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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><b><u>BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – April 17, 2026</u></b></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt;"><b>Baylor SB Run Rules Utah 9-1 in the Series Opener</b></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>BU moves game two of the series to 6 p.m. on Saturday </b></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>For more information, contact:
</b>Matt Roberts, 254-227-2280, </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><a href="mailto:WM_Roberts@Baylor.edu" data-outlook-id="cdea5ca3-b797-4d30-a25f-f478adfd0e3e" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>WM_Roberts@Baylor.edu</u></a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>WACO, Texas</b> – Baylor softball opened its three-game Big 12 series with a dominant 9-1 run-rule victory over Utah Friday night at Getterman Stadium.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Bears scored in all five innings, with all nine starters reaching base, while Peyton Tanner delivered a complete-game effort in the circle to secure the early finish.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Over her last four starts, Tanner has gone 21.2 innings, scattering 12 hits and striking out 16. Bu improved to 25-19 and 8-8 in Big 12 play, while Utah dropped to 29-16-1
and 5-10-1 in league play.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Game two of the series, originally slated for 1 p.m., has been pushed back to 6 p.m. to avoid potential weather earlier in the day.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>RUNDOWN</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Baylor wasted no time getting on the board in the first inning. Sa’Mya Jones reached on an error and came around to score on an RBI single from Leah Cran to give the Bears
a 1-0 lead.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Baylor added another run in the second, as Lexie Warncke walked, stole second and scored on an RBI single up the middle from Amber Toven to extend the lead to 2-0.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Baylor broke the game open in the third inning with three runs on three hits. Kaygen Marshall singled to start the rally before Cran doubled to deep left, and Faith Piper
followed with an RBI single. Abi Flores added a sacrifice fly, and the Bears took advantage of a passed ball to push the lead to 5-0.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Utah got on the board in the fourth, capitalizing on a Baylor error to score its lone run and trim the deficit to 5-1.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Bears answered immediately in the bottom half, scoring on a Utah throwing error following a single from Toven and a walk from Jones to make it 6-1.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Baylor sealed the run-rule victory in the fifth inning. After a leadoff walk and stolen base from Gigi Lindsey, Jones dropped down a bunt single and ended up on third while
two more runs scored to make it 8-1. Toven followed with a sacrifice fly to seal the game-one win for the Bears.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-transform: none;" role="presentation">25-19 (8-8) this season, Baylor is 14-8 at home, clinching a winning record at home for the 26th time in 27 seasons.</span></li><li style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 6pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-transform: none;" role="presentation">Friday was Baylor’s first meeting with Utah as conference foes, as they now lead the all-time series 5-2.</span></li><li style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 6pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-transform: none;" role="presentation">BU is 501-202 all-time at Getterman Stadium.</span></li><li style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 6pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-transform: none;" role="presentation">Baylor won its second-straight Big 12 series opener, improving to 3-3 this season in conference series openers.</span></li><li style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 6pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-transform: none;" role="presentation"><b>Amber Toven
</b>picked up three hits, her most since getting three against Wichita State on Feb. 7.</span></li><li style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 6pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-transform: none;" role="presentation"><b>Toven’s
</b>two RBIs gave her a 10th multi-RBI game this season, and 28 for her career.</span></li><li style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 6pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-transform: none;" role="presentation"><b>Brooklyn Carter
</b>matched her career-best 10-game hitting streak.</span></li><li style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 6pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-transform: none;" role="presentation"><b>Sa’Mya Jones
</b>collected a hit for a third-straight game.</span></li><li style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 6pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-transform: none;" role="presentation"><b>Jones
</b>finished with a career-high two RBIs</span></li><li style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 6pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-transform: none;" role="presentation"><b>Jones’</b> three runs scored are a new career-high and tied for the most by a Baylor player this season.</span></li><li style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 6pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-transform: none;" role="presentation"><b>Leah Cran
</b>notched her 22nd career multi-hit game.</span></li><li style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 6pt 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-transform: none;" role="presentation"><b>Jensen Vienne
</b>made her first start of the season and the fourth of her career. </span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><i>Baylor Head Coach Glenn Moore on getting off to a fast start</i></b> — “We talk a lot about if we can give our pitchers some breathing room, they're going to pitch a
little more relaxed, we did. We had an opportunity to do a little more damage in the second inning. I was certainly happy to see Peyton come out and control the zone, then for our offense, give her some room there, that was big.”</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><i>Amber Toven on the importance of getting this win to start the series
</i></b>— “This one was pretty up there. I mean, granted, I think we did pretty well against A&M — I know the score obviously didn't show that, but we were hitting the ball and seeing it well, so I think we kind of used that momentum to carry us into today
and hopefully the rest of the weekend.”</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>WHAT’S NEXT</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Baylor has pushed the second game of the series back from its original start time of 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. to avoid some potential weather in</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">All games for the remainder of the season will be
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Follow @BaylorSoftball on X, Instagram and Facebook for additional updates.</span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">Matt Roberts | Director of Athletic Communications</span></p>
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<span style="color: black;">Department of Athletics | Baylor University<br>
C: 254-227-2280</span></p>
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