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</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><b>BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – March 29, 2024<br>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: black;"><b>Baylor Equestrian Drops Tight 10-9 Battle to No. 1 TCU in Big 12 Championship Semifinal<br>
</b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;"><i>Flat dominance continues at Big 12 Championship<br>
</i></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><b>For more information contact:</b> Kalie Smith, 409-351-0790,
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="mailto:Kalie_Smith1@baylor.edu" id="OWA56505986-a2e4-1870-9c8f-3a5bb495d7e3" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Kalie_Smith1@baylor.edu</a></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>THE RUNDOWN</b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>WACO, Texas
</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;"><b>–</b> Baylor equestrian (2-11) dropped a tight 10-9 battle to No. 1 TCU (12-1) in the Big 12 Championship Semifinal Friday afternoon at the
Willis Family Equestrian Center.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">BU struggled in Fences but came back strong in Reining and Flat to tie the meet, 7-7. Despite some strong rides, Baylor dropped
Horsemanship, 3-2.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">Lauren Jorgensen (80.67) picked up the sole Fences point for the Bears.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">Over in the Western arena, Baylor tied Reining, 2-2. Riley Cachat (70.17) and Emily Moomaw (72.17) scratched two points on the board.
Sadie Peters (71.33) tied her point, leading to the event tie.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">After the break, BU charged back to claim Flat, 4-1. Jorgensen (80.67), Lauren Reid (82.33), Dominika Silvestri (80.33) and Maddie
Vorhies (88) added to the tally. This event win marks the third-consecutive Flat victory.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">Alexis Rutledge (76.17) and Nadalee Vasquez (73.83) scratched two points on the board in Horsemanship.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>NOTABLES</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Baylor moves to 25-13 against TCU all-time.</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">BU Flat claimed its third-consecutive victory.</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Bears took three points by margins less than or equal to 0.5.</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Emily Moomaw (Reining) scored a season-high 72.17 aboard Bear.</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Lauren Reid (Flat) picked up her sixth-consecutive point.</span></li></ul>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>STAT OF THE MEET</b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">5- Five Bears made their Big 12 Championship debut, including Riley Cachat (Reining), Bella Hehr (Reining), Emily Moomaw (Reining), Sadie Peters
(Reining) and Kalena Reynolds (Reining).</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>TOP QUOTES</b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Head Coach Casie Maxwell</b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i>On today’s meet…</i></span></p>
<p class="elementToProof" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“I am incredibly proud of our team's effort today. They rode outstanding and demonstrated tremendous support for one another
all day. This was a tough loss, especially coming so close, but I could not ask more of their fight and efforts today. They have a lot to be proud of and I expect them to come out with strong performances again tomorrow and finish the conference championship
on a high note.”</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>WHAT’S NEXT</b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">Baylor equestrian (2-11) faces Fresno State (3-9) in the 2024 Big 12 Championship Consolation Saturday morning at the Willis Family
Equestrian Center.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;">To stay up to date throughout the season on all things Baylor equestrian, follow the team on its official Facebook, Twitter and
Instagram accounts: @BaylorEQ.</span></p>
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<span style="color: rgb(21, 71, 52);"><b>Kalie Smith</b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"> | Communications Coordinator (Equestrian)</span></p>
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