Two buckets inside the final minute of overtime were enough for the Frankfort boys to escape with a 55-54 victory over B&B in the 1A Division II Substate finals on Saturday night at Frankfort. With the Falcons leading by three in OT, Calahan Brown made a reverse layup on a set play, and then a steal and layup by Lucas Adams gave the Wildcats the lead. B&B would miss their final shot attempt and the clock ran out. Alex Surdez led the Wildcats with 15 points as he made five three pointers. Jacob Broxterman added 13 points. Cody Heiman led…
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Injuries finally caught up with the 3A #1 Riley County girls as Silver Lake knocked off the Falcons 50-44 on Saturday night in the substate finals at St. Marys. Riley County lost three starters this season including Makayla Vargo in the substate semifinals on Friday night, along with Bree Busch and Morgan Godinet. Silver Lake built a small lead in the second quarter, and never gave it up the rest of the way, making 18 of 20 free throws in the fourth quarter. Mackenzie Freeman scored 18 points and Perry Krogman had 14 points for the Eagles. The Falcons were…
SURPRISE, Ariz. (AP) Billy Butler hit a two-run homer in the first inning and the Kansas City Royals defeated the Texas Rangers 6-1 Sunday in the exhibition opener for both clubs. Butler hit an 0-2 pitch from Colby Lewis over the fence in left-center field. Lorenzo Cain, who went 2 for 2, opened the Royals’ four-run fifth with a double off left-hander Michael Kirkman. Luis Mendoza, a candidate for a spot in the Royals’ rotation after leading the Pacific Coast League with a 2.18 ERA, went two scoreless innings. He allowed a single and walked one. Mitch Moreland homered…
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State jumped on Pacific early with seven runs over the first two innings, and the Wildcats received another quality start from senior Kayvon Bahramzadeh as the Wildcats defeated Pacific, 9-3, Sunday afternoon at Tointon Family Stadium. K-State evened its record at 5-5 with the win and came back to take the series after falling to the Tigers in Friday’s home opener. Pacific fell to 2-10 on the season. For the second-straight game, the Wildcats registered the double-digit mark in hits with 11 and totaled their fourth and fifth multi-run innings in the last two days by scoring five runs…
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Junior Rodney McGruder was selected to the All-Big 12 second team and senior Jamar Samuels was chosen to the honorable mention squad, as the league office announced its annual Phillips 66 All-Big 12 Men’s Basketball Award on Sunday. McGruder earns recognition to the All-Big 12 second team after being a third team selection a season ago. The team leader in eight categories, he is the seventh Wildcat in the Big 12 era to earn all-league honors at least twice in a career. It also marks the ninth consecutive season that at least one K-State player has been named to the Big 12’s…
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Senior Jamar Samuels was named the Phillips 66 co-Big 12 Player of the Week on Sunday after averaging a double-double in wins over Texas A&M and Oklahoma State last week. Samuels, who shared the weekly honor with Kansas’ Tyshawn Taylor, earned Player of the Week distinction for the second time this season and the first time since Dec. 5, 2011. He registered back-to-back double-doubles for the second time this season in helping the Wildcats complete the regular season with wins over Texas A&M (76-70) and Oklahoma State (77-58). He averaged 17.0 points on 61.9 percent shooting (13-of-21), including 33.3 percent…
MANHATTAN, Kan. – After the Wildcats gave up a double-digit lead to Texas Tech and fell behind by double digits themselves, Kansas State nearly completed an incredible comeback but came up short one by point, falling to the Lady Raiders 64-63 on Senior Night at Bramlage Coliseum. Senior forward Jalana Childs had one of her best games of her career as she posted 22 points to lead the Wildcats. She was 6-of-13 shooting and a strong 10-of-13 at the free-throw line. Childs was at the line when she made two free throws in the final minute to pull the Wildcats within a point,…
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State used a pair of four-run innings and solid pitching from four different hurlers as the Wildcats evened their three-game series against Pacific with a 12-1 victory Saturday afternoon at Tointon Family Stadium. With the win, K-State improved to 4-5 on the year, while the Tigers fell to 2-9. Center fielder Jared King went 3-for-4 with three RBI, two of which came on his first home run of the season to complete a four-run fifth inning. The Dublin, Ohio, product collected his sixth multi-hit game of the season – including his third with at least three hits – while…