Baseball

KU baseball left out of NCAA Tournament field

What started out as a hopeful and nervous locker room quickly turned into a ghost town, as members of the Kansas University baseball team began the painful process of closing up shop for the season after learning Monday morning that they had not made this year’s NCAA Tournament field.Fresh ...

Kansas baseball awaits NCAA fate

The Kansas University baseball team’s charge toward the Big 12 tournament title came up one victory short Sunday in Oklahoma City, as the sixth-seeded Jayhawks fell to No. 4 seed Oklahoma, 7-2, in the championship game.Despite the loss, KU coach Ritch Price believes his team made enough of a ...

KU baseball falls in Big 12 title game to Oklahoma, 7-2

Oklahoma City ? The Oklahoma baseball team scored three first-inning runs and never trailed after that, defeating Kansas, 7-2, in the Big 12 championship game on Sunday afternoon at Bricktown BallparkSixth-seeded KU (34-25) had won three straight games in pool play to advance to the title game. ...

Kansas baseball moves to 2-0 in Big 12 tournament

Oklahoma City ? Kansas University struggled to end the baseball regular season, but it’s starting off the postseason with a bang.The sixth-seeded Jayhawks beat second-seeded Oklahoma State, 5-3, in a game that ended early Saturday morning to improve to 2-0 in their pool of the Big 12 ...

Kansas baseball shuts out TCU, earns trip to Big 12 title game

Oklahoma City ? Michael Suiter hit a two-run home run and four Kansas pitchers combined on a shutout as the Jayhawks beat TCU 4-0 Saturday night to reach the Big 12 championship game.Robert Kahana (5-1) threw six shutout innings and Jordan Piche earned his 12th save after 2 1-3 innings of ...

KU baseball tops West Virginia in Big 12 tourney opener

Oklahoma City ? West Virginia saved its ace, and Kansas University made the Mountaineers pay.With Big 12 Pitcher of the Year Harrison Musgrave on the bench, WVU went with Dan Dierdorff instead, and the Jayhawks collected a dozen hits off three WVU pitchers in a 7-2 victory in a first-round Big ...

Last hurrah: KU baseball’s Jordan Dreiling feels sense of urgency

Kansas University third baseman Jordan Dreiling has played baseball in more than a dozen states, a few countries and some incredible ballparks.But none of those stops was as big as the one Dreiling and his KU teammates will make this week in Oklahoma City, site of the Big 12 tournament, which ...

KU baseball gets involved in Moore, Okla., relief effort

The Big 12 Conference on Tuesday announced that this week's Big 12 baseball tournament in Oklahoma City would be pushed back a day out of respect for the victims of the tornado that devastated residents of Moore, Okla., just south of the city.Rather than using the extra day to rest, the Kansas ...