MARSHALL, Minn. – For nearly 35 minutes, the 10th-ranked Fort Hays State women’s basketball team struggled in its season opener against Upper Iowa on Friday. The Tigers overcame a poor perimeter shooting performance to get by the Peacocks 74-62 in the opening game of the Applebee’s Classic.
Tony Hobston Postgame Interview
Upper Iowa held a one-point lead, 53-52, entering the fourth quarter, but FHSU outscored UIU 22-9 in the final 10 minutes. FHSU finally grabbed the lead for good with 6:48 remaining in the game when Jill Faxon hit a jumper to put FHSU up by one. The Tigers went on an 11-0 run to close out the game, fueled by six points from Beth Bohuslavsky and three from Faxon.
The Tigers shot just 2-of-17 from beyond the 3-point line (11.8 percent), but managed to shoot much better inside the arc (52.8 percent) to finish at 42.9 percent overall for the game. FHSU did well at the free-throw line, where it went 12-of-14.
FHSU overcame a 50 percent shooting performance by the Peacocks by forcing 30 turnovers. FHSU had just 12 in the game. Upper Iowa outrebounded FHSU 36-27.
Bohuslavsky had a team-high 17 points, while Faxon added 16 and Paige Lunsford had 10. Lunsford led the team in rebounds with five and Bohuslavsky had a team-high three assists.
The Tigers return to the court on Saturday against Applebee’s Classic host Southwest Minnesota State at 5 pm.
HAYS, Kan. – Fort Hays State cruised to a 3-0 win over Missouri Southern on Friday evening (Nov. 13) at home. The Tigers took the match with set wins of 25-18, 25-17, and 25-23. FHSU improved to 20-12 overall and 9-8 in the MIAA with the win. MSSU fell to 2-26 overall, 1-16 in the MIAA.
The Tigers felt little resistance from the Lions in the first two sets. FHSU held MSSU to a .000 hitting percentage in the first two sets, while hitting .324 and .182 to claim the first sets handily. FHSU struggled a bit in the third, but went on a 5-0 run after trailing 19-14. Late kills by Crystal Whitten and Megan Anderson pushed the Tigers to a 25-23 win for the three-set sweep.
Whitten led the Tigers in kills with 11, while also adding a team-best 12 digs for a double-double. Mallory Flagor and Megan Anderson each added nine kills. Anderson hit .500 in the match with just one error. Hannah Wagy provided 37 assists in the match.
Bridgette Jaeger and Callie Whetstone each led MSSU with six kills. Abby Finder had 18 assists and 13 digs for a double-double, while Katie Wiele matched her in digs with 13.
The Tigers close out the regular season on Saturday against Southwest Baptist in Hays at 11:30 am. FHSU will then see which team it will face in the first round of the MIAA Tournament next week.
WASHINGTON (AP) —There was good and bad news in the Postal Service’s year-end results. Revenues were up, and it made an operating profit of $1.2 billion, reflecting continued growth in its package delivery business.
The Postal Service also is reporting a $5.1 billion loss last year — but that’s a slight improvement over the previous year.
The loss reflects continued erosion in the delivery of first class mail as well as expensive mandates for funding retiree health care.
But a special rate surcharge is set to expire next year, which promises to cut revenues by $2 billion annually, and volume of mail delivery should continue to shrink. Expenses continue to rise despite slower mail delivery.
The service is still seeking relief from the mandate to “pre-fund” retiree health benefits.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Sedgwick County judge has dismissed most of the securities charges against two former Wichita developers.
The Wichita Eagle reports Sedgwick County District Judge Ben Burgess on Thursday dismissed all but five of the remaining 54 felony fraud counts against former Wichita developers David Lundberg and Michael Elzufon.
The ruling came at the conclusion of a preliminary hearing that began Monday. Some of the counts were dropped earlier this week.
The Kansas securities commissioner accused the men of selling unregistered securities pertaining to investment projects in Wichita between 2005 and 2012.
The defense argued in part that the securities commission didn’t have jurisdiction in the case.
