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Year: 2019

Harvey Richard ‘Dick’ Adolph

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Harvey Richard “Dick” Adolph, 79, passed away peacefully in his sleep January 10, 2019, at his home in Colby.

Born June 10, 1939, in Milliken, Colo., Dick spent many childhood summers on a farm north of Levant. He eventually moved fulltime to Levant and attended Colby High School, graduating in 1958. On the farm he learned to fly and to drive fast.

Dick worked hard from an early age, and saved up to buy a new car at age 14. The car helped a few years later in 1958 when he met Julie Hess, a young woman who lived in Kansas City, Mo. One year and many road trips later, Dick and Julie married in Colby on September 1, 1959. They lived on the farm north of Levant. They later moved to Colby and lived there until 1972 when they moved to Topeka, so Dick could attend Washburn University. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. While attending school, Dick worked nights as a Licensed Mental Health Technician at the Menninger Foundation. He was also a member of National Guard.

After Dick’s education was complete, Dick and Julie moved back to Colby, where Dick farmed.

In retirement Dick pursued his passions of bowling with friends and gardening with Julie.

Dick was preceded in death by his Aunt Veda and husband Chet Moore, and granddaughter Candace (Adolph) Gay. Surviving are wife Julie, Colby; son Kerry and wife Kathi Adolph, Lawrence; daughter Jennifer and husband Ab Smith, Sharon Springs; daughter Kristin and husband Greg Issinghoff, Clovis, Calif; sister Jean Richers, Saint Francis, and five grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. on Monday, January 14, 2019 at Baalmann Mortuary in Colby. Burial will follow at Beulah Cemetery, Colby. Memorials are suggested to Citizens Medical Center, in care of Baalmann Mortuary, PO Box 391, Colby, KS 67701.

Richard ‘Dean’ Dinkel

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Richard “Dean” Dinkel, 47, passed away on January 9, 2019, in Sharon Springs, KS. He was surrounded by his family when he went to be with the Lord after a hard-fought, two-and-a-half-year battle with brain cancer.

Dean was born on November 21, 1971, in WaKeeney, KS to parents Henry and Suzanne “Sue” (Mather) Dinkel. He was the eldest of five children, including, Randy, Devin, Joe, and Geni. Dean married Vicki J. (Sommerfeld) Dinkel on June 18, 1992 and they spent 26 years together building a family.

He graduated from Wallace County High School in 1990 and attended Pratt Community College, Chadron State College (B.S. in Political Science, 1994), and Washburn University School of Law (Juris Doctorate, 1998). Following graduation, Dean, Vicki, and children, Ashli Kate (1994) and Sarah Marie (1997) moved back to Sharon Springs where children Ellie Rose (1999), Janaeha Ann (2000), Brookley Jo (2003), and Kean Phillip (2006) were born.

Dean took pride in working hard and, upon moving back to Wallace County, practiced law and later became involved in the businesses owned by his father. He had a love for farming and also coached track for Wallace County Junior High and Wallace County High School.

Throughout his years in Wallace County, Dean spent time volunteering by coaching youth softball and baseball, helping with 4-H and the county fair, teaching religious education classes and serving as a eucharistic minister at Holy Ghost Catholic Church. He also enjoyed attending his children’s numerous sports, music, and academic activities, as well as spending time preparing 4-H projects especially swine, rocketry, and woodworking. One of his special talents was making breakfast for his family every morning before school.

He had many hobbies some of which include golfing with his brothers, playing pitch on Monday nights, helping with projects on his dad’s farm, gathering with family on the holidays, and spending time with his wife and kids. Dean always enjoyed lacing up his shoes and going for a run. There is no doubt he has them on now running on those “streets of gold”.

Dean is survived by his wife Vicki Dinkel; his daughters Ashli, Sarah Klinge (Nate), Ellie, Janaeha, and Brookley, and son Kean; granddaughter Sophie Sue Klinge; grandmother Rosalie Mather; father Henry Dinkel; siblings Randy, Devin, Joe, and Geni Wilcox; father and mother-in-law Stan and Jan Sommerfeld; and numerous brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, and nephews.

He is preceded in death by infant grandson Raphael Ignacio Q. Windell; mother Sue (Mather) Dinkel; and grandparents John Mather and Katie and Fred Dinkel.

