The TMP-Marian boys win their own golf invitational at the Smoky Hill Country Club Monday. The Monarchs shoot a 355 to edge second place Plainville by four strokes. Trego finishes third 10 back of the Monarchs.
Max Megaffin led the TMP with an 84 and finishes fifth. Collin Werth shot an 86 and was seventh with Hayden Rohr placing ninth with an 87.
Larned’s Colton Massey wins the tournament with a 75. Plainville’s Craig Gavert finished second and Trego’s Emmitt Owens third, both with an 81.
The Hays High boys golf team wins their first tournament of the season, edging Garden City by one stroke to win the weather shortened Great Bend Invitational Monday at the Stoneridge Golf Course.
The tournament was delayed by lightning after 11 holes then again three holes later when it was called.
The Indians were 15-over. Payton Ruder was awarded first place on a scorecard playoff at 1-over. Cash Hobson was also 1-over and placed fourth with Justin McCullick finishing seventh at four-over.
Team Finish
1. Hays High +15
2. Garden City +16
3. Great Bend +17
4. Liberal +50
5. Dodge City +53
6. Salina South +137
Top 10 Medalists
1. Payton Ruder-Hays High +1 after 14 holes
2. Cole Mulch-Great Bend +1 after 14 holes
3. Daniel Gaspar-Garden City +1 after 14 holes
4. Cash Hobson-Hays High +1 after 14 holes
5. Taylor Larsen-Garden City +2 after 14 holes
6. Kelby Titus-Great Bend +2 after 14 holes
7. Justin McCullick-Hays High +4 after 14 holes
8. Kameron Miller-Dodge City +6 after 14 holes
9. Logan Durst-Garden City +6 after 14 holes
10. Tristan Titus-Great Bend +6 after 14 holes
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Chiefs placed four players on waivers Tuesday, including former Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor, who had been signed in the offseason and was trying to earn a backup job.
The Chiefs did not choose a quarterback in last week’s draft, but they already have Alex Smith, Chase Daniel, Tyler Bray and Aaron Murray on the roster. They are also expected to add a couple of undrafted quarterbacks as free agents in the coming days.
Pryor was 3-7 as a starter over three seasons in Oakland. He has not played since 2013.
The Chiefs also waived linebacker JoJo Dickson, wide receiver Corbin Louks and long snapper Jorgen Hus on Tuesday.
Fort Hays State’s 2015 football schedule has been released. The Tigers will play six games at home in 2015, with the first on Thursday, September 10. The season is set to open on September 3 at Central Oklahoma.
2015 Schedule
September 3 – at Central Oklahoma, 7 pm
September 10 – Northeastern State, 7 pm
September 19 – at Lindenwood, 6 pm
September 26 – Pittsburg State, 7 pm
October 3 – Washburn, 7 pm
October 10 – at Missouri Western, 1 pm
October 17 – Emporia State, 2 pm
October 24 – at Northwest Missouri State, 2 pm
October 31 – Nebraska-Kearney, 2 pm
November 7 – at Missouri Southern, 3 pm
November 14 – Central Missouri, 2 pm
The Tigers host four rival schools at home this year. After the first home game against Northeastern State on September 10, the next four home dates will be against rivals Pittsburg State, Washburn, Emporia State, and Nebraska-Kearney. The contest against Pittsburg State on September 26 marks the annual Tailgreat game, then the game against Washburn on October 3 is Homecoming. The annual Tiger Sports Hall of Fame Game will be on October 31 against Nebraska-Kearney. FHSU closes out the season at home with Central Missouri on November 14.
All games in the regular season will be conference games for the second straight year with 12 schools in the conference for football (Southwest Baptist and Lincoln do not compete in the MIAA in football). The Tigers are coming off a 7-4 record last year, which tied for fourth in the MIAA standings, the highest finish ever for FHSU in the MIAA. It was the first seven-win season for FHSU since the 1996 season.
The TMP-Marian girls soccer team wins their sixth straight, defeating Great Bend 3-0 Monday in Great Bend. The Monarchs get goals from Alyssa Keil, Kayla Vitztum and Bailey Hageman.
TMP is now 9-2 on the season. They play at Bishop Carroll on Friday.
By Dustin Armbruster
Monday, Hays High senior Ashlyn Parrish signed her letter of intent to compete in track and field at Cloud County Community College. Parrish said she instantly fell in love with everything about the school including the coaches and the teachers in reference to her decision to attend college in Concordia, Kansas.
