KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Royals are teaming with Kansas City officials, Major League Baseball and the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum on a youth academy that will include an indoor training facility and outdoor fields.

The Kansas City MLB Urban Youth Academy will be built on a 21-acre park near the museum, with the first phase expected to be completed by next fall.

The academy will partner with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Kansas City to help grow the game of baseball in the inner city. A portion of the funds for the project will be supplied by a new MLB-MLBPA joint youth development initiative announced in July.

The first phase includes two full-size fields, youth fields and a walking trail. The second phase features an indoor training facility and batting cages.

The Wakefield Boy’s and Girl’s results from the Republic County High School Cross Country Invitational Meet held at the Belleville Country Club on Thursday September 24^th 2015.

 

Schools competing:      Republic County, Beloit, St. John’s Beloit, Clifton-Clyde, Concordia, Marysville, Pike Valley, Riley County, Southern Cloud, Smith Center, Tescott, Clay Center, and Wakefield.

 

Place in order of finish for the Wakefield Bomber Varsity Boys:

 

1^st     Brock Barrett                Sr.—————–4^thPlace overall     17:43

2^nd     John Bowen                 Jr.—————–6^thPlace overall      17:57

3^rd     Jordan Colglazier           Jr.—————27^thPlace overall      19:38

4^th     Cole Barber                   Jr.—————37^thPlace overall      21:32

5^th     Kirk Iseli                       Jr.—————39^thPlace overall      22:18

6^th     Christian Kirk                Jr.—————44^thPlace overall       23:32

7^th     Tony Jarvis                  Jr.—————49^thPlace overall        27:43

 

Varsity Boy’s Team Standings:

 

1^st Place               Belleville/Republic County       50 Points

2^nd Place              Clay Center                           54 Points

3^rd Place              Beloit                                    55 Points

4^th Place              Wakefield                              92 Points

5^th Place              Marysville                            109 Points

6^th Place              Tescott                                155 Points

 

Place in order of finish for the Lady Bombers. 

 

1^st     Sierra Otto                    Jr.————–21^stPlace overall        32:41

2^nd    Cassidy Tilley                Sr.————-22^ndPlace overall        34:58

 

Varsity  Girl’s Team Standings:

 

1^st Place               Clay Center                                    15 Points

 

Place in order of finish on the Wakefield Bomber Junior Varsity Boy’s Team.

 

1^st     Kevin Jackson               Fr.———–20^th Place overall           22:08

2^nd     Jeffrey Thompson        So.———-32^nd Place overall           27:44

 

Coach Braden, “Our top four runners on our boy’s varsity team ran well today.   Senior Brock Barrett ran the fastest 5K race of his life with a sub 18 minute time of 17:43.  Junior Johnathan Bowen was right on his heals with his second fastest time of his career at17:57.  Junior Jordan Colglazier ran his first Bomber letter qualifying time of 19:38 and junior Cole Barber ran a good time today as well.  A pleasant surprise at Belleville was freshman Kevin Jackson.  This was Kevin’s first every cross country race and he ran remarkably well with a time of 22:08.  It looks as if we are starting to settle into the 2015 season as most of our times are beginning to come down. We only have four weeks left before we head to regionals. Hopefully we can stay healthy and be running the best times of the season by late October.”

 

 The Wakefield Bombers next cross country meet will be Thursday October 1^st when the Bombers travel to Council Grove for the Council Grove High School Invitational Cross Country Meet. Coach Braden, “We run down by the lake and our kids all say this is one of their favorite places to run. 

 

Ladd Braden

Wakefield Cross Country

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Kansas City Royals clinched the AL Central for their first division title in 30 years, beating the Seattle Mariners 10-4 Thursday night.

Johnny Cueto picked up his first victory in nearly six weeks, and the win, coupled with the Minnesota Twins’ 6-3 loss to the Cleveland Indians, ensured a title. The Royals have dominated the division, leading by as many as 14 games.

It’s the Royals first division title since 1985, when they won the AL West en route to their only World Series championship.

The Kauffman Stadium announced crowd of 32,244 cheered when the Twins’ final score was shown on the scoreboard in the top of the ninth.

Kansas City became the first team to wrap up a division title this year. St. Louis and Pittsburgh have secured playoff berths in the NL.

Cueto (3-6) was 0-5 in his previous six starts.

Logan Kensing (1-1) took the loss.

The Blue Jay Jam 2015 Basketball Camp has been scheduled for November 2nd through the 4th at the Shenk Gym at JCHS.

The camp is for players in grades 1-6, ages correspond to the 2015-2016 school year. There will be a $25 registration fee, and each player will receive a t-shirt.

To register for camp send the registration form and camp fee to Pat Battle, JCHS 900 N. Eisenhower Junction City, KS 66441. (Please make checks payable to Pat Battle).

