Raider Recap

Selena Popp won three of the five events she entered and Victoria Wicks added a win in the 300 meter hurdles, leading the Baylor girls track team to a strong third place finish at the state championships Thursday night.

Baylor's Samantha Caswell will be going for her second straight state singles championship Friday morning at the Spring Fling in Murfreesboro. Maggie Crumbliss also played in the singles tournament and Harper Caswell/McCall Morgan and Drew Hawkins/Christine Palisoc competed in the doubles bracket. Here are the results.

The Baylor softball team beat GPS 6-5 with its back to the wall, avoiding elimination and instead sending the Bruisers home, at the state tournament Wednesday night.

A Baylor - GPS showdown was expected at the state softball tournament, but not in an elimination game. That's what will happen Wednesday night as the Raiders were beaten by St. Benedict 5-3 in the tournament's opening round Wednesday morning.

Harper Caswell was up a set but down 5-4 in the second when she won three straight games for a 7-5 second set victory and the deciding point in the girls state tennis semifinal match, a 4-0 defeat of Harpeth Hall.

Baylor sophomore Selena Popp won the state pentathlon event at MTSU Monday. Victoria Wicks was third and Kate Kaufman finished in sixth place, earning the Raiders 19 team points in the state meet.

Selena Popp will represent Baylor in five events in the girls state track and field championships next week at MTSU. Simon Holden will wear the Baylor uniform in the three distance events, and is the top seeded runner in two of them, at the boys state meet.