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<h1 align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;text-decoration:none">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – Feb. 17, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">Baylor WT Falls in Competitive Match with Arkansas, 5-2<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;background:white">Four of the six singles courts went to a deciding third set<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">For more information contact:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Shelby Hild; 254-405-7591, </span><a href="mailto:Shelby_hild@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Shelby_hild@baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">WACO, Texas –</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> The Baylor women’s tennis team (7-4) battled Friday night against the Arkansas
Razorbacks (5-1), dropping the 5-2 decision at the Hawkins Indoor Tennis Center. Four of the six singles courts went to a deciding third set.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The duo of Anita Sahdiieva and Isabella Harvison picked up their first doubles win of the season together on No. 2, topping #58-ranked Grace O’Donnell and Lenka Stara. Arkansas
responded with a 6-1 showing on No. 1 and a 7-6 (5) tiebreaking victory on No. 3 to earn the first point of the match.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">In singles play, the Razorbacks jumped out to a 2-0 lead with a 6-4, 6-3 win on No. 6, before Anita Sahdiieva earned the 6-4, 6-4 victory on court No. 4 to cut into Baylor’s
deficit. Arkansas regained a two-point advantage with a win on No. 3 to sit at a 3-1 lead in the match.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Harvison kept the Bears within reach with a 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 victory on No. 2, improving to 7-2 on the year in dual action. The Razorbacks clinched the match with a 7-5, 1-6,
6-4 win on court No. 1, before Morgan Cross outlasted the Bears’ Paula Barañano in a thrilling three-set outing on No. 5 to take the match, 5-2.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">“I thought we responded really well from our last match,” head coach Joey Scrivano said. “Unfortunately, it’s not the result we wanted, but the response was there, and it
was overall a competitive match. Eventually, we will get the result we want as long as we keep fighting together as a team.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Bears continue their homestand next Friday when they host the nationally-ranked Washington Huskies at 6 p.m.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">RESULTS
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Singles<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">No. 1 – #99 Kelly Keller def. Alina Shcherbinina, 7-5, 1-6, 6-4
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<p class="MsoNormal">No. 2 – #108 Isabella Harvison def. Indianna Spink, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">No. 3 – #45 Carolina Gomez-Alonso def. Liubov Kostenko, 4-6, 6-1, 6-2
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<p class="MsoNormal">No. 4 – Anita Sahdiieva vs. Lenka Stara, 6-4, 6-4<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">No. 5 – Paula Barañano vs. Morgan Cross, 7-6 (5), 6-7 (4), 6-3<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">No. 6 – Kacie Harvey def. Danielle Tuhten, 6-4, 6-3<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:white"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Doubles<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">No. 1 – Indianna Spink/Morgan Cross def. Paula Barañano/Danielle Tuhten, 6-1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">No. 2 – Anita Sahdiieva/Isabella Harvison def. #58 Grace O’Donnell/Lenka Stara, 6-3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">No. 3 – Kelly Keller/Carolina Gomez-Alonso def. Alina Shcherbinina/Liubov Kostenko, 7-6 (5)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#385623">Shelby Hild</span></b><span style="color:#385623"> </span><span style="color:black">| Director of Communications (WBB, WTEN)</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Department of Athletics | Baylor University</span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">C: 254-405-7591 </span><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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