Completed Event: Women's Basketball at Missouri State on December 7, 2025 , Win , 73, to, 70 , (OT)
Final
Women's Basketball
73
at Missouri State
(OT)
70
LAWRENCE, Kan. – At the beginning of June, the Kansas baseball team saw two of its players selected in the top-10 rounds of the Major League Baseball (MLB) Draft when the Boston Red Sox selected both junior catcher Jaxx Groshans and junior pitcher Ryan Zeferjahn.
Zeferjahn was taken in the third round and Groshans heard his name called in the fifth round, both by the same team.
The duo has spent the past three years as teammates and a key part of the Kansas battery, with Zeferjahn performing as a starting pitcher during both his sophomore and junior seasons and Groshans starting behind the dish in his junior year for the Jayhawks.
After both Zeferjahn and Groshans were assigned to the Red Sox’s short-season affiliate, the Lowell Spinners in Lowell, Massachusetts, the pair were given the rare opportunity to remain teammates for the beginning of a new chapter in the big leagues.
In an interview with Gershon Rabinowitz at the Baseball Prospect Journal, Zeferjahn said, “It was kind of cool because we had a good bond in Kansas as a pitcher and catcher battery and now it’s pretty cool to play with him again in pro ball.”
In the same interview with Rabinowitz, Groshans added his thoughts on getting drafted by the same team as his starting pitcher, “It’s funny and coincidental how Zeferjahn and I ended up here together with the Red Sox. I was in the dugout, and I was talking about it during our conference tournament. I said our time in Kansas was going to come to an end, so how cool would it be to be on the same team in the future. I did not expect it to become a reality.”
Both Zeferjahn and Groshans have credited Kansas head coach Ritch Price and his coaching style for helping with their development and growth as players, stating that Price’s coaching has made the transition from college to the big leagues a little easier.
