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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 ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS – Nov. 11, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">Turnovers Costly in Baylor’s Loss at No. 25 Kansas State</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;background:white">Baylor QB Blake Shapen Throws Four TDs<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;background:white">By Jerry Hill, BaylorBears.com |
<a href="https://baylor.app.box.com/s/kmivkwskpgdkj2u6v7ixn774v5634pjf">Media Materials</a><o:p></o:p></span></i></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">Brent Ingram; 210-845-8651, </span><a href="mailto:brent_ingram@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">brent_ingram@baylor.edu</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">
</span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt">or Max Calderone; 254-265-1639, </span>
<a href="mailto:max_calderone@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">max_calderone@baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt"> or Colin Pirtle; 940-564-0351,
</span><a href="mailto:colin_pirtle1@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">colin_pirtle1@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"> Kansas State’s defense scored off turnovers in each half to help the 25<sup>th</sup>
ranked Wildcats pull away for a 59-25 victory over the Baylor Bears Saturday afternoon at Bill Snyder Family Stadium in a matchup of the last two Big 12 champions.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Blake Shapen threw for 253 yards and a career-high four touchdowns to lead the Bears, who fell to 3-7 overall and 2-5 in the Big 12. Keeping its slim Big 12 Championship
Game hopes alive, defending champion K-State improved to 7-3 and 5-2. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Will Howard accounted for four of the Wildcats’ six offensive touchdowns, completing 19-of-29 passes for 235 yards and three touchdowns and also scoring on a one-yard TD
run. Howard set the school record with his 45th career touchdown pass. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">But the separator for KSU was a 15-yard fumble return by Desmond Purnell in the first quarter and Keenan Garber’s pick-six return near the end of the third.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">In an eventful first half, K-State cashed in on a couple Baylor turnovers to go up 35-7 early in the second quarter. Purnell scored on a 15-yard return off a fumble forced
by Cody Stufflebean, and then tight end Christian Moore scored on a two-yard TD pass from Howard after a muffed punt snap.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Bears scored a touchdown on their opening drive of the game for the first time this season, capping a five-play, 72-yard drive with a 13-yard TD pass from Shapen to freshman
Dawson Pendergrass that tied it up at 7-7 early. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">After the Wildcats scored 28 unanswered points on two TD passes and a one-yard TD run by Howard and Moore’s fumble return, Baylor got a huge lift from a 70-yard punt return
by Josh Cameron. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Three plays later, the Shapen-to-Pendergrass connection worked again from the 1-yard line to make it a three-score game, 35-13.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Devyn Bobby recovered an onside kick by fellow defensive back Reggie Bush at the Wildcats’ 47, and the Bears converted once on a fourth-down play. But on a fourth-and-eight
from the 34, kicker Isaiah Hankins lined up for a 51-yard field goal and failed to connect with tight end Jake Robertson on a deep pass.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Bears used another razzle-dazzle play to get on the board midway through the third quarter. Shapen caught a backward pass from Dominic Richardson and connected with tight
end Drake Dabney for a 63-yard touchdown that got it back to a three-score game, 38-19.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dabney had his second 100-yard day of the season and his career with 105 yards on four catches. In one of his best games in a Baylor uniform, Richardson rushed for 89 yards
on 17 carries and caught one pass for eight yards. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">K-State scored again late after Baylor’s fourth turnover of the day, with backup quarterback Avery Johnson connecting with tight end Garrett Oakley for a 28-yard TD pass.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Shapen led a 10-play, 77-yard fourth-quarter drive and hooked up with Monaray Baldwin for his fourth TD pass of the day with 20 seconds left in the game.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Bears will go back on the road to face TCU (4-5, 2-4) next Saturday, Nov. 18, at a time to be announced at Amon G. Carter Stadium in Fort Worth. TCU is hosting seventh-ranked
Texas later Saturday night.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">- BaylorBears.com -</span></i><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#385623;mso-ligatures:none">Brent Ingram</span></b><span style="color:#385623;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><span style="color:black;mso-ligatures:none">| Assistant AD for Communications</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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