Augie Gillardo pitched seven solid innings and Corky Welch had three hits to lead the Hays Larks to a 7-1 win over the Liberal BeeJays Tuesday night at Larks Park, ending their three-game losing streak. The victory pulls the Larks (12-10, 9-8) within two games of the first place BeeJays (15-7, 11-6) in the Jayhawk League North Division.
Manager Frank Leo
Augue Gillardo
Corky Welch
Gillardo (3-1) allowed one run on four hits, striking out five and walking two as he picks up his second straight win. Derek Birginske struck out four over the final two innings for his first save of the season.The Larks broke a 1-1 tie with two runs in the sixth inning on a two-out single from Derrick Mount and two-out double from Garrett McKinzie. They then score four in the eighth to blow the game open.
RJ Willaims and Brooks Ballisterri both drove in two.
The Larks go for the split in the four game series Wednsday night. Free admission for the 7 pm game courtesy of Bank of Hays, Werth Financial Management and Farm Bureau Insurance. It’s also Educators night with all area teachers and educators encouraged to attend and be recognized.
DERBY, Kan. (AP) — Investigators are trying to determine why the driver of a pickup truck drove into the dugout at a baseball diamond in a Wichita suburb.
Three players of the Derby Twins, a summer-league college baseball team, suffered minor injuries when the truck hit their dugout Tuesday night. The driver was hospitalized in serious condition.
Derby Police Chief Robert Lee says it’s unclear why the truck went off a nearby road, through a chain-link fence and through the batting cages before hitting the dugout.
The Wichita Eagle reports Rickey Noland, coach of the Derby Twins, said witnesses saw the driver’s face down at the steering wheel before the truck hit a transformer and veered into the dugout.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A man who dropped a loaded handgun inside a Kansas City school auditorium last year has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
The Kansas City Star reports 42-year-old Larry K. Wren, 42, was sentenced to 21 months in prison Monday. According to court documents, Wren was attending a concert at University Academy when he accidentally dropped the weapon on the auditorium floor. The documents say another concertgoer saw Wren pick up the handgun.
According to the documents, Kansas City police located a 9 mm handgun with 15 rounds in a purse inside a car in the school’s parking lot. Authorities said Wren told police he had forgotten the gun was with him and had a woman take it outside.
HUTCHINSON– The Reno County Sheriff Office reports the victim whose body was found near Nickerson on Monday has been identified as 38-year-old Mary Ann Arnett.
A passerby found her body in a small creek near 43rd & Riverton Road three miles south of Nickerson and called 911. Reno County Sheriff Randy Henderson says the family identified the woman based on her tattoos.
Sheriff Captain Steve Lutz says the KBI is conducting interviews in the case.
Authorities say they believed 22-year-old Jonathan P. Wilson killed Arnett.
Hutchinson Police shot and killed him early Tuesday.
Wilson reportedly admitted to a person in a home on North Van Buren in Hutchinson that he had murdered someone leading to the confrontation with police.
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas Highway Patrol trooper reached his 10,000th Twitter follower with a noteworthy addition.
The Hutchinson News reports that Kansas Highway Patrol Technical Trooper Ben Gardner joined Twitter in 2008 and on Monday he reached the milestone of 10,000 followers thanks to actor Erik Estrada, who now follows Gardner on Twitter.
Estrada is best known for starring as highway patrol officer Frank “Ponch” Poncherello in the television show “CHiPs” from the 1970s-1980s.
Gardner uses his Twitter account — @TrooperBenKHP — to encourage safe driving habits, remind readers of traffic regulations and other things traffic related. He’s the public resource officer for Troop C in north-central Kansas.
SEATTLE (AP) – Rookie Mike Montgomery tossed a four-hitter against the team that drafted him, Dustin Ackley singled, doubled and homered for his first three-hit game of the season and the Seattle Mariners beat the Kansas City Royals 7-0 on Tuesday night.
Montgomery (2-2) became the second Mariners pitcher this season to toss a complete game, joining Felix Hernandez, and he became the 10th rookie in Seattle history to toss a complete game. Montgomery retired 17 straight batters at one point, striking out a career-high 10 and allowing only two base runners after the second inning.
Montgomery was originally drafted by the Royals, but was eventually traded to Tampa Bay before landing in Seattle via trade before the start of this season. He walked none and escaped a bases loaded jam in the first inning before overpowering Kansas City the rest of the way.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Actor William Shatner is scheduled to pass through Wichita this week on a trip to raise money for the American Legion.
The Wichita Eagle reports that Shatner will be in Wichita on Thursday as he makes a 2,400-mile journey from Illinois to California on a three-wheeled motorcycle. The trip is intended to raise money for the American Legion.
The 84-year-old actor portrayed Captain Kirk in the 1960s television series “Star Trek.” His trip is scheduled to end in Los Angeles next week.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Prosecutors want a federal judge to reconsider a ruling that overturned six convictions against a former Kansas doctor and his wife whose pain clinic is linked to 68 overdose deaths.
A government filing Tuesday asks the court to resentence Stephen and Linda Schneider on those six counts, rather than tossing out the convictions. The judge already plans to resentence them on the conspiracy count. The bulk of the case remains.
