BALTIMORE -- Jeff Francoeur had a terrific weekend, and the notoriously streaky hitter hopes the rest of the Royals will follow his success.
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WICHITA -- Paige Krahl's momentary frustration was Bennington's gain.
"Our coaches said we shouldn't be counting points, but of course we have," Drew Diederich said with a smile after the Knights rolled to a first-place Class 3A team finish Saturday at the Kansas State High School Track and Field Championships at Cessna Stadium. "Before the 800, we figured things would have to go pretty bad not to win it."
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MANHATTAN -- It was a long and frustrating day of baseball, one that could easily have had the Sacred Heart players hanging their heads as they walked out of Tointon Family Stadium.
The finish was not what Concordia coach Brandt Hutchinson wanted for his Concordia Panthers.
Concordia's season ended with a resounding 17-0, three-inning loss to St. James Academy on Saturday evening at Dean Evans Stadium.
Concordia pushed across a pair of unearned runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to squeeze past Nickerson 3-1 in a first-round game of the Class 4A state baseball tournament Friday at Dean Evans Stadium.
The win moved Concordia (21-1) into today's 10 a.m. semifinal against Ottawa a 7-4 winner over Jefferson West. Nickerson finished the year 15-9.
WICHITA -- Cory Donley was hoping for better, but he was just too good.
After laying waste to the rest of the field Friday night in the Class 3A 3,200-meter run, Donley was left to his own devices for more than half the race.
Only one goal really mattered to Salina Central's Taylor Swanson in the Class 5A pole vault competition, and when Mill Valley's Emily Brigham brought the bar down on her third attempt at 12 feet it was time to celebrate.
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MANHATTAN -- The recipe has been the same now for four consecutive games, but the Sacred Heart baseball team is not growing tired of the finished product.
MANHATTAN -- Head coach Brad Dix isn't asking a lot. His message to his Sacred Heart baseball team is concise and self-explanatory.
Keep doing what you've been doing.
Ell-Saline hopes to do all of that and more this weekend when it returns to the 2-1A state tournament at Trusler Sports Complex. Tops on the Cardinals' wish list will be bringing home the first state title in the program's history.
WICHITA -- Earlier in her fledgling pole vault career, Taylor Swanson recalls telling Salina Central vault coach J.D. Garber that by the time she graduated, she'd be clearing 13 feet.
"He said it would never happen," said Swanson, who as a senior entering her final meet this weekend at the Kansas State High School Track and Field Championships would love nothing better than to make him eat his words. "He's going crazy."
Neither were any of his Sacred Heart teammates.
That's certainly not the case in the first year after conference realignment took effect.
LAWRENCE - If more opportunities like this come Ben Hargrave’s way - and his head coach is positive they will - then the Salina South junior can draw from the experience he gained in his 19 holes at Alvamar Golf Course.
But early Monday evening, nearly seven hours after he hit his first tee shot at the Class 5A boys state championship, Hargrave could find little positive from his runner-up finish to Wichita Kapaun’s Sam Stevens.
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