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Agudelo named GAC men’s soccer Offensive Player of the Week

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – Fort Hays State senior forward Santiago Agudelo earned GAC Men’s Soccer Offensive Player of the Week honors for a second straight week, released on Tuesday. He tallied seven points for the past week, helping FHSU to a 1-0-1 record against GAC competition on the road.

Agudelo scored three goals and added an assist over a two-game span for Fort Hays State. He had the go-ahead goal to put FHSU up 2-1 in what eventually was a 2-2 tie at Ouachita Baptist. Two days later, he helped the Tigers move into first place alone in the GAC standings with an 8-1 win over Harding, scoring two goals and adding an assist.

Agudelo joins Northeastern State’s Ben Watson (Defensive Player of the Week) and Justin Hinman (Goalkeeper of the Week) as the conference’s weekly honorees in men’s soccer.

🎥 FHSU football holds weekly football press conference

Fort Hays State Tiger coach Chris Brown held his weekly press conference Tuesday after the Tigers picked up the 44-3 win over Missouri Southern Saturday. The Tigers travel to Edmond, Oklahoma Saturday for a matchup with Central Oklahoma.

Senior wide receiver Harley Hazlett and junior linebacker Drew Harvey also addressed the media Tuesday. You can hear their comments below.

Coach Chris Brown

Harley Hazlett

Drew Harvey

Monarchs girls’ golf finishes second at Hoisington Invite

Courtesy photo

GREAT BEND, Kan. – The TMP-Marian girls’ golf team finishes second at the Hoisington Invitational at the Lake Barton Golf Club. The Monarchs shot a 222, two shots behind Plainville.

Plainville’s Corbyn Marquess was top medalist with a 47. TMP’s Heleigh Spray was one of three golfers to shoot a 48 and finished third. Jenna Romme finished sixth with a 53.

Team Results
1. Plainville 220
2. TMP-Marian 222
3. Larned 223
4. Hoisington 236
5. Great Bend 239
6. Pratt 241
7. Hays JV 257
8. Dodge City 258

Top 10 Individual Results
1. Corbyn Marquess-PL 47
2. Halle Barker-LND 48
3. Addison Smith-HOIS 48
4. Heleigh Spray-TMP 48
5. Allyson Kaiser-GB 49
6. Jenna Romme-TMP 53
7. Darby Eakin-LND 54
8. Melinda Ruder-PL 56
9. Annika Larrison-PRT 56
10. Emily Norton-PL 57

‘Every state champ ever’: KSHSAA Gallery of Champions available online

The Kansas High School Activities Association has unveiled the KSHSAA Gallery of Champions.

The online feature, which can be found HERE, showcases “every state championship team, ever!” KSHSAA tweeted Monday.

The page includes a search function, which allows searches by name, school, activity or year. The database includes season results, championship histories, rosters and more.

Broncos blow lead, fall to 0-4 with loss to Jaguars

DENVER (AP) — Leonard Fournette ran for a career-high 225 yards and Josh Lambo kicked a 33-yard field goal as time expired, sending the Jacksonville Jaguars past the winless Denver Broncos 26-24 Sunday.

The Broncos (0-4) not only were victimized by a last-second field goal for the second time this season, but they blew a 14-point lead at home in a loss for the first time since 2006.

Gardner Minshew II drove the Jaguars, one of four AFC South teams who are 2-2, into field goal range after Joe Flacco’s 8-yard TD throw to Courtland Sutton with 1:38 left gave Denver a 24-23 lead.

Eerily reminiscent of their 16-14 loss to the Bears in Denver two weeks ago, the Broncos helped ignite the winning drive by getting whistled for roughing the passer.

Against Chicago, it was Bradley Chubb’s questionable penalty, which the league admitted was a bad call. Against the Jaguars, it was a flag by Von Miller, who reached up and struck Minshew in his neck just as he released his pass in a chaotic pocket.

Miller’s foul spoiled his big day in which he collected his 99th and 100th career sacks and drew several holding penalties, one of which wiped a Jaguars touchdown off the board.

The 15-yard flag on a 1-yard throw on second down gave Jacksonville a first-and-10 at its 41.

Fournette topped his previous career high of 181 yards on Oct. 8, 2017, at Pittsburgh, and his big run Sunday was an 81-yarder that set up Jacksonville’s go-ahead score.

The Broncos finally ended their sack drought, dropping Minshew five times, but suddenly they couldn’t stop the run.

