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WICHITA, Kan. – Four true road contests, a pre-Christmas tournament in Puerto Rico and seven home dates make up the non-conference schedule for the Shockers in 2019-20.

“We’re very excited about this upcoming season with the pieces we have returning and the newcomers that will join the team,” head coach Keitha Adams said. “Our non-conference schedule will prepare us for conference play and also provide opportunities for our fans to get behind our team.”

Wichita State hosts Missouri Southern State for the second straight season, a Division II program from Joplin, Mo., in an exhibition tune-up on Monday, Nov. 4 and officially opens the regular season five days later on Saturday, Nov. 9 against a familiar foe. The Shockers welcome former Missouri Valley Conference member Northern Iowa back to Charles Koch Arena for the season opener.

A quick turnaround will see Wichita State make the short trip to Tulsa to face Oral Roberts on Monday, Nov. 11. Following a home matchup with Southern on Nov. 17, the Shockers are back on the pavement to Ruston, La., to visit Louisiana Tech (Nov. 20). WSU defeated the Lady Techsters in the Roundhouse last season, 70-56.

Houston Baptist makes the trip back to Wichita for the second time in as many as seasons on Nov. 25 before the Big 12’s Oklahoma Sooners come to town. The Shockers and Sooners meet for the first time since 2013 in the Roundhouse on Nov. 30.

Despite being in difference conferences, Wichita State and Missouri State continue its series on Dec. 4 in Springfield. A first-time meeting with Eastern Michigan on Dec. 7 follows before the final true road game of the non-conference schedule sends WSU to Creighton on Dec. 14.

Arkansas-Pine Bluff (Dec. 16) and Grambling State (Dec. 30) round out the home slate. The final two home matchups are sandwiched around a trip to Puerto Rico for the Puerto Rico Coqui Classic. The Shockers will play two games in Guaynabo against Montana State (Dec. 20) and Virginia Tech (Dec. 21).

The holiday getaway marks the second straight season Wichita State will compete in a pre-Christmas tournament after the Duel in the Desert (Las Vegas) in 2018.

Times, television information and American Athletic Conference contests will be announced in September.

Monday Morning Sports with KWBW’s Rob Dreher.

WICHITA, Kan. – The Eric Wedge Wichita State Baseball Academy will host a high school prospect camp on Sunday, Aug. 25, at Eck Stadium, Home of Tyler Field. The camp is slated to begin at 9 a.m., with registration starting at 8 a.m.

The camp will be geared toward the high school player who aspires to compete at the next level, and will feature a full day on the field with new Wichita State head coach Eric Wedge and his coaching staff.

Position instruction will take place during the initial portion of camp, and campers will be able to showcase during live ground balls, fly balls and throwing, as well as live batting practice and cage work.

Scrimmage action will take place during the final portion of the camp day.

The camp cost is $150, and is open to any and all entrants, and is only limited by number, age, grade level, and/or gender in accordance with NCAA rules.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from new Shocker head coach Eric Wedge and his staff!

For more information and to register, please visit www.collegebaseballcamps.com/ericwedgewsba

HUTCHINSON, Kan. – Hutchinson High School Athletics has announced that the annual parent meeting for those who have a student in grades 7-12 participating in athletics during the 2019-2020 school year will take place in the Hutchinson High School Auditorium Thursday, August 15th at 6:30 pm.  After the general session, fall sports coaches will meet with parents.

