The Junction City Reds Babe Ruth 15 and under team traveled to Garden City for the state tournament. They finished second, losing in the championship game to Larned 8-4.
During the tournament the Reds defeated defending state champion Liberal and Garden City, and lost one game to Frontenac.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jarrod Dyson will be receiving a text from catcher and former Kansas City Royals teammate Drew Butera.
“I’m going to tell him, ‘that what speed do,'” Butera quipped.
Butera hit a tiebreaking, three-run inside-the-park home run when center fielder Jake Cave failed in his attempt to make a diving catch in the seventh inning, and the Kansas City Royals beat Minnesota 5-3 on Sunday to take three in a row from the Twins and complete their first series sweep in a year.
Waved home by third-base coach Mike Jirschele, Butera slid in ahead of second baseman Brian Dozier’s throw for the first inside-the-park-homer by a Royals catcher since Brent Mayne on Sept. 22, 1991. The 97th inside-the-park homer in Royals history was the first since Jarrod Dyson’s on July 8, 2015.
“I’ll add it to a list of really weird things I’ve done in my career,” Butera said.
Kansas City had not swept a series since last July 24-26 at Detroit, part of a nine-game winning streak. The Royals, who are 30-68, matched their longest winning streak of the season at three games.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Outfielder Brian Goodwin has been acquired by the Kansas City Royals from the Washington Nationals for minor league pitcher Jacob Condra-Bogan.
The 27-year-old Goodwin hit .200 with three homers and 12 RBIs in 48 games for the Nationals this season. He bruised his left wrist diving for a ball and did not play from April 15 until May 15, when he had two at-bats. He went back on the disabled list, returned June 1 and is hitting .171 (7 for 41) since.
Condra-Bogan, 23, went 1-1 with a 2.08 ERA in 16 relief outings with Lexington of the South Atlantic League and one appearance with Wilmington of the Carolina League, also Class A.
The Junction City Brigade defeated the Topeka Golden Giants 4-2 at Jerry Robertson Field in the capitol city Saturday night to claim the Brett Cowdin Memorial Cup Championship for the Mid Plains League.
Junction City rallied from a 2-0 deficit in the 8th inning to get the win. The Brigade scored three runs in the eighth with the go-ahead run coming when Blake Burrows walked, scoring Trae McDaniel. The Brigade had the bases loaded at the time. In the ninth inning Junction City tacked on another run when McDaniel singled, scoring Will Jordan.
For the Brigade this is their third league championship in the Mid Plains League over the last five seasons. They were Cowdin Cup champions in 2014 and 2016. The Golden Giants were the champions in 2017.
The Brigade finished the season with a final record of 26-9.
The Junction City Brigade rallied from a 2-0 deficit in the fourth inning to defeat the Topeka Golden Giants 7-4 in game two of the Cowdin Cup finals for the Mid Plains League championship. The series is now tied 1-1, with the deciding game three Saturday night at Lake Shawnee in Topeka. Game time will be 7 p.m.
In their win Friday night the Brigade got a standout pitching performance by Nate McBroom, who went seven and two-thirds innings on the mound before departing with two outs in the eighth inning and Junction City leading 7-2. The Golden Giants scored two runs in the eighth and had two on base in the ninth before the Brigade closed out the win.
Derek Francis, Junction City coach, said that was about as good as he had seen McBroom perform this summer. “The cool thing was he was on short rest. We wanted to pitch count him a little bit, but he started cruising and he wanted the baseball.” McBroom was pitching on three days rest.
Junction City got doubles from Carson Sader, Tanner Holen and Grant Goldston enroute to the win.
The Golden Giants won game one of the series Thursday night 3-2.
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State junior Adam Holtorf was named to the Rimington Trophy watch list as the nation’s premier center, the Boomer Esiason Foundation announced Friday.
A product of Seward, Nebraska, Holtorf was joined on the 2018 watch list by 58 other centers across the nation, including five from the Big 12. It is the ninth time since 2003 a Wildcat is up for the award, including finalists Nick Leckey (2003) and B.J. Finney (2014).
Holtorf was a 13-game starter at center in 2017, helping lead a Wildcat offensive line that blocked for the third most rushing yards per carry (4.98) in school history. Additionally, the Wildcats finished seventh in school history in total rushing yards (2,584), which was highlighted by a K-State bowl record 344-yard effort in a win over UCLA in the Cactus Bowl.
Holtorf is also an accomplished student as the agribusiness major was a CoSIDA Second Team Academic All-American last year in addition to earning academic all-district honors and First Team Academic All-Big 12 accolades.