The result was their first home loss in which they led by 14 or more points since Nov. 19, 2006, when they were beaten by the Chargers 35-27 after jumping out to a 24-7 lead.

Jacksonville hadn’t had a 100-yard rusher in 22 games, the second-longest streak in the NFL behind Philadelphia’s 32-game drought.

The Jaguars also recorded their first takeaway of the season despite missing star cornerback Jalen Ramsey, who was deactivated and missed a game for the first time in his four-year NFL career. He missed practice all week, first with an illness, then a back injury and finally for paternity leave.

Denver led 17-6 and was driving for another score just before halftime when safety Ronnie Harrison intercepted Flacco, who airmailed a pass to Emmanuel Sanders. That set up Lambo’s second field goal, cutting Jacksonville’s deficit to 17-6 at the half.

Coming out of the break, the Jaguars employed a heavy front with 308-pounder Cedric Ogbuehi serving as an eligible receiver and extra blocker for Fournette.

The Jaguars went on a 75-yard, 16-play opening drive that ate up nearly 10½ minutes, which Minshew capped with a 7-yard TD toss to running back Ryquell Armstead after slipping two potential sacks and with Derek Wolfe and Miller bearing down on him.

After Denver went three-and-out, Fournette reeled off his 81-yard run, setting up tight end James O’Shaughnessy’s 18-yard TD grab that put the Jaguars ahead 20-17.

The Jaguars ate up another seven minutes in going 78 yards in 13 plays to push their lead to 23-17 on Lambo’s 34-yarder with 2:54 left.

Rookie tight end Noah Fant scored his first career TD on a 25-yard catch-and-run dumpoff from Flacco, who also hit Sutton for a first-half TD.

INJURIES:

Broncos ILB Josey Jewell aggravated a hamstring injury in the second quarter and was done for the day.

UP NEXT

Jaguars: Visit the Carolina Panthers on Sunday.

Broncos: Visit the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday.

Soler hits 48th HR, Royals beat Twins in Yost’s last game

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jorge Soler locked up the AL home run crown with his 48th homer, Brett Phillips drove a game-ending sacrifice fly in the ninth inning and the Kansas City Royals beat the Minnesota Twins 5-4 Sunday in manager Ned Yost’s final game.

Phillips’ first career walk-off RBI gave Yost a celebratory send-off on the final day of the regular season. Yost finished 746-839 over 10 seasons leading Kansas City, by far the most wins in franchise history.

Twins manager Rocco Baldelli turned over coaching duties to infielder Ehire Adrianza because he thinks he has the makings of a future manager. Adrianza filled out the lineup card and called the shots during the game. Minnesota finished the season 101-61, one victory shy of the franchise record set in 1965.

Soler connected in the first inning and broke a tie with Rafael Palmeiro for most home runs in a season by a Cuban-born player. The 27-year-old Soler’s previous career high was 12.

Ian Kennedy (3-2) pitched a scoreless ninth before the Royals rallied against rookie Brusdar Graterol (1-1). Humberto Arteaga led off with a double, and Nick Dini moved him to third with a bloop single, setting up Phillips’ fly to right that lifted the Royals to 59-103.

Kansas City’s Hunter Dozier led off the eighth with his 10th triple of the season, matching teammates Whit Merrifield and Adalberto Mondesi for the AL lead. It marks the first time since 1984 (Astros) that a team has had three players with at least 10 triples. Dozier scored on Ryan O’Hearn’s tying double.

The AL Central-winning Twins scored three runs in the first on back-to-back home runs by C.J. Cron —a two-run shot — and Jake Cave. It’s the 12th time this season the Twins have homered back-to-back. Jason Castro added a solo shot in the fifth.

The Royals drew 17,875 in their final game. They finished with an average of 18,267 fans, 2,290 fewer than 2018.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Twins Minnesota is uncertain if rookie 3B Luis Arraez will be ready for the AL Division Series after spraining his right ankle Saturday. “It could be a few days, it could be a week,” said head athletic trainer Tony Leo. “We’re not really putting a timeline on this one, obviously, with where we are.” Arraez is hitting .334 in 92 games.

UP NEXT

The Twins will have a few days off before opening their ALDS in New York on Friday. Baldelli has not named any starters for the ALDS.

Chiefs score late, stay undefeated with win over Lions

DETROIT (AP) — Darrel Williams ran for a go-ahead, 1-yard touchdown with 23 seconds left for his second score in the fourth quarter, lifting the Kansas City Chiefs to a 34-30 win over the Detroit Lions.

