LOS ANGELES (AP) — Even before the fourth lead change of the fourth quarter, well before the 1,001st yard of combined offense was tallied, the Kansas City Chiefs and the Los Angeles Rams already knew this was a classic.

Two powerhouse NFL teams at the peak of their brilliance dueled deep into the night at an ecstatic Coliseum, racking up eye-popping numbers that stretched the box score and credulity.

There were 14 touchdowns, including three by defensive players. There were 56 first downs. There were 105 points, with 50 from each team — the first time that’s ever happened in an NFL game.

In the final moments, the Rams did just enough to leave with a win they’ll savor for years.

And if these teams meet again at the Super Bowl in 2 1/2 months, the Chiefs will remember the sting from coming up just short.

Jared Goff threw a 40-yard touchdown pass to Gerald Everett for the go-ahead score with 1:49 to play, and the Rams outlasted the Chiefs for a 54-51 victory Monday night in a showdown that somehow surpassed the hype.

“It was a crazy game, crazy game,” said Goff, who passed for 413 yards and four touchdowns and even ran for another score . “It seemed like whoever had the ball at the end was going to win the game. There was times where we felt like we were going to put the knife in and finish them, and there were times where it was the other way around, where we had to claw back into it.”

Patrick Mahomes passed for a career-high 478 yards with six touchdown passes in his latest jaw-dropping effort for the Chiefs (9-2), but he also threw two interceptions in the final 1:18 as the Rams (10-1) claimed the highest-scoring Monday night game ever played.

The highest-scoring game in the league this season was an offensive fantasia of ingenious scheming from mastermind coaches Andy Reid and Sean McVay — along with 21 combined penalties to keep things interesting. The second half was an extended thriller featuring 59 combined points.

Both teams scratched out fourth-quarter leads, only to see them evaporate. Mahomes hit Tyreek Hill with a 73-yard TD pass just when the Rams appeared to be pulling away early in the fourth, and Goff replied with two late TD passes to Everett , a backup tight end with 31 career catches before this game.

Junction City Middle school wrestlers placed 2^nd in the team competition at the Topeka Seaman tournament .  Ten of the 19 wrestlers placed in the top four of the 12 team tournament.

Placing 4^th were, Kayden Blake at 85 pounds, Zach Petrusky at 95, Anthony Smith at 110, and Cameron McClerkin at 265.  Placing 2^nd for the Wildcats at  75 pounds was Ezekial Witt.  The Wildcats had 5 tournament champions.  Finishing first were 115 Aiman Stickland, 120 Jaime Villanueva, 134 Griffin Bohanan, 141 Justin McLane-Wisner and 148 Josh Cummings.

Lawrence Southwest won the tournament with 259 point while Junction City had 209 followed by Topeka Seaman.

The wrestles after a late night traveled to Salina South to a 6 team dual tournament.  The varsity wrestlers for Junction City went 3 and 0 in duals.  They defeated McPherson 60 to 39, Newton 51 to 49 and Salina South 68 to 33.  The wrestlers will be off for Thanksgiving before wrestling 3 more times this year with two of them being at home.

12/11 KANSAS STATE (4-0) vs. MISSOURI (3-1)

Monday, November 19, 2018 >> 6:30 p.m., CT >> UVI Sports & Fitness Center

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COACHES

Kansas State: Bruce Weber (Wis.-Milwaukee ’78)

Overall: 442-235/21^st season

At K-State: 129-80/7^th season

1. Missouri: 7-4

 

Missouri: Cuonzo Martin (Purdue ’00)

Overall: 209-135/11^th season

At Missouri: 23-14/2^nd season

1. K-State: 0-0

 

PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP

Kansas State (4-0)

G: #3 Kamau Stokes

G: #5 Barry Brown, Jr.

G: #20 Xavier Sneed

F: #32 Dean Wade

F: #14 Makol Mawien

 

Missouri (3-1)

G: #15 Jordan Geist

G: #4 Javon Pickett

G: #13 Mark Smith

F: #23 Jeremiah Tilmon

F: #24 Kevin Puryear

 

SERIES HISTORY

Overall: K-State leads 120-116 (series dates to 1907)

At Neutral Sites: K-State leads 16-8

Last Meeting: W, 66-42, 11/23/2015

Weber vs. Martin: 0-0

 

