The Blaine Billinger Celebration 5K Run/Walk and Blaine Billinger 2014 Poker Run have been scheduled Saturday to help raise money for local Boy Scouts.
The 5K Run/Walk will begin at 8 a.m. Sept. 27 at Thomas More Prep-Marian. Medals will be given to the top three finishers in each division.
The poker run will begin at 10:30 a.m. Sept. 27 with registration at Doerfler’s Harley-Davidson. There will be drawings and prizes.
Registration information can be found at bbscout.org.
Proceeds for both events will benefit the Blaine Billinger Excellence in Scouting Fund, which provides scholarship and sponsorships for scouts who don’t have the means to afford camps.
The fund also benefits less fortunate children, offering support to various kids activities.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Division of Budget has told seven state agencies to evaluate whether they can operate more efficiently.
The Wichita Eagle reports results of the evaluations are to be presented to the budget division in the first two weeks of October.
The governor’s spokeswoman says the evaluations aren’t related to projections that the state faces a $238 million budget shortfall by the end of June 2016.
She says the state officials look for opportunities to better use taxpayer money, no matter how much money the state has.
Budget Director Shawn Sullivan will work with the agencies over the next few months to determine if state services are being delivered as efficiently as possible and whether there are any duplicate programs.
LEAWOOD, Kan. (AP) — The Federal Trade Commission alleges in a lawsuit that a Kansas bitcoin company bilked more than 20,000 customers out of up to $50 million.
The FTC alleges that the Leawood-based company, Butterfly Labs, told consumers that computers could generate bitcoins but didn’t deliver the computers or sent worthless equipment.
The Kansas City Star reports that the FTC said Tuesday the federal court in Kansas City issued a temporary restraining order that shutdown the business.
The company said in a statement that it would fight the federal action and accused the government of wanting to shut down the company.
Bitcoins are a way to buy and sell some goods and services instead of using dollars or other government money.
In the latest episode of Community Connection, Eagle’s Mike Cooper introduces the community to one of the newest Fort Hays State University administrators.
Deborah Ludwig is the new dean of Forsyth Library on the campus of FHSU.
Fort Hays State Weekly Football Press Conference
September 23, 2014
Fort Hays State head football coach along with selected players met with members of the media Tuesday. The 2-1 Tigers play at No. 8 Pittsburg State Saturday afternoon at 2:07pm.
Where to begin? This is the stuff books are made of. No way can I do anything but scratch the surface in this writing. It’s that massive.
Whether it is corruption, fraud, lawlessness, abuse, lack of ethics, or just plain old dirty politics, our federal administrative government is completely out of control. It appears to me, the foul play by the president and his agencies since his 2009 inauguration is worse than ever before in this country’s history.
Let’s call it moral bankruptcy. It starts at the top with our president Barack Obama but, unfortunately, permeates far too many in this administration on the way down throughout a multitude of government agencies.
Some would say “Les, you are making a mountain out of a mole hill.” Through my research for weeks the scandalous mountains are like Mount Whitney, the highest summit in the U.S. Notice I said mountains plural, not singular!
Unless one lives in a cave, we all know Obama and his administration have engaged in one scandal after another. There’s the gun running Fast and Furious, eavesdropping on reporters that don’t see things Obama’s way, the Stimulus cronyism that led to numerous bankruptcies at taxpayer expense, VA letting veterans die, letting four great Americans die in Benghazi, IRS targeting conservative voters, open borders, releasing criminals, releasing five terrorists for a deserter behind the back of Congress, etc. And, let’s not forget all the Obamacare scandals of unconstitutionally re-writing the law some 40 times without Congress’ input.
Add to all those scandals, there is agency after agency in our government as morally bankrupt as you can get. Far too many in Washington, on the public dole as employees, are liberal partisan activists and not public servants owing allegiance to all Americans. Many have actively, illegally, and even immorally gone after people who are exercising their constitutional right to be critical of our government, especially if it is Obama.
What is happening in this country regarding tax monies for abortions was a “wake up call” for me to get off my duff and get out this letter. Didn’t Obama promise pro lifers taxpayer money would not be used to kill babies? Guess what? The Obamacare insurance carriers cover abortions but hide it by not itemizing medical procedures. How’s that for moral bankruptcy?
