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<a name="_Hlk490052374"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS –
</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Feb. 18, 2023<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">No. 8 Baylor Equestrian Falls to No. 7 Oklahoma State, 10-9<br>
</span></b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Bears late comeback falls just short; Madison Mitchell sets program record in Flat
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">For more information contact:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> Max Calderone, 254-265-1639,
</span><a href="mailto:Max_Calderone@Baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Max_Calderone@Baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">
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</span><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">WACO, Texas –</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt"> No. 8 Baylor equestrian (5-6, 2-3) dropped a narrow 10-9 contest to No. 7 Oklahoma State on Saturday
at the Willis Family Equestrian Center in Waco.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">After trailing 7-2 at halftime, the Bears rallied late to pull within a point, but ultimately couldn’t complete the comeback.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">Jumping Seat junior Madison Mitchell scored a program-record 94 in Flat, earning her second Most Outstanding Performer award of the season. Seniors Dominika Silvestri and Maddie
Vorhies each scored 92’s in Flat, tying for the team’s second-highest score in the event this season.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>THE RUNDOWN</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">The day began with a 4-1 win for OSU in Fences and a 3-1 victory in Horsemanship for the Cowgirls. Baylor’s Maddie Vorhies put up the lone point on the Jumping Seat side with
an 80 on Puzzle, while Gabrielle Marty scored a 76.5 in the Western arena for the Bears’ only point of the event.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">Then, Flat kicked off the second half with a 4-1 Baylor win. Annie Vorhies (89), Maddie Vorhies (92), Silvestri (92) and Mitchell (94) notched the tallies for BU, cutting the
deficit to 8-6. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">Reining rounded out the action, as Daisy Kaufman (69.5), Madaline Callaway (67.5) and Shelby Clausen (66) scored points for the Bears. But, it wouldn’t be enough as OSU held
on for a 10-9 win.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">HIGHLIGHTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">• Baylor’s Flat squad has now won six events in a row.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">• BU’s Reining squad has won five of its last six events.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">• Junior Madison Mitchell scored a program-record 94 in Flat and picked up her second MOP of the season.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">• Senior Maddie Vorhies has won six of her last seven Fences rides.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">• M. Vorhies’s 92 in Flat is a career high. She extended her unbeaten streak in Flat to six with a win.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">• Sophomore Annie Vorhies has now won four Flat rides in a row.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">• Freshman Lauren Reid scored a career-high 87 in Flat.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">• Senior Dominika Silvestri tallied a career-high 92 in Flat and improved her record to 9-2 on the season.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">• Senior Madaline Callaway extended her unbeaten streak to four meets in Reining.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">STAT OF THE MEET<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">94 – Madison Mitchell set the program record with a 94 in Flat.<br>
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<b>QUOTABLE<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">Head coach Casie Maxwell<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">On today’s meet…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;background:white">“I think the big takeaway today is that they didn't get down on themselves in the first half when the score deficit was so rough. Flat made a huge rally coming in there and getting
the score much closer and then Reining fought until the very end. So, I have to give it to them for pulling it within one point. It really stinks to lose by just one point, but moving forward we know that we are not playing against any easier caliber teams.
Oklahoma State is an incredibly deep team and we had to be better in the first two events to pull this off today and that's what we’ll need to do at the Big 12 and National Championship. That’s the big takeaway, we did not ride our cleanest in any of the four
events today, but they did not either so it was a pretty equal caliber competition. It's just going to keep continuing and getting tougher so we have got to keep cleaning up those mistakes and if someone is having an off day we have to build up and capitalize
from that and not match them with equal mistakes on our end. I want to commend our Flat squad and our Reining squad for coming in and making a huge effort and our team for coming in and cheering them on and pushing them and watching them really rally and feeling
like they could really get it done and they definitely could.”</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">Jumping Seat junior Madison Mitchell<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">On her program record Flat score…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;background:white">“I think everyone was in a space like we need to get this done and it has to go this way, and I think everyone kind of just fed off each other’s confidence. I went in there telling
myself this is going to be the best ride ever and like, I’m going to do this and it’s going to be amazing. I did it and it felt really good</span>.”<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">WHAT’S NEXT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">No. 8 Baylor (5-6) hosts No. 1 SMU (6-0) on Thursday, March 2, at the Willis Family Equestrian Center in Waco for a Senior Day meet. First ride is scheduled for 1 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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To stay up to date on all things Baylor equestrian, follow the team on its official Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts: @BaylorEQ.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#154734">Max Calderone</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black"> | Associate Director of Athletics Communications (BSB, FB, EQ)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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