Wade Davis puts the first two runners on in the 9th but finishes off the Royals’ 6-3 win over the Blue Jays for a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven ALCS. Game 3 is in Toronto on Monday night.

The Royals finally broke through against David Price, rallying to take the lead in the seventh by batting around. The surge started when Ben Zobrist hit a shallow pop fly to right that second baseman Ryan Goins, running back, appeared to call for. Jose Bautista started to slow up but Goins, perhaps distracted by the loud crowd noise, stopped and slid to the ground as if he was ceding to the outfielder. Instead, the ball fell in for the Royals’ first hit since Alcides Escobar singled to lead off the first.

Eric Hosmer, Kendry Morales, Mike Moustakas and Alex Gordon each drove in a run before Price was pulled. Alex Rios drove in one more run with a single off Aaron Sanchez for a 5-3 lead.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Edinson Volquez and the Kansas City Royals have taken the opener of the American League Championship Series.

Volquez combined with three relievers on a three-hitter as the Royals downed the Blue Jays 5-0 in Kansas City. Volquez issued four walks but allowed just two hits in six innings to help the Royals earn their eighth straight ALCS victory dating to Game 5 of the 1985 series against the Blue Jays.

Kansas City scored twice in the third to break a scoreless deadlock as Alcides (al-SEE’-dehs) Escobar hit an RBI double and scored on Lorenzo Cain’s single. Salvador Perez added a solo homer in the fourth off Jays starter Marco Estrada, who allowed six hits while striking out six in 5 1/3 innings.

The Royals tacked on two more insurance runs in the eighth off LaTroy Hawkins. Eric Hosmer hit an RBI double and Kendrys (KEHN’-drees) Morales followed with a sacrifice fly.

Game 2 of the series in Saturday afternoon at Kaufmann Stadium. David Price will start for the Blue Jays against Yordano Ventura.