Welfare recipients can not use their food stamp debit cards at liquor stores, but they can use them at marijuana shops. The fraud and corruption in our welfare programs has skyrocketed under Obama with his push to get as many on the programs as possible, knowing it is a sure vote during elections for his side. Unfortunately, some of those welfare checks go to people who have died or never existed in the first place. People get government disability checks that are not in the least bit disabled.
There are 109 million people on 80 different welfare programs amounting to three quarters of a trillion dollars annually. The sprawling incompetent bureaucracy administering these programs is in over its head and isn’t it immoral to dang carrots by agencies so people have no incentive to work? The liberal partisan administrative agencies know that the more on the dole the more votes their party will get.
In the Veterans Administration people lied as they manipulated data about veterans getting medical treatment while veterans died for not getting urgent treatment. Many of the workers were cooking the books to get bonuses. Have any been held accountable and did they get their bonuses?
Actually, in the many scandals all over the place very few have been held accountable. What about the many in EPA found surfing for porn most of the day and the outrageous expenditures of many agencies on conferences, perks, etc.?
One of the biggest scoundrels in our government today is the Environmental Protection Agency, with more workers than they know what to do with thus the porn surfing. Green energy (global warming) agendas that Obama can’t get through Congress are unconstitutionally carried out by EPA. Just since 2009, EPA under Obama, has issued thousands of new regulations with words more than 30 times the Bible.
Seems that the moral bankruptcy has even reached down into our Department of Defense as they confiscate Bibles from Christian soldiers and cater to Islamists by not calling them terrorists in order to appease our president.
A good case could be made that Attorney General Eric Holder’s Department of Justice is the most corrupt DOJ agency in the history of this country. Being held in contempt by Congress hasn’t deterred Holder one iota as he administers injustice rather than justice, and never holds himself or Obama accountable for anything.
As mentioned above, the moral bankruptcy is so very pervasive I can only give readers a “smidgeon” of the big picture in this writing. Ironically, Obama said there wasn’t a smidgeon of corruption in the IRS. Turns out the IRS agency scandal is moral bankruptcy in the first order with lies, cover ups, stonewalling, and destroying hard drives as it carries out Obama’s agendas of destroying conservatives.
Is there any wonder by readers that I feel compelled to write this?
John Richard Schrock is a professor at Emporia State University.
The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) was released earlier this month. According to the summary in University World News, United States universities took “…16 places in the top 20, 52 in the top 100 and 146 in the top 500.”
Eight of the top 10 were U.S. universities: Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, Princeton, Caltech, Columbia and Chicago (by order). The United Kingdom took the other two slots with Cambridge at 5 and Oxford at 9.
The ARWU was established over a decade ago by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2003. They rank over 1,250 universities worldwide and also break down rankings by five broad subject fields. U.S. universities dominate them all—for now. The ARWU uses a variety of measures such as the number of professors with publications in high ranking journals. The system is considered “objective” but places heavy emphasis on research.
There are other ranking agencies, including the Times Higher Education World University Rankings that attempt to classify the best 200 higher education institutions in the world. The THE uses 13 performance indicators “covering the full range of university activities–research, knowledge transfer, international outlook and the teaching environment.” Similar to the movie Casablanca, they end up “rounding up the usual suspects”: Harvard, etc.
The Office of Economic Cooperation and Development in Europe conducted a study of how universities worldwide used these rankings and found:
• 58% of respondents were not happy with their current ranking.
• 70% want to be in the top 10 % nationally.
• 71% want to be in the top 25% internationally.
• 56% have a formal internal mechanism for reviewing their rank order.
Everyone from national leaders to local governors to university presidents want their universities to be in the top ranks and feel inadequate if they aren’t. They direct huge resources toward developing a national and international reputation. But that diverts resources from serving their local region’s needs and teaching their students.
Meanwhile, one country stopped to ask if these rankings are really useful. The Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research commissioned a report that the University World News summarized with the headline: “Official study slams university rankings as ‘useless’.” The Norwegian study “…concluded that even the top rankings are so based on subjective weightings of factors and on dubious data that they are useless as a basis for information if the goal is to improve higher education.”
Last year, the European Union launched yet another university ranking system: U-Multirank.
