In their first-ever golf tournament the Junction City Lady Jays were led by Madison Roether. She shot a round of 81 at the Lake Shawnee Court in Topeka to finish second out of 40 golfers.

Roether finished just two strokes behind the tournament’s individual champion Rachel Stous who shot a round of 79.

Also for Junction City, Melina Melendez shot a 125, Trinity Weisler 125, and Taylor Curtright 134.

Eight schools were represented in the tournament, with six of them fielding full squads. Junction City finished sixth with a team score of 465. Washburn Rural captured first place with a score of 368. Shawnee Heights was the host school for the tournament.

 

Junction City Blue Jay athletes will showcase their skills in Blue – White scrimmages Friday night at the senior high. But there will be much more than that on the schedule.

The Future Blue Jay Night activities are scheduled at 5:30 p.m. at Al Simpler Stadium followed by practice sessions for the JunctionCity Middle, Fort Riley Middle School, and Junior Jay football teams in the six o’clock hour.

The Lady Jay volleyball scrimmage is from 5 – 6:30 p.m. and the Blue Jay football scrimmage starts at 7:15 p.m.

From 5:30 – 8 p.m. there will be four activities at the football stadium including a rummage sale of old athletic apparel and equipment, Dance team end zone meal fundraiser, Cheer team fundraiser for old Field Turf at the stadium, and an Athletic Booster Club membership drive.

The JCHS cross country team will also do their team time trials at Milford State Park from 4:30 – 5:30 Friday afternoon.

The Back to School Dance is scheduled from 9 – 11 p.m. at the Fiffe Gym at JCHS.

Those attending the scrimmages at the senior high are asked to bring a canned food items for the Food Pantry of Geary County.

 

 

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Yordano Ventura struck out a career-high 11 in just six innings, Paulo Orlando homered and the Kansas City Royals hung on to beat the struggling Baltimore Orioles 5-3 on Thursday.

Ventura (9-7) allowed two hits and four walks to improve to 5-0 in his last seven starts.

The Royals’ usually solid bullpen nearly gave it away, though. Kelvin Herrera served up a homer to Ryan Flaherty in the seventh, and Greg Holland allowed two more runs in the ninth before getting Gerardo Parra to ground out with a runner on to end the game.

Chris Tillman (9-9), who tossed a five-hitter at Kauffman Stadium last May, followed his first loss since May 31 with another.

The game wasn’t all that Baltimore lost, either.

All-Star outfielder Adam Jones left soon after crashing into the wall trying to track down a fly ball in the first. Jones lay on the warning track for a few minutes before standing up and finishing the inning. There was no word on the nature or severity of the injury.

SEATTLE -Former Kansas State quarterback Jake Waters has been released by the Seattle Seahawks Wednesday, eight days after they signed him. Waters did not play in Seattle’s 14-13 loss to the Chiefs Friday in Kansas City.

Waters, who set the Kansas State single-season passing record at Kansas State last season, has now been released by two teams. After not being drafted, Waters signed a free agent contract with Jacksonville but was let go after just a couple of days.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Chris Davis, Manny Machado and Jonathan Schoop each hit a two-run homer off Johnny Cueto, and the Baltimore Orioles totaled five long balls in all Wednesday night to power their way to an 8-5 victory over the Kansas City Royals that snapped a six-game skid.

Wei-Yin Chen (8-6) allowed three runs for the Orioles while scattering nine hits over six innings. The losing pitcher against the Royals in Game 3 of last year’s AL Championship Series, he has now gone seven straight starts without a defeat.

Cueto (9-9) labored through five innings for Kansas City, allowing 10 hits and a walk. It was his second consecutive shoddy start after yielding a career-high 13 hits in a loss at Boston.

 

MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State’s home game with Ole Miss as part of the third annual Big 12/SEC Challenge Presented by Sonic will be broadcast nationally on ESPNU at 1 p.m. CT on Saturday, January 30, 2016 from Bramlage Coliseum, it was announced on Wednesday morning.

 

For the first time, all 10 games in the Challenge series are slated to be played on one day – January 30, 2016 – during a common break in each conference’s schedule. Each league will host five contests in a field that includes nine teams ranked in the ESPN.com preseason Top 25 – including five from the Big 12.

 

The match-up will mark the second time in the past three seasons that the Wildcats have hosted the Rebels in the event, as K-State won the inaugural game in the Challenge, 61-58, over Ole Miss at home on December 5, 2013.

 

The Big 12 has won the first two Challenge series, posting a cumulative 13-7 (.650) record. Overall, the league is 41-27 (.603) in its last three challenge series (vs. Pac-10 and SEC) dating back to 2007.

 

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Tom Gilbert

Associate Athletic Director for Communications / K-State Athletic Communications

 

 

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Kendrys Morales hit a solo homer, Mike Moustakas and Eric Hosmer also drove in runs and the Kansas City Royals leaned on their bullpen to beat the Baltimore Orioles 3-2 on Tuesday night.

Danny Duffy (7-6) dodged trouble for most of 5 2-3 innings, allowing two runs on five hits and two walks. The left-hander struck out five in a start that began in crisp efficiency and ended with the Orioles threatening to pull ahead in the sixth inning.

Luke Hochevar calmed things down with an inning of relief, though. Kelvin Herrera had no trouble with the rest of the seventh and eighth, and Wade Davis pitched a perfect ninth in place of closer Greg Holland to earn his 12th save.

Miguel Gonzalez (9-10) allowed all three runs on six hits and three walks in 4 1-3 innings.

SALINA- Open tryouts for the Salina Liberty professional indoor football team have been scheduled for Saturday, October 3rd at the Salina Bicentennial Center.

Registration will take place from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m., with tryouts starting at 1:30 p.m. Online pre-registration is $50 and walk-up registration is $75.

Players wanting to pre-register can do so by clicking here. Sign up today! Space is LIMITED!

 

Future Blue Jay Night is Friday at Al Simpler stadium at 5:30 p.m.

And that is just the beginning of the activities.

They include:

–3-5 p.m. Fall Sports Team pictures

–4:30 – 5:30 p.m. Cross Country team time trials at Milford State Park

–5 – 6:30 p.m. Volleyball Blue White Scrimmage, Shenk Gym

–5:30 – 8 p.m. Rummage Sale-old athletic apparel / equipment, Al Simpler Stadium east end zone, $5 all items

–5:30 – 8 p.m. Dance team end zone meal fundraiser, Al Simpler Stadium

–5:30 – 8 p.m. Cheer team fundraiser for old turf, Al Simpler Stadium

–5:30  Future Blue Jay Night

–6:05 p.m. Junction City and Fort Riley Middle Schools 8th grade football team practice session, Al Simpler Stadium

–6:25 p.m. Junction City and Fort Riley Middle School 7th grade football teams practice session, Al Simpler Stadium

–6:45 p.m. Junior Jays football teams practice session, Al Simpler Stadium

–7:15 p.m. Junction City High School football scrimmage, Al Simpler Stadium

–9 – 11 p.m. Back to School Dance, Fiffe Gym, Main Campus Junction City High School