December 2013 – Page 38 – Hays Post Archive

Tuesday’s High School Basketball Results

Posted on December 11, 2013December 11, 2013

BOYS’ BASKETBALL

Purple & Gold Tournament
Smith Center 50, Trego 30
Western Plains 50, Hodgeman County 42

Quinter Castle Rock Classic
Dighton 55, Quinter 23
Ellis 71, Cheylin 51
Hoxie 55, Wheatland-Grinnell 31
Rawlins County 54, Golden Plains 41

Amos Morris/George Stephens Classic
Central Plains 61, Phillipsburg 54, OT
Plainville 81, Ellsworth 67

Abilene 15, Rock Creek 14
Andale 57, Winfield 40
Ashland 66, Ingalls 50
Baileyville-B&B 50, Doniphan West 37
Beloit 70, Clay Center 52
Blue Valley Southwest 66, William Chrisman, Mo. 45
Buhler 66, Smoky Valley 43
BV Northwest 71, Bishop Miege 39
Cair Paravel 67, Veritas Christian 45
Centralia 54, Axtell 52
Concordia 52, Republic County 42
Council Grove 72, Royal Valley 57
El Dorado 52, Salina Sacred Heart 45
Falls City, Neb. 68, Hiawatha 61
Gardner-Edgerton 71, Mill Valley 70
Goddard-Eisenhower 72, Hutchinson 54
Halstead 70, Bennington 57
Hanover 53, Washington County 37
Holton 50, Topeka Hayden 49
Immaculata 55, Maranatha Academy 41
Jackson Heights 67, Mission Valley 39
Kapaun Mount Carmel 48, Wichita South 41
Lansing 60, Shawnee Heights 48
Lawrence Free State 71, Topeka Seaman 48
Liberal 50, Guymon, Okla. 43
Linn 51, BV Randolph 38
Maize 65, Andover 63
Minneapolis 64, Solomon 36
Moscow 76, Rolla 34
Nemaha Valley 70, Wamego 68
Rossville 53, Chapman 45
Salina Central 67, Andover Central 55
Silver Lake 66, Perry-Lecompton 62, 2OT
SM Northwest 62, Washburn Rural 43
South Barber 67, Burlington, Okla. 43
Stratton, Colo. 77, Heartland Christian 24
Sunrise Christian 75, St. John’s Military 23
Triplains-Brewster 37, Logan 35
Troy 64, Wetmore 42
Valley Heights 86, St. Xavier 25
Wabaunsee 66, Chase County 54
Wichita Campus 41, Arkansas City 39
Wichita Defenders 84, Hartford 50
Wichita East 56, Wichita Bishop Carroll 47
Wichita Heights 69, Wichita North 63, OT
Wichita Northwest 62, Wichita West 49

Brewster (SageBrush) Tournament
Stockton 64, St. Francis 44
Weskan 78, Healy 13
Caldwell Tournament
Argonia 44, Norwich 42
Caldwell 54, Central Burden 21
Cheney Tournament
Wichita Collegiate 68, Cheney 61
Cheney Tournament
Valley Center 49, Chaparral 44
Cimarron Tournament
Cimarron 61, Wichita County 27
South Gray 66, Deerfield 44
Circle Tournament
Circle 71, Wichita Independent 68
Eudora Tournament
Bonner Springs 73, Paola 67
Eudora 59, KC Harmon 52
Garden Plain Tournament
Emporia 43, Rose Hill 40
Hesston 63, Garden Plain 39
Goessel Tournament
Hutchinson Central Christian 64, Goessel 46
Little River 57, Burrton 39
Herington Tournament
Rural Vista 61, Wakefield 37
Humboldt Tournament
Humboldt 61, Uniontown 52
Kingman Tournament
Haven 49, Medicine Lodge 43
Kingman 69, Sterling 33
Lakeside Tournament
Osborne 46, Thunder Ridge 41
Larned Tournament
Larned 67, Kiowa County 40
Linn County Tournament
Drexel, Mo. 71, Pleasanton 47
Marion Tournament
Berean Academy 63, Belle Plaine 30
McCook Cattle Trail Tournament
Oberlin-Decatur 79, Dundy County-Stratton, Neb. 0
Moundridge Tournament
Hillsboro 59, Lyons 44
Moundridge 47, Inman 39, OT
Oxford Tournament
Oxford 48, Flinthills 21
St. Mary’s Tournament
Onaga 38, St. Mary’s 27
St. Paul Tournament
Columbus 60, Derby 58

