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Baylor (15-10) vs. Texas State (17-9) Tue., April 6, 2010 | 6:30 p.m. CST Waco, Texas | Baylor Ballpark (5,000) $3 Tuesday (all tickets $3)		Baylor (15-10) vs. NW State (19-7) Wed., April 7, 2010 | 6:30 p.m. CST Waco, Texas | Baylor Ballpark (5,000) $1 Hot Dog Wednesday
PROBABLE PITCHING MATCHUPS (2010 STATISTICS) Baylor: RHP Ross Speed (0-0, 4.15 ERA, 4.1 IP, 3 BB, 6 K) TXST: RHP Brian Borski (1-4, 6.34 ERA, 32.2 IP, 13 BB, 23 K)		PROBABLE PITCHING MATCHUPS (2010 STATISTICS) Baylor: TBA NW State: TBA
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Baylor returns home for a pair of midweek games against opponents from the Southland Conference. The Bears host Texas State on Tuesday and Northwestern State on Wednesday. Both games are slated for 6:30 p.m. Baylor is coming off a road trip to Missouri where it took two of three games against the Tigers to improve to 3-4 in Big 12 play.

Texas State enters Tuesday's game with a 17-9 overall record and a 9-3 mark in Southland Conference play. The Bobcats won two of three at Stephen F. Austin last weekend. They won the first two games of the series despite scoring just four and three runs, respectively, but the Bobcats dropped the finale 8-7.

Northwestern State has a game on Tuesday against Louisiana-Lafayette, but the Demons enter that game with a 19-7 overall record and a 7-4 tally in league play. They swept a three-game set against Sam Houston State last weekend. The Demons outscored the Bearkats 29-7 in the series.

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SERIES INFORMATION
TEXAS STATE BOBCATS
Overall: Baylor leads 43-16
Waco: Baylor leads 33-13
San Marcos: Baylor leads 10-3
Smith vs. TSU: 29-11
First Meeting: 3/26/1919
Last Meeting: 2/26/2010

NORTHWESTERN STATE DEMONS
Overall: Baylor leads 10-7
Waco: Baylor leads 7-4
Natchitoches: Northwestern State leads 3-0
Neutral Site: Baylor leads 3-0
Smith vs. NSU: 7-7
First Meeting: 4/15/1960
Last Meeting: 4/7/2009

COACHES

BAYLOR: Steve Smith

Alma Mater: Baylor, 1986

Career Record: 567-373-1 (16th season)

Record at Baylor: 567-3673-1 (16th season)

TEXAS STATE: Ty Harrington

Alma Mater: Texas, 1989

Career Record: 354-261 (11th season)

Record at TSU: 354-261 (11th season)

NORTHWESTERN STATE: J.P. Davis

Alma Mater: Memphis, 1984

Career Record: 73-61 (third season)

Record at NSU: 73-61 (ethird season)

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BAYLOR-TEXAS STATE SERIES HISTORY
Baylor and Texas State have met 59 times, and the Bears hold a 43-16 advantage in the all-time series. The Bears and Bobcats have met once already this season, a game Baylor won 3-2 on Feb. 26. The Bears are 33-13 in games played against Texas State in Waco, and 29-11 against the Bobcats during the Steve Smith era.

BAYLOR-NORTHWESTERN STATE SERIES HISTORY
Baylor and Northwestern State have met 17 times, and the Bears hold a 10-7 advantage in the alltime series. Baylor is 7-4 against the Demons in Waco and 7-7 during the Steve Smith era. The teams last met on April 7, 2009, when the Bears rolled to a 18-1 seven-inning victory.

BAYLOR VS. THE SOUTHLAND CONFERENCE CONFERENCE
Baylor has a 300-130-1 all-time record against teams currently in the Southland Conference. Among those is Lamar (43-28-1), McNeese State (8-7), Nicholls State (7-2), Northwestern State (10-7), Sam Houston State (56-38), Stephen F. Austin (27-0), Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (5-0), Texas State (43-16), UT Arlington (74-29) and UTSA (27-3).

LAST TIME VS. TEXAS STATE
BAYLOR 3, TEXAS STATE 2 • FEB. €ˆ26, 2010 • BAYLOR BALLPARK • WACO, TEXAS
Gregg Glime's eighth-inning sacrifice fly broke a 2-2 tie, and Brooks Pinckard worked a perfect ninth to notch his third save in as many games as Baylor knocked off Texas State 3-2 in the opening game of the fifth-annual QTI Baylor Classic.

The Bears (4-1) have trailed at some point in all five games this season, but this was the first time Baylor got on the board first.

