Forecast maps are showing extreme levels of livestock heat stress for Kansas and a few surrounding states during late June and early July. While heat stress can’t be avoided, it can be managed through planning and preparation.
Todd Domer with the Kansas Livestock Association says water availability is the most important and controllable factor. Domer says insuring shade and airflow are other ways to protect cattle.
Aaron Cornell and Cam Brown both had four hits and Sloan Soulia drove in six runs as the Hays Larks pick up their first win in Dodge City this season with a wild 17-16 victory Wednesday night.
Cornell hit a solo homer in the first then another for the game-winner in the eighth to break a 16-all tie. Soulia’s 3-run blast capped a four-run first but the A’s came back with three in the secondand six in the third. They took the lead with five in the fifth then added two more in the sixth. Hays tied the game with four in the seventh capped by MacKezie Handel’s 2-run single. Handel and Jon Ryan both drove in three.
Starter Kirk Jewasko was roughed up for a second straight start, allowing eight runs, five earned, on seven hits over 2 1/3 innings. Bradley’s Tony Doerr picks up the win with three scoreless innings of relief. Eastern Oklahoma State’s Nick Goza works a scoreless ninth for his first save of the summer.
The win improves the Larks to 15-7 and 9-6 in the Jayhawk League. They are off Thursday before opening a three-game series in Derby Friday.
The Hays Monarchs sweep Ellis on Wednesday night. The Monarchs win the opener 12-2 in four innings and 14-5 in six innings. Pierce Schippers gets the win in game one while Nathan Zimmerman is the winner in game two.
FORT RILEY, Kan (AP) – Fort Riley officials have released more information about a soldier found dead in his barracks room on the northeast Kansas post.
But, there’s still no word on how 21-year-old Spc. Nathan Conley died. The Army said Wednesday the investigation is continuing.
Conley was found dead around 5:30 am Monday in his barracks room at the Warrior Transition Battalion. Conley was an M-1 armor crewman who deployed to Iraq from November 2010 until February of this year, when he was assigned to the Warrior Transition Battalion.
The battalion supports the rehabilitation and transition of wounded, ill, and injured soldiers back to active duty or to veteran status.
ELWOOD, Kansas (AP) — The Kansas National Guard is sending two dozen more soldiers to a northeastern county in danger of being swamped by the Missouri River.
Maj. Gen. Lee Tafanelli, the state’s emergency management director, said Tuesday the 24 soldiers will augment security patrols and help with evacuations if needed in Doniphan County.
Tafanelli says the deployment was requested by county officials and the mayor of Elwood, which sits on the flood plain across the river from St. Joseph, Mo.
The National Guard already has 10 soldiers in Doniphan County patrolling levees and checking their conditions.
Voluntary evacuations are under way in Elwood. Many in the town of about 1,200 people remember well the flood of 1993, when the Missouri River rolled across fields and rose several feet high in houses and other buildings.
The Kansas City Royals first trip to San Diego in seven years results in a three-game sweep. The Padres scored four unearned runs with two outs in the third inning and finished off the Royals 4-1 yesterday afternoon in the final game of their three-game interleague set.
The Royals were unable to catch a pup-up in the sun near the mound which led to the big inning and that was all Tim Stauffer needed, holding the Royals to just one run on four hits over seven innings. The Royals threatened in the ninth with consecutive singles from Mike Moustakas and Brayan Pena but the next three batters were retired in fly balls to end the game.
Bruce Chen takes the loss, allowing four unearned runs on eight hits in six innings, striking out six and walking one. Eric Hosmer drove in the Royals only run with a single in the third. The Royals have now lost nine of their last 11. They are off today before opening a weekend series at Colorado tomorrow.
TOPEKA, Kansas (AP) — Another Kansas abortion provider is trying to join a federal lawsuit aimed at blocking new state licensing laws and health department regulations.
Aid for Women, a clinic in Kansas City, Kan., filed a request Wednesday to intervene in a lawsuit filed by two doctors performing abortions at their own office.
The request came a day after Drs. Herbert Hodes and Traci Nauser filed their lawsuit.
