LAWRENCE, Kan. – Kansas earned its first Huge 12 collection sweep since 2019 with a 5-4 comeback victory towards Baylor on Sunday at Hoglund Ballpark. The Jayhawks at the moment are 5-0 at house this season after securing the three-game sweep of the Bears.
Deadlocked at 4 apiece within the eighth, redshirt sophomore Jake English hit a go-ahead house run to guide off the body to place KU forward for good at 5-4.
Kansas led firstly when it took the lead within the first inning for a 3rd straight day. Freshman Jackson Kline singled to guide off the underside of the primary inning. With two outs, junior Cowley Group Faculty switch Janson Reeder hit an RBI double to attain Kline and provides Kansas a 1-0 lead.
The lead didn’t final lengthy as Baylor scored two runs within the prime of the second. An RBI groundout from Walter Polk and an RBI single by Cole Tremain put the Bears forward 2-1.
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Kansas evened the sport for the primary of 3 times within the third inning. Freshman Kodey Shojinaga hit a two-out RBI double to attain sophomore Chase Jans and tie the sport at 2-2 after three innings.
Baylor (9-19, 2-7 Huge 12) took the lead once more within the fifth inning. Kolby Department hit a solo house run that simply stayed honest down the left subject line. The blast gave Baylor a 3-2 edge.
The Jayhawks responded once more with a two-out RBI single from Kline. Sophomore Luke Leto and English had been on first and second when Kline dropped a single in entrance of the middle fielder. Once more, the sport was tied, this time at 3-3 via six innings.
The Bears scored a run on a two-out RBI double within the prime of the seventh to take the lead for a 3rd time. On the seventh inning stretch, Baylor held a 4-3 benefit. Then, Kansas used the lengthy ball to assist raise them to a win.
Senior Cal switch Cole Elvis hit a solo house run to left-center subject to guide off the seventh inning. The 422-foot house run was the fourth of the season for Elvis and tied the sport at 4-4.
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The underside of the eighth began the identical manner the underside of the seventh did. This time, it was English with the solo homer to left-center subject. The house run was the fifth of the season for English and gave the Jayhawks a 5-4 benefit that they might safe within the ninth.
Junior Nebraska switch Ethan Bradford began for Kansas and threw 4.0 innings permitting two runs on 5 hits. Sophomore Tennessee switch Gavin Brasosky adopted Bradford with three innings out of the bullpen the place he allowed two runs on 4 hits with three strikeouts. Redshirt junior and San Diego State switch Hunter Cranton then got here on and labored a scoreless last two innings. He earned the win and improved to 2-2 on the season.
Kansas celebrated Nationwide Autism Consciousness Day on Sunday. The Jayhawks wore particular uniforms that featured a puzzle design to assist increase consciousness for autism. Stadium quantity was additionally silenced quarter-hour earlier than first pitch and was steadily elevated by inning all through the sport to create a sensory-inclusive atmosphere.
PITCHERS OF RECORD Win: Hunter Cranton (2-2) Ultimate line: 2.0 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 0 SO Loss: Hambleton Oliver (2-3) Ultimate line: 1.2 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 SO
QUOTABLES “I’m actually happy with the blokes. We had an excellent week. I assumed we performed an excellent midweek and simply caught to the method. I’m so happy with them. By means of every part this weekend, I assumed we performed 27 full innings of focus and depth. We took the end result out of it, which I feel you need to. The season is just too lengthy and also you play too many video games to get tied into it. I’m simply so happy with them sticking to it and actually enjoying unselfish baseball.” – Coach Dan Fitzgerald
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“It feels nice. The very best half is watching each man and us as a crew get higher on a regular basis. That’s what we are attempting to do, however nonetheless making an attempt to take it one sport at a time. We’re going to put our nostril again to the grindstone and maintain getting after it.” – Cole Elvis
NOTES • Kansas swept its first Huge 12 collection since Might 17-19, 2019 vs. Ok-State. The sweep is the primary of Dan Fitzgerald’s teaching profession at Kansas. • Kansas is 5-0 at Hoglund Ballpark this season. • Kansas scored 30 runs towards Baylor in three video games. The final time Kansas scored 30 runs in a Huge 12 collection was April 17-19, 2009 at Texas Tech (30). • Kansas tallied 11 hits marking the primary time this season with double-digit hits in three straight video games. The final time Kansas had 10+ hits in consecutive video games was April 26-Might 1, 2022 (5 video games). • Elvis launched his fourth house run of the season to tie the sport within the seventh inning. He has homered in back-to-back video games for the third time in his profession. The final time was April 30-Might 1, 2021 at Washington when Elvis was at Cal. • Jans prolonged his on-base streak to 22 video games, which is the longest of the sophomore’s profession and the longest by a Jayhawk this season. He completed 2-for-5 with a double. • Shojinaga went 9-for-14 (.643) this weekend towards Baylor. He had three doubles, 5 RBIs and 5 runs scored.
