Baseball

KU diamond sports go on winning streaks; more from weekend action

The Kansas baseball team swept Texas Southern at Hoglund Ballpark over the weekend, completing its first four-game sweep in nearly three years. After the Jayhawks' 11-2 victory Friday in their first game back in Lawrence this season, they proceeded to win two of the next three over the Tigers ...

KU baseball hosts Texas Southern for first home series

The Kansas baseball team is back from Texas after a lengthy trip to open the season, but the Jayhawks haven’t fully escaped the Lone Star State just yet. The Jayhawks' first home series of the year, a four-game stretch that begins at 3 p.m. Friday at Hoglund Ballpark, will be against Texas ...

Softball upset headlines busy weekend of spring sports

The Kansas softball team picked up five wins in four days at the Texas A&M Invitational — including three by run rule — but one in particular gave a jolt to their season. KU defeated the host Aggies, who were ranked No. 17 in the nation, 1-0 on Saturday night, behind Kasey Hamilton’s ...

KU baseball loses series at UIC but picks up season’s first win

Despite scoring 23 total runs across its first three games of the season, the Kansas baseball team lost its first series of the year, 2-1 to Illinois-Chicago in Corpus Christi, Texas. On a challenging weekend for the Jayhawks' pitching staff, Central Arizona College transfer Patrick Steitz, a ...

KU baseball set to open season against UIC Friday

It may only be mid-February, but spring might as well have arrived because baseball is back. First pitch for the second season of Kansas baseball under Dan Fitzgerald is set for 3 p.m. Friday, as the Jayhawks take on Illinois-Chicago. It’s the first installment in a three-game neutral-site ...

Fitzgerald’s Jayhawks ready for second go-round, bolstered by new depth

In his first season at the helm of Kansas baseball, Dan Fitzgerald found it difficult at first to cope with losing even one game. “My incredible wife, Kelly, last year said something like — after a game I was despondent — and she’s like ‘What’s up?’ and I’m like, ‘Well, we ...