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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">March 2, 2023<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">Baylor Baseball Welcomes Youngstown State For Four-Game Series<br>
</span></b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Bears and Penguins set to meet for first time in program history<br>
</span></i><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,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666">BAYLOR BEARS (2-6, 0-0 Big 12)</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666"><br>
<b>Location:</b> Waco, Texas <br>
<b>Conference/Affiliation:</b> Big 12<br>
<b>Head Coach: </b><i><a href="https://baylorbears.com/sports/baseball/roster/coaches/mitch-thompson/1881"><span style="color:#154734">Mitch Thompson</span></a></i> (Fort Hays St., 1988)<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666">BAYLOR</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#666666"> (2-6, 0-0) vs<b> YOUNGSTOWN STATE </b>(1-7, 0-0)<br>
<b>March 3, 2023 • 6:30 p.m. CT<br>
March 4, 2023 • 2:00 p.m. CT (Game One)<br>
March 4, 2023 • TBD (Game Two)<br>
March 5, 2023 • 1:00 p.m. CT</b><br>
<b>Waco, Texas • Baylor Ballpark (5,000)</b><br>
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<b>LIVE STATS: </b><a href="https://www.statbroadcast.com/events/statbroadcast.php?t=1&gid=bay"><span style="color:#154734">BaylorStats.com</span></a><br>
<b>WATCH: </b>Big 12 Now on ESPN+ (Friday only)<br>
<b><i>Talent:</i></b> <i>Kurtis Quillin (play-by-play) & Richard Cunningham (analyst)</i><br>
<b>LISTEN: </b>ESPN Central Texas 1660 AM & 92.3 FM (Fri. & Sun.)<br>
<b>LISTEN: </b>FOX Sports Central Texas 1330 AM & 93.9 FM (Sat.)<br>
<b><i>Talent:</i></b> <i>Derek Smith (Fri. & Sun.), Ryan Boyd, Richard Cunningham (Sat.)</i><br>
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<b>Location: </b>Youngstown, Ohio<br>
<b>Conference/Affiliation:</b> Horizon League<br>
<b>Head Coach:</b> Dan Bertolini (Mercyhurst, 2008)<br>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">LEADING OFF</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• Baylor Baseball continues its 14-game homestand this weekend with a four-game series against Youngstown State. The home stretch lasts until March 24, when the Bears travel to take on Oklahoma State in Stillwater,
Okla., in the second week of Big 12 play.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• The Bears have eclipsed double-digit strikeouts on the mound in six of their eight games so far this season.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• Baylor enters the weekend tied for second in the Big 12 with 85 strikeouts</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• The Bears are celebrating the 25th season at Baylor Ballpark with a special logo and planned promotions throughout the 2023 campaign.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• Eighteen of the Bears' first 21 games this season are home games. The Bears leave the state of Texas just three times this year, all before April 3 (at Duke, at Oklahoma State, at Kansas).</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• Baylor returns just 15 players from its 2022 roster and welcomes 23 newcomers, including 10 true freshmen and 13 transfers.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• Nine of the 13 transfers have previous Division I experience in </span><dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://baylorbears.com/sports/baseball/roster/austin-stracener/12074"><span style="color:black">Austin
Stracener</span></a></span></dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">, </span><dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://baylorbears.com/sports/baseball/roster/hunter-teplanszky/12075"><span style="color:black">Hunter
Teplanszky</span></a></span></dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">, </span><dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://baylorbears.com/sports/baseball/roster/daniel-altman/12078"><span style="color:black">Daniel
Altman</span></a></span></dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">, </span><dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://baylorbears.com/sports/baseball/roster/cole-posey/12079"><span style="color:black">Cole
Posey</span></a></span></dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">, </span><dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://baylorbears.com/sports/baseball/roster/will-pendergrass/12081"><span style="color:black">Will
Pendergrass</span></a></span></dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">, </span><dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://baylorbears.com/sports/baseball/roster/casey-sunseri/12082"><span style="color:black">Casey
Sunseri</span></a></span></dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">, </span><dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://baylorbears.com/sports/baseball/roster/cole-tremain/12084"><span style="color:black">Cole
Tremain</span></a></span></dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">, </span><dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://baylorbears.com/sports/baseball/roster/john-ceccoli/12089"><span style="color:black">John
Ceccoli</span></a></span></dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> and </span><dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://baylorbears.com/sports/baseball/roster/gabe-craig/12090"><span style="color:black">Gabe
Craig</span></a></span></dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">BRIGHT SPOTS</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• Sophomore RHP </span><dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://baylorbears.com/sports/baseball/roster/mason-marriott/11495"><span style="color:black">Mason
