HOUSTON (AP) – Collin McHugh bounced back from the shortest start of his career by pitching seven scoreless innings and Colby Rasmus hit a two-run homer as the Houston Astros won their home opener over the Kansas City Royals, 8-2, on Monday night.

Carlos Correa had three hits and two RBIs for Houston, Jose Altuve had three hits and rookie Tyler White added a pair of hits for his fourth multi-hit game this year.

McHugh (1-1) allowed eight hits and struck out four to bounce back from his last start, in which he allowed six runs and walked two in 1/3 inning of a 16-6 loss to the Yankees.

Chris Young (0-2) allowed nine hits and six runs in 4 2/3 innings. The Astros jumped on him early and were up by 1 in the first after an RBI double by Correa when Rasmus launched a towering shot to the second deck in right field to make it 3-0.

Luis Valbuena had an RBI double, Jason Castro drove in a run with a triple and Altuve had a run-scoring single in the fourth to push the lead to 6-0.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Kansas City Chiefs defensive end Mike DeVito is retiring after nine NFL seasons.

DeVito, 31, announced his retirement Monday on Twitter, saying it was his wife, Jessie, who was most influential in his decision. The couple is expecting a second child.

DeVito says: “I have people here that will expect me to be here and be a father and be a husband and a leader of my family.”

Known for his leadership in the locker room and his versatility – he played three positions on the line in 2012 – DeVito spent his first six seasons with the New York Jets, twice going to the playoffs. He then joined the Chiefs for the last three seasons, but appeared in only one game in 2014 after tearing his Achilles tendon.

DeVito had a career-high three sacks last season as the Chiefs rallied from 1-5 to make the playoffs.

Marion Relay Results for Chapman 4/8

Bennington Invitational Track Meet held in

Bennington, Ks. on Friday April 8, 2016

Teams competing:  Bennington, Canton-Galva, Clifton-Clyde, Ell-Saline, Lincoln, Minneapolis, Salina Christian, Sylvan Grove, Tescott, Wakefield, and Wilson.

Boy’s Results:

Pole Vault                     3^rd Place              Cody Pollman               10’-00”

                                   7^th Place              Kaleb White                8’-06”

Shop Put                      3^rd Place              Brian VonHoltz             41’-05 ½”

Javelin                          2^nd Place             Zack Melius                 131”-08”

Discus                          1^st Place               J.J. Judy                     139’-03”

Triple Jump                   7^th Place              Chris Hardin                35’-04”

High Jump                    4^th Place              Hayden Bruner            5’-02”

                                    6^th Place              Kaleb White               5’-00”

110 H. Hurdles              3^rd Place              Nate Jackson              19.21

200 M. Dash                 2^nd Place              Brock Barrett              24.31

                                   4^th Place              Justin Carver              25.04

                                   6^th Place              Sammy Finnegan        25.50

300 I. Hurdles               7^th Place              Nate Jackson              47.86

400 M. Dash                 1^st Place              Brock Barrett               53.72

800 M. Run                  6^th Place              Jeffrey Thompson         2:21.26

1600 M. Run                4^th Place              Johnathan Bowen         5:23.78

3200 M. Run                3^rd Place              Cole Barber                 11:49.20

4 x 100 M. Relay          4^th Place              Andrew Rothfuss          47.72

                                                            Sammy Finnegan

                                                            Nate Jackson

                                                            Chris Hardin

4 x 400 M. Relay          3^rd Place              Brock Barrett                3:45.17

                                                            Justin Carver

                                                            Kirk Iseli

                                                            Andrew Rothfuss

Boy’s Team Results:

1^st Place      Bennington           151 Points

2^nd Place     Minneapolis          104 Points

3^rd Place     Wakefield               93 Points

4^th Place     Clifton/Clyde          64 Points

5^th Place     Wilson                   55 Points

6^th Place     Elll-Saline              40 Points

7^th Place     Tescott                 23 Points

8^th Place     Lincoln                 15 Points

9^th Place     Salina Christian     11 Points

10^th Place   Canton/Galva         2 Points

Girl’s Results:

Long Jump                   1^st Place               Sara Casaus                  14’-06”

100 M. Dash                 4^th Place              Sara Casaus                  13.20

                                   6^th Place              Jo Wright                     13.72

100 M. H. Hurdles         7^th Place              Sierra Otto                   19.63

200 M. Dash                 5^th Place              Kenzy Barrett               29.38

800 M. Run                  5^th Place              Sydney Barker              2:52.80

4 x 400 M. Relay          3^rd Place              Jo Wright                     4:39.01

                                                            Sara Casaus

                                                            Dani Sanders

                                                            Kenzy Barrett

Girl’s Team Results:

