The Junction City Blue Jay baseball team split a doubleheader at Hays this week.

Junction City lost the first game 8-2 but bounced back to win the second contest 4-3.

Junction City is now 2-4 on the season.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) – New Wake Forest basketball coach Danny Manning is bringing three members of his Tulsa coaching staff with him.

Manning filled out his staff Wednesday by adding Steve Woodberry, Brett Ballard and Justin Bauman.

Woodberry and Ballard will be assistant coaches while Bauman will be his director of basketball operations. Those are the same roles they filled on the Tulsa staff.

Manning says they “have an outstanding feel for the type of program we want to run.”

Manning previously said he would retain assistant Randolph Childress from Jeff Bzdelik’s staff with the Demon Deacons.

Woodberry and Ballard both were assistants to Manning on his first Golden Hurricane team in 2012.

Wake Forest hired Manning two weeks ago after he led Tulsa to its first NCAA tournament berth since 2003.

 

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – A new bowl is coming to Orlando.

Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer and officials from the Orlando Sports Foundation announced the creation of the Cure Bowl on Wednesday. The game will be held at the Florida Citrus Bowl in December 2015 and feature teams from the American Athletic and Sun Belt conferences.

Officials from both leagues were on hand with Dyer for the new bowl’s announcement.

The game will help benefit breast cancer research.

The bowl will become Orlando’s third bowl game, joining the Russell Athletic Bowl and Capital One Bowl.

 

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) – Kansas State basketball coach Bruce Weber has received a one-year contract extension through 2018-19 after leading the Wildcats to 47 wins in his first two seasons – the most by any coach during that span in school history.

Weber led Kansas State to a 20-13 record last season and an NCAA tournament appearance, Weber’s second straight and the fifth straight trip for the program, a school record. Weber was the 2012-13 Big 12 Coach of the Year in his first season at Kansas State.

Weber will receive $2.25 million for the additional year and a $500,000 retention bonus if he completes the contract.

He was hired in March 2012.

BOSTON (AP) – Survivors, first-responders and public officials have observed a moment of silence near the Boston Marathon finish line to mark the moment two pressure cooker bombs exploded a year ago.

Three people were killed and 260 others injured in the attacks. MIT police officer Sean Collier was killed several days later, allegedly by the bombing suspects.

This year’s running of the Boston Marathon, expected to be the second-largest in history, will take place on Monday.

About 2,500 people attended an invitation-only tribute at the Hynes Convention Center, then walked in the rain to the finish line for the moment of silence. Bells were rung and a flag was raised by Officer Richard Donohue, who was badly injured during a shootout with the bombing suspects.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – A panel of college administrators agree the NCAA business model has to change to survive.

Three administrators participated in a discussion Tuesday on integrity and the commercialization of college athletics – Ohio Valley Conference Commissioner Beth DeBauche, Kentucky athletic director Mitch Barnhart and former Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe.

Many athletic departments are flush with cash thanks to multi-million dollar TV deals. Conferences have started their own networks and coaches’ contracts continue to soar.

Now athletes are demanding their fair share.

Barnhart says the issues didn’t develop overnight. Beebe says realignment only increased students’ desires for their share of the money generated.

While DeBauche sees the current crisis as an opportunity to make college athletics healthier than ever, the panel also agreed the question now is how to do that.

The Wakefield Bomber Invitational ( track and field ) is Tuesday.

In addition to the Bombers, teams from Hope, White City, and Saint Xavier will participate.

The Invitational had been scheduled on Monday, but was postponed one day due to the weather.

AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) – Bubba Watson has won the Masters for the second time in three years.

Watson claimed another green jacket by shooting a 3-under 69 in the final round Sunday, fending off Jordan Spieth’s bid to become the youngest major champion since 1931.

The 20-year-old Texan led by two shots heading to the eighth hole, but the tournament changed suddenly.

Watson made two straight birdies, Spieth took back-to-back bogeys – and just like that, Watson was up by two strokes at the turn.

The left-hander led the rest of the way, adding to the 2012 title he won in more spectacular fashion with a playoff victory. The winning score was 8-under 280.

Spieth finished with a 72, his worst score of the week. He was 283 overall, tied with Sweden’s Jonas Blixt.

 

The Junction City Lady Jay and Blue Jay track teams both finished fourth in their brackets of competition at the Maize Invitational on Friday.

The Lady Jays finished with 56 team points. Garden City won the meet with 213. The Blue Jay boys scored 52 points. Maize won the team title with 157.

In the individual competition for the Blue Jay boys:

–Isiah Taylor second in the 800 meter run in 2:06.59

–Jeff Dorval third in the 110 meter high hurdles in 16.40

–Scott Keith second in the high jump at 6’2″

For the Lady Jays:

–Samonte Jones second in the 100 meter hurdles in 17.19, and second in the 300 meter intermediate hurdles in 51.70

–Myrissa Humphreys first in the 300 meter intermediate hurdles in 50.11

–Rosie Hollis second in the 800 meter run in 2:29.02

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Joe Mauer hit his first home run of the season and free-agent acquisition Ricky Nolasco earned his first win for the Minnesota Twins in a 7-1 victory Saturday over the Kansas City Royals.

A day after getting his first RBI of the year, Mauer drove in three more runs against Kansas City starter James Shields. Brian Dozier had a leadoff homer for Minnesota, which has scored the second-most runs in the American League.

Nolasco (1-1) showed why the Twins signed him to a $49 million, four-year contract to steady their rotation. The right-hander gave up five runs in each of his first two outings for his new team, but was on top of his game Saturday in his first home start for Minnesota. Nolasco went eight innings and allowed five hits with four strikeouts.

Shields (0-2) yielded seven runs – one earned – in 5 2-3 innings. He gave up six hits and walked three while striking out five.