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Brantley, Peacock help Astros blank Royals

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HOUSTON (AP) – Michael Brantley homered twice, Brad Peacock pitched seven innings and Josh James completed the three-hitter in Houston’s 9-0 win over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday night.

Peacock (3-2) allowed three hits and set a career high with 12 strikeouts to help the Astros bounce back after a 12-2 loss on Tuesday night. Peacock also rebounded after allowing seven runs in just 3 2/3 innings in his previous start. James struck out five in the last two innings.

George Springer and Carlos Correa also homered to give the Astros 16 home runs combined in their past five games.

Springer gave Houston an early lead with his MLB-leading fourth leadoff homer this season and the 28th of his career. It’s the second time this week he’s led off the game with a homer after also doing so in a 6-4 win on Monday.

Houston led 2-0 with one out and one on in the third when Brantley sent a pitch from Jorge Lopez (0-4) into the seats in right field behind the bullpen to make it 4-0.

Correa followed with his shot to straightaway center field to give Houston back-to-back homers for the third time this season. Josh Reddick singled before Yuli Gurriel doubled to chase Lopez. He was replaced by Jake Newberry and Aledmys Diaz’s sacrifice fly scored Reddick to extend the lead to 6-0.

Brantley connected again with two outs in the fourth inning to make it 7-0 and give him his fifth career multi-homer game and the first since 2015.

Lopez allowed six hits and six runs while walking three in 2 1/3 innings to remain winless in eight starts this season.

Peacock had allowed just one hit when Terrance Gore and Billy Hamilton hit consecutive singles with one out in the fifth inning. Peacock plunked Whit Merrifield to load the bases, but struck out Adalberto Mondesi and Hunter Dozier to escape the jam.

Those were the first of eight straight batters Peacock retired to end his night. He struck out six in that span, including Martin Maldonado for the first out of the seventh inning. Both Maldonado and manager Ned Yost were ejected for arguing that strikeout.

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Royals: RHP Homer Bailey (3-3, 5.25 ERA) will start the first of three games against the Phillies on Friday after a day off on Thursday. He allowed seven hits and two runs in six innings of a 15-3 win over the Tigers in his previous start.

Astros: LHP Wade Miley (2-2, 3.20) is scheduled to pitch for Houston when the team opens a four-game series against Texas on Thursday. Miley has held teams to three earned runs or fewer in 23 straight starts and needs two strikeouts to reach 1,000 for his career.

HHS baseball No. 2 seed for regional, softball seeded 10th

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TOPEKA, Kan. – The Hays High baseball team will be the two-seed and host one of the four 5A regional tournaments in the west half of the bracket. The Indians will play on Tuesday (5/14) against the winner of Monday’s play-in game between McPherson and Newton.

Class 5A West Baseball Regional Brackets

The Indian softball team is the No. 10 seed and plays Great Bend Tuesday at the Two Rivers Youth Club in Wichita.

Class 5A West Softball Regional Brackets

TMP-Marian baseball two-seed, softball three-seed in regional tournaments

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TOPEKA, Kan. – The TMP-Marian baseball team is the No. 2 seed in next week’s Beloit 3A Regional. The Monarchs will host No. 7 Beloit in the first round Monday (5/13) at 5 p.m. at the TMP Field.

Class 3A Beloit Baseball Regional Bracket

The Monarch softball team is the No. 3 seed in their own 3A Regional. They open with Plainville/Stockton at 5:30 p.m. Monday (5/13).

Class 3A TMP-Marian Softball Regional Bracket

K-State lands former North Carolina RB Jordan Brown

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MANHATTAN (AP) — North Carolina running back Jordan Brown is heading to Kansas State, where he will be eligible to play for new coach Chris Klieman immediately as a graduate transfer.

The former four-star recruit ran for 613 yards and four touchdowns as a sophomore, but his playing time decreased last year. Brown would have been part of a crowded backfield in Chapel Hill along with Michael Carter and Antonio Williams, so he elected to transfer for his final year.

The Wildcats had no scholarship running backs returning this season, so there are plenty of carries to go around. Brown will be competing with four freshmen and Ball State transfer James Gilbert for the starting job when fall camp begins.

Brown announced his decision Tuesday.

O’Hearn, Merrifield hit grand slams; Royals rout Astros

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HOUSTON (AP) – Whit Merrifield and Ryan O’Hearn each hit a grand slam to lead the Kansas City Royals to a 12-2 romp over the Houston Astros on Tuesday night.

