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Baylor (4-3) vs. BYU (2-4) Tue., March 2, 2010 | 6:30 p.m. CST Waco, Texas | Baylor Ballpark (5,000) $3 Tuesday (all tickets $3)		Baylor (4-3) vs. Louisiana Tech (5-2) Wed., March 3, 2010 | 6:30 p.m. CST Waco, Texas | Baylor Ballpark (5,000) $1 Hot Dog Wednesday
PROBABLE PITCHING MATCHUPS (2010 STATISTICS) Baylor: RHP Trent Blank, (1-0, 0.00 ERA, 2.2 IP, 1 BB, 2 K) BYU: RHP Shawn Hardesty, (0-1, 16.88 ERA, 2.2 IP, 1 BB, 0 K)		PROBABLE PITCHING MATCHUPS (2010 STATISTICS) Baylor: RHP Craig Fritsch, (0-0, 1.29 ERA, 7.0 IP, 2 BB, 4 K) La. Tech: RHP Trevor Petersen, (2-0, 3.18 ERA, 5.2 IP, 8 K)
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COMPLETE GAME NOTES

Baylor continues its season-opening homestand with midweek games against BYU and Louisiana Tech. The Bears are coming off a 1-2 weekend in the fifth-annual QTI €ˆBaylor Classic. Baylor knocked off Texas State, 3-2, in the tournament-opener on Friday, but fell to Texas A&M, 4-2, on Saturday, and dropped its finale against Western €ˆKentucky, 6-2, on Sunday.

BYU enters Tuesday's game with a 2-4 record, but the Cougars are fresh off a pair of wins against UC Davis. BYU started the season with a four-game losing streak after being swept by UC €ˆRiverside and lolsing the opener against UC Davis. The Cougars have scored 18 runs in their last two games.

Louisiana Tech enters Wednesday's game with a 5-2 record. The Bulldogs dropped their season opener against Alcorn State, 1-0, but have won five of six since then. After being shutout in the opener, Louisiana Tech has scored at least eight runs in each of the last six games, and the Bulldogs are averaging more than 12 runs per game during that stretch. Louisiana Tech took two of three from Alcorn State to start the season, then won at Grambling State, 20-3. This past weekend, the Bulldogs rebounded from dropping the series opener to take two of three from Mcneese State.

All Baylor baseball games are broadcast live on Waco's 1660 ESPN Radio. Live streaming audio and GameTracker also are available for all Baylor baseball games online at www.BaylorBears.com, the official website of Baylor Athletics and a member of the CBS College Sports Network.

Live streaming video is available for the BYU and Louisiana Tech games. For more information, follow the Baylor All-Access link at www.BaylorBears.com.

SERIES INFORMATION
BYU COUGARS
Overall: Baylor leads 1-0
Waco: Baylor leads 1-0
Provo: Never Met
First Meeting: 2/25/2009

LOUISIANA TECH BULLDOGS
Overall: Baylor leads 3-2
Waco: Louisiana Tech leads 2-1
Ruston: Never Met
Neutral Site: Baylor leads 2-0
First Meeting: 3/3/1983
Last Meeting: 3/5/2008

COACHES

BAYLOR: Steve Smith

Alma Mater: Baylor, 1986

Career Record: 556-366-1 (16th season)

Record at Baylor: 556-366-1 (16th season)

BYU: Vance Law

Career Record: 319-267-2 (11th season)

Record at BYU: 319-267-2 (11th season)

LOUISIANA TECH: Wade Simoneaux

Career Record: 180-215 (eighth season)

Record at La. Tech: 180-215 (eighth season)

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BAYLOR-BYU SERIES HISTORY
Baylor and BYU met for the first time in 2009. Landis Ware scored on a two-out passed ball in the ninth inning to give the Bears a 7-6 walk-off win in a rare Monday game on February 23, 2009 at Baylor Ballpark.

BAYLOR vs. THE €ˆMOUNTAIN WEST €ˆCONFERENCE
Baylor is 143-107 all-time against programs currently in the Mountain West Conference. The vast majority of that was against TCU (135-105). Baylor also has played Air Force (2-0), BYU (1-0) and San Diego State (5-2).

BAYLOR-LOUISIANA TECH SERIES HISTORY
Baylor and Louisiana Tech have met five times, and the Bears hold a 3-2 advantage in the all-time series. Louisiana Tech leads 2-1 in games played in Waco, while the Bears have won both neutral site meetings. The last time the two programs met was in 2008, when the Bulldogs came to Waco for a pair of midweek games. Baylor dropped the first game 9-6, but came back to win 7-6 the following day.

BAYLOR VS. THE WESTERN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE
Louisiana Tech is the only team Baylor has played from the Western Athletic Conference. The Bears are 3-2 all-time against the Bulldogs.

