A blocked Oklahoma extra point try by Kansas State in the fourth quarter, and a missed field goal by the Oklahoma Sooners with 4:07 to play led to a 31-30 Wildcat win over the Sooners in Norman. After the missed field goal the Kansas State offense ran out the clock to secure the victory.

It was the second straight win for Kansas State over the Sooners in Norman.

The Wildcats, 5-1, host Texas next Saturday.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Jeff Foxworthy figures he can wait just a while longer to go hunting with his neighbor and good buddy. After all, Ned Yost is a bit busy this time of the year.

He has the Kansas City Royals back in the World Series for the first time since 1985.

Yost has become one of the central figures of the baseball playoffs, with his often-questionable moves and steadfast belief in his team. And here’s the thing: That debatable decision-making has proven to be faultless during a perfect run to the Fall Classic.

Now, a fan base that coined the term “yosted” for any kind of screw-up is lavishing Yost with the kind of praise reserved for hometown heroes such as George Brett and Frank White.

 

Jovan Baldwin returned an early fumble by Wichita Southeast for a touchdown, and then rushed 60 yards and 15 yards for two more scores as 42-7 Blue Jay victory over the Golden Buffaloes.

The win came at Carpenter Stadium in Wichita, and left Junction City 1-0 in district play, 5-2 on the season.

Southeast, 0-1 in district, and 0-7 overall, jumped on top early on a  yard kickoff return on the opening play of the game by Alenden Wilson, but the Buffaloes never scored again.

It was a game where the Blue Jays worked to overcome some injuries including two that resulted in the starting center Grant Whaley and quarterback Tanner Lueker unable to play in the contest.

Junction City will host Wichita East in district play next Friday. The Blue Aces are 1-0 in district action after defeating Wichita North.