Funeral services for Dean were held on Monday, January 14, 2019 at 10:30 AM MT at the Holy Ghost Catholic Church in Sharon Springs with Father Andrew Rockers and Father Norbert Dlabal officiating. Burial followed in the Sharon Springs Cemetery, Sharon Springs, KS.

Visitation was held on Sunday, January 13, 2019 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM MT at the Church in Sharon Springs with a Vigil Service and Rosary to begin at 7:00.

Memorials may be designated to the Wallace County Community Foundation for the Track Project and may be left at the services or mailed to Koons-Russell Funeral Home, 211 N. Main Ave., Goodland, KS 67735.

Online condolences may be left at www.koonsrussellfuneralhome.com.

Funeral services have been entrusted to Koons-Russell Funeral Home in Sharon Springs.

First Amendment: A growing list of threats to freedom

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Gene Policinski

First Amendment threats and defenses have, for much of the past 100 years, largely focused on protecting individual speech — the rights of any one of us to express ourselves without interference or punishment by the government.

Not to be too glib but, oh, those were the days! This glee is due, in no small part, to the degree that individual speech and press rights triumphed in that era. But looking into this new year, that situation — and those victories — may be more nostalgia than norm. There is increasing danger to our core freedoms from what I’ll call “systemic” challenges, which often appear focused on other issues, but which carry a First Amendment impact, if not wallop.

The increasing public and commercial use of drones raise issues of noise, public safety and congestion in the airways — but also questions about what on-board cameras see and record that go far beyond earlier “peeping Tom” worries.

Consider a new network of drones constantly crisscrossing the skies over your hometown, constantly sending video of the passing scene to the insatiable maw of computer storage. Combine that record with facial recognition software, vehicle tracking devices and surveillance cameras that can ID license plates from miles away and it’s but a small step to government discovery of who we meet, where and when, with resulting impact on the right of assembly or association.

We’ve known for some time there’s a running joke, in national security and spy circles in this country and elsewhere, that we’re now doing most of the surveillance work they used to do simply by living our lives on social media. Add the abilities of artificial intelligence to collect, collate and match social media and online data about any one of us and the kind of “anonymous” speech that produced the Federalist Papers is ever more nonexistent.

Put another way, George Orwell’s draconian “Big Brother” presence was predicated on government installing a device in every home — and life — to observe each of us. In 2019, we’re the ones installing the devices. Not just at home, but 24/7 in pockets and purses through smart phones, watches and the like.

In 2018, in two decisions involving GPS and cell phones, the U.S. Supreme Court pushed back on this new technological threat.

Chief Justice John Roberts said that cell phone location information is a “near perfect” tool for government surveillance, analogous to an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet. “The time-stamped data provides an intimate window into a person’s life, revealing not only his particular movements, but through them his ‘familial, political, professional, religious and sexual associations,'” Roberts wrote.

Try being a reporter, under such involuntary transparency in the future, attempting to meet secretly with a source about government corruption or official misconduct or a botched criminal investigation or an undisclosed, invasive national security policy. Good luck.

Let’s round up this Pandora’s box assembly of threats with a look at the 2020 election cycle. Not only will legitimate reports by a free press be mixed in with mis- and disinformation, a new technological threat challenges the adage that “seeing in believing.”

What’s included in “involuntary synthetic imagery” (a mouthful of a title) is the sinister possibility of videos that take real situations and seamlessly “paste” faces of politicians and others onto actual participants. Imagine misleading or embarrassing video that’s nearly impossible for most to distinguish from the real thing. Tragically, such fakery already has invaded our lives thanks to what’s known as “deepfake” porn.

How do we square such “deepfake” videos with First Amendment law, which — with the exceptions when such fake video clearly is being used for extortion or blackmail — would tend to side with free expression and with those who create such works? When would satire cross the line into defamation or intentional infliction of emotional distress — two traditional, but often expensive, time-consuming legal tools available to those who claim injury from such fakery?

And what of news consumers, already besieged by fakery on social media, claims of bias in news reporting by various outlets old and new, photo and video edits that distort, who already have a deep distrust of much of what they see, hear and read?

Despite all this, not the entire look into 2019 is glum. News consumers have more tools to identify misleading items. The fact-checking industry can be paired with “trust” projects and background programs — such as (self-promotion alert!) the Freedom Forum Institute’s “Newstrition” tool.

More of us than ever appear concerned about our First Amendment rights than at any time in the past 25 years. Let’s keep that concern and attention going and growing in the new year.

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.

