Manhattan High put six players on the 6A All-State baseball team after finishing third at the state tournament and winning a school-record 22 games this season. Outfielder Brett Fehr and designated hitter Jacob Biller were both first team selections, Jesse Steinbring was named to the second team, while Henry deNoble, Chris Klug and Kellen Myers received honorable mention honors.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo.(AP) — James Shields would have been wise to pop some Dramamine, Ned Yost some antacids. The Royals’ ace survived six shaky innings mostly of his own doing Sunday, and the Kansas City offense supplied just enough offense against Hiroki Kuroda to squeak out a 2-1 victory. “Shields had to grind it out again and again,” said Yost, his manager, who spent the entire game on edge, “and he made it through some choppy waters.” Even without any motion-sickness medicine. The Royals have won the last seven games that Shields (7-3) has started, and he’s earned the win…
A Michigan teenager completed a two-day, 40-mile walk with his 7-year-old brother on his back. The Cerebral Palsy Swagger was designed to raise awareness about the muscle disorder that affects the younger brother.
Two suspects shot and killed two police officers in an ambush at a Las Vegas restaurant Sunday before fatally shooting a third person and killing themselves inside a nearby Walmart, authorities said.
Riley County Extension held its 26th Annual Garden Tour Sunday, which featured six locations around town including the KSU Gardens. “For the Tour, 75 degrees and sunny with the occasional cloud cover. It’s just a beautiful day,” said Scott McElwain, director of the KSU Gardens. The KSU Gardens features a cottage garden, which is full of perennials and woody ornamentals, as well as fruits, vegetables and herbs. An adaptive native garden is also a featured part of the KSU Gardens. The five other locations on tour belonged to members of K-State and Riley County’s Master Gardener Program, an educational opportunity…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) Correctional officers were searching for a minimum security inmate who was reported missing from his work site over the weekend. The Hutchinson News reports 43-year-old Christopher Ward was discovered missing around 5:30 p.m. Saturday from his work site at Cal-Maine Industries. The Hutchinson Correctional Facility inmate was incarcerated for convictions for burglary, theft, aggravated burglary, fleeing and eluding, and aggravated escape from custody. The convictions were in Butler and Sedgwick counties, and Ward was due to be released in just over two years. Ward is 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighs 181 pounds.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) Student government leaders at the University of Kansas say they are disappointed that the university is shifting some prized seats in Allen Fieldhouse from students to donors after the Student Senate eliminated a $25 student fee. The Lawrence Journal-World reports the university’s athletics department is moving students from seats behind the bench and near the tunnel where Kansas basketball players take the floor and letting donors have them. The $25 student fee for years provided more than $1 million in revenue for the athletics department, but was restored at a lesser amount $7 per semester bringing in…
The Texas Longhorns advanced to the 2014 College World Series in Omaha after winning the first two games in their Super Regional against Houston. Texas defeated the Cougars 4-2 in the opening game Friday night, and completed the sweep with a 4-0 shutout on Saturday. The news was not good for Oklahoma State; after falling to UC-Irvine 8-4 in the opening game, the Cowboys’ season ended in a 1-0 defeat to the Anteaters Saturday. As for Texas Tech and TCU, both teams won their respective openers; the Red Raiders shut out College of Charleston 1-0 on Saturday, while the Horned…
By Chris Kutz, K-State Athletics Communications Junior Austin Fisher was the lone K-State Wildcat taken on the final day of the 2014 Major League Baseball (MLB) First-Year Player Draft as the shortstop was selected in the 13th round (398th overall) by the Cleveland Indians. Fisher became the third Wildcat overall to be taken in this year’s MLB Draft, joining senior outfielder Ross Kivett (6th round, Detroit Tigers) and redshirt junior outfielder Mitch Meyer (7th round, Milwaukee Brewers). The three draft picks in the first 13 rounds are the most for K-State since it had four in 2011. In the last…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Whenever a Royals pitcher has issued a walk lately, the runner has usually scored. So when Ned Yost’s own guys worked a pair of walks against the Yankees on Saturday night in the sixth inning of a tied game, the often-dour manager had an optimistic thought. “Let’s turn it around this time,” Yost said. Salvador Perez did just that. The big catcher belted a three-run homer into the bullpen in left field, and Eric Hosmer added a solo shot later in the game, sending Kansas City to an 8-4 victory over New York. “I’ve said…