The Hays High girls’ golf team finished fifth at the Salina South Invitational held at the Salina Municipal Golf Course Tuesday. The Indians tied with Salina Central with a 363 but finishes fifth due to a better fifth place score. Katie Brungardt shot an 11-over 81 and finished seventh. Brungardt was the only top-10 finisher for the Indians.
Team Finish: 1. Maize – 318
2. Manhattan – 331
3. Goodard-Eisenhower – 332
4. Hutchinson – 361 5. Hays High – 363 (5th score – 106) 6. Salina Central – 363 (5th score – 107)
7. Dodge City – 367
8. Great Bend – 379
9. Derby – 394
10. Newton – 400
11. Salina South – 402
12. Concordia – 427
Top 10 Medalists: 1. Taelyn Entriken Maize 34-33=67
2. Taryn Torgerson Buthler 35-34=69
3. Makena Mucciaccio Goodard-Eisenhower 37-35=72
4. Kylie McCarthy Manhattan 40-37=77
5. Alissa Kim Salina Central 39-39=78
6. Hannah Devane Manhattan 38-41=79 7. Katie Brungardt Hays High 39-42=81 8. Brittani Casement Maize 41-42=83
9. McKenna Mauler Great Bend 43-40=83
10. Ashley Rieswig Maize 40-44=84
HHS Results:
Katie Brungardt 81 7th place
Lexie Schaben 92 25th place
Elissa Jensen 95 tie 33rd place
Taylor DeBoer 95 tie 33rd place 363 7th place
Rhian Patterson 106 tie 55th place
Macie Mayo 112 tie 63rd place
Fort Hays State men’s soccer leaped back into the NSCAA Division II Top 25 Poll on Tuesday (Sept. 24). The Tigers are No. 21 in the latest poll after a two-week absence. The Tigers were ranked No. 23 in the pre-season poll to start the year.
After dropping the first match of the season at Texas-Permian Basin, the Tigers have reeled off five straight wins to sit at 5-1 overall. The Tigers still received votes during their two-week absence from the top 25, a stretch in which they went 4-0.
The Tigers return to the road for their next four matches and put the ranking to the test on Thursday against the team they met in the NCAA Super Regional Semifinal last year – Northeastern State. The Riverhawks are ranked No. 6 in the latest poll and have yet to drop a match this season at 3-0-1. All four matches in the road swing are conference matches. The Tigers also visit Lindenwood, currently No. 10 in the poll and also undefeated at 6-0, a week after visiting NSU. Matches at Harding and Southwest Baptist are also in the road stretch.
FHSU, Northeastern State and Lindenwood are the three schools representing the MIAA in the national poll.
— FHSU Sports Information —
Below is the latest edition of the NSCAA Division II National Poll (Sept. 24, 2013)…
Fort Hays State’s Diego Cabral is the MIAA Men’s Soccer Player of the Week. Cabral scored game-winners in both of FHSUs matches this weekend – a 2-1 (2OT) win over Southern Nazarene and a 3-0 victory over Newman. He led the team with 6 points on the weekend. His goal against SNU came at 108:42 as he kicked in the overtime game winner. The 5-6 junior forward is a native of Asuncion, Paraguay where he competed at Cristo Rey High School.
The Big 12 Conference and ABC / ESPN have announced that the Kansas State – Oklahoma State football game October 5 in Stillwater will kickoff at 2:30 p.m. It will be televised by either ABC, ESPN2, or ESPNU.
The network designation will be finalized following games this weekend.
K-State ( 2-2 ) is idle this week, while Oklahoma State ( 3-0 ) travels to West Virginia this Saturday.
KU football is off this week. On Saturday Oct. 5 at 11 a.m. the Jayhawks will kickoff against Texas Tech in the their ‘ Big 12 Conference opener.
The game will be televised on Fox Sports 1, Eagle Communications channel 204 or 15 in Hays.
Fort Hays State University used a balanced offensive attack and stifling defense to defeat Newman University, 3-0 on Sunday evening in Hays, Kan.
FHSU (5-1, 1-0 MIAA) pushed its win streak to five games with a 14-shot effort against NU (0-4-1).