Gov.-elect has her work cut out fixing state government in Kansas

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By JIM MCLEAN
Kansas News Service

Think of Laura Kelly as the fix-it governor.

As in she needs to fix what, by most accounts, is a state government in desperate need of repair.

For the first year or two of her administration, her biggest job will be restoring the capacity of state agencies crippled by budget cuts and the exodus of employees with the skills and institutional knowledge needed to keep the trains running on time.

Or, more to the point, balance the state budget, adequately fund schools and ensure that foster kids are placed in safe and stable homes.

She may want to start with high-profile initiatives to reduce the sales tax on food, restore the budget cuts suffered by universities and reboot the multi-billion-dollar highway-building program that former Republican Gov. Sam Brownback abandoned because of self-inflicted money problems.

Reality demands a more cautious approach. Kelly must closely monitor spending while triaging needs and addressing the most urgent problems. Ensuring the safety of foster children in the custody of the Department for Children and Families is likely at the top of that list.

Expectations for a new road program run high, but Kelly needs to first give new secretary of the Kansas Department of Transportation Julie Lorenz time to rebuild the agency so that it can do the basics — plow snow and mend potholes without borrowing money from the bond market.

At the Kansas Department of Commerce, incoming Secretary David Toland must rebuild the rudderless agency’s presence in the eco-devo world. It’s one that’s been systematically diminished by understaffed programs and the closing of most of the state’s trade offices around the world.

Some might argue that restoring a basic level of competency to Kansas government sets a low bar for Kelly. But given the work that needs to be done, it seems a fair measuring stick.

Let’s remember, Kelly was a reluctant candidate. Former Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, among others, had to talk her into running. Perhaps that was because as a longtime member of the Senate’s budget-writing committee, she had a notion of how difficult the job would be.

Still, after some coercion and a lot of contemplation — done during long walks along the wooded bluffs overlooking the Kansas River and Cedar Crest, the governor’s residence — Kelly concluded she could handle the job.

Then she got elected. Sitting through her first budget briefings, she said, it became apparent that the “devastation” was “even worse than I thought.”

Regardless, it’s now Kelly’s job to fix things.

Our first indication of how she plans to do that comes next week when she lays out her budget priorities in a speech to a joint session of the Legislature.

We should all be paying attention.

Jim McLean is the chief political reporter for the Kansas News Service. He’s covered politics and state government for more than 35 years. You can reach him on Twitter @jmcleanks. 

Registration open for summer KAMS camps at FHSU

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FHSU University Relations

Fort Hays State University’s Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science Summer Academy will offer four camps for incoming high school freshmen and sophomores in the month of June.

FHSU faculty and staff will organize each camp, all of which are focused in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Students will stay in a residence hall on the FHSU campus with staff available all day and night to assist campers. Each camp is four days long with check-in and drop off beginning Sunday evening.

Camps are listed by date.
June 2-6: Engineering Design: 3D Printing and CNC
The use of 3D printing and computer numerical control (CNC) is exploding across the engineering and industrial world and has revolutionized the way we create from 3D-printed houses to guitars cut out of an old slab of wood. In this quick-paced, high-impact camp, students will be immersed in all things 3D and design. Programs like Autodesk Inventor, Sketchup and Aspire will be available for students to produce individual designs that will be exported to 3D printers and CNC routers.
June 9-13: Detective for a Day: CSI and Forensic Science
Students will be able to experience the excitement of forensic science and crime scene investigation in this highly interactive camp. Participants will be able to discover how to scour a crime scene and look for clues. The camp will feature hands-on, mock crime scene exploration coupled with forensic science fundamentals to give individuals a chance to live and learn like a real crime scene analyst.
June 16-20: Faster than the Speed of Sight
In this camp, students will learn how to use a high-speed camera and analyze video of events that are too fast to see with the naked eye. Questions such as “How fast is a baseball dropped from 60 feet traveling when it strikes the ground?” will be answered as students collect video recordings of experiments and measure data in a high-speed learning environment.
June 23-27: Gamers Unite!
Participants will have the opportunity to learn about the tricks and trades of game development. Students will learn how to design, code, test and deploy three-dimensional games using Unity, a popular cross-platform game engine along, with learning the fundamentals of C#, a programming language used in Unity.
Each camp is limited to 30 students and costs $100 for residents of Kansas and $400 for non-residents. The fee includes room and board, supplies and a T-shirt. Priority will be on a first-come, first-served basis with a maximum of two camps per student.
The priority registration deadline is April 1, and the final registration deadline is May 1. Registration must be mailed in with full payment to reserve a spot.

