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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; color: black;"><b>Bears Sitting in 4<sup>th</sup> Place at Maridoe Collegiate</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;"><b><i>Heard, Appel, Ovard in top 20 going into final round </i></b></span></p>
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</b>Jerry Hill; 254-709-4994, </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><u><a href="mailto:jerry_hill@baylor.edu" title="mailto:jerry_hill@baylor.edu" data-outlook-id="12cff7d3-a7ef-459c-8259-d8f46ef964d0" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">jerry_hill@baylor.edu</a></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><b><u><a href="https://scoreboard.clippd.com/tournaments/238978/scoring/team" data-outlook-id="37ce2606-a5a6-4d7b-b55d-74206c57a060" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">DAY
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</b>Shooting four shots better than the scoring average in Monday morning’s opening round, Baylor is fourth through the first 36 holes in the Maridoe Collegiate and goes into Tuesday’s final round ahead of a pair of top-20 teams.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The Bears followed up a 1-over 289 with a 21-over 309 in the afternoon round as winds picked up and the average scores went up by more than a stroke. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Seventh-ranked Oklahoma State shot even-par 576 and has a 14-shot lead on ninth-ranked Arizona State (590), followed by the host North Texas team (594), Baylor (598), 15th-ranked
Oklahoma (600) and No. 16 Alabama (601). </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">OSU boasts three of the four players who shot in red numbers for the day, led by Ethan Fang at 4-under 140. UConn transfer Alex Heard leads a trio of Baylor players in the top 20,
shooting 1-under 71 in the morning round and is tied for seventh at 1-over 145, just five shots off the lead. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Senior Jonas Appel matched Heard with six birdies on the day and is tied for 17<sup>th</sup> at 5-over 149, followed by junior Davis Ovard at 6-over 150. Ovard shot 2-under 70 in
the first round and was tied for fourth before an 8-over round of 80 in the afternoon. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Rounding out the scores in the starting lineup, Evan Vo and Sam Dossey are tied for 40<sup>th</sup> and 47<sup>th</sup>, respectively, at 11- and 12-over. Playing as an individual,
freshman Tyler Sanford tied Appel for the Bears’ second-best score in the afternoon at 4-over 76 and moved up to a tie for 38<sup>th</sup> at 10-over 154. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Tuesday’s third and final round will have an 8 a.m. shotgun start, with the Bears paired with Alabama and Oklahoma and teeing off on holes 4 through 7. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Live scoring for the final round is available at
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Collegiate</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">For the latest news on the Baylor men’s golf team, follow its official Facebook, X and Instagram accounts: @BaylorMGolf. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(21, 71, 52);"><b>Jerry Hill</b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"> | Director of Sports Journalism (T&F/XC/MG/WG)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Department of Athletics | Baylor University</span></p>
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