OPENING TIP

• No. 12/11 Kansas State (4-0) concludes play in the U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam on Monday, as the Wildcats take on former conference rival Missouri (3-1) at 6:30 p.m., CT in tournament’s championship game. K-State has not won an in-season regular-season title since 2011.
• Monday’s matchup with the Tigers will represent the 237th meeting between the schools in a series that dates back to 1907. It is the second-most meeting between an opponent in school, trailing just the 289 meetings with Kansas, while 120 victories by the Wildcats are the second-most against one opponent, trailing just the 139 against Iowa State.
• K-State holds a 120-116 advantage in the all-time series, including four consecutive wins. The Wildcats are 16-8 against the Tigers in games played at neutral sites. The schools last met in a regular season tournament in the semifinals of the 2015 CBE Hall of Fame Classic on Nov. 23, 2015 at the Sprint Center in Kansas City.
• K-State advanced to the championship game with a 64-48 victory over reigning Ivy League champion Penn on Sunday night, holding the Quakers to 30.6 percent shooting (15-of-49), including 28.6 percent (6-of-21) in the second half. Senior Dean Wade led the Wildcats in points (17), rebounds (8) and assists (4), while fellow senior Kamau Stokes added 16 points.
• Missouri has wins over Kennesaw State (55-52) and Oregon State (69-63) to get to Monday’s championship game. Senior Jordan Geist led all scorers with 21 points in the win over the Beavers, while fellow senior Kevin Puryear added 17 points and a game-high 7 rebounds.
• The matchup between the Wildcats and Tigers in the tournament championship game will conclude the 19^th annual Paradise Jam. Other matchups include the seventh-place game between Kennesaw State (1-4) and Eastern Kentucky (2-3) at 12 p.m., CT, the fifth-place game between Northern Iowa (2-2) at 2 p.m., CT and the third-place game between Oregon State (3-1) and Penn (4-1) at 4:30 p.m., CT.
• K-State has a 17-8 (.680) record in regular-season tournaments under head coach Bruce Weber, advancing to the tournament finals on three other occasions, including the 2012 NIT Season Tip-Off (losing to No. 4 Michigan, 71-57), 2015 CBE Hall of Fame Classic (losing to No. 9 North Carolina, 80-70) and the 2016 Barclays Center Classic (losing to Maryland, 69-68). The team has also participated in the 2013 Puerto Rico Tip-Off (1-2 record), 2014 Maui Invitational (1-2 record) and 2017 Las Vegas Invitational (3-1).
• K-State has not won an in-season tournament title since defeating Southern Illinois, UTEP and Long Beach State to capture the 2011 Diamond Head Classic in Honolulu, Hawai’i. The Wildcats also won tournament championships in 1990 (BMA Holiday Classic), 1993 (Hawai’i Nike Festival), 1994 (Capital City Classic), 1995 (Otis Spunkmeyer Classic) and 2006 (Las Vegas Holiday Classic).
• Overall, the school now has a 125-78 (.616) all-time record in 76 in-season tournaments dating back to the program’s first season in 1905, most of which came in the Big Six/Seven/Eight Holiday Tournament that ran in Kansas City from 1943 to 1978 and involved mostly members of the Big Six, Big Seven and Big Eight Conference teams.
• K-State is making its second appearance at the Paradise Jam, which is making a return to the U.S. Virgin Islands after being relocated to Lynchburg, Va., and Liberty University last November due to hurricane damage. The Wildcats went 1-2 in their previous trip to the Paradise Jam, losing to BYU (64-73) and Toledo (50-58) before defeating Michigan, 82-71, in the consolation… The 19^th annual event is held at the UVI Sports and Fitness Center in St. Thomas.
• Previous winners of the Paradise Jam include Maryland (2013), Seton Hall (2014), South Carolina (2015) and Creighton (2016) as well as Baylor (2007). Colorado won the latest title in 2017 with a 79-70 victory over Mercer in a field that included Drake, Drexel, Houston, host Liberty, Quinnipiac and Wake Forest.

 

NOTES ON MISSOURI

• Missouri returns seven lettermen, including three starters (Jordan Geist, Kevin Puryear and Jeremiah Tilmon) from a squad that posted a 20-13 overall record and tied for fourth in the SEC with a 10-8 mark in 2017-18. The Tigers advanced to the NCAA Tournament, where they lost to Florida State in the first round.
• The Tigers are off to 3-1 start to season, defeating Central Arkansas (68-55), Kennesaw State (55-52) and Oregon State (69-63) with their only loss coming at Iowa State (76-59).
• Missouri is 62.8 points on 39.8 percent shooting (86-of-216), including 29.1 percent (25-of-86) from 3-point range, to go with 37.2 rebounds, 11.3 assists, 5.8 steals and 2.0 blocks per game. The squad is shooting 69.2 percent (54-of-78) from the line. Foes are averaging 61.5 points on 38.1 percent shooting, including 33.3 percent from 3-point range.
• Three players are averaging in double figures for the Tigers in sophomore Mark Smith (11.8 ppg.,), Kevin Puryear (11.5 ppg.) and Jordan Geist (10.0 ppg.). Smith is connecting on 47.1 percent from the field, including 50 percent from 3-point range, to go with 6.5 rebounds per game, while Puryear is connecting on 44.1 percent while averaging a team-best 7.0 rebounds. Geist leads the team with 2.8 assists per game.
• Head coach Cuonzo Martin is in his 11^th season as a head coach, including his second at Missouri. He has a 209-135 record as a head coach, including a 23-14 mark at the helm of the Tigers. He has been head coach at Missouri State (2008-11), Tennessee (2011-14), California (2014-17) and now Missouri (2017-present). He has led teams to the postseason in eight of 10 seasons, including three trips to the NCAA Tournament.

