Category: Sports

Piper results

Piper High School  – golf at Atchison
– 1st place as a team
– 1st Eric Pahls 74
– 2nd Alec Wueller 76

Piper High School – swimming at Turner
Girls 200 Yard Medley Relay
3rd Rachael Morris
Hope Grable
Carly Johnson
Megan Dailey
Girls 200 Yard Freestyle
4th Patricia Telthorst
Girls 200 Yard IM
1st Megan Dailey
Girls 50 Yard Freestyle
5th Rachael Morris
Girls 100 Yard Butterfly
1st Carly Johnson
Girls 100 Yard Freestyle
4th Megan Dailey State Consideration time
Girls 500 Yard Freestyle
3rd Carly Johnson
Girls 200 Free Relay
1st  Rachael Morris State Qualifying time
Megan Dailey
Taylor DeWitt
Carly  Johnson
Girls 100 Yard Breaststroke
3rd Hope Grable

–    from Doug Key, Piper activities director

First night races set for May 9-10 at Kansas Speedway

As race fans prepare to attend the first NASCAR night races at Kansas Speedway, they can expect the same great experiences they have had in the past while also being part of another first in Kansas Speedway history.

For the latest updates, visit www.facebook.com/kansasspeedway and www.kansasspeedway.com. For updated ticket information, visit www.kansasspeedway.com or call 866-460-RACE (7223).

Schedule and Highlights:
May 9 – NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race (SFP 250) – 7:30 PM (FOX Sports 1 and MRN)

•         Parking lots open – 9 a.m.
•         Grandstand gates open – 10 a.m.
o   NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice – 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
o   NASCAR Sprint Cup Series final practice – 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
o   NASCAR Camping World Truck Series qualifying – 3:35 p.m.
o   NASCAR Sprint Cup Series qualifying – 5:30 p.m.
o   NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver introductions – 7 p.m.
  Invocation by Chaplain Jenkins, State Chaplain of the Kansas Army National Guard
  National Anthem by Kansas Music Hall of Fame inductee Betti O.
  Presentation of Colors: Kansas Army National Guard

•         In Sprint FanWalk, Ron White, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, will be writing out the names and rank from memory of the more than 2,200 fallen heroes from the war in Afghanistan. It takes him 10 hours to write the names on a 52 foot long wall.

May 10 – NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (5-hour ENERGY 400® Benefiting Special Operations Warrior Foundation) – 6:30 p.m. (FOX and MRN)

•         Richard Petty Driving Experience Race Rides – 9 a.m. – noon
Rides must be pre-purchased; please visit www.drivepetty.com for information.
•         Parking lots open – noon
•         Gates open – 3 p.m.
o   Crossover gates for TrackPass open – 3 p.m.
•         NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver introductions – 6 p.m.
o   Invocation by Chaplain Jenkins, State Chaplain of the Kansas Army National Guard
o   National Anthem by Father Meinrad Miller, Benedictine Monk and Priest; Theology Professor at Benedictine College (Atchison, Kan.)
o   Presentation of Colors: Kansas Army National Guard

•         Kansas Army National Guard Pre-Race concert by ACM New Artist of the Year finalist Brett Eldredge at approx. 4:40 p.m.

•         In Sprint FanWalk, Ron White, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, will be writing out the names and rank from memory of the more than 2,200 fallen heroes from the war in Afghanistan. It takes him 10 hours to write the names on a 52-foot long wall.

•         KCSP 610 AM (Kansas City) will be broadcasting live from 4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. in Sprint FanWalk.

All times Central, and times and events subject to change without notice.

VIPS
•         Major General Lee Tafanelli, the Adjutant General of Kansas.
•         2013 Betty Jane France Humanitarian Award Winner Don Post.
•         Green Bay Packers WR and former K-State WR Jordy Nelson is the honorary pace car driver for the Kansas 400.
•         K-State Men’s Basketball Coach Bruce Weber.

– Information from Kansas Speedway. For more information, visit www.kansasspeedway.com

No. 5 KCKCC takes 34-19 record to No. 4 seeded Colby Saturday

by Alan Hoskins

Freshman Geoff Birkemeier will draw the opening pitching assignment when Kansas City Kansas Community College opens the Region VI playoffs at Colby Saturday at 1 p.m.

Beaten 11-8 by Maple Woods in their final regular season game Wednesday, the Blue Devils will take a 34-19 record into the regional as the No. 5 seed. The No. 4 seed out of the West, Colby is 28-22. A best of three series, two games will be played Saturday with a third if necessary on Sunday with the winner advancing to the super-regional starting May 9 at Wichita. The Colby games will be streamed on OpenSpacesSports.

“Colby always has a good club and is well coached,” said KCKCC coach Steve Burleson. “They like to run so managing their running game will be a key.”

Burleson sent four hurlers to the mound and rested several starters against Maple Woods. Spencer Nielsen worked the first four innings, giving up seven runs of which only three were earned, while Cole Frakes and Derek Watkins were both touched for three hits and two runs in their two innings of work. Zane Mapes doubled and singled twice and drove in two runs, Tyler Raymond and Mitch Glessner each singled twice and Trevor Norbury delivered a pinch RBI double  in a 12-hit KCKCC attack.

The workhorse of the Blue Devil staff, Birkemeier completed nine of his 12 starts this season while compiling a 6-4 record with a 2.89 earned run average. Burleson is undecided on his Game 2 starter. Possibilities are southpaw Hunter Phillips, 8-5 with a 3.95 ERA, and E.J. Merlo, 4-3 with 4.36 ERA.

Boasting a team batting average of .300, seven of the eight Blue Devil starters are hitting .300 or better led by centerfielder Luke Norton, who is hitting .378 and leads in stolen bases with 27. The others are leftfielder Mitch Glessner (.344), third baseman Daniel LaMunyon (.341), shortstop Zane Mapes and catcher Garett McKinzie, both .319, rightfielder Christian Arnold (.308) and second baseman Tyler Raymond (.301). Only first baseman Tanner Foerschler is below .300 but he has 18 RBI.

Arnold, McKinzie and LaMunyon have supplied the power. Arnold leads in home runs (10) and RBI (50) while Garrett has six homers and 39 RBI and LaMunyon five homers and 36 RBI.