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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#212121;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">Baylor women’s tennis will host a media availability TOMORROW (Tuesday) at 9 a.m. at the Hurd Tennis Center.</span></b><b><span style="color:#212121">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#212121">Head coach Joey Scrivano will be joined by student-athletes Paula Barañano and Brooke Thompson to talk about the team’s selection to the NCAA Tournament.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">Baylor WT Earns At-Large Bid to NCAA Tournament<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;background:white">The Bears will be making their 24th appearance in program history</span></i></b><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#212121">For more information contact: </span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#212121">Shelby Hild; 254-405-7591, </span><a href="mailto:Shelby_hild@baylor.edu" title="mailto:Shelby_hild@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#0078D7">Shelby_hild@baylor.edu</span></a><span style="color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:#212121">WACO, Texas –</span></b><span style="color:#212121"> Baylor women’s tennis will be making its 24th NCAA Tournament appearance with an at-large selection, as it was announced on Monday
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#212121">The Bears (16-13) will open against SMU (16-8) on Friday (May 5) and Quinnipiac (15-8) will square off with No. 2 national seed and regional host Texas A&M (27-2). The winners of both
matches will advance to the regional final on Saturday. All matches will be played at Mitchell Tennis Center in Bryan-College Station, Texas.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#212121">Baylor is 38-19 all-time in the NCAA Tournament and is making its 17th appearance under the direction of head coach Joey Scrivano. The Bears’ selection is the third-straight for the
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#212121">Last season, the Bears drew Washington in the opening round and took down the Huskies, 4-2, before falling to regional-host Texas A&M, 4-1.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#212121">Earlier this year, Baylor powered past SMU, 4-1, highlighted by Paula Barañano’s match-clinching win on No. 5 singles on Senior Night.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#212121">First- and second-round competition in the NCAA Championship is held across 16 regional campus sites May 5-7. The winner of each regional advances to a super-regional comprised of just
two teams May 12 or 13. The quarterfinals, semifinals and championship match will all be held at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Fla., the first time the men's and women's championships for DI, DII and DIII will be at a single site.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#212121">Selections for the singles and doubles championship, held May 22-27, will be released Tuesday by the NCAA.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:#212121">A complete bracket for the team championship is available at
<a href="https://www.ncaa.com/sports/tennis-women/d1">NCAA.com</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#385623;mso-ligatures:none">Shelby Hild</span></b><span style="color:#385623;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none">| Director of Communications (WBB, WTEN)</span><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Department of Athletics | Baylor University</span><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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