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Indians’ Schaben to play golf for FHSU

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By Dustin Armbruster

Lexie Schaben didn’t know for sure if she wanted to play golf competitively past high school. Then Schaben realized, she just couldn’t see herself not playing. On Wednesday, the Hays High Senior signed her National Letter of Intent to play for Fort Hays State University.

Lexie Schaben

Coach Mark Watts

Schaben took home a medal in 8 of the 10 meets her senior year, including a pair of wins and a runner up finish. Schaben won the Liberal Invitational with a season best 37 in a nine hole event. Schaben also won the Regional Tournament before finishing fifth at 4A State. During her senior season, Schaben was part of a team that placed now lower that fourth in any tournament and won six. The Indians won four of their final five tournaments of the season, including the 4A State Tournament in Kansas City.

FHSU women’s basketball awards and autograph reception Sunday

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FHSU Athletics

In honor of the Fort Hays State Women’s Basketball team’s conference championship season and their appearance in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament, the Fort Hays State Athletic Department is holding an Awards and Autograph Reception for the public to attend on Sunday, April 19. The event will be held at the Robbins Center on the campus of Fort Hays State University at 5 pm.

Team members will be receiving their honors from winning the MIAA Regular Season Championship and their participation in the NCAA Tournament. FHSU athletic director Curtis Hammeke will present the MIAA Regular Season Championship Trophy and head coach Tony Hobson will have a few words to say about each of his players. Be on hand to recap the great season that saw the Tigers go 30-4 overall and earn the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Central Regional of the NCAA Tournament.

Fans are encouraged to bring materials for the team to sign following the awards portion of the reception. Refreshments and cookies will be available to the public while supplies last.

Carlton Bragg signs with Kansas basketball

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Kansas Athletics

LAWRENCE, Kan. – Two weeks after bringing his second state championship to Villa Angela-St. Joseph, Carlton Bragg made his college destination official. The 6-9 power forward will become a Kansas Jayhawk.

On Jan. 8, Bragg invited fans, family and the media to the VASJ campus to announce his decision. With the beginning of the spring signing period running from April 15-May 10, Bragg signed the National Letter of Intent as soon as he was able on Wednesday.

Rated as the nation’s 21st-best prospect on the ESPN100, Bragg narrowed his college potentials to Kansas, Kentucky and Illinois before deciding on KU. A five-star player who averaged 21 points per game during his senior season at VASJ, Bragg was named the Division III Associated Press Ohio Player of the Year on March 24. Adding to that, Bragg is the 37th McDonald’s All-American to sign at Kansas and will join Perry Ellis and Wayne Selden, Jr., as current McDonald’s All-Americans on the Jayhawk roster.

“We’re so excited to have Carlton on board,” head coach Bill Self said. “Norm (Roberts) did a great job in working with Carlton and his family to become part of our KU family. Carlton has great family support with his mother Monica Howard and his uncle Ezra Stokes.”

“Carlton is a legitimate 6-foot-9 inch, scoring and shooting type of power forward,” Self said. “Certainly, he’s one of the more skilled big guys that we’ve signed since we’ve been here. He comes from a great high school program with a great head coach in Babe Kwasniak.”

Known for his length, Bragg is also on the radar for his work on the offensive glass, his finishes in transition, and his explosiveness around the rim. His endurance isn’t too shabby either. Just hours after recording 12 points and a team-high five assists in the state championship game on March 28, the Cleveland native booked it to Chicago for the McDonald’s All-American weekend. While there, he finished second in the skills competition and third in the dunk contest in the Powerade Jam Fest on March 30 before scoring nine points in the MDAA-game on April 1. That game alone displayed his versatility with a breakaway windmill dunk and a long three from the perimeter.

“Babe was an assistant at UMKC and has done a great job with him,” Self continued. “Another great coach and great mentor with him has been Mike Graves (former VASJ assistant). So with Babe, Mike and his AAU coach Michael Duncan (Ohio Basketball Club), they’ve done a great job in developing and mentoring this young man to the point where I think it will be a pretty seamless transition for him into Division I basketball.”

Plainville golf wins Osborne tournament

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The Plainville Cardinals golf team won the Osborne Invitational Tuesday in Osborne.

The Cardinals combined to shoot a 346 as a team. Osborne was four shots back with a 350. Phillipsburg, Trego and Stockton round out the top five teams.

Osborne’s Jake Tiernan was the top individual placer shooting a 78. Emmit Owns from Trego finished second at 80. Plainville’s Colton Bobeck was third with a round of 81.