Danny Duffy (1-1) allowed six hits and two runs in 6 2/3 innings for his first win this season in his third start after missing the early part of the season with a shoulder injury.

Merrifield, who had four hits and finished a double shy of the cycle, tied a career high with five RBIs. Jorge Soler added a solo homer as the Royals snapped a two-game skid and won just their fifth road game this season.

Kansas City led 2-0 in the third inning when O’Hearn hit his first career grand slam into the seats in right field off Collin McHugh (3-4) to push the lead to 6-0 and give the Royals their first grand slam this season. Billy Hamilton doubled with no outs in the fourth and Merrifield chased McHugh with his RBI single that left Kansas City up 7-0.

McHugh allowed seven hits – six for extra bases – and eight runs in three-plus innings to lose his third straight decision after winning his previous three. McHugh has allowed 24 hits and 25 runs in his past four starts, all Astros losses.

Merrifield’s grand slam came off Framber Valdez with two outs in the seventh inning to make it 12-1 as the Royals had two grand slams in a game for the first time since 2004.

The Astros entered the game having hit 11 home runs in a three-game winning streak, but had trouble getting their offense going on Tuesday night. They had managed just two hits before Alex Bregman’s solo homer to left field with one out in the sixth inning made it 8-1.

Michael Brantley followed with a single, but Carlos Correa grounded into a double play to end the inning. Correa went 0 for 4 to end a career-long 16-game hitting streak.

Soler put the Royals up 1-0 in the second with his homer to straightaway center field off McHugh.

Merrifield tripled to start the third and scored on a double by Adalberto Mondesi to make it 2-0. Alex Gordon walked before Hunter Dozier grounded into a force out that left Gordon out at second before Soler walked to load the bases and set up O’Hearn’s slam.

Dozier started at third base on Tuesday for the first time since April 20 after serving as the team’s designated hitter for most of the past three weeks while dealing with tightness in his lower back. He hit an RBI triple with one out in the fourth to extend the lead to 8-0.

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Royals: RHP Jorge Lopez (0-3, 5.09 ERA) will start for Kansas City in the finale on Wednesday. Lopez allowed five hits and four runs in a season-high seven innings in a 4-3 loss to Detroit in his previous outing.

Astros: RHP Brad Peacock (2-2, 5.28) is scheduled to start on Wednesday for Houston. Peacock will look to bounce back after giving up eight hits and seven runs in 3 2/3 innings of an 8-2 loss to the Twins.

Lady Indians soccer notches 10th win

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By JEREMY McGUIRE
Hays Post

HAYS, Kan.-It was cold and it was rainy but none of that seemed to matter as the Hays High Lady Indian soccer team shut out Nickerson 5-0 on Monday afternoon. The game was played at the Fort Hays State University soccer stadium due to the wet conditions in Hays.

It took the Lady Indians one minute and 35 seconds to notch what would be the game winner as Kallie Leiker sailed a shot over the Lady Panther goalie to make it 1-0 off of an assist from Savannah Schneider.  In the 24th minute Sophie Humphrey added the last goal of the first half on a goal that was again assisted by Schneider. Hays High would add three second half goals from Schneider, Taleia McCrae, and a penalty kick from Maggie Robben.

The Lady Indians improve to 10-1-4 and will travel to Wichita on Thursday to finish out the regular season against Trinity Academy.

Perkins finishes tied for 27th at Central Regional

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MUSKOGEE, Okla. – Fort Hays State women’s golfer Hannah Perkins wrapped up her senior campaign at the 2019 NCAA Division II Central Super Regional Championship (May 6-7) this week. Perkins finished the tournament in a tie or 27th individually. The senior fired identical rounds of 75 in the first two rounds before finishing with an 85 in the final round. Perkins finished the tournament at 22-over par (235) for the week.

When asked what was going through her head during the first nine holes of the tournament after recording a 2-under (34) score, “The entire front nine I just played so relaxed” said Perkins. “I was hitting the ball really well so had lots of confidence in my swing.”

Perkins finished the season with a 78.0 scoring average over the course of 22 rounds played. The Wichita, Kan. native posted her lowest scores in four rounds at Muskogee Country Club in her career in both the first and second round (75) this week.

