TOPEKA, Kan. – Both the Hays High and TMP-Marian baseball teams will be the No. 3 seed in their respective regional baseball tournaments. The Monarchs (13-5) will open postseason play Monday (May 16) at 5 pm in the Larned 3A Regional against Scott City (3-17). The winner will play No. 2 seed Lakin (15-3) in the semifinals at 4 pm on Tuesday (May 17) in Larned. The host Indians (15-1) are the No. 1 seed and will play the winner of Monday’s first game between Syracuse (11-7) and Ellsworth (8-12).
Hays High (11-7) will face Buhler (15-5) at 4 pm Tuesday (May 17) in the McPherson 4A Divison I Regional. The host Bullpups (15-5) are the No. 1 seed and opens with Ulysses (7-11) at 2 pm Tuesday. The two winners meet in the regional title game at 6 pm.
Ellis is the No. 1 seed for their own 2-1A regional and will receive a first-round bye. The Railers (12-4) will play at 6 pm Monday (May 16) against the winner of the 2 pm game between Lincoln/Sylvan-Lucus (0-20) and Wichita County (0-16) game. No. 2 seed Little River (7-7) plays Ell-Saline (8-10) in the first semifinal at 4 pm. The championship game is on Wednesday, May 18 at 6 pm.
FARLEY, Mo. (AP) — BNSF Railway says 12 cars on a train derailed in northwest Missouri. No one was injured.
Investigators are trying to determine what caused the derailment Tuesday evening in Platte County near Farley.
BNSF spokesman Andy Williams says seven cars went off the tracks and overturned, while five went off track but remained upright. They were part of a train with 88 cars and three locomotives carrying lumber from Lincoln, Nebraska, to Kansas City.
Williams says none of the cars contained hazardous materials.
He says the cars were put back on the track early Wednesday and operations will resume after the tracks are inspected.
Children from across the area will get a chance to learn about life in the late 1800s and early 1900s at the 15th annual Ellis County Historical Society’s Pioneer Day.
Children from kindergarten through fifth-grade will take part in Wednesday’s event and learn about rug making and clothes washing and get to tour the Harness Shop and the Volga German Haus.
Also this year, there will be a trick roping performance by Joan Wells at 6 p.m. at the Historical Society grounds. Well’s is a Women’s World Champion trick roper and inductee into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame.
Her routine is choreographed to western music and her traditional style and tricks are those seen in the early years of the wild west shows and rodeos.
Well has also made appearances on national television including performing at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the Will Rogers Follies and Pawnee Bill and Buffalo Bill Wild West Show.
The roping performance is free and open to the public.
A quick moving front blew through the region overnight, with storm damage being reported west of Hays.
In Ellis, several trees were reported down after the storm, which saw win gusts in excess of 60 mph.
While Hays received just trace rainfall, areas west received between 0.15 and 0.58 inches of rain.
There was a report of 0.73 inches of rain just north of Russell, and much of Rooks County received just less than a half inch of precipitation.
While the skies are expected to clear Wednesday, the wind is expected to pick through the day, with a steady north wind between 15 and 23 mph and gusts up to 44 mph.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – A former Hays High and Fort Hays State standout has been named the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference baseball Coach of the Year.
Jerod Goodale guided Colorado School of Mines within one game of capturing their first RMAC title since 1922. The Orediggers, picked fourth in the preseason coaches’ poll, ended the regular season with a 28-13 overall mark and a 21-7 conference.
Goodale was a standout catcher at both Hays High School where he earned All-Western Athletic Conference honors as a junior and senior and Fort Hays State where he was named Second Team All-RMAC as a junior and senior.
LINCOLN COUNTY – A Kansas man accused of alleged cattle theft in November made a court appearance on Tuesday.
Keith Buttenhoff, 61, Lincoln, faces seven felony charges in connection with taking cows from a pasture in Lincoln County, according to documents from the Lincoln County Attorney’s office.
He is accused of taking two Charloais, a black mix, a black white-face, a white-mix, and two additional mixed cows and faces an additional charge of criminal trespass for entering a pasture in Beaver-township in Lincoln County.
Julie Effenbeck was appointed Buttenhoff’s court appointed attorney during Tuesday’s hearing.
NEW YORK (AP) – Brett Gardner doubled home the tiebreaking run off Kelvin Herrera in the eighth inning, and the New York Yankees overcame three home runs by Lorenzo Cain to beat the reeling Kansas City Royals 10-7 Tuesday night.
In a back-and-forth game, Kansas City rallied from deficits of 1-0, 5-3 and 7-6 as Cain tied his career high with five RBIs. Cheslor Cuthbert also homered for the Royals, who have hit six home runs in the first two games of the series.
