Wamego Coaches and Athletes were recognized by the School Board. At Monday’s USD 320 Board of Education meeting, Board President Richie Chrest introduced Coach Rick Patton and of the some of the team that qualified and placed in the State Track meet. Besides track, Patton’s other team’s , varsity girls, varsity boys, junior varsity girls and junior varsity boys swept the league in titles. Also recognized was Dawn Schultz and her team for being selected to the All NCKL Softball Team. Schultz said she is looking for greater things to come since only one of the team graduated this year.…
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JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) Funeral services are scheduled for a Junction City family of six who died in an airplane crash in Florida. The service for the Bramlage family of Junction City will be 10 a.m. June 18 at Junction City Middle School. A vigil will be held Sunday at 7 p.m. at St. Xavier Catholic Church in Junction City. The family died when their plane crashed last Thursday in Florida on their way home to Junction City from a vacation in the Bahamas. The family included 45-year-old Ron Bramlage; his wife, 43-year-old Rebecca; and their children 15-year-old Brandon, 13-year-old…
WACO, Texas (AP) Jake Wise drove in a run with a two-out single in the top of the 10th inning and Arkansas advanced to the College World Series with a 1-0 victory over Baylor in the deciding game of their super regional on Monday night. Wise, a sophomore catcher who had entered the game as a defensive replacement, grounded a ball into left field out of the reach of diving shortstop Steve DalPorto. It will be the seventh CWS appearance for the Razorbacks (44-20), who play Kent State on Saturday. Colby Suggs (7-0), the fifth Arkansas pitcher,…
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) South Carolina is headed back to the College World Series, beating Oklahoma 5-1 Monday for its 21st straight NCAA tournament win. The two-time defending champion Gamecocks wrapped up the super regional series for their third straight trip to Omaha and 11th CWS appearance overall. Should South Carolina (45-17) again prevail, it would join the powerhouse program of Southern Cal as the only schools with more than two consecutive CWS titles. The Trojans hold the record with five straight crowns from 1970-74. The game was suspended Sunday because of heavy rain. Once things resumed, South Carolina quickly…
(Courtesy K-State Sports Information) Former Kansas State men’s golfer Joe Ida carded a 54-hole score of 6-under par 204 last weekend to win The Watson Challenge held at Indian Hills Country Club in Mission Hills. Ida, who won the event that “determines the best golfer in the Greater Kansas City area,” edged amateur Ryan Zech by one stroke, while he finished eight strokes ahead of legendary golfer Tom Watson, who tied for fourth at 2-over par 212. A four-year letterwinner, Ida carded a tournament-best 6-under par 64 on Saturday in between rounds of even-par 70 on both Friday and Sunday.
The Big East has filed a lawsuit against TCU for failing to pay the conference $5 million after the school reneged on an agreement to become a member and chose to join the Big 12 instead. The Big East filed the lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court in Washington. TCU agreed in November 2010 to join the Big East, beginning this July. The Big East contends TCU agreed to pay the league $5 million if it did not follow through on that agreement. In October 2011, TCU accepted an invite to the Big 12. In the lawsuit, the Big East…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) A University of Missouri men’s basketball fan who regularly traveled with the team to NCAA Tournament games is among 10 Columbia residents facing federal drug conspiracy charges. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that Levi Coolley was on the team plane on four Tiger tournament trips from 2009 to 2011. Coolley also joined a team flight from Austin, Texas, in January and received complimentary tickets from Missouri players at nine games over two seasons. In March, FBI agents arrested Coolley on felony cocaine distribution charges at the Missouri team hotel in Omaha, Neb., before their most…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A former executive of a Manhattan high-tech company has been charged with defrauding the United States by creating false invoices on government contracts to help the struggling firm. Aaron Madison was executive vice president and chief operating officer of Manhattan-based NanoScale, a small company that makes advanced chemistry products. Prosecutors filed a criminal information Monday in federal court in Wichita charging Madison with wire fraud. Prosecutors say 90 percent of the firm’s business came from government contracts, most with the Defense Department. The government alleges that between 2009 and 2011 Madison manipulated contract costs. Prosecutors also contend he…
An Ogden convenience store was the victim along with two employees of an aggravated robbery. Monday morning around 2, 21 year old Carolyn Thornton and 20 year old Shanequa Martin were working at the Casey General Store when a thin, white male entered the store and demanded cash. An undisclosed amount of cash was taken from the location by the man who was described as wearing a blue hoodie, camo mask, wire framed glasses with thick frames and weighing about 130 to 150 pounds. The suspect said he was armed but no weapon was ever displayed and neither of the employees was harmed. The…