Baseball

KU-Louisiville NCAA baseball game to be shown on ESPN2

On the heels of a 10-6, opening-day victory over No. 22 Kentucky in NCAA Tournament regional action, the KU baseball program announced early Saturday morning that today's 4 p.m. regional game vs. No. 13 Louisville would be shown on ESPN2. Louisville, the host team and top seed in KU's regional, ...

LHS, FSHS grads go 3-1 at NCAA baseball

Three of the four Lawrence high school products playing in the NCAA Baseball Tournament won opening-round regional games on Friday.In Columbia, South Carolina, Free State High graduate Tim Lewis went 1-for-4 as Maryland edged Old Dominion, 4-3.In Nashville, Tennessee, Oregon routed Clemson, ...

Kansas outfielder Tucker Tharp ascends from walk-on to captain

Throughout his youth, Kansas University senior Tucker Tharp watched his two older brothers play important roles for their collegiate teams and always figured that he, too, one day would travel down that path. Oldest brother Travis was a first baseman at Northwestern, and middle brother Taylor ...

Jayhawks weather rain delays, upend UK; Louisville next

Louisville, Ky. ? After Ritch Price’s program went five seasons without an NCAA Tournament appearance, the coach’s Kansas University baseball players didn’t mind spending long stretches of Friday afternoon killing time at Louisville’s Jim Patterson Stadium.Three weather delays ...

The right stuff: KU baseball pitchers rely on ‘D,’ not heat

No delusions of grandeur exist among the Kansas University baseball team’s top three starting pitchers.None of the Jayhawks who step on the mound this weekend at the NCAA Tournament regional in Louisville, Kentucky, will do so with the intention of going all Nolan Ryan against Kentucky, ...

City well represented in NCAA Baseball Tournament

When the 2014 NCAA Baseball Tournament begins today, Lawrence will be well represented, and not just because of Kansas University making its first appearance in five years.Four players who once wore the baseball uniforms of Free State and Lawrence high schools will be in the dugouts of four ...

Get Ritch: KU baseball coach Price bonds with players to build program

Baseballs hang from every branch of the Price family tree.Ritch Price is in his 12th season as Kansas University’s baseball coach. His son, Ritchie, is the third-base coach. Ritchie and his brothers, Ryne and Robby, also played for KU.Ritch’s grandfather was a high school and American ...

Price, ‘true team’ of Jayhawks depart for NCAA regional

Ritch Price stood outside the home dugout at Hoglund Ballpark late Tuesday afternoon, an hour before Kansas University’s baseball team departed for Louisville, Kentucky — site of Friday’s NCAA Tournament opener against the University of Kentucky.The Jayhawks’ 12th-year coach — whose ...