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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"><b><u>BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – May 1, 2026</u></b></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Baylor SB Rallies to Claim the Middle Game against No. 2 Texas Tech</b></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>BU’s five-run comeback was its largest since 2014</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="cd877de0-5411-459b-937e-7a064f4e3382" 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>LUBBOCK, Texas</b> – Baylor softball used a late rally and some timely power to outlast Texas Tech, 8-7, Friday evening at Tracy Sellers Field, securing a massive Big 12
victory.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Bears scored first, only to see Texas Tech reel off six unanswered runs to go up 6-1. From there, it was the Bears who punched back, with four in the fifth, and three
more in the seventh, capped by a clutch pinch-hit single from Kaci West to make it 8-6. With Tech threatening one more time, Peyton Tanner came on in the seventh to close it out in the circle for her third save of the season.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The win was Baylor’s first road win over a top-five team since beating No. 5 Texas in Austin in May of 2023. With the win and an Iowa State loss on Friday, the Bears officially
clinched a spot in Oklahoma City for the Big 12 Tournament next week. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Baylor struck first, with a couple of balls off the wall as Brooklyn Carter got the inning started with a double and later scored on a Sa’Mya Jones base hit to take the 1-0
lead.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Texas Tech answered with a big third inning to grab momentum, thanks in large part to a three-run bomb off the bat of Jasmyn Burns for the second day in a row.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Trailing the Red Raiders 6-1 in the fifth, Kaygen Marshall delivered a solo home run to get Baylor back on the board, and just a few batters later, Brooklyn Carter followed
with her first home run of the season, a three-run shot to pull Baylor within a single run.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Baylor nearly added two more, but Texas Tech’s Mihyia Davis went over the wall to rob a two-run home run off the bat of Cran and preserve the Red Raiders’ advantage.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In the seventh, Sa’Mya Jones and Amber Toven reached on a couple of infield hits to set the table. Jones came around to score on a ball off the bat of Cran, tying the game
and setting the stage for the decisive moment.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">With the bases loaded and the game hanging in the balance, Kaci West delivered one of the biggest hits of her illustrious Baylor career, driving in two runs as a pinch hitter
to give the Bears an 8-6 lead.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Texas Tech answered with a run in the bottom half to cut it to 8-7, but Peyton Tanner came on in relief and shut the door, getting the final two outs with the tying run at
third base.</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">Baylor’s five-run comeback was its largest since a seven-run comeback against Kentucky in 2014</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 beat a top-five team on the road for the first time since May of 2023 at No. 5 Texas.</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 knocked off a top-two team for the first time since beating No. 1 Oklahoma on Feb. 19, 2023.</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">The Bears lead the all-time series 67-27, with a 30-6 mark in the Hub City. </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 is 18-7 this season when scoring first.</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">Seven of Baylor’s nine starters recorded a hit in Friday’s 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">Baylor used its 46th different lineup in its 52nd 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">Friday is the first time this season the Bears have used the same lineup in back-to-back 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> belted her 10th homerun of the season, the most by a freshman since Kassidy Krupit’s 10 in 2019. </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>Marshall</b> is one of just five freshmen in the Glenn Moore Era with double-digit home runs.</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>hit her first home run of the season with a three-run blast in the fifth, extending her on-base streak to a career-best 18 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>tallied her 46th-career multi-hit game and her ninth-career multi-RBI 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>Sa’Mya Jones
</b>picked up the second multi-hit game of 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>Kaci West
</b>delivered her first hit since March 20th at Texas.</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>is the only player to collect a hit in each of the first two games against the Red Raiders.</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>Sadie Ross</b> induced a double-play ball in each of the first two innings on Friday, giving her three in her first three innings of work on the South Plains.</span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Baylor will look to claim the series in the regular-season finale on Saturday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. The game will be featured on
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</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Baylor’s first nationally-televised game since 2024 against Texas.</span></p>
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