Hay High senior Savannah Schneider was named to the 5A Kansas Basketball Coaches Association All-State team on Tuesday.
Schneider, an honorable mention selection, averaged a team-high 13 points per game this past season helping the Indians to a 14-8 record.
After claiming their first state championship in school history the Ness City Eagles had two players named to the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association 2A All-State team on Tuesday.
Ness City’s John Pfannenstiel earned his second straight All-state Selection after earning a first team selection. His teammate Andres Rios was a second team selection.
After leading the Midcontinent League in scoring at 21 points per game, Plainville Junior Jared Casey was named to the honorable mention team. Fellow Junior Zachary Eck was also an honorable mention selection.
For a second year in-a-row Plainville Junior Aubree Dewey also earned 2A All-State honors.
Dewey, who led the MCL in scoring, averaging 28 points per game, was named to the first team. She was an honorable mention selection last year.
Trego’s Lili Shubert also earned all-state honors earning an honorable mention selection.
In class 1A Quinter senior Connor Havlas earned third team honors on Tuesday.
Osborne’s Darnell Holloway was an honorable mention.
The Thunder Ridge girls had a pair of All-State selections. Senior Layne Pettijohn was a third team selection and junior Brennan Kirchoff was named to the honorable mention team.
Otis-Bison junior Maddie Wiltse was named to the second team.
TMP-Marian Senior Ryan Karlin was named to the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association 3A Honorable Mention All-State basketball team on Tuesday.
Karlin averaged 12 points per game this past season while helping lead the Monarchs to a fourth-place finish at the 3A state tournament in Hutchinson.
Phillipsburg’s Trey Sides was a KBCA first-team selection for a second straight season after averaging 16.7 points per game.
Two area girls also earned All-State Honors on Tuesday.
Russell’s Tiffany Dortland and Norton’s Taryn Kuhn were both named to the Honorable Mention team.
WICHITA, Kan. – The Fort Hays State men’s golf team completed the Rockhurst Invitational (March 25-26) with a third-place finish at the par-72, 6,810-yard course at Crestview Country Club in Wichita, Kan. The Tigers shot rounds of 318 and 308 to finish 50-over par (626) for the tournament.
Senior Mac McNish led the Tigers after shooting rounds of 77 and 74 (151) and finishing in a tie for third for the tournament.
Isaiah Grover fired off rounds of 78 and 77 on his way to solo eighth-place individually. Connor Schultz shot rounds of 77 and 79 to finish in a tie for ninth. Jake Weller finished solo 17th with rounds of 88 and 78. Bryce Cowan carded rounds of 86 and 90.
Northwestern Oklahoma State took home the team title with rounds of 313 and 307 for a 44-over par score (620) as a team. Rockhurst (624) finished runner-up for the week, while Fort Hays State finished two strokes behind runner-up with an aggregate score of 626.
The Tigers will be back in action in 11 days when they make their way to Newton, Kan. for the Bethel College Spring Invitational (April 6-7). First round action is held at Hesston Golf Club, while the final round will be played at Sand Creek Station Golf Course.
HOLCOMB, Kan. – After dropping a couple of tough games to Garden City to open the season, the TMP-Marian baseball team went back to Southwest Kansas Tuesday to win their first two games for new head coach Aaron Breit. The Monarchs defeated Holcomb 11-7 and 16-0.
TMP (2-2) led 5-0 after four and a half innings in the first game but needed a three-run seventh to take control after the Longhorns rallied with a four-run fifth.
Brady Kreutzer and Brandon Karlin both drove in two to help Carson Jacobs to the win.
Jacobs struck out nine with one walk. He then then hit a three-run homer and drove in six runs in the second game which was called after four by run-rule.
Colby Dreiling struck out five with no walks while allowing only one hit over three innings for the win.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Markis McDuffie had 21 points as Wichita State got past Indiana 73-63 in the quarterfinals of the NIT on Tuesday night.