Detroit drove to the Kansas City 44 on the final drive and Matthew Stafford heaved two passes toward the end zone that were incomplete, ending the game.

The Chiefs (4-0) went ahead for the first time Sunday early in the third quarter when Bashaud Breeland recovered Kerryon Johnson’s fumble and returned it 100 yards, taking advantage of everyone on the field appearing to stop momentarily and the officials not blowing a whistle. The pivotal play stood after review.

The Lions (2-1-1) scored the first 10 points and, after Kansas City pulled into two ties, went back ahead late in the second, third and fourth quarters.

Stafford threw a 6-yard touchdown pass to Kenny Golladay with 2:26 left to give Detroit a 30-27 lead. The call on the field stood after a review, which showed Golladay got both feet in the end zone. Golladay had a touchdown overturned by review early in the third because he appeared to lose control of the football as he hit the turf.

Kansas City started the winning drive on its 21. Patrick Mahomes converted a fourth-and-8 from his 34 with a 15-yard run to help him finish with a career-high 56 yards rushing and he completed just enough passes to set up Williams for a short run to take the lead for good.

Mahomes was 24 of 42 for 315 yards. The reigning MVP had thrown at least two touchdown passes in 14 straight games, one short of the NFL record set by Peyton Manning.

Stafford was 21 of 34 for 291 yards with three touchdowns, including two to Golladay and one to T.J. Hockenson. Stafford’s second touchdown pass of the game — and first to Golladay — put Detroit up 23-20 and followed a fifth fumble in the third quarter. Johnson had 125 yards rushing on 26 carries.

INJURIES

Chiefs: DE Alex Okafor (hip) and LB Damien Wilson (concussion) left in the fourth quarter.

Lions: Hockenson (concussion) was carted off the field in the third quarter and S Quandre Diggs (hamstring) left in the first quarter.

UP NEXT

Chiefs: Host the Indianapolis Colts.

Lions: Bye week.

Tiger women’s soccer comes up short against Hornets

Courtesy FHSU Athletics / Allie Schweizer photo

HAYS, Kan. – The FHSU women’s soccer team faced adversity Sunday with tough weather conditions in the form of a strong steady wind gusting up to 40 mph at times. Falling down two goals to a solid Emporia State team did not help as ESU held on for a 2-1 win in the MIAA opener for both squads. The Tigers dropped to 4-3 (0-1) and the Hornets improved to 6-2 (1-0).

The Hornets got on the board fast in the first half going into the strong wind. Emporia State’s MacKenzie Dimarco sneaked one by goalkeeper Megan Kneefel, threading the needle low and to the left after a pass from Gaby Crowell. That put the Tigers down 1-0 entering halftime.

The score remained the same until the 72nd minute when ESU’s Tanna Benefiel headed a shot in the net off a corner from Joanie Westcoat. ESU looked comfortable with a 2-0 lead until a late push from the Tigers.

The Tigers closed the gap in the 86th minute to make the game interesting. Kailey Corr fouled Emily Reitz in the box and FHSU was awarded a penalty kick. Darby Hirsch stepped up and knocked in her third goal of the season. The Tigers mounted a couple more attacks, but ultimately could not find the equalizer.

FHSU tallied five shots throughout the match, taken by Cailey Perkins, Zariah Smith, Jenna Prince, and Darby Hirsch (2). Emporia State reached 11 shots overall with seven taken by Mackenzie Dimarco.

Megan Kneefel (3-2) saved five of seven Emporia State shots on goal. Jillian Patton (6-2) saved two of three FHSU shots on goal.

The Tigers travel to Edmond, Okla. looking for their first MIAA win against Central Oklahoma. The match is set for 7 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 4.

Tigers roll to big win over Missouri Southern State

Courtesy FHSU Athletics / Allie Schweizer photo

HAYS – After a sluggish start offensively, Fort Hays State scored 28 points over a seven minute stretch of the second and third quarters and cruised to a 44-3 win over Missouri Southern State in front of 5,832 on cool damp evening at Lewis Field. The Tigers have won two straight following an 0-2 start. The Lions fall to 1-3 under first year head coach Jeff Sims.

The Tiger defense was solid from start to finish, picking off four Lions passes and had three stops on fourth down. The Lions only points came on a 30-yard Riley Hathorn field goal late in the third quarter. They had seven tackles for loss an four sacks, two from Drew Harvey who led them with 12 tackles. Hayden Kreutzer had two interceptions with Tanner Hoekman and Isaiah Creal-Musgray getting the others.

