Emmah Jemutai emerged from Saturday with two Big 12 titles, providing the highlight of the conference’s outdoor track and field championship in Tucson, Arizona, for the Kansas team. The Jayhawks finished eighth of 10 teams in both the men’s and women’s competitions, with Jemutai providing two of KU’s four individual titles along with one from men’s pole vaulter Anthony Meacham and one from decathlete ...
When Will Baker was 13 and playing on the Southeastern Junior Golf Tour, he shot a 67 at the University of Georgia Golf Course, just about a 15-mile drive from where he grew up in nearby Statham, Georgia, for his first round ever in the 60s. “At that time there was no live scoring, so I watched (a) kid kind of hug his parents, thought he won,” Baker recalled on Tuesday. “I was like, ‘Eh, sorry.’ That ...
NORMAN, Okla. — The Michigan softball team couldn’t score on Kansas freshman Lila Partridge for eight innings on Friday and then proceeded to pile on four runs against her on Saturday without Partridge even recording an out. That was one of innumerable ways in which the Jayhawks’ and Wolverines’ rematch differed from their prior meeting, and the most prominent was in the final outcome, as Michigan won ...
NORMAN, Okla. — A matchup with an old foe yielded a disappointingly familiar result for the Kansas softball team. KU managed just one hit and fell 9-0 in five innings to its former conference rival, No. 1 seed Oklahoma, in an NCAA regional matchup on Saturday afternoon at Love’s Field. The Jayhawks and starting pitcher Chloe Barber limited OU’s offense reasonably well at first, outside of a pair of ...
For the first time since 1949, the Kansas Jayhawks are regular-season conference champions in baseball. The Jayhawks sealed an outright league title on Friday night by staving off a late BYU comeback to beat the Cougars 7-6 at Miller Park in Provo, Utah. That brought KU’s conference record to 22-7, which together with West Virginia’s 4-0 loss to TCU locked up the Big 12 crown. It also ensured that the ...
NORMAN, Okla. — A few moments before Kansas’ actual walk-off winner against Michigan on Friday came a bit of a misfire. When senior right fielder Aynslee Linduff sent a ball down the line in left field with the bases loaded and nobody out in the bottom of the eighth inning, the KU dugout was on the verge of celebrating its apparent victory. Then it turned out, in a matter of seconds, that the line drive ...