Wichita State will play in the semifinals at Madison Square Garden, becoming just the sixth team to reach New York after three road wins.
Freshman Dexter Dennis had 17 points and six blocks for Wichita State (22-14), which set a season-high for blocks with nine — eight coming in the first half. Samajae Haynes-Jones added 13 points and six rebounds. Jaime Echenique had 11 rebounds for the visitors.
McDuffie became the 13th player in Shocker history to reach 1,500 points.
Juwan Morgan had 21 points for the Hoosiers (19-16). Aljami Durham added 13 points. Devonte Green had 12 points, seven rebounds, four assists and three steals.
Indiana led 10-9 with 11:07 remaining in the first half but the Shockers answered with a 15-3 run to take the first double-digit lead of the game. The Hoosiers twice got it within one point in the second half but both times Wichita State hit a 3-pointer on its next possession.
By JEREMY McGUIRE
Hays Post
McPHERSON, Kan.-The Hays High Lady Indian soccer team faced their first deficit of the season but responded strong in a 3-1 victory over Salina South in the opening round of the 13th Annual McPherson Invitational. South got on the board first 10 minutes in to take a 1-0 lead but that would be all the Cougars would get in the match. Hays High responded in the 16th minute when freshman Caroline Robben struck with her second goal on the young season to tie the match 1-1 off of an assist from Savannah Schneider. The score would remain 1-1 the rest of the half.
The second half belonged to the Lady Indians. Senior Hannah McGuire got things going early when she blasted one into the back of the net with a nice feed from Kallie Leiker in the 43rd minute. Schneider provided the insurance in the 62nd minute with a long strike that sailed into the net over the outstretched arms of the South goalie.
Hays High improves to 2-0 on the year and will face Maize South in the semi-finals at 6pm on Thursday in McPherson.
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Due to forecasted weather for the Hays area on Friday and Saturday, the MIAA doubleheaders scheduled for Fort Hays State Softball against Northeastern State and Central Oklahoma have been pushed to Sunday and Monday (Mar. 31 and Apr. 1). The start time of each doubleheader is 1 pm. FHSU faces NSU on Sunday, and then UCO on Monday.
Fort Hays State is 5-3 in MIAA play so far this season and 12-11 overall. Northeastern State is 7-1 so far in MIAA action and enters Sunday’s doubleheader at 19-12 overall. Central Oklahoma enters the weekend 26-2 overall and 8-0 in the MIAA, ranked No. 2 in the nation as of last week. The Bronchos will play at Nebraska-Kearney on Sunday before taking on FHSU in Hays on Monday.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Yessenia Gonzales of Fort Hays State track and field has been named the MIAA’s Track Athlete of the Week. Gonzales is the first Tiger female to earn an athlete of the week honor this season.
Gonzales captured the mention after winning the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the Emporia State Spring Invite over the weekend. She boasted a first-place winning time of 11:44.86 to defeat the rest of the field. This time sits Gonzales at No. 26 in NCAA DII.
Gonzales and the rest of the Fort Hays State Tigers look ahead to this Thursday (March 28) as they host their lone home meet of the season in the Alex Francis Classic. Field events are slated to start at noon, with running events commencing at 2 p.m.
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ATLANTA — The Women’s Basketball Coaches Association announced Monday the eight 2019 United States Marine Corps/WBCA NCAA Division II Region Coaches of the Year, along with the United States Marine Corps/WBCA NCAA Division II National Coach of the Year. Tony Hobson of Fort Hays State is the WBCA Central Region Coach of the Year for the 2018-19 season. All eight Region Coaches of the Year were finalists for National Coach of the Year, which goes to Molly Miller of Drury University this year.
