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Baylor (7-6) vs. Louisiana Tech (8-3) March 9, 2010 | 4:00 p.m. CST Waco, Texas | Baylor Ballpark (5,000) PROBABLE PITCHING MATCHUPS (2010 STATISTICS) Baylor: RHP Trent Blank, (2-1, 3.95 ERA, 13.2 IP, 1 BB, 11 K) La Tech: LHP Mike LeBreton, (1-0, 7.56 ERA, 8.1 IP, 7 BB, 7 K)

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Baylor continues its season-opening homestand with a midweek rematch against Louisiana Tech. The Bears and Bulldogs met less than a week ago, when LTU jumped out to an early lead it would never relinquish on its way to a 14-6 victory on Wednesday night at Baylor Ballpark.

Louisiana Tech enters Wednesday's game with an 8-3 record. The Bulldogs headed south from Waco to meet UT Pan American for a three-game set in Edinburg, Texas, over the weekend. Louisiana Tech won the first two games before dropping the series finale. That loss snapped the Bulldogs' five-game winning streak.

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 Louisiana Tech games. For more information, follow the Baylor All-Access link at www.BaylorBears.com.

SERIES INFORMATION

LOUISIANA TECH BULLDOGS
Overall: Series Tied 3-3
Waco: Louisiana Tech leads 3-1
Ruston: Never Met
Neutral Site: Baylor leads 2-0
First Meeting: 3/3/1983
Last Meeting: 3/3/2010

COACHES

BAYLOR: Steve Smith

Alma Mater: Baylor, 1986

Career Record: 559-369-1 (16th season)

Record at Baylor: 559-369-1 (16th season)

LOUISIANA TECH: Wade Simoneaux

Career Record: 183-216 (eighth season)

Record at La. Tech: 183-216 (eighth season)

BAYLOR-ISP SPORTS NETWORK

1660 ESPN RADIO (Waco)

Tom Barfield (pxp) and Lark Smith (color)

BAYLOR-LOUISIANA TECH SERIES HISTORY
Baylor and Louisiana Tech have met six times, and the teams have split the all-time series. Louisiana Tech leads 3-1 in games played in Waco, while the Bears have won both neutral site meetings. Prior to this season, 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 3-3 all-time against the Bulldogs.

LAST TIME VS. LOUISIANA TECH
LOUISIANA TECH 14, BAYLOR 6 • MARCH 3, 2010 • BAYLOR BALLPARK
Louisiana Tech jumped out to an early 6-0 lead, and after Baylor closed the deficit to one, the Bulldogs pulled away with eight runs over the last three innings on their way to a 14-6 victory Wednesday night at Baylor Ballpark.

The loss was the fourth straight for Baylor (4-5), while Louisiana Tech improved to 6-2 on the season.

Baylor starter Craig Fritsch (0-1) took the loss after allowing six runs - five of which were earned - on four hits with three walks and three strikeouts in 5.0 innings.

Louisiana Tech jumped out to an early lead when Clint Stubbs led off the third inning with a triple and scored on Clint Ewing's RBI groundout.

One inning later, Joey Ford knocked a Grand Slam over the wall in left-center field, and Louisiana Tech added an unearned run to take a 6-0 lead going to the bottom of the fourth.

Baylor nearly overcame the deficit with the help of a pair of homers. Max Muncy drilled his third homer of the year - a two-run shot in the fourth, and after Brooks Pinckard led off the bottom of the fifth with a double, Raynor Campbell knocked a two-run home run to cut the deficit to 6-4.

LTU starter Trevor Petersen then walked Logan Vick, and the Bulldogs called on Caleb Dudley out of the bullpen. Dudley struggled, giving up a single to Muncy and a walk to Jon Ringenberg, and he was pulled from the game in favor of Jeb Stefan.

With the bases loaded and one out, Jake Miller drove in Tyler Vick with a sacrifice fly to get the Bears within one, but Baylor couldn't push any more runs across.