UP NEXT Kansas (12-14, 3-3 Huge 12) wraps up its five-game homestand on Tuesday afternoon towards the Missouri State Bears at 3 p.m. CT. Followers can buy tickets to the sport by contacting the Kansas ticket workplace at 785-864-3141 or by visiting the ticketing web page right here.
Sporting Kansas City striker Willy Agada, shown against reigning Leagues Cup champion Inter Miami, scored the deciding goal in the 76th minute to give Sporting a 2-1 Cup triumph over Chicago on Sunday
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Nigerian striker Willy Agada scored the deciding goal in the 76th minute to give Sporting Kansas City a 2-1 victory Sunday over visiting Chicago in the Leagues Cup.
Greek striker Georgios Koutsias opened the scoring for the Fire in the 22nd minute only for US defender Robert Castellanos of Kansas City to net the equalizer in the 39th minute.
The tournament features MLS and Mexico’s Liga MX teams in a World Cup-style event featuring three-team groups with each advancing two into knockout rounds.
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Host New York City FC edged Mexico’s Queretaro 4-3 on penalties after playing to a goalless draw. New York gets two points in the group table to one for Queretaro with FC Cincinnati yet to play.
Sunday’s matches marked the end of the first round of group matches with the second wave starting on Tuesday.
Defending champion Inter Miami, without injured star Lionel Messi, beat Puebla on Saturday in their group opener. Puebla and Tigres UANL will play on Wednesday in Houston, where Miami will face Tigres on Saturday to close their group.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – Two teenagers were seriously injured after their SUV flipped on I-29 near the Kansas City Airport over the weekend.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol indicates that just before 5:45 p.m. on Saturday, July 27, emergency crews were called to the area of I-29 and I-435, near the Kansas City Airport, with reports of a single-vehicle collision.
When first responders arrived, they said they found a 2002 Chevrolet Blazer driven by Alexander D. Maxwell, 18, of Kansas City, Mo., had veered off the left side of the road where it flipped and crossed the center median.
MSHP said the SUV flipped again and slid off the west side of the road.
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First responders noted that Maxwell and his passenger, a 17-year-old were both taken to North Kansas City Hospital with serious injuries. No further information has been provided.
Add Georgia to the list, now that we’re naming names. And USC. BFN is a BFD.
At least 9.3 million people watched CU and CSU trade haymakers last September in the Rocky Mountain Showdown. You don’t think Lincoln Riley happened to be one of them?
“His DMs were ringing off the hook (in December),” Rich Nicolosi, father to Rams quarterback Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi, told me Friday. “Everyone from USC to Georgia, and everyone in between. Several in Texas. Some of those offers, most of it, (was) just B.S.”
Some of them, though? Some of them weren’t.
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“The K-State one is absolutely legitimate,” Rich said of the Wildcats’ alleged NIL push. “And there were several others.”
Which makes you wonder: What sort of dad lets his kid turn down $600,000, as Rams coach Jay Norvell recently accused the Wildcats of putting on the table, for the glitz of the Mountain West?
A dad who raised his kid right. A dad who says his kid would make the same choice again.
No receipts. No regrets.
“Brayden didn’t ever really take it seriously,” Rich said. “That’s why he was always committed to (CSU coach) Jay (Norvell). It was Jay who believed in Brayden. It was Jay who gave him a shot. He’s extremely loyal to Jay.