Apart from a possible appeal by the state, the next step would be for the remaining five counts to come before the court again.
The franchise announced Friday it will close the 2102 Vine location at the end of business Monday.
“We’ve decided to consolidate both locations,” said Jen Seward, Pizza Hut area coach based in Hutchinson. “With them being so close together, it was just the smart move for us.”
All 10 employees at the “Red Roof” location, which opened in November 1967, will be transferred to the Pizza Hut Wing Street location, 1308 Vine.
That location was built in the late-1990s, and was remodeled into the current Wing Street theme in 2009.
Seward said Pizza Hut’s new lunch dine-in concept will feature an express lunch, although the lunch buffet will be discontinued. She said anyone who eats at the Red Roof through its closure at 9 p.m. Monday will receive 50 percent off coupons for the new lunch offering.
Seward said the Red Roof was “near and dear to my heart,” as she served as restaurant store manager during her time at Fort Hays State University, where she graduated in 2009. One of the franchise owners, Terry Ruder, also hails from Hays.
University of Kansas Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little at Wednesday’s forum
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — University of Kansas Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little says the school in Lawrence, Kansas, plans to begin sharing information next week on how it will address racism and discrimination.
She said in a message posted Friday on the university’s website: “I see you. I hear you. You matter.”
The message comes in the wake of the unrest at the University of Missouri this week and after a forum that Gray-Little moderated on Wednesday, where a group calling itself Rock Chalk Invisible Hawk presented its demands.
Their demands included hiring a director for the Office of Multicultural Affairs,
mandatory inclusion training for students and faculty, increased diversity in hiring, counselors to address mental issues and creation of an independent “Multicultural Student Government.”
The group also seeks a ban on concealed weapons on campus.
SALINA – Law enforcement authorities in Saline County are investigating an attack on a man outside a his place of employment.
Salina Police Captain Mike Sweeney said the 24-year-old victim was confronted by two men wearing masks as he was taking out trash just before 7p.m. on Thursday behind Carmelita’s Mexican Goods, 1859 S. 9th Street in Kraft Manor.
After one of the men cut the victim, they left eastbound from behind Kraft Manor.
The victim drove himself to Salina Regional Health Center for treatment.
The HaysMed Foundation has received a distribution from the William F. and Joanna L Aubel Charitable Remainder Unitrust. The gift of $217,122 will be added to the Bill and Joanna Aubel Endowment. The endowment is a permanent fund in which the earnings will benefit the Dreiling/Schmidt Cancer Institute at HaysMed.
“This is such a generous legacy from a couple who was very civic-minded, “said Dr. John Jeter, President and CEO of HaysMed. “Bill helped found the HaysMed Foundation in 1995 and both he and Joanna served on its Board of Directors. Their gift will have a significant impact on the Cancer Institute and their ability to continue to offer quality treatment for their patients.”
Ruth Heffel, Executive Director of the HaysMed Foundation agreed. “Bequests play a vital role in the Foundation’s ability to fund needed equipment and programs. We are extremely thankful to the Aubels and others who have included the Foundation in their estates.”
For more information on how to include HaysMed in an estate, contact the HaysMed Foundation at (785) 623-2350, email [email protected] or visit the Foundation website at www.haysmedfoundation.org.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is taking on its first abortion case in eight years, a dispute over state regulation of abortion clinics.
The justices said Friday they will hear arguments over a Texas law that would leave about 10 abortion clinics open across the state. A decision should come by late June, four months before the presidential election.
The high court previously blocked parts of the Texas law.
States have enacted a wave of measures in recent years that have placed restrictions on when in a pregnancy abortions may be performed, imposed limits on abortions using drugs instead of surgery and raised standards for clinics and the doctors who work in them.
The court took no action on a separate appeal from Mississippi.
Children’s Mercy Hospital, which opened its first clinic in Kansas nearly 30 years ago and now has eight spread across the state, has changed the name of its facility in Overland Park from Children’s Mercy South to Children’s Mercy Hospital Kansas.
