Registration for Junction City’s Junior Baseball summer teams will be held Monday April 13 through Friday April 17th from 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the JCJBA Baseball Academy located east of the Goodwill store on W 6th Street.

You can also register on Saturday April 18th from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m..

Leagues include:

5-6 years old – Instructional League $35

7-8 years old – Pinto League $55 (Machine Pitch)

9-10 years old – Mustang League $55

11-13 years old – Bronco League $55

(Player’s age of 30 April, 2015. Players may play up.)

14-18 years old – Pony League $60

(Pony players cannot turn 18 before 1 September, 2014)

This year players will be participating in a fundraiser event. This years event will be a Sloppy Joe fundraiser.

Players can choose from two options: 1) Each player sells five tickets to the fundraiser. Money will be collected during the JCJBA Opening Ceremony.

2) In lieu of selling tickets, an additional $15/player will be added to the registration fee, and that player will receive three tickets for their personal use.

For more information contact Jim Poole at 210-5621 or jimpoole14@yahoo.com.

The National Football League officially announced its 2015 preseason schedule on Thursday.

 

The Kansas City Chiefs will kick off their preseason slate on the road vs. the Arizona Cardinals at University of Phoenix Stadium. The club will then return home to Arrowhead Stadium for two consecutive contests, the first against the NFC Champion Seattle Seahawks followed by a matchup against the Tennessee Titans. To close out the preseason, Kansas City will travel to St. Louis to take on its cross-state rival, the Rams, in a battle for the Governor’s Cup. Dates and times will be announced as soon as they are finalized.

The Abilene Cowboys defeated the Junction City Blue Jays 6-3 in a boys tennis dual at the JCHS courts on Thursday.

Coach Matthew  Micheel reported that the Blue Jays were victorious in one doubles with Neil Glaser and David Graham, and in three doubles with Grant Whaley and Korbin King. Jordan Bailey also won in six singles for Junction City.

In the dual the best of nine matches wins the overall team competition.

Junction City will compete in the All-Comers Meet in Topeka on Saturday.

 

Wichita Northwest overpowered the Junction City Lady Jay soccer team 11-1 Thursday night at Al Simpler Stadium.

Drew Proctor, Junction City coach, said Wichita Northwest is a good team. “Combined you could just tell that they had a ton of experience, a ton of players that had returned from last year. Just all around very technically skilled, very well coached. They knew exactly what they wanted to do with the ball before it even got to them. They do the little things right, which we kind of struggled with tonight.”

Despite the loss, Junction City is 3-3 on the season.

The Lady Jays play at Hays on Monday.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Edinson Volquez dazzled for eight innings in his Royals debut, Lorenzo Cain made a pair of spectacular catches after driving in a run, and Kansas City beat the Chicago White Sox 4-1 Thursday to finish a season-opening sweep.

Salvador Perez added a two-run homer, Kendrys Morales also drove in a run and the AL champion Royals improved to 3-0 for the first time since an opening sweep of Detroit in 2008.

Volquez (1-0) allowed four hits, including Alexei Ramirez’s RBI single, in validating the $20 million, two-year deal he signed in the offseason. Volquez struck out five while walking one.

Greg Holland worked a perfect ninth for his second save in less than 24 hours.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The White Sox and Royals were delayed for nearly 5 minutes in the first inning Thursday when the phone system that allows the managers to call from their dugouts went down.

Royals spokesman Mike Swanson said both teams were affected by the outage, which prevented the managers from contacting their bullpens or their replay officials.

Chief umpire Jerry Layne signaled for the game to continue after the delay of 4 minutes, 31 seconds, even though the phone system at Kauffman Stadium was still down.

White Sox manager Robin Ventura and Royals manager Ned Yost agreed that they would challenge any call based only on what they saw, or if a courier can run quickly enough between their instant replay stations up the tunnel and their respective dugout.

PAPILLION, Neb. – A career-high three RBIs by Tyler Wolfe, including the go-ahead RBI in the top of the seventh, along with three hits each from Max Brown and Steve Serratore led K-State to a 10-2 win at Omaha on unnamed (20)Wednesday at Werner Park.

