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 ...
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 ...
Browsing a list of recent and upcoming international college football games reveals a clear pattern: They almost all take place before the season begins in earnest. North Carolina and TCU will face off in Ireland and N.C. State and Virginia in Brazil as part of this year’s Week 0, a chunk of games that takes place a week prior to the season proper. Iowa State and Kansas State started their seasons early last ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Kansas softball team earned a regional bid and a No. 8 seed in the NCAA Tournament on the strength of some significant late-season victories. Now the Jayhawks’ focus will turn to actually advancing out of their regional — something the program has done just once, when it hosted in 1992 — a task that will presumably require at some point along the way defeating Oklahoma, a perennial power that is 18-0 ...