GIRLS’ BASKETBALL

Purple & Gold Tournament
Hodgeman County 34, Western Plains 26
Smith Center 50, Trego 38

Quinter Castle Rock Classic
Dighton 50, Wheatland-Grinnell 23
Ellis 92, Cheylin 37
Golden Plains 50, Rawlins County 39
Hoxie 94, Quinter 23

Morris Stephens Classic-Russell
Central Plains 55, Phillipsburg 41
Ellsworth 61, Plainville 32

Abilene 47, Rock Creek 30
Ashland 37, Ingalls 36
Atchison 50, Pleasant Ridge 47
Attica 61, Elk Valley 31
Baileyville-B&B 41, Doniphan West 23
Beloit 51, Clay Center 22
Bishop Miege 53, BV Northwest 38
Buhler 65, Smoky Valley 45
Burlington, Okla. 53, South Barber 43
Cair Paravel 54, Veritas Christian 32
Caney Valley 60, Neodesha 36
Cedar Vale/Dexter 60, Udall 38
Centralia 53, Axtell 49
Concordia 53, Republic County 48
Council Grove 49, Royal Valley 46
Derby 45, Goddard 38
Fairfield 56, Chase County 39
Falls City, Neb. 68, Hiawatha 61
Fowler 55, Minneola 41
Gardner-Edgerton 35, Mill Valley 34
Glasco/Miltonvale-Southern Cloud 36, Tescott 33
Goddard-Eisenhower 43, Hutchinson 37
Goessel 48, Hutchinson Central Christian 12
Guymon, Okla. 39, Liberal 28
Horton 46, Atchison County 40
Immaculata 35, Maranatha Academy 31
Junction City 66, Lawrence 63
Kapaun Mount Carmel 55, Wichita South 39
Linn 54, BV Randolph 28
Maize 69, Andover 43
Minneapolis 64, Solomon 36
Moscow 49, Rolla 44
Natoma 60, Flint Hills Job Corps 20
Perry-Lecompton 48, Silver Lake 38
Salina Central 50, Andover Central 41
Shawnee Heights 66, Lansing 55
Sunrise Christian 32, KC East Lions 18
Topeka Hayden 44, Holton 28
Topeka Seaman 53, Lawrence Free State 39
Valley Heights 73, St. Xavier 15
Wabaunsee 50, Chase County 49
Wamego 47, Nemaha Valley 31
Washburn Rural 51, SM Northwest 50
Washington County 58, Hanover 24
West Franklin 49, Wellsville 43
Wichita Bishop Carroll 51, Wichita East 27
Wichita Campus 64, Arkansas City 39
Wichita Defenders 37, Hartford 32
Wichita Northwest 67, Wichita West 21
Winfield 52, Andale 46
Brewster (Sagebrush) Tournament
Liberty (Joes) / Stratton, Colo. 53, Heartland Christian 17
Stockton 47, St. Francis 28
Triplains-Brewster 51, Logan 37
Weskan 51, Healy 24
Caldwell Tournament
Caldwell 52, Central Burden 27
Norwich 50, Argonia 32
Chapman Tournament
Salina Sacred Heart 36, El Dorado 33
Cheney Tournament
Cheney 58, Wichita Collegiate 28
Valley Center 42, Chaparral 12
Cimarron Tournament
Meade 67, Deerfield 21
Sublette 45, Wichita County 21
Circle Tournament
Circle 52, Wichita Independent 34
Fairfield Tournament
Fairfield 56, Chase 39
Otis-Bison 30, Cunningham 26
Garden Plain Tournament
Emporia 60, Rose Hill 41
Hesston 61, Garden Plain 37
Goessel Tournament
Little River 40, Burrton 20
Herington Tournament
Rural Vista 49, Wakefield 33
Humboldt Tournament
Erie 57, Crest 24
Kingman Tournament
Haven 57, Medicine Lodge 30
Sterling 61, Kingman 45
Lakeside Tournament
Osborne 44, Thunder Ridge 31
Tipton Catholic 57, Lakeside 24
Larned Tournament
Larned 34, Kiowa County 19
Spearville 52, Kinsley 36
Linn County Tournament
Drexel, Mo. 53, Pleasanton 34
Marion Tournament
Berean Academy 44, Belle Plaine 17
McCook Cattle Trail Tournament
Hayes Center, Neb. 43, Oberlin-Decatur 41
Moundridge Tournament
Hillsboro 50, Lyons 30
Moundridge 50, Inman 21
Oxford Tournament
Oxford 53, Flinthills 45
Paola Tournament
Consolation Semifinal
Eudora 39, Highland Park 33
Skyline Tournament
Pratt Skyline 48, Stafford 18
Pretty Prairie 27, Sedgwick 24
Tri-County Classic
Halstead 52, Bennington 39
Minneapolis 59, Solomon 28
Yates Center Tournament
Marais des Cygnes Valley 92, Altoona-Midway 12

