From K-State Kansas’ James Cosentino delivered a walk-off single in the bottom of the 11th inning Thursday to give the fifth-seeded Jayhawks a 15-14 win over No. 8 K-State in an elimination game at the 2019 Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark. KU (32-25) scored all four of its runs in the 11th inning with two outs after the Wildcats (25-33) put up three in the top half of the inning. K-State catcher Chris Ceballos knocked a go-ahead single before a two-RBI double by Dylan Phillips put the Cats ahead 14-11. “It was a battle and…
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K-State got a home run from Zach Kokoska and three RBI from Cameron Thompson, but the eighth-seeded Wildcats fell to regular-season champion Texas Tech 7-4 in the opening round of the 2019 Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark Wednesday. K-State (25-32) cut Texas Tech’s lead to a single run at 5-4 as the game reached the seventh-inning stretch and later brought the go-ahead run to the plate in the top of the ninth inning before TTU’s Taylor Floyd ended the game with a strikeout. Freshman Eric Torres’ career-long 3 1/3 scoreless innings of one-hit relief allowed…
From K-State Athletics K-State starting pitcher Jordan Wicks was tabbed 2019 Big 12 Freshman of the Year in addition to earning a spot on the All-Big 12 Second Team and All-Freshman Team, as six Wildcats earned all-conference accolades, the league office announced Tuesday. Griffin Hassall joined Wicks on the All-Freshman Team while Zach Kokoska, Caleb Littlejim, Terrence Spurlin and Cameron Thompson were each selected as Honorable Mention. Wicks becomes just the second Wildcat to earn Freshman of the Year honors, joining pitcher Jake Matthys in 2013. In his initial campaign, Wicks posted a 6-2 record and led all Big 12…
From K-State Athletics Kansas State rising senior Peyton Williams has been selected for the 2019 U.S. Pan American Games Women’s Basketball Team after a stellar showing at the team trials on May 16-20 at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Williams is the second K-State player to be selected for a U.S. Pan American Games team and the first since Laurie Koehn in 2003 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. This will be Williams’s first experience representing the US in an international event. The 2019 U.S. Pan American Games Team roster features 12-members. In addition to Williams,…
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From K-State Athletics Kansas completed a doubleheader sweep of K-State Sunday at Hoglund Ballpark, winning the first game 9-6 before a 6-4 victory in the nightcap in the Dillons Sunflower Showdown. In the regular-season finale for both teams, KU (31-24, 12-12 Big 12) locked up the No. 5 seed in the upcoming 2019 Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship after its three-game sweep. K-State (25-31, 8-16 Big 12) will enter the postseason as the eighth seed and take on top-seeded Texas Tech on Wednesday. Freshman Dylan Phillips hit three home runs over the two games, upping his season total to…
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Frankfort’s Emilee Ebert had a monster day at the TVL track meet last week. Ebert took home gold medals in the 100, 200, 4 by 100 and the long jump. She also holds school records in three of those events. Ebert is in the top four of all of those events going into regionals. On the basketball court, Ebert scored over 1,000 career points with the Wildcats and will be playing at Missouri State next year. Congratulations to Emilee Ebert of Frankfort High School, the Powercat Sports Grill/KMAN “Student Athlete of the Week!”
From K-State Athletics Kansas State head coach Bruce Weber has been selected as the head coach for USA Basketball’s U19 World Cup Team that will compete at the FIBA (International Basketball Federation) U19 World Cup in Heraklion, Greece, June 29 to July 7. “It’s an honor to represent Team USA at such a prestigious event like the World Cup,” said Weber. “I have had a long association with USA Basketball as a committee member, court coach and as an assistant to Coach (Gene) Keady for several championships. I appreciate the organization’s Board of Directors for giving me this special opportunity…