A jury found the Haysville couple guilty in 2010 of conspiracy to commit health care fraud resulting in those deaths, unlawfully prescribing drugs, health care fraud and money laundering.
The judge revisited their case after U.S. Supreme Court ruling in another case finding the victim’s drug use had to be the actual cause of death, not merely a contributing factor.
The Hays Parks Department has been fielding a lot of phone calls recently from residents asking why the city isn’t mowing waterways in town.
The Parks Department has changed its maintenance practices for water drainage ditches–areas including Chetolah Draw, Skyline Draw, Anthony Draw, Canal Draw and Lincoln Draw–according to Jeff Boyle, Director of Parks.
The change is related to the new municipal separate stormwater system permit recently issued by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Hays is required to improve the quality of water leaving the city through stormwater runoff.
The city lies within the Big Creek watershed, which is considered ‘impaired’ due to elevated levels of nitrogen, phosphorous, sediment and bacteria.
“The city of Hays is a significant contributor to the impairment as noted in stormwater runoff samples,” Boyle said.
One of the most cost-effective methods in reducing these impairments is the use of densely vegetated drainage channels–a program known as ‘no-mow.’
The city is mowing these drainage areas only as necessary to control annual weedy vegetation.
“The goal of this type of maintenance is to provide native vegetation growth, reduce erosion and help clean the water leaving the city of Hays,” Boyle pointed out.
The process takes time to become a more natural, environmental approach to the drainage areas.
“The tall vegetation slows the water down, allowing the sediment and the ‘undesirables’ to settle out and be taken care of by Mother Nature in the ditches,” he explained.
Some areas have been really overgrown, thanks to the “unexpected 6.5 inches of rain in May–in a typical year, the vegetation wouldn’t be quite as tall and dense as it is right now–but for the most part, the program is working. We will be doing a little bit of touch-up here and there promoting those native grasses.
“As we move forward, ecological succession will take over and we’ll get these native plants that we want–the desirable type weeds and grasses–and they’ll be beautiful areas,” Boyle said.
In some parks, ‘no-mow’ is also being done in areas where there little to no activity by people, as well as on slopes.
“No-mow doesn’t mean we will never mow an area. It will be mowed on occasion,” Boyle stressed.
“The proper way to do most areas is a fall mowing. That way the native naturalized species have had the opportunity to produce seed, the grass can be mowed off and the seed will drop into place, adding to a more dense native grass population. That is the intent of the no-mow program,” he added.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas board has picked a group with ties to two other casinos in the state to develop a new one in the state’s southeast corner.
The casino review board Tuesday selected a $70 million proposal from Kansas Crossing that was less expensive than two rival plans. The others included the $145 million Castle Rock casino that would have been within 2 miles of a Quapaw tribal casino in northeast Oklahoma.
The board split 5-2 between Kansas Crossing and Castle Rock.
The Kansas Lottery will own the new casino.
Board members supporting Kansas Crossing said its project is the right size for the market. Also, investors in the group have been involved in casinos in Dodge City and south of Wichita.
GORHAM- Two people were injured in an accident just after 4 p.m. on Tuesday in Russell County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2006 Chevy Impala driven by Angela R. Eilts, 36, Gorham, left Interstate 70 at the 175 exit 2 miles south of Gorham.
The vehicle started to turn north. The driver failed to yield and the vehicle was hit by a northbound semi and rolled on the bridge.
Eilts and the semi driver Zachary G. Dreiling, 20, Gorham, were transported to Russell Regional Medical Center.
Two children in the Impala were transported to the hospital but not injured.
All were properly restrained at the time of the accident according to the KHP.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Tim Huelskamp (KS-01) issued the following statement after the House voted to pass H.R. 1190, the Protecting Seniors’ Access to Medicare Act. The bipartisan bill cosponsored by Huelskamp would repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). IPAB is a creation of the President Obama’s health care law and would be comprised of 15 unelected and unaccountable Washington bureaucrats with draconian authority to ration Medicare on the backs of our seniors.
“Today’s vote to eliminate IPAB is another successful effort to put patients first. We’ve sought to protect our seniors and undo the harm ObamaCare will and has done to patients. The hands of 15 unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats, appointed by the President is neither what America wants nor needs.
“Our seniors need quality, innovative and responsive health care – not a rationing board that would devastate Medicare”
CHICAGO (AP) — A big research analysis says medical marijuana has not been proven to work for many illnesses for which state laws have approved it.
The analysis found the strongest evidence is for chronic pain and for muscle stiffness in multiple sclerosis. But the authors say evidence is weak for many other conditions, including anxiety, sleep disorders, and Tourette’s syndrome.
The analysis evaluated 79 studies involving more than 6,000 patients. It’s published in Tuesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association.
A separate study tested edible medical marijuana products and found many labels don’t accurately list amounts of the active ingredients. More than half had lower than listed amounts but some had higher than listed amounts.
Augie Gillardo pitched seven solid innings and Corky Welch had three hits to lead the Hays Larks to a 7-1 win over the Liberal BeeJays Tuesday night at Larks Park, ending their three-game losing streak. The victory pulls the Larks (12-10, 9-8) within two games of the first place BeeJays (15-7, 11-6) in the Jayhawk League North Division.