For more information, contact Shelia Clark, KAMS Summer Academy Coordinator, at 785-628-4168 or [email protected]. To download the registration form, visit www.fhsu.edu/kams/summer-camps/index.

About KAMS:
KAMS is an early-entry-to-college program that focuses on advanced mathematics and science. While studying at KAMS, students live on campus in a select residence hall with other KAMS students from across Kansas and around the world. Over the course of two years, students complete over 60 hours of college credit. These college classes are taken alongside traditional college undergraduates and taught by college professors while simultaneously contributing to their high school graduation requirements.

Cloudy, cold Sunday

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Today
Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 32. Calm wind becoming south southwest around 6 mph in the afternoon.
Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 20. Southwest wind around 6 mph.
Monday
Partly sunny, with a high near 38. Southwest wind around 7 mph.
Monday Night
Partly cloudy, with a low around 22. Southwest wind around 6 mph.
Tuesday
Sunny, with a high near 43. West southwest wind around 7 mph.
Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 20.
Wednesday
Mostly sunny, with a high near 35.
Wednesday Night
Partly cloudy, with a low around 22.
Thursday
Mostly sunny, with a high near 44.

Kansas contest for top birders

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KDWPT

PRATT – Think you know your Kansas birds? Prove it. Keep track of the number of different species you see between Jan. 1, 2019 and Dec. 31, 2019 and enter the 2019 Kansas Birding Big Year contest, hosted by the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT). But you’d better bring your A-game. Last year, the winner recorded more than 300 species!

Participants of all skill levels may compete in three age groups: youth (17 and under), adult (18-64), and senior (65 and up). Winners in each category will receive great prizes that may include prints of Rob Penner ink drawings, gift cards and more.

Participation Guidelines
1. Participants must register online at https://ksoutdoors.com/Services/Wildlife-Diversity/2019-Kansas-Birding-Big-Year on or before April 1 to be part of the 2019 contest.

2. Participants must read and abide by the set of rules governing the competition (also available at ksoutdoors.com). These rules are adapted from the American Birding Association Recording Rules and Interpretations and include the Code of Birding Ethics. Breaking or disregard for these rules will disqualify the participant from the competition.

3. Participants are required to log their data into the online service, eBird, available on the Cornell University website, www.ebird.org. Each participant will need to create an individual profile, with sign-in and password to begin submitting their sightings.

4. Participants will need to submit a running total list of observed species quarterly to the program coordinator . This is to help track progress and provide quality control. The program coordinator and competition committee have final say on list totals. Dates for submissions are June 30, September 30 and December 31.

5. Winners in each category will be determined by a committee selected by the program coordinator. Winners will be notified and prizes will be awarded in mid-January of the following calendar year. Categories are defined as:

Youth – 17 and under
Adult – 18-64 (3 skill levels: Novice, Intermediate and Advanced)[KR[1]
Senior – 65 and up

6. Prizes will be awarded based on availability and appropriateness per division, as determined by program coordinator and competition committee.

For more information, visit ksoutdoors.com.

Monarchs beat Smith Center; advance to MCL tournament quarterfinals

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The TMP Monarchs closed the third quarter on an 11-2 run to build a four-point lead over the Smith Center Redmen and they would never travel again on their way to a 65-59 win in a feather bracket game Saturday in Stockton.

Bill Meagher postgame interview

After the Monarchs built a four-point first quarter lead on a number of occasions the Redmen outscored the Monarchs 17-14 in the second quarter and took a 28-26 lead into the halftime break.

Smith Center matched their largest lead of the first-half at four in the third quarter at 35-31. But the Monarchs were able to chip away at the lead at closed the third quarter on a 15-7 run. Ryan Karlin and Lucas Lang hit back-to-back threes as the Monarchs built a 46-42 lead.

In the fourth quarter the Monarchs made six of their final nine free throws to secure the four-point victory.

Jared Mayers finished with a career-high 20 points and 12 rebounds. Ryan Karlin chipped in 13 and Jackson Schulte had 12.

Rece Buckmaster led three in double-figures with 12 for the Redmen.

Game highlights

The Monarchs improved to 6-4 and will take on Ellis Monday in the MCL quarterfinals at 6 p.m.

