BY AVERY OSEN KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Cole Ragans allowed two hits in seven scoreless innings, Michael Massey and Maikel Garcia homered and the Kansas City Royals beat Oakland 6-2 on Friday night to extend the Athletics losing streak to a season-high six. Ragans (3-3) walked two and struck out seven, rebounding from a 9-3 loss at the Los Angeles Angels when he allowed seven runs and eight hits. He has three scoreless starts of at least six innings this season. Chris Stratton and Matt Sauers finished the four-hitter, the ninth time Oakland has been held to four hits or…
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The native of Ireland is the seventh player to sign with the Wildcats for the 2024-25 season. Pronounced Mow-B EE-kay-gah-roo-kuh MANHATTAN, Kan. (K-State Athletics) – Kansas State head coach Jerome Tang made another key addition to his team for the 2024-25 season with the signing of NJCAA All-American guard Chimobi (Mobi) Ikegwuruka(Galway, Ireland/Ellsworth [Iowa] Community College) to a Financial Aid Agreement on Friday afternoon (May 17). The 6-foot-6, 205-pound guard who has experience playing internationally, including with the Irish U16 National Team, arrives at K-State after a redshirt freshman season at Ellsworth Community College in Iowa Falls, Iowa in 2023-24. He averaged a…
CARLSBAD, Calif. (K-State Athletics) – Kansas State junior women’s golfer Carla Bernat carded a 4-over par 76 on Friday during the first round of the 2024 NCAA Championship held at the par-72, 6,297-yard La Costa Champions Course at Omni La Costa Resort. Bernat will begin Saturday’s second round tied for 99th place as she carded one birdie during the first round, which came at the par-4 7th hole. “Today was a tough day for Carla,” head coach Stew Burke said. “She didn’t really get the breaks that she deserved on a couple occasions. However, she fought hard, got some up-and-downs and kept herself in…
MANHATTAN, Kan. (K-State Athletics) – Eleven strikeouts from Jackson Wentworth led to K-State’s eighth series win of the season, as the Wildcats defeated BYU, 2-1, Friday night at Tointon Family Stadium. Wentworth turned in his second quality start, as the redshirt-sophomore held the Cougars to one run over his career-long eight innings to earn the victory (4-4). A native of Urbandale, Iowa, Wentworth scattered five hits and punched out a career-high 11 batters, including striking out the side in the first and sixth. “That was an awesome college baseball game,” head coach Pete Hughes said. It was clean with no errors and elite pitching.…
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17 Wildcats will compete in field events, eight on the track, including the men’s 4×400 relay MANHATTAN, Kan. (K-State Athletics) – The K-State track and field teams will be represented by 25 athletes at the NCAA West Preliminary in Fayetteville, Ark., from Wednesday May 22 through Sunday May 25 at John McDonnell Field. The NCAA Division I Track and Field Committee selects 48 individuals in each event and 24 relay teams to compete in the first round of the Outdoor Championships, which are divided into two preliminaries – the East and West. In addition to the 25 selections, senior Urte Bacianskaite was…
MANHATTAN, Kan. (K-State Athletics) – The K-State pitching staff combined for a program record 21 strikeouts while Kyan Lodice delivered a walk-off single in the bottom of the 12th to hand the Wildcats a 7-6 victory over BYU Thursday night at Tointon Family Stadium. After a solo home run tied the game at 6-6 and sent the game into extra innings, Lodice’s single into center field with two outs off BYU reliever Stone Cushing scored Danniel Rivera from third and handed the Wildcats (30-21, 14-14 Big 12) their third walk-off win of the season. “Sometimes it doesn’t always go as planned,” said head coach Pete Hughes following…
Officers filed a report of aggravated arson and arson in the 100 block of Eighth Street in Ogden on May 16, 2024, at approximately 9:33 PM. Officers listed three victims; a 57-year-old male, 28-year-old female, and a 29-year-old male when it was reported a known suspect pour gas onto a vehicle and set it on fire. The fire then spread to another vehicle and the residence. There were no injuries as a result of the arson. Total estimated loss is still being calculated.
On Friday’s edition of In Focus, Dean Ernie Minton of the Kansas State University College of Agriculture, Army Emergency Relief CEO Tony Grinston, former Riley County Schools superintendent Brad Starnes and a replay of our weekly interview with Kansas Mesonet’s Chip Redmond.
Manhattan residents were treated on Thursday with perfect weather for the 2024 kickoff to the “Third Thursdays” annual series of street fairs. The event featured an interactive window mural of Vincent van Gogh’s “Starry Night” on the 4th street windows, as well as watercolor art, pottery, wood turning, henna tattoo, cross stitch, a cake walk, and many kids activities. Terry Ripple is a professional potter who has been attending Third Thursdays since the event began. He said he fell in love with pottery after taking a ceramics class at K-State back in 1980… Downtown Manhattan event manager Heather Hnizdill detailed…