Author: Mitch Fortner

From K-State Athletics Kansas completed a doubleheader sweep of K-State Sunday at Hoglund Ballpark, winning the first game 9-6 before a 6-4 victory in the nightcap in the Dillons Sunflower Showdown. In the regular-season finale for both teams, KU (31-24, 12-12 Big 12) locked up the No. 5 seed in the upcoming 2019 Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship after its three-game sweep. K-State (25-31, 8-16 Big 12) will enter the postseason as the eighth seed and take on top-seeded Texas Tech on Wednesday. Freshman Dylan Phillips hit three home runs over the two games, upping his season total to…

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0:00 – Top five cereals/Type of car KSU coaches would be 11:26 – No go on the colas to students/Mason’s next pitch 20:05 – “The Game tag match/Coach Weber USA’s U19 coach 31:34 – John & Mitch’s tag team gimmick 0:00 – The M&M’s turn up the heat on the rivalry 11:20 – John does the unthinkable to Mitch 21:13 – Can Town & Country reconsile their differences? 27:58 – Latest on K-State men’s basketball recruiting

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Frankfort’s Emilee Ebert had a monster day at the TVL track meet last week. Ebert took home gold medals in the 100, 200, 4 by 100 and the long jump. She also holds school records in three of those events. Ebert is in the top four of all of those events going into regionals. On the basketball court, Ebert scored over 1,000 career points with the Wildcats and will be playing at Missouri State next year. Congratulations to Emilee Ebert of Frankfort High School, the Powercat Sports Grill/KMAN “Student Athlete of the Week!”

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From K-State Athletics Kansas State head coach Bruce Weber has been selected as the head coach for USA Basketball’s U19 World Cup Team that will compete at the FIBA (International Basketball Federation) U19 World Cup in Heraklion, Greece, June 29 to July 7. “It’s an honor to represent Team USA at such a prestigious event like the World Cup,” said Weber. “I have had a long association with USA Basketball as a committee member, court coach and as an assistant to Coach (Gene) Keady for several championships. I appreciate the organization’s Board of Directors for giving me this special opportunity…

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0:00 – Skylar Thompson is so easy to root for 12:05 – Mason rips Wichita State for closing store 20:11 – Bruce Weber to coach U19 World Cup team 31:09 – Store names/NCAA could compensate for likeness 0:00 – Will the NCAA ever pay what athletes deserve? 13:57 – Bachelorette recap with Nats and Scott Wildcat 27:38 – RC Cola 31:59 – Jabroni of the Week

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From K-State Athletics K-State sophomore Terrence Spurlin was named Big 12 Player of the Week while junior Chris Ceballos was tabbed Big 12 Newcomer of the Week, the conference office announced Monday. Spurlin, a 6-foot-1 first baseman from Cypress, Texas, produced back-to-back three-hit games in the Wildcats’ three-game series with West Virginia over the weekend. Spurlin hit two home runs and drove in four in an 8-6 win over the Mountaineers on Saturday before a 3-for-4 effort in Sunday’s finale. Spurlin finished the week with a slash line of .545/.600/1.091 and six runs batted in, leading the Big 12 in…

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0:00 – KSU hoops recruiting another wing – no more stretch four? 12:31 – Painful K-State buzzer beater moments 24:26 – Mitch’s concert game 33:33 – RC Cola: Good or Awful? 0:00 – John’s missed connection in New York City 9:00 – How to get the message out to students of KSU 22:09 – John Beilein to NBA/The Hat 30:42 – You Can’t Be Serious

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(AP) Cole Irvin was outstanding in his major league debut and the Philadelphia Phillies scored six times in the fifth inning to beat the Kansas City Royals 6-1 on Sunday in the rubber match of their three-game series. J.T. Realmuto hit a two-run double and Odubel Herrera followed with a two-run single for Philadelphia. Irvin (1-0) threw seven innings of one-run ball, allowing five hits with one walk and five strikeouts. Seranthony Dominguez and Juan Nicasio each tossed a scoreless inning to close it out for the 25-year-old lefty. Kansas City has lost 12 consecutive rubber games, a streak that…

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From K-State Athletics The 20th-ranked West Virginia Mountaineers used a four-run eighth inning in a 7-4 comeback victory over K-State in the series’ rubber game Sunday at Tointon Family Stadium. K-State (25-28, 8-13 Big 12) scored three unanswered runs, capped by two in the seventh, to take a 4-3 lead through seven innings. WVU’s (31-18, 13-11 Big 12) four-run eighth included RBI singles from Ivan Gonzalez and Brandon White sandwiched around two sacrifice flies. Cameron Thompson and Thomas Hughes each delivered two-out RBI singles in the seventh to hand the Cats their first lead of the game. K-State made it…

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0:00 – Hot take out of the gate/Scary stadium experiences 15:23 – K-State bowl games/The jump-ball rule/random KSU wins 27:12 – ER and Batman 31:06 – Giveaways 38:11 – Match Game – Final Segment

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