Smith Center falls to 2-7 and will play Stockton in the MCL tournament 9th place game Thursday in Stockton.

Davis, Brooks lead No. 17 Houston past Wichita State

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HOUSTON (AP) — Corey Davis Jr. had 20 points, Armoni Brooks added 14 and No. 17 Houston rebounded from its first loss of the season to beat Wichita State 79-70 on Saturday night.

Davis and Brooks combined to hit eight 3-pointers — seven in the second half — and the Cougars (16-1, 3-1 American) overcame a five-point halftime deficit for their 29th straight home victory. DeJon Jarreau had 13 points, and Fabian White Jr. added 12. Houston shot 57 percent in the second half and 49 percent overall.

Markis McDuffie scored 22 points, and Samajae Haynes-Jones added 14 for Wichita State (7-8, 0-3). The Shockers shot 39 percent in losing their fourth straight, their longest streak since January 2009.

After Wichita State regained the lead at 56-55 on McDuffie’s four-point play with 11 minutes remaining, the Cougars answered with an 11-1 run to take a nine-point advantage with 7 1/2 minutes left.

Wichita State got no closer than five the rest of the way.

Trailing 40-34 early in the second half, Houston had a 14-0 run to take a 48-40 lead on back-to-back 3-pointers by Brooks with 14 minutes left.

BIG PICTURE

Wichita State: The Shockers led for the majority of the first half and kept it close throughout the second half, but Houston forced Wichita State into bad shots in the second half and nine of its 15 total turnovers. The Shockers stayed in it due to 3-point shooting, hitting 9 of 24, and shot well from the free throw line, connecting on 83 percent.

Houston: The Cougars continue to play well in transition, with a 17-7 advantage in fast-break points and played well defensively, especially in the second half. Houston passed the ball well, with 17 assists on 25 field goals. Galen Robinson Jr. had 11 assists. Houston continued the trend of sluggish first halves before coming alive in the second half.

UP NEXT

Wichita State: Hosts Central Florida on Wednesday night.

Houston: At SMU on Wednesday night.

Chiefs roll past Colts to reach AFC title game

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs’ defense had heard the chorus of critics all season long, the ones that claimed their sieve-like line and shaky backfield would spoil young superstar Patrick Mahomes and cost them a chance to chase their first Super Bowl appearance in decades.

Well, that defense is a big reason why the Chiefs are one step away.

With persistent snow turning Arrowhead Stadium into a winter wonderland, the Chiefs successfully shut down Andrew Luck and the potent Indianapolis Colts on Saturday.

Mahomes and the rest of their own high-powered offense took care of the rest, rolling to a 31-13 victory in the divisional round to end 25 years of playoff frustration.

“We’re such a different team,” said Mahomes, who threw for 278 yards while running for a score. “We have such young players. We have such confidence we’re going to win every single game.”

Damien Williams ran through snow and muck for 129 yards and another score, and Tyreek Hill had 72 yards receiving and a touchdown run, as the Chiefs beat Indianapolis for the first time in five playoff meetings to earn their first AFC title game appearance since January 1994.

The AFC West champions will play the winner of Sunday’s game between the division-rival Los Angeles Chargers and the New England Patriots next weekend for a spot in the Super Bowl in Atlanta.

“We wanted to light up the city,” Chiefs defensive tackle Chris Jones said. “We didn’t want to take the road down memory lane.”

Andrew Luck was held to 203 yards passing for the Colts, while Marlon Mack was a non-factor on the ground. He had 46 yards rushing before leaving late in the fourth quarter with a hip injury.

“Was not expecting it to end today,” Colts coach Frank Reich said. “We knew we were going up against a very good team, a very well-coached team. It’s hard to lose. It’s hard to lose when you’ve come this far with the team that we have and the guys that we have, so credit to the Chiefs.

“They outcoached us, they outplayed us,” Reich said. “We just gave them too many opportunities.”

The Chiefs set out to change history from the opening minutes, when they forced a three-and-out and then waltzed right over a Colts defense that nearly shut out the Texans a week ago. Mahomes and Co. scored on their first three possessions, then again just before halftime, to take a 24-7 lead.

If there was any question whether this would be Kansas City’s day, it was answered when Colts kicker Adam Vinatieri missed a 23-yard field-goal try off the upright just before halftime. It was the first time in 22 postseason attempts that he’d missed from that close.

Not that the Chiefs thought they had it wrapped up.