Dr. Randall O’Donnell announcing Tuesday that Children’s Mercy South will now be called Children’s Mercy Hospital Kansas. CREDIT DAN MARGOLIES / HEARTLAND HEALTH MONITOR
Dr. Randall L. O’Donnell, president and CEO of the Kansas City-based pediatric hospital, announced the name change at a news conference Thursday afternoon attended by hospital staff and supporters, political dignitaries and what he called “our real bosses,” half a dozen children sprawled on the floor alongside him.
The Overland Park facility, just west of 110th Street and Nall Avenue, has grown over less than two decades to 53 beds, which along with the main hospital facility near downtown Kansas City, Missouri, combine for a total of 354 beds overall.
“This name change is more than just changing the sign outside, which will happen in the coming weeks,” O’Donnell said. “It is making a statement that this is the only hospital within the state of Kansas who is solely devoted – whose only priority – is the treatment of children.”
Children’s Mercy traces its origins to 1897 when two sisters, a dentist and physician, opened a small hospital at 15th and Cleveland in downtown Kansas City.
While the now-sprawling complex at 24th Street and Gillham Road accounts for the majority of the hospital’s visits and admissions, the Overland Park location draws patients from nearly every corner of Kansas. According to figures provided by the hospital, of 292,000 visits in 2014, nearly 85,000 were to Children’s Mercy Hospital Kansas.
Children’s Mercy also operates Kansas clinics in Wichita, Junction City, Great Bend, Parsons, Pittsburg and Salina, in addition to locations in St. Joseph and Joplin, Missouri. Last year it opened an urgent care center at 135th Street and Metcalf Avenue in Overland Park.
Children’s Mercy’s “real bosses” listen as O’Donnell announces the name change. CREDIT DAN MARGOLIES / HEARTLAND HEALTH MONITOR
The renaming comes as Children’s Mercy embarks on a campaign to renovate and expand the Overland Park facility, part of a long-range plan developed a few years ago. The plan calls for renovating and adding operating rooms, clinic space and up to 47 more beds, O’Donnell said in a brief interview after the news conference.
“See, I’ve already messed up, you caught me,” he said after inadvertently referring to the hospital by its former name, Children’s Mercy South.
O’Donnell said the hospital projects the expansion will cost between $40 million and $50 million, money which has yet to be raised.
“It’s on the drawing board and will come in due time. But it’s on the master plan of the hospital,” he said.
Dan Margolies is editor of the Heartland Health Monitor team, a news collaboration focusing on health issues and their impact in Missouri and Kansas.
They’ve been playing baseball together since both were seven years old. Friday, Hays High seniors Jared Haynes and Cole Schumacher signed their National Letters of Intent to play baseball for Fort Hays State University.
Haynes got his first chance to play on the varsity level midway through his sophomore year. Due to injuries, Haynes got an opportunity to be in the line-up of the second game of a double header with Garden City. He hasn’t left the lineup since. In that first varsity game Haynes went collected two hits, scored a run and stole a base.
Jared Haynes
Haynes selected FHSU on the basis that it just felt right and his father played football for the Tigers as well. He is a career .333 hitter. Haynes has also appeared on the mound in two games. Once in a starting role and once in relief.
Coach Frank Leo About Jared Haynes
Schumacher has seen varsity time since his freshman season. Used primarily as a pitcher that season, he did bat in nine games. It was his sophomore season that started out the new Tiger with a bang. Schumacher hit safely in 15 of the first 16 games that year. His junior year did not yield the number of hits one would expect out of a lead-off hitter, but thanks to a keen eye Schumacher was able to walk 25 times to tied the school record for walks in a single season. His 36 career free passes has him just two outside of the career top ten list.
Cole Schumacher
Schumacher is a career .291 hitter and has also seen time on the mound. He posted a 1.57 ERA as a junior posting a 5-2 record. Schumacher threw a team high 50.2 innings last season striking out 45 and walking 19. For his career Schumacher is 11-2 with a 1.74 ERA over 92.1 innings in 22 total appearances.
Cole’s older sister Katelyn is a member of the KU softball team.
