SEDGWICK COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating have made an arrest in the Saturday shooting that left a 20-year-old McConnell Air Force Base airman dead and three other injured,
Markeithen McClaine photo Sedgwick Co.
Just after 2 a.m., police responded to a disturbance with shots fired at the Horizons East Apartment complex located in the 500 block of North Rock Road, according to officer Kevin Wheeler.
Upon arrival, officers found a 20-year-old who was shot and was unresponsive in the parking lot. Officers rendered aid until medical personnel arrived, who continued life-saving measures. The man was shortly after pronounced deceased. Police have not released his name.
Two of the three other victims included a 21 year-old-man and a 22-year-old man.. They were transported to a local hospital where they were treated and released for non-life threatening injuries. A 19-year-old woman was also transported by private vehicle to a local hospital with a gunshot wound. Her injury is considered to be serious, but she is expected to survive.
Police on the scene of the shooting investigation early Saturday photo courtesy KWCH
Late Saturday, police reported the arrest of 25-year-old Markeithen McClaine on requested charges of 1st Degree murder and three counts of aggravated battery, according to Wheeler.
The preliminary investigation revealed that a party was being held at one of the apartment units. There was a disturbance that occurred in the parking lot and shots were fired by the suspect.
The base “is deeply saddened by the loss of one of our airmen,” according to a statement from Col. Richard Tanner, commander of the 22nd Air Refueling Wing.
On Aug. 1, the Hays Police Department will host the fourth annual Community Night Out from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Hays Aquatic Park as a way to show thanks to the community for their support of the department.
“We have always stressed community involvement,” said HPD Chief Don Scheibler. “It’ an opportunity for us to say thank you and an opportunity to interact with the community in a positive way.”
During the event, the department will provide hot dogs and hamburgers for the first 1,000 attendees.
Scheibler said between 800 to 1,400 people have attended previous events, which allow the community to have fun with the officers and engage with them in an informal setting.
“It gives the opportunity to see the police officers, not as guys in uniform who are enforcing the law and writing tickets, but to see officers down there in T-shirts and swimsuits,” he said.
Deputy Chief of Police Brian Dawson agreed it is important for the community to engage with officers in a positive way.
The event allows the HPD “to give thanks to the community that supports us and give them an event where they can come down and feel appreciated and have a good time,” he said. “We have a great community that gives us a lot of support throughout the year and it’s one way to give back to them or appreciate them or recognize them for that.”
Having a good relationship with the community helps the department to serve that community, Scheibler said.
“The officers take care of the community and in our time of need the community will take care of us,” he said. “That kind of mentality, trying to be involved in all different levels has always been a priority of the Hays Police Department.”
The event is sponsored by the City of Hays, Walmart, Hays Recreation Commission, Pepsi, Heartland Building Center, Fraternal Order of Police Hays Lodge 48, Phaze 2 and Nex-Tech.
“We have numerous community partners,” Scheibler said, noting that the department is approached by local businesses and community organizations each year to continue hosting the event.
“I’m really appreciative of the of the city commission and the city manager’s office for supporting us in this venture and recognizing the importance of community police and the relationship between our citizens and the police department,” he said.
The department also funds a portion of the event.
“The community really comes together to help us do this, but there are some expenses that we pay for out of our budget,” Scheibler said.
The Community Night Out is a part of a number of community events hosted by the department through the year, including Coffee with a Cop and Cookies with a Cop, along with the department having a presence at other community events such as the March to Main and the Ellis County Fair.
“It’s a community effort, we are only as good as the community that helps us out, and we have a great community,” Dawson said.
“Building those relationships, with the young especially, those are the future of the community and they should have a positive outlook and positive view of their police department,” Scheibler said.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court’s chief justice plans to retire before the end of the year, allowing first-year Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly to leave a bigger mark on the state’s highest court than her conservative Republican predecessors.