“After last week’s [MIAA] tournament, I was happy how the day ended up. Obviously, I had a couple bumps in the road on the 12th and 15th holes, but I just tried to keep my head on straight and realize there was a lot of golf to be played and there are still lots of birdie chances at this course,” said Perkins.

Southwestern Oklahoma State took home the team title with an aggregate score of 893. Arkansas Tech claimed a runner-up finish with an 897, while Northeastern State (913) finished third. Peerada Piddon of Arkansas Tech captured the individual title with a 3-over par (216) finish for the week.

“After how I played at conference I was just glad to be here. I didn’t finish the day how I wanted but I’m happy with how my senior season played out,” said Perkins. “I am just sad to see it end.”

TMP softball goes 2-0 in Minneapolis

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MINNEAPOLIS – The TMP softball team went 2-0 in Minneapolis on Monday picking up wins over the host Lions and Plainville/Stockton.

In game one after the two teams were held scoreless in the first two innings the Monarchs tallied eight runs over the final five innings on their way to an 8-2 win.

TMP’s Emily Schulte collected her first of two RBI’s in the third on an RBI single and scored the game’s second run in the inning on an error that gave TMP a 2-0 lead.

After a fourth inning bases loaded walk to MK Dwyer put TMP up 3-0 the Monarchs scored three runs in the fifth to go up 6-1. Emilee Augustine and Sophia Coulter each drove in runs in the inning.

Schulte added a sacrifice fly in the sixth and in the seven the Monarchs Emma Pope scored on a passed ball to give TMP an 8-2 lead.

Starter Kyleigh Allen allowed two runs, just one earned run and struck out seven in seven innings to pick up the victory.

In game two Plainville jumped out to a 3-0 lead only to see TMP scored six runs in the fourth inning on their way to a 9-5 win.

In the inning Sophia Coulter drove in the first of her two runs with a sacrifice fly. Back-to-back single followed by an error led to a pair of Monarchs runs as they tied it a three. Kyleigh Allen added an RBI single to give TMP a 4-3 lead and then Emily Schulte followed that up with a two-run double to put the Monarchs up 6-3.

Schulte and Coulter each drove in two runs and Leanne Rack allowed two runs in three innings of relief for the win.

TMP is 12-8 and they are off until regionals get underway next week.

Phillipsburg boys golf wins home invitational; TMP tied for 3rd

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PHILLIPSBURG – The TMP boys golf team finished tied for third at the Phillipsburg Invitational on Monday.

The Monarchs combined to shoot a 331, 17 shots back of first-place Phillipsburg who combined for a total of 314. Osborne was second followed by the Monarchs and Plainville. Ellis finished fifth.

Plainville’s Park Krob was the top individual champion firing a one-over 71. TMP’s Cameron Rozean was two shots back in second with a 73. Plainville’s Tanner Copeland and Stockton’s Brady Beougher each turned in rounds of 74 to finish third and fourth respectively.

Steele Wolters from Osborne and Phillipsburg’s Trey Sides finished fifth and sixth after firing a six-over 76.

Springer, Correa, Chirinos homer, Astros beat Royals 6-4

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HOUSTON (AP) – It’s no secret that Houston’s lineup has power from top to bottom. The Astros continued to show off that power on Monday night.

George Springer, Carlos Correa and Robinson Chirinos each homered to lead the Houston Astros to a 6-4 win over the Kansas City Royals.

The Astros have hit 11 home runs in the last three games.

“You guys have seen this before, it’s not something new,” Chirinos said. “I feel like this lineup from one to nine can do damage. Even the guys on the bench.”

Springer opened the first with his 11th home run of the season, including three leadoff drives. He added an RBI double in the eighth.

Correa had three hits. He opened the second by extending his hitting streak to a career-high 16 games with a home run.

“It just feels healthy,” Correa said. “It just feels good to step to the plate, to be able to be quick, to be able to let it go and to be able to swing hard, to be able the things that I want to do that I work on in the cage.”

Chirinos’ two-run drive in the sixth put the Astros back in front at 5-4.

“This place is a little unforgiving,” Royals manager Ned Yost said. “You make a mistake, try to go down and away with a fastball in the first inning to Springer and ended up being middle up. I think a slider to Correa. The one to Chirinos, you just take your hat off, there was a nice piece of hitting.”