The K-State offense had 12 hits, including eight after the sixth inning, to help it score double-digit runs in a true road game for the first time this season. The victory also helped the Wildcats (14-17) snap their three-game losing streak.

“We needed (this win) really bad,” said K-State head coach Brad Hill. “You could feel the tension and see the stress. Tonight was big. You hope you can carry momentum into the weekend, but you always feel good getting the win.”

Brown’s three hits matched his career-high while Serratore’s trio of safeties established a career-best. For Wolfe, it was his second multi-RBI game of the season and first since March 10 vs. Creighton.

With the Wildcat offense out-hitting Omaha, 12-7, the K-State pitching staff worked around a two-run fifth that tied the game at 2-2 to hold the Mavericks (15-14) scoreless over the final four innings. Lucas Benenati led the group of Wildcat relievers by throwing two shutout innings and allowing one hit while striking out three.

“Benenati was outstanding,” said Hill. “He really dominated on the mound and did a great job for us.”

K-State starting pitcher Mark Biesma blanked Omaha through his first 4 2/3 innings, stranding three runners, but in the fifth, the right-hander allowed back-to-back hitters to reach with two outs via a walk and double. Biesma was lifted from the game in favor of Brandon Erickson with runners on second and third, but the junior right-hander issued back-to-back walks and a hit by pitch to even the score at 2-2.

Biesma finished the game charged with two runs on five hits and one walk while striking out two. The outing was his longest of the season, besting his 3.0-inning effort in his last start on March 11 vs. Creighton.

“I thought Biesma was really, really good,” said Hill. “He gave us a good start, and we needed him to get deeper into the game, beyond that three-inning mark.”

Despite watching its early two-run lead disappear, K-State answered in the seventh with Wolfe’s RBI bloop single into shallow center field that scored Carter Yagi and made it 3-2 K-State. Yagi set up the situation by drawing a two-out walk and stealing second base, one of two steals by the Wildcats in the game.

In the eighth, K-State broke out for its second-highest scoring inning of the season when it scored six runs after sending nine hitters to the plate. Three straight singles to open the inning ignited the crooked frame, with a bases-loaded walk by Keith Browning, a two-run single by Clayton Dalrymple and an RBI single by Yagi driving in the first four runs. Wolfe, with Dalrymple on third and Yagi on second, cleared the bases with a two-run squeeze bunt that made it 9-2.

The Wildcats capped their scoring in the eighth when Brown led off the frame with the second of his two doubles and Serratore drove him in with a single into left field.

K-State scored its first two runs with the benefit of the leadoff batter reaching in the fourth and fifth innings. Shane Conlon, who led off the fourth with a bunt single, scored on a sacrifice fly by Alex Bee. In the fifth, Dalrymple reached with the first of his two hits and scored on Omaha’s lone error of the game when Wolfe hit a line drive that bounced out of the first baseman Alex Mortensen’s glove.

In addition to the 12 hits, K-State drew five walks, led by two by Yagi to match his season-high. The first two Wildcat batters reached with a walk in the second and third innings.

K-State pitchers, meanwhile, had 10 strikeouts, matching its season-high first set on February 28 at Cal. Erickson matched Benenati with a team-high three punchouts while Mitch Plassmeyer struck out two in a 1-2-3 bottom of the ninth.

K-State returns back to action at home when it hosts TCU from April 10-12 at Tointon Family Stadium. Game one of the three-game set is on Friday at 6:30 p.m.

NOTES

The 10 runs by K-State were its most in a true road game since scoring 10 in a win at Wichita State on May 6, 2014.

Wednesday marked the 12th time this season K-State had double-digit hits in a game.

The Wildcats are 8-1 all-time against Omaha.

Release from Chris Kutz, Assistant Director, Athletics Communication

MANHATTAN, Kan. – The K-State baseball team fought back from an early deficit and forced the game into 10 innings against No. 23 Nebraska, but the Wildcats surrendered a two-out RBI single in extras to fall, 5-4, on

Tuesday at Tointon Family Stadium.

