Junction City Blue Jay Logan Roether shot a round of 80 to tie with eight other golfers for 38th in the Class 6A State Golf Tournament at the Auburn Hills Golf Course in Wichita on Monday.
Also for Junction City, Tyler Gromlovits shot a round of 91 for an 84th place finish in the tournament.
Sion Audrain of Garden City captured first place in a playoff. He finished with a round of 70.
Overland Park – Blue Valley North captured the team championship.
Didi Gregorius, Brett Gardner and Chris Carter homered, and the New York Yankees once again downed Jason Vargas by beating the Kansas City Royals 4-2 Monday night.
A reversed umpire’s call in the seventh inning kept the Yankees ahead and enabled Michael Pineda (5-2) to top Vargas for the second time in a week. The Royals, with the worst record in the AL, have lost five of seven.
Vargas (5-3) began the day with a 2.03 ERA, tied for second-best in the majors. But the lefty fell to 0-7 lifetime against the Yankees when he was tagged by Gardner and Gregorius, the only left-handed hitters in the New York lineup.
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Sophomore guard Kamau Stokes is withdrawing his name from the 2017 NBA Draft process and will return to K-State for his junior season in 2017-18.
“We are excited to have Kamau back for his junior season,” said head coach Bruce Weber. “This was an important step for him and his family to explore his dreams of playing in the NBA. I know he is motivated to have a great season and start building on what we did as a team this past season.”
The native of Baltimore, Md., Stokes averaged 11.7 points on 35.6 percent shooting (120-of-337), including 36.4 percent (64-of-176) from 3-point range, as a sophomore in 2016-17 to go with 4.1 assists, 2.6 rebounds and 1.1 steals in 33.3 minutes per game. He ranked among the team’s Top 5 in 21 categories, including first in 3-point field goal made (64) and attempted (176), assists (145), starts (35) and minutes played (1,165). He also placed second in scoring, double-digit scoring games (25), free throws made (107), free throw percentage (76.4) and steals (38)
Stokes, who ranked among the Big 12 leaders in seven categories in 2016-17, has averaged 10.9 points on 35.9 percent shooting, including 35.5 percent from 3-point range, in his two-year career to go with averages of 3.6 assists, 2.6 rebounds and 1.0 steals per game. He is one of 23 players in school history to total 200 or more assists in a career after dishing out the eight-most (145) in a single season this past season.
Stokes is among nine returning lettermen for the Wildcats in 2017-18, including one of three who started all 35 games this past season for a squad that won 21 games and advanced to the NCAA Tournament. In addition to its returning lettermen, K-State will welcome five newcomers (juniors Makol Mawien and Amaad Wainright and freshmen Mike McGuirl, Nigel Shadd and Levi Stockard III) as well as redshirt freshmen Cartier Diarra and James Love III, who both missed the 2016-17 season due to injury.
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TOM GILBERT
Associate Director for Athletics Communications | K-State Athletics
Junction City High School finished fifth out of 10 schools in the all sports standings for the 2016-17 year in the Centennial League.
Washburn Rural finished first with a total score of 179.5 followed by Manhattan at 176.5, Seaman 151.5, Shawnee Heights 141.5, Junction City 105, Topeka High 99.5, Hayden 96.0, Emporia 95.0, Topeka West 64.5 and Highland Park 35.0.
JCHS Athletic Director Matt Westerhaus noted it’s the first time Junction City High School has ever finished in the top five for all league standings in regards to the boys and girls sports. He added he thinks JCHS can continue to climb.
Points are calculated based on the finish of the different teams in the league in up to 21 sports.
Junction City Blue Jay Head Baseball coach Drew Biery has resigned.
Biery will operate his new baseball academy in Manhattan. “I’ve got about 10 to 12 teams in there now that will go around and travel during the summer, and do some fall ball things of that sort. ” Biery will also become a special education teacher at Manhattan High School.
During his three years as head baseball coach at Junction City High School Biery guided the Blue Jay baseball teams to a pair of state tournament appearances, and an 11-10 record this past season. “”I got to know the kids a lot, we did some great things. I think that we’ve got a good foundation of a baseball program here. I hope that whoever comes in behind me can continue some of the success that we had and more. ”
The Royals took the opener of their doubleheader in Minnesota as Brandon Moss hit two of their four homers in a 6-4 verdict over the Twins. Salvador Perez and Jorge Bonifacio (boh-nih-FAH’-see-oh) also went deep for the Royals, who had lost their seven previous games against Minnesota. Reliever Mike Minor worked out of a fifth-inning jam and retired four batters for his first big league win since 2014.
