Kansas’ duo of Michael Brooks (co-player) and Dominic Voegele (pitcher) were joined by Cincinnati’s Kerrington Cross (co-player) and Arizona State’s Matt King (newcomer) as the Big 12 Baseball weekly award recipients for games ending March 30.
Cross reached base at least four times in all four of Cincinnati’s games last week, posting a .773 on-base percentage against No. 18 Louisville and UCF. He started the week against the Cardinals with a double and a home run before opening the series against the Knights 3-for-3, with another homer and reaching base five times. Cross leads the Conference and sits at No. 12 nationally with a .448 batting average in 23 starts this season while having the second-highest on-base percentage in the league (0.566, No. 6 nationally).
Brooks homered in three of Kansas’ five games last week and matched his career-high with a 7-RBI game in KU’s 16-5 win over St. Thomas (Minnesota). The Wellington, Florida native scored a run in all five games and recorded multiple hits in three of the five contests. In the second matchup against St. Thomas, he finished 2-for-3 with two runs, one home run, seven RBI and two walks. To conclude the series against Oklahoma State, the redshirt senior infielder finished 3-for-4 with three runs, one double, one homer and three RBI. Brooks also extended his on-base streak to 18 games.
Voegele pitched a career-high 8.0 innings and tied a career-high with 10 strikeouts in the Jayhawks’ series-opening victory over Oklahoma State. The 2025 Big 12 Preseason Pitcher of the Year retired 13 consecutive batters from the third inning through the seventh inning. The sophomore right-handed pitcher surrendered only two runs on three hits to finish with a 2.25 ERA on the day for his fourth win of the season. Voegele has struck out the fourth-most hitters in the Conference this season with 47 strikeouts through 40.1 innings pitched in seven games. The win helped Kansas sweep Oklahoma State for the first time since 2009 and improve KU’s Conference record to 6-3, the best start in league play in program history.
King tallied three hits in each of Arizona State’s three wins against Utah to finish 9-for-14 (.643) and help ASU pick up its first Conference sweep as a member of the Big 12. The senior infielder recorded a team-leading five RBI, three doubles and a .688 on-base percentage while adding two stolen bases in the series and added a diving play to save runs with the bases loaded in a series-clinching win on Saturday. He is the fifth Sun Devil to earn Conference recognition this season and the second to be named Big 12 Newcomer of the Week.