OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Keilani Ricketts struck out 12 in a five-hitter and Oklahoma beat Alabama 4-1 on Monday night in Game 1 of the Women’s College World Series finals. Jessica Shults drove in two runs, and tied the game at 1 with a sacrifice fly in the fifth. The Sooners (54-8) went ahead to stay later in the inning on Brianna Turang’s run-scoring grounder. Shults tacked on an RBI single in the sixth before Katie Norris’ squeeze brought in Ricketts. Game 2 of the best-of-three series is Tuesday night. The fourth-seeded Sooners had 11 hits, the second-most allowed by…
Author: KMAN Staff
A trio of Manhattan wrestlers have qualified for national tournaments this summer. Tribe senior-to-be Davis Matthews placed 4th in 6A at 145 pounds this past season. He will wrestle in the Asics National Tournament next month in North Dakota in freestyle wrestling, and will be an alternate for the greco roman meet. Fellow MHS state qualifier Kian Clemons will wrestle both freestyle and greco roman in North Dakota. Plus, Mason Wallace became the first Indian 8th grader-to-be in five years to make the schoolboy national team. He’ll wrestle at 110 pounds in both freestyle and greco roman at nationals this…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Justin Morneau and Josh Willingham each hit two-run homers, Trevor Plouffe also went deep and the Minnesota Twins held off the Kansas City Royals 10-7 on Monday night. Cole De Vries (1-1) lasted five shaky innings to pick up his first major league victory in his third career start. He got plenty of help from Jamey Carroll, who reached base four times with two RBIs, and Ben Revere, who also drove in a pair of runs. The game was tied 4-all in the fifth when Morneau belted his homer off Will Smith (1-2), also…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The Kansas City Royals have drafted San Francisco right-hander Kyle Zimmer with the fifth overall pick, adding an advanced arm to an organization starved for pitching. The Royals picked Zimmer over Stanford’s Mark Appel, who many believe was the best pitcher available. Zimmer is a converted third baseman whose fastball reaches into the upper 90s. Like most small-market clubs, Kansas City is forced to build largely through the draft, and is just now enjoying a wave of position players from their farm system. But the Royals have been largely unable to land a front-line starting…
A resurfacing project will begin on a 6.8-mile stretch of eastbound and westbound K-18 Tuesday from the east edge of Manhattan at the K-177/K-18 junction east to Zeandale in Riley County. Project work includes the milling away of 1.5-inches of existing pavement followed by the application of a 1.5-inch overlay of new asphalt, along with the addition of a 2-foot wide rock wedge on the shoulders, and new pavement markings on the resurfaced stretch of K-18. Eastbound and westbound K-18 will be reduced to one lane in both directions for several miles at a time. Traffic will be directed through the…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Federal prosecutors have filed charges against a Canadian man found in Michigan last week with a 12-year-old Kansas girl he met on the Internet. The U.S. Attorney’s office says 20-year-old Stewart Kenneth Cody McGill of Bewdley, Ontario, was charged Monday with transporting a minor out of state to have sex. Authorities say McGill traveled to the south-central Kansas town of El Dorado to meet the girl. Her parents reported her missing Thursday afternoon. They were found Friday near Potterville, Mich., southwest of Lansing. The girl told authorities she went with McGill willingly. According to court documents, McGill…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service is reporting that 20 percent of the state’s winter wheat crop had been harvested as of Sunday. The agency said Monday that southeast Kansas is farthest along, with half of its wheat now in the bin. Farmers in south-central Kansas have cut 44 percent of their crop. About 62 percent of the wheat crop has now matured, compared with an average of only 2 percent at this point in the season. Just 4 percent of the wheat has not yet turned color. The new report says 24 percent of the wheat is…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas House member has been released from a subpoena issued by a district attorney investigating private meetings of lawmakers with Gov. Sam Brownback. Olathe Republican Scott Schwab says he was released Monday after signing a statement saying he didn’t attend a private dinner in January at Cedar Crest, the governor’s residence. A spokesman for Shawnee County District Attorney Chad Taylor confirmed that Schwab no longer faces the subpoena. Taylor, a Democrat, is investigating seven private meetings the Republican governor had with lawmakers. Brownback invited more than 90 lawmakers, all but one a Republican, grouping them by…