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Making a push for the postseason, Baylor baseball handled Sam Houston with a 15-4 victory Tuesday night at Don Sanders Stadium in Huntsville. Tying a season-high 14 strikeouts on the mound and seeing four players tally multi-hit games, head coach Mitch Thompson’s Bears (28-16, 9-12 Big 12) moved to 9-1 in midweek contests.

Behind 5 2/3 innings of scoreless relief from redshirt sophomore right-handed pitcher Lucas Davenport and sixth-year senior Gabe Craig, Baylor baseball salvaged the series finale against No. 23 TCU with a 6-3 win Sunday afternoon at Lupton Stadium in Fort Worth.

Following a low-scoring first three innings, Baylor softball’s offense found a spark in the fourth and kept on rolling, scoring eight runs in the final three innings to win its Senior Day contest 8-5 Saturday at Getterman Stadium.

The last time third-seeded Baylor men’s tennis hosted the Big 12 Championships was in 2021. It won with a dominant 4-0 sweep over Texas in the final. Hosting again this year, the Bears (21-9, 6-2) will look to repeat their success, facing off against No. 6-seed Arizona State in the quarterfinals at 3 p.m. Friday at the Hurd Tennis Center.

With a Tuesday night win over UT Arlington, the Bears (23-13, 6-9 Big 12) officially exceeded the win totals from the previous two seasons under Thomson (20 and 22, respectively). But after exploding for 18 runs on Saturday against Texas Tech, more than the team had scored in its previous six games combined, a 5-0 lead vanished on Sunday and the green and gold dropped their fourth Big 12 series.