Diego Cabral scored for the second game in a row, hitting a game-winner in Friday and Sunday’s contests. Ricardo Yeverino and Austin Clifton had FHSU’s other goals for the night.
Jason Babyak continued his impressive play in goal for the Tigers, earning his fifth win (and fourth shutout) of the 2013 season.
FHSU’s defense also played exceptionally strong in the match, limiting the Jets to just five total shots; one in the first half.
The Tigers had nine shots in the first half, and while four were on goal, Cabral’s was the lone attack to find the net. At the start of the 41st minute, Cabral drew a foul from NU just outside upper right corner of the goalie box, and took the free kick past a line of Jet defenders, into the upper left corner of the goal.
In the second half, FHSU would add two more goals, in a span of just under three minutes. At 56:58, Yeverino took a pass from David Lucio in the goalie box and scored, while Clifton notched his second goal of the season in the 60th minute. Cabral’s corner kick from the right side found Drew Wilson on the left side of the net, and Wilson’s pass to Clifton set up a goal from the middle of the box.
FHSU will hit the road next week to begin a four-game road trip of conference matches, starting in Tahlequah, Okla., on Thursday, Sept. 26 for a 7 p.m. matchup against Northeastern State.
(AP) — There’s life in Texas yet. And maybe the pressure will ease off of coach Mack Brown, even if just for a few hours or days.
Texas’ Johnathan Gray (32) runs for a touchdown as Kansas State defenders Dante Barnett (22) and Ryan Mueller (44) defend during the second quarter of an NCAA college football game on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013, in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Johnathan Gray rushed for 141 yards and two touchdowns, David Ash threw a 63-yard touchdown pass and Texas beat Kansas State 31-21 Saturday night in the Big 12 opener for both teams.
Gray became Texas’ first 100-yard rusher on the season and Texas’ defense, pushed around in consecutive losses, put up a solid and energetic performance, forcing three critical second-half turnovers.
Brown has been under intense pressure after three sub-par seasons and a bad start this year. The victory allowed Texas (2-2, 1-0) to avoid its first 1-3 start since 1956 and snapped a five-game losing streak to the Wildcats.
“You always want to start the conference off right,” Gray said. “We wanted to prove a point and hit them in the mouth.”
John Hubert scored two touchdowns and Tyler Lockett had 13 catches for 237 yards for Kansas State (2-2, 0-1).
Gray’s first touchdown in the second quarter came after he made two dazzling cuts on a 21-yard run. His second put Texas up 24-7 in the third. Malcolm Brown ran for Texas’ last touchdown after the Wildcats had pulled within 10 points early in the fourth quarter.
Ash, who missed the previous game with concussion-like symptoms, passed for 166 yards in the first half but missed the second with a new head injury. Senior Case McCoy took over, leading two touchdown drives.
Texas came in as a team desperate to turn around it season. After consecutive losses, Brown urged his team to focus on the Big 12 and trying to win the league crown. The Longhorns, most notably the defense, responded with their most complete game of the season against the defending Big 12 champs.
The defense, which played so poorly in the two losses, gave up a huge night receiving to Lockett, but forced the three turnovers that swung momentum early in the second half and preserved the win late.
“We came out fired up,” Texas defensive end Jackson Jeffcoat said. “This was a team we hadn’t beaten in a while.”
Brown has been harshly criticized by Texas fans after the bad start to the season and his job future beyond this season rapidly escalated into a matter of open speculation.
On Thursday, a member of the Texas board of regents acknowledged that he and a former regent spoke in January with Alabama coach Nick Saban’s agent about Saban coaching the Longhorns if Brown retired. Two days later, Brown was asked if he would consider retiring, but the matter was dropped when Brown said he wanted to keep coaching.
Saban dismissed speculation he’d be interested in the Texas job, but that didn’t stop some Texas fans from printing burnt-orange “Saban 2014″ t-shirts and wearing them to the game Saturday night.
Brown did his best to push away the critics and the speculation about his job during the week.
“I said I’m going to be doing everything I can do to beat Kansas State. I haven’t heard one word of it,” Brown said. “This can be a really good football team before we finish.”
