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<h1 align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;text-decoration:none">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – March 30, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">Baylor MT Opens Road Stretch with 4-2 Win over BYU</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">For more information contact:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">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:"Aptos",sans-serif">PROVO, Utah –</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> After a delayed start for the match to move indoors due to weather, No. 27 Baylor
was victorious over BYU, 4-2, on Saturday evening in the Bears’ first match played at the Cougars’ home courts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">The Bears (18-7 (2-2 Big 12)) took the doubles point behind Courts One and Two and stole three singles victories, while BYU (11-7 (0-4 Big 12)) took only two singles wins on
its senior night.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">THE RUNDOWN
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">After a move to the indoor four-court facility delayed the beginning of the match, the Bears came out hot in doubles to warm up the Provo air for the first time ever. No. 40
Zsombor Velcz and Tadeas Paroulek battled BYU’s Wally Thayne and Zach Fuchs at the No. 1 doubles court to force a breaker, where the Bears were victorious, 8-6.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Holding off a surge from the Cougars, Devin Badenhorst and Luc Koenig clinched the doubles point with a 7-5 result at Two over Jack Barnett and Redd Owen.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">In singles, BU was able to steal five first sets across all six matches before putting up a fight to clinch the match.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">The Cougars struck first in singles, taking Court One as Jack Barnett defeated No. 50 Paroulek with a pair of 6-2 sets. The Bears responded right back at No. 4, as freshman
Louis Bowden won his third-straight match in 6-3, 6-2 fashion over Owen. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Thayne was next at No. 2, pushing No. 74 Velcz to three sets before getting the win, 5-7, 6-4, 6-4, but that was all she wrote for the Cougars on Saturday night, as the Bears
scored back-to-back points from Badenhorst and Koenig to seal the senior day spoiler.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Badenhorst, the 88<sup>th</sup> player in the country, split the first two sets with Fuchs but had the slight advantage in the third-set tiebreak to get the win, 9-7. At five,
Koenig won in straight sets, 6-4, 6-2, over Tygen Goldammer. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Unfinished but leading, Oskar Brostrom Poulsen was locked in a second set with David Duong after taking the first, 6-3.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">UP NEXT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">The Bears continue their four-match road streak with a stretch in Oklahoma, facing the Sooners on Friday, April 5, and the Cowboys on Sunday, April 7.
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<p class="MsoBodyText" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">- BaylorBears<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none">.com</span></span><span style="color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#073D1E;mso-ligatures:none">Colin Pirtle</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#073D1E;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">|
Associate Director of Athletics Communications (T&F/XC, MTEN, FB) </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Department of Athletics | Baylor University</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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