All Sports Report: Conference Competition is Here
Soccer
• Opened conference play this week against No. 15 Oklahoma State and fell 1-0. The Bears also hosted Texas State for their last non-conference matchup of the season and ended with a 2-2 draw.
• Baylor’s Tyler Isgrig and Kai Hayes each scored a goal in the Bears’ 2-2 draw, Isgrig’s third of the season and the first of Hayes’ career.
• The Bears return to conference play this week with two more home matches against Arizona on Thursday and Houston on Sunday.
Volleyball
• Took the Baylor Invitational 2-0 with wins over LSU and Samford
• It was the first program meeting with Samford, the Bears getting the sweep with a whopping .451 hit percentage.
• Baylor welcomes Texas to Ferrell on Wednesday night for Hispanic Heritage Night.
• Hawaii comes to Waco for the Bears’ matchup on Saturday at 7 p.m. Jen McGuyre (Ryan McGuyre’s wife) is an alumna of the program, and Associate Head Coach Joshua Walker is also an alumni of the men’s program, where he coached for seven seasons before joining the Bears.
Cross Country
• Women finished 6th/16 in 5k. Men finished 9th/14 in 8k.
• The top two finishers on both sides made their Baylor XC debut
• Grad transfer Nick Hruskoci competed in his first meet since transferring from Wisconsin, leading the Bears in 26th with a 24:23.9 time. Following Hruskoci was freshman and Waco native Jack Sterrett, who finished at 24:40.0 in 37th place.
• Ruth Kimeli, a sophomore from Eldoret, Kenya, finished in 15th with a 17:48.1 clip ahead of Ella Perry in her collegiate debut finishing in 32nd at 18:11.1.
Men’s Golf
• Finished 10th at the Gopher Invitational in the season-opening event,
• Redshirt junior, Drew Wrightson made his return to the lineup for the first time in over a year, tying for 15th.
• BU returns to action at the Fighting Illini Invitational, beginning Friday in Olympia Fields, Ill.
Women’s Golf
• Opened the season with a tie for fourth at the Folds of Honor Collegiate, its highest finish in a season-opening event since 2022.
• BU tied or finished ahead of three teams ranked in the preseason WGCA Top-25
• BaiMai Seema carded a tie for 11th, a career-best finish for the senior.
• The Bears return to action at the Mason Rudolph Championship, beginning Friday in Franklin, Tenn.
Men’s Tennis
• Baylor welcomed eight teams across the south to the Waco Regional Tennis Center
• Four Bears competed, going 5-4 overall in singles and 1-3 in doubles
• Marko Miladinovic made it to the finals in his singles bracket of play, defeating opponents from Texas and UTSA in straight sets before falling in the finals in a battle against Texas A&M opponent, 7-6(6), 6-3
• Quintan Van Wijk and Imran Abdul Hazli made their Baylor debuts. Van Wijk, a transfer from Nebraska-Omaha, went 2-1 in singles and 1-2 in doubles paired with Miladinovic. Abdul Hazli went 1-1 in singles in his collegiate debut
Women’s Tennis
• Open the fall season with the H-E-B Invitational at the Hurd Tennis Center Friday-Sunday.
• Participating athletes will play three singles and three doubles matches throughout the weekend.
Football
• Soared past Air Force, 31-3, for first home win over an FBS opponent since Oct. 22, 2022 (Kansas)
• Air Force’s 25 passing yards were the fewest allowed by a Bear defense since Sept. 23, 1989 vs. Kansas (seven).
• The Bears have held their opponents scoreless in eight of 12 quarters of play so far in 2024.
• Redshirt freshman RB Bryson Washington made his first-career start and became BU’s first 100-yard rusher in nearly a calendar year, going for 106 on 12 carries with a TD.
• Redshirt junior QB Sawyer Robertson threw for a career-high 248 passing yards in place of an injured Dequan Finn.
• Senior LB Matt Jones recorded his sixth-career double-digit tackle performance, leading the Bears with 11 stops on Saturday.
• Baylor (2-1) heads to Boulder, Colo., to face Colorado (2-1) for the first time since Oct. 16, 2010, when the Bears won a 31-25 contest over the Buffaloes.