PREP FOOTBALL
St. John’s Military 38, Sunrise Christian 20
Class 4A State Tournament
Bi-District
Abilene 27, Goodland 26
Andale 60, Larned 0
Baldwin 19, St. James Academy 0
Buhler 14, Ulysses 7
Chanute 28, Louisburg 14
Coffeyville 47, Frontenac 12
Holton 45, Hesston 0
Independence 33, Columbus 14
KC Piper 28, Jefferson West 24
McPherson 37, Clay Center 7
Mulvane 47, Wichita Collegiate 45
Paola 24, Fort Scott 7
Spring Hill 33, Ottawa 15
Tonganoxie 52, KC Bishop Ward 6
Topeka Hayden 48, Maize South 45, OT
Class 3A State Tournament
Bi-District
Beloit 50, Southeast Saline 7
Cherryvale 32, Galena 18
Conway Springs 54, Wichita Independent 12
Hiawatha 25, Riley County 8
Holcomb 21, Hoisington 6
Humboldt 13, Central Heights 6
Kingman 12, Halstead 0
Marion 10, Hutchinson Trinity 0
Nemaha Valley 6, Sabetha 0
Phillipsburg 27, Salina Sacred Heart 20
Pittsburg Colgan 30, Caney Valley 22
Rossville 49, Pleasant Ridge 0
Scott City 43, Lakin 0
Sedgwick 36, Douglass 14
Silver Lake 35, St. Mary’s 0
Wellsville 32, Eureka 12
8-Man, Division I State Tournament
Bi-District
Central Plains 36, South Central 14
Clifton-Clyde 42, Peabody-Burns 26
Hodgeman County 34, Rawlins County 32
Hoxie 44, Spearville 36
Kiowa County 50, Solomon 14
Marais des Cygnes Valley 48, South Haven 18
Osborne 40, Madison 34
Yates Center 38, West Elk 36
8-Man, Division II State Tournament
Bi-District
Baileyville-B&B 50, Glasco/Miltonvale-Southern Cloud 0
Dighton 54, Fowler 6
Hanover 52, Hope 0
South Barber 60, Chetopa 34
St. John’s Beloit-Tipton 48, Weskan 0
Victoria 50, Ingalls 0
Wallace County 53, Thunder Ridge 6
Waverly 24, Stafford 20

 

The Big 12 Conference has released its 2014 football schedule. It will once again feature a 10-team, nine-game round-robin schedule.

Kansas state will open Big 12 play by hosting Texas Tech Saturday Oct. 4.

The Wildcats will play at Iowa State Oct. 11 and at Oklahoma Oct. 18 before hosting Texas Oct. 25 and Oklahoma State Nov. 1.

Kansas State will play at TCU Nov.8 before a bye week.  They will play at Thursday night game Nov. 20 at West Virginia.

The Wildcats will close out their Big 12 slate by hosting Kansas on Saturday, Nov. 29 and playing at Baylor Saturday Dec. 8.

 

Many of the players on this year’s Kansas State football team haven’t had to face the adversity that this year’s team has had to go up against.

In their first eight games of this season the Wildcats are 4-4. The last time a KSU team went 4-4 through the first eight games of the season was in 2008, Ron Prince’s final season as the KSU Head Coach. Starting in 2009 Head Coach Bill Snyder returned to the sidelines. In 2009 the Wildcats went 5-3 through the first eight games and the same in 2010. In 2011 the team went 7-1 and in 2012 the Wildcats were perfect through their first eight games.

B.J. Finney, Junior Center, said that after going 2-4 to start the season the team really needed to pull together in order to get back to 4-4,”The first six games not heading our way, being 2-4, we had to draw closer and tighter and we didn’t fall apart. We’re tighter than we have been in forever. We’re tighter than last year’s team for sure.”

He said that the team had to take it upon themselves to get the team going, “Now we have the opportunity to make it still something truly special for this season and we’re trying to work towards that.”

“Just the adversity that this teams faced it’s more than any of the teams that I have been a part of have faced. The guys underneath me, they haven’t been here. They haven’t faced that adversity. It’s been pretty smooth sailing for the last two seasons or even last season that they’ve been a part of.”

