Kansas beats Aggies

By J-W Staff Reports     Apr 9, 2001

? Kansas University’s baseball team snapped a 10-game losing streak by downing Texas A&M, 5-2, before a crowd of 4,413 Sunday at Olsen Field.

The win upped the Jayhawks’ record to 15-21 overall and 3-15 in Big 12 play. A&M fell to 24-13, 9-6.

Junior pitcher Doug Lantz (2-3) allowed eight hits, all singles, while striking out eight in the complete-game win.

Kansas jumped to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first after sophomore Jason Appuhn and senior Jesse Gremminger scored on a Kevin Wheeler single and error by Aggie third baseman Matt Alexander.

KU busted a 2-2 tie in the seventh. Senior John Nelson connected for his fourth home run to start the inning. Appuhn reached by way of another error charged to A&M’s Alexander, followed by a two-run home run by junior Ryan Klocksien.

Later in the same inning Gremminger lengthened his team-high hitting streak to 13 games after singling, but was doubled up at second base on a ground ball hit by Wheeler. The Jayhawks never looked back as Lantz retired nine of the next 12 Aggie hitters.

KU will meet Creighton at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in Omaha, Neb.

Kansas 5, Texas A&M 2

KANSAS ab r h bi
John Nelson ss 3 1 2 1
Jason Appuhn cf 4 2 1 0
Ryan Klocksien 3b 5 1 1 2
Jesse Gremminger rf 3 1 1 0
Kevin Wheeler 1b 4 0 1 1
Matt Tribble lf 4 0 1 0
Brent DelChiaro c 4 0 1 0
Matt Van Alsburg dh 3 0 0 0
Casey Spanish 2b 4 0 1 0
Totals 34 5 9 4
TEXAS A&M
Matt Alexander 3b 5 0 1 0
Erik Schindewolf dh 5 0 1 0
Jeff Freeman 1b 4 0 1 0
Neal Stephenson lf 4 0 2 1
Ty Garner 2b 3 0 1 0
Ryan Wardinsky ss 3 0 0 0
Rusty Meyer c 2 0 1 0
Ben Himes rf 4 0 1 0
Eddie Lang cf 1 2 0 0
Tim Petru ph 1 0 0 0
David Evans cf 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 8 2
Kansas 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 5
Texas A&M 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 2

EAlexander, 2; Freeman, Wardinsky, Meyer. DPKU 2, A&M 2. LOBA&M 10, KU 9. 2BTribble. HRNelson, Klocksien. SBNelson, Appuhn, Schidewolf, Lang. SHWardinsky.

KANSAS IP H R ER BB SO
Doug Lantz W,2-3 9 8 2 2 5 8
TEXAS A&M
Todd Deininger L,2-4 3 2 2 1 3 8
Joe Hart 3 4 1 1 1 4
Chris Russ 11/3 2 2 1 0 1
Brian Finch 12/3 1 0 0 2 2

WPLantz. T2:55. A4,413.

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