MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State added to its backfield depth for the 2019 season on Thursday as former North Carolina running back Jordon Brown signed a financial aid agreement to play for the Wildcats.

Brown, a product of Durham, North Carolina, played the previous three seasons for the Tar Heels, totaling 1,005 yards and eight touchdowns on 239 carries. He was also a threat out of the backfield at UNC, hauling in 46 catches for 342 yards.

Rated the No. 7 all-purpose running back in the Class of 2016 by Rivals, Brown’s best season at North Carolina came as a sophomore in 2017 when he started all 12 games and led the Tar Heels with 613 yards and four touchdowns. He set single-game career highs that season against Old Dominion with 123 yards and two scores, while he had a career-long rush of 56 yards against Miami later that year.

The 2017 season was also his best receiving campaign as he totaled 237 yards on 29 catches, which included three games with at least 50 yards. He had a career-best 57 receiving yards at Georgia Tech on nine catches, while he also had nine grabs for 53 yards in the season opener against California.

Brown totaled 3,408 rushing yards and 57 touchdowns during his final three years in high school, which included 1,705 yards and 26 touchdowns as a senior to help Southern Durham earn a 12-4 record and a runner-up finish in the state playoffs. He also scored the state championship game-winning touchdown as a sophomore on an 80-yard catch-and-run in the final moments of the game.

 

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RYAN LACKEY
Director of Football and Golf Communications | K-State Athletics

HOUSTON (AP) — After struggling recently while pitching out of the stretch, Brad Peacock went to a full windup Wednesday night and found a little something extra.

Michael Brantley homered twice, Peacock pitched seven innings and Josh James completed the three-hitter in Houston’s 9-0 win over the Kansas City Royals.

Peacock (3-2) allowed three hits and set a career high with 12 strikeouts to help the Astros bounce back after a 12-2 loss Tuesday night. Peacock also rebounded after allowing seven runs in just 3 2/3 innings in his previous start. James struck out five in the last two innings.

“The story of the day for me is the adjustment he made,” manager AJ Hinch said. “His delivery out of the windup has much more rhythm, much more energy. The ball came out better, his execution was better and ultimately his results were better. That’s as good as he’s gotten into a game, and he held it his entire outing. It was an excellent night for him.”

Peacock, who said it was the first time he’d pitch from the windup since 2016, called Wednesday’s start the best of his career.

“What I was doing really wasn’t working too well so I had to make a change,” he said. “I felt really good tonight. I was able to get some rhythm out there and throw my stuff for strikes.”

Kansas City manager Ned Yost said Peacock was tough all night.

“You could tell early on that his stuff was good, his location was good,” he said. “His execution was good. He was keeping his fastball down and away and had a really good slider down and away so you just knew you were in for a battle.”

George Springer and Carlos Correa also homered to give the Astros 16 home runs combined in their past five games.

Springer gave Houston an early lead with his MLB-leading fourth leadoff homer this season and the 28th of his career. It’s the second time this week he’s led off the game with a homer after also doing so in a 6-4 win on Monday.

Houston led 2-0 with one out and one on in the third when Brantley sent a pitch from Jorge Lopez (0-4) into the seats in right field behind the bullpen to make it 4-0.

Correa followed with his shot to straightaway center to give Houston back-to-back homers for the third time this season. Josh Reddick singled before Yuli Gurriel doubled to chase Lopez. He was replaced by Jake Newberry, and Aledmys Diaz’s sacrifice fly scored Reddick to extend the lead to 6-0.

Brantley connected again with two outs in the fourth inning to make it 7-0 and give him his fifth career multihomer game and the first since 2015.

Lopez allowed six hits and six runs while walking three in 2 1/3 innings to remain winless in eight starts this season.

Peacock had allowed just one hit when Terrance Gore and Billy Hamilton hit consecutive singles with one out in the fifth inning. Peacock plunked Whit Merrifield to load the bases, but struck out Adalberto Mondesi and Hunter Dozier to escape the jam.

Those were the first of eight straight batters Peacock retired to end his night. He struck out six in that span, including Martin Maldonado for the first out of the seventh inning. Both Maldonado and Yost were ejected for arguing that strikeout.

MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State head coach Bruce Weber announced the signing of junior college All-American guard and two-time NJCAA national assist leader David Sloan (Louisville, Ky./John A. Logan (Ill.) College) to a Financial Aid Agreement on Tuesday (May 7).

 

A 6-foot, 200-pound point guard, Sloan joins the Wildcats after a two-year stint at John A. Logan College in Cartersville, Illinois, where he led the NJCAA (National Junior College Athletic Association) in assists the past two seasons (2017-19) for the high-scoring Volunteers, which averaged 93.5 points on a 50.5 field goal percentage and 39.6 3-point field goal percentage during that span. The Vols ranked among the NJCAA’s Top 20 in scoring average, field goal percentage and 3-point field goal percentage in both 2017-18 and 2018-19.