Andale 49, Wichita Trinity 28
Andover 42, Wichita Heights 13
Anthony-Harper-Chaparral 61, Belle Plaine 8
Arkansas City 41, Goddard-Eisenhower 20
Attica/Argonia 62, Pretty Prairie 6
Augusta 44, Winfield 13
Axtell 42, Pike Valley 14
Baldwin 33, DeSoto 19
Beloit 54, Hays-TMP-Marian 7
Bishop Miege 42, Spring Hill 0
Blue Valley Stillwell 70, Gardner-Edgerton 20
Bonner Springs 48, KC Turner 16
Bucklin 56, Cunningham 6
Buhler 55, Hays 21
Burlingame 56, Flinthills 6
Burlington 24, Iola 21
BV West 14, Pittsburg 12
Cair Paravel 88, Veritas Christian 40
Caldwell 46, South Barber 28
Caney Valley 55, Eureka 7
Cedar Vale/Dexter 84, Central Burden 48
Central Heights 14, West Franklin 11
Central Plains 50, Ellinwood 0
Centralia 35, Nemaha Central 6
Chase 52, Centre 12
Chetopa 54, Crest 6
Christ Preparatory Academy 62, Drexel, Mo. 20
Cimarron 38, Lakin 36
Clay Center 14, Goodland 13
Coffeyville 66, Independence 12
Columbus 41, Baxter Springs 7
Concordia 28, Colby 18
Conway Springs 35, Cheney 19
Deerfield 54, Fowler 36
Derby 49, Wichita Campus 13
El Dorado 47, Circle 8
Ell-Saline 30, Bennington 8
Eudora 31, Ottawa 28
Flint Hills Christian 100, Hutchinson Central Christian 76
Fort Scott 23, Chanute 8
Frankfort 78, Linn 42
Frontenac 54, Parsons 14
Galena 36, Cherryvale 21
Girard 49, Anderson County 6
Glasco/Miltonvale-Southern Cloud 68, BV Randolph 50
Great Bend 27, Newton 0
Hanover 68, Lakeside 8
Hartford 50, Elk Valley 0
Haven 41, Clearwater 20
Heartland Christian 60, Wheatland-Grinnell 12
Hesston 56, Hillsboro 14
Hill City 51, Stockton 34
Hodgeman County 50, South Gray 0
Hoisington 60, Ellsworth 6
Holcomb 40, Larned 7
Holton 38, Jefferson West 6
Horton 21, Hiawatha 14
Hoxie 90, Cheylin 0
Humboldt 49, Erie 28
Hutchinson 62, Garden City 14
Hutchinson Trinity 33, Garden Plain 22
Ingalls 74, Rolla 36
Junction City 45, Wichita Southeast 7
Kapaun Mount Carmel 21, Emporia 0
KC Piper 59, Basehor-Linwood 18
Kingman 30, Halstead 8
Kiowa County 68, Kinsley 34
LaCrosse 48, Smith Center 14
Lansing 36, KC Washington 30
Lawrence 20, Olathe Northwest 17
Lawrence Free State 42, Washburn Rural 14
Leavenworth 29, KC Schlagle 8
Liberal 27, Goddard 23
Little River 48, Canton-Galva 26
Louisburg 35, KC Sumner 0
Lyons 34, Sterling 22
Madison 64, Lebo 30
Maize South 28, Valley Center 14
Marais des Cygnes Valley 37, Uniontown 36
Marmaton Valley 51, Pleasanton 6
Maur Hill – Mount Academy 33, Atchison County 16
McPherson 17, Abilene 6
Meade 39, Marion 36
Mill Valley 17, St. James Academy 14
Minneapolis 21, Marysville 7
Minneola 66, Ashland 20
Mission Valley 14, Chase County 13
Neodesha 42, Fredonia 21
Ness City 52, Dighton/Healy 0
Northern Heights 56, Herington 20
Northern Valley 1, Natoma 0
Norton 60, Russell 14
Oakley 20, Ellis 12
Oberlin-Decatur 46, Quinter 0
Olathe North 49, Olathe East 3
Olathe South 42, BV Northwest 20
Olpe 36, Lyndon 28
Onaga 28, Jackson Heights 24
Osawatomie 35, Prairie View 28, 2OT
Osborne 52, St. Francis 6
Oswego 44, Yates Center 6
Paola 48, Labette County 7
Peabody-Burns 58, Rural Vista 12
Perry-Lecompton 52, Royal Valley 13
Phillipsburg 54, Republic County 6
Plainville 51, Wichita County 7
Pleasant Ridge 20, McLouth 14
Pratt 28, Hugoton 7
Pratt Skyline 62, South Central 44
Rawlins County 46, Logan 0
Remington 42, Moundridge 0
Riverton 28, Southeast 22
Rock Creek 51, St. Mary’s 28
Rock Hills 86, Lincoln 64
Rossville 77, Oskaloosa 8
Sabetha 33, Riverside 12
Salina South 14, Salina Central 7
Santa Fe Trail 65, KC Bishop Ward 14
Satanta 52, Moscow 34
Scott City 49, Southwestern Hts. 0
Sedan 69, Oxford 32
Sedgwick 49, Inman 16
Shawnee Heights 76, Highland Park 0
Silver Lake 79, Osage City 0
SM North 58, KC Wyandotte 13
SM West 36, SM Northwest 10
Smoky Valley 14, Nickerson 2
Solomon 44, Goessel 8
South Haven 50, Norwich 0
Southeast Saline 55, Council Grove 14
Southern Coffey 50, Altoona-Midway 0
Spearville 62, Trego 12
St. John’s Beloit-Tipton 46, Otis-Bison 28
St. Thomas Aquinas 48, Blue Valley Southwest 7
Stafford 78, Fairfield 52
Sublette 24, Johnson-Stanton County 13
Sylvan-Lucas 54, Wilson 22
Syracuse 49, Elkhart 13
Tescott 46, Burrton 6
Tonganoxie 21, Atchison 14
Topeka 52, Manhattan 41
Topeka Hayden 51, Andover Central 21
Topeka Seaman 41, Topeka West 0
Triplains-Brewster 48, Greeley County 3
Troy 49, Doniphan West 0
Udall 54, West Elk 6
Ulysses 36, Mulvane 29
Valley Falls 44, Jefferson North 20
Valley Heights 50, Wabaunsee 0
Victoria 58, Thunder Ridge 34
Wakefield 54, Clifton-Clyde 0
Wallace County 62, Golden Plains 0
Wamego 20, Chapman 6
Washington County 41, Riley County 32
Waverly 30, St. Paul 6
Wellington 33, Rose Hill 21
Wellsville 69, Jayhawk Linn 0
Wichita Bishop Carroll 69, Maize 7
Wichita Collegiate 58, Bluestem 0
Wichita Independent 34, Douglass 25
Wichita Northwest 61, Dodge City 14
Wichita West 41, Wichita South 22
POSTPONEMENTS AND CANCELLATIONS
Word of Life vs. Bishop Seabury Academy, ccd.

