Kansas Extends Win Streak with 11-1 Victory; Breaks Student Attendance Record

Tuesday, March 24

Lawrence, Kan.

6 p.m. CT

University of Kansas

16-8

Sacramento State

9-16

Sacramento St.

Kansas

Kansas Extends Win Streak with 11-1 Victory; Breaks Student Attendance Record

3/24/2026 9:36:00 PM | Baseball

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LAWRENCE, Kan. – Kansas baseball extended its winning streak to a season-best six games with an 11-1 run-rule victory against Sacramento State on Tuesday night at Hoglund Ballpark. Kansas set a new student attendance record with 1,019 students in attendance for Dollar Dog Night.

Tyson LeBlanc hit two home runs, including a walk-off three-run homer, while Josh Dykhoff added a three-run homer of his own. The Jayhawks scored three runs in the fourth, five runs in the fifth and three runs in the seventh to walk it off.

Madden Seidl started and gave the Jayhawks a strong 3.2 innings in which he allowed only one unearned run. Riane Ritter pitched 2.1 dominant innings of scoreless relief to earn the win. Caleb Deer also had a scoreless inning of work.

HOW IT HAPPENED
• Sacramento State (9-16) scored an unearned run in the first inning to take a 1-0 lead.
• Kansas (16-8) was hitless through the first three innings.
• In the fourth inning, the Kansas offense broke through. After a pair of hit by pitches, Dykhoff stepped up to the plate and drilled the first pitch to center field for a three-run homer off the camera platform. That gave Kansas a 3-1 edge.
• The Jayhawks piled on five more runs in the fifth inning to break open the game. LeBlanc led off the inning with a solo blast. Dariel Osoria drove in a run on a sacrifice fly and Tyson Owens scored on a wild pitch. Jordan Bach capped the scoring with a two-run double to make it an 8-1 ballgame.
• LeBlanc had another power surge two innings later as he crushed a walk-off three-run homer to lift the Jayhawks to an 11-1 win.

PITCHERS OF RECORD
Win: Riane Ritter (3-1)
Final line: 2.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 5 SO
Loss: Jackson Halverson (2-2)
Final line: 0.1 IP, 1 H, 2 R, 1 BB, 0 SO

SOCIAL POST OF THE GAME

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1,019 students showed out to Hoglund Ballpark tonight!#RockChalk pic.twitter.com/zwvXv6qx0Z
— Kansas Baseball (@KUBaseball) March 25, 2026

QUOTABLES & NOTABLES
"I didn't love how we came out of the gates. I thought we were on time with the pitcher, but it was either popped up or put on the ground. I liked that we kept it at 1-0 for that whole time and then obviously we punched it through in the fourth and fifth. I liked that guys stayed with the approach and stayed on it. I thought we were maybe a little too aggressive and then we had a couple punchouts looking. That's one of the best umpires in the country, so he's not wrong on those calls. I thought we were a little over aggressive ahead [in the count] and then I thought those first three innings, maybe a little bit on the defensive side of not being aggressive enough with two strikes, but obviously punched it through and it was a great team effort." – Head Coach Dan Fitzgerald

"They're incredible. I've said it a thousand times. They are the greatest student section in college baseball. I never saw them last year because they were above us and I'm not out on the field. To see them in action is amazing. They took up their section and then an entire other section. They're the best. We need them. They're a huge asset and a huge home field advantage for us. We didn't give them much to get fired up about in the first three innings, but in the fourth they got real loud, the fifth they got real loud and then they helped us close it out." – Head Coach Dan Fitzgerald

"I was seeing the ball really good today. My first at-bat I got beat, so I told myself to be on time for the heaters. That's what I did my next at-bat when I hit the first home run." – Tyson LeBlanc

"At the beginning of the game, (Cade) Baldridge and I were talking, we were like, 'dang, the students took up the student section plus some more'. They took up about three-fourths of the stadium. That was amazing on a midweek. I love the students." – Tyson LeBlanc

• Kansas improved to 16-8 overall this season.
• Kansas has won six consecutive games. The Jayhawks have scored 68 runs over the six-game winning streak.
• Kansas recorded its 11th comeback victory of the season.
• Dykhoff hit his fifth home run of the season. He has homered in back-to-back games for the second time this season.
• LeBlanc recorded his first career multi-homer game. He finished with four RBIs and now has four home runs in the last four games.
• Ritter moved to 3-1 on the season.

UP NEXT
Kansas will play Sacramento State in the second and final game of the series on Wednesday afternoon. The game is scheduled for 3 p.m. CT and it will be broadcast on ESPN+.