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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – March 18, 2023</span></b><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">No. 21 Baylor Softball Uses Three Home Runs to Defeat Houston, 8-5</span></b><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Bears record first multi-home run game since May 24, 2021</span></i></b><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">For more information contact: </span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Katy
Gilmore; 254-252-2182, </span><a href="mailto:katy_gilmore@baylor.edu" title="mailto:katy_gilmore@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0078D7;mso-ligatures:none">katy_gilmore@baylor.edu</span></a><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">WACO, Texas –</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"> No. 21 Baylor softball launched
three home runs in its 8-5 win over Houston Saturday afternoon at Getterman Stadium.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">The Bears, now 21-5 on the season, record their first multi-home run game since the 2021 National Invitational Softball Championship
last season, where they hit five in their win over North Alabama. </span><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">THE RUNDOWN</span></b><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">The Bears started off the game hot, when Sydney Collazos launched a two-RBI home run over the wall in left field to extend her hitting
streak to four-straight.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Baylor got on the board again in the second inning, after Josie Bower got in on the home run action and hit her first long ball of
the season over the wall in left-center field and put the Bears ahead, 3-0. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Shaylon Govan singled and Collazos doubled in the third inning, but no runs came home.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">After a leadoff hit by pitch in the fourth inning, Bower doubled to score Ana Watson and then McKenzie Wilson singled up the middle
with two outs to bring the Bears’ lead to 5-0. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">The Cougars had a big inning in the top of the fifth, plating four runs after a hit, a bases loaded HBP and a sacrifice fly.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">With the Bears clinging to a 5-4 lead, Watson added an insurance run after Collazos singled and Watson followed it up with a triple
to left center. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Baylor brought its lead to 8-4 in the bottom of the sixth, when Amber Toven blasted a two-run shot over the wall in right field and
also brought home Ashlyn Wachtendorf, who hit a bunt single earlier in the inning.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Houston added a run in the top of the seventh, but a strikeout and fly out ended the threat and secured the Bears’ 8-5 victory.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">HIGHLIGHTS</span></b><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Sydney Collazos, now 6-for-7 on the weekend, was a triple short of hitting for the cycle. She hit her first home run of the season
and the fourth of her career, while also recording a double and a single. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Josie Bower and Amber Toven also hit home runs in the game. Baylor has now hit 12 long balls on the season.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Four Bears had a multi-hit game, with Baylor totaling 12 hits on the day. This marks Baylor’s sixth game of the season with 12 or more
hits. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Ashlyn Wachtendorf recorded her first hit of the season.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Kaci West and RyLee Crandall combined in the circle, with West recording the win and Crandall picking up the save.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">WHAT’S NEXT</span></b><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none">Baylor will close out the three-game series with Houston Sunday, March 19, taking on the Cougars in the series finale at 1 p.m. CT
at Getterman Stadium. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">www.BaylorBears.com</span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#154734;mso-ligatures:none">Katy Gilmore</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"> | Associate Director of Athletic Communications</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Department of Athletics | Baylor University</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">O: 254-710-2743 | C: 254-252-2182</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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