The Wildcats kick off the 2018 campaign on Saturday, September 1, when they host South Dakota. The game, which begins at 6:10 p.m., inside Bill Snyder Family Stadium, serves as the 10th-annual K-State Family Reunion and will be shown world-wide on ESPN3.
Season tickets are available for the 2018 season and start at just $199 for the mobile Flex Season Ticket, which can be purchased by clicking here. Single-game tickets for K-State’s seven home games are on sale now, including a Wildcat 4 Pack for just $99 to the September 1 home opener. To purchase single-game tickets, please click here.
Kansas State University, the nation’s first operational land-grant institution and a Carnegie Foundation Tier One university, is recognized as one of the nation’s best colleges with world-class research and academic excellence located in America’s No. 1 College Town (Manhattan, KS).
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RYAN LACKEY
Director of Football and Golf Communications | K-State Athletics
The Junction City Brigade lost to the Topeka Golden Giants 3-2 in the opening game of the championship series for the Mid Plains League Thursday night in Topeka.
Game two is tonight at 7 p.m. at Rathert Field in Junction City.
This is a best two out of three series so if the Golden Giants win Friday night they claim the Cowdin Cup that goes to the league champion. If there is a game three it will be Saturday night in Topeka.
Junction City native and former Blue Jay player Nick Heath, 24, has been promoted within the Kansas City Royals organization to the Double-A farm team, the Northwest Arkansas Naturals.
Heath was drafted by the Royals and began his career with the organization in Idaho in 2016 and has now worked his way up to Double-A. That’s just two steps on the ladder away from the major leagues.
Heath will be a left fielder for the Naturals.
Fort Riley’s 33rd annual 10-5-2 Prairie Run is Saturday, July 21, starting at King Field House. The event provides runners options of three different courses: a 10-mile, 5-mile or 2-mile race.
For active-duty Soldiers, the 10-mile race acts as a qualifier for Fort Riley’s team that will compete at the Army 10-Miler in Washington, D.C., in October.
Races of all distances are open to both military and civilian runners.
These races are not fun runs, so no pets, strollers, baby joggers,
skateboards, roller blades, motorized vehicles, bicycles or headsets will be
allowed on the race course.
Registration is available online at riley.armymwr.com and costs $20.
Active-duty Soldiers registering for the 10-mile race do not have to pay the
registration fee. The deadline to register online is July 20. Runners can
register on race day at King Field House, between 6:00 and 6:45 a.m. Races
begin at 7 a.m.
For those participants without a DoD ID card, please use Henry Gate (Marshal
Army Airfield, Exit 301 off of I-70) to enter the installation. As you
approach the gate, stay in the far right lane. You will see a guard in a
safety vest and you will tell him that you are coming on Ft. Riley for the
10-5-2 race. Please ensure that all persons in your vehicle have a driver’s
license or government issued identification ready. Youth 15 years old or
younger will not be required to present an ID.
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State junior running back Alex Barnes was one of 62 players in the nation and six from the Big 12 to earn a spot on the watch list for the 2018 Doak Walker Award, which honors the nation’s premier running back, the PwC SMU Athletic Forum announced Wednesday.
Barnes is on the watch list for a second-straight year, while it is the 16th time since 1992 a Wildcat has been up for the award. Darren Sproles was one of three finalists for the award in 2003, while Daniel Thomas was a semifinalist in 2010.
It is the second watch list inclusion this week for Barnes as he was named a candidate for the Maxwell Award on Monday. The Pittsburg, Kansas, native is coming off a sophomore campaign in which he rushed for 819 yards and seven touchdowns on 146 carries. His 5.61-yard average ranked fifth in school history, while his total was fourth among sophomores.
Barnes, a Preseason All-Big 12 selection by Athlon and Phil Steele, topped the career 1,000-yard barrier last year as he enters his junior year with 1,261 yards. He hit the 1,000-yard mark on his 152nd carry, just five behind Sproles for the fastest in school history.
Kansas State opens the 2018 season on Saturday, September 1, when the Wildcats host South Dakota. The game, which kicks off at 6:10 p.m., inside Bill Snyder Family Stadium, serves as the 10th-annual K-State Family Reunion and will be shown world-wide on ESPN3.
Season tickets are available for the 2018 season starting at just $199 for the mobile Flex Season Ticket, which can be purchased by clicking here. Single-game tickets for K-State’s seven home games are on sale now, including a Wildcat 4 Pack for just $99 to the September 1 home opener. To purchase single-game tickets, please click here.
RYAN LACKEY
Director of Football and Golf Communications | K-State Athletics