 

The Saint Xavier Rams high school volleyball team lost to Wakefield and Chapman in a triangular on Thursday.

Saint X fell to Wakefield 25-12, 25-17 and to Chapman 25-16, 25-7.

 

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) – Oklahoma’s national title hopes likely will be on the line Saturday when the 11th-ranked Sooners host No. 14 Kansas State in a matchup of one-loss teams that lack a quality win.

Before the season, the Sooners were talking confidently about seeking a spot in the four-team college football playoff, but lately, they haven’t looked like a contender. Oklahoma lost to TCU two weeks ago and got a scare last Saturday before holding off Texas.

The Sooners enter their game against Kansas State focused on simpler goals. Oklahoma is trying to get its offense going again after being inconsistent and mistake prone the past two weeks.

Kansas State, which has one of the stingiest defenses in the Big 12, could creep into the playoff picture with a win over the Sooners on the road.  Kickoff is set for 11 a.m. Saturday in Norman.

 

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Travis Ishikawa hit a three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning, sending the San Francisco Giants to the World Series with a 6-3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday night.

These every-other-year Giants clinched the NL Championship Series in Game 5 and now will face the Royals in an all wild-card Fall Classic that begins Tuesday night in Kansas City.

Pablo Sandoval singled to start the ninth against Michael Wacha, making his first appearance of the postseason for the Cardinals. After an out, Brandon Belt walked to bring up Ishikawa, who drove a 2-0 pitch into the elevated seats in right field.

CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) – Now that junior transfer Angel Rodriguez plays point guard for the Miami Hurricanes instead of Kansas State, he does his grocery shopping unrecognized.

Rodriguez was a celebrity in Manhattan, Kansas, where he helped the Wildcats to the Big 12 co-championship in 2013. But the college town of 56,000 is a little different from Miami, Rodriguez notes with a smile.

He says attending Kansas State was a great experience, but he wanted to be closer to his family in Puerto Rico. So he transferred to Miami, sat out last season and is now poised to start at point guard for a young and small but promising Hurricanes team. He walks across campus unnoticed, but that could change if his season goes the way the Hurricanes hope.

 

After the disappointing 16-7 loss to the Manhattan Indians last week the Junction City Blue Jays have to put it behind them and get ready for district play.

It begins Friday night at Wichita Southeast.

Junction City will enter the game 4-2 overall while Southeast is 0-6, but when you begin district play everyone is 0-0 in the race for a postseason playoff berth.

Blue Jay coach Randall Zimmerman said the 0-6 record for the Golden Buffaloes is misleading. “They have athletes all over the field and their schedule has been really tough.” Zimmerman added he expects the Blue Jays to get Southeast’s best shot. We’re hoping they’re going to get our best shot. We worked that way all week long. ”

Kickoff is scheduled at 7 p.m. You can hear the game on the Talk of JC, KJCK AM, and online at kjck.com.

The other side of the schedule in the 6A district that includes Junction City finds Wichita North playing Wichita East.

The Friday night football schedule finds:

–Junction City playing Wichita Southeast at Carpenter Stadium in Wichita

–Manhattan hosting Topeka High

–Washburn Rural visiting Lawrence Free State

–Hayden hosting Andover Central

–Highland Park at Shawnee Heights

–Topeka West at Seaman

–Council Grove hosts Hesston

–Chapman hosts Wamego

–Abilene hosts McPherson

–Clay Center goes to Goodland

–Riley County hosts Washington County

–Rock Creek goes to St. Marys

–Blue Valley Randolph visits Southern Cloud

–Solomon hosts Goessel

–Wakefield hosts Clifton-Clyde

–Centre travels to Chase

–and Rural Vista hosts Peabody