After starting pitcher Shawn Tolleson struck out two in a perfect top half of the first, Logan Vick and Joey Hainsfurther led off with consecutive singles to put runners on the corners with no outs in the bottom half of the inning.

Texas State (3-1) starter Michael Russo got Max Muncy to ground into a double play, but Vick scored on the play, giving Baylor a 1-0 lead.

Tolleson recorded four strikeouts while retiring the first six batters he faced, but Texas State tied the score at 1-1 in the third when Shaun Garcia and Jordan Kopycinski led off with back-to-back doubles. Two outs later, a bunt single and a walk loaded the bases, but Tolleson escaped the inning when Kyle Livingstone grounded out.

Neither team would score again until the sixth. Tolleson hit the first batter of the inning, then the Bobcats took a 2-1 lead on Garcia's RBI single. A walk loaded the bases, but Tolleson again escaped the jam, this time with a flyout.

The Bears answered with a run in the bottom half of the inning when Dan Evatt led off with a single, advanced to second on Cal Towey's sacrifice bunt and scored on Raynor Campbell's RBI single.

The sixth would be the last inning for both starting pitchers. Tolleson allowed two runs on five hits with two walks and six strikeouts in 6.0 innings. Russo surrendered two runs on eight hits with one walk and no strikeouts.

Freshman lefty Josh Turley (1-0) came out of the Baylor bullpen and got the win by allowing just one hit in a pair of scoreless innings, and the Bears regained the lead with a run in the bottom.

Max Muncy led off the eighth with a single, and Evatt took his place at first after a fielder's choice. Pinch runner Don Lambert advanced to second when Towey drew a walk, and an error on Kyle Kubitza loaded the bases, setting up Glime's sacrifice fly.

Campbell and Muncy both finished the day 2-for-4, with Campbell driving in a run and stealing two bases. Garcia had two of Texas State's six hits; he finished the game 2-for-3 with one run and one RBI.

Carson Smith (0-1) took the loss for the Bobcats, though the only run he allowed in 2.0 innings was unearned.

Pinckard needed 10 pitches to retire Laurn Randell for the first out of the ninth, and then he got groundouts from each of the next two batters to earn the save.

LAST TIME VS. NORTHWESTERN STATE
BAYLOR 18, NORTHWESTERN STATE 1 • APRIL 7, 2009 • BAYLOR BALLPARK • WACO, TEXAS
Shaver Hansen was 4-for-4 with four RBI, and Josh Ludy was 3-for-4 with a home run and five RBI as seventh-ranked Baylor rolled to an 18-1 victory over Northwestern State in seven innings. Baylor (21-8) tallied 20 hits on the night, knocking 20-plus hits in a game for the third time this season and for the second consecutive game.

Northwestern State (14-14) managed only five hits, one of which was Justin O'Neal's one-out solo homer in the fourth. By that point, though, the game already was out of hand. The Bears scored four runs on four hits in the first inning and never looked back. Hansen got the scoring started with an RBI single. Later in the inning, Ben Booker and Dan Evatt had consecutive RBI singles, and Ludy plated Booker on an RBI fielder's choice.

The Bears blew open the game with a 10-run, 11-hit third inning that featured Raynor Campbell's two-run homer and Ludy's three-run homer. It was Campbell's third home run in two games after hitting two round-trippers in Sunday's series finale at Kansas. Ludy, who also had a one-out single in the inning, and Booker each had two hits in the third inning; Booker opened the frame with a double and later knocked an RBI single. The Bears sent 13 batters to the plate and scored nine-plus runs in an inning for the fourth time this season.

Meanwhile, Baylor starter Jon Ringenberg (2-0) turned in the best start of his career. He held Northwestern State to a run on five hits with no walks and four strikeouts over 6.0 innings. Ross Speed closed out the night on the mound with a perfect seventh inning, ending the game with a strikeout.

Northwestern State starter Clayton Cooper (0-4) was saddled with the loss, allowing 13 runs on 14 hits and a walk with three strikeouts over 2.2 innings.

Baylor added a run in the fourth on Hansen's single that plated Landis Ware, who opened the inning with a double. It was Hansen's sixth hit in as many at bats dating back to Sunday's game at Kansas. Hansen, the reigning Big 12 Player of the Week, had seven RBI in those six at bats.

The Bears capped the scoring with a three-run fifth, all of which came with two outs. Ludy ripped a bases-empty, two-out double and later scored on Joey Hainsfurther's pinch-hit RBI single. After Campbell, who walked, scored on a wild pitch, Chris Slater doubled home Hainsfurther for the 18th run of the night. The game was called after seven innings due to the 10-run mercy rule.

