From K-State Athletics For the third time in four seasons, Kansas State played an overtime match in the opening weekend. K-State and Omaha played to a scoreless draw on Sunday afternoon at Caniglia Field. K-State is winless in 11 straight matches dating back to the 2018 season, including a six-match road winless stretch. Kansas State (0-1-1) led in total shots, 16-8, but only tallied a 4-3 edge in shots on goal. The Wildcats had a 9-3 advantage in corner kicks. K-State and Omaha (0-1-1) were scoreless in the first half. K-State senior goalkeeper Emma Malsy pocketed a pair of saves,…
Author: Mitch Fortner
From K-State Athletics K-State concluded its exhibition slate with a come-from-behind five-set win over Missouri Saturday afternoon at Ahearn Field House, 25-22, 14-25, 21-25, 25-21, 15-11. “We were pleased,” head coach Suzie Fritz said following the match. “What a great opportunity for us to, organically, have to play well and play long and play consistently and having to come back after being down 2-1. I just think there were a lot of tremendous learning opportunities for us in that one. Also, to be able to gain some confidence and find our way through and win in five is, I think,…
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(AP) Nicky Lopez and Nick Dini homered on successive pitches in the seventh inning and the Kansas City Royals stretched Baltimore’s latest losing streak to eight games, defeating the Orioles 5-4 Monday night. Kansas City (45-80) won for only the sixth time in its last 22 games, and Baltimore (39-86) absorbed its 13th loss in 14 games. The only team with fewer wins than these two struggling clubs is Detroit. Orioles starter John Means (8-9) kept Kansas City hitless until Lopez led off the sixth inning with a single to spark a three-run uprising that wiped out a 1-0 deficit.…
From K-State Athletics Kansas State junior quarterback Skylar Thompson was one of 49 players in the country to be named a candidate for the 2019 Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award, the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Educational Foundation announced Monday. Thompson joins a list of the top senior or fourth-year junior quarterbacks who are up for the award. He is the fifth candidate in school history, joining former finalists Chad May (1994) and Michael Bishop (1998), the 2012 Johnny Unitas Gold Arm Award winner and current K-State quarterback coach Collin Klein, in addition to 2014 candidate Jake Waters. A native of…
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(AP) Pete Alonso hit his 40th home run to break the National League rookie record, capping a late outburst by the New York Mets in their 11-5 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Sunday. Michael Conforto hit a long homer in the first inning and drove in four runs. Amed Rosario put the Mets ahead 6-4 with a two-run single in the seventh, and Alonso went deep in the ninth on an 0-2 pitch. He snapped a tie with Cody Bellinger, who launched 39 long balls for the Dodgers in 2017 on the way to winning Rookie of the…
(AP) Former NFL and Texas Longhorns running back Cedric Benson, one of the most prolific rushers in NCAA history, has died in a motorcycle crash in Texas. He was 36. Benson’s attorney, Sam Bassett, said Austin law enforcement told him that Benson was killed in the wreck Saturday night. Bassett said he did not have details about what happened. He then went on to be a key player in the Longhorns’ resurgence under coach Mack Brown. Benson played at Texas from 2001 to ’04, and his 5,540 yards ranks second at the university behind Ricky Williams’ total and ninth in…
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