Jared King knocked in three runs on a trio of hits including a home run to lead K-State to a 7-5 victory at Texas Tech on Thursday night. The Cats need to win one of the next two games against the Red Raiders to clinch a berth in the Big 12 tournament next week. Kayvon Bahramzadeh went eight strong innings, giving up just two runs on four hits. Things got interesting the bottom of the 9th as Texas Tech put three runs on the board against reliever Gerardo Esquivel, before Nate Williams closed it out for his 6th save. K-State…
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Adam Jones hit a two-run homer, J.J. Hardy also drove in a pair of runs and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Kansas City Royals 5-3 on Thursday for their seventh straight road win. The Orioles also improved to 12-1 when Jones goes deep, including a victory over the Royals the previous night, when his homer in the 15th inning decided the game. Jones has homered 13 times this year; he didn’t hit No. 13 until June 25 last season. Brian Matusz (3-4) won for the third time in four starts after enduring a career-worst 12-decision…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The Royals have freshened up their bullpen after a 15-inning loss to the Orioles, sending Nate Adcock and Vin Mazzaro to Triple-A Omaha and recalling Everett Teaford and Louis Coleman from the same club. The Royals made the moves before Thursday afternoon’s game against Baltimore, and less than 12 hours after a 4-3 defeat in which Kansas City squandered a two-run lead in the ninth inning. Adcock pitched five innings of relief in Wednesday night’s game. He was responsible for Adam Jones’ eventual game-winning homer in the top half of the 15th. Mazzaro earned the…
Derek Francis threw a one-hit complete game shutout, leading Manhattan High to the 6A state tournament with an 8-0 victory over Junction City in the regional finals on Wednesday night. The Indians beat Topeka High 8-2 in the semifinal round, and were led offensively by Chris Turner, who had six RBI’s in the two games. MHS missed out on the state tournament a year ago with a narrow loss to Lawrence, and are back in Lawrence after a berth in 2010. 6A state tournament pairings will be released after two more regional finals are played Thursday. But, Manhattan High will…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Adam Jones homered with one out in the 15th inning, lifting the Baltimore Orioles to a 4-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday night. Jones was hitless in six at-bats before connecting for his team-leading 12th home run nine of them tying the game or giving the Orioles a lead. Jones sent a 2-2 pitch from Nate Adcock (0-1), the fifth Kansas City pitcher, far over the left field wall. The Orioles improved to 5-0 in extra-inning road games. Kevin Gregg (1-1) pitched two hitless innings, walking one, to pick up the victory. Jim…
Unemployment numbers are down in the Manhattan area, with a metro area number of five percent for April of this year. That compares to 5.8 percent in March and 5.2 percent in april of last year. The metro area includes Riley, Pottawatomie and Geary counties. The Manhattan metro area continues to have the lowest unemployment rate when compared to other metro areas in the state. The next lowest was Lawrence metro including Douglas county with 5.2 percent. The city of Manhattan had a 4.2 percent rate, also down from five percent the month before and 4.4 percent last year. The…
Hundreds of Soldiers from the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, are set to depart for Afghanistan next week. Col. Joseph Wawro and Command Sgt. Maj. Wiley Hutchison, the brigade’s commander and senior noncommissioned officer, cased its colors last month in preparation for its first deployment to Afghanistan. The “Dragon” Brigade has deployed to Iraq twice. The brigade will serve under the “Big Red One” headquarters in Regional Command-East. The first “Dragon” Soldiers departed Kansas for Afghanistan late April.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a proclamation apologizing to African-American citizens for the years of state-sanctioned segregation. Brownback signed the proclamation Thursday, the 58th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education. The 1954 ruling declared that separate schools for blacks and whites were inherently unequal and struck down the doctrine of “separate but equal” as a justification for segregation. The proclamation states that it is important for Kansas residents “to at last move forward, to seek reconciliation, justice and harmony.” Brownback also called on residents to…