Chief Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court, Lawton Nuss with his wife, Barbara Nuss, January, 2019. NOMIN UJIYEDIIN / KANSAS NEWS SERVICE
Chief Justice Lawton Nuss announced Friday that he would step down Dec. 17 after serving on the court since 2002 and as chief justice since 2010. During Nuss’ tenure as chief justice, GOP conservatives increasingly criticized the court as too liberal and too activist for the state over rulings on abortion, capital punishment and public school funding.
His announcement came a little more than two weeks after Justice Lee Johnson, another target of criticism on the right, announced plans to retire in September. That means Kelly will have two appointments to the seven-member court since she took office in January when conservative GOP Govs. Sam Brownback and Jeff Colyer had only one appointee between them during the previous eight years.
Both justices voted repeatedly to direct legislators to increase education funding in recent years and were part of the 6-1 majority that declared in April that the state constitution protects access to abortion as a “fundamental” right. They also voted to overturn death sentences in capital murder cases, though Nuss concluded that the death penalty law itself is constitutional.
Kelly’s choices won’t have to gain support in the Republican-controlled Legislature or from its conservative leaders because lawmakers have no role in high-court appointments under the state constitution. Many GOP legislators expected to push to change the selection process after the Legislature reconvenes in January, but they won’t be able to enact changes before Kelly replaces Johnson and Nuss.
“Gov. Kelly and her political allies on the bench are clamoring to pack the high court before the Kansas people, through their elected representatives, have a chance to reform the process,” said state Sen. Ty Masterson, a conservative Wichita-area Republican who advocates having the state Senate confirm court appointees.
A commission led by lawyers will screen applications for the two high-court vacancies, hold public interviews and submit finalists’ names to Kelly.
Explaining the timing of his departure, Nuss noted in a letter to Kelly that Kansas governors and legislative leaders traditionally serve no more than eight years and, “By those measures alone, certainly, it is time I depart.”
In an Associated Press interview, Nuss, a former Marine, said he and his wife want to work on veterans issues, such as establishing specialized courts to treat veterans who run afoul of the law. He said he discussed that topic with fellow veterans about a month ago in Washington.
“I’m very passionate about it and if I step away from being on the bench, then I can go further and speak out more forcefully on those issues,” he said.
Nuss’ retirement automatically will elevate the next senior justice, Marla Luckert to chief justice. Both she and Nuss were appointees of moderate Republican Gov. Bill Graves.
Johnson and three other justices were appointed by Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. Justice Caleb Stegall, the only dissenter in the abortion case, was appointed by Brownback.
Justices face a statewide, yes-or-no vote every six years on whether they should remain on the Supreme Court, and its rulings in recent years inspired campaigns to oust all of them except Stegall. They all narrowly failed, including one against Nuss and three other justices in 2016.
Kansas law would have allowed Nuss to stand for retention again in 2022 and serve through 2028.
“I spend about 70 hours a week in my job,” Nuss said. “It just becomes time, in my view, after almost 10 years, to say, ‘That is enough, let someone else take over.'”
Before being appointed to the court, Nuss served in the Marines for four years before attending law school at the University of Kansas and practicing law in the central Kansas town of Salina for two decades. He also has an affinity for cowboy poetry and has judged state contests.
“He’s been in the arena, doing difficult work on behalf of Kansans,” Kelly said. “And he has done it well.”
The U.S. Supreme Court last month said we can’t see certain kinds of information we may well need to participate in democracy as self-governing citizens. To paraphrase a line from “Network,” the movie and play recently on Broadway, we should be “mad as hell” about it.
The court ruled, 6-3, in Food Marketing Institute v. Argus Leader Media, the that the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) does not provide the public with access to records from private companies given to a federal agency if the agency obtained the information with a promise to keep it secret.
In the decision, the court voided a decades-long practice — supported by lower court decisions — that such “confidential” information could be released unless it caused “substantial harm” to the business, with an eye to toward disclosures in the public interest related to safety concerns, or to the exposing of waste, fraud or abuse, among other points.
Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion — agreeing with a grocery trade group — that current law provides that agencies and private companies don’t even need to have a specific reason for secrecy — just a company tag on records it considers “confidential” justifies denial of an FOIA request.
The decision is likely to decrease public access to vital records, such as information about private companies that receive federal funds. It will hamper — if not stymie — the obtaining of information the public can use to determine things like fraud, overcharging and the quality of work. The decision also comes as it’s ever more likely a private company will be contracted to carry out government projects or duties.
In the case at hand, the Sioux Falls, S.D., Argus Leader newspaper sought information in 2011, through an FOIA request, on the number of in-state stores participating in the federal food stamp program, as well as store-by-store data on the amount of purchases made using food stamps.
Argus Leader news director Cory Myers said after the decision that “this is a massive blow to the public’s right to know how its tax dollars are being spent, and who is benefiting.”
Justice Stephen Breyer disagreed with the decision, saying the “the whole point of the Freedom of Information Act — first signed into law in 1966 — is ‘to give the public access to information it cannot otherwise obtain.’”
Breyer said that given public and private sector tendencies to treat all information as private if not required to be disclosed, “the ruling … will deprive the public of information for reasons no better than convenience, skittishness or bureaucratic inertia.”
Whatever the reason the Supreme Court saw for supporting non-disclosure under FOIA based on a company’s self-designation, a democratic republic based in the ultimate authority of an informed and engaged electorate requires the highest degree of government openness and transparency.
We cannot decide how our government is doing if we don’t know what our government is doing — and that holds true for those places where government intersects with business.
Gene Policinski is president and chief operating officer of the Freedom Forum Institute. He can be reached at[email protected], or follow him on Twitter at@genefac.
“It has been a really good program, we have done five completions so far,” Williams said. “We actually have three going right now, one in Hays, one in Ellis and one in Victoria.
“Our attempt is to have three or four going at one time,” he added. “We have a limited amount of funds, so we can’t do any more than that at any given time.”
Williams said the organization hope to complete five rehabs a year and the program is an asset for the community with the main goal of providing more affordable housing in Ellis County.
The effect on the neighborhood and the local economy is important as well.
“It turns a blighted home, perhaps, and turns it into something nice for the neighborhood,” he said, which creates increased tax revenue along with the purchase of construction materials that benefit local retailers. “A lot of people win in this program.”
The program includes all of Ellis County and is open to anyone with experience with home rehabilitation, including contractors and real estate agents.
Getting into the program is similar to a regular home purchase.
An interested party finds a home in need of rehabilitation, will secure a sale contract subject to financing from the Grow Hays rehab program — just like financing from a bank — and then submits an application to Grow Hays.
That application provides Grow Hays with the information needed to decide if the home is eligible for the program.
“Which includes some information about what they want to do with the property, what their anticipated budget is for the rehab costs, then a market analysis,” Williams said.
Homes sold through the program are capped at a sale price of $145,000 after the rehab, Williams said, but have few other limitations, including age or condition.
“We have primarily homes that are older,” he said, generally because of limitations to the final price.
“Most have been purchased in the $70 to $80 thousand price range in Hays,” Williams said.
Homes in the program are also limited to a nine-month window from contract to final sale.
Money loaned from Grow Hays for rehabilitation is interest-free, but a $2,500 fee is assessed at the time of sale.
Kansas Wesleyan University has selected Bailey Brenn to serve as the new competitive dance coach for the Coyotes.
Brenn takes over for Kelsey Kieborz, who left KWU in April to focus on her dance studio, Revolution School of Dance.
“Our committee was impressed with Bailey’s experience at Colby Community College and her vision for the program,” said Mike Hermann, vice president and director of athletics. “With her background, I’m confident she’ll continue the momentum within our dance program.”