That adversity won’t change as the Wildcats will travel to Texas Tech Saturday for their first morning game of the season. The Red Raiders are 7-2 on the season, losing their last two to #17 Oklahoma and #18 Oklahoma State. They are under the direction of first year Head Coach Kliff Kingsbury.

Coach Snyder said during his weekly press conference Tuesday that going up against a new coach can be a little more difficult because of the newness and uncertainty.” You just don’t have that familiarity with the system. You don’t know what all is there. You haven’t seen it all over a period of time. Something new presents itself every week.”

Saturday’s game is scheduled for an 11:00 a.m. kick off and will be broadcast live on ABC.

 

 

Kansas State defensive end Ryan Mueller has been named the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Week.

In the 41-7 Wildcat win over Iowa State he registered seven tackles, including two tackles for loss and one sack. That allowed Mueller to take over the Big 12 lead in quarterback sacks.

K-State ( 4-4 ) plays at Texas Tech ( 7-2 ) this Saturday.

Kansas State’s Nov. 16 game against TCU at Bill Snyder Family Stadium is slated for a 2:30 p.m. kickoff.

It will be televised by FSN.

The Big 12 Conference and Fox made the announcement on Monday.

K-State ( 4-4  2-3 Big 12 ) will travel to Lubbock, Texas, this Saturday to face No. 23 Texas Tech ( 7-2, 4-2 Big 12 ) in an 11 a.m. contest at Jones AT&T Stadium.

Both games can be heard on KJCK AM, The  Talk of JC.

Three Lady Jays competed in the Class 6A state cross country meet Saturday at Rim Rock Farm near Lawrence.

Rosie Hollis led the way with a 25th place finish in 16:18.36.  She was followed by Deisjambro Bisio who finished 48th in 16:53.20, and Myrissa Humphreys who finished 50th in 16:53.94.

Lawrence Free State won the girls 6A state team title, while Manhattan won the 6A boys title. Manhattan finished sixth in the girls team competition.

Camouflage was prominent Saturday at Bill Snyder Family Stadium during the Wildcats 41-7 victory over Iowa State.

It was Fort Riley day and the Wildcats payed tribute to the troops by having camouflage powercat decals on their helmets which is something that you wouldn’t normaly see out of a Bill Snyder led team. Coach Snyder generally doesn’t change the teams uniform away from it’s either home or away uniforms.

Snyder said that the idea to add the camouflage decals was brought to him by his son Sean Snyder, Associate Head Coach and Special teams Coordinator, and the teams equipment manager,”I thought it was a good a idea, I’m not all that fuddy duddy.”

Senior Safety Ty Zimmerman grew up around the military in Junction City and said being able to honor the military was huge,”I’ve had friends who’s families have been in the service and friends that are in the service right now so it’s definately a special time for us today and I’m glad they could come out and enjoy it.”

K-State’s defense started it off for the wildcats stopping the cyclones on the first drive of the game when ISU went for it on fourth down at the KSU 35 yard line and came up two yards short. The Wildcat offense took over on their own 27 yard line and 7 plays later John Hubert found the endzone on a 9 yard run.

The Wildcats added another field goal in the first quarter and Daniel Sams added a another Touchdown with :41 seconds left in the first half to go up 17-0 heading into half time.

K-State came out in the second half and put together a 9 play drive that ended in a 42 yard field goal by Jack Cantele. The Wildcats didn’t score again until 10:57 left in the 4th quarter on a 3 yard run by Hubert. K-State scored two more times in the 4th quarter going up 41-0.

Iowa State’s only time in the red zone came after the Cyclones recovered a Robert Rose fumble on the KSU 10 yard line. The Cyclones scored on the next play off of a 10 yard run by DeVondrick Nealy.

The Wildcats picked up their second conference victory and moved back to even on the season at 4-4. They travel to Texas Tech next weekend to take on the Red Raiders.

