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Kansas' Tyson LeBlanc greets teammates in the dugout during a fall baseball game against Bradley on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025, in Lawrence.

The Kansas baseball team posted its first sweep of the season by winning three straight games at McNeese State in Lake Charles, Louisiana, over the weekend.

“Proud of the guys,” KU coach Dan Fitzgerald said in a press release. “Sweeps are really hard to do, especially against teams like this. We’re going to enjoy this one and get ready for another week.”

In contrast to their hotly contested opening series against UTRGV and the midweek loss to Lamar that followed, the Jayhawks scored in the first inning of every game against the Cowboys and never trailed in the series, claiming the three games by a combined score of 25-5.

Jordan Bach set the tone in the series opener on Friday with a leadoff home run, and the Jayhawks piled on an additional four runs before McNeese got on the board for the first time. KU’s ace Dominic Voegele ultimately went six innings while allowing two earned runs on two hits on three walks, and by the time he exited, the Jayhawks had gone up 7-2 on a two-run homer by Tyson LeBlanc.

Toby Scheidt and Manning West kept the Cowboys at bay and KU extended the final margin to 11-2 in the ninth inning.

Saturday’s game brought another strong series of pitching performances. Mathis Nayral excelled for the second week in a row with just one run given up in five innings and then Carter Fink, Riane Ritter and Caleb Deer did the rest. Meanwhile, Brady Ballinger compiled a 4-for-5 performance and LeBlanc drove in another three runs in the 8-2 victory.

True freshman Madden Seidl took the mound on Sunday for the second straight week and had a better outing, albeit in just four innings before giving way to Fink. The Jayhawks earned just five hits on Sunday and were locked down by McNeese reliever Eric Nachtsheim for much of the afternoon, but drew six walks on the day and benefited from some key fielding errors, one of which allowed Bach to score in the first inning and one of which allowed Cade Baldridge to score in the seventh. Ballinger also had a two-RBI single.

After Fink faced just three batters, Kannon Carr, Scheidt and Boede Rahe ate up the remainder of the innings, while McNeese managed just two more hits and one walk and struck out six times as KU won 6-1.

The Jayhawks, now 5-2 on the year, will head up to U.S. Bank Stadium in Minnesota, the site of last year’s back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back home runs, for a four-game series with the Golden Gophers beginning on Wednesday at 6 p.m.