took some pretty good swings. We lined out quite a few times. Their defense made some great plays against us. But at the same time when we got down a little bit at
7-1, we had to play for some bigger innings. So, it changed how we usually go about playing. But at the same time, it was good for us to see something like that. We’ll see how we rebound tomorrow.”</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">- Baylor head coach Steve Rodriguez</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red"><br>
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<b>WHAT'S NEXT</b><br>
<span style="background:white">Game two of the series vs. Nebraska is set for 3:05 p.m. CT on Saturday, March 9.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">For tickets to home games, visit: </span><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#00220F"><a href="https://baylorbears.com/sports/2018/9/11/tickets.aspx"><span style="color:#00220F">https://baylorbears.com/sports/2018/9/11/tickets.aspx</span></a></span></u><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">. </span></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">For
updates on the program follow @baylorbaseball on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
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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>
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