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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – Sept. 19, 2024</span></u></b><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Baylor Soccer Drops Conference Contest Against Arizona, 1-0<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Bears shut out by the Wildcats
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">For more information contact: </span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Katy
Gilmore; 254-252-2182, </span><a href="mailto:katy_gilmore@baylor.edu" title="mailto:katy_gilmore@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#0078D7;mso-ligatures:none">katy_gilmore@baylor.edu</span></a><span style="color:#212121;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">THE RUNDOWN</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
<b>WACO, Texas – </b><span style="background:white">Baylor soccer dropped its conference contest against Arizona, 1-0, Thursday night at Betty Lou Mays Field.
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<span style="background:white">The first half was almost all Wildcats as Arizona put up 11 shots in the first half to Baylor’s two. Adriana Merriam and Theresa McCullough put up BU’s only first half shots.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Azul Alvarez was perfect in goal in the first half, being tested four times and coming up with four saves, including back-to-back saves in the
30<sup>th</sup> minute. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Baylor came out of halftime putting up the first shot off the boot of Tyler Isgrig in the 47<sup>th</sup> minute, but it was Arizona who struck
first. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">After an assist from UA’s Shanti Weddington, Gianna Christiansen found the back of the net to put the Wildcats up 1-0 in the 59<sup>th</sup>
minute. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Baylor put its first shot on goal in the 63<sup>rd</sup> minute but the Wildcats goalkeeper came up with the save. Six more shots continued to
test Arizona but Olivia Ramey in goal for the Wildcats remained perfect. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Kai Hayes almost scored her second goal in as many games in the 67<sup>th</sup> minute but a save at the goal line stopped the ball from completely
eclipsing the line. The Bears had another great chance in the 85<sup>th</sup> minute when a shot from Isgrig went off the left woodwork but didn’t find the back of the net.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;background:white;mso-ligatures:none">Down to their last chance, BU won a corner kick in the 90<sup>th</sup> minute but the Bears weren’t able to capitalize and fell, 1-0.
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<b>HIGHLIGHTS</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Kai Hayes played a career-high 73 minutes<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Adriana Merriam played a career-high 77 minutes<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Tyler Isgrig had a team leading four shots, two on goal<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Theresa McCullough had two shots, one on goal<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Five different Bears all recorded one shot, with Kai Hayes and Skylar Zinnecker putting up BU’’s only other shots on frame<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Azul Alvarez played all 90 minutes in goal<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Alvarez tied a career-high with eight saves<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">QUOTABLE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Head coach Michelle Lenard on the game …<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">“Regardless of who’s coming up next, we’ve got to finish. Teams are coming out with a specific game
plan against us, and we need to be able to adjust faster.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Tyler Isgrig on the chances she had during the game …<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">“I would say the chances I had weren’t really easy. I feel like I tried to create those, we got it
in that area and then [the team] just let me try to work. I felt like I tried everything I could in that moment to at least counteract their physicality and some of their aggressiveness”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Skylar Zinnecker on dealing with not getting the results they’ve been wanting …
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">“This team wants it, so I think we use this game as motivation. We’re only two games into Big 12 play
and this was exactly halfway through regular season play [so] it’s still so early. Taking a loss on our field [is] just not what we want to do here at home, but we have another home game Sunday so we’re just kind of using this loss [as] that momentum to go
forward.”<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">WHAT'S NEXT</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
<span style="background:white">Up next, the Bears will host the Houston Cougars for its third conference game on the season on Sunday, Sept. 22 at 1 p.m. CT.
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