 

Sloan, who led the community college ranks in assists in both 2017-18 (304/9.5 apg.) and 2018-19 (326/10.2 apg.), was named a NJCAA honorable mention All-American and the Great Rivers Athletic Conference Player of the Year after leading John A. Logan to a 27-5 overall record and a No. 5 ranking in the final regular season NJCAA Top 25 poll this past season. The Vols posted a 53-11 overall record during Sloan’s two-year playing career, which included a pair of conference titles. He also rates among the top junior college players in the country by several recruiting services, including No. 26 by JucoRecruiting.com and No. 35 by 247Sports.

 

“David is a great addition and we are excited to welcome him and his family to our program,” said Weber. “He gives us an experienced guard who knows how to play and lead his team. He is a high-level passer who can also score. He also comes from a successful and quality community college program led by (head coach) Kyle Smithpeters. We feel that he is a really good fit for us and we are looking forward to getting him to campus.”

 

Coached by Kyle Smithpeters at John A. Logan College, Sloan led the community college ranks in both total assists and assists per game in each of the past two seasons, including 326 total assists and a 10.2 assists per game average as a sophomore in 2018-19. He scored or assisted on 44 percent of the Vols’ total field goals made (2,176) in his career, including averaging a double-double (16.1 ppg., 10.2 apg.) this past season. For his career, he averaged a near double-double with 14.1 points on 49.2 percent (326-of-662) shooting, including 37.9 percent (75-of-198) from 3-point range, with 9.8 assists, 4.6 rebounds and 1.1 steals per game.

 

Sloan collected double-doubles (points/assists) in 24 of his 64 games played at John A. Logan College, which included 16 in 2018-19. He also posted three career triple-doubles (points/rebounds/assists), which included consecutive triple-doubles against Southwestern Illinois (19 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists) and Lake Land (10 points, 10 rebounds, 13 assists) on January 9 and 13 of this year. He dished out double-digit assists in 39 career games, including six games of 15 or more assists and a career and season-high 19 assists in a 137-76 win over Western Kentucky Tech on January 4, 2019.

 

Although known for his playmaking ability, Sloan was also an effective scorer for John A. Logan in his career, registering double figures in 45 of 64 games played, which included a pair of 30-point performances as a sophomore in 2018-19. He scored a career-high 33 points in a win over Three Rivers Community College on December 4, 2018 before totaling 31 in a victory over Olney Central on January 23, 2019.

 

Sloan averaged a double-double as a sophomore in 2018-19, leading the school to a 27-5 overall record, including a 16-2 mark in Great Rivers Athletic Conference play, before losing to conference rival Wabash Valley, 86-84, in the District 16 semifinals. A starter in all 32 games, he averaged 16.1 points on 50 percent (179-of-358) shooting, including 37.1 percent (39-of-105) from 3-point range, with 10.2 assists, 4.5 rebounds and 1.1 steals per game. He posted double-figure points in 26 of the 32 games, including two 30-point games and five more 20-point games, along with 19 double-digit assist games and two triple-doubles.

 

Sloan led the Vols to a 26-6 overall record, including a 15-3 mark in conference, as a freshman in 2017-18. He started 31 of 32 games played, averaging 12.0 points on 48.4 percent (147-of-304) shooting, including 38.7 percent (36-of-93) from 3-point range, with 9.5 assists, 4.8 rebounds and 1.2 steals per game.

 

A native of Louisville, Sloan spent three years (2013-16) at Taylor County High School in Campbellsville, Kentucky before following his coach, Rick Gatewood, to 22 Feet Academy in Anderson, South Carolina for his senior season in 2016-17. He led the Taylor County Cardinals to an 80-20 (.800) overall record and consecutive Sweet 16 appearances (2015, 2016) in the state tournament, averaging 20 points on 47.9 percent shooting, including 42.9 percent from 3-point range, as a junior in 2015-16.

 

Sloan is the fourth member of the 2018-19 signing class, joining high school standouts Antonio Gordon (Lawton, Okla./Eisenhower), DaJuan Gordon (Chicago, Ill./Curie Metropolitan) and Montavious Murphy (Houston, Texas/Concordia Lutheran) who signed with the Wildcats during the Fall Signing Period in November. The school still has one scholarship opening for the 2019-20 season.

 

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TOM GILBERT
Director for Men’s Basketball Communications | K-State Athletics
 

 

By Dewey Terrill

JC Post

Junction City High School junior Elisa Robinson is a member of Team Kansas National in USA Wrestling.