 

K-State (13-17, 2-7 Big 12) trailed by three runs after the top of the second and third innings, but by holding Nebraska (24-10, 3-3 Big Ten) scoreless for six straight frames and scoring three runs in the sixth, the Wildcats took the contest into their second extra-inning game of the season.

 

The Wildcats had the go-ahead run in scoring position in the eighth and ninth innings, but a pop-out in the eighth and back-to-back outs in the ninth left the Wildcats scoreless. K-State finished 3-for-13 with runners in scoring position while Nebraska was 3-for-9.

 

It was the third straight loss for K-State after it lost the final two games of the series against West Virginia last weekend. In the series finale vs. the Mountaineers, K-State left the go-ahead run on base in the eighth and surrendered the game-winning hit in the ninth to lose, 3-2.

 

“We just didn’t get it done again,” said K-State head coach Brad Hill. “We got the leadoff hit in the bottom of the ninth, sacrificed him over and got two shots at it. You just felt like we were going to get a walk-off win.”

 

K-State had 10 hits in the game, led by two apiece from Tyler Moore and Taylor Anderson. Both Moore and Anderson used one of their two hits to drive in runs in the sixth, with Anderson’s RBI single plating Moore to tie the game at 4-4. Moore preceded Anderson by hitting a hustle double into center to score Shane Conlon, who along with Tyler Wolfe ignited the rally with back-to-back singles to start the inning.

 

Moore led K-State with two RBIs, with his first being registered in the second on a single that drove in Steve Serratore and made it 3-1 Nebraska. Moore is tied with Max Brown for the team-lead in RBIs this season with 19.

 

“I thought we did a great job of coming back tonight,” said Hill. “The guys fought back much better offensively. We had 10 hits and another four or five balls hit really well. Hopefully that’s a sign of some things to come.”

 

Nebraska reliever Jake Hohensee picked up the win after throwing a scoreless ninth despite allowing a hit and an intentional walk. The right-hander surrendered a leadoff single to Anderson and then issued a free pass to pinch-hitter Alex Bee before inducing a fly out by Carter Yagi and fielder’s choice by Wolfe.

 

K-State freshman Bryce Ward tossed a perfect top half of the ninth, but in the 10th, he allowed two infield singles among the first four batters he faced to set up Tyler Lubach’s game-winning RBI single into left field. The base hit by Lubach was one of his game-high five. Meanwhile, the loss for Ward was his first of the season.

 

Nebraska’s Josh Roeder earned the save after working around a two-out walk to Serratore in the 10th. For Roeder, it was his team-leading 10th save of the season.

MANHATTAN-  Another member of the Kansas State University basketball team is reportedly leaving the team

 

Nigel Johnson posted a tweet just before 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday saying he is leaving K-State.

Johnson started 7 games for the Wildcats and played in 32 games this season.

After much deliberation, I say farewell. Thank you to my KSU coaches, my teammates, KSU community, to all my fans & supporters. #EMAW

— Nigel Johnson (@TakingFlight_23) April 8, 2015

 

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) – Kansas forward Cliff Alexander said Tuesday he is foregoing his three remaining years of eligibility and will enter the NBA draft.

“I talked this over with my mom and dad and we decided the timing was right for me to enter the NBA draft,” Alexander said in a statement. “Kansas has been a great experience.”

On Feb. 28, Alexander was forced to miss the final few weeks of the season due to an investigation into improper benefits.

“This should come as no surprise to anybody,” Kansas coach Bill Self said in a statement. “Cliff had a very interesting and educational year. He was a major contributor to our team from the beginning of the season.

“He worked his way into the starting lineup and has had to deal with an off-the-court issue with the NCAA that made him ineligible for the last eight games of our season.”

Alexander averaged 7.1 points and 5.3 rebounds per game for the Jayhawks, who finished 27-9 and lost to Wichita State in the NCAA Tournament.