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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:9.0in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">MMUNICATIONS – April 9, 2019</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">No. 17 BEARS FALL 2-1 IN 13 INNINGS AT UTA
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;letter-spacing:.25pt">The Bears just couldn’t get the big hit, stranding 18 runners on the day. <br>
</span></i><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">For more information contact: </span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Rachel Caton, 254-652-2061, <a href="mailto:Rachel_Caton@baylor.edu"><span style="color:#954F72">Rachel_Caton@baylor.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">THE RUNDOWN<br>
ARLINGTON, Texas</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white"> – Despite outhitting UT Arlington and getting 12 innings of one-run baseball, the No. 17 Bears were unable to get the big hit to break open
the game and fell 2-1 in 13 innings at Clay Gould Ballpark on Tuesday evening. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The Bears tallied 12 hits on the day and were led by two-hit performances from Shea Langeliers, Davion Downey, Josh Bissonette and Chase Wehsener,
but overall the Baylor (22-9) offense was unable to get the big hit to break open the game down the stretch as they stranded a season-high 18 batters on the day.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Bears struck first on the day, as Downey led off the second inning with a solo homer, his fourth of the year to give the Bears a 1-0 lead and their only run of
the day. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Overall, Baylor’s pitching staff was outstanding, as seven pitchers combined to hold the Mavericks (21-13) to just two runs on 10 hits. Jacob Ashkinos
earned his second-straight Tuesday start and held the Mavericks hitless through 3.0 innings of work. Daniel Caruso gave up the game-tying run in the fourth inning, but the rest of the pen picked him up, tossing eight scoreless innings to follow.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">Tyler Thomas threw 2.0 scoreless with two strikeouts and no walks, followed by 1.1 innings of two-hit baseball from Ryan Leckich. Luke Boyd, who
entered in the bottom of the eighth with one out and runners on first and second got a strikeout and a ground out to end the inning. Boyd was impressive, striking out the side in the ninth and all in all tossing 2.2 innings of no-hit baseball before giving
way to closer Kyle Hill who tossed a scoreless 11<sup>th</sup> and 12<sup>th</sup>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Bears continued to have opportunities to plate the go-ahead run down the stretch, but none bigger than the ninth and 10<sup>th</sup> innings where the Bears had
bases loaded but just could not get the big hit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">In the 11<sup>th</sup> the Bears stranded two in scoring position, but in the 13<sup>th</sup> the Bears looked like they were breaking through. Cole Haring laced
a triple off the wall in left and the Bears had the go-ahead run 90 feet away with nobody out. However, a strikeout and a 6-4-3 double play ball ended the threat.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">In the bottom of the 13<sup>th</sup> inning freshman reliever Brooks Helmer entered and the Mavericks had back-to-back hits in a double and a single. Back-to-back
walks then brought home the game-winning run. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Helmer took the loss, his first of the year to fall to 1-1, while Riley Bost improved to 1-2 on the year.
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<b>NOTES</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">*The 13-innning contest was the longest of the Coach Rodriguez era.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">*The Bears have won nine of their last 12 games.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">*The Bears stranded a season-high 18 batters on the day.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red;background:white"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">*Since inserting </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://baylorbears.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=49"><i><span style="color:windowtext">Nick
Loftin</span></i></a><span style="background:white"> in the leadoff spot on March 10, the Bears have scored 124 runs on 204 hits in their last 18 games. Loftin is 29-for-78 with 5 HR, 18 RBI and 20 runs scored during the stretch. The Bears are 13-5 in such
games.</span><span style="color:red"><br>
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</span>*Davion Downey with his fourth home run of the year, first since Feb. 26 vs. DBU.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">*Richard Cunningham extends his on-base streak to nine three games, hit streak to three games.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">*Nick Loftin extended his season-long on-base streak to 18 games.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red;background:white"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">*Davis Wendzel extended his on-base streak to 12 games.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red;background:white"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">*Chase Wehsener extended his hitting streak to nine games.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">*Ryan Leckich made a team-high 17<sup>th</sup> appearance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red;background:white"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">*Kyle Hill made his 16<sup>th</sup> relief appearance of the season and 75<sup>th</sup> relief appearance of his career, putting him in sole possession of sixth
on Baylor’s career relief appearances leaderboard.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red;background:white"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">*Luke Boyd tallied a career-best five strikeouts.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
<b>STAT OF THE DAY</b><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">18 – Thee Bears stranded 18 base runners on the day, a season-high and the story of the game as the Bears just couldn’t break through.
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<b>QUOTE OF THE DAY</b><br>
</span><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">On tonight’s game…</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"I was really happy with how our staff pitched tonight. It was a tough night in that our offense battled, but we just couldn’t get that big two-out hit.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white">- Baylor head coach Steve Rodriguez</span></i></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
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<b>WHAT'S NEXT</b><br>
<span style="background:white">Baylor heads back to Baylor Ballpark to host Oklahoma in a three-game series starting on Friday, April 12 at 6:35 p.m. CT.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">For tickets to home games, visit: </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><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><u>. </u><span style="background:white">For
updates on the program follow @baylorbaseball on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.</span><br>
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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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">O: 254-710-3784</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">C: 254-652-2061</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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