HUTCHINSON, Kan. – Freshman Hannah Perkins of Fort Hays State won her first collegiate tournament by winning a playoff to claim the individual title at the Sterling College Spring Fling on Tuesday. She shot rounds of 79 and 80 to tie Colleen Garvey of Rockhurst at 159, then defeated Garvey on the second hole of a playoff. Perkins helped the Tigers to a second-place finish.
Quillen Eichhorn tied for fourth individually with rounds of 81 and 85. Kiley McCarthy was eighth with rounds of 82 and 87. Kelsey McCarthy finished 14th with rounds of 84 and 90. hadley Tharp tied for 16th with rounds of 86 and 91.
Rockhurst won the tournament as a team, shooting 665. The Tigers were only three strokes back at 668. Both teams shot 342 on the final day. Ottawa (Kan.) University finished third at 684.
Photo courtesy FHSU Athletics
The Fort Hays State men finished second after scores of 299 and 311 as a team to finish with 610. Sterling won the tournament with a total of 587.
Lane Pauls was the highest finisher overall for the Tigers in sixth. He shot rounds of 73 and 78 for a total of 9-over par. Seve Sites and Cash Hobson tied for seventh individually just a stroke back. Sites shot rounds of 73 and 79, while Hobson had the lowest round for the Tigers on day two and remained consistent shooting 76 both days. Koby Beougher finished 10th with rounds of 77 and 80. Jake Weller shot rounds of 81 and 78 to finish 12th.
Lorenzo Bolivar of Sterling College was the individual champion with a two-round total of 142 (even par).
The Hays Fire Department will be inspecting fire hydrants and flushing water mains on Wed., April 6, in the area of Hall Street east to Country Lane between 27th Street and 33rd Street.
This is part of a coordinated effort by the city of Hays to inspect all fire hydrants in the city and flush all water mains annually.
Slight discoloration of the water supply may be encountered although there will be no health risks to the consumer.
Drivers are asked to avoid driving through water discharging from a fire hydrant during the short flushing period.
For more information contact the Hays Fire Department at (785) 628-7330.
Legendary rock icon Graham Nash will play Salina’s Stiefel Theatre this month — and Hays Post wants to send you to the show!
The performance by the Grammy-winning artist will be at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 30.
To enter for a chance to win two FREE tickets from Eagle and Hays Post, email a daytime phone number to [email protected]. Enter NASH in the subject line.
Another day of high fire danger is expected today with strong northwesterly winds and low relative humidities.
Today Sunny, with a high near 70. Very windy, with a north northwest wind 18 to 23 mph increasing to 26 to 31 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 41 mph.
Tonight Mostly clear, with a low around 42. West wind 7 to 17 mph.
ThursdayMostly sunny, with a high near 71. Breezy, with a north northwest wind 9 to 14 mph increasing to 17 to 22 mph in the afternoon.
Thursday NightClear, with a low around 35. North wind 13 to 18 mph decreasing to 5 to 10 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph.
FridaySunny, with a high near 73. West wind 7 to 11 mph.
On Saturday members of the Fort Hays State University community gathered near Lewis Field to celebrate the ground breaking of the new themed housing on the FHSU campus.
Joey Linn, vice president for student affairs, began the celebration by speaking about the project.
“This upcoming new building is just one of many project that are taking place on our beautiful campus,” he said. “Like the others, this project will change the footprint of Fort Hays State University.”
Mirta Martin, Fort Hays State University president also spoke at the celebration.
“Today marks the beginning of a new era at Fort Hays State University,” she said, welcoming Greek organizations back to the campus.
“You symbolize everything that Fort Hays symbolizes,” she said. “The importance of scholarship, the importance of leadership, the importance of service, the importance of sisterhood and brotherhood.”
Also speaking were leaders from the FHSU Greek system, Rebecca Vincent, president of Panhellenic Council and Charlie Murphy, Interfraternity Council president.
Vincent said without the support of FHSU leadership the organizations would not have had the recent successes in recruitment. The recruitment has brought two Greek organizations back to FHSU.
The Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity and Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority will be returning to the campus by next year.