But Gold Glove shortstop Alcides Escobar allowed Ben Gamel’s grounder to bounce off his glove for an error with one out in the eighth, and Gardner followed with a drive to left-center off Herrera (0-1) for an 8-7 lead. Starlin Castro was hit by a pitch, and Brian McCann hit a two-run double off the fence in right-center.
Aroldis Chapman, who returned from a 29-game domestic violence suspension on Monday, followed with a hitless ninth for his first Yankees save.
LIBERAL, Kan. – A rough day for the Hays High baseball team who gets swept in Liberal. The Redskins scored 12 runs in the third inning to win the opener 16-1 in a game called after four innings by run-rule.
Hays scored four in the top of the fifth to break a 6-6 tie in the second game but the Redskins answered with six on the bottom of the inning and won 12-11.
Marcus Altman allowed 13 runs, 11 earned on 10 hits in 2 2/3 innings and takes the loss in the first game. He had two of the Indians three hits and drove in their only run.
Jarett Pfannenstiel gives up nine runs on 11 hits over 4 1/3 innings and takes the loss in game two. Dalton Stout and Connor Rule both had three hits with Rule, Altman, Braydon Delzeit and Jared Haynes all driving in two runs.
The 11-7 Indians wrap up their regular season at home tomorrow with a makeup doubleheader against Garden City.
Today Partly sunny, with a high near 71. Breezy, with a north wind 15 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 44 mph.
Tonight Partly cloudy, with a low around 46. North northwest wind 6 to 15 mph.
Thursday Sunny, with a high near 73. West northwest wind 7 to 11 mph.
Thursday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 50. West northwest wind 6 to 8 mph becoming east southeast in the evening.
FridayA 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. Sunny, with a high near 77. Breezy, with a southwest wind 9 to 14 mph becoming north 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
Friday NightA 10 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7pm. Mostly clear, with a low around 43. Breezy.
Fort Hays State University students in communication studies and the Institute for New Media Studies will provide a behind-the-scenes look at the 3D virtual campus project, Tiger Range, from 10:30 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, May 11, in Tomanek Hall, room 161. This open house event is free and open to the public.
“The project gets its name from the term for the home territory of a tiger,” said Dr. Gordon Carlson, assistant professor of communication studies and director of the Institute for New Media Studies. “An Oculus Rift virtual reality system will be used to transport participants into the virtual campus and allow them to interact with the model. This demonstration includes buildings in the Quad of the university bounded by South Campus Drive, College Drive, North Campus Drive and Park Street.”
“This project has taught me that we, as communication studies majors, will do things in our careers that we are not going to be comfortable with in the beginning, but we can persevere to create new and innovative projects that will contribute to any culture we find ourselves in,” said Vanessa Resh, Shelton, Neb., senior majoring in communication studies.
While still under development, Tiger Range will include campus buildings, landscape items and other environmental objects to enhance the virtual experience of walking across a 3D model of campus. Potential uses for the technology include recruitment, new student and faculty orientation, information kiosks, online tools or mobile apps, and a number of current and upcoming research projects. The project can even be used in conjunction with engineers and administrators to simulate proposed changes to the campus landscape, such as new construction or renovations.
During the event, students of “Issues and Applications in Communication” will display their senior portfolios.
“Fort Hays State University is working hard to develop new technology in support of higher education and encourages students to be pioneers,” said Carlson.
For more information, contact Carlson at [email protected] or (785) 628-5876.
LIBERAL, Kan. – The Hays High boys golf team shot a 311 to finish second at the Liberal Invitational Tuesday at the Willow Tree Golf Course. The Indians finish nine shots behind Garden City who won the tournament with a 302. Garden City freshman Sion Audrain was the individual champ with a 5-under-par 67.
Hays placed four in the top-10 led by Allen Zollinger who finished sixth with a 5-over-par 77. Tradgon McCrae was seventh also with a 77. Brent Koeningsman also shot a 77 and came in ninth with Justin McCullick one stoke back in 10th.
Team Finish 1. Garden City 302 2. Hays High 311 3. Dodge City 311
4. Liberal 328
5. Great Bend 380
Top 10 Medalists 1. Sion Audrain-Garden City 67
2. Kelby Titus-Great Bend 74
3. Matthew Vogel-Dodge City 74
4. Logan Durst-Garden City 75
5. Taylor Larsen-Garden City 77 6. Allen Zollinger-Hays 77 7. Tradgon McCrae-Hays 77 8. Luke Gleason-Dodge City 77 9. Brent Koenigsman-Hays 77 10. Justin McCullick-Hays 78
GREENWOOD COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities are investigating a child drowning on Tuesday in Greenwood County.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – A former Hays High and Fort Hays State standout has been named the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference baseball Coach of the Year.
