Kevin Kuntz, a junior infielder from Overland Park, gets tagged out at home plate during KU's game against Texas Tech at Hoglund Ballpark on Sunday afternoon. The Jayhawks ended the game with a 5-3 win over Texas Tech. The Jayhawk's next game will be against Baker at home on the 17th.

Published on May 2, 2012

Freshman pitcher, Alicia Pile, from Royse City, TX, winds up a pitch for her UMKC opponent during the Jayhawk's game against the Kangaroos at Arrocha Ballpark on Wednesday afternoon. The Kansas Jayhawks have never lost to the UMKC Kangaroos at home.

Published on May 2, 2012

Junior infielder, Jordan Dreiling, from Lawrence, tags his Aggie opponent out at second base during the Kansas Jayhawk's game against Texas A&M on April 15. The Jayhawks defeated the UALR Trojans 16-12 Tuesday night.

Published on May 1, 2012

Connor McKay, the freshman outfielder from Parker, CO, makes contact with the ball pitched in by Oklahoma redshirt Jordan John during the KU-OU series opener on Friday evening at Hoglund Ballpark. John pitched a complete game on Friday allowing only one Jayhawk run to home.

Published on April 29, 2012

KU's freshman outfielder from Parker, CO, Connor McKay, gets tagged out by Oklahoma's sophomore catcher, Dylan Neal, as he attempts to slide into home during Kansas' series opener against Oklahoma. KU was defeated by OU in the Friday and Saturday games of the series before Sunday's series closer was cancelled due to inclimate weather.

Published on April 29, 2012

Jayhawk freshman outfielder, Elsa Moyer, from Kirkland, WA catches a ball to mark a third out during the first of two games played against the UMKC Kangaroos at Arrocha Ballpark on Wednesday afternoon. The Jayhawks won the first game 3-1.

Published on April 29, 2012

Jordan Brown, the sophomore outfielder from Blue Spring, MO, prepares to bunt during the Big 12 series opener against OU at Hoglund Ballpark on Friday evening. Friday's game was postponed for 1 hour 38 minutes as fans and teammates took shelter to wait for rain and lightning to blow over before resuming play.

Published on April 29, 2012

Jordan John, Oklahoma's redshirt sophomore pitcher from Corpus Christi, TX, converses with his catcher, Dylan Neal, a sophomore from McKinney, TX, at the pitcher's mound in Hoglund Ballpark during the Big 12 series opener against Kansas on Friday evening. John pitched a complete game against Kansas allowing only one run on five hits and no walks and eight strikeouts.

Published on April 29, 2012

Rain begins to fall Friday evening at Hoglund Ballpark as Kansas covers the pitcher's mound with a tarp after deciding to postpone the Big 12 series opener against Oklahoma for 1 hour, 38 minutes after receiving reports of severe weather headed toward Lawrence. Oklahoma won both Friday and Saturday's games against Kansas, but Sunday's game was cancelled due to inclement weather. In accordance with Big 12's travel policy, the teams will not make up the game.

Published on April 29, 2012

KU's freshman outfielder from Parker, CO, Connor McKay, gets tagged out by Oklahoma's sophomore catcher, Dylan Neal, as he attempts to slide into home during Kansas' series opener against Oklahoma. KU was defeated by OU in the Friday and Saturday games of the series before Sunday's series closer was cancelled due to inclement weather.

Published on April 29, 2012

Connor McKay, the freshman outfielder from Parker, CO, makes contact with the ball pitched in by Oklahoma redshirt Jordan John during the KU-OU series opener on Friday evening at Hoglund Ballpark. John pitched a complete game on Friday allowing only one Jayhawk run to home.

Published on April 29, 2012

A female Tiger Swallowtail prepares to land on some sturdy foliage in order to lay her eggs Wednesday afternoon in the butterfly garden behind Foley Hall in West campus. The butterfly garden is open to the public and provides shaded benches and picnic tables and encourages students to enjoy the garden as a place to relax or eat lunch.

Published on April 26, 2012

A female Tiger Swallowtail hovers delicately on the foliage of a flowering bush as she lays two or three of her eggs in the butterfly garden outside Foley Hall on Wednesday afternoon. The garden, created and maintained by KU's Monarch Watch, provides a very necessary source of food for butterflies who's population is dwindling due to loss of their natural habitat.

Published on April 26, 2012

A female Tiger Swallowtail flexes her abdomen as she lays her eggs in a flowering bush inside the butterfly garden behind Foley Hall in West campus on Wednesday afternoon. The butterfly garden, created and maintained by KU's Monarch Watch, attracts a variety of butterflies and other insects in addition to monarchs.

Published on April 26, 2012

A Painted Lady butterfly rests on some colorful blossoms in the butterfly garden created by KU's Monarch Watch behind Foley Hall on Wednesday afternoon. Butterfly gardens create a needed food source for the dwindling butterfly population. To create your own butterfly garden be sure to include plants like chive, catnip, butterfly bush, milkweed, and dill.

Published on April 26, 2012

A Cloudless Sulphur butterfly drinks from the blossom of a catnip plant outside in KU Monarch Watch's butterfly garden behind Foley Hall in West campus. The garden sustains a variety of butterfly and insect species in addition to monarchs.

Published on April 26, 2012

A butterfly in the Pieridae family shares a daisy plant with a bee Wednesday afternoon in the KU Monarch Watch butterfly garden outside Foley Hall in West campus. Ku Monarch Watch, headed by Dr. Orley Taylor, promotes the cultivation of butterfly gardens which provide a needed food source for butterflies, whose natural habitat is being depleted by land development.

Published on April 26, 2012

A Cloudless Sulphur butterfly tops to feed on a chive blossom outside in the KU Monarch Watch butterfly garden behind Foley Hall on Wednesday afternoon. The butterfly garden is always open to visitors and provides shaded benches and tables to encourage students to enjoy the garden as a place to relax or eat lunch.

Published on April 26, 2012

A Painted Lady butterfly stops to feed on the bloom of a catnip plant outside in the butterfly garden behind Foley Hall, home to KU's Monarch Watch, on Wednesday afternoon. Creating your own butterfly garden is fairly easy and helps to sustain the butterfly population which suffers due to loss of habitat. Make sure to include many varieties of flowering plants like butterfly bush, and catnip. Plants like milkweed and dill are popular foods for butterfly larvae. Softly gurgling water also helps to attract butterflies to your garden.

Published on April 26, 2012

Monarch butterflies gather to drink and mate inside the mating mating station inside Foley Hall on Wednesday afternoon. Foley Hall is home to KU's Monarch Watch, a program dedicated to education, conservation, and research of monarch butterflies headed by Dr. Orley Taylor.

Published on April 26, 2012