“This has been Panhellenic’s best recruitment yet,” Vincent said. “Each of our chapters excelled much beyond our expectations, which led us to the welcoming of 51 new Panhellenic sisters at the conclusion of fall recruitment.”
Panhellenic membership totals 133 this year, according to Vincent, and 99 in the fraternity community, according to Murphy.
“We are confident that this themed housing development will better cultivate the Greek spirit,” Murphy said.
The building will have four units, with 21 beds per unit, initially housing the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, the Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority and the Delta Zeta sorority.
The building is expected to be open for the fall 2017 semester.
Dirt blowing across I-70 on Tuesday in Gove County- photo Gove Co. Sheriff
GOVE COUNTY – Strong wind and blowing dirt are being blamed for a pair of semi accidents on Tuesday in western Kansas.
Just before 5:30 p.m., The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2005 Freightliner semi driven by Dzhabbar Izno, 54, Aurora, CO., was eastbound on Interstate 70 just east of the Grinnell exit in Gove County.
The truck slowed down to a stop in a dust cloud with no flashers on to avoid colliding with an accident.
A 2016 Kenworth semi driven by Roy Fox, 54, Lakewood, CO, was eastbound and rear-ended the 2005 Freightliner.
Fox was transported to Gove County Medical Center. Izno was not injured.
Just after 7:30 p.m. a 2012 International semi driven by Gerardo Herrera-Gonzalez, 53, Mexico, was westbound on U.S. 54 six miles west of Mead.
A strong gust of wind blew the truck and trailer onto the driver’s side.
Meade Co semi accident photo KHP
Herrera-Gonzalez was transported to the hospital in Meade.
All three drivers were properly restrained at the time of the accidents, according to the KHP.
WICHITA, Kan. – Fort Hays State fell in walk-off fashion twice on Tuesday, swept in a doubleheader at Newman University. Newman plated the winning run to break a tie in the seventh each game, winning by scores of 2-1 and 7-6. FHSU moved to 13-26 overall on the season and saw its losing streak grow to nine games.
Game 1: Newman 2, Fort Hays State 1
Fort Hays State fell victim to a walk-off fashion for the sixth time in the last eight games when Newman broke a 1-1 tie with an RBI single in the bottom of the seventh.
The Tigers were down to their last out in the top of the seventh with Rilee Krier at third base when Samantha Villarreal knocked her in with an RBI double to the right center gap. The Tigers had several other good opportunities to score runs earlier in the game, but failed to convert and that came back to cost them late in another close game.
In the bottom of the seventh, Newman led off with a single and then drew a walk with one out to put runners at first and second. Taylor Mannis, who had a three-hit contest for Newman, ended the game with an RBI single to the right side.
Paxton Duran took the loss, allowing two runs on six hits and two walks, while striking out five. Katie Ingles recorded the win for Newman with one run allowed on five hits and five walks, with three strikeouts.
Game 2: Newman 7, Fort Hays State 6
Down 5-1 in the fifth inning, Fort Hays State battled back to take a 6-5 lead with a five-run inning. The rally was sparked by three straight singles and then a grand slam by Tori Beltz to tie the game. Later in the inning, Madaline LaPolla plated the go-ahead run on a safety squeeze.
The lead was brief though as Newman’s Courtney Sartin hit a solo home run off Paxton Duran, who had just entered the game in relief, to tie it 6-6. The score remained that way until lightning struck twice in the form of Sartin in the seventh inning, when she hit another solo homer to end the game. It pushed the run of walk-off victories by Tiger opponents to seven of the last nine games, with five of the seven occurring in the final inning and just two by run-rule fashion.
Fort Hays State’s Carrie Clarke started the game in the pitching circle, holding Newman to just a run through the first three innings. She ran into trouble in the fourth when she allowed four runs on four hits. Overall, she allowed five runs on five hits and four walks, with three strikeouts. Duran took the loss for the second straight game, going 2.1 innings of relief with two runs allowed on three hits with three strikeouts.
Kate Smith was the winning pitcher for Newman, allowing six runs (five earned) on 12 hits and a walk with three strikeouts in a complete game effort.
