Friday Morning Sports Report from KWBW Radio

High School Football Playoffs – Sub-State

Class 6A
Blue Valley (8-3) vs Olathe North (9-2)
Topeka High (10-1) @ Derby (11-0)

Class 5A
Mill Valley (8-3) @ St. Thomas Aquinas (10-0)
Maize (10-1) @ Wichita Northwest (11-0)

Class 4A
Bishop Miege (9-2) Paola (11-0)
Andover Central (10-1) @ McPherson (11-0)

Class 3A
Topeka Hayden (10-1) @ Perry-Lecompton (8-3)
Cheney (9-2) @ Andale (11-0)

Class 2A
Riley County (9 -2) @ Nemaha Central (9-2)
Hoisington (11-0) @ Norton (8-3)

Class 1A
Jackson Heights (9-2) @ Centralia (10-1)
Plainville (10-1) @ Smith Center (11-0)

8-Man DI
Canton-Galva (11-0) @ Madison (11-0)
Wichita County (10-1) @ St. Francis (11-0)

8-Man DII
Axtell (10-1) @ Hanover (10-1)
Central Christian (10-1) @ Osborne (11-0)

UNDATED (AP) — Chris Klieman gets an extra game in his first season at Kansas State. There are two more first-year Big 12 coaches that can also still get into bowls. But Texas Tech and West Virginia will both have to win their last two games to get the six wins needed for bowl eligibility. It has been 10 years since the Big 12 didn’t send a bowl-eligible team to a postseason game.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes has been dealing with a sore ankle and knee injury for most of this season. It hasn’t affected his production too much, and the Chiefs are 7-4 and in control of the AFC West heading into their bye week. It’s a much-needed break for Mahomes, who is hoping to get healthy for the stretch run.

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — John Sherman has been approved as the new controlling owner of the Kansas City Royals, and his group plans to close its deal to purchase the team from David Glass and his family next week. Major League Baseball owners voted unanimously to approve the deal. The proposed sale was announced Aug. 30 and was expected to be worth about $1 billion. Sherman and his local co-investors will become only the third owners since Ewing Kauffman founded the club ahead of the 1969 season.

WACO, Texas (AP) — No. 13 Baylor has a second chance at home to take a significant step. The Bears have gone from 11 losses two years ago to a winning record and now on the verge of making the Big 12 championship game. The 9-1 Bears take on Texas this Saturday. Baylor missed a chance to clinch a title game spot with their home loss to four-time defending champion Oklahoma last week. The 6-4 Longhorns could still make the Big 12 game for the second year in a row, but can’t lose again and need a lot of help.

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma tight end Grant Calcaterra has retired from football because of concussions. He made the announcement in a video on social media, and a school spokesman confirmed the decision. An All-Big 12 selection last season, Calcaterra finished his career with 41 catches for 637 yards and nine touchdowns.

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma State quarterback Spencer Sanders will miss the rest of the season after having thumb surgery, ESPN and The Oklahoman reported. Oklahoma State did not immediately confirm the report when contacted by The Associated Press. Sanders set Oklahoma State’s freshman record for passing yards in a season with 2,065 and ran for 625 yards

LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Davide Moretti scored 13 of his 19 points after halftime and No. 12 Texas Tech finally pulled away for a 72-57 win over Tennessee State. Moretti made four 3-pointers, all in the second half. Freshmen Terrence Shannon Jr. and Jahmi’us Ramsey both scored 13 points for the 4-0 Red Raiders.

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Kristian Doolittle scored 18 points and Oklahoma beat Maryland Eastern Shore 91-64 in the second round of the College Basketball Hall of Fame Classic. Trailing 38-37 at halftime, the Sooners (5-0) scored the first eight points of the second half, punctuated by a fast-break slam by Austin Reaves and a short jumper by Doolittle, to pull in front 45-38 with 16:56 to play.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — RJ Nembhard hit a go-ahead 3-pointer with 3.3 seconds left while scoring a career-high 20 points, lifting TCU to a 59-58 victory over UC Irvine. The Horned Frogs gave coach Jamie Dixon his 400th career victory in his fourth season at his alma mater after spending 13 years at Pittsburgh. Freshman Jeron Artest put Irvine ahead on a 3-pointer with about eight minutes remaining. The son of former NBA player Ron Artest, now known as Metta World Peace, scored seven points.

