The Junction City High School Tuesday sports schedule finds:

–The Lady Jay varsity and junior varsity volleyball teams competing in a triangular at Seaman.

–The Blue Jay boys soccer team playing at McPherson

–The junior varsity girls tennis team at the Centennial League meet in Topeka

KSHSAA News Release

TOPEKA, Kan.—Reggie L. Romine, Assistant Executive Director of the Kansas State High School Activities Associa­tion, has announced his decision to retire from the KSHSAA staff effective July 1, 2015.  He served on KSHSAA Board of Directors for eleven years and the KSHSAA Executive Board for five years.  In 2005 he became an assistant execu­tive director.   Romine is in his tenth year of service to the Association.  During that time, he has been responsible for the administration of music, debate, speech and drama activities, state basketball sportsmanship recognition programs, and spirit activities including cheer and dance. 

In addition to conducting debate, speech, drama, and spirit rules meetings for coaches, Romine was responsible for the administration of summer cheer and dance camps, fall spirit spreader clinics and postseason championship tournaments in debate, speech, and drama.   He was also in charge of regional and state festivals in music, speech and drama.  Romine was also involved with general interpretation of KSHSAA rules for the member schools of the Association.

A native of Palco, Kansas, Romine earned an Associate of Arts degree at Colby Community College prior to completing a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics at Fort Hays State University, graduating with distinction.  In 1980, Romine com­pleted a Master of Science degree in Education Administration from Fort Hays State University.  Romine began his ca­reer as a mathematics teacher at Dighton High School, where two years later he became principal.  After serving four years as principal of Dighton High School, Romine served an additional twenty-one years as principal of Ellis High School.  In 1997 the Kansas Music Educators Association honored Romine with their “Administrator of the Year Award” for his support for music education programs.

The 2014-15 school year marks Romine’s thirty-seventh year as a Kansas educator.  Romine is widely known and re­spected throughout Kansas and the nation for his work in the field of school activity administration.  During his tenure with the KSHSAA, Romine served on national committees through the National Federation of State High School Asso­ciations (NFHS) on such issues as sportsmanship/citizenship & equity, spirit safety rules, music, speech and national debate topic selection.

MANHATTAN, Kan. – FOX Sports will broadcast eight Kansas State men’s basketball games during the 2014-15 season, the school and network announced today.

Five of the eight games will air on the entire FOX Sports Midwest footprint of six million homes in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois and Indiana, including the exhibition contest with Washburn at 2 p.m., on Sunday, Nov. 9, UMKC at 7 p.m., on Monday, Nov. 17, the road tilt at Long Beach State at 9:30 p.m., on Friday, Nov. 21, Savannah State at 5 p.m., on Sunday, Dec. 14 and Texas Southern at 2 p.m., on Sunday, Dec. 28.

Two remaining match-ups – the regular-season opener against Southern Utah at 8 p.m., on Friday, Nov. 14 and Nebraska-Omaha at 7 p.m., on Tuesday, Dec. 2 – will air on FOX Sports Kansas City. The Wednesday, Feb. 18 game at TCU will air on both FOX Sports Southwest and FOX Sports Kansas City Plus at 7 p.m.

Some games will also be available nationally on FOX College Sports. Those will be announced at a later date.

Once again, the Wildcats boast a comprehensive television package with all 32 games being able to be seen throughout the country on either cable or the internet. K-State could have as many as 22 nationally-televised games, including 20 on ESPN, ESPN2 and/or ESPNU. Games will also be available on ESPN Full Court and ESPN3.com.

FOX Sports will televise up to 28 live K-State sporting events in 2014-15 as part of a multi-year agreement between FOX Sports and Learfield Sports, the multimedia rights holder for K-State Athletics.

FOX Sports Kansas City, a regional sports television network, is the leading provider of local sports in Kansas and western Missouri.  FOX Sports Kansas City and FOX Sports Midwest combine to reach nearly 6 million television homes and air more than 2000 hours of local programming each year, including Kansas City Royals baseball, Big 12, Kansas State University and Missouri Valley Conference sports, St. Louis Cardinals baseball, St. Louis Blues hockey, Oklahoma City Thunder basketball and much more. For more information, visit FOXSportsKansasCity.com.

Ben Boyle (play-by-play) and Stan Weber (analyst) will continue to call men’s basketball games on the network.

The Wildcats will look to continue to build on their recent success, which includes a school-record eight consecutive postseason appearances, including five straight in the NCAA Tournament, and eight straight 20-win seasons. The squad returns nine lettermen, including five players with starting experience, in 2014-15 to go with Division I transfers Justin Edwards and Brandon Bolden. The group is headlined by All-Big 12 Second Team selection Marcus Foster (15.5 ppg., 3.2 rpg.) and honorable mention pick Thomas Gipson (11.7 ppg., 6.5 rpg.).

Season tickets for the 2014-15 season are currently on sale in the K-State Athletics Ticket Office with a variety of packages available for the 17-game home schedule. Fans can purchase these tickets toll free at (800) 221.CATS (2287), online at www.kstatesports.com/tickets and in-person at Bramlage Coliseum.