Muncy finished the game 3-for-5 with one run and two RBI, giving him his second three-hit game in as many nights. Campbell went 2-for-5, scored once and drove in a pair of runs.

The Bulldogs added two runs in the seventh off reliever Josh Turley, and Ewing led off the eighth with a solo homer off Kolt Browder, giving Louisiana Tech a 9-5 lead.

Joey Hainsfurther came on in relief to start the ninth, making his first pitching appearance of the season. The Bulldogs tagged Hainsfurther for five insurance runs - three of which were earned - extending their lead to 14-5.

The Bears added on a run in the ninth when Don Lambert connected on a two-out triple and came home on a wild pitch, but Stefan got Miller to ground out to end the game.

Stefan(1-2) got the win by allowing just one run on four hits in 5.0 innings of relief. Alex Williams and Devon Dageford both went 2-for-4 and scored twice to lead the Louisiana Tech offense.

QUICK NOTES
• Baylor is in the middle of a 17-game homestand to start the 2010 season.
• Baylor's pitching staff is tied with Texas Tech and Oklahoma for the league lead in saves (five).
• The Bears have won 32 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).
• Baylor snapped a five-game losing streak by winning the final three games of a four-game set against Oral Roberts over the weekend. All five games of the losing streak were at Baylor Ballpark, and the streak tied for the longest in Baylor Ballpark history.

PLAYER NOTES
• True freshman Logan €ˆVick has hit hit in the leadoff spot of the Baylor lineup 11 times, and he has hit safely in all 11 of those games.
• Vick is joined by fellow freshman Max Muncy as the only Bears to start all 13 games this season.
• Vick has reached base safely at least two times in each of Baylor's last eight games.
• Raynor Campbell picked up a pair of weekly honors on Monday. He was named one of four "Louisville Slugger" National Players of the Week by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper, marking the first time a Baylor player has won the award since Cory VanAllen in 2004. It was the first time any Baylor infielder has won a national player of the week award.
• Campbell was also named Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Player of the Week. He hit .500 (12-for-24) with four home runs, three doubles, two steals and an incredible 17 RBI on the week.
• Campbell ranks in the top 10 of seven Big 12 statistical categories. He is tied for the league lead in home runs (four), and RBI (20), second in slugging percentage (.814), and tied for second in total bases (35) and stolen bases (six). His .442 batting average ranks eighth, and he's tied for 10th in the league with four doubles.
• True freshman lefty Josh Turley ranks 13th in the Big 12 with a 2.25 ERA. He's also tied for second in apperances (seven).
• Muncy ranks sixth in the league with three home runs, is tied for sixth in total bases (29) and is tied for seventh with 18 hits.
• Vick is tied for ninth in the Big 12 in hits (17), tied for seventh in runs (12) and tied for third in walks (11).
• Brooks Pinckard is tied for second in the league in saves (4) and stolen bases (6), and tied for seventh in walks (10).
• 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.
• Tolleson leads the Big 12 with 27 strikeouts.
• Logan Verrett is tied for second in the league wtih 21.0 innings pitched and is fourth with 23 strikeouts. He has thrown 7.0 innings in all three outings this season, and turned in the Big 12's first complete game of the year when he struck out a career-high 11 batters in a run-rule win over Oral Roberts.

WEEKEND €ˆPREVIEW
Baylor wraps up its season-opening, 17-game homestand with a three-game series against Illinois-Chicago. The Flames are 2-8, but are coming off a win in the series finale at Western Kentucky. UIC was swept in a three-game series at Alabama the previous weekend.

BAYLOR-ILLINOIS-CHICAGO SERIES €ˆHISTORY
Baylor and Illinois-Chicago have met just one time. The Bears took on the Flames on March 1, 2008 in the second game of the third-annual QTI Baylor Classic. Baylor rallied for seven runs in the seventh inning to take a 5-4 win in that game.

BAYLOR vs. THE €ˆHORIZON LEAGUE
Baylor has only played Illinois-Chicago out of the Horizon League. The Bears are 1-0 all-time against the Flames.