LAWRENCE, Kan. – Brandon Schneider, who has led Stephen F. Austin women’s basketball to the 2014 and 2015 Southland Conference regular-season titles, has been named head women’s basketball coach at the University of Kansas.

Schneider will be formally announced at a press conference scheduled for Tuesday, April 21 at 10 a.m., in the Allen Fieldhouse media room.

In five seasons at SFA, Schneider’s teams have won 95 games and reached postseason play three times, including an appearance in the championship game of the 2014 Women’s Basketball Invitational.

Before going to SFA, Schneider won 306 games and the 2010 NCAA Division II National Championship at Emporia State University in Kansas. He led the Lady Hornets to 11 NCAA tournament appearances in his 12 seasons in Emporia, winning 81 percent of his games there. In addition to the 2010 NCAA Championship, his Lady Hornets reached the Division II Final Four in 1999, two Elite Eights (2000 and 2006) and three Sweet 16’s (2001, 2005, 2008).

Schneider is a 1995 graduate of Wayland Baptist University and was a four-year letterman in basketball. He came to coaching naturally: His father, Bob, won more than 1,000 women’s basketball games in a coaching career that spanned 43 years, and coached West Texas A&M to the NCAA Division II Championship game in 1988.

“Brandon is an excellent fit for the University of Kansas,” said KU Athletics Director Sheahon Zenger. “He is an exceptional teacher, and someone who has spent his entire career in Kansas and Texas. He is known as a terrific recruiter and a firm, knowledgeable coach. And we know he has coaching in his blood, having watched his dad have so much success for so many years. We are confident that Brandon’s teams at KU will display the same tenacity and competitiveness that his teams have shown at Emporia State and Stephen F. Austin.”

Schneider and his wife, Ali, have two sons, Cash and Cole.

OMAHA -Former KSU guard Marcus Foster confirmed on Sunday he will transfer to Creighton University in Omaha. Foster will have two seasons of eligibility left after sitting out next season..

Foster wrote on Twitter –

Time to get back to work! Officially a Creighton Blue Jay

MANHATTAN, Kan. – The K-State baseball team produced double-digit hits on Sunday against No. 19 Texas Tech, but three unanswered Red Raider runs and 12 Wildcats left on base helped result in K-State dropping the

series finale, 4-1, at Tointon Family Stadium.

Despite out-hitting Texas Tech, 10-9, the Wildcats (18-20, 5-10) could not produce an RBI as they matched their season-high in runners left on base. K-State put at least one runner on in eight of the nine innings, but came away empty seven times after going 1-for-8 with runners in scoring position. Three of the dozen stranded runners came in the fifth when K-State loaded the bases with one out but failed to score.

“We just couldn’t get the big hit today,” said K-State head coach Brad Hill. “Huge momentum swing in the fifth when we had the bases loaded and didn’t get the big hit. Then we just had a lot of things inside the game that we didn’t do very well that took some runs off the board.”

The bullpen duo of Corey Taylor and Dominic Moreno for Texas Tech (25-15, 9-6 Big 12) held K-State scoreless for 7 1/3 innings. Taylor, who entered the game after the Wildcats scored their only run via a balk in the second, scattered four hits and struck out three to earn the win. Moreno, meanwhile, notched a 4 2/3-inning save after he fanned six Wildcats and surrendered three hits.

K-State starting pitcher Nate Griep, in his first outing since April 4 vs. West Virginia, allowed two runs on five hits and two walks in five innings. The redshirt sophomore surrendered a home run to Tyler Neslony, Griep’s first homer allowed this season, to lead off the second that gave Texas Tech a 1-0 lead, and in the fourth, an inning-opening double by Stephen Smith resulted in a run on a sacrifice fly two batters later by Eric Gutierrez that made it 2-1. Griep, who leads K-State with 43 strikeouts this season, also struck out four, including two in the fifth to help him escape a jam with a pair of runners on and nobody out.

“When you pitch every other week, or two weeks, it’s hard to be sharp,” said Hill about Griep. “He labored, threw a lot of pitches (90), but he is still a competitor. He sure gave us a chance.”

After Griep was spelled by Levi MaVorhis to start the sixth, Texas Tech rattled off three hits against the K-State junior to add a pair of insurance runs. Both runs scored with two outs when a single by Orlando Garcia snuck through the left-side to plate Gutierrez and Michael Davis to make it 4-1 Texas Tech.

Despite the two runs in the sixth, the K-State bullpen did not allow any more runs over the final 3 1/3 innings. Lucas Benenati, who left an inherited runner from MaVorhis on base to end the sixth, allowed just one hit over his 1 1/3 innings. Both Bryce Ward and Jordan Floyd worked perfect innings, with Floyd throwing the eighth and Ward striking out one in the ninth.

