WACO, Texas – Baylor equestrian hosted its annual Green and Gold Scrimmage at the Willis Family Equestrian Center on Friday, with Team Green defeating Team Gold, 10-7. 
 
The Bears got back in the saddle again as they competed against their teammates, recording a Green-led score 4-2 in Fences, Green-led 4-1 in Flat, a Gold-led 4-2 score in Horsemanship and no score in Reining. Overall, it was a Green 8-3 score for Jumping Seat and Gold 4-2 in Western. 
 
THE RUNDOWN
Starting the day in Fences, Audrey Turner completed the demo ride on Vino. The first rider of the day was Allison Dodd with a 70 on Teddy, being bested by Green Team's Lila Badham, the MOP of the event, with a 75. Sofia Barquin had a 69 to beat out Gold's Lily Anthes' 68 on Puzzle. On Petey, Green's Morgan McCarthy scored a point-earning 76 to Lauren Stebbins' 70. Nicollette Perry scored a 68 on Cowboy to Grace O'Connell's 67. Rounding out the event was Gold's Nyla Semaan scoring a 72 on Puzzle over Daniela Carvajal's 0. 
 
In Reining, eight riders competed. Bella Hehr and Riley Cachat both scored a 0 on Floyd and Mobster, respectively. Chloe Cannon scored a 70 on Cowboy while Issy Hildebrandt had a 72 on Bear. Britt McIlnay earned a 71 on Trixie, Lenzi Halling scored a 62.5 on Penny and MOP Kalena Reynolds had a 55.5 on Star. To finish the event, Sadie Peters rode to a 74 on Raymond. 
 
Back in the covered arena, in Flat, Anthes bested Badham with a score of 82 over 68 on Florio for Gold. On Lennox, Barquin earned a 78 to win over Semaan's 62 for Green. McCarthy had an 84 to beat out Emma Covarrubias on Cool for a point for Green. For Green, Sofia Moskowitz bested Caroline Muth with an 84 to 75 score on Red. Earning a point for Gold, Kaite Smith rode a point-scoring 82 over Turner's 78 on Teddy. Finishing out the event, MOP Carvajal earned the point with a score of 79 over Dodd's 76 on Vif. 
 
For Horsemanship, there were a total of 12 rides. Gold's Addison Webb had a 74.5 to win the point over Taylor Eller's 70. Avery Mortman had a 72.5 win on Whiz over Addisyn Albers' 70.5 for Gold. For Gold, Taylor Smith rode for a 69.5 win over Olive Holm's 68 on Lola. MOP Anna Thron earned a 75.5 win over Carley Rutledge's 69.5 on Latte. On Vegas, for Gold, Natalie Rasperger had a 75 to beat out Blaise Runyon's 69. For Green, Kaitlyn Smith earned a 72.5 over Kaydee Bennett's 72 on Zip. 
 
QUOTABLE
Head Coach Casie Maxwell
On the regular season opener against Georgia…
"Good, I mean we definitely have some work to do, which is the point of having a scrimmage. This starts to set that baseline of the areas we need to improve on. I don't think we're starting in a negative deficit at all today in the decisions that we made, so that's great to start, but there are places we need to build off of, and push, and challenge in the next two weeks. Those will be our goals as we head into two tough SEC openers."  
 
Senior Anna Thron
On today's scrimmage…
"It felt great, I think we have a lot to prove this year, and I think that this was a great start, and I think this really set the tone for our season. All the girls were cheering for each other, it was positive vibes all day, we all had very well-ridden rides, we did very good. We saw what we need to fix but we also saw our strengths, and I think that we can go off our strengths and continue to build them and be better and fix our holes."
 
WHAT'S NEXT
BU officially opens the regular season with a trip to the east to face Georgia, Oct. 3, and Auburn, Oct. 4. The Bears hit the road one more time to conference rival TCU on Oct. 9 before opening their home slate against conference foe Fresno State on Halloween. 
 
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