CONWAY, S.C. (AP) — Jared Butler scored 19 points and No. 24 Baylor pulled away to beat Ohio 76-53 in the Myrtle Beach Invitational quarterfinals. MaCio Teague added 17 points, Freddie Gillespie finished with 10 points and 11 rebounds and the Bears used a late 15-0 run to cruise to their second straight win.

National Headlines

HOUSTON (AP) — Deshaun Watson threw two touchdown passes to DeAndre Hopkins and finished with 298 yards to help the Houston Texans beat the Indianapolis Colts, 20-17. Houston trailed by four early in the fourth quarter when Hopkins got in front of Pierre Desir and stretched out to haul in a 30-yard reception to give the Texans a 20-17 lead. Jacoby Brissett ran for a touchdown but threw for only 129 yards as the 6-5 Colts dropped one game behind the first-place in the AFC South.

NEW YORK (AP) — Duke’s 87-52 pounding of California gives Mike Krzyzewski 217 victories as coach of a top-ranked team, tying him with UCLA’s John Wooden for the NCAA record. Krzyzewski is 217-34 when the Blue Devils hold the top spot, a mark they hit this week in The Associated Press poll. Vernon Carey led Duke with 31 points and 12 rebounds.

CLEVELAND (AP) — The NFL has upheld the indefinite suspension levied against Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett for his actions against Pittsburgh Steelers Quarterback Mason Rudolph last Thursday. Garrett is banned for at least the final six regular-season games and any potential playoff games involving the Browns for pulling off Rudolph’s helmet and cracking him on the head with it in the closing seconds of Cleveland’s 21-7 win. Garrett made his case to former player James Thrash, who didn’t find enough compelling evidence to lessen the punishment.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pittsburgh quarterback Mason Rudolph is denying an anonymous report alleging he used a racial slur shortly before his confrontation with Cleveland defensive end Myles Garrett last week. ESPN cited anonymous sources in reporting Garrett told the NFL during the appeal of his indefinite suspension Rudolph used a racial slur just before a confrontation between the two players. An NFL spokesman says the league found no such evidence of the slur.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minnesota Vikings kicker Fred Cox has died at age 80, according to the team for which he played for 15 seasons. Cox scored a Vikings-record 1,365 points while often kicking in nasty conditions because Minnesota played outdoors during his career from 1963-77. He was second to George Blanda on the NFL’s all-time scoring list when he retired and was the co-creator of the Nerf football.

Thursday Scores

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Houston 20 Indianapolis 17

TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Final (1)Duke 87 California 52
Final (12)Texas Tech 72 Tennessee St. 57
Final (14)Arizona 71 S. Dakota St. 64
Final (17)Villanova 98 Middle Tennessee 69
Final (18)Xavier 73 Towson 51
Final Georgetown 82 (22)Texas 66
Final (24)Baylor 76 Ohio 53

NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
Final Milwaukee 137 Portland 129
Final New Orleans 124 Phoenix 121

(BY STEVE CARPENTER)
(HUTCHINSON CC SPORTS INFORMATION)

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa – The Hutchinson Community College women’s basketball team rallied from an 11-point third-quarter deficit to take a six-point lead with 5:39 remaining in the fourth on Thursday in a rematch of last year’s NJCAA National Tournament semifinals with New Mexico Junior College.

But the No. 8-ranked Thunderbirds had a rally of their own and handed the No. 7 Blue Dragons their first loss of the season, defeating Hutchinson 66-58 at the Holiday Inn/Hampton Classic hosted by Iowa Western Community College.

The Blue Dragons fall to 6-1 and will play Iowa Western at 5 p.m. on Saturday in Council Bluffs. New Mexico improves to 7-2.

Hutchinson trailed by its largest deficit of the season at 38-27 after New Mexico’s Selina Dockery’s layup with 8:19 remaining in the third quarter. The Blue Dragons climbed back into the game by holding the Thunderbird scoreless for the final 5 minutes, 18 seconds of the third period to pull within 44-41 on a Makayla Vannett 3-pointer with 1:56 left in the quarter.

New Mexico’s scoreless streak extended another 1:36 into the fourth quarter. The Dragons pulled within 44-43 before Ebony Horton hit a 3-pointer with 8:24 to play, pushing the Thunderbird lead to 47-43.