1^st Place      Minneapolis 114 Points

2^nd Place     Bennington        112 Points

3^rd Place     Lincoln                  91 Points

4^th Place     Clifton/Clyde          81 Points

5^th Place     Canton-Galva        45 Points

6^th Place     Ell-Salina              37 Points

7^th Place     Tescott                 36 Points

8^th Place     Wakefield             25 Points

9^th Place     Wilson                 13 Points

Coach Braden, “The Bombers had a very good day at Bennington.  Several of our athletes had personal best throws and times today. For the boys: senior Zack Melius, who has been hampered with a hamstring pull, threw the javelin (for only the second time in his life), and took home the silver medal in that event!  Junior J.J. Judy threw a personal best and took home the gold in the discus.  Junior Brian VonHoltz threw a personal best in the shot put and took home the bronze.  Sophomores Cody Pollman vaulted to a bronze medal in the pole vault and Jeffrey Thompson placed 6^th in the 800 meter run with a very competitive effort.  Freshman Kaleb White impressed us all with both his performances in the high jump and pole vault.  For the girls: the 4 x 400 meter relay team of senior Joanna Wright, senior Sara Casaus, senior Dani Sanders, and junior Kenzy Barrett ran extremely well for their first relay of the season.  Junior Sierra Otto competed very hard for her 6^th place the 100 M. H. hurdles and freshman Sydney Barker surprised all of us with her sub three minute performance in the open 800.  Friday was a beautiful day for a track meet and our performances were extremely encouraging since this was only our second meet of the season. 

Next Friday the Bombers get up bright and early to travel to Wichita for the Shocker Pre-State Challenge.             Ladd Braden

MANHATTAN, Kan. – A pinch-hit RBI single by Cade Bunnell scored the first of two runs in the eighth inning while a trio of pitchers limited Texas to one run for the first eight frames as K-State came back and defeated Texas, 3-2, on Sunday at Tointon Family Stadium.

 The Wildcats (14-19, 1-8 Big 12) avoided the sweep at the hands of Texas (14-18, 5-4 Big 12) and earned their first Big 12 win by overcoming a Longhorn second-inning run with a game-tying run in the seventh and two in the eighth. Clayton Dalrymple tied it with a sacrifice fly in the seventh while Bunnell gave K-State its first lead of the weekend with his two-out single off the glove of a diving Zane Gurwitz up the middle in the eighth. Quintin Crandall later scored in the frame when Texas failed in its attempt to put out pinch-runner Sam Chadick in a rundown following a single by Michael Smith.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Speedy pinch runner Terrance Gore streaked home on a wild pitch with two outs in the 10th inning, scoring with a headfirst slide to lift the Kansas City Royals over the winless Minnesota Twins 4-3 Sunday.

The World Series champion Royals rallied for two runs in the ninth to tie it, then dropped the Twins to 0-6. This is Minnesota’s worst start since the Washington Senators moved to the Twin Cities in 1961.

Christian Colon drew a leadoff walk in the 10th from Trevor May (0-1). Gore then made his first appearance of the season, running for Colon, and dashed to third on May’s throwing error on a pickoff attempt.

May retired the next two batters and issued a walk. With a 1-2 count on Lorenzo Cain, May threw a breaking ball that bounced off catcher John Ryan Murphy’s chest protector and skittered to the right side of the plate.

Gore beat Murphy’s throw to May covering the plate. May slammed down his hand in frustration after Gore scored.

MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State men’s basketball head coach Bruce Weber has announced his 2016 summer camp schedule for area youths on the university campus.

The 2013 Big 12 Coach of the Year, along with his coaching staff, will direct these summer camps, which begin with the Junior Wildcat (grades K-2^nd) and Wildcat (grades 3^rd-6^th) Day Camps on Monday-Thursday, June 6-9. The camp season continues with two Father/Son Camps (grades K-6^th) with the first running from Friday-Saturday, June 10-11 and second going from Saturday-Sunday, June 11-12. Other camps include the Powercat Day Camp on Monday-Thursday, June 13-16 and a two-day Team Camp on Saturday-Sunday, June 25-26.

All camps will be played at Bramlage Coliseum, the Ice Family Basketball Center and the newly-renovated Chester Peters Recreation Center on the K-State campus. These camps are open to any and all entrants, limited only by number, age and grade level. The camper’s grade level is the one heading into the 2016-17 school year.

The Junior Wildcat Day Camp, which runs from Monday-Thursday, June 6-9 from 9 am to noon, is available to kids in kindergarten through second grade at a cost of $105 per camper. The Wildcat Day Camp, which runs from Monday-Thursday, June 6-9 from 1-5 pm, is open to youngsters in third through sixth grade at a cost of $120 per camper.

The two Father/Son Camps offer fathers and sons a great opportunity to spend a special weekend on either Friday-Saturday, June 10-11 or Saturday-Sunday, June 11-12. Emphasis will be on teaching fundamentals to the fathers, who in turn teach them to their son. Space is limited. The cost is $225 per pair and $100 for each additional child.