2014-15 Kansas State Men’s Basketball Schedule

Release from Tom Gilbert, K-State Associate Director/Athletics Communications

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – The Texas-Oklahoma game is typically a bellwether matchup for the Big 12 title race.

It’s not even the biggest game in Texas this weekend.

That distinction belongs to a matchup between No. 9 TCU (4-0, 1-0 Big 12) and fifth-ranked Baylor (5-0, 2-0), the league’s last two unbeaten teams.

But that’s just the way things are these days in the upside-down Big 12.

MANHATTAN, Kan. – The Big 12 Conference and ESPN have announced that Kansas State’s October 18 game at Oklahoma will kick off at 11 a.m., and be televised nationally by ESPN.

The contest will be the third this season for the Wildcats on ESPN family of networks after falling to then-No. 5 Auburn, 20-14, on ESPN on Thursday, Sept. 18, and earning a 45-13 victory over Texas Tech last Saturday on ESPNU.

Following the matchup with Oklahoma, Kansas State hosts Texas on Saturday, October 25, at Bill Snyder Family Stadium. There is standing-room only tickets available for the game against the Longhorns – which serves as Homecoming – and those tickets may be purchased by contacting the K-State Athletics Ticket office online at www.k-statesports.com/tickets, by phone at 1-800-221-CATS or at the main ticket office inside Bramlage Coliseum.

Big 12 TV Selections for Saturday, October 18

K-State at Oklahoma               ESPN                                  11 a.m.

Baylor at West Virginia          FS1                                     11 a.m.

Kansas at Texas Tech              FSN                                    2:30 p.m.

Oklahoma State at TCU          FS1                                     3 p.m.

Iowa State at Texas                 Cyclone.tv/LHN                 7 p.m.

Kansas State University will hold an annual indoor track meet named in honor of former K- State athlete, coach, and athletics director Deloss Dodds.

The Deloss Dodds Track and Field Invitational will be January 23 and 24, 2015.

The Riley, Kansas native was a three-time Big Eight champion in track and field in 1958, served as track and field head coasch for 12 seasons beginning in 1964, and as athletics director from 1977 to 1981.

Following their 45-13 win over Texas Tech the Kansas State Wildcats have moved up in the weekly Associated Press and Amway Top 25 Coaches Polls.

Kansas State is ranked 16th in the coaches poll and 17th in the AP rankings with a 4-1 record.

Florida State is ranked number one and Auburn number two in both polls.

SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) – Colin Kaepernick threw for 201 yards and a touchdown, Frank Gore ran for 107 yards and the San Francisco 49ers converted a fake punt to beat the Kansas City Chiefs 22-17 on Sunday.

The 49ers (3-2) turned to a trick play on fourth-and-1 from their own 29 early in the fourth quarter, giving a direct snap to Craig Dahl for a 3-yard run up the middle. Kaepernick directed the offense down field, and Phil Dawson kicked a 27-yard field goal with 8:42 to play for the go-ahead score.

Dawson also connected from 55, 52, 35 and 30 yards.

The 49ers held off former franchise quarterback Alex Smith and the Chiefs (2-3) twice in the closing moments. Smith threw for 175 yards and two touchdowns, but Perrish Cox intercepted his overthrown pass to end any chance Kansas City had to rally.

The Kansas State Wildcats kept the momentum alive Saturday night taking down Texas Tech 45-13 at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.

The Wildcats continue to show good things on both sides of the ball as the defense picked off Texas Tech’s Davis Webb four times and K-States offense had over 500 yards of total offense.

Head Coach Bill Snyder explained after the game that he felt the defense did an exceptional job, except for two drives.

“The two long drives that they had, and got some extended plays. It’s not so much that they scored as much as it was that we just made some nonsensical mistakes, errors that allowed it to happen. Those are the things that we talk about were we just have to make some improvement, and in a couple of areas we did,” said Snyder.

Morgan Burns and Travis Green both had two interceptions a piece in the ball game. The defense held Texas Tech to 347 yards total offense, and the Red Raiders had been averaging about that much passing in their first four games.

Offensively the Wildcats made some big plays including a one handed touchdown catch by Curry Sexton in the end zone with 11:10 to play in the 4th quarter. After the game Sexton said,”I guess it’s better to be lucky than good, I don’t know. I stuck my hand out and it stuck, I don’t know. I didn’t expect to catch it I’ll tell you that much.”

Coach Snyder also commented on the catch saying that it should make the Sports Center top 10 plays of the day,”that better make it.”

Sexton finished the game with 128 yards receiving and two touchdowns, his second game this season with over 100 yards receiving. Tyler Lockett also finished with two receiving touchdowns and had a total of 125 yards receiving on the night.

K-State’s rushing game however wasn’t as consistent as Snyder would have liked. “We didn’t have the consistency there, and we had to throw the ball, that allowed us to keep drives alive. You would like to be able to do it with the running game and create a little bit more balance, but were not quite there yet obviously.”

The Wildcats finished with 245 yards rushing and were led by Jake Waters who ran for 105 yards on 17 carries.

Kansas State will have next week off giving them two weeks to prepare for the Oklahoma Sooners on Saturday, October 18th.