The Blue Dragons answered with a 10-0 run over the next 2:45. The Dragons grabbed their first lead since the second quarter on a Brooklyn Betham field goal for a 50-47 advantage. Abby Ogle then converted a three-point play with 5:39 remaining to give the Dragons a 53-47 lead. From that point the Blue Dragons were outscored by New Mexico 19-5. The Dragons closed the game going just 2 of 7 with three turnovers.

Vannett led three Blue Dragons in double figures with 16 points, hitting 4 of 7 from 3-point range.

Betham missed her second-straight double-double by a rebound with 11 points and nine rebounds. Ogle finished with 10 points, four rebounds, three assists and five steals. Kyra Paniora, Tor’e Alford and Nafatoumata Haidara had five points each.

The Blue Dragons out-shot New Mexico 43.8-42.9 percent, hitting 21 of 48 shots. Hutch was 5 of 17 from 3-point range and 11 of 18 from the free-throw line. The Dragons were out-rebounded 32-31, but gave up 14 offensive rebounds and were outscored in the paint 44-24. The Dragons also committed 21 turnovers.

Zaria Dorsey scored a game-high 26 points with 10 rebounds to lead New Mexico. Horton had 12 points and Dawnuel Lair finished with 10.

The Thunderbirds were 27 of 63 shooting, going 3 of 18 from 3-point range and 9 of 16 from the foul line. New Mexico finished with 19 turnovers.

HUTCHINSON, Kan. – The 2019 NJCAA D1 Women’s Volleyball Tournament 1st day is in the books with the top 3 seeds advancing into the final four spots.  The lone exception was the last spot was filled by the No. 5 seed Polk State.  The biggest upset was No. 4 seed Snow College dropping their first round match to No. 13 seed Northeastern Colorado 3 games to 1 on Thursday.

Top seed Navarro was pushed by No. 16 seed Monroe College in one of the first matches of the day, but won 25-21, 22-25, 25-21 and 25-20.

Tonight’s semi-final match ups will be No. 1 Navarro vs No. 5 Polk State and No. 2 seed Miami Dade vs the Kansas representative, No. 3 Seward County.

Consolation bracket play begins today at 10:00 am with 10 matches concluding with the final four matches at 7:30 pm.

Watch all the action of NJCAATV.com with pay-per-view viewing.

2019 NJCAA DI Volleyball Championship Results

Men’s Basketball
Ty Berry – Sunrise Christian – Northwestern
Mayson Quartlebaum – Lawrence – Kennesaw State

Women’s Basketball
Emily Ryan – Central Plains – Iowa State
Taylor Jameson – Wichita Heights – George Mason
Faith Paramore – Haven – Oral Roberts
Elise Kaiser – Hesston – Newman
Machia Mullens – Liberal – UMKC
Katie Horyna – Liberal – Abilene Christian
Kade Hackerott – Goddard – Central Missouri
Sydney Nilles – Derby – Newman
Ehlaina Hartman – Spearville – Emporia State
Kadyn Cobb – Salina Central – Missouri Western
Emma Ruddle – McPherson – Fort Hays State
Andrea Sweat – McPherson – Washburn
Lakyn Schieferecke – McPherson – Washburn
Emily Weathers – Scott City – Emporia State
Aubree Dewey – Plainville – Washburn
Maddie Wiltse – Otis-Bison – Nebraska-Kearney
Ali Vigil – KC Piper – Central Missouri
Gabbie Posch – Hutchinson – Newman
Katie Wagner – Maize South – Fort Hays State

Baseball
Jace Kaminska – Caney Valley – Wichita State
Braxton Hyde – Liberal – Butler
Trey Degarmo – Andover Central – Cowley
Jayce Meyer – Maize South – Fort Hays State
Max Charlton – St. James – Arkansas State
Beau Grable – St. James – Emporia State
Paul Lee – St. James – Rockhurst
Jonah Dobson – St. James – Labette
Cal Leonard – Iola – Washburn

Softball
Ellee Eck – Andale – Stanford
Rachel Choate – Andale – Newman
Abby Gordon – Garden Plain – Arkansas
Maggie Mean – Santa Fe Trail – Washburn
Yazmin Vargas – Garden City – Missouri Southern
Regan Gerber – Dodge City – Hutchinson
Espy Daniels – Ark City – Neosho
Braylee Ruyle – Ark City – Friends
Katie Boline – Andover Central – Neosho
Autumn Schreiner – Wabaunsee – Washburn
Emma Willison – Buhler – Tabor

Women’s Golf
Madison Slayton – Andover – Wichita State
Morgan Brasser – Andale – Fort Hays State
Allison Comer – St. James – Nebraska-Kearney