LAST TIME VS. BYU
BAYLOR 7, BYU 6 • FEB. €ˆ23, 2009 • BAYLOR BALLPARK • WACO, TEXAS
Landis Ware scampered home from third base on a passed ball with two outs in the bottom of the ninth to give sixth-ranked Baylor a 7-6 victory over BYU in a rare Monday night game at Baylor Ballpark. It was the third walk-off win in Baylor's first four games of the 2009 season.

Ware knocked a one-out, pinch-hit single to right-center and moved to second when Joey Hainsfurther's pop up down the line in right landed in no-man's land. BYU right fielder Michael Bowen quickly snagged the ball and nearly got the force out on Ware at second base; however, shortstop Brandon Relf could muffed Bowen's low throw, and Ware was safe.

Brooks Kimmey then beat out a would-be double play ball, putting runners on the corners with two outs and bringing pinch hitter Ben Booker to the plate. Booker saw one pitch - a breaking ball that skipped past BYU catcher Bryce Ayoso, allowing Ware to score the winning run.

Logan Verrett (2-0) earned the victory in relief. He recorded one strikeout and worked around an error in 1.2 scoreless and hitless innings. Starter Aaron Miller allowed five runs, four earned, on four hits and four walks with five strikeouts over 5.1 innings. Baylor pitchers held BYU hitless after Sean McNaughton's leadoff single in the sixth.

Jake Wortham (0-1) took the loss, allowing one unearned run on two hits and no walks with one strikeout over 1.0 innings.

It was a teeter-totter game throughout the night as each team held the lead twice prior to the game-ending play. BYU's Jonathan Cluff put the Cougars up 1-0 with a one-out RBI single in the second.

Baylor answered with three runs on three hits and a pair of walks in the bottom of the third. Shaver Hansen and Raynor Campbell hit back-to-back home runs on the inning's first two pitches. Dustin Dickerson followed with a single and later scored on Hainsfurther's sacrifice fly.

LAST TIME VS. LOUISIANA TECH
LOUISIANA TECH 9, BAYLOR 6 • MARCH 4, 2008 • BAYLOR BALLPARK • WACO, TEXAS
Clay Alexander's pinch-hit, two-run double keyed a five-run ninth inning as Louisiana Tech rallied past No. 11 Baylor 9-6 at Baylor Ballpark. The loss snapped a season-opening, seven-game winning streak for the Bears, who saw a 10-game winning streak in home games come to an end.

Baylor scored single unearned runs in the seventh and eighth innings to take a 6-4 lead, but Louisiana Tech (7-3) had the final say in the ninth. Clint Stubbs' one-out, two-run single through the left side tied the game at 6-6. Two batters and one out later, Alexander lobbed a double just over Baylor first baseman Dustin Dickerson's head and just inside the right-field line to give the Bulldogs an 8-6 lead. Patrick Thomas followed with an RBI single to right.

Nick Cassavechia (0-1) was saddled with the loss after blowing a save for only the fifth time in 27 career opportunities. He allowed four runs on two hits and two walks in 1.0 inning. Erik Forestiere allowed the final run of the night on two hits over 0.1 innings. The Bears' bullpen allowed five earned runs in ninth after allowing just five earned runs in 26.1 innings through the season's first seven games.

Aaron Lorio (1-1) earned the victory for Louisiana Tech, allowing an unearned run on one hit with two strikeouts over 2.0 innings.

Baylor starter Tim Matthews allowed four runs, three earned, on five hits and no walks with three strikeouts over 3.2 innings. He gave way to Craig Fritsch, who held Louisiana Tech scoreless on two hits and two walks over 4.0 innings. After a shaky first inning, Louisiana Tech starter Alan Knotts settled down and recorded seven strikeouts against two walks and six hits over 5.0 innings.

Cobb led off the game with his fifth home run of the season; it was his third leadoff home run in 10 games this season. Baylor quickly answered with four runs in the bottom of the inning on Adam Hornung's two-run single, Dickerson's one-run single and a balk. Louisiana Tech got two runs in the top of the second on RBI singles by Thomas and Cobb; the Bulldogs pulled even with an unearned run in the fourth.

The Bears broke the 4-4 tie in the seventh when Beamer Weems reached second on a dropped fly ball, moved to third on another error and scored on a first-and-third double steal. Gregg Glime reached to lead off the eighth on another dropped fly ball. After Shaver Hansen's sacrifice bunt moved Glime to third, Paul Miles scored Glime with a safety squeeze bunt. Landis Ware (2-for-4) was the only Baylor player with a multiple-hit game.

BAYLOR 7, LOUISIANA TECH 6 • MARCH 5, 2008 • BAYLOR BALLPARK • WACO, TEXAS
Gregg Glime chased down Nick Grunenwald's foul popup just in front on the backstop screen for the final out of the game as No. 11 Baylor edged Louisiana Tech 7-6 at Baylor Ballpark. The Bears (8-1) improve to 6-0 in one-run games on the season with the win and closed their season-opening nine-game home stand.

