Baylor News
Baylor held the advantage heading into a Sunday doubleheader against TCU, taking game one 11-4 on Friday night. the Horned Frogs spoiled the Bears’ chance at a series win with a two-game sweep on Sunday.
No. 2 seed TCU took care of business against No. 3 seed Baylor men’s tennis, sweeping the Bears 4-0 in the Big 12 Championship semifinals.
Coordinated by Computing for Compassion, the Association of Computing Machinery and Baylor Cyber, the 24-hour Wacode Hackathon challenged contestants to develop software with a positive social impact and a solution to a real humanitarian problem, all in the time-constrained environment of a hackathon.
Baylor softball won a 3-2 rubber match over Utah on a walk-off hit from sophomore Sa’Mya Jones, giving the Bears their first Big 12 series win since March.
Waco News
Due to Winter Storm Uri and COVID-19, Waco is in need of blood donations.
After shifting the flow of traffic around to the new lanes, the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has just about hit its halfway point in its Waco portion of I-35 construction.
Busted pipes led to water damage in several stores and restaurants in downtown Waco. Although the repairs are still underway, the stores are getting creative in order to keep up their businesses.
Bars in Waco relax mask policies as Gov. Greg Abbott’s lifting of the mask mandate and business capacity restrictions goes into effect.
Covid-19
“Since July 1st, Baylor’s campus has had nine positives out of 48 tests,” Stern said. “And in the last month alone, we have had seven positives out of 29 tests, which is almost a 25% positivity rate.”
State News
Tensions continued to grow over the summer between political adversaries as Texas state Sen. James Talarico called on Attorney General Ken Paxton to release internal records related to a controversial child sexual abuse case involving former Waco attorney and Baylor Law graduate Adam Hoffman.