Craig Garvert from Plainville, Phillipsburg’s Jaron Kellerman and Trego Dion Reetz each turned in a round of 84 to finish 4th – 6th.

Full results below: 

Place Player Name Team Front Back Total
1 Jake Tiernan Osborne 44 34 78
2 Emmit Owens Trego 40 40 80
3 Colton Bobeck Plainville 39 42 81
4 Craig Garvert Plainville 41 43 84
5 Jaron Kellerman Phillipsburg 41 43 84
6 Dion Reetz Trego 40 44 84
7 Jerritt Zvolaneh Russell 40 46 86
8 Erik Scott Stockton 48 39 87
9 Luke Jacobs Phillipsburg 44 43 87
10 Justin Burch Osborne 46 42 88
11 Zack Mclaughlin Plainville 46 44 90
12 Jacey Kellerman Phillipsburg 43 47 90
13 Blake Vrbas Phillipsburg 47 44 91
14 Jared Copeland Plainville 45 46 91
15 Collin Herald Sylvan Lucas 44 47 91
16 Parkes Wolters Osborne 43 48 91
17 Quentin Morris Osborne 50 43 93
18 Gunner Kerns Plainville 52 42 94
19 Davis Dubbert St John 44 51 95
20 Ryan Allen Stockton 48 48 96
21 Riley Gates St John 47 49 96
22 Parker Gates St John 51 47 98
23 Trey Dubbert St John 44 54 98
24 Christian Hamel Stockton 49 50 99
25 Casey Deutscher Stockton 49 51 100
26 Kameron Tweedy Phillipsburg 56 45 101
27 George Meyer St John 52 49 101
28 Clay Ward Phillipsburg 49 53 102
29 Tanner Townley Trego 56 50 106
30 Cayden Conyac Stockton 55 51 106
31 Allyson Hobelmann Smith Center 55 51 106
32 Isaac Meyer St John 51 55 106
33 Ryan Deaver Trego 59 48 107
34 Justin Wiltfong Stockton 51 56 107
35 Tanner Conway Osborne 56 52 108
36 Caden Kemp Trego 55 55 110
37 Ryan Eilers Plainville 53 58 111
38 Ryan Birky Russell 57 55 112
39 Braden Mishler Trego 51 61 112
40 Cordell Goddard Hill City 55 59 114
41 Shane Hrabe Smith Center 58 58 116
42 Holden Jones Hill City 56 60 116
43 Drake Koops Lakeside 62 59 121
44 Jordan Wilson Smith Center 64 66 130
45 Trace Haven Smith Center 68 65 133
46 Anthony Peterson Smith Center 76 58 134
47 Gavin Wagner Smith Center 72 68 140

 

Osborne
Team Score
   
Plainville 346
Osborne 350
Phillipsburg 352
Trego 377
Stockton 382
St John 387
Smith Center 485

 

 

HHS soccer plays to draw with Great Bend

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The Hays High girls soccer team earned a 2-2 tie with Great Bend Tuesday afternoon.

Great Bend gave the Indians the lead on an own goal in the 13th minute. Talyn Kleweno put the Indians up 2-0 on a goal in the 31st minute.

Great Bend got a goal back just before half and added another in the second half tying the match at 2.

Neither team was able to score through two 10-minute overtimes ending the match in a 2-2 tie.

Hays High is now 2-5-1. They host Garden City on Monday.

TMP earns 2-0 win over Garden City

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An early goal by Aubrey Koenigsman was all the TMP girls soccer team would need Tuesday afternoon as they defeated Garden City, for the first time 2-0.

Koenigsman’s goal came in the 4th minute on an assist from Racheal Hamel.

Ashley Ostrander added a second goal in the 77th minute on an assists from Kayla Vitztum.

The Monarchs improve to 4-2 with the win. They play at Great Bend next Tuesday.

Tiger softball splits with Rockhurst

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FHSU Sports Information
Fort Hays State Softball split its doubleheader with Rockhurst on Tuesday (April 14) in Kansas City, Mo. It was the Tigers’ fourth doubleheader in five days, and saw FHSU drop the first game, 6-2, before rebounding with a 2-1 win in eight innings in the second game.

FHSU (23-22) is idle until next Tuesday (April 21) when it travels to Alva, Okla., for a non-conference doubleheader with Northwestern Oklahoma State.

Complete recaps of Tuesday’s action is below…

Rockhurst 6, Fort Hays State 2
Paxton Duran (11-11) took the loss, throwing six innings with six runs allowed (five earned) on seven hits. Duran struck out one and walked one as well.