They’ve had bigger playoff meltdowns against the Colts.

There was the 10-7 loss in which Lin Elliott missed three field goals when the Chiefs were the No. 1 seed, and the loss at Arrowhead Stadium in 2003 in which nobody punted. Five years ago, they blew a 38-10 second-half lead against Luck and the Colts to spoil Andy Reid’s first season.

Not this time.

Not with this Kansas City quarterback.

After shattering nearly every franchise passing record, Mahomes picked up right where he left off in his regular-season finale. He led the Chiefs on touchdown drives of 90 and 70 yards to open the game, quickly identified a favorite target in Travis Kelce, and shook off a banged-up knee to scramble for a touchdown late in the first half to give his team a big cushion.

Of course, the Chiefs (13-4) didn’t need it the way their defense was playing.

The Colts (11-7) went three-and-out on their first four possessions, were outgained 185-12 in the first quarter, and Luck didn’t complete a pass until he found T.Y Hilton early in the second.

Their lone bright spot came when Zach Paschal recovered a blocked punt for a touchdown .

Even when the Colts caught a break and Sammy Watkins fumbled the ball to them late in the third quarter, they were quick to give it back. Dee Ford stripped Luck and fellow linebacker Justin Houston plopped on the ball, ruining another red-zone opportunity.

“It seemed like the rushers were getting there all night,” Chiefs cornerback Kendall Fuller said. “Guys sticking coverage, playing good technique, good eyes and things like that.”

The Colts finally scored an offensive touchdown with 5:31 left in the game. But in the perfect summation of their lousy afternoon, their erstwhile star kicker missed the extra point.

By that point, the party in the stands already had begun.

The Chiefs had lost six straight home playoff games, including heartbreakers to Pittsburgh and Tennessee the past two years. But a proud franchise that won its only Super Bowl title with Len Dawson in 1970, and last played for a spot behind Joe Montana, is once more one step away.

“I’m just happy for these guys in this locker room,” Kelce said. “Playoff wins are hard to come by, let alone wins in the NFL. So, I mean, it’s just exciting for us to be able to play next week.”

SNOWBALL FIGHT

Reid was summoned to the corner of the stadium during the two-minute warning in the first half to implore fans to stop throwing snowballs on the field. Earlier in the half, one almost hit Colts punter Rigoberto Sanchez while he was kicking.

INJURIES

Colts: Center Ryan Kelly (knee) left late in the fourth quarter. … FS Malik Hooker (foot) and DE Tyquan Lewis (knee) were inactive, while SS Mike Mitchell (calf) was placed on injured reserve earlier this week. That left the Colts defense without some key pieces.

Chiefs: Safety Eric Berry (heel) and running back Spencer Ware (hamstring) were inactive, though Berry — the team’s emotional leader — broke down the pregame huddle in the north end zone.

UP NEXT

Chiefs: Await the Chargers-Patriots winner in the AFC title game.

Colts: Begin preparing for April’s draft.

Vitztum double-double helps Tigers to win over Bronchos

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HAYS, Kan. – Marcus Cooper scored 22 points, Jared Vitztum added his first career double-double and Fort Hays State used their best shooting game of the season to beat Central Oklahoma 90-84 Saturday afternoon at Gross Coliseum.

Vitztum, hit five of the Tigers 13 threes and scored 20 points along with 12 rebounds, both career highs. Brady Werth added 12 points and nine boards for the Tigers (11-4, 5-2 MIAA) who shot 60.4-percent and picked up third straight win and ninth of their last 10 games.

The Tigers recorded assists on 21 of their 32 baskets led by a career-high 12 from Kyler Kinnamon who moves into fourth in FHSU history with 379.

Mark Johnson Postgame Interview

Jared Vitztum Postgame Interview

Game Highlights

The Tigers used a 14-5 run to build a nine-point lead with 6:54 to play in the first half. UCO (8-7, 1-5 MIAA) responded with a 14-5 run of their own to close out the half and lead 40-38 at halftime.

Vitztum hit a three which was followed by a Werth steal which led to an Aaron Nicholson layup put the Tigers up nine with 15:19 to play and would lead by 10 with a little over 13 minutes to play.

UCO rallied and tied the game 72-72 with 5:54 to play but a 10-0 run by the Tigers which included four points each from Cooper and Payton Stephens over the next two minutes and 19 seconds pushed the lead back to 10.