Five of Fort Hays State’s first seven possessions started inside Lions territory, but they were held to a pair of 41-yard Dante Brown field goals until Manny Ramsey’s 17-yard touchdown catch from Chance Fuller with 5:21 to play in the second quarter.

Harley Hazlett then tip-toed down the Tiger sidelines on a 51-yard screen pass for a touchdown with 4:16 left in the half to push the lead to 20-0.

Te’Corey Tutson’s 93-yard kickoff return to open the third quarter gave the Tigers the ball at the MSSU 3-yard line setting up a 3-yard touchdown pass from Fuller to Hazlett. The two would connect on a 22-yard strike following a Hayden Kreutzer interception to give FHSU a 34-0 lead with 13:25 to play in the third.

Hazlett would finish with eight receptions for a career-high 123 yards and a three touchdowns.

D.J. Hickman, who rushed for 90 yards on 16 second half carries, scored on a 3-yard run with 9:27 left in the third to five the Tigers a 41-0 lead.

Chance Fuller completed 20 of 36 passes for 255 yards and four touchdowns and one interception. Charles Tigner rushed for 87 yards on 17 carries.

FHSU finished with 437 total yards of offense, 182 on the ground, and 255 through the air. The Lions had 344 yards, 64 on the ground and 280 through the air.

Missouri Southern’s Jacob Park threw for 173 yards on 22-of-48 passing with four interceptions. Sean Kelly completed 7-of-16 passes for 107 yards before leaving with an apparent severe leg injury in the second half.

The Tigers travel to Edmond, Okla. to play Central Oklahoma Saturday (Oct. 6) at 1 p.m. The Bronchos dropped to 2-2 following a 59-10 loss at No. 7 Northwest Missouri State.

K-State drops Big 12 opener at Oklahoma State

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Chuba Hubbard ran for 296 yards and a touchdown on just 25 carries, and Oklahoma State shut down No. 24 Kansas State’s own vaunted rushing attack in a weather-delayed 26-13 victory Saturday night.

Hubbard hardly carried at all in the first quarter for the Cowboys (4-1, 1-1 Big 12), who built a 13-0 lead when the game was halted more than an hour in the second quarter due to lightning. But the breakout star finished with runs of 53, 84 and 44 yards in his dominant performance.

Spencer Sanders added 153 yards passing and a touchdown for Oklahoma State. Most of that went to Tylan Wallace, who hauled in eight passes for 145 yards.

Skylar Thompson was 11 of 23 for 118 yards for the Wildcats (3-1, 0-1), who were coming off a bye following their big win at Mississippi State. But any momentum they gained from their foray into SEC country was wiped out by their return to the Big 12.

By the time lightning hit and the officials ordered everyone off the field, the Cowboys had a 208-32 edge in offensive yardage. And when the game resumed, Kansas State kicked a field goal only for Oklahoma State to answer with a touchdown drive to take a 16-3 lead into halftime.

Hubbard added his 84-yard touchdown run in the third quarter before the Wildcats tacked on a field goal by Blake Lynch and a short touchdown run by James Gilbert to make it a game.

Oklahoma State added a field goal in the closing seconds when the outcome was already decided.

TAKEAWAY

Kansas State entered the game 10th in the nation in rushing, averaging 280 yards, but struggled for most of this one. Through the first half, new coach Chris Klieman’s team gained just 18 yards on 13 carries, and had just 68 heading into the final couple minutes of the third quarter. In the end, the Wildcats wound up with 126 yards on 32 carries.

Oklahoma State had issues capitalizing in the red zone in its previous game, a 36-30 loss at No. 11 Texas. And once again, the Cowboys could not punch the ball in from inside the 20. It was a pair of turnovers and a turnover-on-downs against the Longhorns, while it was three field goals against Kansas State. The only difference Saturday night was the outcome.

Kansas State returns home to take on Baylor next Saturday.

Oklahoma State heads to Lubbock next Saturday to face Texas Tech.

FHSU volleyball soars past Jets

HAYS, Kan. – An errorless opening set propelled the Fort Hays State volleyball team to a clean sweep of Newman Saturday afternoon (Sept. 28), 25-14, 25-14, 25-19. The Tigers improve to 5-7 overall and 2-2 in MIAA play, while the Jets fall to 0-13 overall and 0-4 in league action.

The Tigers cruised to a 25-14 victory in the opening two sets, never trailing in either frame. The Black and Gold did not record an error in the opening set, totaling 10 kills on 25 swings for a .400 attack percentage. FHSU pulled away in the set thanks to eight attack errors and five service miscues from Newman.