 

SERIES HISTORY

• Monday’s matchup with the Tigers will represent the 237th meeting between the schools in a series that dates back to 1907. It is the second-most meeting between an opponent in school, trailing just the 289 meetings with Kansas, while 120 victories by the Wildcats are the second-most against one opponent, trailing just the 139 against Iowa State.
• K-State holds a 120-116 advantage in the all-time series, including four consecutive wins. The Wildcats are 16-8 against the Tigers in games played at neutral sites. The schools last met in a regular season tournament in the semifinals of the 2015 CBE Hall of Fame Classic on Nov. 23, 2015 at the Sprint Center in Kansas City.
• The schools met as conference foes in five different conference, including the Missouri Valley (1914-28), Big Six (1929-47), Big Seven (1948-58), Big Eight (1959-96) and Big 12 (1997-2012) Conferences before Missouri left for the SEC in 2013.

MANHATTAN, Kan. – Thanks to a 4-for-4 effort last week in Kansas State’s 21-6 victory over Texas Tech, sophomore place kicker Blake Lynch has been named the Big 12 Special Teams Player of the Week, the conference office announced Monday.

 

It is Lynch’s first-career weekly conference honor, while the Wildcats now have four player-of-the-week accolades this season. Isaiah Zuber was the special teams player of the week following the South Dakota game, while Alex Barnes (offensive) and Duke Shelley (defensive) were honored following the Oklahoma State win.

 

Lynch tied his career high and tied for second in school history with his four field goals against the Red Raiders, which came from distances of 20, 34, 41 and 22 yards. He is the third player in school history to make at least four field goals in a game twice in a season, joining Jamie Rheem (vs. Texas and Utah State in 1999) and Martin Gramatica (vs. Texas A&M and Kansas in 1998).

 

This season, the Goddard, Kansas, product is 13-of-15 on field-goal attempts, including a perfect 13-for-13 mark from under 50 yards. His current 86.7-percent mark ranks third in school history for a season, while he is four field goals shy of entering K-State’s top-10 list for field goals made in a season.

 

Kansas State travels to Ames, Iowa, on Saturday to take on Iowa State inside Jack Trice Stadium. The Wildcats, who are in search of their all-important sixth win of the season to extend their bowl streak to nine-straight seasons, and Cyclones kick off at 6 p.m., and the game will be shown nationally on FS1.

– k-statesports.com –

RYAN LACKEY
Director of Football and Golf Communications | K-State Athletics

 

 

 

The Stone Cold Foxes roller derby team in Junction City held their end of the season banquet Saturday. The team turned in a final record of 5-2 this past season.

They thanked their sponsors and volunteers who helped make it a good season. Practices for next season will start January 7th at Spin City. The first bout will be April 6th on the road and the home opener will be April 27th. This next season the Foxes will be selling passes for the first time that will give you admission to all home bouts.

The Foxes on a series of awards. Some of those included:

–Defensive Blocker 2018 — Ginja Ninja

–Offensive Blocker 2018 — Artoo Beat You

–Most Improved — Hurt Smacklin, FBI

–Most Motivational — No Class Lass

–Breakout Player of 2018 — Mary Pain

–Wizard Award — Hooked on Phoenix

MANHATTAN, Kan. – The Big 12 Conference and FOX Sports announced Saturday night that Kansas State’s game next Saturday at Iowa State will kick off at 6 p.m., and will be shown nationally on FS1. The game can also be heard on 1420 KJCK AM / FM 107.9..

Kansas State will be in search of bowl eligibility for a ninth-straight year as the 5-6 Wildcats defeated Texas Tech, 21-6, on Saturday night. K-State has won each of the last 10 games against Iowa State and 24 of the last 28 overall.

