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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 31, 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;background:white">No. 25 BEARS DROP SERIES FINALE AT KANSAS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.25pt">The Bears rallied late, but fell 12-7 in game three of the series.
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</span></i><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For more information contact: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Rachel Caton, 254-652-2061, </span><a href="mailto:Rachel_Caton@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:windowtext">Rachel_Caton@baylor.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></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>
LAWRENCE, Kan.</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> – Despite collecting 12 hits, No. 25 Baylor dropped the series finale at Kansas on Sunday afternoon by a score of 12-7.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The Bears (20-7) put on a rally in the latter innings, scoring one in the sixth and three apiece in the seventh and eighth, but they were unable
to overcome the Jayhawks’ lead as they added five in the sixth and three in the seventh to put the game out of reach.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The Bears did tally 12 hits on the day, but were hampered by an uncharacteristic three errors.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Shortstop Nick Loftin led the way at the plate, going 3-for-5 with 2 RBI, including his fifth home run of the day. Both Richard Cunningham and Andy
Thomas had two hits apiece on the day, while Cunningham also added two RBI and Thomas one.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Pitcher Hayden Kettler earned the start in the ballgame, his first appearance since March 8 and he turned in two scoreless innings in a predetermined
pitch count outing. He allowed two hits, struck out one and walked three as he worked out of jams in the early going.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The Jayhawks (15-12) added three in the third inning to take their first lead of the day off reliever Blake Helton as Jaxx Groshans connected on
his Big-12 leading 10<sup>th</sup> home run of the year, a solo shot. The Jayhawks then took advantage of a Baylor fielding error to plate two more on two hits.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Kansas added one more in the fourth as the Bears trailed 4-0 before getting on the board in the sixth inning on an RBI single from Thomas.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">However, the Jayhawks answered right as they plated five runs on four hits off Baylor reliever Tyler Thomas.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The Bears cut back into the lead in the seventh with three runs on four hits, including Loftin’s solo homer to make it a 9-4 ballgame.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Kansas put up three of their own in the bottom half of the seventh, aided by an error to push the game out of reach, despite Baylor’s fight in the
top of the eighth to add three more runs to pull within five, 12-7<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Reliever Helton took the loss for the Bears to fall to 1-1 on the day, while Jayhawk starter Eli Davis, who had the Bears off-balance through 6.1
innings of work earned the win to improve to 3-3. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>NOTES<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">*</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">The Bears saw their seven-win streak snapped with the loss. It’s the second-longest
win streak of the season behind the season-opening eight straight. </span><span style="background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">*The Bears have won five-of-six weekend series, including two-straight conference series.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">*Since inserting </span><dfn><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Nick Loftin</span></dfn><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"> in
the leadoff spot on March 10, the Bears have scored 106 runs on 163 hits in their last 14 games. Loftin is 26-for-58 with 5 HR, 16 RBI and 18 runs scored during the stretch. The Bears are 11-3 in such games.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">*106 of the Bears’ 205 runs scored on the year have come with two outs after four were scored with two outs today,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">*Nick Loftin launched his fifth homer of the year and his second in as many games.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">*Loftin has a team-leading 14-game on-base streak and 10-game hit streak. He picked up his team-leading 19th</span><sup><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
</span></sup><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">multi-hit games of the year.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">*Loftin has tallied eight straight multi-hit performances.<b>
</b>He is 19-for-33 over those contests. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">*Andy Thomas extended his on-base streak to 14 games.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">*Davis Wendzel extended his on-base streak to eight games.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">*Kettler made his first start since March 28.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">*Kyle Hill made his 13<sup>th</sup> appearance of the year and recorded his 118<sup>th</sup> career strikeout in relief, tying him for sixth on the
Baylor all-time career relief strikeouts list. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">*Luke Boyd made his 12<sup>th</sup> appearance of the season.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">*Ryan Leckich made his team-leading 14<sup>th</sup> appearance of the year.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">*T. Thomas made his sixth appearance of the year, while Helton made his seventh.
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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">8 – Nick Loftin collected his eighth-straight multi-hit performance.
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<b>QUOTE OF THE DAY</b><span style="color:#C00000"><br>
</span><b><i>On today’s contest…</i></b><br>
“I think we just made too many mistakes early. We weren’t getting ahead of hitters early on the mound and we couldn’t get anything going offensively until later in the game. I thought our guys showed a lot of heart continuing to come back, put good swings on
balls and put guys in scoring position, we were just waiting for one more big hit and we just couldn’t get it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="background:white">- Baylor head coach Steve Rodriguez</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>WHAT'S NEXT</b><br>
<span style="background:white">The Bears will head back to Texas, but remain on the road as they visit Dallas Baptist at 6 p.m. CT on Tuesday, April 2.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">___________________________________</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<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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