By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications MESA, Ariz. – The K-State baseball team scored a season-high 12 runs on Sunday with the help of 11 hits and another season-best six walks to beat Washington State, 12-3, at Sloan Park in the Big 12/Pac-12 Challenge. The Wildcats (4-4) scored in five of the first six innings, with the highest-scoring frame coming in the sixth when K-State plated five runs to blow open a 12-2 lead. Tyler Moore capped the crooked sixth with a three-run home run to left field, the first homer of his career and by a Wildcat this season.…
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Starting on Saturday, and running throughout the weekend, the Manhattan Area Garden Show presented classes from local organizations and businesses to help folks with their green thumb. Some of the highlights included a “Whodunit” event hosted by the Riley County Extension office. The exhibit presented prizes to those who could figure out the varmint signs in the ground, and ruined plants. Master Gardner President Penny Sturr kept a watchful eye over the event, and gave this reporter a failing grade as I only identified 50% of the vermin. Riley County extension agent Gregg Eyestone said the event had a great…
A river ferry carrying up to 140 passengers capsized in central Bangladesh on Sunday after being hit by a cargo vessel, killing at least 48.
Hundreds of trucks carrying cooking oil have been waiting for 13 days to unload outside the city of Kirkuk as fighting between IS militants and Iraqi military forces continues.
By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications MESA, Ariz. – The K-State baseball team fell for the second straight game on a walk-off hit as Washington’s Branden Berry hit a bases-loaded single in the bottom of the 10th inning to deal the Wildcats a 6-5 loss on Saturday at Sloan Park. After falling to Oregon State on a ninth-inning walk-off on Friday, the Wildcats (3-4) were able to force extra innings when Carter Yagi swatted an RBI single in the top of the ninth inning that tied the game at 5-5. However, in the 10th, the Washington (5-2) used a third-strike…
Secretary of State John Kerry discussed new sanctions against Russia on Saturday in London as Ukraine’s week-old cease-fire unravelled.
Peyton Little scored 30 points on the strength of eight three-pointers and Oklahoma dominated the glass as the Sooners defeated Kansas State 73-64 Saturday night in the Play 4 Kay game at Bramlage Coliseum. K-State used a 7-0 run in the first five minutes of the game to jump out to an early 9-4 lead before OU came roaring back with one of its own to lead 11-9. The Wildcats then held a brief two-point lead midway through the first half before Oklahoma used its strong rebounding and textbook shooting to grab the lead back. After the Wildcats tied the…
WACO, Texas (AP)– With yet another 20-win season under Scott Drew secured, Baylor forward Rico Gathers is thinking more about the two times the Bears have been a win away from the Final Four under their coach. “I’m glad that we won 20 games, but we’re on a mission to win the rest of our games for the rest of the regular season and stuff,” Gathers said after his Big 12-leading 14th double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds in a 69-42 win over Kansas State on Saturday. “We stay hungry all the time. We know we’ve got tests coming…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas school boards would have the power to tell teachers “take it or leave it” in salary negotiations under a bill endorsed by a state House panel. The House Commerce, Labor and Economic Development Committee approved the bill yesterday, sending it to the House floor for further debate.
Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the U.S. is considering slowing its military exit from Afghanistan by keeping a larger-than-planned troop presence this year and next because the new Afghan government is proving to be a more reliable partner.