No. 19 Florida beats No. 13 Kansas

Posted on December 11, 2013December 11, 2013

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) – Scottie Wilbekin scored a career-high 18 points, Dorian Finney-Smith added 15 and No. 19 Florida held on to beat No. 13 Kansas 67-61 Tuesday night.

The Gators bounced back from a buzzer-beater loss at No. 9 Connecticut last week and extended their home-winning streak to 21 games. The latest victory came in the Big 12-SEC Challenge and surely will be meaningful when the NCAA tournament seeds are settled in March.

Wilbekin, who injured his right ankle against the Huskies eight days ago, made 7 of 12 shots and added six assists.

Freshman Andrew Wiggins led the Jayhawks (6-3) with 26 points and 11 rebounds – his first double-double and both career highs. Kansas has lost two straight.

The Gators (7-2) led by as many as 18 points in the first half, but Kansas made it 60-55 on Wiggins’ 3-pointer with 55.8 seconds remaining. It was his second 3 in the final 1:20.

Florida closed it out from the free throw line – barely.

Kansas State edges South Dakota

Posted on December 11, 2013December 11, 2013

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) – Marcus Foster had 18 points and Shane Southwell contributed 17 points and six rebounds as Kansas State beat South Dakota 64-62 on Tuesday night.

Kansas State (6-3) overcame a poor second-half performance from the foul line to top the Coyotes. While holding a 63-62 lead with 2 seconds left, Thomas Gipson converted on the first of two free throws to seal the victory.

Trevor Gruis matched his season high with 18 points for South Dakota (3-6), while Adam Thoseby added a season-high 16.

South Dakota opened strong, charging to a 15-4 lead with 10:59 remaining in the first half. Having returned four of its five starters from last season, the Coyotes used their experience to punish a depleted Kansas State frontcourt with 16 points in the paint in the first half.

The Wildcats twice cut the lead to three but South Dakota maintained a five-point advantage at the break.

Two injured in Tuesday night crash

Posted on December 11, 2013

Two people hurt following a two car crash Tuesday evening just southeast of Salina.

According to a report from the Kansas Highway Patrol, 24-year-old Eric Johnson of Gypsum was southbound on Simpson road, and failed to stop at a stop sign and his car collided with a car driven by 57-year-old Angela McWilliams of Salina who was on Magnolia Road.

Both were taken to Salina Regional Health Center.

The crash occurred just after 8pm .

Huelskamp: Budget Deal is Another Spending and Tax Increase

Posted on December 10, 2013

Today, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray announced their agreement on another bipartisan budget deal.

