PERSONAL NEWS:
This week will be my final week working for The Emporia Gazette and 99.5 ESPN Radio.
I have accepted a Sports Reporter position with the Salina Journal. I start next Monday.
Thank you Emporia for three great years.
Seaman coach Matt Tinsley address Seaman faithful after the final game of the Class 5A State basketball tournament was cut short after KSHSAA announced state tournament would conclude after tonight due to CONVID-19.
"It was a tough decision because I love South.”
@SouthCougars
athletic director Ken Stonebraker confirmed with me this afternoon that he is retiring after 30 years at the school with the last 15 as the school’s athletic director.
#KSpreps
This group has been special to cover. Two years ago, a majority of this group won a state championship. Today, that same group with some added pieces played an 11-inning game plus rallied in the sixth to take the title.
Walking off into State.
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@BeauBaumgardner
with a bases-loaded double to win 5-4 over Pittsburg.
Baumgardner goes 4-4 at the plate.
The record is 30-1 heading into the state tournament.
BREAKING:
Kansas Wesleyan football is the No. 3 overall seed in the NAIA Football National Championship Series. The Coyotes will take on Baker at 12 p.m. Saturday at the Graves Family Sports Complex.
Story coming shortly.
FINAL:
@STAsaintsgbball
52,
@SCentral_WBB
38.
Aquinas wins its sixth straight state championship and denies Central of a perfect season.
Still a helluva of a season from the Mustangs who will finish 24-1 and bring back to Salina a runner-up finish.
#KSPreps
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@SouthTrackField
’s girls win the AVCTL-I track and field championship. First league title for
@SouthCougars
in 39 years. Beat Derby by one point in the team standings.
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No. 3 Kansas Wesleyan will host No. 6 Lindsey Wilson (Ky.) at noon next Saturday at the Graves Family Sports Complex in the quarterfinals of the NAIA Football Championship Series.
Lindsey Wilson defeated St. Francis (Ind.), 30-26, this afternoon.
With all my features from state track tweeted, year six of cover high school athletes and year three in Salina has concluded. I’ll have more stories to tell this summer before getting back to full force August, along with taking some time off for a vacation. Have a great summer!
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@SalinaBaseball
Hawks get two wins in their zone tournament today 7-0 over Hiawatha and 16-0 over Doniphan Countys
@SethClemmer2
and
@garrett5k
combined to allow just six hits in the two games.
"It's exciting for me to take the knowledge I picked up over the years and start applying it.”
@Myers_KWU
has learned a lot in his six years of being an assistant coach at
@kwucoyotes
. Now, it’s his time to be a head coach.
Kansas State football coach Chris Klieman on
@HendricksonWIU
: “Myers is a really good football coach. Myers is going to do a great job there.”
Great job
@JBane87
by asking that.
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@RylieHallman
made the biggest shot of the Salina Invitational Tournament. A buzzer-beater with .4 left to give .
@LHS_Redskins
a 60-58 victory and their fourth SIT championship.
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@djsprecker
gives a fist bump to Wichita Trinity’s Clay Shively after the
@sescrosscountry
senior won the 1,600 in 4:14.88. Sprecker’s time is a new meet record in Class 3A.
#KSPreps
BREAKING: Emporia State's Welch Stadium will host the USATF Region 9 Junior Olympic Outdoor Track and Field Championship meet July 4-7. The meet is set to bring 900-1,100 youth between the ages of eight and 18 from four states. The meet was set to be in Oklahoma but moved to ESU.
Wow.
@SouthSalina
’s
@Kayson_Dietz
defeats Newton’s Rio Gomez 5-1 in the regional championship match at 285.
Dietz has faced Gomez multiple times and this is his first win over him. Gomez is ranked No. 1 at 285 while Dietz is No. 4.
@SouthCougars
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#KSpreps
I want to congratulate all the athletes of the Class of 2020 that I've got to cover. No matter if it's been when I was in Emporia or Salina, you guys have a bright future ahead of you. Thank you for letting me tell your stories.
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@ladyvike_bball
’s Taylin Stallbaumer hits this 3 to give the Vikings the Glacier’s Edge Tournament title, 46-43 over
@EHSLadySpartans
.
The record is 12-2.
Up next: at Washburn Rural
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