“I’d like to thank Mr. Hermann, (KWU President) Dr. (Matt) Thompson and members of the search committee for giving me this opportunity to lead the Kansas Wesleyan Dance program,” Brenn said. “My goal is to continue building the team to be one of the top competitive programs not only the conference, but in the region.”
Brenn comes to Kansas Wesleyan after serving as an assistant for the Colby Community College cheer and dance programs for the last two years. While at Colby, she was responsible for team choreography and had a significant role in recruiting.
“I am excited to be part of a new team, learning what each member of the team and what they have to offer and how we can make that a part of the performances,” Brenn added. “I am excited to see the bond between the team members and to see them become more of a family.”
She also served as a dance instructor for Ashly’s Dance Center in Colby for the last three years.
The native of Junction City was a member of the Junction City High School cheer and dance teams. She also was a member of the Colby CC Trojans cheer and dance teams and the Kansas State University Classy Cats dance team. She was a member of the 2016 NJCAA Region 6 championship teams at Colby.
Nat Berney is pictured on a 2019 Kansas Biggest Rodeo commemorative t-shirt. The Phillipsburg man competed at the rodeo and served as rodeo secretary.
PHILLIPSBURG – Three people with ties to the Phillipsburg Rodeo are immortalized on rodeo T-shirts.
Nat Berney, Bud Forell and Wanda Bandt are all pictured on the fronts of t-shirts produced by the Phillipsburg Chamber-Main Street office.
All three have competed at the Phillipsburg rodeo.
Nat Berney, who was born in 1921, was a bareback rider, calf roper and bull rider who competed in Phillipsburg and across the Great Plains. He was a Phillipsburg Rodeo Association shareholder and served as rodeo secretary. After he quit competition, he worked as a rodeo judge for Little Britches and pro rodeos. Berney passed away in 2002. His wife Betty lives in Phillipsburg; the couple had three children.
Bud Forell, born in 1931, competed in every event in rodeo: steer wrestling, saddle bronc riding, bareback riding, calf roping and bull riding, but steer wrestling was his forte.
After graduating from Phillipsburg High School in 1949, he served in the U.S. Army in Germany from 1951-1953.
He competed at Kansas Biggest Rodeo numerous times and was a committee member, helping with maintenance and welding.
He and his wife Artyce married in 1954 and had two sons and four daughters. Eldest daughter, Deb Christy, who is a barrel racer, remembers her dad’s outlook on life. There were “never any excuses,” she said. “You had no excuses, and you never gave up. He had a tremendous work ethic.”
Forell died in 2005 at the age of 74.
Bud Forell, who passed away in 2005 at the age of 74, competed in every event in rodeo and worked rodeos across the Great Plains, including the Phillipsburg rodeo.
Barrel racer Wanda Bandt was raised on her family’s farm near Kensington and won the barrel racing at the Phillipsburg rodeo in 1971 and 1974. She grew up riding horses, and as a young woman, worked as an airline stewardess. But after a time, she tired of it and quit. She was in Minnesota and had no way to get home, so she and two girlfriends sold all they had and bought horses, which they rode all the way back to Kansas.
Bandt was known for riding without using her stirrups, and daughter Tamra Griffey wonders how her mom stayed in the saddle. Polyester pants were in style then, and Bandt would have had trouble staying in the slick saddle with polyester on.
The two times Bandt won the Phillipsburg rodeo, she was riding her famous horse Copper. Competing at the regional level, Bandt and Copper won 51 consecutive rodeos in the late 60s and early 70s.
Bandt was also skilled at sewing and leather tooling and was an artist, talents her daughter Griffey uses in her work. Bandt sewed nearly all her own clothes, making bright colorful outfits like blue jumpsuits, in style at the time, with western belt loops, and a red jumpsuit, paired with a red hat and red checkered boots. Griffey said her mom sewed without patterns.