In addition, All-Sports Passes can be purchased while enrolling your students on-line or in the main office of the High School.  The pass is good for all USD 308 athletic events grades 7-12. Adult pass is $50, Student pass is $25.  Those who purchase a pass will receive an H Hawk License Plate for your vehicle.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Tanner Roark pitched five innings to get the win in his Oakland debut, and the Athletics beat Adam Wainwright and the St. Louis Cardinals 4-2. Jurickson Profar connected for his 15th homer as the A’s won for the sixth time in seven games. Dustin Garneau had two hits and two RBIs after he was claimed off waivers Saturday.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Devin Smeltzer pitched two-hit ball into the seventh inning for his first major league win, and the Minnesota Twins completed a three-game sweep by blanking the Kansas City Royals 3-0. Jason Castro homered and Eddie Rosario drove in two runs for the Twins, who maintained their three-game lead over Cleveland in the AL Central. Luis Arraez had two hits and scored twice.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Infielder Matt Carpenter was activated from the injured list by the St. Louis Cardinals and was set to lead off against the Oakland Athletics. Carpenter fouled a ball off his right foot against Pittsburgh on July 15 and missed 17 games with a bruise. He went 2 for 26 with seven walks in nine minor league injury rehabilitation games. Catcher Yadier Molina began a rehab assignment with Triple-A Memphis on Friday.

SEATTLE (AP) — Felipe Gutierrez scored twice in the first half, including his fifth penalty kick conversion of the season, boosting Sporting Kansas City past the Seattle Sounders 3-2. Erik Hurtado also scored for Sporting, which snapped a two-game losing streak. Jordan Morris scored twice for the Sounders, giving him seven goals for the season and three in the past two games.

National Headlines

CHICAGO (AP) _ The Chicago Cubs are spending time without catcher Willson Contreras, placing him on the injured list with a strained right hamstring suffered while running out a fly ball Saturday against the Brewers. He will undergo an MRI Monday to determine the severity of the injury. Chicago recalled receiver Taylor Davis to replace the 27-year-old Contreras, who is batting .275 with 19 homers and 57 RBIs in 87 games this season.

NEW YORK (AP) _ The New York Yankees have placed outfielder Aaron Hicks and designated hitter Edwin Encarnacion on the injured list. Hicks has been diagnosed with a flexor strain in his right elbow after the team initially thought he had a torn ligament that could require season-ending Tommy John surgery. Encarnacion broke his right wrist when he was hit by a pitch during Saturday’s doubleheader sweep against Boston.

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) _ J.T. Poston has won the Wyndham Championship for his first PGA Tour title, shooting an 8-under 62 for a one-stroke victory over Webb Simpson. Poston tied Henrik Stenson’s 2-year-old tournament record at 22-under 258. He became the first player since Lee Trevino in 1974 to win a 72-hole stroke-play event on tour without any bogeys or worse.

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (AP) _ Chase Elliott has earned his second straight victory at Watkins Glen, once again holding off Martin Truex Jr. to become the first repeat winner at The Glen since Marcos Ambrose in 2011-12. It was a two-car race for more than half the 220.5-mile distance and the entire final 40 laps. Elliott started from the pole and led 80 of 90 laps in snapping a long slump. Denny Hamlin was third, followed by Erik Jones and Ryan Blaney.

Sunday Scores

INTERLEAGUE
Final Chi White Sox 10 Philadelphia 5
Final Tampa Bay 7 Miami 2
Final Oakland 4 St. Louis 2

AMERICAN LEAGUE
Final Baltimore 6 Toronto 5
Final Cleveland 6 L-A Angels 2
Final Houston 3 Seattle 1
Final Minnesota 3 Kansas City 0
Final Texas 9 Detroit 4
Final N-Y Yankees 7 Boston 4

NATIONAL LEAGUE
Final Cincinnati 6 Atlanta 4, 10 Innings
Final N-Y Mets 13 Pittsburgh 2
Final Chi Cubs 7 Milwaukee 2
Final Colorado 6 San Francisco 2
Final Arizona 7 Washington 5
Final L-A Dodgers 11 San Diego 10

SEATTLE (AP) — Felipe Gutierrez credited luck for one of his going in the net for Sporting Kansas City.

His coach, Peter Vermes, said luck also kept a couple of Seattle shots out of the net.

Gutierrez scored twice in the first half, including his fifth penalty kick conversion of the season, boosting KC past the Sounders 3-2 on Sunday night.

Erik Hurtado also scored for Sporting (7-9-7, 28 points), which snapped a two-game losing streak.