Ash, who had been cleared to play Friday night, showed no effects of the previous head injury early in the game. But he took several big hits, both on runs and when standing in the pocket, before floating a perfectly-thrown pass to Kendall Sanders for Texas’ first touchdown.
Texas went up 17-0 on Gray’s first touchdown. Kansas State responded with its first drive across midfield and Hubert spun through two tacklers on a 15-yard touchdown run with 1 minute left in the half.
Ash was removed from the game at halftime to be evaluated for a head injury and didn’t return, putting the game and the job of managing the lead in McCoy’s hands. Kansas State fumbled on the first possession of the third quarter and McCoy handed the ball to Gray seven times in eight plays on a 56-yard drive to a touchdown and a 24-7 lead.
“It was major, quite obviously,” Kansas State coach Bill Snyder said of the turnover. “It had a dramatic impact on the outcome of the ball game … We need some leadership to really step up.”
Hubert’s second touchdown pulled Kansas State within 24-14 early in the fourth. Kansas State had pulled within 10 and was driving for a touchdown when Waters, who ran for a touchdown and passed for 275 yards, fumbled on the Texas 6 with 2:03 left to play.
The Wildcats had one last chance when Tramaine Thompson returned a punt 40 yards inside the Texas 15, but Waters was sacked twice and fumbled with 17 seconds left.
“It came down to us as a team, fighting,” McCoy said.
Northwest Missouri State scored on five of their first six possessions, racing out to a 42-7 halftime lead and beat the Fort Hays State Tigers 49-14 in front of 3,523 at Lewis Field Saturday night. It’s the Bearcats have now won 10-straight over the Tigers and improve to 3-0 and 2-0 in the MIAA. FHSU drops to 0-3 overall and in the MIAA.
Chris Brown Postgame Press Conference
Shane Smith / Andre Smith Postgame Interviews
Game Highlights
After forcing Northwest to punt on their first possession, Northwest scored on their next five possessions. Running back Billy Creason scored three rushing touchdowns and quarterback Trevor Adams threw one touchdown pass and backup Brady Bolles threw two.
The Tigers scored on a four yard touchdown run from quarterback Treveon Albert to make the score 21-7. Edward Smith added a 10 yard run at 8:34 of the third quarter.
Albert completed 14 of 22 passes for 158 yards with no interceptions. Running back Andre Smith rushed for 107 yards on 16 carries as the Tigers tallied a season-high 365 yards of total offense.
(AP) – Walk-on kicker Matt Wyman hit a 52-yard field goal with no time left, sending Kansas to a 13-10 victory over Louisiana Tech on Saturday and ending a 22-
Kansas running back James Sims (29) is tackled by Louisiana Tech defensive lineman Vernon Butler (45) during the first half of an NCAA college football game in Lawrence, Kan., Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013. Kansas defeated Louisiana Tech 13-10. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
game losing streak against teams from the Football Bowl Subdivision.
Jake Heaps threw for 279 yards and a touchdown for the Jayhawks (2-1), who hadn’t defeated another FBS team since beating Northern Illinois on Sept. 10, 2011. James Sims added 78 yards rushing, while Tony Pierson had nine catches for 82 yards.
Louisiana Tech (1-3) was poised to score the go-ahead touchdown with when it marched to the Kansas 18 with 1:33 left. Kenneth Dixon got the carry and was fighting for extra yardage when the ball popped loose inside the 5-yard line, and the Jayhawks’ Keon Stowers recovered it.
The Bulldogs also lost a fumble inside the 5 earlier in the fourth quarter.
That gave Kansas the ball back with just enough time for Heaps to get the Jayhawks in position for Wyman, who was cut from the team last year, to kick the game-winning field goal.
Dixon finished with 129 yards rushing for the Bulldogs. Ryan Higgins threw for 289 yards and a touchdown in place of starter Scotty Young, who missed the game with bruised ribs.
The first half was ugly on just about every account. The teams combined to miss three field-goal attempts, the Jayhawks twice failed to convert on fourth down, and an egregious interception by Heaps eventually led to the only touchdown of the half.
Heaps appeared to have some miscommunication with his wide receiver and threw a pass over the middle right to Bulldogs safety Thomas McDonald. That gave Louisiana Tech the ball near midfield, and it took 10 plays before Higgins hit Hunter Lee on an 8-yard fade pass for the score.