Aid for Women already has been told by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment that it won’t receive the license needed to perform abortions as of Friday.
The Aid for Women request also included its physician, Dr. Ronald Yeomans.
Hodes and Nauser perform abortions at the Center for Women’s Health in Overland Park.
GARDEN CITY, Kansas (AP) – A southwest Kansas man who faced trial next month has admitted killing a 16-year-old girl in December 2008.
Nineteen-year-old Joaquin De Anda pleaded guilty Wednesday in Finney County District Court to first-degree murder. The Garden City Telegram reports charges of rape and sodomy were dropped in exchange for the plea.
De Anda admitted inviting Julia Quintana, of Deerfield, to his home to watch a movie on Dec. 13, 2008. At some point he attacked and choked her, then took her body outside and dumped it in a trash bin.
The victim was a former classmate of De Anda at Garden City’s New Outlook Academy.
Sentencing will be scheduled later. Prosecutors said they’re asking for the so-called “Hard 50” – a life sentence with the possibility of parole after 50 years.
WICHITA, Kansas (AP) – A heat wave engulfing Kansas for the next few days is threatening cattle in the state’s feedlots while further stressing crops already struggling with drought conditions.
Feedlot owners are making preparations to cope with triple-digit temperatures expected across much of the state.
In the northeastern town of Muscotah, feedlot owner Terry Handke says the heat index for livestock is expected to reach emergency levels on Thursday and into the weekend.
His operation is preparing by removing all manure, so that workers can wet the cattle down to lower the temperature in pens. He’ll also be feeding the bulk of his daily rations in late afternoon.
Kansas farmers expect the heat to cause some yield losses to spring-planted crops, such as corn.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ellis County presented a plaque to the staff at Eagle Radio of Hays, recognizing Eagle Radio for 10 years of public service to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ellis County.
The presentation was made on Wednesday, June 29 at the radio stations.
Big Brothers Big Sisters is the nation’s oldest and largest youth mentoring organization.
Their mission is to help boys and girls, most of whom are considered at-risk and living in single-parent homes, achieve their full potential through long-term personal relationships with carefully screened and caring volunteers.
Very hot conditions, with record or near-record temperatures, are expected once again across much of southwest Kansas for Thursday.
A heat advisory is in effect for this afternoon for areas from Hays south to Larned and St. John down to Medicine Lodge.
Farther west, apparent temperatures will be a bit lower, from 100 to 104 degrees, due to a drier atmosphere. In this area, extreme fire danger will exist due to the combination of very low relative humidity and south winds of 25 to 30 mph.
After giving up 22 runs and not seeing a starting pitcher make it past four innings against Liberal over the weekend, the Hays Larks were in need of a strong pitching performance last night against Dodge City and they got just that Tuesday night from Bradley’s Justin Ziegler.
The right-hander, who was making his first start of the season, threw a a no-hitter through six before allowing a leadoff single in the seventh. Ziegler allowed just the one hit over seven innings and nearly matched his season strikeout total with nine in the Larks 5-0 victory.
The Larks scored a run in the first, two in the third then single runs in the sixth and seventh. Shortstop Elvin Rodriguez had three hits and drove in a run. Aaron Cornell homered in the first as the Larks improve to 14-7 and 8-6 in the Jayhawk League.
Kirk Jewasko is scheduled to start Wednesday night for the Larks as they make a return trip to Dodge City.
The Hays Eagles Senior American Legion baseball team hand the Salina Falcons their first doubleheader sweep of the season, winning 11-9 and 10-5 last night at Dean Evans Stadium.
Daniel Braun worked out of a bases loaded jam in the seventh, allowing just one run to preserve the win in game one. The Eagles never trailed in the game, sending 11 to the plate in a five-run fifth. Jarrett Sanders had two doubles and drove in two. Hayden Hutchison added a two-run homer.
The Eagles jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the second game. The Falcons pulled within a run in the third until Hays scored six in the sixth to break it open. Clayton Basgall worked 6 1/3 innings allowing only four hits and just one past the third.
The Eagles are now 18-8 and host Dodge City in a doubleheader tonight at 6 o’clock at Larks Park.