Loyola-Chicago transfer Adarius Avery scored 26 and pulled down 12 rebounds and Ashford Golden added 23 points to lead the Bronchos.

 

Vick’s six threes lifts No. 7 Kansas past peat Baylor

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WACO, Texas (AP) — Lagerald Vick did on his 22nd birthday for No. 7 Kansas what he also does in so many other games. He made some big 3-pointers, even if the ending was a bit shaky.

Vick scored 18 points with six 3-pointers before a couple of late turnovers as the Jayhawks held on for a 73-68 win at Baylor on Saturday.

“First 36 minutes, I thought he was great,” coach Bill Self said, repeating what he also said after the rest of the team. “Made a couple of hard shots at the end of the clock. He played really well. He didn’t play like a senior down the stretch.”

Vick hit two of his 3s in an 11-3 run in the final 1:44 of the first half to put the Jayhawks (14-2, 3-1 Big 12) up by 10 at the break after they blew almost all of a 16-point lead. Kansas then led by double-digits for most of the second half before Baylor’s eight consecutive points in the final minute, when Vick had two turnovers.

Jared Butler hit a 3 with 54 seconds left and Mark Vital made a basket before Devonte Bandoo’s 3 after Vick’s second turnover in that span got the Bears within 72-68. The Jayhawks missed three free throws down the stretch.

Kansas had a 23-point lead with 6 1/2 minutes left, and had to hold on in that final frantic minute.

“Certainly the story that I’m leaving with is that we got a good road win today, not that we played like crap the last four minutes,” Self said.

“We just have to do a better job of just finishing out games,” Vick said.

Dedric Lawson added 17 points with five steals and five blocks for Kansas despite his season-low three rebounds. Devon Dotson scored 14 points while freshman Ochai Agbaji had 10 in his second game.

Butler had 14 points to lead Baylor (9-6, 1-2), while Vital and Bandoo each had 11. Makai Mason scored 10.

Baylor, playing without second-leading scorer Tristan Clark (knee surgery), missed its first 15 shots from the field over the first 10 ½ minutes. The Bears fell behind 18-2 before Butler had three 3s in an 18-4 run. The Bears were within 22-20 on a free throw by Mason with just under 4 minutes left in the half, though they never got closer.

“Usually, we play through Tristan,” Butler said. “So it was kind of different, a different feel. … It was kind of difficult, and that kind of threw off our rhythm a little bit.”

BIG PICTURE

Kansas: The Jayhawks played their second game since 7-foot center Udoka Azubuike’s season-ending wrist surgery. Agabaji, the 6-5 freshman guard from Kansas City, has contributed in both games. He was 4-of-5 shooting and had a 3 late in the first half Saturday.

“He’s becoming one of our best players and he’s poised and he made a couple of athletic plays,” Self said.

Baylor: The Bears just couldn’t build on the momentum of their home win Tuesday against No. 20 Iowa State, which then was coming off a 17-point home win over the Jayhawks last weekend.

CLARK DONE

Clark was the national leader shooting 74 percent from the field. The 6-foot-9 sophomore averaged 14.6 points starting the first 14 games, but something didn’t feel right in his knee after Tuesday’s game. He made 84 of his 114 shots, and was on pace for the fourth-best shooting season in NCAA history. He now won’t play in enough games to qualify for that.

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HAYS, Kan. – Tatyana Legette scored a game-high 18 points and the fourth-ranked Fort Hays State women used their best shooting game of the season to beat Central Oklahoma 81-61 Saturday afternoon at Gross Coliseum.

Legette pulled down a game-high seven rebounds, had six assists, two blocked shots and three steals as the Tigers improve to 15-0 and 5-0 in the MIAA. Kacey Kennett added 14 points, Lanie Page 13, Whitney Randall 12 and Taylor Rolfs 11.

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Game Highlights

FHSU, who shot 52-percent from the floor, closed the first quarter on a 14-2 run to build a 14-point lead at the quarter break. It was part of a bigger 20-4 run that saw push their lead to 19 two minutes in to the second quarter.

UCO (11-5, 2-4 MIAA), who lost their third straight and fourth in their last five games, responded after a timeout and outscored the Tigers 16-6 to pull within six and trailed 37-28 at halftime.

The Tigers put the game away with a decisive 21-5 run over the third and fourth quarters and led by as many as 25 early in the fourth.

The Tigers are back on the road Wednesday at Emporia State then play at Washburn the following Saturday.

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