The Twins gained a split of their twinbill behind homers from Robbie Grossman, Max Kepler and Chris Gemenez in an 8-4 whipping of the Royals. Grossman and Kepler each hit two-run homers in the first inning. Adalberto Mejia (ah-dahl-BEHR’-toh meh-HEE’-uh) allowed three runs over seven innings for his first big league win.
Girls Results:
Nate Schmitt has resigned from the Junction City Blue Jay boys basketball head coaching position.
Schmitt is returning to Lakin High School to serve as the athletic director and boys head basketball coach at that school. He spent three years at that school as boys head basketball coach before coming to Junction City. Schmitt stated, “I told the boys yesterday ( Friday ). That’s a very difficult thing to do, but we’re going to go back and be closer to family.” Lakin is about an 18-mile drive from his hometown of Holcomb in southwest Kansas.
Schmitt said he was contacted by officials in Lakin about the dual coaching /athletic director position. “It was a little bit more money and I don’t have to teach.” He added the number one attraction was family. “It’s the first time my wife and I have been away from family. We just miss them and want to be back closer.” Schmitt’s brother will serve as an assistant basketball coach for him at Lakin High School, and he also noted his sister also had accepted a volleyball coaching position at nearby Garden City High School.
Nate Schmidt has been employed In USD 475 for one school year. He taught physical education at Junction City Middle School and served as head basketball coach at the high school.
This past season the Blue Jay boys varsity basketball team finished with a record of 4-17. Schmitt stated, “As far as the basketball, I feel like the program is in better shape than it was when we found it. And I think that it’s going to continue to grow because of the kids that are in it. There’s some great kids coming up.” Schmitt added he felt the future was bright.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Pinch hitter Kennys Vargas launched a tying, two-run homer in the ninth inning and Jorge Polanco hit a sacrifice fly in the 10th, lifting the Minnesota Twins over the Kansas City Royals 4-3 on Friday night.
Polanco lofted a soft liner to left field and Joe Mauer beat Alex Gordon’s throw to the plate. Al Albuquerque (0-1) walked the first two batters of the inning and reliever Travis Wood walked Max Kepler, loading the bases with no outs for Polanco.
Brandon Kintzler (2-0) allowed two hits in the top of the 10th, but snagged a comebacker to start an inning-ending double play.
Vargas batted for Byron Buxton Vargas following Jason Castro’s one-out single in the ninth. Vargas sent Kelvin Herrera’s 1-0 offering into the second deck in right-center field.
Vargas was recalled from Triple-A on April 23 and is tied for second on the team with five home runs despite playing just 17 games. Herrera had his second blown save of the season in 10 chances.
MANHATTAN, Kan. – After a year of support and service to Wildcat student-athletes, K-State’s sports medicine department has been honored as the Big 12 Conference Sports Medicine Staff of the Year. The award, which is voted on by the sports medicine department at each Big 12 school, is the second in department history after also being recognized in 2004.
“There’s obviously some pride involved in an honor like this, and all the credit goes to our entire staff,” said Director of Sports Medicine Matt Thomason. “They’re the ones who put in a lot of time and work tirelessly behind the scenes. We’ve got a really good staff, as good as we’ve had in my 15 years here. Across the board, there’s some really qualified people working their tails off, and I am really proud that their efforts have been recognized.”
K-State’s department is made up of nine full-time athletic trainers as well as five graduate assistant athletic trainers. The Wildcats also employ a full-time sports nutritionist that oversees two graduate assistants, as well as a full-time Director of Sport Psychology.
The staff works out of three athletic training rooms across K-State’s athletic facilities in addition to providing athletic training coverage for all student-athletes at practices and home and away events. Services provided to student-athletes by the department include preventative services, emergency care, clinical diagnosis, therapeutic intervention and rehabilitation of injuries and medical conditions.
Athletic trainers are certified health care professionals through the American Medical Association, which recognized the practice of athletic training as an allied health care profession since 1990.
K-State’s staff is guided by Thomason, a 15-plus year veteran of the profession, and includes veteran staff members Mindy Hoffman, Luke Sauber, Emily Trausch, Simeon Seiler, Blaine Burris, Becca Fitzgerald, Casey Carlson and Tom Hammett in addition to graduate assistants Kyle Dorsten, Mayrena Hernandez, Leah Afsarifard , Madison Fabrizius and Brittany Orr. Also, sport nutritionist Scott Trausch, graduate assistants Blaire Wolski and Molly Winkler and Director of Sport Psychology Dr. Ian Connole round out the award-winning staff.
KENNY LANNOU
Associate A.D. for Communications | K-State Athletics