Tori Beltz was 2-for-3 on the day while Kylie Strand, Samantha Villarreal and Mackenzie Villarreal each had doubles.

FHSU struck fast in the top of the first, starting with Kylie Strand’s leadoff double. Erin Elmore followed with an RBI single through the left side, scoring Strand and giving the Tigers a 1-0 lead. From there, FHSU threatened to score again afterTori Beltz singled for the Tigers’ third straight hit, putting two runners on with no outs. A double play, however, hurt the Tigers’ chances and the score remained the same until RU answered in its half of the first, and tied the game at 1-all behind Demi Plathe’s RBI double.

That score held until the bottom of the fourth, when RU used two hits, one hit batter, two fielder’s choices and an FHSU error to break out with a 5-1 lead. From there, the Tigers looked to strike back after loading the bases with just one out in the top of the fifth, but were held off the board for the fourth straight inning.

Another run for the Hawks made it 6-1 in the fifth, and though the Tigers got one back in the top of the sixth, it wasn’t enough. FHSU put runners on second and third with no outs after Beltz singled and Samantha Villarreal doubled, and with one out Mackenzie Villarreal doubled to drive home Gabrielle Sandoval (who pinch ran for Beltz).

Fort Hays State 2, Rockhurst 1 (Eight innings)
Kelsey Kimminau (11-9) threw a complete game for the win, giving up one run with just two hits allowed, striking out two.

FHSU had just four hits in the game, spread between Beltz, Samantha Villarreal, Amanda Vaupel and Courtney Dobson. Beltz’s seventh home run of the season gave FHSU a 1-0 lead in the first, and Dobson’s double was the Tigers other extra base hit.

Up 1-0 after Beltz’s two-out home run in the first, FHSU held that advantage until the foruth when a leadoff walk helped RU tie it, 1-1.

The Tigers threatened to regain the lead in the seventh by loading the bases with one out, but couldn’t push the go-ahead run home. RU put a runner on the bottom of the seventh as well, but Kimminau and the Tigers forced extras by keeping the game tied.

Strand was hit by a pitch to lead off the eighth, moving to second on Erin Elmore’s sacrifice bunt. From there, Beltz reached on a fielding error on a hit to the outfield, and Strand dashed home for the go ahead run before a three up, three down bottom half of the eighth for the Hawks.

Tigers tennis drops final conference match

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FHSU Sports Information
Fort Hays State tennis fell by a score of 7-2 to Nebraska-Kearney on Tuesday (Apr. 14) at the FHSU Tennis Courts in Hays, Kan. It was the final home match of the season for the Tigers as three seniors played their final matches at home. FHSU took one doubles match and one singles match for its two points against the fifth-ranked team in the Central Region.

Brittney Ricci had a great Senior Day at the courts, having a hand in both wins for the Tigers. She teamed with Katie Hippat No. 2 doubles to win 9-7 over Paula Jimenez and Kristin Weems. She then picked up a hard-fought straight set win over Sthefani Rodriguez by scores of 7-6 (9-7), 6-4.

At No. 1 doubles, Camille Caron-Bedard and Jessica Johnson lost 8-4 to the No. 5 ranked team in the region of Emily Fink and Rodriguez. At No. 3 doubles, Reinette Strydom and Michelle Miller lost 8-1 to Emma Neil and Kari Emery.

At No. 1 singles, Caron-Bedard was only a point away from upsetting Weems, the No. 12 ranked player in the region, in the second set, but Weems fought off the point and won a game that led to a second-set tiebreak that she used to force a third set. Weems pulled away for a 10-1 win in the third set to claim the match. Caron-Bedard won the first set 6-2.

UNK (18-4, 7-2 MIAA), took all the other singles matches in straight sets. At No. 3, Miller lost to Jimenez 6-1, 6-1. At No. 4, Strydom lost to Neil 6-0, 6-0. At No. 5, Hipp had to retire in the second set against Emery. At No. 6, Johnson lost 6-0, 6-3 to Trimble.

The Tigers (11-10, 2-8 MIAA) play their final match of the regular season on April 18 at Newman University in Wichita, Kan. Match time is set for 1 pm.

TMP Baseball sweeps Ellis

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By JEREMY McGUIRE
Hays Post

Game 1:  TMP 5, Ellis 3

Ellis jumped on top of TMP starter Liam Stults with three runs in the top of the first inning of game one in Hays on Tuesday afternoon.  The Railroaders used a leadoff single from Brandon Bollig and a one out single from Brevin Labarge sandwiched around an error and a walk to score all three of their runs.  Ellis would not score again.