 

PREP FOOTBALL
Andover 36, Newton 34
Bishop Miege 50, St. Thomas Aquinas 16
Blue Valley Southwest 41, Pittsburg 31
BV Northwest 41, BV North 17
BV West 18, Blue Valley Stilwell 17
Centralia 36, Jackson Heights 0
Derby 28, Wichita Heights 6
Elkhart 49, Syracuse 14
Emporia 56, Valley Center 16
Garden City 41, Dodge City 20
Gardner-Edgerton 56, Olathe Northwest 28
Goddard 35, Goddard-Eisenhower 10
Hutchinson 33, Maize 31
Inman 41, Ellinwood 7
Junction City 16, Manhattan 10
Kapaun Mount Carmel 40, Andover Central 35
KC Turner 33, KC Harmon 14
KC Washington 16, KC Schlagle 0
KC Wyandotte 38, Leavenworth 28
LaCrosse 46, Medicine Lodge 12
Lawrence Free State 28, Lawrence 10
Lyndon 36, Northern Heights 0
McLouth 48, Immaculata 12
Mill Valley 68, Lansing 8
Northeast-Arma 48, Oswego 42
Oakley 53, Ellis 0
Oberlin-Decatur 62, Wichita County 14
Olathe North 28, Olathe South 0
Olpe 59, Jayhawk Linn 12
Onaga 51, Herington 26
Plainville 41, Washington County 12
Salina Central 42, Hays 14
Salina South 56, Great Bend 13
Shawnee Heights 41, Topeka Seaman 20
SM East 48, SM North 20
SM Northwest 17, SM West 14
Smith Center 16, Republic County 0
South Central 48, Windsor Hills, Okla. 0
Topeka 49, Washburn Rural 7
Topeka West 20, Highland Park 16
Troy 34, Doniphan West 15
Wichita Bishop Carroll 53, Liberal 18
Wichita Campus 28, Wichita North 2
Wichita East 14, Wichita Southeast 7
Wichita Northwest 68, Wichita South 12

 

The Junction City Blue Jays left Manhattan Friday night with a 16-10 win over the Indians, and possession of the coveted Silver Trophy  which goes to the winner of the annual football game between the two schools.

Junction City broke a 10-10 tie on a seven-yard touchdown run by senior fullback Ron Wilson with 4:42 remaining in the fourth quarter. But Junction City missed the PAT try after the touchdown. The Indians then drove to the Junction City 10-yard line in the final two minutes, but a holding penalty on Manhattan brought the ball back to the Blue Jay 26-yard line. The Indians still had possession for two more plays but couldn’t pick up the first down or a score, allowing Junction City to run out the clock for the win.

Despite the win and the fact they finished tied with Topeka High and Manhattan at 2-1 in district play the Blue Jays do not get to advance to the Class 6A postseason playoffs, while the other two teams will move on. Junction City was left out of the postseason after losing the tiebreaker in the state’s 21-point tiebreaker system. Using marginal points involving the scores of the games in district play Topeka High was declared the district champion, and Manhattan was the runnerup. The top two teams advance to the playoffs.

After the game Blue Jay coach Randall Zimmerman was proud of his football team. On the range of emotions with the win, but also having to tell his team they do not get advance to the playoffs while the team they just defeated is getting to go Zimmerman said, “That’s tough. You should feel great about things, and down the road the kids will. We had so many seniors that just teared up.”

Junction City experienced a similar situation a year ago when they went 2-1 in district play and beat Manhattan,  but lost out to Manhattan and Topeka High on the state tiebreaker system and did not move on to postseason play.

Manhattan controlled the game early and jumped out to a 7-0 lead, and led at halftime 10-7 before the Blue Jays got things turned around in the second half. On the Blue Jay turnaround, Manhattan coach Joe Schartz said, “Well they did what they had to do and used their powerful offensive line against our small defense.  I’m very proud of our kids. They battled, they battled hard. It’s just a typical Junction City – Manhattan football game.”

Manhattan is 7-2 on the season while Junction City finished the season 6-3.

In the other district game Topeka High rolled past Washburn Rural 49-7.

 

The Friday night high school football schedule in the area finds:

–Manhattan hosting Junction City at Bishop Stadium in their annual battle for the Sportsman Trophy, the Silver Football that goes to the winner of the game.  Kickoff is set for 7 p.m.

Other games around the area include:

–Herington hosting Onaga

–Topeka High at Washburn Rural

–Shawnee Heights at Seaman

–Highland Park at Topeka West

–and Emporia at Valley Center