The Junction City Blue Jays got shutout pitching from Xavier DeGuzman and Charlie Peyla to defeat the Seaman Vikings 4-0 in game two of a baseball doubleheader at Rathert Field.  The Vikings won game one 7-3 after scoring five runs in the top of the 6th inning.

Junction City coach Drew Biery noted the Vikings were a good team.”The way that we competed for both games is exciting to see.”

Biery praised his team’s determination. “And the grind and the grit that we had in that second game just to try to outlast them until we got our opportunity, we took advantage of it. I’m really, really proud of our guys.

The Blue Jays, 7-7, play at Manhattan on Friday.

CLEVELAND (AP) – Kendry Morales’ three-run homer capped a six-run seventh inning and the Kansas City Royals beat the Cleveland Indians 11-5 on Tuesday night.

Kansas City’s big inning came after Cleveland had taken a 5-3 lead on Brandon Moss’ three-run homer in the sixth.

Alcides Escobar’s two-run double off Scott Atchison (0-1) tied the game. Escobar scored the go-ahead run from second on Mike Moustakas’ infield hit and Morales later hit his third homer of the season to dead center off Bryan Shaw.

Brandon Finnegan (1-0) picked up his first career win despite allowing Moss’ home run.

Alex Gordon homered and drove in two runs for the Royals, who had a season-high 18 hits.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Chiefs and team president Mark Donovan have agreed to a contract extension.

Terms of the deal, announced Tuesday, were not disclosed.

Donovan spent six years with the Eagles before joining the Chiefs as their chief operating officer in 2009. He was promoted to president two years later.

Donovan has been instrumental in updating the fan experience at Arrowhead Stadium, creating new membership programs, implementing new technology and building the season-ticket base. He has also helped to bring several events to the Chiefs’ stadium, including numerous college football games and concerts involving the Rolling Stones and Kenny Chesney.

Before joining the Eagles, Donovan spent several years working as the NFL’s senior director of sales and marketing. He also worked for the NHL and in the private sector.

CLEVELAND (AP) – Royals pitcher Edinson Volquez has dropped his appeal of a five-game suspension for his involvement in a brawl with the Chicago White Sox last week. He is among four Royals players suspended for their actions in the fight last Thursday. Pitcher Yordano Ventura was given a seven-game penalty, and outfielder Lorenzo Cain and reliever Kelvin Herrera received two-game bans. All the players initially appealed.

Chicago pitchers Chris Sale and Jeff Samardzjia (suh-MAHR’-juh) were each suspended five games.

MANHATTAN, Kan. – Hitting over .400 in his first four career starts and helping K-State win its first ever series at Baylor, freshman Sam Chadick was named Big 12 Co-Newcomer of the Week for the period ending April 26, the conference office announced. Chadick shared the honor with KU pitcher Ben Krauth.

A product of Blue Valley Northwest (KS) High School, Chadick hit .438 (7-for-16) with five RBIs, a walk and a run scored over four games last week. The outfielder had a two-hit effort in each of the three contests in the Baylor series, including a 2-for-4 performance with an RBI in the middle game of the set in which K-State won, 5-3. In the series-clinching victory on Sunday, Chadick drove in the game-tying run with a bases-loaded walk in the eighth before driving in an insurance run in the ninth with a bunt single to help the Wildcats win, 6-3.

Chadick, who had appeared in his first 16 games this season off the bench, made his first career start on April 21 at Nebraska. He drove in two runs in the non-conference matchup with a two-out single in the eighth inning that gave him his first multi-RBI effort of his career.

For the week, Chadick was among the Big 12’s top-10 in RBIs (T-4th), batting average (T-5th) and hits (T-8th).

Chadick is the fourth Wildcat to garner a Big 12 weekly award this season and third to earn the newcomer of the week honor. Tyler Moore (March 9) and Tyler Wolfe (April 13) were the other Wildcats to pick up newcomer of the week accolades, giving K-State its most newcomer honors in a single season in program history. Max Brown, meanwhile, was named player of the week on April 13.

K-State (20-22, 7-11 Big 12) will wrap up its current six-game road swing with a two-game midweek series at Minnesota. First game of the set is on Tuesday at 6:35 p.m.

Release from Chris Kutz, Assistant Director, Athletics Communications

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) – Kansas quarterback Michael Cummings will have surgery on his left knee, which he injured over the weekend during the annual spring football game.