Gutierrez put Kansas City on the board in the 12th minute. Seth Sinovic sent a short pass down the left wing side. The unmarked Gutierrez caught up with the ball, took it into the left side of the penalty area and sent a shallow 8-yard shot into the net just inside the far post for his ninth goal of the year.

“Nobody from the other team followed me. I was alone behind them on the right side of them,” Gutierrez said. “I could make a controlling turn, and I see nobody went me, so I could make another touch. In that position, I try a lot in training to take that shot down into the (far) post. Today, I think I was lucky.”

In the 33rd minute, KC’s Gerso Fernandez took the ball into the right side of the box near the goal line. He was pushed down by Seattle’s Nouhou, who was whistled for the foul. Referee Ismail Elfath then went to the video review, and barely 30 seconds later came back and pointed to the penalty spot. Gutiereez drilled his penalty kick into the upper center of the net.

That was Sporting’s sixth successful PK of the season, tied with Atlanta and Minnesota for most in the league.

Jordan Morris scored twice for the Sounders (11-7-5, 38 points), giving him seven goals for the season and three in the past two games.

Morris cut Kansas City’s lead to 2-1 just 55 seconds into the second half. Nico Lodeiro set it up with a long pass down the left wing. Morris took it toward the top of the 6-yard box and fired a shot from past goalkeeper Tim Melia to the far post.

Hurtado’s goal off a counterattack in the 58th minute restored the two-goal margin. It was his first of the season.

“Going back to 3-1 was huge,” Kansas City coach Peter Vermes said. “Especially on the road, you’ve got to be able to grind games out sometimes, and we were able to do that tonight. What I’m really happy with is even though they scored really quick after halftime, we didn’t lose our composure.”

Morris’ goal in the 82nd minute again got Seattle within one. The Sounders then had two near-misses at the equalizer late in the game: a shot off the post by Handwalla Bwana, and a save by Melia on a drive deep into the box by Morris.

“Every other game prior to this, those guys would have scored – it would have gone in,” Vermes said. “It’s good to see some luck has gone our way.”

Sounders coach Brian Schmetzer said defense let his team down.

“We can’t give up three goals at home,” he said. “I think we created enough chances to score more than two goals. There’s an old saying out there that defense wins championships, and some of that is obviously true. But we can’t give up three goals at home to any team, much less to a conference opponent.”

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — Chiefs Offensive Coordinator Eric Bieniemy and players Demarcus Robinson (WR) and Austin Reiter (OL) fielded media questions Sunday at training camp at Missouri Western State University.

Chiefs Offensive Coordinator Eric Bieniemy

Q: This is the last time we’re going to speak with you before the first preseason game. Are there any players in particular that you are eager to get a look at in a game situation?

BIENIEMY: “You know what, it’s hard for me to just pick and choose who I want to see. I’m fired up about seeing our guys just go out and play against a different opponent. You get un-scouted looks. You get an opportunity to watch our guys run around, see who can play, who can react against a different opponent. So I’m fired up obviously about our starters going out there, but more importantly, I’m fired up about seeing the young guys go out there and just play football.”

Q: How does Marcus Kemp look to you so far in camp?

BIENIEMY: “Marcus Kemp is just one of those steady-eddy guys. He understands his role. He’s one of those guys that young kids and young players should gravitate to. He doesn’t take anything for granted. He understands his role. He’s fought and scratched from the bottom of the roster, earned a spot on our team as a practice squad guy, has developed a reputation for being a heck of a special teams player, and when he gets called upon – when guys get pulled from practice – he just jumps in there and finds a way to make plays. Those are the types of people that we want in our organization.”

Q: Do you envision an even bigger jump in Demarcus Robinson’s responsibilities this year?