Delaney Humm helped the Tigers dominate again in the second set, recording as many kills (seven) as the entire Jet squad. FHSU jumped out to a quick 8-4 lead, but Newman battled back to level the score at 9-9. A kill from Humm prompted a seven-point run for the Tigers, putting the home team in front for good. The Lincoln, Neb. freshman ended the set with one final kill, handing the Tigers another 25-14 win.

The Tigers scored seven of the first nine points in the third set to take a quick five-point lead, but Newman fought back to take their first lead of the match, 10-9. The teams then traded points until FHSU scored six-straight with Taylor White serving, prompting a Jet timeout. Humm recorded the final two kills for the Tigers off passes from Katie Darnell to complete the sweep.

Humm tallied another double-double, her sixth of the season, after a team-high 14 kills and 10 digs. Isabelle Reynolds added 10 kills with a .360 attack percentage, while Kylie Brown recorded five kills on seven swings (.714 attack percentage). Darnell totaled 37 assists, nine digs and one block assist. Tatum Bartels did not record an error, accumulating seven kills on eight swings while adding an ace and one solo block. Abbie Hayes led the team with 11 digs.

Fort Hays State recorded a season-high .355 attack percentage, its best swing rate against a conference opponent since 2016 (.396 at Southwest Baptist, 11/12/16). Meanwhile, the Tigers held Newman to a .082 swing rate.

The Tigers picked up their second conference win of the season, matching their total from each of the last two seasons.

After going 2-1 over its latest home stretch, the Tigers will hit the road for four straight matches beginning next week. First up is a rematch with Emporia State on Tuesday (Oct. 1), with first serve set for 6 p.m. from Emporia, Kan.

Soler hits 47th homer in Royals loss to Twins

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Minnesota Twins lost third baseman Luis Arraez to an apparent right leg injury in the seventh inning of their 4-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Saturday.

Arraez collided with first baseman Willians Astudillo while he was chasing Hunter Dozier’s pop fly at the mound. Astudillo caught the ball and Arraez grabbed the back of his right leg as he tumbled to the ground.

Arraez, a rookie who is batting .334 in 92 games for the AL Central champions, had to be carted off the field.

Nelson Cruz hit a tiebreaking homer in the eighth for Minnesota, which has won six in a row and eight of nine overall. Mitch Garver had two doubles and scored twice, and Astudillo had two hits and two RBIs.

Kansas City slugger Jorge Soler went deep twice to move into the AL lead with 47 homers. Soler snapped a tie with the Angels’ Mike Trout, who is out with an injury.

Whit Merrifield had three hits in Ned Yost’s penultimate game with Kansas City. The 65-year-old Yost is retiring after Sunday’s finale to his 10th season as Royals manager.

Soler connected in the first against Cody Stashak, sending a drive soaring over the wall in center. He added a two-run shot in the seventh against Tyler Duffey (5-1), tying it at 3.

Cruz then led off the eighth with a drive to left for his 41st homer on a 3-2 pitch from Jacob Barnes (1-5).

Sergio Romo worked the eighth for the Twins before Taylor Rogers got three outs for his 30th save.

Cruz has nine homers, 28 RBIs and a .371 average in 16 games against Kansas City this year.

The game ended with rain failing. The start time was moved up five hours because of thunderstorms in the forecast.

WAITING FOR A GAME

The Twins will have four days off before taking on the New York Yankees in Game 1 of their AL Division Series on Friday night. But manager Rocco Baldelli isn’t concerned about the time off.

“It’s something we have to work around and every year several teams have to deal with that. Is it always ideal? Nothing is ever ideal but we’ll be fine,” Baldelli said. “We’ll find ways to keep our hitters feeling good and try to keep their timing where it needs to be and we’ll get our pitchers out there on their own individual throwing programs but try to keep lined up as best as we can for next Friday.”

Baldelli has not yet announced his pitching plans for the series.

GLASS FAMILY SALUTED

Video highlights of the Glass family’s 20-year ownership of the Royals were shown on the scoreboard prior to Saturday’s game, which was fan appreciation day at Kauffman Stadium.

Chairman David Glass, who plans to sell the franchise to John Sherman pending approval from other major league owners, waved and applauded his appreciation to the fans from his suite.

UP NEXT

Kansas City starts right-hander Jorge Lopez (4-9, 6.35 ERA) on Sunday against Twins left-hander Martin Perez (10-7, 5.13 ERA).

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