Coach David Beaty said Cummings, a senior, will get back on the field “as quickly as possible” but did not provide a specific timeline.

Even though he was wearing a red jersey to prevent getting hit, Cummings was tackled by senior safety Michael Glatczak in the second quarter of Saturday’s game.

Beaty called the tackle a “freak accident.” He says Glatczak was being blocked and was turned around for most of the play. He says Glatczak turned and made the tackle “without having any idea who was carrying the ball. He is a great kid, a great teammate and again it was just a very unfortunate accident.”

WACO, Texas – The K-State baseball team erased a 3-1 deficit with five unanswered runs after the seventh inning to earn its first series win in program history at Baylor by beating the Bears, 6-3, on Sunday at Baylor Ballpark.

The Wildcats (20-22, 7-11 Big 12), which also picked up their first Big 12 road series win since 2013, scored their final five runs over their last two at-bats by taking advantage of two of Baylor’s five errors in the game along with two hit by pitches, three walks and four hits.

While the offense made the most of the miscues by Baylor (17-26, 6-12 Big 12), freshman Bryce Ward led a bullpen contingent of four pitchers by throwing a career-high 6 1/3 innings and allowing just one run on three hits and one unintentional walk. The right-hander, who had not thrown more than three innings in any of his previous 16 outings this season, entered the game in the first after Baylor scored two runs off starter Brandon Erickson. Ward went on to not surrender a run until his final inning of work in the seventh.

“It all starts with Bryce Ward coming in and holding that thing to two runs and not letting it get to three or four runs in the first inning,” said K-State head coach Brad Hill. “All you saw after that was a trail of zeros. The bullpen was the story today.”

Jackson Douglas, Jordan Floyd and Brandon Courville stymied the Bears as well, with the trio combining for 2 1/3 shutout innings. After Douglas stranded a pair of inherited runners on the corners in the seventh with a strikeout to end the inning, Floyd tossed a scoreless eighth before Courville registered his first career save with an unblemished ninth. Courville induced a game-ending fly out to Mitch Price, who represented the potential game-tying as runners were on the corners.

Freshman Sam Chadick led all Wildcats with two RBIs, giving him five in his last four games. Both of the left fielder’s RBIs came in the final two innings, the first being on a bases-loaded walk that tied the game at 3-3 in eighth and the second providing an insurance run in the ninth on a squeeze play that plated Tyler Moore to make it 6-3. Since making his first career start on April 21 at Nebraska, Chadick has gone 7-for-16 (.438) with three multi-hit games.

In addition to Chadick, two other Wildcats, Clayton Dalrymple and Steve Serratore, also had multi-hit efforts to help K-State tally nine total hits. While Dalrymple had two of the Wildcats’ first three hits, Serratore used the first of his two hits to drive in K-State’s first run in the sixth. Serratore hit an RBI double off Baylor starter Daniel Castano to drive in Max Brown, who also reached with a double two batters earlier, to cut the Bears’ lead in half, 2-1. Brown’s double snapped a stretch of 11 straight Wildcats retired by the sophomore Castano.

“The kids hung in there,” said Hill. “We let (Castano) off the hook by leaving the zone a couple times with runners on and didn’t score. I was concerned on how they would respond, but it was a total team effort.”

The Bears regained their two-run lead in the seventh when a leadoff double by Hayden Ross resulted in a run on a single by Ben Carl off Ward. The two hits by the Bears in the frame represented two of their three hits from the second through the seventh inning.

The Wildcats quickly responded to Baylor’s run when they drew three walks and two hit by pitches thrown by Baylor reliever Brad Kuntz. The left-hander, who suffered the loss after being responsible for three runs in one inning, allowed the first run to score when Baylor second baseman Steven McLean made a throwing error on a double-play attempt to allow pinch-runner Carter Yagi to score and make it 3-2 Baylor. After back-to-back hit by pitches, Kuntz issued the bases-loaded walk to Chadick that evened the game at 3-3.

Brown drove in the eventual game-winning run in the ninth with a sacrifice fly that scored Tyler Wolfe, who started the frame with a double into right field. The Wildcats added another run when the next batter, Tyler Moore, hit a grounder to shortstop Hayden Ross, who made an errant throw to third base in attempt to put out Yagi moving from second to third. The throw sailed near the Bears dugout as Yagi quickly rounded third to score on the error.

