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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><b><u>BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – April 18, 2026</u></b></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Utah Evens Series with Baylor SB After 8-2 win Saturday</b></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Both teams battled through multiple delays as rain moved through Central Texas</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="70c5f7c9-9bf2-4216-8c1c-e12a340cb7d8" 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 suffered an 8-2 setback to Utah on Saturday afternoon in a stop-and-start contest that featured nearly 90 minutes of weather delays at
Getterman Stadium. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In a game defined by shifting momentum, the Bears trailed 3-2 into the sixth inning before lightning halted play for one hour and 10 minutes. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Baylor briefly regained control out of the delay, with a strong 1-2-3 inning by Lexi Warncke, but Utah capitalized late, scoring five runs with two outs in the seventh to
pull away and seal the win.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Utah struck first in the second inning, taking advantage of a Baylor error before an RBI single put the Utes ahead 1-0.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">BU responded in the bottom half with its best offensive stretch of the day. Faith Piper opened the inning with a single before Olivia Buettner roped an RBI double to right-center.
Abi Flores followed with a double of her own, plating the go-ahead run and giving the Bears a 2-1 advantage.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Utes answered immediately in the third with a solo home run to even the score, and added another run in the fifth on a solo shot to take a 3-2 lead.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">After the lengthy lightning delay in the sixth inning, Lexi Warncke returned to the circle and retired Utah in order, keeping Baylor within striking distance with two more
cracks at the plate.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">After Baylor could not capitalize on scoring chances in the sixth, Utah broke the game open in the seventh with two outs. A walk and hit-by-pitch extended the inning before
a two-RBI single pushed the lead to 5-2. Moments later, a three-run home run capped the five-run outburst, stretching the lead to 8-2.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Baylor was unable to respond in the bottom half, as Utah closed out the contest to even the series.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>GAME NOTES</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-transform: none;" role="presentation">25-20 (8-9) this season, Baylor is 14-9 at home</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 leads the all-time series with Utah 5-3, with a 1-1 mark as conference foes.</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 enters the series finale with a chance to win or sweep the series for the fifth time this season, they are 2-2 in the previous four chances</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 used its 43<sup>rd</sup> different lineup in its 45<sup>th</sup> game of the 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">BU is 501-203 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"><b>Brooklyn Carter</b> has now reached base in a career-high 11-straight games</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>Carter
</b>stole two bases on Saturday, her second multi-steal game of the 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>Lexi Warncke
</b>set a new career high with 6.2 innings pitched</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>Olivia Buettner</b> had two doubles, a new career high.</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">Six of<b> Buettner’s
</b>16 hits this season have gone for extra bases </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>has a hit in each of her last four games, setting a new career high</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>Abi Flores
</b>connected on her third double of the season, one off her career high (4) set last 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>Faith Piper
</b>picked up another hit on Saturday and now has five in her last three games</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>Kaygen Marshall
</b>upped her career-best on-base streak to 12 games<b><br>
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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 the stop-and-start nature of the game</i></b> — “We had so many opportunities with the runners in scoring position and producers in
the box. [Anna Reimers] shut us down, so I tip my hat to her. I was frustrated on our side, of course, but sometimes you’ve got to give credit to the pitcher. It was a game that was difficult to get the rhythm going, but more often than not when you have a
delay, the momentum shifts to the team that's losing, and I've seen that 80-90% of the time it seems like, we had opportunities to come out and make that happen, we had something cooking there in the sixth, but we couldn't push across the run.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">”</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Baylor will go for the series win on Sunday morning at 11 a.m. All games for the remainder of the season will be
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><a href="https://www.espn.com/search/_/q/baylor/o/watch" data-outlook-id="1f38f8fa-3b03-46a3-90fc-462afffe2023" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>televised
on ESPN+</u></a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> and heard on air and online via
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COOL FM.</u></a></span></p>
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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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