Congressman Tim Huelskamp made the following statement:

“This budget agreement is more of the same that we’ve seen out of Washington for years. Instead of providing solutions, it continues the insider game of playing ‘Let’s make a Deal.’ The deal provides for a $63 Billion spending increase, raises taxes, and adds to the deficit now – all in exchange for another mirage of spending reductions sometime in the future, most of them 5 years after Obama leaves the Oval Office.

In so doing it blows up the only real significant spending restraint passed since the Republicans assumed the majority in the 2010 election, it violates the Republican House Conference agreement hammered out in January of this year in Williamsburg, and it does next to nothing to implement the House budget passed earlier this year.”

Efforts underway to prevent hepatitis C outbreaks

Posted on December 10, 2013December 10, 2013

(AP) — The criminal case of a traveling medical technician who worked at Hays Medical Center, and who infected dozens of patients with hepatitis C through tainted syringes is pushing individual hospitals, state lawmakers and federal officials to close the loopholes he exploited.

David Kwiatkowski was sentenced last week to 39 years in prison. He has admitted stealing painkillers and replacing them with saline-filled syringes tainted with his blood. He had worked as a cardiac technologist in seven states before being hired in New Hampshire in 2011, moving from job to job despite being fired numerous times over drug allegations.

Joseph Perz of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Kwiatkowski helped unmask a problem that was a growing concern for the CDC and has added momentum to broader drug diversion prevention efforts.

Jury seated in Kansas porn trial

Posted on December 10, 2013December 10, 2013

(AP) — A Shawnee County jury has been selected for the trial of a Topeka man facing more than 100 counts of child pornography.

Jason W. Hachmeister is charged in Shawnee County court with 108 counts of sexual exploitation of a child. He’s also charged in another case with killing his mother in 2011.

Prosecutors say the child pornography was found on Hachmeister’s personal computer during an investigation into the September 2011 killing of 58-year-old Sheila R. Hachmeister of Topeka. Jason Hachmeister’s homicide trial in Shawnee County is scheduled to start Jan. 21, 2014.

The jury was selected Tuesday for his trial on child pornography charges, with opening arguments to follow.

Kansas kids to keep learning cursive

Posted on December 10, 2013December 10, 2013

(AP) — Kansas State Board of Education members want public school students to continue to learn how to write in cursive even in the age of keyboarding and text messaging.

The 10-member board unanimously approved new handwriting standards for public schools Tuesday, saying that students are expected to learn to write in cursive in the third grade and write legibly in cursive by the fifth grade.

Multistate academic standards adopted by Kansas in 2010 don’t require schools to teach cursive, and some educators question whether it’s still a necessary skill and whether they have time to teach it.

Also, because Kansas doesn’t have annual, statewide tests on handwriting, the board’s standards have little teeth. But board members said they’re hoping the strong language in the standards mean they won’t be ignored.

KS Supreme Court tells Kline No

Posted on December 10, 2013December 10, 2013

(AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court has denied former Attorney General Phill Kline’s request for a rehearing to consider modifying a ruling that indefinitely suspended his law license.

The denial was signed Tuesday by Justice Dan Biles on behalf of the court. Kline’s attorney Tom Condit filed the motion with the court last week.

Condit, who didn’t immediately return messages seeking comment, argued that investigators in Kline’s case were biased and facts about the former attorney general’s investigations into abortions were misrepresented.

The Supreme Court in October agreed with a state disciplinary panel that said Kline repeatedly misled or allowed subordinates to mislead others, including a Kansas City-area grand jury, during his investigations. The unanimous decision came after disputes between Kline, a Republican, and critics of his tactics.

Salvation Army – We Need Volunteers

Posted on December 10, 2013December 11, 2013

The Salvation Army is looking for volunteers to help collect donations this holiday season. April Chesney, the newly appointed County Coordinator for the Salvation Army, told Hays Post that she’s set small kettles in various businesses around town, but she’s looking for volunteers to ring bells and accept donations at the larger kettles.

Last year, over $16,000 was raised from donations in Hays and the surrounding area. Chesney said that while she’s not setting monetary goals given her short time frame to collect, she is happy to be stepping into her role in such a giving community.