The K-State offense featured four different players with multi-hit efforts as Max Brown, Shane Conlon, Clayton Dalrymple and Jake Wodtke each had two hits. All 10 of the Wildcats’ hits were singles, including two in the ninth when K-State managed to bring the game-tying run to the plate in Brown, who hit into a fielder’s choice at third with runners on first and second to end the game.

Brown’s two hits helped him, though, extend his on-base streak a career-high 12 games, which is the longest active streak by a Wildcat.

The lone K-State run was scored by Tyler Moore, who led off the second with a single down the right field line. The junior advanced to third on Wodtke’s single to right and then forced Texas Tech starting pitcher Dylan Dusek to balk as he broke for home during Dusek’s windup with Carter Yagi at the plate.

Following seven straight games at home, K-State will now play its next six on the road, beginning with a trip to Lincoln to face Nebraska on April 21 at 6:35 p.m.

Release from Chris Kutz, Assistant Director, Athletics Communications

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Kansas City Royals overcame five ejections to beat the Oakland Athletics 4-2 Sunday behind Kendrys Morales’ tie breaking two-run double in a three-run eighth inning.

Royals manager Ned Yost and pitching coach Dave Eiland were ejected in the first inning after Lorenzo Cain was hit by a Scott Kazmir pitch and both teams were issued a warning by plate umpire Greg Gibson. After the warning was issued Sunday, Yost came out to argue and was immediately ejected by Gibson.

In the eighth inning, Royals reliever Kelvin Herrera was ejected after throwing behind Brett Lawrie. Bench coach Don Wakamatsu, who was acting as manager after Yost’s ejection, also ejected during the argument along with injured Royals shortstop Alcides Escobar.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Josh Reddick hit a three-run homer, Jesse Hahn and Jesse Chavez combined for a seven-hitter, and the Oakland Athletics rolled to a 5-0 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Saturday night.

Yordano Ventura (2-1) gave up all five runs in the fourth inning, right before hitting A’s third baseman Brett Lawrie with what appeared to be a retaliatory pitch for an incident the previous night.

Stephen Vogt and former Royals designated hitter Billy Butler each drove in a run for Oakland, and Hahn (1-1) scattered three hits and a walk over 5 1-3 innings before leaving with a blister on the middle finger of his pitching hand.

Chavez then picked him up with 3 2-3 innings for the save, completing the fifth shutout by Oakland in its first 12 games.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Royals have put closer Greg Holland on the 15-day disabled list because of a strained right pectoral muscle.

The Royals made the move before Saturday night’s game against Oakland.

Holland has four saves this season and has not allowed a hit in four scoreless innings. He has been an All-Star the last two years.

Holland had 46 saves last year in the regular season, then earned seven more in the postseason for the AL champions.

The Royals recalled right-hander Yohan Pino from Triple-A Omaha. He pitched seven scoreless innings and allowed one hit with no walks and six strikeouts last Sunday at New Orleans.

The 31-year-old Pino was 2-5 with a 5.07 ERA in 11 starts last season with the Minnnesota Twins.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Yordano Ventura has been ejected from Kansas City’s game against Oakland after hitting A’s third baseman Brett Lawrie with what appeared to be a retaliatory pitch.

Lawrie drew the ire of the Royals the previous night when he slid hard and late into Alcides Escobar at second base. Escobar wound up with a sprained left knee in the collision.

Ventura had already been pounded for five runs in the fourth inning when Lawrie stepped to the plate Saturday night. Ventura uncorked a fastball that hit Lawrie on the left elbow, and plate umpire Jim Joyce immediately ejected the hard-throwing right-hander from the game.

Both benches and bullpens emptied for the second straight night. No punches were thrown.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Royals shortstop Alcides Escobar was helped off the field without putting weight on his left leg Friday night after Oakland’s Brett Lawrie slid into him in a play at second base.

Josh Reddick had lined a pitch off pitcher Kelvin Herrera with one out in the seventh inning, and it bounced toward third baseman Mike Moustakas. He shoveled the ball to Escobar at second, and Lawrie slid late, crossing over the bag and crunching into Escobar’s leg.

Moustakas immediately signaled for the Royals’ training staff, and angry Kansas City players flooded the field. Lawrie was escorted to the dugout by his teammates.

The Royals said Escobar had a sprained knee along with bruising, and would be day to day. He was replaced by Christian Colon in the lineup.

The Junction City Lady Jays ( 3-5 ) played Shawnee Heights close, but fell to the Thunderbirds in both ends of a doubleheader 9-7 and 4-2 Friday night.

Lady Jay coach Jeff Childs thought his team played well, but just came out on the short end.

“They did great tonight. We competed.” Childs noted his team played defense and hit the ball. Brittany Childs had a home run and Livi Diestelkamp a triple for Junction City.

The Lady Jays host Washburn Rural on Tuesday.