All nine Baylor starters hit safely and each starter scored at least once. Dustin Dickerson was 2-for-3 to extend his career-long hitting streak to 15 games, the third-longest in the Big 12 this season. Booker was 3-for-3 with a double, three runs scored and two RBI; like Hansen, Booker has hit safely in each of his last six at bats with six RBI and six runs scored. Dan Evatt was 2-for-4 with a run and an RBI, while Campbell scored twice.

QUICK NOTES
• The Bears will be looking to win their third straight midweek game, but the Bears' last such game was March 24 when they knocked off UTSA, 4-3, in a game shortened to seven innings by rain.
• The Baylor bullpen is now 9-2 with 10 saves and a 3.44 ERA in 102.0 innings on the season. Baylor relievers have struck out 78 and held opposing hitters to a .268 batting average. Eight different Baylor relievers have ERAs of 3.60 or lower in relief roles.
• The Bears' seven-run seventh inning in the series opener against Missouri on Saturday was their biggest of the season, but it didn't last long, as Baylor put up eight runs in the next inning.
• All 11 Baylor batters who had three or more at-bats in the series hit at least .300 last weekend.
• The Baylor bullpen is now 9-2 with 10 saves and a 3.44 ERA in 102.0 innings on the season. Baylor relievers have struck out 78 and held opposing hitters to a .268 batting average. Eight different Baylor relievers have ERAs of 3.60 or lower in relief roles.
• The Bears have won 35 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).
• The Bears won a series at Missouri for the first time since 2004.
• Baylor enters the midweek ranked third in the Big 12 in batting (.321 batting average) and fifth in pitching (4.36 ERA)
• Baylor is now 12-0 when leading after six innings.

PLAYER NOTES
• True freshman left fielder Logan Vick has reached base safely at least one time in all 25 games on the season.
• Vick hit .455 (5-for-11) with two home runs, a double, six runs and three RBI on the week. He drew five walks during Saturday's doubleheader, giving him three more than any other player in the Big 12 Conference this season (26).
• Brooks Pinckard stole his 17th consecutive base on Sunday. He has gone a perfect 9-for-9 this season after not being caught in his last eight attempts of the 2009 season. Pinckard also extended his hitting streak to seven games.
• Pinckard also notched his seventh save of the season in the second game of Saturday's doubleheader, moving him into a tie for 10th place on Baylor's single-season saves list. It was also the eighth save of his career, moving him into a tie for ninth place on Baylor's career saves list.
• True freshman first baseman Max Muncy extended his career-best hitting streak to nine games. He also belted two home runs, giving him eight on the season. He is just one home run away from tying Baylor's record for homers in a freshman season. Muncy has driven in at least one run in each of the last six games.
• Landis Ware extended his hitting streak to a career-high-tying six games. It is the third time he's had a hitting streak of six games. He also doubled three times on the weekend, including twice during the seventh inning of the series opener.
• Raynor Campbell had his season-long hitting streak snapped at nine games on Sunday. He went 5-for-13 with two doubles, one home run, six RBI and three runs scored in the series. He moved past Beamer Weems and into a ninth-place tie with Josh Ford on Baylor's career Big 12 runs scored list (62). Campbell also moved past Jason Jennings into 10th on Baylor's career Big 12 hits list (100), and he moved into a tie with Weems for eighth on the career Big 12 doubles list (20).

WEEKEND €ˆPREVIEW
Baylor continues Big 12 play with its annual split series against rival Texas A&M. The Bears travel to College Station to take on the Aggies at 6:30 p.m. Friday in the series opener. The final two games of the series will be at Baylor Ballpark, with Saturday's game at 6:30 p.m. and Sunday's finale at 2 p.m.

BAYLOR-TEXAS A&M SERIES €ˆHISTORY
Baylor and Texas A&M have met 263 times, with the €ˆBears holding a 114-148-1 record in the series. The teams first met on April 4, 1904, and the Bears have played only Texas more often in their history. Baylor is 73-70 in games played in Waco and the Bears are 25-27 against the Aggies during Steve Smith's tenure as head coach.

Though Baylor and Texas A&M meet every year for a three-game Big 12 Conference series, the teams met earlier this season for a non-conference game when the Aggies participated in the fifth-annual QTI Baylor Classic. Texas A&M won that game 4-2.

In a battle of top-5 teams a year ago, the home team won all three games. Third-ranked Texas A&M took the games in College Station on March 14 and March 15, and the fifth-ranked Bears returned home for a rare Monday game to defeat the Aggies 8-7 on March 16. The teams had been scheduled to play the first game of the series in Waco, but that game had to be moved to Monday due to inclement weather.