It was the third time in three games that Kansas fell behind early.
The Jayhawks tried to answer with a solid drive that fizzled once it made it to the Louisiana Tech 6. Wyman missed a 28-yard field goal wide right.
Louisiana Tech squandered a chance to build on its lead when Kyle Fischer missed a 37-yard field goal so badly it looked as if the ball deflated in midair. Wyman later tacked on a 39-yard kick to get the Jayhawks within 7-3, and Fischer’s 40-yarder just before halftime also missed.
Fischer finally ended a 0-for-4 slide on field goals that dated to last week’s loss to Tulane when he hit from 39 yards early in the third quarter. That gave the Bulldogs a 10-3 lead, though it seemed much greater than a touchdown the way their defense was playing.
Kansas had to start from inside its own 10-yard line on three straight possessions in the second half. The third one ended when Heaps was picked off by Daniel Cobb on a batted pass, giving the Bulldogs the ball at the 29-yard line. Higgins promptly scrambled 27 yards, but a video review showed he lost possession before stepping out of bounds and the result was a touchback.
The overturned call — Higgins was ruled out initially — proved to be pivotal.
Heaps hit on three consecutive passes, including a 20-yard throw to Christian Matthews to convert a third-and-3 situation. He finished off the drive by hitting Jimmay Mundine, who picked up a key block from Matthews and then pirouetted into the end zone to knot the game 10-all.
Fort Hays State University dropped its eighth straight game of the season on Saturday, falling 3-0 (25-22, 25-15, 26-24) to Pittsburg State at Gross Memorial Coliseum.
FHSU (0-8, 0-3 MIAA) led in every set, but couldn’t put PSU (4-7, 1-2 MIAA) away in the match.
Makenzie Weinman dug out 16 attacks from PSU, while Jenna Ulrich had four blocks for the FHSU defense. On offense, Mallory Flagor led the team with eight kills, making it 16 kills for the outside hitter in two nights. Ulrich, who hit .278, and Madison Schwartz (.333 hitting percentage), had seven kills for the Tigers.
Down 9-6 in the first set, FHSU would eventually rally to within one (12-12), and then tie the match at 15-all. From there, the teams traded points until 21-21, when two kills PSU kills and two FHSU errors would give the Gorillas’ the set, 25-22.
In the second frame, the Tigers jumped out to four point lead (5-1), and remained in control until they led, 10-6. PSU, though, would run off four straight to tie the match. With the score at 13-13, PSU used four FHSU errors on a 5-0 run to jump ahead, 18-13. FHSU would score just twice more in the set, and fall, 25-13.
After intermission, FHSU again showed life on offense, as kills by Schwartz, Rebekah Spainhour and Taylor Mares would propel the team into a 11-6 lead. They then held a three-point advantage, 13-10, before four unanswered points by PSU had FHSU trailing, 14-13. Sara Hewwon’s kill set up a set point for the Tigers (24-23), but FHSU couldn’t get the decisive point, and in a Win-by-Two situation, the Gorillas would close out the match, 26-24.
The Tigers travel to St. Joseph, Mo., on Tuesday, Sept. 24 for a 7 p.m. conference matchup against Missouri Western.
The Tiger women’s soccer team continued its recent road woes, dropping a 2-1 contest at Southwest Baptist on Saturday morning. The Tigers drop to 2-5 while SBU now sits at 4-1-1.
Hailey Davey had FHSU’s lone goal, breaking away in the sixth minute and scoring just 5:42 into the game.
SBU, though, would answer back with two first half goals of its own. Jayme Braun took a shot across the box just before the 20 minute mark, and Kate Jamison would score soon after, using a corner kick from Brittany Marino to help the Bearcats take the lead.
The teams would both pick up their offensive production in the second frame, as FHSU took six shots and SBU managed 11 – but neither squad would find the net.
FHSU returns to familiar territory next week for a two-game home stand, beginning with Bethany College on Sept. 24. The Tigers will then face Missouri Southern in a conference matchup on Sept. 27. Both matches are scheduled for 7 p.m.
