The Eudora softball team claimed third place in the 4A state tournament in Salina in dramatic fashion Friday evening, rallying from three runs down to beat Towanda-Circle 5-4 in extra innings. Jaiden Burris put the final ball in play for the Cardinals' eighth-inning walk-off, after Katie Courter and Lexi Born led off the inning with a pair of hits to put Circle in a tough spot, per the Eudora athletic ...
The Kansas baseball team relinquished a 9-0 lead Friday morning against TCU and still managed to win, thanks to a go-ahead home run by Jake English. The seventh-seeded Jayhawks then had to immediately play a Big 12 Conference semifinal game against the top team in the league, Oklahoma, in which they gave up a 6-0 lead and were not able to pull off the same late-game heroics. Making their first appearances of ...
The Kansas men's basketball team will face Duke at Las Vegas' T-Mobile Arena on Nov. 26, ESPN Events announced Thursday afternoon. The matchup is part of ESPN's second annual Vegas Showdown, a doubleheader that also features a matchup between Seattle and Furman, and then has Duke hosting Seattle and KU hosting Furman at their home arenas the following weekend. The Paladins will come to Lawrence on Nov. ...
Oklahoma starter Kyson Witherspoon’s pitch count kept climbing in the fourth inning as he walked one Jayhawk after another. Already leading 4-2 thanks to five uncharacteristic early errors by the conference-champion Sooners, Kansas had the bases loaded with just one out and a golden chance to strike. But the Jayhawks got nothing more. Witherspoon struck out Collier Cranford on a full count, and then, on his ...
Free State could find no answer for either Wichita-Haysville Campus’ hitting or its pitching on Thursday night and lost 11-1 in the 6A state softball quarterfinals at Arrocha Ballpark. The Firebirds showed signs of life when they scratched across their first run of the night on a sacrifice fly by Abry Hill that made it just a three-run game in the fifth inning. But otherwise they struggled to get anything ...
The Free State baseball and softball teams have become well acquainted with playing for state titles. Each team has won at least one state championship in the past decade — baseball in 2015, softball in back-to-back years between 2018 and 2019 — and baseball is now riding a streak of six straight berths in the state tournament, while softball has earned five in the same time period. It all adds up to a lot ...