LAWRENCE, Kan. -- The Omaha baseball team faced Kansas Monday afternoon for the first of three meetings with the Jayhawks this season, falling 6-2 at Hoglund Ballpark. The Mavericks are now 2-5 on the year, while KU improves to 5-2.
 
Blake Goldsberry (1-0) earned the win in relief, throwing 6.2 shutout innings of one-hit ball with five strikeouts. The loss went to Spencer Koelewyn (0-1), who allowed three runs (two earned) on three hits and five walks with three strikeouts.
 
Braden Rogers led Omaha with a 1-for-3 day and drove in a pair of runs.
 
Devin Foyle was 2-for-3 with a run and two RBI, and Jaxx Groshans was 2-for-5 with two more runs driven in for Kansas.
 
The Jayhawks jumped out to a 2-0 edge in the bottom of the first after Foyle's two-run double to left scored Brendt Citta and James Cosentino.
 
The Mavericks evened it in the third, with Henry Wittren opening the inning by reaching on a fielding error and advancing to second on a balk. DeBonville then drew a full-count walk, and a Cole Thibodeau sacrifice bunt moved both runners into scoring position. Rogers' two-run single through the right side was the equalizer that knotted the game at 2-2.
 
But KU regained the lead in the fourth when Skyler Messinger scored on a Cosentino sacrifice fly. The Jayhawks added two more in the sixth with Groshans' two-run triple to right and another in the seventh with Tanner Gragg's RBI single to right that plated Foyle for a 6-2 tally.
 
Goldsberry allowed just one Maverick baserunner in his outing until Grant Suponchick pinch hit in the ninth and delivered a one-out double to left.
 
Omaha opens a four-game weekend series with Ohio this Friday, March 2, with first pitch set for 2 p.m. in Emerson, Ga.