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“And Brayden loves CSU … (he’s) an outdoors kid, he loves hunting and fishing. He loves everything about it, and I think that tied it all into a neat little bow.”
As a redshirt freshman, BFN led the Mountain West in total offense per game (286.1 yards) and passing yards per game (288.3). As a sophomore heading to camp on Thursday, he’s shaved his 40-yard dash time down to the 4.6-second range and his 20-yard shuttle time to 4.19.
That last number, if you’re curious, is quicker than the 2024 combine times posted by Michigan’s JJ McCarthy (4.23), the No.10 overall pick in the ’24 NFL Draft, and South Carolina’s Spencer Rattler (4.37), who wound up getting taken in the fifth round by the Saints. He’s squatting 460 to 480-ish pounds, with sights on topping 500 soon.
“It’s fun to see some of the (social media posts),” Rich laughed. “Like, ‘They offered $600K for a QB2? Really?’ Maybe you’re not seeing what the NFL scouts see right now.”
The scouts see BFN, CSU’s Big Freakin’ Deal, as a 6-foot-4 RPG. They see a kid who’ll hang in the pocket until he can smell the linebacker’s chewing gum. They see guts. They see vision. They see a fast processor. They see a photographic memory. They see a guy who took honors classes in chemistry and advanced placement courses in world history.
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And yeah, they’ve seen the 16 picks from last fall. Brayden and Rich, a football coach himself, even got together to break them down: Three came on end-of-half or end-of-game heaves, another handful on third-and-forevers.
“Probably half of them were really mental mistakes, being a freshman, being new,” Rich said. “I would say he’s not really going to change his gunslinger mentality.
“And I think that’s one of the things that, when you compare him to Jordan Love, how he played for Green Bay, and had similar stats, but the NFL looks back and goes, ‘He’s not afraid to let it rip.’”
No receipts. No regrets.
BFN’s never been cowered from the stage. Never shirked a challenge. Growing up, Rich made a point to never “let” his kids, including Brayden, beat him in anything.
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Victories were earned. They even made up a fake medal out of a jar lid, a carrot at the end of the family stick, and presented it to the “Champion Of The Garage.”
Brayden won it for the first time at age 14 when he finally beat Rich in table tennis. Young BFN put the medal on, then went outside and did a ceremonial lap of honor around the neighborhood.
“From then on,” Rich laughed, “there’s nothing that I can beat him at.”
Colorado State Rams quarterback Brayden Fowler-Nicolosi (16) celebrates with fans after defeating the Nevada Wolf Pack 30-20 at Canvas Stadium November 18, 2023. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)
Brayden became a 5-foot-8 underclassman being chased by 300-pound linemen at San Diego’s Torrey Pines High School. But by the time that first major growth spurt hit, in 2020, BFN was SOL — a 6-foot-ish QB with no prep football in California to play that fall thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. The family moved to Texas, where young Brayden transferred into Aledo High, zipped from JV to QB1, and won a state championship within months of joining the program.
“Get him on a board game like Rummikub, you play him in anything, he instantly locks into ‘kill’ mode,” Rich said. “He’s just like his mom — he won’t let anybody win.”
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BFN grew up at Rich’s practices and games, shagging balls and joining drills, soaking it all in like a young Kyle Shanahan or a young Jim Harbaugh,
At 9, he was watching film with Rich, who showed him how to dissect defenses. At 12, his fastball was clocked at 72 miles per hour. At 15, he was throwing the rock so stinking hard that Rich decided, rather than busting up his fingers, to let someone else run routes with his new missile launcher.
Although even dad admits that a spare $600,000 sure would’ve come in handy recently. Brayden just sprung for a $3,000 bed, complete with one of those “smart” therapy mattresses that contour to your spine.
“He doesn’t care about any of that stuff,” Rich said. “We really just don’t care about that. We have a really great (adviser) who is our brand manager … he always told us, ‘Don’t try to get rich playing college football. The real money is in the NFL.’”
No receipts. No regrets.
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“I’ve seen his accountability going up, his sense of responsibility going up big time,” Rich said. “He won that (CSU) locker room last year, to be honest with you, before the season even started. People loved him. He’s got no enemies. Except for some CU Buffs fans.”
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