Louisiana Tech (7-4) sent eight batters to the plate in the ninth inning and scored two runs on three hits and two walks. Adam Cobb and Kevin Winn got the inning started with back-to-back singles off Erik Forestiere. Aaron Miller then struck out Drew Bunting but walked Albie Goulder to load the bases. Chris Kersten followed with a sacrifice fly off Nick Cassavechia, who walked the next batter before giving up an infield RBI single to Clint Stubbs.

It was a situation eerily similar to Tuesday night's game when Louisiana Tech scored five ninth-inning runs to rally past Baylor 9-6. Cassavechia got two quick strikes on Grunenwald, who then worked the count full. Grunenwald fought off the next pitch, but Glime hustled to the warning track near the first-base on-deck circle and made the catch before sliding to his knees.

Glime's catch made a winner of Baylor starter Wade Mackey, who allowed three runs, two earned, on five hits with three walks and four strikeouts over 6.0 innings. Cassavechia notched his fourth save of the season.

Louisiana Tech got a run in the top of the first thanks to Cobb's leadoff triple and Winn's RBI single. Baylor answered quickly, though, as Ben Booker led off the bottom of the inning with a home run to right. It was Baylor's first leadoff home run since Beamer Weems accomplished the feat against Texas Southern during the 2006 season.

Baylor added four runs on four hits in the second. Adam Hornung tripled to leadoff the inning and scored on a wild pitch. Later in the inning, Brooks Kimmey recorded an RBI double, and Chris Slater followed with a two-run single. The Bears added two runs in fifth on Miller's leadoff home run and Kimmey's RBI single as Baylor pushed its lead to 7-1.

Those runs were needed as Louisiana Tech scored two runs in the sixth and another in the seventh, pulling to within three runs before the dramatic ninth.

Louisiana Tech starter Luke Burnett (0-1) was saddled with the loss; he was touched for seven runs on seven hits and a walk with three strikeouts over 4.0 innings.

Miller finished 2-for-3 with two walks at the plate. Hornung was 3-for-4 with a walk and scored twice. Kimmey and Slater also turned in two-hit games.

QUICK NOTES
• Baylor is in the middle of a 17-game homestand to start the 2010 season.
• The Baylor pitching staff is third in the Big 12 with a 3.00 ERA.
• Baylor's pitching staff is tied with Texas Tech for the league lead in saves (4).
• The Bears have won 30 consecutive games when leading after eight innings since squandering a six-run, ninth-inning lead against Texas A&M in the 2008 series finale €ˆ(April 20).

PLAYER NOTES
• True freshman Logan €ˆVick has hit safely in all seven Baylor games. He has also hit leadoff in all seven games.
• RHP Shawn Tolleson was named Phillip 66 Big 12 Baseball Co-Pitcher of the Week for games in the season's first weekend. It was the second time Tolleson has won a Big 12 Pitcher of the Week award.
• RHP Willie Kempf was selected to the inaugural CollegeBaseball360.com Primetime Performer Weekly Honor Roll following his win over No. 22 Georgia in the finale of QTI Apparel's Opening Weekend Classic.
• Raynor Campbell is tied for the Big 12 lead with four stolen bases.
• Cal Towey is tied for fourth in the Big 12 with seven bases on balls.
• Logan Verrett is tied for the Big 12 leads with 14.0 innings pitched.
• Tolleson is second in the Big 12 with 17 strikeouts, while Verrett is tied for seventh with 12 Ks.
• Brooks Pinckard is tied with Ryan Duke of Oklahoma for the league lead with three saves.

WEEKEND €ˆPREVIEW
Baylor continues its season-opening homestand with a four-game set against Oral Roberts. The Bears open the series Friday night at 6:30 p.m. Baylor and the Golden Eagles are scheduled to play a doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m. Saturday, and then the series comes to a close with Sunday's 1 p.m. finale.

BAYLOR-ORAL €ˆROBERTS SERIES €ˆHISTORY
Baylor and Oral €ˆRoberts have met 32 times and the Golden Eagles hold a 17-15 advantage in the all-time series. Baylor is 8-6 against ORU in the Steve Smith era, and the Bears have a split 11-11 record in home games against the Eagles. Baylor has an 8-4 record against Oral Roberts in games at Baylor Ballpark. The Bears last played Oral Roberts in 2008, when they traveled to Tulsa, Okla. from Starkville, Miss. Riding high after a three-game sweep at Mississippi State, the Bears dropped both games against the Golden Eagles.

BAYLOR vs. THE €ˆSUMMIT €ˆLEAGUE
Baylor is 19-19 all-time in games against teams currently in the Summit League. The Bears have played only Oral Roberts (15-17) and Centenary (4-2).