Erickson did not factor into the decision in his first career start after he allowed four straight hits that resulted in two runs in the first inning. The right-hander was only able to record one out among the five batters he faced.

The Wildcats will end their six-game road swing with a two-game series at Minnesota. First game of the set is on Tuesday at 6:35 p.m.

NOTES

The series win was K-State’s first in a Big 12 set on the road since May 10-12, 2013 at Kansas. The Wildcats had lost six straight conference road series, including the first two this season at Texas and Oklahoma State.

Max Brown, who reached base safely twice with a double and walk, extended his on-base streak to a career-high 16 games. It is the second-longest on-base streak by a Wildcat this season, trailing Shane Conlon’s 22 consecutive games.

The win was K-State’s second this season when trailing after seven innings. The first was 12 days ago against Wichita State at home when the Wildcats came back from a 4-3 deficit to win 5-4 in 10 innings. Last season, K-State was 1-25 when trailing after seven innings. This season, 2-17.

Release and photo from Chris Kutz, Assistant Director, Athletics Communications

KANSAS CITY, Kan. – Kansas State head coach Bill Snyder announced prior to Saturday’s Purple/White Spring Game at Sporting Park that five seniors – offensive lineman Cody Whitehair, safety Dante Barnett, defensive lineman Travis Britz, cornerback Morgan Burns and wide receiver/special teams player Stanton Weber – have been chosen by their teammates to serve as captains for the 2015 season.

Barnett is a captain for a second-consecutive season, while the other four are first-time captains. Whitehair, a Second Team All-Big 12 performer each of the last two seasons, has started 38 of his 39 career games, including every game at left tackle a season ago. The versatile lineman also started all 13 games at left guard in 2013 and played both left guard and right tackle en route to Freshman All-America honors in K-State’s Big 12 Championship season of 2012.

Barnett is member of the 2015 Lott IMPACT Trophy watch list after picking up Second Team All-Big 12 honors last season. As a junior, Barnett totaled 77 tackles, including four for loss, three interceptions and a total of 11 passes defended. He will spearhead a secondary in 2015 that returns three starters in Burns and cornerback Danzel McDaniel.

A two-time Honorable Mention All-Big 12 player, Britz started the first 10 games of 2014 and totaled 27 tackles, including five for loss and three sacks, before an injury cut his season short. He enters his senior campaign with a school-record tying five blocked kicks.

Burns, a first-time starter in 2014, started 12 games at cornerback as a junior. He came away with 55 tackles, including three for loss and a sack last season, while picking off three passes, including two against Texas Tech.

A key special teams contributor each of the last three seasons, Weber has made 12 career special teams tackles over his last 33 games. A two-time First Team Academic All-Big 12 performer, Weber had a career-best two special teams stops against both Iowa State and Oklahoma State in 2014 while also seeing time as a reserve at wide receiver.

Kansas State returns 45 letterwinners, including 16 starters, from last year’s team that went 9-4 and earned a bowl berth for a fifth-straight season. Led by its 24th-year head coach in Snyder, K-State begins the 2015 season on Saturday, September 5, as the Wildcats host South Dakota at Bill Snyder Family Stadium. The remaining six home games feature five opponents that advanced to bowl games in 2014, including a pair of top-10 teams in TCU (No. 3/3) and Baylor (No. 7/8).

A limited number of single-game tickets for the 2015 season go on sale online only at www.k-statesports.com/tickets on June 22, while fans can purchase by calling the ticket office at 1-800-221-CATS beginning June 24.

CHICAGO (AP) – Conor Gillaspie hit a two-run single in Chicago’s five-run sixth inning, and the White Sox rallied to beat Kansas City 5-3 for their second win against the Royals on Sunday.

The day began with Avisail Garcia’s two-out RBI single sending Chicago to a 3-2 victory in the resumption of a game suspended by rain on Friday night. Then an error on Kansas City third baseman Mike Moustakas helped the White Sox chase Edinson Volquez on the way to just their second win in six games this season against the Royals.

John Danks (1-2) pitched six innings of three-run ball while improving to 8-1 in 18 career starts against Kansas City. David Robertson (2-0) got three outs for his third save in three opportunities after he tossed a scoreless inning for the win in the suspended game.