Hobson guided Fort Hays State to its second Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association Regular Season Championship and the program’s first-ever MIAA Tournament championship in 2018-19. Hobson led the Tigers to a 30-1 record entering the NCAA Championship Tournament, the fewest losses in the regular season in program history. The Tigers made their fifth appearance in the NCAA Tournament (fourth under Hobson) and earned the No. 1 seed in the Central Regional for a second time in Hobson’s tenure. FHSU finished the year 32-2 overall, the best overall record produced in the program’s NCAA Division II history. Hobson has guided the Tigers to eight consecutive seasons of 20-plus wins going back to the 2011-12 season.
Hobson now has 16 “Coach of the Year” honors in his 27-year history as a women’s college basketball coach. Hobson was also the MIAA Coach of the Year this season. He has guided three different colleges to at least 30 wins in a season in his career (FHSU for the second time this year, Hastings College five times, and Barton (Kan.) Community College once). He now has an overall record of 650-200 as a college coach, a .765 win percentage.
VALDOSTA, Ga. – Valdosta State newly hired head coach Gary Goff has filled out his coaching staff for the 2019 season as he hired four highly talented coaches to complete his initial staff as a Blazer.
Goff brought two coaches with him from Tiffin University in defensive coordinator Lee Stalker and offensive line coach Ryan Allgood, while adding the services of Levi Brown to coach the quarterbacks and Michael Johnson will coach the defensive backs/secondary.
Allgood was formerly a graduate assistant at Fort Hays State University.
Kerry Webb and Kenny McClendon, who helped coach the Blazers to a perfect 14-0 record and a national championship in 2018, remain on staff for 2019, along with a number of graduate assistants.
Stalker, comes to VSU from Tiffin where he spent the past five seasons alongside Goff. At Tiffin, Stalker coached numerous positions, including the defensive line, special teams and was the run game coordinator for the Dragons. While there, he coached and developed eight all-conference honorees, including Willie Mays who went on to play for the Green Bay Packers and Los Angeles Rams.
In helping to rebuild the Tiffin program, Stalker and the Dragons’ defense made vast strides in 2017, finishing in the top-ten nationally in tackles for loss (96), while ranking in the top 20 in sacks (33) and third down and fourth down conversion percentages. He took over a defensive line in 2014 who only posted seven sacks and 19.5. tackles for loss prior to his arrival and turned into a group averaging 20 sacks and 40 tackles for loss per season, becoming one of the most dominate fronts in the conference.
Prior to Tiffin, Stalker coached one season at NCAA Division III Oberlin College (Ohio), where he served as linebackers coach, defensive line coach and head strength and conditioning coach. During his time at Oberlin, he coached three all-conference selections and one All-America honoree. His coaching career began at Butler High School in Butler, Pa., where he was a 2007 graduate and worked with the offensive and defensive lines.
He played collegiately at Kent State University as a defensive end from 2007-2011. Stalker was a two-year starter for the Golden Flashes and served as team captain as a senior. Following the 2011 campaign, he was a finalist for the NCAA Burlsworth Trophy, which is given to the most outstanding FBS college football player who began his career as a walk-on. Stalker earned his bachelor’s degree in architectural studies and a minor in sports administration from Kent State.
Allgood spent the last two years as offensive line coach for the Dragons. In 2018, his unit continued to excel, leading an offense averaging 30.4 points per game, 271.2 passing yards per game and 425.7 total yards per game. He had three students-athletes earn all-conference honors. In 2017, the offensive line aided a Tiffin offense which averaged 23.8 points per game, 366 passing yards and 202.5 rushing yards per game. His line was a big part of JaQuan Hardy’s 1,000-yard rushing season, marking the first for the Dragons since 2005. Allgood also had three all-conference selections in 2017.
Prior to Tiffin, Allgood was graduate assistant at his alma mater the University of Oklahoma. There as a graduate assistant, the offensive line had one of its most productive years in Sooner history as it ranked first nationally in passing efficiency (193.79) and pass completion percentage (.706), while ranking second nationally in total offense at 554.8 yards per game and third in scoring offense (43.9 ppg). OU also led the Big 12 Conference in allowing just 1.6 sacks per game.
