LAWRENCE, Kan. – For a second straight day, the Kansas offense had a giant day on the plate en path to a 13-6 win towards the Baylor Bears on Saturday afternoon at Hoglund Ballpark. Kansas earned the collection win behind robust performances from freshman Kodey Shojinaga who had 4 hits for a second straight day and senior Cal switch Cole Elvis who had three extra-base hits, together with a house run within the win.
Kansas jumped out to a 2-0 lead for the second straight day within the first inning. Freshmen Jackson Kline and Kodey Shojinaga each singled to steer off the underside of the primary. Senior Cal switch Cole Elvis got here up subsequent and hit a ball of the batter’s eye in heart subject for an RBI double. Junior Cowley Group School switch Janson Reeder adopted that with a sacrifice fly to present the Jayhawks a 2-0 lead.
Baylor (9-18, 2-6 Huge 12) took its first lead of the collection within the third inning when the Bears scored three runs. After a leadoff stroll, Kobe Andrade hit an RBI triple to attain the primary run. Andrade scored on an RBI groundout earlier than Hunter Teplanszky hit a solo homer to take a 3-2 lead.
After scoring seven runs within the fourth inning on Friday, the Jayhawks scored 4 within the fourth on Saturday. With two outs, Shojinaga hit a 2-run double to attain Kline and Michael Brooks. Elvis adopted Shojinaga and hit a 2-run homer out to heart subject to place the Jayhawks forward 7-3. Kansas wouldn’t relinquish that lead the remainder of the way in which.
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The Bears did lower the deficit to 7-4 within the prime of the fifth on an RBI single by Teplanszky. Nevertheless, KU received that run again within the backside of the sixth on an RBI single from sophomore Chase Jans. That made the rating 8-4.
The Jayhawks added three extra runs within the seventh inning on an error, sacrifice fly from Kline and an RBI single by Reeder. Baylor received two of these runs again within the prime of the eighth, however the Bears gave them proper again with two bases loaded walks within the backside of the eighth. Kansas held a 13-6 lead heading into the ninth the place junior Stone Hewlett struck out the facet.
Junior Minnesota switch Sam Eire began and gave Kansas 5 robust innings. He allowed 4 runs on 4 hits, whereas strolling three and hanging out two. Junior and Doane College switch Thaniel Trumper mixed with Hewlett for 4 innings of aid.
PITCHERS OF RECORD Win: Sam Eire (3-3) Closing line: 5.0 IP, 4 H, 4 R, 3 BB, 2 SO Loss: Cam Caley (0-4) Closing line: 2.0 IP, 4 H, 4 R, 3 BB, 2 SO
QUOTABLE “I’m pleased with how our guys competed. Once you compete at a excessive degree you give your self a chance to have nice issues occur. Profitable a collection is a giant deal, but it surely’s like each different sport, now now we have a brand new one to prepare for. I’m pleased with the blokes and pleased with their focus. I assumed now we have been very targeted the previous couple of video games and I’m pleased with how they’ve gone about it.” – Coach Dan Fitzgerald
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NOTES • Kansas is 4-0 at Hoglund Ballpark this season. • Kansas scored 10+ runs in consecutive video games for the primary time this season and first since April 10-12, 2022. The final time Kansas had at the very least 10 runs in back-to-back convention video games was April 25-30, 2010 vs. Texas Tech/at Oklahoma State. The final time Kansas did it in consecutive Huge 12 video games at dwelling was Could 2-3, 2008 vs. Oklahoma. • Saturday’s attendance of 1,547 was the most important attendance at Hoglund Ballpark since April 13, 2019 vs. Oklahoma State (1,557). • Kansas tallied 14 hits marking the primary time this season with double-digit hits in back-to-back video games. The final time Kansas had 10+ hits in consecutive video games was April 26-Could 1, 2022 (5 video games). • The 13 runs scored by Kansas have been its second highest run whole of the season. • Shojinaga matched his profession excessive with 4 hits, which he set on Friday night time. The final Kansas participant to have back-to-back 4-hit video games was Maui Ahuna on March 19-20, 2021 vs. Creighton. Shojinaga completed 4-for-5 with a double, two RBIs and a career-high 4 runs scored. • Jans prolonged his on-base streak to 21 video games, which is the longest of the sophomore’s profession and the longest by a Jayhawk this season. He completed 1-for-3 with an RBI and two walks. • Elvis linked on his third dwelling run of the season. He completed 3-for-4 with two doubles, a house run, a season-high 4 RBIs, one run scored and two walks. His 9 multi-hit video games lead the staff. • Reeder completed with three RBIs and has a team-high seven multi-RBI video games this season. • Brooks had two hits, two walks and three runs scored. He has a success in seven of his final eight video games.
UP NEXT Kansas (11-14, 2-3 Huge 12) will wrap up the collection on Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. CT towards Baylor. The Jayhawks shall be vying for his or her first collection sweep of the season.
Sunday is World Autism Consciousness Day and Kansas shall be making a sensory-inclusive setting for the competition. Stadium quantity shall be silenced at 12:45 p.m. and can progressively improve by inning all through the sport. Sensory toys shall be out there in the course of the sport on the advertising desk whereas provides final and the Jayhawks shall be sporting particular uniforms for the sport.
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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