Big 12 TV Selections for Weekend of Saturday, November 24

Texas at Kansas		11 a.m. (Friday, Nov. 23)		FS1
Oklahoma at West Virginia		7 p.m. (Friday, Nov. 23)		ESPN
Baylor vs. Texas Tech (in Arlington, Texas)		11 a.m.		FS1
K-State at Iowa State		6 p.m.		FS1
Oklahoma State at TCU		7 p.m.		FOX

 

The K-State defense held the powerful Texas Tech offense to 181 yards, no touchdowns and forced four turnovers enroute to a 21-6 victory on Senior Day at Bill Snyder Family Stadium.

Bill Snyder said the last time Texas Tech failed to score a touchdown in a game occurred in 2006. “So that would indicate it was a pretty good defensive effort. I was really proud of our defensive players, our coaches. Pretty special, nice effort.”

The win kept K-State’s bowl hopes alive. The Wildcats will need a win at Iowa State next Saturday night to qualify for a bowl game. Snyder indicated that will be an important game. “It would be a hard thing to hold everything together going up and playing such a late ( a night )  ballgame up there and nothing to play for.”

On the win over Texas Tech, K-State linebacker, Wyatt Hubert said. ” I’m just proud of the way the defense came together and played how we’re supposed to.

Bitter cold with winds gripped the stadium throughout the contest Saturday making it tough on everyone and resulted in a diminished crowd by the end of the game.

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K-State right tackle Dalton Risner nearly had a touchdown on a late in the game but after officials reviewed the play they decided it was a forward pass. The illegal touching foul eliminated the touchdown and set up Blake Lynch’s fourth field goal of the game for Kansas State.

Kansas State and Texas Tech are both 5-6 on the season.

The Junction City Middle School wrestling team finished second out of 12 teams that competed in the Seaman Middle School tournament.

Lawrence Southwest captured first place with 261 points followed by Junction City Middle School with 209 and Seaman with 156 points.

Highlights for Junction City included first place finishes by Aimin Strickland at 115 pounds, Jaime Villaneuva at 120 pounds, Griffin Bohanan at 134,  Justin Mclane-Wisner at 141 and Josh Cummings at 148 pounds. Zeke WItt of Junction City finished second at 75 pounds.

GAME 4

KANSAS STATE (3-0) vs. PENN (4-0)

Sunday, November 18, 2018 >> 6:30 p.m., CT >> UVI Sports & Fitness Center (3,500) // St. Thomas USVI

19^th Annual U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam

 

COACHES

Kansas State: Bruce Weber (Wis.-Milwaukee ’78)

Overall: 441-235/21^st season

At K-State: 128-80/7^th season

1. Penn: 0-0

 

Penn: Steve Donahue (Ursinus ’84)

Overall: 252-255/18th Year

At Penn: 52-41/4th Year

1. K-State: 0-0

 

PROJECTED STARTING LINEUP

Kansas State (3-0)

G: #3 Kamau Stokes

G: #5 Barry Brown, Jr.

G: #20 Xavier Sneed

F: #32 Dean Wade

F: #14 Makol Mawien

 

Penn (4-0)

G: #2 Antonio Woods

G: #3 Jake Silpe

G: #12 Devon Goodman

F: #25 A.J. Brodeur

C: #0 Max Rothschild

 

SERIES HISTORY

Overall: K-State leads 1-0

At Neutral Sites: K-State leads 1-0

Last Meeting: W, 69-62, 3/15/1975

Weber vs. Donahue: First Meeting

 