Hunter Dozier hit a two-run homer in the Royals fourth. Adalberto Mondesi’s two-run homer in the fifth gave Kansas City a 4-3 lead.

“Again, we talk about the ballpark here, that’s why you’re never out of the game,” Yost said. “You can get a bloop single and then a fly ball is a home run. Mondesi’s was legit, Dozier’s he smoked it pretty good. That’s one of the advantages of playing in this park.”

Gerrit Cole (3-4) yielded four runs on seven hits with nine strikeouts in 6 1/3 innings.

“I was glad I got through the first,” Cole said. “I was clean, I was focused, so that was good. I thought the stuff was good and the command was good. Those two fastballs were just unfortunate.”

Hector Rondon got out of a bases-loaded jam in the eighth, thanks to a barehanded play by second baseman Jose Altuve on a soft chopper to get Kelvin Gutierrez at first and end the inning.

Altuve’s defensive gem was one of several the Astros made.

“Our defense I often say is underrated and underappreciated because we don’t talk about it enough, but we have the athletes, and we have the positioning to be really good,” Houston manager AJ Hinch said.

Roberto Osuna pitched the ninth for his eighth save.

Jakob Junis (3-3) allowed five runs on nine hits in 5 1/3 innings. The Royals have lost four of five.

“The first two home runs, those were just bad pitches,” Junis said. “Missed my spot over the plate, but I thought I made pretty good pitches with bases loaded, limited the damage on that. Had a quick fourth and fifth and went out for the sixth feeling good. I felt stronger as the game went on.”

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOSE

Altuve turned 29 years old and the fans serenaded him with “Happy Birthday” to start the ninth inning. Altuve showed his appreciation by applauding the fans.

ROSTER MOVES

Royals: Recalled RHP Glenn Sparkman from Triple-A Omaha and optioned RHP Ben Lively to Omaha.

Astros: Optioned OF Derek Fisher to Triple-A Round Rock. Fisher served as the 26th man during the Astros’ two-game series in Mexico over the weekend.

UP NEXT

Royals: LHP Danny Duffy (0-1, 3.27 ERA) starts Tuesday, looking to build off his last outing in which he allowed one run in six innings against the Rays.

Astros: RHP Collin McHugh (3-3, 4.97) makes his eighth start of the season, trying to rebound after yielding four runs in six innings Wednesday in a loss to the Twins.

Hays wins Diamond Classic, secures regional site

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A spotless 4-0 record over a three day stretch has given Hays High the title of Diamond Classic champions for 2019.  The round robin tournament hosted by the Indians also featured Goddard-Eisenhower, Great Bend, Salina Central and Manhattan.

Hays wrapped up the tournament and championship with a 9-6 win over Goddard-Eisenhower on Saturday.  The Indians took a 3-0 run in the bottom of the first inning only to give the runs back in the top of the second.  Hays tied the game in the bottom of the second and then trailed 5-4 entering the fourth.  Hays added three more runs in the fourth and two in the sixth to win 9-6.

Willie Sennett took the victory pitching in relief of starter Dylan Dreiling.  Brock Lummus drove in three runs and hit his second home run of the tournament.  Lummus was named MVP of the tournament.  Four of his five hits over the three days went for extra bases including two home runs, a double and a triple.  He drove in seven runs over the four days including the only run in a 1-0 win over Manhattan on Thursday.  He hit a home run in the game for the only run of the contest.

Also named to the all-tournament team for Hays was Willie Sennett, Trey Riggs, Palmer Hutchison and Cody Petersen.

Hays moves to 17-1 on the season and will end the regular season on Tuesday at Ulysses.  The Indians have secured at least the two seed at next week’s Regional Tournament.  Bishop Carroll leads the standings in the west half of 5A at 17-0.  All other teams in the west have at least four losses.

The remainder of the all tournament team included:
Aiden Proctor – Manhattan
Jackson Walker – Manhattan
Zac Cox – Manhattan
Ethan Crotty – Eisenhower
Wade Reynolds – Eisenhower
Collin Mackey – Eisenhower
Dakota Hogan – Salina Central
Brogen Richardson – Salina Central
Colin Hall – Great Bend
Koy Brack – Great Bend

 

Tiger Women Claim 10th at MIAA Championships; Singhateh and Deutscher Earn Provisionals

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WARRENSBURG, Mo. – The Fort Hays State women’s track and field team earned a tenth place finish at the 2019 installment of the MIAA Outdoor Championships hosted by Central Missouri. Throughout the event, multiple Tigers achieved strong marks and places, with Alexcia Deutscher and Rohey Singhateh adding provisional marks.

