With the Kansas baseball team sitting one game back of Kansas State in the Big 12 standings, this weekend’s Sunflower Showdown is the biggest rivalry meeting in years for a Jayhawk team with its best record in a decade. After being swept by TCU in Fort Worth last weekend, the Jayhawks ...
The Free State baseball team needed just two runs on Thursday night, relying on its pitching and defense to take down Sunflower League rival Mill Valley 2-0. “It was a very, very good high school baseball game. We had to make some excellent plays defensively to win the ballgame,” head ...
The spring sports season is reaching its midway point as state competitions are around a month away. Local players are making big plays and getting crucial wins as they jockey for postseason positioning. Here are this week's selections for Journal-World Athletes of the Week: Katie Courter, ...
In its first exhibition match of the spring, Kansas head coach Matt Ulmer said, his team was “horrible.” The road contest against Wichita State saw the Jayhawks regress after they had made strides in their first spring practices under Ulmer and his newly constructed staff. “It was ...
Former St. Bonaventure guard Melvin Council Jr. has signed with Kansas, KU announced on Wednesday night. Council averaged 14.6 points, 5.4 rebounds and 2.1 steals in 37.1 minutes per game during his lone year with the Bonnies. A strong finisher at the rim and an athletic, durable defender, ...
Down six runs to Olathe Northwest, Harper Dye led off the bottom of the fifth inning for Lawrence and hit a home run on the third pitch. After that, the Lions rattled off four more runs and had four hits in the inning after accounting for only five hits and two runs in the first four innings. ...