Parrish is coming off a sweep of the 100 hurdles and 300 hurdles at the McPherson meet last week. Her time of 16.19 in the 100 hurdles should put her just inside the top 20 reported times in the state among all classes, according to a list compiled by track and field expert Carol Swenson.
Parrish also said that her favorite and strongest even right now is the 100 hurdles and her goal is to make the podium at the state meet in late May.
Ashlyn Parrish:
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Fort Hays State’s top three javelin throwers swept the podium on Sunday at the MIAA Championships in St. Charles, Mo. Estefanio Lopez, Madison Wolf, and Megan Honas finished first, second, and third in the event, all earning All-MIAA honors for their efforts. The Tigers finished 10th in the standings with 30 points.
Lopez’s win in the event marked her fourth consecutive victory in the event this spring. She gave Fort Hays State its fourth consecutive individual champion at the MIAA Championships in women’s javelin. Makayla McPhail won the event in 2012 and 2013, teammate Madison Wolf won in 2014, and now Lopez claims the title in 2015. Fort Hays State’s sweep of the podium generated 24 of the team’s 30 points at the meet.
Lopez threw a distance of 161-feet, 1-inch to top a field of 19 competitors. Wolf threw 158-feet, 2-inches, and Honas threw 148-feet, 5-inches. Honas’ mark improved her national standing in the event. She moved up to 11th nationally, while Lopez continues to have the best mark in the nation and Wolf now ranks fifth. Lopez and Wolf are already automatically qualified for the NCAA Championships, while Honas put herself in much better standing going into the final week of competition before selections are announced.
The FHSU women struggled to score points in other events throughout the weekend. Danielle Berry and Micki Krzesinski each had seventh-place finishes in their respective events to generate two points each. Berry jumped 5-feet, 5.25-inches in the high jump on Sunday, while Krzesinski had a time of 39:41.75 in the 10,000 meters on Saturday. The 4×400-meter relay team of Mindy Wilson, Kelly Wycoff, Casey Freed and Mandy Wilson finished seventh to generate the other two team points for FHSU.
Pittsburg State took the team title with 176.5 points. Central Missouri was second with 164 points and Lincoln was third with 133.
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Fort Hays State’s men had a solid showing at the MIAA Championships in St. Charles, Mo., held Friday through Sunday (May 1-3). Cory Keehn won his second race of the weekend, topping the 5,000 meter field, and Michael Kinuthia won the 1,500 meters, helping the Tigers to 76 points and a fifth-place finish as a team.
The Tigers entered the last event of the day in fourth place in the standings, but slid to fifth when Lincoln won the 4×400 meter relay and jumped the Tigers by a point in the standings. The Tigers held off Emporia State for fifth by one point. Pittsburg State won the men’s team title with 139 points, followed by Missouri Southern with 127 and Central Missouri with 111.
Keehn took the 5,000 meter run to put the Tigers in fourth in the standings at the time, running 15:12.65. He topped a field of 28 runners in the event. Keehn claimed his fourth MIAA title of 2015 with the win. He won both the 3,000 and 5,000 meters during indoor season, then in outdoor, won the 10,000 meters on Saturday and the 5,000 meters on Sunday. Keehn produced 20 points for the Tigers with his two wins in the meet. He was third among the top point-producing athletes in the meet.
Kinuthia took the 1,500-meter run with a time of 3:57.18, besting a field of 24 runners. A sprinting kick at the finish helped him get past Adam Tredway of Central Missouri by just 0.26 seconds for the title. Along with the 10 points for his win in the 1,500 meters, Kinuthia finished sixth in the 800 meters to give FHSU three more points with a time of 1:58.96.
Keehn and Kinuthia were the only All-MIAA performers for the Tigers individually, but did so in winning fashion.
Brady Tien entered the MIAA Championships with the best mark of any MIAA competitor this year at 17 feet. Cole Phillips of Central Missouri changed that with a vault of 17-feet, 7.25-inches on Sunday to post the nation’s best mark. Tien went on to finish fourth in the event, clearing a height of 16-feet, 3.5-inches. His 17-foot effort just over a week ago is now tied for the fourth-best mark in the nation this year. Teammate Jake Morrow was fifth in the event at 15-feet, 11.75-inches to up his provisional qualifying mark of the year. The pair combined for nine points in the event.
Brenner Wells finished fifth in the javelin with a throw of 188-feet, 3-inches to score four points. Nate Simpson finished fifth in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 14.86 seconds, while Evan Jennings was seventh in 15.09 seconds. The pair gave FHSU six points in the event. Jennings also finished seventh in the 400-meter hurdles with at time of 57.55 seconds to score two more points.
