The winningest coach in K-State volleyball history, Suzie Fritz, earned her 250th career victory during her 13th season with the Wildcats in a three-set sweep of Missouri State on Sunday afternoon in Springfield, MO, 25-17, 25-21, 25-17. Taylor Johnson led the charge on a day with 15.5 team blocks with a career-high nine stuffs. Redshirt freshman setter Katie Brand also broke her career mark with eight rejections, and Kaitlynn Pelger had five. Pelger led K-State with 11 kills and 10 digs, while Johnson had nine kills and hit a team-high .438. Brand piled up 29 assists. The Cats served six…
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Matt Garza decided it was time to stop thinking and start doing. Garza pitched eight impressive innings for his first victory in six starts and the Texas Rangers kept close in the playoff race, beating the Kansas City Royals 3-1 Saturday night. The Rangers won for only the fifth time in 19 September games to remain a half-game behind Cleveland for the second AL wild-card berth. The Royals, out of the playoffs since winning the 1985 World Series, dropped 3 1/2 games in back of the Indians. Adrian Beltre got two hits and drove in…
Johnathon Gray scored two rushing touchdowns and the Texas Defense forced three Kansas State turnovers as the Longhorns held off a late charge to beat the Wildcats 31-21 in the Big 12 opener for both teams before 95,248 Saturday night at Darrell K. Royal Texas Memorial Stadium. Texas put up 10 first quarter points thanks to a 27-yard Field Goal by Anthony Fera and a 63-yard touchdown pass from Quarterback David Ash to a wide open Kendall Sanders. With K-State’s offense inconsistent and unable to put together a drive through much of the first half, the Longhorns extended the lead…
WINFIELD, Kan. (AP) Police says a train has struck and killed a man near the Winfield fairgrounds where a bluegrass festival is being held. The Wichita Eagle reports that the Winfield Fire Department found the man’s body near the railroad tracks around 4:05 a.m. Saturday. Police Capt. Brett Stone said in a release that the discovery was made after a train-pedestrian accident was reported. A police dispatch supervisor says the man was over 18 years old, but his exact age was not available. Stone says the accident remains under investigation, and more information may be released early next week. The…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Authorities have arrested a man suspected of entering a Wichita home and going through a laundry basket containing two girls’ undergarments. KAKE reports that the 31-year-old suspect walked through the front door of the unlocked home around 1:20 a.m. Saturday. Sgt. Bruce Watts says the homeowner spotted the suspect and was able to get a good description before he fled. Watts says the suspect was caught a few houses away and arrested for aggravated burglary and other charges.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A majority of the prospective Kansas voters whose registrations were put on hold after the state began enforcing a proof-of-citizenship law claim no political affiliation. An Associated Press computer analysis shows that 57 percent of the registrations put on hold since the law took effect in January were from people listing themselves as unaffiliated. Such residents make up only 30 percent of the state’s 1.7 million registered voters. Thousands of Kansas residents have registrations on hold and cannot legally vote because they have yet to provide citizenship papers. AP analyzed a state list of registrations on hold…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A central Kansas woman has been sentenced to two years of probation for embezzling more than $211,000 from a feedlot where she worked to pay off losses from her own cattle trading. The U.S. Attorney’s office says Carrie L. Frederick, 37, of Sterling, must also pay about $80,000 in restitution under the sentence she received Friday in federal court. Frederick pleaded guilty in June to wire fraud. She admitted stealing the money from Sellers Farms, a Lyons feeding operation where she went to work in 2007. She owed more than $150,000 to her previous employer, Golden Belt Feeders…
Lilla Porubek posted 15 kills as K-State defeated Saint Louis in four sets on Saturday afternoon, 25-19, 25-11, 20-25, 29-27 in Fayetteville, Ark. Porubek was named the Razorback Invitational MVP as she hit .394 against the Billikens and had eight digs. Courtney Traxson also made the all-tournament team with 14 kills, four digs, and four blocks. Kaitlynn Pelger added her fourth all-tournament honor of the season as she had 10 kills, a team-high 15 digs, and four blocks. Katie Brand came thru with 43 assists, and served six aces, the most by a K-State player in a four-set match since…
Gunmen threw grenades and opened fire at an upscale mall in Kenya’s capital on Saturday, killing at least 10 people. Witnesses say the attackers targeted non-Muslims.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.(AP)– Alcides Escobar was going to take the first pitch that Neftali Feliz threw him, no matter what. After that, the Royals shortstop decided to keep taking pitches until he saw a strike. Turns out he never got to see one. Escobar walked on four pitches with the bases loaded and two outs in the eighth inning Friday night, giving Kansas City a 2-1 victory over the Texas Rangers in the opener of an important three-game series between teams in the playoff race. “We had the utmost confidence he was going to get it done right there and…