Men’s Golf
Cooper Schultz – Andover Central – Kansas State
Tyler Martin – Phillipsburg – Kansas Wesleyan

Volleyball
Reagan Karlin – Garden City – Creighton
Keagan Shockley – Eudora – Pittsburg State
Lynzi Myrick – Larned – Bethel | Softball dual-commit
Maddy Strecker – Hutch Trinity – Friends
Sydney Hillmer – Topeka-Hayden – Pittsburg State
Ashley Matthews – Salina Central – Baker
Annika Free – Salina Central – Baker
Mallory Cowman – Circle – Butler
Kayli Duncan – Circle – Butler
Ayden Bartlett – Leavenworth – Louisville
McKinley Pruitt – Maize South – Neosho
Ryen Wilkens – Kapaun – Denver
Paiton Haga – El Dorado – Butler
Taryn Rich – Ark City – Johnson County
Alyssa Herter – Great Bend – Barton
Cassie Cooks – McPherson – Graceland
Peyton Allen – Hutchinson – Butler
Anna Feldkamp – St. James – Loyola-Chicago
Ellie Bolton – St. James – Creighton
Marea Wortmann – St. James – Benedictine
Maureen Reilly – St. James – Rockhurst
Kinley Poynter – Goddard – Neosho
Cierra Harrison – Cheney – Southwestern
Jordan Childs – Buhler – Kansas Wesleyan

Women’s Soccer
Taryn Lubbers – Bishop Carroll – Kansas State
Katie Taylor – Salina South – Hutchinson
Angela Palmer – Maize South – Emporia State
Mallory Stegman – Maize – Emporia State
Isabel Mellick – St. James – Nebraska-Kearney

Men’s Soccer
Ethan Doud – Eisenhower – Fort Hays State

Track & Field
Talon Estes – Bucklin – Army-West Point
Kaden Wren – Scott City – Fort Hays State
Tori Maxton – Salina South – Kansas State
Grace Thompson – Sedgwick – Kansas State
Macie Ables – Olathe North – Missouri Valley College
Isaiah Bartel – Kapaun – Bethel Soccer dual-commit
Leann Trout – Independence – Pittsburg State
Renee Trout – Independence – Pittsburg State
Ashley Cookson – West Elk – Emporia State

Dance
Chloe Eyhorn – Derby – Coffeyville

Women’s Tennis
Aliyah Frederick – Buhler – Fort Hays State
Kylie Aufdengarten – Wellington – Fort Hays State
Taylor Bruce – McPherson – Fort Hays State

Women’s Swimming
Maci McCullough – Wichita West – Arkansas-Pine Bluff

Lacrosse
Carson Huerter – St. James – Benedictine

TOPEKA, Kan. (KSHSAA) – Ballots from KSHSAA member schools on the proposal to modify Class 1A postseason competition in volleyball, basketball and scholars bowl were due November 15th. Based on the response from the membership, the proposal received more than the 59 votes needed from 117 schools voting. KSHSAA Bylaw Article XII, Section 4 requires a majority vote to approve changes to classifications. As a result, the proposal has passed.

Voting Results were as follows:

Class 1A

Yes = 70 No = 47

Proposal passes for the 2020-21 school year Class 1A postseason competition for volleyball, basketball and scholars bowl.

Please note: With this change in classification, the postseason format and calendar will change. The Executive Board will approve the competition schedule/format at the January 15-16, 2020 meeting. It is premature to believe the schedule/format will return to the exact same schedule/format followed when Class 1A previously crowned two division champions.

In 2009 class 1A voted to split into two divisions. In 2017 during the reclassification proposal, 1A was voted to be put back together for one class.

HUTCHINSON, Kan. – Hutchinson Community College’s Sophomore defensive tackle Latrell Bankston committed to Iowa State as reported on twitter and confirmed with Bankston on Thursday.  Bankston had a very productive Sophomore season and was recently named KJCCC Defensive Player of the Year.

Bankston had  19 unassisted tackels, 45 assisted tackles averaging 5.6 per game.  11 sacks for 64 yard, and 20.5 tackles for loss on the year.

Bankston and the No. 3 ranked Blue Dragons still have one more game to play in 2019 and will match up in the Salt City Bowl on December 7th vs #18 Monroe College out of New Rochelle, NY.

Thursday Morning Sports Report from KWBW Radio