Kansas junior Dakota Smith tries to evade a tag by Dartmouth's Dustin Selzer (24) during Kansas' game against Dartmouth, Sunday afternoon at Hoglund Ballpark.

Kansas junior Blair Beck is late with the tag on Dartmouth's Michael Ketchmark at first based during Kansas' game against Dartmouth, Sunday afternoon at Hoglund Ballpark.

On a cold Sunday afternoon with a dusting of snow outside of the Hoglund Ballpark field, it seemed like one run was all Kansas University’s baseball team would need to complete a three-game sweep of Dartmouth. Chance after chance after chance, the offense just couldn’t get the job done, and KU lost in 10 innings, 3-2.

After the Jayhawks tied the game in the fifth inning, they left nine runners on base without scoring a run. Dartmouth had its own troubles bringing runners around the bases until the extra inning, when a single to right brought Bo Patterson home, and KU catcher Ka’iana Eldredge couldn’t hold onto Connor

McKay’s throw to the plate.

KU freshman Michael Tinsley hit a two-out double in the bottom of the 10th, but was stranded.

“When you have the game on the line like that, you’ve got to take advantage of your scoring opportunities,” KU coach Ritch Price said. “Unfortunately, we had some really bad at-bats.”

The Jayhawks’ leadoff hitter, junior Justin Protacio, advanced to second base on a throwing error to open the ninth inning and moved to third on a sacrifice bunt. With the middle of the order up, junior Michael Suiter drew a walk, McKay struck out, and junior Dakota Smith flew out to right.

In the eighth, KU had runners on first and second with no outs, but Dartmouth escaped the jam by getting the lead runner out on a sacrifice-bunt attempt and two fly outs.

The Jayhawks (16-8) had few answers at the plate in the early innings for Dartmouth (3-9) freshman right-hander Michael Concato, who allowed only two runs in eight innings without overpowering pitches.

KU senior right-hander Frank Duncan matched Concato by limiting the Big Green’s offense, though Duncan said his pitches didn’t feel as sharp as usual. He ran into trouble early, giving up one run and three singles in the third inning and a leadoff triple in the fourth, before striking out six over the next three innings.

Junior Blair Beck scored senior Tucker Tharp in the second inning with a single and Eldredge scored on a groundout in the fifth inning after hitting a leadoff single.

The Jayhawks go on the road to face the University of Creighton at 6 p.m. Wednesday in Omaha, Neb.

Dartmouth 001 100 000 1 — 3 11 1

Kansas 010 010 000 0 — 2 10 1

W — Duncan Robinson, 2-1. L — Jordan Piche’, 3-1.

2B — Michael Tinsley, Aaron Hernandez, KU. 3B — Michael Ketchmark, Dartmouth.

KU highlights — Frank Duncan, 7 IP, 2 ER, 1 BB, 7 Ks; Piche, 2.1 IP, 1 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 2 K; Blair Beck, 2-for-5, RBI.