UWN reported that “Some 500 universities worldwide are expected to sign up to U-Multirank.”
U-Multirank rates universities in five areas: research reputation, quality of teaching and learning, international orientation, success in knowledge transfer (partnerships and start-ups), and contribution to regional growth.
And BBC News just reported a study that analyzed top ranked universities and found “money is the key to being a top university.” With over $700,000 in grants per year per professor, a university can buy into the higher ranks.
Students—and in particular foreign students—often ask me if such-and-such university is “highly-ranked.” (Indeed, in China, universities are ranked Level One, Two or Three.) I ask my students what are they studying? I tell them that it is the department or school that matters, not the university. If you want to be an excellent elementary teacher, don’t go to Harvard. Several Kansas schools have undergraduate programs in that area that are much better. Many Research I universities have some terrible undergraduate programs. Undergraduates will rarely if ever see that $700,000-grant professor.
Norway knows that quality education for undergraduate students has little to do with university rankings. So should we.
The Hays High volleyball team drops two spots but remains ranked in the weekly Kansas Volleyball Association rankings. The Indians fall to No. 10 in 5A.
Smith Center remains No. 3 and Ness City holds at No. 10 in the 2A poll. La Crosse drops three to No. 7 in 1A Division I. Wheatland-Grinnell remains No. 2 in 1A Divisoin II while Otis-Bison makes it’s debut at No. 9.
Complete rankings below…
Class 6A
1. Olathe East 13-3 (1)
2. Blue Valley North 9-2 (2)
3. Blue Valley Northwest 10-2 (3)
4. Maize 19-1 (4)
5. Olathe Northwest 12-4 (6)
6. Blue Valley West 8-4 (7)
7. Blue Valley 9-6 (5)
8. Washburn Rural 7-3 (8)
9. Manhattan 9-6 (10)
10. Derby 12-6 (9)
Class 5A
1. St. James Academy 11-1 (1)
2. St. Thomas Aquinas 16-1 (2)
3. Topeka-Seaman 17-0 (3)
4. Shawnee Heights 8-2 (4)
5. Bishop Carroll 11-3 (5)
6. Blue Valley Southwest 11-2 (6)
7. Newton 12-4 (7)
8. Andover 12-5 (9)
9. Goddard-Eisenhower 9-3 (10) 10. Hays 11-2 (8)
Class 3A
1. Silver Lake 8-7 (1)
2. Garden Plain 12-0 (3)
3. Hesston 11-2 (2)
4. Cheney 7-5 (4)
5. Rock Creek 14-1 (5)
6. Nemaha Central 8-2 (6)
7. Wabaunsee 14-2 (7)
8. Council Grove 11-2 (8)
9. Douglass 7-1 (9)
10. Wellsville 13-4 (NR)
Class 2A
1. Hillsboro 14-0 (1)
2. Washington County 12-0 (2) 3. Smith Center 12-0 (3)
4. Central Plains 12-1 (8)
5. Remington 13-3 (6)
6. Sterling 11-5 (4)
7. Lyndon 15-2 (7)
8. South Central 12-5 (5)
9. St. Mary’s Colgan 14-3 (9) 10. Ness City 9-2 (10)
Class 1A – Division 1
1. Goessel 14-0 (1)
2. Centralia 16-1 (2)
3. Hoxie 13-1 (3)
4. Spearville 13-1 (6)
5. Waverly 15-2 (5)
6. Valley Heights 8-3 (7) 7. LaCrosse 11-3 (4)
8. Frankfort 9-3 (NR)
9. Linn 9-4 (8)
10. St. Paul 12-1 (10)
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Topeka residents can still legally walk around nude in the city, for now.
The Topeka City Council voted on Tuesday to send to committee a proposal to make public nudity a misdemeanor offense. The issue arose after a man was seen walking nude in south central Topeka near an elementary school earlier this year.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the issue was sent to committee after councilman Richard Harmon suggested restricting public nudity only near schools and day cares.
The proposed ban wouldn’t apply to children under 10 or breastfeeding women. Violators could face up to 30 days in jail and/or a fine of between $1 and $499.
Public nudity is not banned by state law or Topeka ordinance, though state law prohibits it in the context of sexual arousal.