Activities during camp include individual skill development, team offense and defensive concepts, skill contests, Cybernetics: The Mental Approach, and a camp favorite Snack Time!

The Friday night high school football schedule finds:

–Seaman at Junction City

–Manhattan at Highland Park

–Abilene hosts Wamego

–Concordia visits Chapman

–Topeka West goes to Washburn Rural

–Hayden is at Shawnee Heights

–Emporia travels to the capitol city to play Topeka High

–Marysville goes to Clay Center

–Riley County travels to Rossville

–Council Grove hosts Mission Valley

–Herington plays at West Franklin

–Wakefield hosts Rock Hills

–Blue Valley Randolph hosts Hanover

–Rural Vista is at Centre

–Solomon plays at Peabody

 

MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State senior wide receiver Stanton Weber was named a semifinalist for the prestigious William V. Campbell Trophy presented by Fidelity Investments, The National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF) announced Thursday.

 

Weber’s inclusion on the 56-man list for FBS players marks the second-straight season a Wildcat has been a semifinalist for the award. Last season, wide receiverTyler Lockett was a finalist for the award and thus named a National Scholar-Athlete. Additionally, former defensive back Tysyn Hartman was a finalist in 2011.

 

The Campbell Trophy recognizes an individual as the absolute best football scholar-athlete in the nation and holds requirements of candidates to be a senior or graduate student in their final year of eligibility, have a GPA of at least 3.2 on a 4.0 scale, have outstanding football ability as a first team player or significant contributor and have demonstrated strong leadership and citizenship.

 

“These 135 impressive candidates truly represent the scholar-athlete ideal,” said NFF Chairman Archie Manning. “It is important for us to showcase their success on the football field, in the classroom and in the community. This year’s semifinalists further illustrate the power of our great sport in developing the next generation of influential leaders.”

 

One of five semifinalists from the Big 12, Weber is a two-time First Team Academic All-Big 12 recipient who was nominated with a perfect 4.0 GPA both years. He graduated with a degree in accounting last May and is currently working on a master’s degree in accounting.

 

A native of Overland Park, Kansas, Weber has been a special-teams standout since his redshirt freshman season of 2012. He has 13 career special teams tackles, including eight last year to rank third on the team. This season, Weber has one tackle while he forced and recovered a fumble on a punt during the season opener against South Dakota.

 

Off the field, Weber has volunteered for numerous community-service activities, including: Cats in the Classroom (helping out at local elementary schools), Senior Cats (Visiting local retirement centers) and the K-State Special Olympics clinic. He has also been a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) in which he was the chair of the 2014-15 Powercat Choice Awards. He is also the President of SAAC for the 2015-16 school year.

 

From all NCAA divisions and the NAIA, the NFF Awards Committee will select 15 recipients of a prestigious NFF National Scholar-Athlete Award, which includes $18,000 scholarships that can be used for the honorees’ postgraduate educations. This year’s recipients will be announced October 29, and one will be declared the winner of the Campbell Trophy on December 8, during the NFF Annual Awards Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City.

 

In the midst of its bye week, Kansas State will travel to Stillwater, Oklahoma, to take on Oklahoma State on Saturday, October 3, at Boone Pickens Stadium. The game kicks off at 3 p.m., and will be shown nationally on FS1.

 

– k-statesports.com –

 

 

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RYAN LACKEY
Assistant Director | Athletics Communications

The Saint Xavier Lady Rams high school volleyball team lost to Elyria Christian Wednesday at Elyria Christian by the scores of 25-17, 25-6, and they fell to Rural Vista 25-12, 25-17.

The Junction City Lady Jay volleyball team competed in a triangular at Shawnee Heights Wednesday.

Junction City lost to Shawnee Heights 25-14, 25-14, but defeated Leavenworth 20-25, 25-15, 26-24.

Junction City is now 10-7 on the season.

The Lady Jays will compete in a tournament at Seaman on Saturday.

The Junction City Blue Jay boys soccer team fell to Topeka High 2-1 Tuesday night in the capitol city.

The Blue Jays are 2-6 on the season.

 

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Robinson Cano homered twice and drove in four runs and Hisashi Iwakuma struck out a season-high 10 as the Seattle Mariners romped past the slumping Kansas City Royals, 11-2 Tuesday night.

The AL Central-leading Royals have dropped 12 of 17. Their magic number for clinching the division remained three.

Cano and Kyle Seager each hit solo homers in the first inning for Seattle, which has the league’s best record in September at 13-6 but is still three games under .500 (74-77). It was Seager’s 25th home run and his seventh in 23 games.

Cano hit a three-run shot in a seven-run third inning for his 15th career multihomer game. Cano’s next hit will be the 2,000th of his career.

Iwakuma (9-4), who is 7-2 in his past nine starts, curbed the Royals on three singles over seven scoreless innings. He has allowed one run and 10 hits in 13 innings in his past two starts, while striking out 19 and walking one.