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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; color: black;"><b>MG: Heard Cracks Top 10 at Big 12 Championship</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;"><b><i>Bears in seventh place after two solid rounds at Prairie Dunes</i></b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><b>For more information contact:
</b>Jerry Hill; 254-709-4994, </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><a href="mailto:jerry_hill@baylor.edu" title="mailto:jerry_hill@baylor.edu" data-outlook-id="d8fda752-5f79-4ee6-8544-05f7005b8917" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>jerry_hill@baylor.edu</u></a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><a href="https://scoreboard.clippd.com/tournaments/239632/scoring/team" data-outlook-id="d8a900ce-f2a6-4e4d-86e7-4172ee309d15" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><b><u>BIG
12 DAY 1 RESULTS</u></b></a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>HUTCHINSON, Kan. –
</b>UConn transfer Alex Heard, the medalist at last year’s Big East tournament, fired back-to-back rounds of 1-under 69 on Monday and is tied for seventh at the Big 12 Championship at Prairie Dunes Country Club. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Avoiding the big numbers, Baylor shot 5-over 285 in the morning round and came back with a 4-over 284 to sit in seventh place at 9-over 569 through the first 36 holes, in front of
four top-50 teams in the 16-team tournament. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Fifth-ranked Oklahoma State created some separation with a second-round score of 13-under 267 that leaves the Cowboys seven shots ahead of 20<sup>th</sup>-ranked Arizona at 14-under
546. Sixth-ranked Texas Tech is third at 1-under 559, followed by TCU (1-over, 561), BYU (2-over, 562) and UCF (7-over, 567). </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Heard carded six birdies, 28 pars and only four bogeys combined in Monday’s two rounds, keeping him in the medalist hunt at 2-under 138, just six shots back of Oklahoma State’s Preston
Stout. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">At the halfway mark, Jonas Appel and Davis Ovard are tied for 33<sup>rd</sup> at 3-over 143, with Auburn transfer Evan Vo tied for 42<sup>nd</sup> at 5-over 145. Ovard had four birdies
in an opening-round 69, while Appel birdied his penultimate hole to shoot 2-over 71 in the afternoon. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Subbing in for Sam Dossey in the second round, sophomore Vincent Stjernfeldt was even par through his first nine holes before a triple bogey at the par-4 8<sup>th</sup> hole and
three bogeys in the closing stretch to shoot 6-over 75. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Paired with BYU, UCF and Iowa State, Baylor will start on the front nine with tee times starting at 10 a.m. Live scoring is available at
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><a href="https://scoreboard.clippd.com/tournaments/239632/scoring/team" data-outlook-id="dac073a1-2c07-46e4-8fe8-b8835a8bfa7b" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>Big
12 Championship</u></a></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="color: rgb(21, 71, 52);"><b>Jerry Hill</b></span><span style="color: black;"> | Director of Sports Journalism (T&F/XC/MG/WG)</span></div>
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