On the eve of last week’s season-opening series against Murray State, 16th-year Kansas baseball coach Ritch Price said this had a chance to be the best pitching staff he has taken into a season.His staff backed that up by striking out 40 batters in 27 innings and limiting the Racers to a .200 ...
Gusty winds proved to be a factor for Kansas baseball righty Ryan Zeferjahn before he even took the mound against Murray State. But coach Ritch Price walked away impressed with the electric outing his starter ultimately turned in. Zeferjahn struck out eight batters in the Jayhawks’ ...
It only took one at-bat for Brendt Citta to begin the Jayhawks’ baseball season—and his collegiate career at KU—with a bang on Friday at Hoglund Ballpark. Citta drilled a two-run homer to left field in an active bottom of the first inning that helped KU secure a season-opening, 5-3 win ...
Ritch Price’s KU baseball squad was picked to finish sixth in the Big 12, but he’s setting his sights a little higher.“This team has a chance to finish in the top four,” Price said at KU baseball’s media day. “I expect to play in June. This team — the three or four teams we had in ...
Topeka ? The Kansas Board of Regents on Wednesday authorized the University of Kansas to spend $22 million, all from private donations and athletic funds, to upgrade its baseball stadium and volleyball center.At its regular monthly meeting Wednesday, the Regents approved several capital ...
It was the second time Bryce Montes de Oca went through the Major League Baseball Draft process, but it was still the same amount of joy for Lawrence High coach Brad Stoll. Montes de Oca, who graduated valedictorian from Lawrence in 2014, was selected by the Washington Nationals in the 15th ...
A high school football game Friday night in southwest Kansas and a college baseball exposure camp Saturday morning in northeast Kansas. Even for a teenager, that’s quite an ambitious undertaking and hardly ideal conditions for an athlete trying to catch a college baseball coach’s ...
University of Kansas shortstop Matt McLaughlin and Lawrence native Bryce Montes de Oca heard their names called during the third day of the Major League Draft on Wednesday. McLaughlin, a three-year starter, was drafted in the 12th round (356th overall) by the Colorado Rockies and immediately ...