Bollig was sharp on the mound through four innings allowing only one Monarch baserunner.  TMP finally got to the Ellis senior in the fifth inning.  The Monarchs scored all five of their runs with four singles, an error, a hit by pitch, a fielder’s choice and a sacrifice fly.  Both teams went scoreless in the sixth and Ellis again in the top of the seventh.  Stults goes six innings, allowing only three hits, to pick up the win.  Braiden Werth pitched a perfect seventh for the save.

Game 2:  TMP 12, Ellis 0 (5 innings)

TMP scored four runs in the second and seven more in the third inning to blow out Ellis in game two Tuesday evening at TMP Field.  The Monarchs sent 12 men to the plate in the third to seal the deal.  Jared Vitztum pitches four innings for the win.

Ellis managed only one hit in game number two and three for the doubleheader.  TMP is now 6-2 on the season and will play in a triangular in Scott City on Friday against the Beavers and the Liberal Redskins.  Ellis falls to 5-3 and will play at Canton-Galva on Friday.

BRIAN SCHUMACHER INTERVIEW

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FHSU men’s golf finishes 11th at Washburn Invitational

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FHSU Athletics

Fort Hays State men’s golf finished 11th at the Washburn Invitational, held April 13-14 at the Topeka Country Club in Topeka, Kan. The tournament was the third MIAA event of the season. Trey Herman led the Tigers by tying for 23rd as an individual.

Herman’s best round of the tournament was the first on Monday, shooting a two-over par 73. He followed that with rounds of 76 and 78 to finish in a tie for 23rd with a total of 227. Dylan Wonnacott matched Herman’s 73 as the low round for a Tiger on the week, shooting it in the final round on Tuesday. Wonnacott preceded the final round with two rounds of 79. He finished in a tie for 38th, four strokes back of Herman.

Grant Storey shot rounds of 80, 77, and 81 to finish in 57th. Kade Megaffin tied for 66th with rounds of 78, 85, and 86. Billy Frey was 71st with rounds of 81, 89, and 87.

FHSU finished with a team total of 945. Central Missouri won the tournament with a total of 850. Northeastern State was 36 strokes back (886), and Central Oklahoma was 39 strokes back (889).

The Tigers compete at the MIAA Championships next week (Apr. 20-22) at Alvamar Golf Course in Lawrence, Kan.

Royals outfielder Alex Rios breaks hand, out indefinitely

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Kansas City right fielder Alex Rios is out indefinitely after suffering a broken bone in his left hand when he was hit by a pitch in Minnesota earlier this week.

The team said Tuesday that Rios has a non-displaced fracture of the fifth metacarpal in his left hand. He was hit by J.R. Graham’s first pitch in the eighth. He eventually scored but was removed as a precaution in the bottom of the inning and sent for X-rays.

The team said no timetable has been set in terms of his return.

Rios was batting .321 with eight RBIs and a home run through Kansas City’s 7-0 start to the season.

Baker, VanVleet to return to Wichita State next season

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) – Wichita State has already scored a big win for next season.

Guard Ron Baker and Fred VanVleet announced Monday they will return for their senior seasons for the Shockers. The announcements come weeks after coach Gregg Marshall turned down a chance to leave Wichita to coach at Alabama.

Baker and VanVleet both applied to be evaluated for their NBA draft potential. They issued separate statements Monday saying they wanted to return to try and lead the Shockers to an even better season than this year, when the Shockers finished 30-5 and defeated Indiana and Kansas in the NCAA Tournament before losing to Notre Dame 81-70 in the Sweet 16.

Baker led Wichita in scoring, averaging 14.7 points per game, with VanVleet second at 13.6 points per game.

Monarchs softball swept by Colby

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The TMP-Marian softball team was swept in a home doubleheader with Colby on Monday afternoon, losing 4-1 and 8-5. The Monarchs fall to 4-6 on the season and host Ellis in a doubleheader Tuesday afternoon.

The Monarchs scored a run in the bottom of the first to tie the first game 1-1 but Colby scored in the fourth then added two in the sixth for the 4-1 victory. Alison Helget went the distance by took the loss, allowing on earned run on eight hits while striking out four and walking one. Laurel Hageman drove in the Monarchs only run with a first inning double.

In game two, Bailey Lacy struck out eight over seven innings but takes the loss. Lacy gives up three earned runs on six hits, striking out eight and walking seven. She also had three hits and an RBI. Katelyn Zimmerman had two hits including a double and scored three runs. Heidi Gottschalk added three RBIs.

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