The Powercat Day Camp, which runs Monday-Wednesday, June 13-15 from 9 am to 4 pm, and Thursday, June 16 from 9 am to noon, is available to youth in fourth through ninth grade at a cost of $200 per camper. Each of the camps’ primary emphasis will be on basic fundamentals of dribbling, passing, shooting, rebounding and defense, while preparing campers for middle school and high school basketball.

The two-day Team Camp runs from Saturday-Sunday, June 25-26 is open to any and all high school teams of varsity, junior varsity or freshmen levels with a minimum of seven players per team. Meals and T-shirts will be provided to the campers and coaches, while teams are guaranteed a minimum of five games plus a single elimination playoff. There will be a chalk talk session for coaches with Weber and his staff on Friday followed by a coaches’ social. The cost is $115 per person for overnight campers and $90 for commuters.

There are two ways to register for the 2016 Bruce Weber Summer Basketball Camps. You can sign up online athttps://bruceweberbasketball.com/ or print off the camp brochure from the website and mail cash or check to Bruce Weber Summer Basketball Camps, 1800 College Avenue, Ice Family Basketball Center, Manhattan, KS 66502. All checks should be made payable to Bruce Weber Enterprises.

For more information on the camp or to reserve a spot, please contact the men’s basketball office at (785) 532.6531 or emailbbachamp@kstatesports.com.

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TOM GILBERT
Associate Director for Athletics Communications | K-State Athletics

Marion Relays 4/8/16

MANHATTAN, Kan. – For the second-straight meet, the Kansas State track and field team saw a school record broken as well as numerous first-place finishes and personal bests set as competition came to a close at the LSU Battle on the Bayou on Saturday.

In a meet scored by conference affiliation, the Big 12 conference, represented by the Wildcats and Oklahoma, came in second place in both the men’s and women’s competition with scores of 122 points and 145 points, respectively. The SEC, represented by Mississippi State, Alabama and hosts LSU, won the competition with the conference’s men scoring 164 points and the women scoring 165 points.

Junior Jeff Bachman got the Wildcats off to a fast start on Friday evening, placing first and setting the meet record in the 10,000 meter run with a time of 31:22.66. The previous meet record was 31:26.24, set by LSU’s Travis Pope.

The Wildcats continued to have success on the track on Saturday. SophomoreA’Keyla Mitchell recorded a first place finish in the 200 meter dash with a personal best time of 22.94. Her mark also set a new school record, which Mitchell held with from last season’s NCAA West Preliminary with a time of 22.96.

In the 800 meter run, senior Sonia Gaskin posted a time of 2:05.05 to finish in fourth. That time is the 23^rd-best mark in Division I this season. Junior Kain Ellisposted a time of 1:50.58 in the event to finish seventh, while senior Blake Goodin and freshman Chris Sandquist each set personal bests with times of 1:51.69 and 1:55.13, respectively.

Junior Morgan Wedekind also posted a record-setting day, recording a first-place finish in the 5000 meter run with a personal best time of 17:28.79. Her time also set a new Battle on the Bayou meet record.

Twins Shadae Lawrence and Shardia Lawrence also combined for a pair of first-place finishes in jumps and throws. Shadae won the discus throw with a mark of 55.52m/182-02, while Shardia took the triple jump crown with a leap of 12.97m/42-06.75.

In the field, the Wildcats saw numerous athletes post impressive results. SeniorDwight Davidson used a huge throw of 68.27m/223-11 to set a new PR and finish in third place.

Fellow senior throwers Sara Savatovic and Dani Winters recorded first place finishes in their respective events. Savatovic recorded a mark of 64.74m/212-05 to win the hammer throw, while Winters won her first competition in shot put since her national title with a mark of 17.36m/56-11.50.

The Wildcats return to action next weekend as they head down the road to Wichita, Kansas to compete in the KT Woodman Invitational on April 15^th and 16^th. More information on the meet can be found here.

Senior Akela Jones will head back to the west coast to compete at the Mt. SAC Relays in Azusa, California on April 13^th and 14^th. Information on this meet can be found here.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Ian Kennedy pitched impressively into the seventh inning in his Kansas City debut and the Royals hit their first three home runs of the season to beat the winless Minnesota Twins 7-0 Saturday night.

The Twins fell to 0-5 for the first time since the Washington Senators moved to Minnesota in 1961.

Kennedy (1-0), signed by the Royals to a five-year $70 million contract in January, limited the Twins to five hits – including four singles, before being pulled after 109 pitches with two out in the seventh.

Mike Moustakas and Lorenzo Cain hit successive home runs in the fourth for the first hits off Twins left-hander Tommy Milone, while Kendrys Morales homered in the sixth off Casey Fien.

Milone (0-1) allowed four runs and four hits in 4 2/3 innings.