Rep. Jenkins and Sen. Moran visit the Topeka VA this spring
By Andy Marso
KHI News Service
TOPEKA — U.S. Rep. Lynn Jenkins and U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran are leading a congressional effort to delay enforcement of Medicare regulations requiring physician supervision of outpatient treatments like chemotherapy and intravenous infusions.
The rules are intended to improve patient safety. But Jenkins, Moran and several advocacy groups, including the Kansas Hospital Association, said they would burden rural providers without benefiting patients.
“It really has put a lot of burden onto the hospitals for supervision of services we just had historically done and had not had any quality issues,” said Tish Hollingsworth, the hospital association’s senior director of finance and reimbursement.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have enforced the physician supervision rule since Jan. 1. Hospitals that violate the rule risk losing Medicare reimbursement for the services provided.
Hollingsworth said her group was not aware of any hospitals being penalized yet.
“I have not heard that hospitals have had claims withheld or claims denied, because it is not the focus of any kind of audit right now,” Hollingsworth said. “But whenever there’s a regulation in place like that, we don’t know when it could become an issue.”
The U.S. House earlier this month passed H.R. 4067, co-sponsored by Jenkins, which would delay enforcement of the regulations until next year. Jenkins introduced the bill in February, but it moved slowly through the legislative process.
“Medicare policy change is not taken lightly by Congress, and bills like H.R. 4067 are a laborious process,” Tom Brandt, a spokesman for Jenkins’ office, said via email. “This bill was also in the jurisdiction of two separate House Committees – Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce. This made the process more complicated.”
The bill awaits action in the Senate, which passed similar legislation promoted by Moran earlier in the year.
Chad Austin, senior vice president of government relations for the hospital association, said those companion bills to delay the Medicare regulations are part of a “two-pronged approach” that also includes clarifying the regulations long-term.
The long-term fix, Austin said, is contained in Senate Bill 1143, which Moran introduced. It would, in part, clarify that the physician supervision required in the new regulations is consistent with other Medicare regulations that require critical access hospitals to have a physician able to respond within 30 minutes.
“While CMS believes they’re providing some guidance, there’s still some clarification from our perspective that needs to be resolved,” Austin said.
Specifically, Austin said, hospitals are unsure what level of physician supervision has to be provided to comply with the regulations.
Julie Brookhart, a CMS regional spokeswoman, said via email that for most of the outpatient therapies affected, the standard is “direct supervision,” in which “the physician or non-physician practitioner must be immediately available to furnish assistance and direction throughout the performance of the procedure.”
But some procedures call for modified levels of supervision, like “general supervision,” in which the “procedure is furnished under the physician’s overall direction and control but the physician’s presence is not required during the performance of the procedure” or “personal supervision,” in which the physician must be physically present in the room for the duration of the procedure.
CMS announced the rule in 2009 but exempted rural critical access hospitals until this year and made changes at those hospitals’ suggestion in the interim.
“We issued non-enforcement instructions of these requirements in critical access hospitals and small rural hospitals for a few years to allow them time to meet the requirements,” Brookhart said. “These non-enforcement instructions ended at the end of 2013. We are currently enforcing these requirements in these hospitals.”
Austin said because hospitals remain unsure what it means to have a physician “immediately available” under the direct supervision guidelines, Kansas’ 84 critical access hospitals should be protected from any attempts to recoup Medicare reimbursements related to such procedures until the rules are revised.
His group joined the American Hospital Association, National Rural Health Association and Anderson County Hospital in writing letters supporting the delay in the bill Jenkins co-sponsored.
Anderson County’s letter said that by applying the supervision rules even to hospital-employed practitioners in rural health clinics, CMS made it nearly impossible to comply.
Dennis Hachenberg, the hospital’s CEO, wrote that the CMS rule presented a “significant hardship and expense to rural hospitals.”
“It will limit the ability to provide our outpatients with basic therapeutic services such as IV infusions, initial antibiotic therapy, emergency cardiac drugs and blood transfusions,” Hachenberg wrote. “These are services that have been provided in rural communities safely through the years and will ultimately impact access to important services for the patients and communities we serve.”
CLEVELAND (AP) – With another win, the Royals stepped closer to history and a playoff berth.
They’ve got a much bigger goal in mind.