Deutscher earned a fourth place finish in the javelin with her provisional throw of 148 feet, 4 inches. Singhateh claimed her provisional with a sixth place finish in the triple jump with her distance of 39 feet, 6 ½ inches.

Other strong performances for the Tigers included a fifth place finish by Peri Lange in the heptathlon as she gather 4,500 points. Teammate Mattie Rossi finished close behind in ninth with 4,098 points of her own. Senior Yessenia Gonzales earned fourth in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 11:30.05, followed by a sixth place finish in the 10,000-meters at 37:50.57. Abigail Stewart finished in the 10th place in the 10,000-meters with a time of 38:54.66

The Tiger strength continued into field events on the weekend. Robin Ritsema finished in fifth place (5 feet, 4 ¼ inches), Summer Kragel earned seventh (5 feet, 4 ¼ inches) and Haley George added an eighth place mark (5 feet, 2 ¼ inches) in the high jump. Singhateh also earned a 10th place mark in the long jump with her distance of 18 feet, 2 ½ inches. Kayla Smith captured tenth place in the triple jump with her own jump of 38 feet, 7 inches.

Fort Hays State ended with 25.7 team points to finish in tenth place out of 13 MIAA programs. Pittsburg State won the team title as they accumulated 144.2 points, followed by Missouri Southern with 144 points in second, and Lincoln rounded out the top three finishes with 104 points as a team.

Meyer Claims 1,500 and 800 Meter MIAA Title; Men Finish in Seventh as a Team

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WARRENSBURG, Mo. – Brett Meyer claimed two individual MIAA titles at the 2019 edition of the MIAA Outdoor Championships and helped the Fort Hays State men’s track and field team to a seventh place finish. The event, hosted by Central Missouri in Warrensburg, ran from May 3 -5.

Meyer is ending his senior season on a high-note, as he is now the MIAA champion in both the 1,500-meters and 800-meters. In both events on the weekend, Meyer claimed provisional marks by running his 1,500-meters in 3:49.98 and submitting a time of 1:51.45 in the 800-meters.
Philip Landrum earned All-MIAA in one event and claimed two provisional marks. In the 100-meters, Landrum earned third place at 10.52 while earning third in his preliminary heat in the 200-meters for his provisional at 21.07.

In field event provisionals, Ryan Stanley claimed fourth with his height of 16 feet, 9 ¼ inches in the pole vault. Gilbert Peters beat his personal record multiple times on the day to earn his provisional in the shot put with his hurl of 53 feet, 8 ½ inches. Matthew Pieper finished fourth place in the decathlon with a provisional amount of 6,491 points.

Aside from provisional marks, other Tigers produced strong marks and finishes throughout the weekend. Alex Barbosa earned eighth place in the 1,500-meters with a time of 3:56.49 followed by a ninth place finish by Seppe van ‘t Westende with a time of 3:58.33. In the 5,000-meters, Layton Werth was named All-MIAA after completing a third place finish with a time of 15:04.70. Justin Reed was close behind in sixth place at 15:17.03.

In the 10,000-meters, Israel Barco earned fifth in the 10,000-meters at 31:19.79 with Werth coming in seventh at 31:30.99 and Justin Moore finishing in ninth with a time of 31:49.70. The Tiger 4×100 relay team, made up of Brayden Soza, Landrum, Malcom Gardner and Adrian Soto, finished in sixth place with their combined time of 41.71. the 4×400 meter quad of Piper, Gardner, D’Corian Williams and Meyer finished in ninth place with their total time of 3:20.68.

Moving to field events, multiple Tigers produced encouraging finishes. Kolt Newell earned sixth in the high jump with his height of 6 feet, 7 inches. Mark Faber achieved an eighth place finish in the pole vault at 15 feet, 5 ½ inches. Cameron Fouts rounded out the top-ten finishes on the field for Fort Hays State with a seventh place finish in the javelin following a throw of 189 feet.

The Tigers accumulated 62 team points to end the weekend in seventh place. Central Missouri won the men’s side with 133 points. Pittsburg State earned 122 to place in the runner-up position and Missouri Southern rounded out the top-three with 119 points.

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