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Final
Baseball
8
at Minnesota
3
Sunday, March 8
Lawrence, Kan.
12 p.m. CT
University of Kansas
10-5
2
vs
13
St. Thomas
3-12
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
R
H
E
St. Thomas
0
2
0
0
1
1
6
3
13
15
1
Kansas
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
2
1
1
Kansas Wins Series; Falls to St. Thomas in Series Finale
3/8/2026 3:37:00 PM | Baseball
LAWRENCE, Kan. – Kansas baseball won the first three games of the series against St. Thomas before dropping the series finale 13-2 in eight innings on Sunday afternoon at Hoglund Ballpark.
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HOW IT HAPPENED
• St. Thomas (3-12) grabbed the lead first for a fourth consecutive day. The Tommies plated two runs in the second inning on an RBI double and RBI single.
• That lead stretched to 4-0 with a run in the fifth and a run in the sixth for St. Thomas.
• Kansas (10-5) was able to get its lone hit and first run in the bottom of the sixth. Brady Ballinger hit a triple off the batter's eye to start the inning and Tyson LeBlanc brought him home on an RBI groundout. That made it a 4-1 game.
• St. Thomas took control of the game with a six-run seventh inning. Four run-scoring hits stretched it to a 10-1 St. Thomas lead.
• Three more runs crossed the plate for the Tommies in the eighth to make it 13-1 and put the run rule into effect.
• The Jayhawks did score one run in the bottom of the eighth on a sacrifice fly by Cade Baldridge.
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PITCHERS OF RECORD
Win: Jack Scanlon (1-0)
Final line: 2.2 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 2 BB, 4 SO
Loss: Madden Seidl (1-1)
Final line: 2.0 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 1 BB, 1 SO
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QUOTABLES & NOTABLES
"Obviously an ugly, ugly game. The box score takes care of itself when you get one hit and give up 15. I think the first time through the order for us we had one punch out, so I actually thought the approach was pretty good. Then, we just completely abandoned the plan offensively and on the mound once we got punched in the mouth a couple times. Great opportunity for us to learn, or I should say it is an opportunity for us to learn. We need to take advantage of it because obviously it gets a lot harder from here." – Head Coach Dan Fitzgerald
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• Kansas dropped to 10-5 overall on the season.
• Ballinger hit his first triple of the season.
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UP NEXT
Kansas will hit the road again for a week in the state of Texas. The Jayhawks will play TCU in a non-conference midweek game on Tuesday, March 10 at 6 p.m. CT, before heading to Texas Tech to begin conference play.
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HOW IT HAPPENED
• St. Thomas (3-12) grabbed the lead first for a fourth consecutive day. The Tommies plated two runs in the second inning on an RBI double and RBI single.
• That lead stretched to 4-0 with a run in the fifth and a run in the sixth for St. Thomas.
• Kansas (10-5) was able to get its lone hit and first run in the bottom of the sixth. Brady Ballinger hit a triple off the batter's eye to start the inning and Tyson LeBlanc brought him home on an RBI groundout. That made it a 4-1 game.
• St. Thomas took control of the game with a six-run seventh inning. Four run-scoring hits stretched it to a 10-1 St. Thomas lead.
• Three more runs crossed the plate for the Tommies in the eighth to make it 13-1 and put the run rule into effect.
• The Jayhawks did score one run in the bottom of the eighth on a sacrifice fly by Cade Baldridge.
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PITCHERS OF RECORD
Win: Jack Scanlon (1-0)
Final line: 2.2 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 2 BB, 4 SO
Loss: Madden Seidl (1-1)
Final line: 2.0 IP, 4 H, 2 R, 1 BB, 1 SO
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QUOTABLES & NOTABLES
"Obviously an ugly, ugly game. The box score takes care of itself when you get one hit and give up 15. I think the first time through the order for us we had one punch out, so I actually thought the approach was pretty good. Then, we just completely abandoned the plan offensively and on the mound once we got punched in the mouth a couple times. Great opportunity for us to learn, or I should say it is an opportunity for us to learn. We need to take advantage of it because obviously it gets a lot harder from here." – Head Coach Dan Fitzgerald
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• Kansas dropped to 10-5 overall on the season.
• Ballinger hit his first triple of the season.
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UP NEXT
Kansas will hit the road again for a week in the state of Texas. The Jayhawks will play TCU in a non-conference midweek game on Tuesday, March 10 at 6 p.m. CT, before heading to Texas Tech to begin conference play.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Scanlon, Jack (1-0)
L: Seidl, Madden (1-1)
Batting:
2B: Puder, Adam 3 ; Fritcher, Easton 2
HR: McNellis, Lucas 1
RBI: McNellis, Lucas 1 ; Puder, Adam 4 ; Recchio, Tanner 1 ; Fritcher, Easton 1 ; Roder, Joe 1 ; Bond, Owen 1 ; Von Schlegell, Zan 2 ; Knowles, Christopher 1
SF: Roder, Joe 1
Base Running:
RUNS: McNellis, Lucas 2 ; Puder, Adam 3 ; Recchio, Tanner 1 ; Fritcher, Easton 2 ; Roder, Joe 1 ; Bond, Owen 1 ; Knowles, Christopher 2 ; Verhage, Terek 1
SB: Recchio, Tanner 1
HBP: McNellis, Lucas 1
Batting:
3B: Ballinger, Brady 1
RBI: LeBlanc, Tyson 1 ; Baldridge, Cade 1
SF: Baldridge, Cade 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Ballinger, Brady 1 ; Soliz Jr., Max 1
HBP: Owens, Tyson 1 ; Baldridge, Cade 1 ; Mungarrieta, Augusto 1
Game Leaders
AB
3
R
1
H
1
RBI
0
AB
1
R
1
H
0
RBI
0
AB
2
R
0
H
0
RBI
0
AB
4
R
0
H
0
RBI
1
Players Mentioned
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