Derek Bixenman and Bryant Bombardier (each cleared 6-feet, 4.25-inches) finished sixth and seventh in the high jump respectively, combining to give FHSU five points. Rodrigo Alves was seventh in the 100 meters with a time of 10.71 seconds, generating two points. Stavros Stavrou gave the Tigers a point in the shot put by finishing eighth, throwing 48-feet, 6-inches.
The 4×100-meter relay team of Dillando Allotey, Alves, CJ Wilson, and Ed brown ran 41.80 seconds to finish fifth and give FHSU four points.
By DAVE SKRETTA
AP Sports Writer
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Miguel Cabrera hit a two-run homer, Anibal Sanchez carried a perfect game into the sixth inning and the Detroit Tigers held on to beat the Kansas City Royals 6-4 Sunday to salvage a split of their four-game series.
Alex Avila also drove in three runs for the Tigers, who dropped the first two games of the series before squeaking out a 2-1 victory behind David Price’s masterpiece Saturday night.
Sanchez (2-3) was just as good as his rotation mate. The right-hander did not allow a runner until Paulo Orlando dribbled a single up the middle leading off the sixth inning, and Sanchez wound up allowing three runs on four hits over 7 1-3 innings.
Kansas City nearly bailed out Jeremy Guthrie (1-2) by scoring two runs in the seventh and two more in the eighth. But Tom Gorzelanny struck out Eric Hosmer to leave a runner aboard, and Joakim Soria shut down his former team in the ninth for his 10th save.
The TMP baseball team outscored Salina Sacred Heart 20-3 in a home doubleheader sweep on Thursday.
Game 1: TMP 9, Sacred Heart 1
Ryan Ruder allowed just one unearned run over six innings in game one and struck out six to earn the win.
The Monarchs scored eight runs in the final three innings in a 9-1 game one win.
Justin Pfeifer finished 2-for-3 and drove in a pair of runs and scored twice.
Game 2: TMP 11, Sacred Heart 2
Despite getting out-hit the Monarchs took advantage of eight walks and five Knights errors in an 11-2 win.
Braiden Werth was 2-for-3 with three RBIs and Jared Vitztum allowed just three hits in three innings to pick up the win.
TMP improves to 12-4 with the win. The host Goodland Thursday.
The Hays High girls had three individual winners and finished fourth as a team at the McPherson track and field meet on Thursday.
The Indians finished with 72 team points, five behind third place Valley Center and 31points behind first place. Goddard Eisenhower finished second with 92 points.
Ashlyn Parish won the both 100 meter hurdles (16.19) and 300 meter hurdles (49.27).
Mattie Schlaefli placed first in the girls javelin (126-3.5).
The Hays High boys placed third as a team.
Salina Central won the meet with 95.3 team points and Valley Center was second and finished with 91.3 points.
Shane Berens and Hayden Kreutzer were the highest finishers for the Indians.
Berens finished second in the discus (152-6). Peyton Harris was third and Brandon Hardwick fourth.
Berens also finished second in the boys shot put (48-5). Brandon Hardwick placed third.
Kreutzer cleared a high of 14-00 feet to finished second in the boys pole vault.
A penalty kick was the difference Thursday as the TMP girls soccer team swept their season series with Hays High winning 1-0 at Hays High.
Tyra Younnie scored a first-half penalty kick putting the Monarchs up 1-0 and they would hold on for the win.
The Monarchs and Indians opened the season against each other with TMP winning 5-0.
The Monarchs improved to 7-2 on the season and will travel to Wichita Independent Friday.
Hays High drops to 4-7-1 and they play at Garden City on Monday.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Danny Duffy pitched shutout ball into the eighth and Eric Hosmer hit a two-run homer as the Kansas City Royals beat the Detroit Tigers 8-1 on Thursday night.
The Royals lost 13 of 19 to Detroit last year to finish a game behind the Tigers, who have won the past four AL Central titles.
Duffy gave up his first run when Rajai Davis’ single scored Jose Iglesias, who led off the inning with a triple. Duffy (2-0) struck out seven and walked two, while allowing seven hits before being replaced by Jason Frasor with no outs in the eighth.
Hosmer, who also homered Wednesday at Cleveland, drove an Alfredo Simon pitch to center with Mike Moustakas aboard in the Royals’ three-run third. Moustakas doubled home Alex Gordon with the first run.
