Manhattan Area Technical College recently competed in a statewide hands-on skills competition with the Air Conditioning competition held at MATC and Welding and Auto Collision competitions held in Wichita. MATC programs competing were Air-Conditioning & Refrigeration, Auto Collision Repair, and Welding. MATC students placed 1st and 2nd in Air Condition & Refrigeration and 3rd in Auto Collision Repair for the entire State. There are over 150 different technical trade competitions that take place during the month of April. They include post-secondary and high school. All gold medalist across the state of Kansas will compete at the national level in Kansas…
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New K-State women’s basketball coach Jeff Mittie completed his first coaching staff by promoting former Wildcat standout Claire Coggins to assistant coach. The two-time second team all-Big 12 guard spent last season as director of basketball operations at K-State, her second year on staff. Coggins played on the 2004 Big 12 Championship team, and joins former TCU associate head coach Brian Ostermann and assistant Ebony Gilliam on Mittie’s staff. Before returning to Manhattan, Coggins played two years of professional basketball including one with the WNBA’s Chicago Sky. She also coached for three years at Oklahoma City University and Connors State. Stay…
A wildfire in Central Oklahoma has burned several square miles. The fire began early Sunday evening north of Oklahoma City. One person has been killed, several homes have been destroyed and the fire reportedly has burned six square miles.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — It was little surprise that Billy Butler broke up Justin Verlander’s no-hit bid Sunday. The Detroit ace was cruising until Butler’s two-out single in the sixth inning of Tigers’ 9-4 win over the Kansas City Royals on Sunday. Butler singled cleanly to right on a 1-2 pitch, leaving him with a .432 career average in 74 at-bats against Verlander. “I didn’t make a good pitch,” Verlander said. “It was a fastball. I didn’t throw a good one.” Kansas City’s only runners before the single were Nori Aoki, who walked three times, and Alex Gordon, who…
By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications FORT WORTH, Texas – The K-State baseball team allowed 17 unanswered runs in the final two innings of a mercy-rule shortened game on Sunday as the Wildcats were swept by No. 13 TCU following a 21-7 loss at Lupton Stadium. The Wildcats (23-25, 4-14 Big 12) led by three runs on two occasions, but the Horned Frogs (34-13, 13-5 Big 12) used seven runs in the fifth and 10 runs in the sixth to put away K-State. Of the 21 runs allowed by K-State, nine were unearned as the Wildcats committed four errors. Two…
A platform collapsed during an aerial hair-hanging stunt at a circus performance Sunday in Providence, Rhode Island, sending eight acrobats plummeting to the ground.
Sinn Fein party leader Gerry Adams was released without charge on Sunday after five days of police questioning over his alleged involvement in a decades-old Irish Republican Army killing of a Belfast mother of 10.
The sun was bright overhead, and near perfect weather set the stage for the 25th annual Kansas Sampler Festival in Wamego. Hailed as the state’s largest traveling festival by organizers it showcases talent, and products from all over the state of Kansas. This year’s festival celebrates the 25th anniversary of the event. Organizers are saying over 7,000 festival goers have dropped by so far, and if the trend continues it will be the largest Sampler in the smallest town to date. Wamego Police Department assistant chief of police Paul Schliffke says the event has been a success, and praised the community…
KANSAS CITY, Mo.(AP) — The Tigers’ Drew Smyly went from the bullpen to tossing seven shutout innings as a starter. Nick Castellanos is tied with Miguel Cabrera for the team lead in RBIs. Not exactly what Detroit manager Brad Ausmus expected at the start of the season. Both of those pleasant surprises factored into a 9-2 rout of the Royals on Saturday night. Smyly picked up where fellow starter Rick Porcello left off by keeping Kansas City off the scoreboard, and Castellanos drove in three runs before Detroit tacked on the final sixth in the ninth inning. So far, Castellanos…
Photo Courtesy of Kansas State Athletics By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications FORT WORTH, Texas – The K-State baseball team allowed three two-out runs in the fourth inning, giving No. 13 TCU the only runs needed in the Wildcats’ 3-1 loss at Lupton Stadium on Saturday. K-State starting pitcher Nate Griep allowed a leadoff single in the fourth but quickly retired the next two batters to bring the Wildcats (23-24, 4-13 Big 12) within one out of escaping the frame. Griep, however, walked Jerrick Suiter on four pitches and then surrendered an RBI single to Dylan Fitzgerald to tie the…