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HHS boys, girls qualify
By The Hays Daily News
With a pair of third-place
finishes, the Hays High
School boys’ and girls’ cross
country teams qualified for
the Class 4A state cross country meet.
The Indian boys scored
97 points and the girls 105
Saturday in the 4A regional
at the HHS course.
Clay Center took top team
honors in the boys’ race with
49 points and Hugoton was
second with 62. Thomas
More Prep-Marian finished
sixth as a team.
Sophomore Ethan Shippy
paced the Hays High boys
with his 11th-place finish,
individually. Shippy fin-
ished in 17 minutes, 41.90
seconds with freshman
Allen Zollinger and sophomore Zachary Hopp Hays
High’s next two best runners. Zollinger was 17th in
17:49.50, and Hopp 19th at
17:55.30.
Individually, TMP junior
Andrew Hess qualified for
state with a seventh-place
finish in 17:25.40. TMP’s
next-best finisher was senior
Matthew Mindrup in 34th
(18:31.00).
On the girls’ side, Clay
Center took top team honors
with 33 points. Hugoton was
second with 66, then Hays
High. TMP-Marian finished
in fourth place with 123
points, but had no individual
qualifiers.
Colby’s Andrea Browne
paced the field with a
15:42.20 regional-title performance. Sophomore Marie
Reveles was Hays High’s
top finisher in 10th place
at 16:49.20. Junior Haley
George was close behind in
12th place at 16:52.30, and
sophomore Alyssa Bryant was
21st in 17:18.30. TMP was
led by junior Alicia Lechman,
who ran 17:16.30 in 19th
place, just 11 seconds off the
last qualifying spot.
The 4A state meet is Saturday in Wamego.
Sunday
Oct. 26, 2014
Hays High’s
Ethan Shippy nears
the finish
line during
the Class
4A regional
cross country meet
Saturday
at the HHS
Course.
JOLIE
GREEN
Hays Daily
News
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K-State
shuts out
Texas
Second
act
Alex Smith
enjoying career
turnaround in
Kansas City.
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By ARNE GREEN
Special to The HDN
State
bound
The TMP
volleyball team
captures the
sub-state
championship.
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EVERETT ROYER • Hays Daily News
FHSU safety Micheal Jordan intercepts a pass intended for Northwest Missouri’s Randy Schmidt in the second quarter of Saturday’s game at Lewis Field Stadium.
MIAA
action
See a list of
scores from
Saturday’s
MIAA football
schedule.
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World
Series
The Royals and
Giants played
Game 4 Saturday
night.
hdnews.net
What I’m
thinking
Was impressed
with what Russell had Friday
night against
TMP. Don’t be
surprised if
this team sees
a vast improvement in
2015.
Nick McQueen
@HDNmcqueen
Tigers fall to No. 10 Bearcats
By AUSTIN COLBERT
acolbert@dailynews.net
While the Fort Hays State University football team’s
defense was on the field for 82 plays on Saturday against
No. 10 Northwest Missouri State University, Tiger junior
linebacker Brock Long didn’t want to use that as an excuse
for a unit that allowed 449 yards of offense to the Bearcats in
a 29-10 loss at Lewis Field Stadium.
“We went out and executed and did our assignments in
that first half and held them to seven points,” Long said.
“We know what we have to do and we did it that first half.
Then the second half we let them come out and we didn’t
do our jobs, didn’t take care of our responsibilities and they
ended up scoring on us.”
The fault certainly can’t be placed on the FHSU (4-4
overall, 4-4 MIAA) defense, which held the conference’s
top-ranked offense (37.3 points per game) to 183 yards and a
FHSU junior kicker Drew O’Brien hits a field goal in the lone touchdown in the first half.
second quarter.
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MANHATTAN – Even
Bill Snyder, who is not easily
impressed, knew he had witnessed something special.
That his No. 11-ranked
Kansas State Wildcats sent
Texas home with a loss was
nothing new, far from it. The
fact that they sent the Longhorns home empty-handed
was.
“I can’t tell you the last
time we had a shutout,”
Snyder said watching the Wildcats
blitz Texas,
23-0, Saturday before
an appreciative
homecoming crowd at Snyder Family
Stadium. “It just doesn’t
happen in this day and age,
so I thought it was something to be truly proud of.”
For the record, the Wildcats did blank Kent State
(37-0) in 2011 and Florida
Atlantic (45-0) in 2006, but
had not shut out a Big 12
opponent since a 45-0 rout
of Iowa State in 2003. The
last time they did it at home
was 1999 against Missouri
(66-0).
“It’s quite a challenge to
shut teams out, especially
in the Big 12,” said senior
defensive end Ryan Mueller,
who recorded four tackles,
including one of two Wildcat sacks in the game. “But
it’s a credit to the guys in our
locker room and the guys on
defense just taking pride in
their work during the week
and going out there and putting it all together.”
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Hays High rallies for district win
By AUSTIN COLBERT
acolbert@dailynews.net
“I’m supposed to key the tight end, but
that play, I just looked at their running back
Much like the defense as a whole, Hays
they were giving it to, saw him run to my
High School’s Brenden Ibarra wasn’t operat- side, so I just took off and luckily their backs
ing at full capacity in the first half of Friday’s took to the backers and it left me wide
game against Abilene at Lewis Field Stadium. open,” Ibarra said.
The defensive back hadn’t played
“I think the whole second half
Friday’s area
since the season opener at Olathe
we kind of had an attitude that
prep football
Northwest, where he suffered a
we were going to come out and do
roundup.
high ankle sprain that has cost him
work. I think it showed with how
most of his senior season.
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our defense played.”
But with the game essentially on
After looking helpless in the
the line late in the third quarter, the Cowboys first half, allowing four touchdowns on four
facing a fourth-and-3 from the Indians’ 5-yard Cowboy drives, the Hays High defense
AUSTIN COLBERT • Hays Daily News line already holding a six-point lead, it was
stepped up in key situations in the second
Hays High junior fullback Connor Rule dives over Abilene’s Ibarra’s sack on Abilene junior quarterback
half to help pull out the 34-33 win over
Tanner Hoekman (25) during Friday’s game at Lewis Field Sta- Harley Hazlett that changed Hays High’s
Abilene on senior night.
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fortunes and might have saved its season.
dium.