Bandt died in 1983 at the age of 46 of a brain tumor, and Griffey’s daughter, who never knew her grandmother, has a motto that conceptualizes her grandma’s gumption and talent: “If Wanda can do it, I can do it.” Bandt’s husband Layton served on the Phillipsburg rodeo committee for three years.
Barrel racer Wanda Bandt won her event twice at the Phillipsburg rodeo. On the t-shirt, she rides her famous horse Copper, who won 51 consecutive barrel races at a variety of rodeos. Bandt often kicked her feet out of the stirrups as she rode.
Berney, Forell and Bandt have connections to each other. Berney’s wife Betty traveled with Bandt to rodeos, keeping her company. Forell’s daughter Deb Christy babysat for Bandt’s children at rodeos, and as a teenager, was mentored by Bandt as she competed alongside the older woman.
T-shirts are available for sale through the Phillipsburg Chamber of Commerce/Main Street, Blossoms and Butterflies, White’s Foodliner, and Curly Willow II, all in Phillipsburg.
The Phillipsburg rodeo runs August 1-3 beginning at 8 pm each night. Tickets start at $11 for children and $15 for adults. They can be purchased at Heritage Insurance in Phillipsburg (785.543.2448).
Thursday, August 1 is Family Day at the rodeo; all children ages 10 and under are free with the the purchase of an adult ticket.
Ron Wilson is director of the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development at Kansas State University.
BY RON WILSON Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development
Where do bibles and rifles connect? That unlikely combination can be found in the history of Kansas, and particularly in one historic rural community church. This church is continuing to serve its members and its historic legacy.
Don Whitten is a member of the Beecher Bible and Rifle Church in Wabaunsee. He told me this remarkable history. It all began in the 1850s era of Bleeding Kansas, when the people of the territory were involved in a vicious debate over whether Kansas would become a slave state or a free state. Advocates for both sides flooded Kansas territory. For example, abolitionists in Connecticut raised money to send a group of free-state colonists west.
A famous New York preacher, Henry Ward Beecher, raised money for the cause and sent crates of rifles and bibles to the colonists. According to legend, the rifles were covered with bibles so as to get through the pro-slavery state of Missouri.
In 1856, the Connecticut colonists came to Wabaunsee. In the following year, they organized the First Church of Christ there. A new stone church was dedicated in 1862. This became the site of one of the most influential Congregational churches in Kansas.
By the 1930s, population had fallen, church membership dwindled and the church closed. In 1950, it re-opened. Today, the Beecher Bible and Rifle Church is an independent, non-denominational church which still meets in the original but remodeled stone building. Services are held each Sunday at 9:45 a.m. with Pastor Lynn Roth officiating.
Local residents George and June Crenshaw actively supported the church. Friends of theirs named the Thompsons donated funds for a new building and education center next to the old stone church building. The new building was dedicated in 1993.
Don Whitten has compiled the history of the church. He is a career military man who retired from Fort Bliss, Texas and moved to Wabaunsee, Kansas. He and his wife arrived in Wabaunsee in 1971 in the middle of a big snowstorm. When a neighbor, Inez Drake, learned of their situation, she thoughtfully alerted a snowplow crew to clear the streets before the Whitten’s moving truck arrived the next day.
Another neighbor, Mrs. Morgan, came over and invited them to her church at Wabaunsee. “We turned her down because we didn’t even have our clothes here yet,” Don said. Mrs. Morgan persisted in following weeks. “After the third or fourth time, I told my wife, `Let’s go to that church and get that old lady off our back,’” Don said. “We came to that church the next Sunday and we’ve come ever since.”
The Whittens appreciated the warm welcome of the congregation and the preaching, fellowship, and rich history. It was the first inter-racial Congregational church in Kansas. The late Mrs. Morgan herself was African-American and a long-time member. Her picture is displayed inside the church entrance.