PREP FOOTBALL
Abilene 26, McPherson 17
Andale 59, Wichita Trinity 24
Anthony-Harper-Chaparral 49, Belle Plaine 6
Atchison 30, Tonganoxie 14
Attica/Argonia 64, Pretty Prairie 6
Augusta 39, Winfield 0
Axtell 22, Pike Valley 0
Basehor-Linwood 55, KC Piper 21
Beloit 60, Hays-TMP-Marian 21
Bishop Miege 67, Spring Hill 14
Blue Valley Stillwell 35, Gardner-Edgerton 7
Bonner Springs 55, KC Turner 15
Buhler 46, Hays 14
Burlingame 66, Flinthills 8
BV North 48, SM South 0
BV Northwest 44, Olathe South 20
BV Randolph 66, Glasco/Miltonvale-Southern Cloud 20
Caney Valley 46, Eureka 0
Central Burden 66, Cedar Vale/Dexter 20
Central Plains 52, Ellinwood 6
Chase 52, Centre 6
Cheney 19, Conway Springs 15
Cimarron 44, Lakin 0
Clay Center 50, Goodland 14
Clearwater 42, Haven 8
Colby 42, Concordia 13
Columbus 60, Baxter Springs 0
Crest 50, Chetopa 46
Derby 54, Wichita Campus 14
DeSoto 29, Baldwin 16
Dighton/Healy 60, Ness City 20
El Dorado 32, Circle 13
Ell-Saline 18, Bennington 8
Erie 36, Humboldt 28
Eudora 46, Ottawa 8
Flint Hills Christian 66, Hutchinson Central Christian 24
Fort Scott 58, Chanute 13
Frankfort 60, Linn 12
Frontenac 34, Parsons 13
Galena 42, Cherryvale 12
Garden City 14, Hutchinson 2
Garden Plain 12, Hutchinson Trinity 0
Girard 35, Anderson County 8
Goddard 56, Liberal 15
Goddard-Eisenhower 42, Arkansas City 22
Great Bend 52, Newton 21
Halstead 36, Kingman 7
Hanover 68, Lakeside 22
Heartland Christian 68, Wheatland-Grinnell 42
Hesston 56, Hillsboro 14
Hiawatha 37, Horton 24
Hodgeman County 54, South Gray 6
Hoisington 46, Ellsworth 0
Holcomb 36, Larned 0
Holton 21, Jefferson West 7
Hoxie 46, Cheylin 0
Hugoton 14, Pratt 7
Independence 49, Coffeyville 6
Iola 28, Burlington 23
Jackson Heights 46, Onaga 8
Junction City 64, Wichita Southeast 0
Kapaun Mount Carmel 34, Emporia 28
Kiowa County 62, Kinsley 12
Lansing 58, KC Washington 8
Lawrence Free State 35, Washburn Rural 7
Leavenworth 38, KC Schlagle 0
Lebo 48, Madison/Hamilton 18
Lincoln 42, Rock Hills 38
Little River 62, Canton-Galva 14
Louisburg 63, KC Sumner 6
Lyons 28, Sterling 24
Maize South 35, Valley Center 16
Marmaton Valley 68, Pleasanton 18
Marysville 45, Minneapolis 28
Maur Hill – Mount Academy 60, Atchison County 20
Meade 33, Marion 18
Mill Valley 45, St. James Academy 14
Minneola 66, Ashland 16
Mission Valley 42, Chase County 19
Moundridge 40, Remington 28
Nemaha Central 43, Centralia 14
Neodesha 35, Fredonia 0
Nickerson 28, Smoky Valley 0
Northern Heights 30, Herington 0
Northern Valley 50, Natoma 18
Norton 47, Russell 7
Oakley 19, Ellis 14
Oberlin-Decatur 50, Quinter 0
Olathe North 53, Olathe East 27
Olpe 28, Lyndon 6
Osawatomie 48, Prairie View 20
Otis-Bison 46, St. John’s Beloit-Tipton 36
Paola 54, Labette County 14
Phillipsburg 60, Republic County 6
Pittsburg 56, BV West 13
Pittsburg Colgan 52, Northeast-Arma 0
Plainville 66, Wichita County 21
Pleasant Ridge 48, McLouth 6
Rawlins County 40, Logan/Palco 6
Riverton 40, Southeast 20
Rock Creek 46, St. Mary’s 21
Rossville 63, Oskaloosa 12
Royal Valley 35, Perry-Lecompton 21
Rural Vista 42, Peabody-Burns 30
Sabetha 37, Riverside 18
Salina Sacred Heart 49, Medicine Lodge 14
Salina South 42, Salina Central 35
Santa Fe Trail 41, KC Bishop Ward 14
Satanta 74, Moscow 26
Scott City 53, Southwestern Hts. 14
Sedan 72, Oxford 22
Sedgwick 45, Inman 16
Shawnee Heights 27, Highland Park 26
Silver Lake 53, Osage City 9
SM East 69, KC Harmon 0
SM West 45, SM Northwest 6
Smith Center 43, LaCrosse 8
Solomon 60, Goessel 14
South Barber 60, Caldwell 36
South Central 48, Pratt Skyline 0
Southeast Saline 46, Council Grove 8
Southern Coffey 60, Altoona-Midway 2
Spearville 54, Trego 6
St. Francis 68, Osborne 22
St. Thomas Aquinas 70, Blue Valley Southwest 7
Stafford 50, Fairfield-Cunningham 0
Stockton 34, Hill City 6
Syracuse 44, Elkhart 8
Topeka 41, Manhattan 14
Topeka Hayden 38, Andover Central 29
Triplains-Brewster 61, Greeley County 16
Troy 46, Doniphan West 19
Ulysses 34, Mulvane 31
Uniontown 80, Marais des Cygnes Valley 40
Victoria 58, Thunder Ridge 0
Wabaunsee 12, Valley Heights 7
Wakefield 60, Clifton-Clyde 14
Wallace County 54, Golden Plains 0
Wamego 34, Chapman 0
Washington County 22, Riley County 18
Wellington 44, Rose Hill 20
Wellsville 60, Jayhawk Linn 0
West Elk 52, Udall 6
West Franklin 38, Central Heights 20
Wichita Bishop Carroll 48, Maize 26
Wichita Collegiate 76, Bluestem 0
Wichita Heights 35, Andover 14
Wichita Home School 72, Wichita Sunrise 26
Wichita Independent 48, Douglass 14
Wichita Northwest 52, Dodge City 33
Wichita West 41, Wichita South 14
Yates Center 44, Oswego 20
POSTPONEMENTS AND CANCELLATIONS
Drexel, Mo. vs. Christ Preparatory Academy, ppd.

