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<a name="_Hlk490052374"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS –
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Baylor Baseball’s Enzo Apodaca Named Big 12 Player of the Week<br>
</span></b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Redshirt junior OF hit .600 with a home run and five RBIs in BU’s road sweep at BYU<br>
</span></i><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">For more information contact:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black"> Max Calderone, 254-265-1639,
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:Max_Calderone@Baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Max_Calderone@Baylor.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">IRVING, Texas –
</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">Baylor baseball redshirt junior outfielder Enzo Apodaca has been named the Big 12 Player of the Week, as announced Monday afternoon by the conference
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">Apodaca was terrific in BU’s road sweep at BYU, leading the team and the league with a .600 batting average for the week and reaching base
in 12 of his 18 plate appearances against the Cougars. He totaled nine hits, including a five-hit performance in Saturday’s series finale, and racked up five RBIs with runs driven in in each of the three games.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">A product of Scottsdale, Ariz., Apodaca went 3-for-6 in Thursday night’s series opener, picked up an RBI infield single on Friday, then collected
Baylor’s first five-hit game in two seasons in Saturday’s finale, singling four times, walking once, stealing a base and crushing his career-high fourth home run of the season.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">The Bears’ leadoff batter has paced the offense over the last nine games, slashing .447/.563/.632 since his return to the top spot in the batting
order on March 29, which began a stretch of eight wins in nine contests for Baylor. Apodaca is riding a team-best 13-game hitting streak, owns 12 multi-hit performances and leads the club with seven multi-RBI games in 2024.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">The series sweep marked BU’s first over a Big 12 opponent, and first on the road, since April 26-28, 2019, when the Bears took all three from
TCU in Fort Worth. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">This is Baylor’s third weekly award of the 2024 season and fourth under second-year head coach Mitch Thompson. Apodaca’s honor marks just the
third time since the 2015 season that BU has had a Player, Pitcher and Newcomer of the Week honoree in the same season.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">To stay up to date on all things Baylor baseball, follow the team on its official Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts: @BaylorBaseball.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">2024 BAYLOR BASEBALL HONORS<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">Enzo Apodaca, OF<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">April 15 – Big 12 Player of the Week<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">Mason Green, LHP<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">March 18 – Big 12 Newcomer of the Week
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.25pt">Mason Marriott, RHP<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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