BIENIEMY: “Each year we pose them with a challenge. It is up to him to make sure that he accepts that challenge. We want him to challenge himself to learn every position out there. So when he’s playing wide receiver, he’s not just the Z or the X, we want him to know it all. One thing I will say, he’s done a very, very good job to this point of accepting that challenge and he’s excelled. The thing I always say about him, and I point this out to our team, he always continues to find work. It isn’t by chance that him and Pat connect on scramble plays. He knows that if 11 is on the back side, somewhere along the way he’s going to find him. That’s important. That’s another example for our young players to follow: Continue to find work.”

Q: With Damien Williams not practicing and Tremon Smith now involved in the RB group, is seeing the group in the preseason games more important than what you’ve seen so far to have a better feel for the group?

BIENIEMY: “I think that the preseason is still important because there are guys still learning their way. We still have not seen them against a live opponent. Let me backtrack on that. Without some bad luck, some of us wouldn’t have any good luck at all. So what does that mean? You have other guys having an opportunity to get more reps. That’s important. With those guys earning the reps that they’ve gotten, it is giving them a lot of experience and they’re doing some good things. We want to see them continue with the progress. Are we satisfied with where we are as a running back group? No, not yet. But we want those guys to continue to fight and continue to strain and see who can come alive and be that guy when it’s all said and done.”

Q: Who has made the most of the additional reps because of Damien Williams’ injury?

BIENIEMY: “I think they all have stepped up. We’ve watched some flashes of Carlos (Hyde). We’ve watched some flashes of young Darwin (Thompson). We’ve also seen steady-eddy No. 31 (Darrel Williams). D-Will does a heck of a job. And then we’ve got the young kids; 38 and 30, (Marcus) Marshall and (Josh) Caldwell are stepping up. Then we’ve got this new kid who was lined up at corner a couple of days ago (Tremon Smith). Every time you find a way to put him in there, he just flashes. Tremon has accepted the challenge. He’s doing a very, very good job of learning. (Running Backs) Coach D (Deland McCullough) is doing a great job of working with those guys and getting them to understand what we we’re doing, and it’s showing.”

Chiefs Player Quotes

WR DEMARCUS ROBINSON

Q: Last season, going into training camp you wanted to show the coaches your talent, is that the same going into this year? –

ROBINSON: “I think it’s pretty different this camp. They know I know the playbooks, so just coming out and executing with the quarterback. Making plays on the field.”

Q: Coach Bieniemy said you’re always finding something to work on, what did you do this offseason knowing your role is expanding on the offense?

ROBINSON: “I would say I just got in the playbook more, learning extra positions. Learning what the quarterback is thinking, learning what he is doing. You know what I’m saying, just getting acquainted with what he was thinking of doing on the field.”

Q: How did last season light a fire in Patrick (Mahomes) training this offseason and what did you see from him?

ROBINSON: “I mean he won MVP last year. I think it’s pretty hard to keep that up – to win MVP again – but he has chips on his shoulders. He had something to sustain his MVP last year. He had 50 touchdowns, and I think he is trying to do the same thing again. So, you have to work even harder than last year to do the same thing again.”

Q: Have you ever been with a group of receivers with this much speed? Especially adding Mecole (Hardman)?

ROBINSON: “No, it’s my first time. We have a lot of speed guys and we added Tremon (Smith) to the offense, and he has a lot of speed to. It’s going to be a sighting.”

OL AUSTIN REITER

Q: At the running back position, when you look at film and practices out here, how do you feel the chemistry is going between run blocking with new guys like Darwin Thompson, Carlos Hyde, and so forth?

REITER: “I think in our run game, we have some schemes set up that we all have to be on the same page, but I see some young guys and some old guys making some explosive plays in the back field and it is really exciting.”

Q: What do you want to see from yourself and the offensive linemen in the first preseason game?

REITER: “Firm pocket protection, number one, and in the run game move people off the line of scrimmage, have people down field and have good conversion rates on first and second downs.”

Q: Were there any point of emphasis coming from off of last season that maybe have some room for you guys to want to do tactically or differently?

REITER: “Just a couple of things, but I think the first one would be to be great. You know when we get in those moments like Coach said, be great. AFC Championship, we need to bring that trophy home.”