Pictured front row, from left, are Dakoda Werth, Noah Weimer, Garrett Wellbrock, Jack Fields, Clayton Hejny and Wes Oakley. Pictured, back row, from right, are Gage May, Carter Newell, Gavin Meyers, Dalton Dale, Jace Linenberger and Jaren Kanek-McGrath.
The Hays 11U Cardinals took home the trophy from this weekend’s National Baseball Congress Feature Points Tournament at the Bickle-Schmidt Sports Complex in Hays.
The team knocked off the top-seeded Dodge City Sox 9-4 in the championship game. The Cards went 5-1 in the two-day tournament.
The Hays 11U Blue Devils also fared well in the tournament, beating Russell on Sunday to earn a semi-final berth.
Pictured front row, from left, are Dakoda Werth, Noah Weimer, Garrett Wellbrock, Jack Fields, Clayton Hejny and Wes Oakley. Pictured, back row, from right, are Gage May, Carter Newell, Dalton Dale, Gavin Meyers, Jace Linenberger and Jaren Kanek-McGrath.
HaysPost.com encourages results and photos from all area baseball and softball teams during the busy tournament season. Email photos with tournament information and photo caption information to [email protected].
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A Lawrence man has been arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault after a six-hour standoff with police.
Authorities say officers responded to a residence around 5:30 a.m., where a 48-year-old allegedly threatened another person in the house with a rifle. The victim was able to escape uninjured shortly after police arrived.
According to Sgt. Trent McKinley, police then attempted to communicate with the suspect for the next six hours. The suspect eventually emerged from the home just after 11:30 a.m. and surrendered to officers.
The suspect is being held in the Douglas County Jail without bond.
HAYS – A Kansas man was injured in an accident just before 4:30 a.m. on Monday in Ellis County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1999 Cadillac passenger vehicle driven by Darnell Eugene Collins Jr., Wichita, was westbound on Interstate 70 three miles east of Hays.
The vehicle traveled into the median, hit a cross over, went airborne, rolled an unknown amount of times and came to rest facing east in the median.
Eagle Med flew Collins Jr. to Wesley Medical Center for treatment.
He was properly restrained at the time of the accident according to the KHP.
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HAYS- An early morning accident temporarily closed eastbound Interstate 70 to traffic near Commerce Parkway.
First responders including Ellis County Rural Fire and Eagle Med were called to the scene. One person was flown to a Wichita hospital for treatment of life threatening injuries.
Check Hays Post for additional details as they become available.
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HAYS -Eastbound Interstate 70 is temporarily closed near Commerce Parkway.
Eagle Med and other emergency responders are on the scene of an accident.
Check Hays Post for additional details as they become available.
Temperatures will remain very warm this week. Heat indices this afternoon will exceed 100 degrees once again in many areas.
Today Sunny, with a high near 97. Breezy, with a south southwest wind 13 to 20 mph becoming north in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.
Tonight A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 70. North northeast wind around 14 mph.
Tuesday Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 100. East wind 13 to 18 mph becoming south in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph.
Tuesday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 76. South wind 13 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph.
Wednesday Mostly sunny, with a high near 98. Windy, with a south southwest wind 15 to 20 mph increasing to 24 to 29 mph in the afternoon.
Wednesday Night A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 74. Breezy.
Thursday Mostly sunny, with a high near 95.
Thursday Night A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 68.
Friday A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 92.
Friday Night A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 66.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 55-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of threatening visitors at Riverside Park in Wichita.
The suspect faces charges including aggravated assault, one count of simple battery and one count of criminal possession of a weapon.
The Wichita Eagle reports a 29-year-old woman told police she was approached by a man who threatened to physically harm her. According to Wichita Police Department spokesman Sgt. Brian Sigman, the suspect then went to a group of visitors and threatened them.
Sigman said the suspect pulled out a box knife and threatened to cut a 24-year-old man and a 22-year-old man. The suspect pushed the 24-year-old with one hand and brandished the knife with his other hand.
BOURBON COUNTY -A Kansas man was injured in an accident just before 7:30 p.m. on Sunday in Bourbon County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2007 Honda motorcycle driven by Johnny Speer, 46, Fort Scott, was traveling at a high rate of speed on 190th Road just South of Indian Road and the west entrance of Fort Scott Lake.
The motorcycle went over a hill, the driver failed to negotiate the curve laying the motorcycle over and entering the west ditch.
Speer was transported to Freeman Memorial Medical Center.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – David Ortiz passed two Hall of Famers with his 476th home run, and the Boston Red Sox banged out 13 extra-base hits Sunday in a 13-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals.
Hanley Ramirez hit his team-best 15th homer and Mookie Betts also went deep for the Red Sox, who set a season high for runs. Xander Bogaerts had three doubles, and Wade Miley pitched six scoreless innings.
Ortiz homered leading off the fourth inning to move past Stan Musial and Willie Stargell into 28th place on the career home run list.
