Kansas Jayhawks

National Runner of the Week Chandler Gibbens received Big 12 Runner of the Week honors, the Big 12 Conference announced Tuesday afternoon, after winning the Joe Piane Notre Dame Invitational.

Former Kansas baseball catcher and current Philadelphia Phillies manager, Rob Thomson, has led the Phillies organization back to the postseason for the second consecutive season. The Phillies will play in the NL Wild Card series against Miami, beginning on Tuesday, Oct. 3 at 7:08 p.m. CT.

Kansas senior Gunnar Broin posted a seventh-place finish as the Kansas Men’s Golf team wrapped up play at the Fighting Irish Classic on Monday, finishing in 10th place at the Warren Golf Course.

Kansas will face Oklahoma State on Saturday, Oct. 14 at 2:30 p.m. CT, with the game being televised on FS1, the Big 12 Conference announced Monday.

Following its first loss of the season, Kansas (4-1, 1-1 Big 12) returns home to David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium to host UCF (3-2, 0-2 Big 12) on Saturday, Oct. 7 at 3 p.m. CT for the first-ever meeting between the two teams.

Seniors Gunnar Broin and William Duquette are tied for 10th place as the Kansas Men’s Golf team sits in seventh place after 36 holes of the Fighting Irish Classic at the Warren Golf Course.

On Sunday afternoon at Rock Chalk Park, the No. 21 Texas Longhorns defeated the Kansas Jayhawks 2-1 to hand KU its first home loss of the season. Freshman Caroline Castans scored her first career goal in the 86th minute of the match.

The No. 19 Kansas volleyball team completed its two-match sweep of No. 20 Houston with a 3-0 (25-22, 25-21, 25-21) before a sold-out crowd Saturday afternoon in the Horejsi Family Volleyball Arena.