The tryouts for the 8-and-Under Junction City Brigade baseball team for the 2016 competitive spring season are scheduled this Sunday, Oct. 18 at 4 p.m. at Cleary Park.

Players cannot turn nine before May 1, 2016.

For more information contact Jeff Underhill at 785-375-0511 or Kenny Upham at 785-375-1204.

Release by  Tom Gilbert, Associate Director/Athletics Communications

MANHATTAN, Kan. – FOX Sports Kansas City will televise 12 Kansas State men’s basketball games during the 2015-16 season, including two Big 12 matchups, the school and network announced today. 

FOX Sports Kansas City will air the games to the entire state of Kansas as well as the Kansas City metro area, while fans outside the region can view the broadcasts for the first time on K-StateHD.TV. In addition, all 12 games will be available to stream live outside the state of Kansas on ESPN3 across WatchESPN platforms.

The broadcast schedule begins with the first exhibition contest with Emporia State at 7 p.m., on Friday, Oct. 30 and continues with the next four games, including the second exhibition against Fort Hays State at 7 p.m., on Friday, Nov. 6. The regular season opener with Maryland-Eastern Shore will be broadcast at 7 p.m., on Friday, Nov. 13, followed by Columbia at 8 p.m., on Monday, Nov. 16 and South Dakota at 7 p.m., on Friday, Nov. 20. Other games on the schedule include South Carolina State at 2 p.m., on Sunday, Nov. 29, Coppin State at 7 p.m., on Wednesday, Dec. 9, the Wichita Wildcat Classic with Colorado State at 3 p.m., on Saturday, Dec. 19, North Dakota at 7 p.m., on Tuesday, Dec. 22 and Saint Louis at 7 p.m., on Tuesday, Dec. 29.

The FOX Sports Kansas City television schedule concludes with home Big 12 contests against Texas Tech at 7 p.m., on Tuesday, Jan. 12 and TCU at 7 p.m., on Wednesday, March 2.

Of note, K-State’s road games at Georgia on Friday, Dec. 4 and Texas A&M on Saturday, Dec. 12 will be televised on the SEC Network. The Georgia game will tip off at 6 p.m., while the Texas A&M contest is slated to start at 4:30 p.m

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Royals are sending Blue Jays antagonist Edinson Volquez to the mound for Game 1 of their AL Championship Series while Toronto is countering with Marco Estrada.

The opening game is Friday night at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City.

It was Volquez whose inside pitching drew the ire of the Blue Jays in early August, eventually leading to a pair of bench-clearing incidents during their game at Rogers Centre. After the game, he called Blue Jays star Josh Donaldson “a little baby” for complaining about his pitching.

The Royals will start Yordano Ventura in Game 2 on Saturday, while Johnny Cueto will pitch the third game in Toronto. The Blue Jays will put David Price on the mound in Game 2, followed by Marcus Stroman and knuckleballer R.A. Dickey.

Last season was a rough one for the Kansas State Men’s Basketball team, not only on the court but off the court as well.

The Wildcats suffered their first losing season in more than a decade last year and as soon as the season was over the team lost more than just their seniors on the team. In all Kansas State lost nine players from last years squad including the dismissals of leading scorer Marcus Foster and freshman Tre Harris. After talking with the team it’s clear they just want to move on.

Wesley Iwundu explained that he made that decision following the season ending loss to TCU last year in the Big 12 tournament.

“When I went into that locker room I said the season is over with so I’m going to start a new chapter and get things turned back around,” said Iwundu.

During Thursday’s Media Day at Kansas State Coach Bruce Weber said that the players have told him they’re tired of talking about last season.

“I just said this is how we deal with it, it’s over, done with, we’re moving forward. We’ve got a good group of guys, we enjoy each other, we practice hard, we want to have a great season, and that’s all we can focus on,” said Weber.

Looking ahead to this season Kansas State was picked tied at 8th with TCU in the Big 12 preseason poll, in-state rival Kansas has been pegged to win their 12th conference title in a row.

“I’m not expecting anyone to pick us to be a top team or anything, because based on last year it’s a new team, new look and we’re just ready to go out there and play and have fun with everything,” said Iwundu.

Kansas State will kick off the season with two exhibition games starting on October 30th against Emporia State and November 6th against Fort Hays State. This year’s non-conference schedule includes six potential matchups against teams that participated in the postseason a year ago, including three from the 2015 NCAA Tournament.