April 16, 2007

With heavy heart, Lake hits one out of the park

By Graham Hays
ESPN.com

Sometimes nothing matters quite so much as living in the moment.

Chelsi Lake is teaching her teammates to enjoy the moment.When Chelsi Lake's walk-off home run cleared the fence to give No. 9 Baylor a 4-3 comeback win against Oklahoma State on Saturday, it kept the Bears perfect in Big 12 play and bailed them out against a weaker opponent in a game that could have come back to haunt them in the standings had they lost.

For Baylor, a program that has never finished better than third in the conference regular season, Saturday's win, as well as the subsequent 11-3 rout of the Cowgirls on Sunday, capped a successful weekend rife with long-term implications. Having improved to 9-0 in league play, the Bears also moved three games clear of No. 2 Oklahoma and No. 5 Texas A&M in the loss column after both of those teams lost conference games.

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