All money collected in Ellis County will stay in Ellis County to be distributed through local organizations. The money will be used to help with items such as rent, bills, groceries, and utilities. Chesney says that First Call for Help helps with a majority of the screening.

In recent years, The Salvation Army has received a lot of negative backlash for stating that any money donated will not be distributed to homosexuals. Chesney says that the screening for local funds is just to establish income eligibility, and sexual orientation will not be a factor here as it may be in larger communities.

Chesney added that this Saturday December 14th Wal-Mart is partnering with the local Salvation Army for Fill the Truck, where people can purchase toys to be distributed to area children. She also said that this year, even with a short time to collect donations, she’s excited to kick start collection efforts.

“Me stepping in as somebody new and not originally from the community, seeing what Ellis County is capable of as far as taking care of their people and giving so generously; it just makes me excited and hopeful coming into this position.”

Anyone wishing to volunteer can call First Call for Help at 785-623-2800.

Trial delayed for man accused in fatal meth dose

Posted on December 10, 2013December 10, 2013

(AP) — A first-degree murder trial has been postponed at the request of lawyers for a 32-year-old Wichita man accused of injecting another man with a lethal dose of meth.

Dang Sean was scheduled to stand trial this week in Sedgwick County District Court. The was continued Tuesday at the request of the defense. A new date for the trial has not been set.

Prosecutors say they plan to seek a Hard 50 prison sentence if Sean is convicted.

Sean is accused of injecting 34-year-old Shawn Lindsey with a lethal dose of meth on Jan. 11, 2013. Prosecutors allege that Lindsey was killed to settle a debt that may have involved illegal drug transactions.

Crews Respond to House Fire

Posted on December 10, 2013December 10, 2013

The Ellis County Rural Fire Department responded to a structure fire Monday. According to Fire Chief Richard L. Klaus, the incident happened shortly after 11:00 p.m., in the 800 block of Moscow St in Munjor.

Klaus said that there were people in the home when the fire started. The occupants smelled the smoke, exited the building and called 911. The electrical fire began in a ceiling fan and burned a hole through the ceiling, causing extensive smoke damage to the second story.

Fire Companies 9, 5 and 4 from Hays, Victoria and Munjor responded to the call and were able to extinguish the blaze. Crews were able to leave the scene shortly after 2:00 am.

Klaus estimated that based on the extent of the damage the house will be a total loss. There were no injuries.

Tuesday morning Police shooting Under Investigation

Posted on December 10, 2013

Police on the scene of Tuesday's shooting in Manhattan — Police on the scene of Tuesday’s shooting in Manhattan

2:40 p.m. Update According to Riley County Police: At approximately 6:02 Tuesday morning, the Riley County Police Department received a 911 call regarding shots fired at 150 East Poyntz Ave. (The Quality Inn and Suites). Police officers from Riley and Pottawatomie counties responded, and once on scene observed a subject discharging a firearm outside of the hotel. As events unfolded, officers ordered the subject to cease firing and drop the weapon. When the subject failed to do so and continued firing, officers on the scene returned fire and struck the subject multiple times. Officers immediately rendered first aid and summoned medical assistance for the subject. There were no injuries to officers or innocent bystanders during this incident.

The subject was transported to Mercy Regional Hospital for treatment of gunshot wounds. Further details about the suspect’s medical condition have not been released at this time.

“Given the involvement of RCPD officers in the shooting, I have asked that the Kansas Bureau of Investigation handle the investigation. The KBI has agreed to do so and is now the lead agency in the case. The subject has been arrested for Aggravated Assault, additional criminal charges are possible pending completion of the investigation and referral to the Pottawatomie County Attorney’s Office.” Said Director Brad Schoen regarding this morning’s incident.

The names of the officers involved will not be released at this time pending further police investigation by the Kansas Bureau of Investigations.

The Riley County Police Department would like to thank the Pottawatomie County Sherriff’s Office, the Kansas State University Police Department, the Kansas Highway Patrol, the Wamego Police Department, and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation for their assistance in this matter.