While wrestling for JCHS Robinson has won championships for three consecutive years in a girls wresting tournament hosted at McPherson High School. That has been considered the unofficial girls state wrestling tournament, but for the 2019-2020 for the first time the Kansas State High School Activities Association has authorized a new state tournament to be held in Salina in February at the Tony’

On her national team experience Robinson said the girls on the team are from across Kansas. “We meet up to wrestle at national tournaments. We support each other and do all these great things. ” Robinson has traveled with the team to multiple states including Texas, Oklahoma, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois Colorado and North Dakota.

Robinson began wrestling in the seventh grade and has competed with the Blue Jay boys team the past three seasons. This next season she will have an opportunity to compete in the KSHSAA sanctioned girls state wrestling tournament.

 

 

The Chapman Irish boys track team produced five first place finishes in a quadrangular hosted by Wamego on Friday.

Shaun Blocker won the 400 meters in 52.14, Aaron Modrow the 800 meters in 2:04.97 and the 1600 meters in 4:41.65, Mitchell Tiller the pole vault with a vault of 12’6″ and Blake Vercher the long jump at 21’3.5.” Also for the Irish Dalton Harvey finished second in the discus with a throw of 126’6″ and third in the shot put at 41’7.25,” Kel Stroud second in the shot put 45’11.5,” Blake Vercher second in the 400 meters in 52.42, Eli Winder third in the triple jump at 37’8.25,” the 4 x 400 relay team of Eli Winder, Brandon Colston, Aaron Modrow and Shaun Blocker third in 3:37.42m and the 4 x 800 relay team of Shaun Blocker, Brandon Colston, JP Mitchell and Eli Winder third in 8:58.57.

For the Chapman girls team Taylor Briggs won the 1600 meters in 5:16.71 and finished second in the 800 meters in 2:28.98. McKenna Kirkpatrick won the triple jump at 33’10” and finished second in the long jump at 16’/25.” Finishing second were Macy Bliss in the discus with a throw of 84’5.” Madeline Elliott in the 3200 meters in 12:54.62 and Peyton Suther in the javelin with a throw of 106’6.” Suther also finished third in the high jump at 5’0.’ FInishing third were Marie Meuli in the long jump at 14’0″ and the 4 x 100 relay team of Shannon Anderson, McKenna Kirkpatrick, Peyton Suther, and Marie Meuli in 53.0.”

DETROIT (AP) — After being humiliated by the Kansas City Royals a day earlier, the Detroit Tigers were focused on redemption Sunday.

It came via one of the lesser-known members of the roster.

Journeyman Brandon Dixon, only in the majors due to a series of injuries, hit a three-run homer in the 10th inning to lift the Tigers over the Royals 5-2.

“That’s an unreal feeling,” Dixon said after his first career walkoff homer. “After yesterday, it felt so good to come around third and see the whole team waiting for me at the plate.”

The victory came less than 24 hours after the Tigers allowed 15 runs on 19 hits and 10 walks in a 15-3 loss.

“Obviously, that’s a game that can linger in the mind,” Tigers manager Ron Gardenhire said. “I told our guys to let it sting overnight, but once they threw the first pitch today, it had to be gone.”

Nicholas Castellanos started the 10th with an infield single off Ian Kennedy (0-1), and after Miguel Cabrera popped out, Niko Goodrum reached on another infield hit.

Ronny Rodriguez struck out, but Dixon hit a 1-2 curveball over the fence in right-center field.

“Kennedy was throwing fastballs on the corner, so I was really trying to protect the outside corner,” Dixon said. “But that curveball popped out of his hand, and I was able to get a good read on it.”

Kennedy wanted the ball in the dirt.

“I felt like the only bad pitch was that last curveball,” he said. “I meant to bounce it, but I didn’t think he would hit it out. I can’t remember the last time I gave up a homer on a curveball.”

Buck Farmer (2-2) got the win after retiring the last batter in the top of the 10th.

The Tigers led 2-1 going into the eighth and Joe Jimenez struck out the first two Royals, but Hunter Dozier hit his eighth homer over the right field wall to tie it.

Neither starter got a decision. Detroit’s Spencer Turnbull gave up one run in seven innings on six hits and a walk. He struck out seven.

“I felt really good with all my pitches today, and I felt like my slider was really good,” he said. “The best part was getting through seven for the first time this season.”

Brad Keller allowed two runs, six hits and five walks in 5 1/3 innings.

The Royals started the second inning with three straight hits, with Kelvin Gutierrez driving home Jorge Soler for a 1-0 lead. Turnbull escaped the inning without further damage.

JaCoby Jones led off the third with a double, Jeimer Candelario walked and Castellanos tied it with a single off Gutierrez’s glove at third. The Tigers still had runners on second and third with none out, but Keller struck out Cabrera and Goodrum before retiring Rodriguez to get out of the inning.

“Keller was really effective up in the zone today,” Yost said. “He was really, really good up there.”

Cabrera made it 2-1 with an RBI single in the fifth, and the Tigers loaded the bases with one out in the sixth. Scott Barlow replaced Keller and struck out Jones and Candelario.