Another long-time tradition at the church is Old Settler’s Day, held annually on the last Sunday of August. On Sunday, Aug. 25, 2019, a potluck lunch will be held at the church, followed by a historical program. This year, that program will be presented by me. The public is invited to attend at no charge.
This church and the community and region which it serves are rich in history. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located along the Native Stone Scenic Byway and along the route of the Underground Railroad which ran through the Kansas River valley.
That’s a lot of history to be found in a rural community. Wabaunsee is an unincorporated town with a population of perhaps 100 people. Now, that’s rural.
For more information, look for Beecher Bible and Rifle Church HERE.
Where do bibles and rifles connect? In this case, they connect with Kansas history in a rural community church. We commend Don Whitten, Lynn Roth, and all those involved with the Beecher Bible and Rifle Church for making a difference by serving the community and honoring this history. I hope both the bibles and the rifles hit their mark.
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The mission of the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development is to enhance rural development by helping rural people help themselves. The Kansas Profile radio series and columns are produced with assistance from the K-State Research and Extension Department of Communications News Media Services unit. A photo of Ron Wilson is available at https://www.ksre.ksu.edu/news/sty/RonWilson.htm. Audio and text files of Kansas Profiles are available at https://www.kansasprofile.com. For more information about the Huck Boyd Institute, interested persons can visit https://www.huckboydinstitute.org.
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WILSON COUNTY — Two people died in an accident just before 11p.m. Saturday in Wilson County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1995 Ford Explorer driven by Monica Rader, 38, Delta, Co., was northbound on Kansas 39 fifteen miles west of Chanute.
The driver swerved to miss an animal in the roadway. The SUV rolled multiple times, entered the east ditch and the three passengers were ejected from the vehicle.
Ronald A. Hudson, 35, Thayer, and Malachi Hill, 15, Chanute, were pronounced dead at the scene. Rader and Keishawn Valenzuela, 14, Chanute, were transported to Wesley Medical Center. None of occupants were wearing seat belts, according to the KHP.
Henry S. Clubb was an Englishman at the forefront of the vegetarian movement in the mid-1800s. He attempted to establish a vegetarian settlement in Kansas in 1856. (Photo public domain)
Vegetarians have their reasons for not eating meat. But “I am an optimist” doesn’t have a regular spot on lists more typically focused on health and environmental benefits.
Optimism was, however, the Englishman Henry Clubb’s rationale more than 100 years ago, when he enticed dozens of people to move to the radical territory of Kansas to start a vegetarian settlement in what is now Allen County.
It didn’t go well.
“Now we all have come! have brought our fathers, our mothers, and our little ones, and find no shelter sufficient to shield them from the furious prairie winds, and the terrific storms of the climate!” wrote a woman from New York named Miriam Colt.
Colt and her family were among those who had given money to Clubb based on his promise that the settlement would be habitable by the time they got there. It took the Colt family more than a month to make the trip. They arrived exhausted, soaked from a spring storm, and were greeted with a meal of hominy, stewed apples, and tea in a wet tent.
“Can any one imagine our disappointment this morning, on learning from this and that member, that no mills have been built,” Colt wrote, “that the directors, after receiving our money to build mills, have not fulfilled the trust reposed in them, and that in consequence, some families have already left the settlement.”
In 1862, Miriam Colt published an account of her participation in the failed vegetarian settlement in what became Allen County, Kansas. (Photo public domain)
“I think it’s way too easy, when you look back on previous times, to kind of laugh and say, ‘What were they thinking, all packing off to Kansas where there wasn’t even a railroad and thinking they could subsist as a vegetarian colony?'” says Kansas City writer Aaron Barnhart.
Barnhart and his partner, Diane Eickhoff, have published several books about the region’s history. They’re now working on the story of Henry Clubb’s settlement; their initial research was based on Colt’s book.
The two have visited the site of Clubb’s outpost just south of what is now Humboldt, Kansas. Barnhart acknowledges that, yes, the town failed, but so did thousands of other pioneer settlements all founded with similar optimism.