Rookie Yordano Ventura blanked Cleveland’s punchless offense for seven innings as Kansas City kept pressure on first-place Detroit in the AL Central with a 7-1 win over the Indians on Tuesday night.
Following the game, the Royals retreated to their clubhouse to watch the ninth inning of the Tigers’ 5-4 win over Chicago. As they ate their postgame meals, Kansas City’s players roared loudly when the White Sox scored three runs in the ninth to tie it. It got much quieter when Miguel Cabrera delivered a game-winning hit to keep the Tigers one game ahead of Kansas City.
Still, the Royals are stalking.
Manager Ned Yost knows his club almost has a wild-card berth locked up. However, he’s got his sights on a bigger prize.
“I’m not really interested in the wild card right now,” Yost said. “That (magic) number doesn’t mean much to me. The wild card has always been Plan B. We’re in good shape right now. Our focus is on winning this division.”
The hard-throwing Ventura (14-10) allowed four singles and threw a 100 mph fastball on his 104th pitch.
Salvador Perez’s two-out, two-run double off Danny Salazar (6-8) put the Royals ahead 5-0 in the fifth and they turned their attention to the left-field scoreboard to monitor the Tigers’ score. Kansas City remained one game out of first with five games left.
It’s been 29 years since the Royals were in the postseason, and that run in 1985 ended with their only World Series title.
At 86-71, Kansas City matched its win total from last season. It’s the first time the Royals have had consecutive seasons with at least 86 victories since 1977-78.
The playoffs are within reach, but the Royals aren’t banking on anything just yet.
“We’ve got to stick to the plan,” first baseman Eric Hosmer said. “We keep saying it over and over again, but it’s what you have to do as a team. We went out and took care of our business.”
The Indians’ faint playoff hopes grew dimmer. Cleveland trails Kansas City by 4 1/2 games in the wild-card chase with four games remaining.
Cleveland’s offense went into a funk at the worst time possible. The Indians scored an unearned run in the eighth, ending a string of 19 straight scoreless innings.
Ventura made his major league debut against the Indians last September, a performance Indians manager Terry Francona called “electric.”
“We’re not hoping for electric tonight,” Francona said beforehand.
Ventura didn’t have to be. The Indians are currently powerless.
With a chance to stay in the race in the season’s final week, Cleveland is collapsing.
“We didn’t win, which we set out to do,” Francona said. “The only thing we can do now is play tomorrow and try to win that game.”
Omar Infante’s two-run double in the fourth gave the Royals a 2-0 lead, and with the Indians’ offense sputtering, Ventura had more than enough cushion to notch his fifth win in six starts and improve to 3-0 with a 1.57 ERA in five career starts against the Indians. He’s 7-1 with a 2.02 ERA in his last eight starts in the division.
“He’s a special guy,” Yost said. “He has all the makings of being a high-level, upper-tier pitcher in the American League.”
In the fifth, Salazar, who struck out the side in the first two innings, got two quick outs before Hosmer doubled and scored on Billy Butler’s double. Alex Gordon was walked intentionally and Perez drove in two with his shot to left-center, the ball just clearing lunging left fielder Michael Brantley’s glove.
Salazar was dominant in the early going, getting six strikeouts in the first two innings with each whiff coming on a wicked change-up that badly fooled the Royals hitters.
He escaped a threat in the third, but Salazar wasn’t so fortunate in the fourth, when he walked Butler and gave up a single to Gordon before Infante pulled his double into the left-field corner.
ROAD RAGE
Kansas City has won 16 of its last 23 road games since Aug. 1.
MOST YOST
Yost managed in his 770th game with the Royals, tying him with Dick Howser for the most in franchise history. Yost has a 370-400 record with the Royals since being hired in 2010. Yost had 457 wins as Milwaukee’s manager (2003-08).
UP NEXT
LHP Jason Vargas (11-10), who has recorded the AL’s third-lowest ERA (2.42) on the road, starts the series finale for the Royals, who oddly lost as the home team on Monday when they dropped a suspended game. Trevor Bauer (5-8) goes for the Indians, who have lost each of his past four starts after winning four in a row and five of six.
Roy Steven Ochs Jr. was born August 31, 1930, at the Gove County Hospital to Roy and Margaret (Ochs) Ochs. He passed away on Monday September 22, 2014, at Gove County Medical Center, Quinter, at the age of 84.