OPENING TIP

• No. 12/11 Kansas State (3-0) continues play in the U.S. Virgin Islands Paradise Jam on Sunday, as the Wildcats face off against reigning Ivy League champion Penn (4-0) at 6:30 p.m., CT for the right to advance to the tournament’s championship game on Monday.
• The Wildcats and Quakers will face off in the tournament’s second semifinal matchup on Sunday, as Oregon State (3-0) and Missouri (2-1) play in the first semifinal at 4:30 p.m., CT. The winners of the two semifinals will play in the championship game on Monday at 6:30 p.m., CT, while the losers will play in the third-place game on Monday at 4:30 p.m., CT.
• The consolation bracket of the tournament begins on Saturday with Old Dominion (1-2) playing Kennesaw State (1-3) and Northern Iowa (1-2) playing Eastern Kentucky (2-2).
• K-State advanced to the semifinals on Friday night with a 95-68 win over Eastern Kentucky, as the Wildcats connected on 55.2 percent (37-of-67) from the field, including 66 percent (33-of-50) from inside the 3-point arc. Junior Xavier Sneed paced five players in double figures with a game-high 16 points, while sophomore Cartier Diarra and senior Dean Wade added 14.
• Penn advanced to the semifinals with a 78-71 win over Northern Iowa, as the Quakers connected on 50.9 percent from the field, including 69.6 percent in the second half. Junior Devon Goodman led four players in double figures with a game-high 27 points on 10-of-15 shooting, including 5-of-8 from 3-point range.
• In the other first-round games, Oregon State defeated Old Dominion, 61-56, and Missouri knocked off Kennesaw State, 55-52.
• K-State is making its second appearance at the Paradise Jam, which is making a return to the U.S. Virgin Islands after being relocated to Lynchburg, Va., and Liberty University last November due to hurricane damage. The Wildcats went 1-2 in their previous trip to the Paradise Jam, losing to BYU (64-73) and Toledo (50-58) before defeating Michigan, 82-71, in the consolation… The 19^th annual event is held at the UVI Sports and Fitness Center in St. Thomas.
• Previous winners of the Paradise Jam include Maryland (2013), Seton Hall (2014), South Carolina (2015) and Creighton (2016) as well as Big 12 member Baylor (2007). Colorado won the latest title in 2017 with a 79-70 victory over Mercer in a field that included Drake, Drexel, Houston, host Liberty, Quinnipiac and Wake Forest.
• K-State has a 16-8 (.652) record in regular-season tournaments under head coach Bruce Weber, advancing to the tournament finals on three occasions, including the 2012 NIT Season Tip-Off (losing to No. 4 Michigan, 71-57), 2015 CBE Hall of Fame Classic (losing to No. 9 North Carolina, 80-70) and the 2016 Barclays Center Classic (losing to Maryland, 69-68). The team has also participated in the 2013 Puerto Rico Tip-Off (1-2 record), 2014 Maui Invitational (1-2 record) and 2017 Las Vegas Invitational (3-1).
• K-State has not won an in-season tournament title since defeating Southern Illinois, UTEP and Long Beach State to capture the 2011 Diamond Head Classic in Honolulu, Hawai’i. The Wildcats also won tournament championships in 1990 (BMA Holiday Classic), 1993 (Hawai’i Nike Festival), 1994 (Capital City Classic), 1995 (Otis Spunkmeyer Classic) and 2006 (Las Vegas Holiday Classic). Overall, the school has a 123-78 (.612) all-time record in 75 in-season tournaments dating back to the program’s first season in 1905, most of which came in the Big Six/Seven/Eight Holiday Tournament that ran in Kansas City from 1943 to 1978 and involved mostly members of the Big Six, Big Seven and Big Eight Conference teams.

 

NOTES ON PENN

• Penn returns eight lettermen, including four starters (Ray Betley, A.J. Brodeur, Max Rothschild, Antonio Woods) from a squad that posted a 24-9 overall record and tied for the Ivy League title with a 12-2 mark in 2017-18. The Quakers advanced to the NCAA Tournament, where they lost to Kansas in the first round.
• Penn was picked second in the Ivy League media poll with 122 points and five first-place votes, trailing only favorite Harvard, who garnered 137 points and 12 first-place votes. The Quakers return two All-Ivy League selection in Brodeur and Betley, who combined to average 27.4 points and 12.2 rebounds per game. Brodeur was a unanimous first-team All-Ivy League selection.
• The Quakers are off to their best start since the 1978-79 season at 4-0, knocking off George Mason (72-71), Rice (92-76), Lafayette (91-61) and Northern Iowa (78-71).
• Penn is averaging 83.2 points on 53.4 percent shooting (124-of-232), including 41.7 percent (40-of-96) from 3-point range, to go with 30.0 rebounds, 16.3 assists, 9.0 steals and 2.5 blocks per game. The squad is shooting 64.3 percent (45-of-70) from the line. Foes are averaging 69.8 points on 47.5 percent shooting, including 28.6 percent from 3-point range.
• Three players are averaging in double figures for the Quakers in junior Devon Goodman (16.8 ppg.), Brodeur (15.8 ppg.) and senior Antonio Woods (11.3 ppg.). Four other players are averaging between 6.3 and 8.3 points per game, respectively. Goodman is connecting on 55.3 percent from the field, including 44.4 percent from 3-point range, while Brodeur is shooting 58.7 percent from the field to go with a team-best 6.0 rebounds per game.
• Head coach Steve Donahue is in his 18^th year as a head coach, including his fourth at Penn. He has a 252-255 record as a head coach, including a 52-41 mark at the helm of the Quakers. He has also been head coach at Cornell (2000-10) and Boston College (2011-14). He led the Big Red of Cornell to three consecutive NCAA Tournament from 2008-10, including a run to the Sweet 16 in 2010.

 

TOM GILBERT
Director for Men’s Basketball Communications | K-State Athletics