“Going to the place where history happened humbles you, and makes you realize that these people were intelligent beings who wanted to change their world and the world around them, and you’ve got to respect that.”
In the mid-1800s, Clubb was certain that vegetarianism was the path to physical and social reform, and hopeful that humans could attain a divinity that carnivorous animals never could.
And Kansas made so much sense as the American epicenter of vegetarianism.
As a journalist, Clubb covered the passing of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which allowed residents of a state to determine whether that state would be free or allow slavery.
He saw abolitionists and slavers alike flood the territory in order to shore up their side of the cause before Kansas became a state and declared itself one way or the other.
At the same time, Clubb knew the women’s suffrage movement was strong in Kansas.
The territory was the fulcrum of social change in the center of the nation in the middle of the century. The vegetarian movement fit right in.
Clubb’s settlement was in Osage territory on the banks of the Neosho River. The first intended residents arrived in the spring of 1856 and left that same fall.
Aaron Barnhart and Diane Eickhoff at the site of the 1809 Bible-Christian Church in Salford, England, where Henry Clubb dedicated himself to vegetarianism before moving to the U.S. (Photo courtesy Aaron Barnhart)
At its core, Barnhart says, the movement was not a health or lifestyle decision Clubb and his followers were making, it was an ethical decision.
“When (Clubb) was trying to convey this to small children in the publications he edited over the years, he really boiled it down to these three words: Do Not Hurt,” Barnhart says.
These words are the working title of Barnhart and Eickhoff’s book on the subject. Clubb and his followers might not have harmed animals in the attempted establishment of their settlement, but the people ended up in a whole world of hurt.
Aaron Barnhart spoke with KCUR on a recent edition of Central Standard. Listen to the full conversation here.
WICHITA – Nick Goza threw seven shutout innings and the Larks made a couple of first inning runs stand up as they beat the Waco (TX) Missions 4-0 on the first day of the 85th National Baseball Congress World Series at Eck Stadium.
The Larks improve to 33-10 on the season and will close out First Week pool play in Sunday’s feature game at 7 p.m. You can hear the game on KAYS (94.3-FM, 1400-AM) and the KAYS app.
Frank Leo Postgame Interview
Game Highlights
Goza, who was one of nine players added to the Larks depleted roster following the KCLB Post-Season Tournament, struck out six without issuing a walk while scattering three singles. It was Goza’s 20th career win in a Larks uniform after playing four seasons with the team from 2011-2015.
Ryan Ruder struck out all three batters he faced in the eighth. Chris Rodriguez, who played for the Boulder Collegians during the regular season, got the final three outs in the ninth.
George Sutherland drove in Jimmy DeLeon and Grand Lung with a single in the first inning. Lung’s base hit to center in the second drove in Jarrod Belbin to push the lead to 3-0. It would stay that way until the sixth when DeLeon singled home Taylor Daniell who reached earlier in the inning on an infield single.
The Missions best scoring chance came in the fourth when Cullen Mahew singled to start the inning and Jeremy Jackson was hit by a pitch. The Larks forced out Jackson at second on Chris Harrison’s ground ball to DeLeon. Th shortstop then snagged a grounder up the middle to just throw out Jack Ayedolette to end the inning.
WELLINGTON, Kan. (AP) — A former Wellington High School band instructor has been sentenced to 16 months in prison for sexual exploitation of a child.
Olson photo KBI offender registry
Thirty-year-old Ben Olson was sentenced Thursday in Sumner County District Court. He pleaded guilty in March after admitting that he had a nude photo of a 17-year-old girl.
Olson apologized in court for his actions. He said he was recently admitted to a center to address his mental health.
The victim and the mother also spoke in court. They said Olson had betrayed their trust after the girl looked up to him as a friend and “father figure.”
Olson was suspended from the Wellington district in November and fired in April.
As part of his guilty plea, Olson must register as a sex offender.
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