Marriott</span></a></span></dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> is coming off his career-best outing, having racked up a personal-best seven strikeouts across a career-most 4.2 innings of work at Duke on Sunday, Feb. 26.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• Marriott leads the Big 12 with a 13.50 K/9 (strikeouts per nine innings).</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• Junior RHP </span><dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://baylorbears.com/sports/baseball/roster/will-rigney/11505"><span style="color:black">Will Rigney</span></a></span></dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> returned
to action for the first time in over 10 months after suffering a season-ending shoulder injury last year. He pitched a scoreless inning and struck out two Blue Devils on Friday, Feb. 24.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• Freshman INF </span><dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://baylorbears.com/sports/baseball/roster/kolby-branch/12083"><span style="color:black">Kolby Branch</span></a></span></dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> is
off to a hot start, leading the team with 11 hits, 10 RBIs and a .567 slugging percentage.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• Of junior LHP/OF </span><dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://baylorbears.com/sports/baseball/roster/kobe-andrade/11476"><span style="color:black">Kobe
Andrade's</span></a></span></dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> seven hits this season, six have gone for extra bases (three doubles, two triples, one home run). His lone single came on a drag bunt against Duke.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• Last Tuesday against HCU, Branch and redshirt freshman OF </span><dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://baylorbears.com/sports/baseball/roster/gavin-brzozowski/12076"><span style="color:black">Gavin
Brzozowski</span></a></span></dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> combined to drive in 10 of BU's 11 runs. The pair had six hits between them, including two home runs, one of which was a grand slam off the bat of Branch.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• The Bears set a modern-era (since 2000) program record with 38 strikeouts in their three-game series against CMU to open the year.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• A total of 20 Bears have made their Baylor debuts so far in 2023, including eight freshmen.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">SERIES HISTORY VS YOUNGSTOWN STATE</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• This will be the first meeting between Baylor and Youngstown State.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• The Bears are 1-0 all-time against teams from the Horizon League, having defeated Wright State in an elimination game in the 2018 Stanford Regional.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">PROBABLE STARTERS</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• Friday, March 3 • 6:30 p.m. • <b>RHP </b></span><dfn><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://baylorbears.com/sports/baseball/roster/blake-helton/11490"><span style="color:black">Blake
Helton</span></a></span></b></dfn><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> (0-1, 14.14 ERA)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> vs. RHP Travis Perry (1-0, 5.73 ERA)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• Saturday, March 4 • 2:00 p.m. • <b>RHP </b></span><dfn><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://baylorbears.com/sports/baseball/roster/mason-marriott/11495"><span style="color:black">Mason
Marriott</span></a></span></b></dfn><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> (0-1, 6.23 ERA)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> vs. RHP Nick Perez (0-2, 10.00 ERA)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• Saturday, March 4 • TBD • <b>LHP </b></span><dfn><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://baylorbears.com/sports/baseball/roster/cam-caley/11478"><span style="color:black">Cam
Caley</span></a></span></b></dfn><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> (0-2, 11.57 ERA)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> vs. RHP Brandon Mikos (0-2, 9.90 ERA)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• Sunday, March 5 • 1:00 p.m. • <b>TBD</b> vs. TBD</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">BROADCAST INFORMATION</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• Friday's game will be broadcast on Big 12 Now on ESPN+, with Kurtis Quillin (play-by-play) and former Bear Richard Cunningham (analyst) on the call.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• Fans can also tune in to the Baylor home radio broadcast, featuring Derek Smith and Ryan Boyd on the call.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">MAKING BANANA PANCAKES</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• Baylor and Youngstown State both have a redshirt freshman named </span><dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://baylorbears.com/sports/baseball/roster/jack-johnson/11493"><span style="color:black">Jack
Johnson</span></a></span></dfn><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> on their rosters.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• YSU's Johnson hails from Katy, Texas, the Penguins' only player from the Lone Star State.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• Baylor's Johnson is from Thousand Oaks, Calif.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">• BU's Johnson delivered the walk-off hit in the Opening Day thriller over Central Michigan, the first hit of his collegiate career.<br>
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