High School Football And Volleyball Schedule Mixes With Sports Transactions
Upcoming Thorsday football matchups feature Anderson County at Prairie View Baldwin at Gardner Wellsville at Central Heights Lyndon at MdCV Osage City at Pomona Waverly at Madison Williamsburg at Crest. Ottawa vs SM Miege dominates Friday volleyball with multiple class showdowns across 4A 2A and 1A. Tuesday sports transactions recap major NFL MLB and college moves.
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Anderson County
At Prairie
View Baldwin
Gardner Wellsville
Central Heights
Lyndon
Mdcv
Osage City
Pomona
Waverly
Madison
Williamsburg
Topeka
Ottawa
SM Miege
CoverGuys Athletes With Most Sports Illustrated Covers
A listing shows Muhammad Ali on 32 covers Michael Jordan on 30 Kareem Abdul Jabbar on 27 Jack Nicklaus on 23 and Magic Johnson on 21 covers dated August 16 1954 to October 16 1994.
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Muhammad Ali
Michael Jordan
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Jack Nicklaus
Magic Johnson
Cone Wins AL Cy Young in emotional KC moment
Royals right-hander David Cone wins the AL Cy Young after a season shaped by the late owner Kauffman’s influence and the 1994 strike. Cone finished 16-5 with a 2.94 ERA, earning 108 points and 15 first place votes as Jimmy Key trailed with 96 points. The winner reflects on Kauffman’s encouragement and the sense of a once in a lifetime honor amid era-defining upheaval.
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Ansas City
Tk Ewing Kauffman
David Cone
Kauffman
Kansas City Royals
New York Mets
Cone
The
Royals
Cy Young
Jimmy Key
New York Yankees
Baseball Writers Association of America
Key
ECAC preseason polls set Ottawa sixth in 1995 race
Defending champ Friends named favorite with Sterling second in ECAC polls at media day. Ottawa Braves, led by Bernie Coons and Tiffany Forbes, placed sixth in coaches and media balloting. Tabor chosen to defend title. Bethany and others also noted as upstarts in Kansas KCAC women’s basketball.
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ECAC
Ichita Wess
Kansas
Ottawa
Braves
Andy Carrier
Ichita
Patti Masten
Friends University
Friends
Sterling
Bethany
Masten
Lady Braves
Bernie Coons
Wellsville Board accepts coaching changes in wrestling
Wellsville School Board approved Steve Morris resignation as wrestling coach and hired Paul Steeley to replace him. Marlon Westerbeck was offered the assistant coach job. In junior high basketball, Wellsville seventh graders lost 46 36 to Eudora with Kelly Neis scoring 35 for the Tigers and Candace Hughes adding 13 for Wellsville. Eighth graders fell 27 2 to Eudora with Marcy Wiseman scoring eight for Wellsville. Spring Hill beat Baldwin, setting up third place and 5 15 p.m. title games respectively.
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Wellsville
Wellsville Board of Education
Steve Morris
Paul Steeley
Marlon Westerbeck
Steeley
Morris
Eudora
Kelly Neis
Candace Hughes
Marcy Wiseman
Spring Hill
Baldwin
Area 5 Special Olympics Volleyball Tourney in Ottawa
The Area 5 Special Olympics Volleyball tournament will be held Saturday at Ottawa High School from 9 am to noon with 11 athletes across four divisions in two OHS gyms. Ottawa COF enters four teams, Lakemary Center three, Three Lakes Coop two, and one team each from Emporia and Hartford. Masters divisions include 22 and up, with juniors and seniors also. Ottawa University basketball tickets go on sale via the OU athletic office at 242-5200 ext 5426.
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OHS
Ottawa
COF
Paola
Lakemary Center
Lyndon
Three Lakes
Emporia
Hartford
Ottawa University
Ottawa High Cyclones qualify for Class 5A state cross country
Ottawa High School cross country earns a second straight state bid with the boys finishing fourth in the Shawnee Mission Northwest regional and the girls placing fifth but with two individuals, Jennifer Giefer and Wendy Duran, qualifying for state. Coach Chris Komhaus notes 5A's toughness and the team’s bid for top 15 individuals at Rimrock Farm near Lawrence.
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Ottawa High School
Cyclone
Chris Komhaus
Komhaus
Wade Hepner
David Pratt
Keith Fouts
Jennifer Giefer
Wendy Duran
Giefer
Duran
Ottawa
Kornhaus
State
Hepner
Pratt
Fouts
Jay Wieneke
John Dowell
Dustin Grant
Mark Costa
Rimrock Farm
Lawrence
University of Kansas
Hunters bag leopard in Lyon County hunt
Two Lyon County hunters aiming for deer instead encountered a leopard on a Monday bow hunt. Shawn Barger of Reading shot the big cat in the head when it roared, then killed it with a rifle after it showed pain. The animal, partially defanged and declawed, may have come from a licensed exotic farm. State wildlife agents and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service investigated. Dave Adams of KDWP retrieved the carcass. Neighboring spectators viewed the leopard, estimated at 60 to 100 pounds.
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Emporia, Kan
Lyon County
Shawn Barger
Reading
Mike Tate
Osage City
Barger
Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Dave Adams
State
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