He attended Jumbo Grade School and Grainfield High School. He went on to serve our country in the United States Army. He served overseas in Germany in 1952. He was honorably discharged in 1954.
On August 31, 1954, Roy was united in marriage to Verlene Deges in the St. Agnes Church in Grainfield. They enjoyed 60 years of marriage together. He was a farmer and rancher his entire life. Roy was proud of the land he farmed and the livestock he raised. He was actively farming upon his death. When Roy wasn’t hard at work on the farm, he enjoyed hunting. The Ochs’ home was the central gathering place for pheasant hunting, jokes, card games and family gatherings.
He was a member of the St Agnes Catholic Church, as well as the Knights of Columbus. He was an American Legion and Gove County Farm Bureau member. Roy absolutely cherished his family. He enjoyed the time spent with his grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Roy will be dearly missed by many friends and family, including his wife, Verlene of the family home; three daughters Dee (Jack) Foster of Grainfield, Dar (Tim) Hickert of Hays, Connie (Gary) Rupp of Tribune; one son Ron (Lesa) of Quinter. Nine grandchildren; eight great grandchildren; and two sisters, Elsie and husband Darrell Karlin of Hays, Francis Witt of Grandview, Mo. Preceding him in death were four sisters, Mary Kaiser, Rosie Weber, Anna Wolf, and Antonia Rupp; and two brothers, George and John.
Roy’s memory remains a lasting impression in the lives of his family and friends.
Mass of Christian burial will be 10:00 a.m., Friday, September 26, 2014 at St. Agnes Catholic Church in Grainfield. Burial will be in the Grainfield Cemetery.
Visitation will be Thursday, from 5 to 7 p.m., at St. Agnes Religious Education Center. A parish vigil service will be immediately following at 7 p.m.
Memorial contributions are suggested to the Grainfield American Legion or Gove County Medical Center. Checks made to either organization may be sent in care of Schmitt Funeral Home, 901 South Main, Quinter, KS 67752.
Fort Hays State Volleyball dropped a 3-0 (25-20, 25-12, 28-26) contest to eighth-ranked Washburn, spoiling the Tigers’ Pack the Gym event on Tuesday (Sept. 23).
FHSU (6-6, 1-3 MIAA) battled to within two points of forcing a fourth set, but couldn’t complete the set victory as Washburn (11-1, 3-1 MIAA) sealed the win.
With the Tigers leading 4-1 in the first, Washburn rallied to tie it at four before back-and-forth play brought it to 8-all. From there, the Ichabods ran off two quick points and never relinquished the lead. Though FHSU rallied to within one (20-19) late in the set, WU closed the frame on a 5-1 run to take a lead in the match.
In the second frame, the Ichabods broke out on a 10-2 lead before FHSU answered on a 10-4 run. Down two (14-12), the Tigers allowed 11 straight points by WU and dropped the set, 25-12.
After intermission, FHSU hung with the Ichabods until 8-8, when a six-point burst forced a Tigers’ timeout, down 14-8. After the reset, FHSU began a climb back into contention, tying it at 17-all and taking a 19-17 advantage. The final six points of that rally were unanswered by the Ichabods.
Later in the set, FHSU led by four (23-19), but a 5-0 run by Washburn gave the Ichabods an advantage, looking at match point (24-23). Fort Hays State forced a win-by-two situation after Mallory Flagor‘s final kill of the night tied it at 24, but after battling to 26-all, FHSU dropped two quick points to the Ichabods, and the set, 28-26.
Flagor pushed her double-digit kills’ streak to 11 games with 10 kills in the set, finishing as the only Tiger in double-digits. Flagor added three block assists as well.
Sara Hewson had six kills to go with 11 digs on the outside, while Rebekah Spainhour had five kills and three block assists, tied for second on the team.
Taylor Mares had four block assists, while Callie Christensenadded four total blocks (one solo).
The announced attendance of 1,123 for Pack the Gym night was one short of tying the school’s single game attendance record for a volleyball match at Gross Memorial Coliseum.
Fort Hays State hits the road this weekend to begin a four-game road trip, which starts at Southwest Baptist on Friday, Sept. 26. Match time in Bolivar, Mo., is set for 7 p.m.