Betts, Brock Holt and Dustin Pedroia, the first three batters in the lineup, each had three of Boston’s 16 hits. They combined to go 9 for 15 with seven runs and six RBIs.
Betts, who missed the cycle by a single, is batting (.556) with nine extra-base hits in a nine-game hitting streak.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt has been elected by his colleagues in other states and U.S. territories as vice president of their national association.
Schmidt’s office says the two-term Republican received the honor during the recent summer meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General in San Diego.
Schmidt previously has served as the group’s Midwestern regional chairman, the co-chairman of its consumer protection committee and the vice chairman of its committee on combatting human trafficking.
Schmidt served in the Kansas Senate and was its majority leader for six years before being elected attorney general in 2010. He was re-elected last year.
There will be a high school/middle school soccer camp from June 23 to 25.
The Tribe Soccer Camp will be from 6:30 to 9 p.m. each evening.
Due to work at Hays High School, the location of the camp has been changed to Pratt-Optimist Park on Fifth Street. Camp forms can be printed at www.hayshighindians.com under “Athletics.” Participants then can bring them to the first day of camp.
On June 20, 1872, the Great Seal of the United States was adopted, sporting the bald eagle at its center, and for the past 232 years the bald eagle has served as the living symbol of freedom, courage, strength, spirit, independence and excellence, all the things America stands for.
Last Saturday, June 20, was proclaimed nationwide as American Eagle Day as a way to celebrate the bald eagle, Americas living symbol of freedom and to bring attention to its dramatic recovery from the brink of extinction. In honor of that, here are some bald eagle facts and trivia.
In the early 1960s, the bald eagle population in the lower 48 states had dropped to less than 500 nesting pairs; today, thanks to conservation efforts there are nearly 15,000 bald eagle pairs in those same 48 states.
I found estimates putting the number of active bald eagle nests in Kansas alone at anywhere from 55 to 90, and more than 3,000 bald eagles spend time in Kansas each winter. The best time to view bald eagles here in Kansas is from November through February, and the best viewing is near any of our large lakes and reservoirs and anywhere along the rivers.
Bald eagles often build nests 50 feet or more off the ground. Nests are not particularly pretty, resembling a haphazard pile of sticks. The same pair uses the same nest year after year, making them larger each time, and after several years a bald eagle nest can easily be the size of a small room. The largest eagle nest ever recorded was in Florida and measured 9 ½ feet across, was 20 feet high from top-to-bottom and weighed an estimated 4500 pounds.
A female bald eagle lays from 1 to 3 pure white eggs once per year in the spring. When I still lived in Ohio there were numerous active eagle nests along Lake Erie, and a game warden friend of mine was in charge of overseeing those nests. He had hours of amazing video of them checking the nests and the chicks in them each spring. They did it by helicopter using 3 people; the pilot, a second person who was lowered from the helicopter down into each nest and a third person as a lookout, constantly watching the sky for the adult eagles to prevent them from flying into the helicopter blades, killing the eagle and crashing the helicopter in the process.
The majority of the bald eagles diet is fish and waterfowl, so when things freeze solid in the winter up north, the eagles migrate south to find open water where they can still fish. Even when our Kansas reservoirs freeze over, the rivers feeding each reservoir still offer open water.
I know ice fishermen often leave a few carp or other rough fish on the ice for the eagles. The huge influx of waterfowl through Kansas each winter is also a big draw to eagles. From their vantage point 1,000 or more feet above the ground an eagle’s miraculous eyes can spot prey over a 3 square mile area.
I just happened upon this proclamation of American Eagle Day as I surfed through the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism website. I’m very disappointed it was not publicized far and wide prior to last Saturday.
Our media gives plenty of press to everything wrong in America; why not spend a little press on something like American Eagle Day that might just give us all something good to think about, if even for a day.
Steve Gilliland, Inman, can be contacted by email at [email protected].
DODGE CITY- A Kansas man was injured in an accident just after 6 p.m. on Sunday in Ford County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a Scion TC driven by Angel Kirabel Reyes Hernandez, 27. Fort Riley, was northbound on U.S. 283 just south of U.S. 56.
The vehicle went into the east ditch. The driver overcorrected the vehicle into the west ditch. It hit a guardrail and rolled.
Reyes Hernandez was transported to Western Plains Medical Center.
FEDONIA- Two people were injured in an accident just before 2 p.m. on Sunday in Wilson County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1998 Mack truck driven by Tyler Garrett Schoonover, 27, Fredonia, was southbound and stopped at a stop sign on Harper Road at Kansas 39 five miles north of Fredonia
The truck failed to yield, crossed the intersection and struck a 1995 F 350 pickup in the passenger side.
The pickup slid and rolled into the southwest ditch.
The pickup driver and passenger Clarence and Nancy Taliaferro, both 67 and from Clinton, IA., were flown to a Wichita Hospital for treatment.
Schoonover was not injured. All were properly restrained at the time of the accident according to the KHP.
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