Allgood played for the Sooners from 2006-2008 and was a student assistant from 2009-2011 and a graduate assistant from 2014-2016. In 2015, he helped an offensive line unit featuring First Team All-Big 12 selections Ty Darlington and Nila Kasitati. Darlington won the Campbell Trophy, Wuerffel Trophy and Bowden Award for his efforts on the field and in the classroom. OU had a pair of freshmen at the tackle positions, including left tackle Orlando Brown, who was named a Freshman All-America selection by Sporting News. That line led the way for an offense that ranked fourth in scoring, 17th in passing and 22nd in rushing. He earned his bachelor’s degree in sociology from Oklahoma in 2011.
In 2014, Allgood helped OU to lead the nation in sacks allowed at just 9.0 for the season, while the Sooners led the Big 12 and ranked tenth nationally averaging 261.2 yards rushing, the highest total produced by the Sooners under head coach Bob Stoops. The offensive line helped freshman Samaje Perine lead the Big 12 in rushing (131.8 ypg), and set the FBS single-game rushing record with 427 yards against Kansas (11/22/14).
In between his stints with the Sooners, Allgood was the offensive line coach during the 2013 season at NCAA Division III College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minn., where it won the UMAC Championship. He also spent two years as a graduate assistant at Fort Hays State in Fort Hays, Kan., where he coached tight ends, full backs and was the assistant offensive line coach in 2011-12.
Brown comes to VSU from Faulkner University in Montgomery, Ala., where he completed his first season as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the Eagles.
Prior to Faulkner Brown began his coaching career in 2014 as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Mount Juliet High School in Tennessee. He returned to his alma mater in 2016 at Troy University, where he spent the 2016 and 2017 seasons working with the quarterbacks for the Trojans.
Brown was a two-year letterman at the University of Richmond and a two-year letterwinner at Troy where, in his senior season, he threw for 4,254 yards, broke the Troy and Sun Belt Conference single season passing yardage records, finished second nationally in passing yards and was named Sun Belt Conference Player of the Year.
He was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the seventh round of the 2010 NFL Draft. Brown spent two seasons with the Bills and one season each with the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the CFL. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science in 2010, and a master’s degree in sport and fitness management in 2017, both from Troy University. Brown is engaged to Maria Martin and they plan on getting married in April of 2020.
Johnson comes to Titletown from Huntingdon College, also in Montgomery, Ala., where he has served as defensive backs coach since the 2016 season. During his time at Huntingdon, Johnson coached three all-conference defensive backs in 2016 and 2017, along with one all-league honoree in 2018. In 2017, Johnson helped coach Huntingdon to its third-straight USA South Conference title and advanced to the NCAA playoffs for the third-straight year.
He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in communication from NCAA Division I FCS Bryant in 2014, he then began his coaching career at NCAA Division II Malone University in February 2015. He produced one all-conference defensive back while he was at Malone.
Johnson was a four-year starter in the Bryant secondary at cornerback. During his senior year, he helped lead the Bulldogs to their most successful season in program history as they reached their highest national ranking in Week 11 at No. 21 in both the Coaches and Sports Network polls. Bryant finished the season 8-3 for the best record since the program moved to FCS.
Goff and the Blazers open the 2019 spring season Thursday, Mar. 28, at 4 p.m. at The VSU Field House. The 2019 Spring Game is set for 11 a.m. on Apr. 27 at Bazemore-Hyder Stadium. All spring practices are free and open to the public. Practice times and dates are subject to change without notice.
COLBY, Kan. – The Hays High baseball team used some solid pitching Monday to start their season 2-0. Trey Riggs threw a complete game one-hitter, striking out 16 without a walk in a 4-0 win in game one of their doubleheader. Palmer Hutchison and Dom Bainter combined on a one-hitter in 9-1 six inning run rule victory in the second game.