Postseason hopes will hang in the balance this weekend at Tiger Stadium when Fort Hays State hosts Emporia State and Washburn in a pair of critical MIAA doubleheaders at Tiger Stadium. At six games under .500 in conference play, FHSU will have to play well this weekend to stay alive in the MIAA Tournament picture. Friday’s doubleheader against Emporia State marks the annual “Jam-Pack” Tiger Stadium event, which begins at 4 pm.
TOPEKA, Kan. – Washburn took advantage of five walks and four hit batters and knock off the Fort Hays State Tigers 4-2 Tuesday afternoon at Falley Field. The Ichabods (19-12, 14-7 MIAA) scored two runs in the fifth inning to break a 2-2 the then held the Tigers (15-16, 10-11 MIAA) to one hit the rest of the game as they win their fifth straight and end FHSU’s three-game win streak.
Steve Johnson Postgame Interview
Game Highlights
Will Amen, who walked three in 2/3 innings of relief takes the loss. Clayton Basgall, who made his first career stgart, gave up two runs on three hits over 3 1/3 innings. The LaCrosse redshirt sophomore struck out two, walked one and hit three batters.
Nick Hammeke scored on an Alex Weiss single to give Fort Hays State a 1-0 lead in the first. Washburn used three hit batters and a walk to tie the game with a run in the second. Casey Sedbrook led off the third with a double then scored on a Nick Hammeke double to give the Tigers the lead back. The Ichabaods tied the game with a run in the fourth then coaxed four walks in the decisive two-run fifth.
Ty Redington and Nick Hammeke both had two of the Tigers six hits.
Fort Hays State is back on the road this weekend with a three game series at Lindenwood beginning Friday night.
TOPEKA- Law enforcement authorities in Shawnee County are investigating a shooting.
Just before 6:15p.m. on Tuesday, emergency personnel were dispatched to 308 SE Lime in Topeka after a reported shooting, according to a media release.
Emergency responders located a woman who had suffered a gunshot wound to her lower leg.
The victim was treated at the scene by emergency personnel and then transported to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Anyone with knowledge of this incident, or any other crime is asked to call the Topeka Police Department at 785-368-9200, or Crime Stoppers at 234-0007.
KANSAS CITY– A Kansas man was sentenced Monday to 12 years in federal prison for his part in a drug trafficking organization that is alleged to have distributed large amounts of methamphetamine, according to U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom.
Joshua Thomas Alvarez, 26, Kansas City, Kan., pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
In his plea, he admitted that in July 2012 the FBI identified a major drug trafficking ring operating in Kansas City, Kan. During the investigation, agents made 15 controlled purchases of methamphetamine from members of the organization.
Five search warrants were executed at locations where methamphetamine and firearms were stored. Alvarez was identified as one of the conspirators who purchased methamphetamine from the leader of the organization and resold it.
Co-defendants include:
Vicencio Olea-Monarez, 38, Kansas City, Kan., who is awaiting trial.
Gabriel Agustin Lopez, 30, who is set for sentencing June 27.
Rosalio Chinchilla, 45, Kansas City, Kan., who is set for sentencing June 15.
Jose Luis Silva-Cardona, 26, Kansas City, Mo., who is set for sentencing June 13.
Lee Thomas Faulkner, 41, Topeka, Kan., who is set for sentencing July 5.
Omar Francisco Orduno-Ramirez, 37, who is awaiting trial.
Hector Javier Valdez, 36, who is awaiting trial.
Juan Carlos Alvarez, 28, who is set for sentencing June 15.
Herbert Lee Saysoff, 54, who is awaiting trial.
Grissom commended the FBI and Assistant U.S. Attorney David Zabel for their work on the case.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Latest on wildfires burning in Oklahoma and Kansas (all times local):
6:50 a.m.
Shifting winds have pushed a large wildfire in northwest Oklahoma away from an iodine-manufacturing plant and the small town of Freedom, but authorities say the blaze is still burning out of control.
