Baseball

KU baseball eliminates Texas with 4-2 victory at Big 12 tourney

Oklahoma City ? A three-run first inning and strong pitching lifted Kansas to a 4-2 win over Texas and eliminates the Longhorns from the Big 12 baseball tournament.Kansas' Wes Benjamin (5-7) gave up one run on five hits over six innings to get the win in Thursday's game in Oklahoma City while ...

Kansas baseball savoring Big 12 tourney appearance

Getting in was the goal, but the reward was not nearly as exhilarating as the road it traveled to reach it.Thanks to a pair of victories against bitter rival Missouri in last week’s regular-season finale, Kansas University’s baseball team snagged a spot in this week’s Big 12 tournament in ...

KU ace Duncan proves value

He pitched for a small, all-boys Catholic high school in San Francisco, had a fastball that might not get arrested for speeding on I-70 and didn’t have any scholarship offers.Really, now, was flying all the way to San Francisco to watch a right-handed pitcher from Stuart Hall High throw a ...

KU baseball falls to Texas A&M, 10-4, in Big 12 tournament opener

Texas A&M second baseman Scott Arthur went 2-for-4 with a career-high three RBIs, while Tyler Naquin collected four hits as the sixth-ranked Aggies downed Kansas, 10-4, in the first round of the Big 12 Baseball Championship on Wednesday at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark.Kansas sophomore ...

Big 12 honors KU’s Frank Duncan

Kansas sophomore pitcher Frank Duncan has been named Big 12 Pitcher of the Week for the week of May 21, the conference office announced Monday. This marks the second time Duncan has received the honor after being named the conference’s pitcher of the week on April 23.Duncan, a 6-foot-4 ...

Kansas baseball loses battle with Missouri, but wins final Border War series

Saturday, nearly 121 years after Kansas University kicked it off with a 22-10 football victory over arch-rival Missouri in 1891, the historic Border War series between KU and Mizzou ended at KU’s Hoglund Ballpark with a 6-3 victory for Missouri’s baseball team and a rather calm and cordial ...

They’re in! KU beats Mizzou, earns trip to tourney

They’re in. And they made it in the sweetest way possible.Friday night at Hoglund Ballpark, in front of a loud and proud pack of more than 1,500 Jayhawk supporters, Kansas University’s baseball team clinched a berth in next week’s Big 12 tournament in Oklahoma City with a 6-3 victory over ...