Riggs doubled to drive in Palmer Hutchison in the top of the first inning in the opener. It would stay that way until the sixth when the Indians scored twice off a Colby error. They added another run in the seventh off an error.
Hutchison allowed one run on no hits with four strikeouts and a walk in 3 2/3 innings in the second game. Bainter gave up a hit with two strikeouts and a walk over the final 2 1/3 innings.
Dylan Dreiling singled home two runs in the first. Cody Peterson knocked in a run with a single in the second. Riggs and Brock Lummus both walked with the bases loaded to put Hays up 5-0 in the second. Lummus’ sac fly in the fourth drove in another run. The Indians then put the game away with a three-run sixth.
Dreiling and Lummus both drove in three while Riggs knocked in two.
The Indians play their home opener Monday against Washburn Rural.
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Fort Hays State women’s basketball senior Tatyana Legette was named a WBCA All-America Honorable Mention selection on Monday evening. Legette is the fourth All-America selection in the program’s history and first since Kate Lehman in 2015. Legette adds this honor to her great list of accomplishments this year after being named the MIAA Player of the Year, MIAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player, and a D2CCA All-Region First Team selection.
Legette led Fort Hays State in points, rebounds, and assists, helping the Tigers to a stellar 32-2 overall record and advance to the NCAA Central Regional Final. She averaged 13.4 points, 8.4 rebounds, and 3.3 assists per game, while ranking second on the team in blocks per game (1.5) and third in steals per game (1.4). She scored in double figures 24 times, compiling 10 double-doubles in the process. Legette was named MIAA Athlete of the Week three times this year.
For her career, the Topeka, Kan. native has amassed 1,256 points, ranking 11th on the all-time list at FHSU, and 865 rebounds, good for fourth in program history. She ranks fifth in program history for blocked shots (126) and free throws made (352), sixth in free-throw attempts (487), and 10th in field goal percentage (50.3 percent).
Legette helped lead the Tigers to a 30-1 record entering the NCAA Championship Tournament, the fewest losses in the regular season in program history. She helped FHSU capture both the MIAA regular season and MIAA tournament championships, becoming the first team to do so since 2012. The Tigers earned an automatic bid into the 2019 NCAA Division II Women’s Basketball Championship, their fifth trip to the big dance. The Tigers were the No. 1 seed in the Central Regional of the tournament.
2019 WBCA Division II Coaches’ All-America Team
Seairra Barrett California University of Pennsylvania
Marissa Brown West Liberty University
Hailey Diestelkamp Drury University
Camille Giardina Florida Southern College
Lexy Hightower West Texas A&M University
Jessica Kelliher Lewis University
Alexy Mollenhauer Anderson University
Hailey Tucker Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Dana Watts American International College
Mikayla Williams University of California – San Diego
Honorable Mention All-America
Michaela Barnes Edinboro University
Daejah Bernard Drury University
Ay’Anna Bey Benedict College
Cassidy Boensch Grand Valley State University
Toni Brewer University of West Florida
Addy Clift Oklahoma Christian University
Marquita Daniels Angelo State University
Natalie Diaz Dominican University
Jaylyn Duran Colorado Mesa University
Raziyah Farrington University of Charleston
Anja Fuchs-Robetin Florida Southern College
Savanna Hanson Azusa Pacific University
Jessica Harris Lander University
Felecity Havens University of Mount Olive
Jodi Johnson Ashland University
Tyra Jones Emporia State University
Tatyana Legette Fort Hays State University
Ellie Logan Northwest Nazarene University
Kylie Lorenzen Southern New Hampshire University
Shareka McNeill Virginia Union University
Halee Nieman University of West Florida
Haris Price Carson-Newman University
Hayden Priddy Southwestern Oklahoma State University
Paige Redmond University of Central Missouri
McKayla Roberts Le Moyne College
Olivia Robertson Lubbock Christian University
Alex Thomas University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
Hannah Wandersee University of Alaska – Anchorage
Kianna Wynn Barton College
Irisa Ye University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