Woodward County Emergency Management Director Matt Lehenbauer says the wildfire did not jump the Cimarron River overnight, which would have threatened Freedom, whose 300 residents were encouraged to leave Tuesday afternoon.
But Lehenbauer says Wednesday’s windy forecast will make it difficult for firefighters to control the blaze, which has burned about 40 square miles of rural land. Crews plan to survey the fire by air Wednesday morning to assess its size.
Lehenbauer says the blaze had threatened an iodine plant but firefighters were able to protect the facility by parking their firetrucks around its perimeter. He says the flames jumped over the vehicles and burned all the way around the plant before the winds shifted, diminishing the threat.
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1:50 a.m.
Authorities are responding to wildfires in Oklahoma and Kansas that have led to evacuations, scorched mostly rural land and destroyed an unknown number of structures.
In Oklahoma, the largest fire was in the same area near the border with Kansas where blazes last month scorched hundreds of square miles. Another burned near Luther, in the central part of the state.
Oklahoma Forestry Services said in a statement that structures had been lost in the fire, but a spokeswoman says the agency doesn’t have accurate damage totals yet.
In Kansas, evacuations were underway in at least three communities.
The National Weather Service warns conditions conducive to fire are forecast to occur in both states through Wednesday.
4:30 p.m.
Authorities near the Kansas border in Northwest Oklahoma are encouraging residents of the town of Freedom to evacuate as an uncontrolled wildfire spreads rapidly toward the community of about 300 people.
Woods County Emergency Management Director Steve Foster says sheriff’s deputies are encouraging residents of Freedom to leave.
The fire was about one to two hours southwest of Freedom as of 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and was pushed by winds gusting around 40 miles per hour, according to Woodward County Emergency Management Director Matt Lehenbauer.
Lehenbauer says the fire also was threatening an iodine-manufacturing plant. Officials don’t believe the plant would be a significant explosion risk, but it could produce environmental hazards.
Officials estimate the fire has burned roughly 20 square miles of rural land, and is about 20 miles from the Kansas border.
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4 p.m.
Authorities in northwestern Oklahoma are evacuating roughly 100 square miles in northern Woodward County as a wildfire spreads rapidly toward the small town of Freedom.
Woodward County Emergency Management director Matt Lehenbauer said around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday that the fire was burning uncontrolled about one or two hours away from Freedom, a town of about 300. It was pushed by winds gusting around 40 miles per hour.
Lehenbauer says the fire is threatening homes and an iodine-manufacturing plant. Officials don’t believe the plant would be a significant explosion risk, but it could produce environmental hazards.
Officials estimate the fire has burned roughly 20 miles of rural land. More than a dozen fire departments and Oklahoma Forestry Services were fighting the blaze.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Noah Syndergaard threw six scoreless innings, Neil Walker hit his first homer with the Mets and New York beat Kansas City 2-0 Tuesday after the Royals were given their 2015 World Series rings.
Syndergaard (1-0) was the only pitcher to beat the Royals in the World Series last year, winning Game 3 after intentionally throwing his first pitch above Alcides Escobar’s head. Escobar started this one with a triple, but then Syndergaard struck out the next three batters and retired 12 straight before Kendrys Morales’ double opened the fifth.
Syndergaard allowed three hits, walked one and struck out nine.
The Mets acquired Walker in a December trade with Pittsburgh. He homered on a 1-0 fastball from Chris Young (0-1) in the fourth after Yoenis Cespedes walked. That was the first hit Young allowed.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas racetrack owner doubts his property will survive if the property tax bill remains high, saying that the facility faces “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in repairs.
Owner Chris Payne declined an interview with The Topeka Capital-Journal but instead relayed information through his attorney, Wes Carrillo. He says Heartland Park Topeka has deteriorated quickly in the last few years and now has cracked tracks, broken water pipes, perforated roofs and piles of garbage.
Payne estimates that Heartland Park would need to net a profit of $27,000 monthly, or $324,000 yearly. He says that with an annual tax bill of nearly $342,000, he believes the operating cost will surpass the park’s revenue.
Payne appealed the county appraiser’s assessment of the property as worth nearly $9 million in March. He’d like to see the value closer
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