Shortstop becomes a perfect fit for Sterling College
There’s a rule that kids growing up in Compton, Calif., learn at a young age.
Jallen Messersmith is a 20-year-old from Blue Springs, Mo., who blocked 53 shots for the Benedictine men’s basketball team last season.
There’s a rule that kids growing up in Compton, Calif., learn at a young age.
Wallace State (Ala.) beat top-ranked Butler 8-6 Thursday in the second round of the NJCAA Division I Tournament in St. George, Utah.
Top-ranked Butler Community College opened the NJCAA Division I Softball Tournament with a 13-1 run-rule win over Pitt (N.C.) in five innings on Wednesday at St. George, Utah. The Grizzlies, who have lost in the first round of nationals the last two seasons, will play Wallace (Ala.) State on Thursday at 5 p.m.
The Butler Community College softball team headed west last week, first to La Junta, Colo., then on to St. George, Utah.
Cowley College baseball coach Dave Burroughs prefers the current format of the Region VI Tournament — eight teams competing Friday through Tuesday at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium.
There is a warning in there somewhere, for Otero Junior College or for any team that the No. 1 Butler Community College softball team might play in the next two weeks.
In typical fashion, Butler Community College football coach Troy Morrell is taking the sea change about to hit the Jayhawk Conference in stride.
In the history of NCAA Division II softball, no pitcher had ever thrown consecutive perfect games until Fort Hays State’s Maddie Holub did it on April 6 against Northwest Missouri and April 12 against Missouri Southern.
After two hours of deliberations, a jury of seven men and five women decided that a former McPherson College football player was not guilty of second-degree murder, alleging he unintentionally and recklessly killed a rival player last September outside of a house party in McPherson.
The pitch that ended Jarrod Flax’s freshman season was a fastball, high and tight, that hit him about an inch below his left eye last April 21 in Odessa, Texas.
There was no softball season for Friends first baseman Kelli Nicholson last year. That doesn’t mean it was just watch and wait.
The Butler Community College softball team is ranked No. 1 for the first time.
Coffeyville coach Jay Herkelman had seen this scenario a few times before in his previous games at the NJCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament.
Howard’s Jacob Thomas came out of the tunnel leading to the court at the Sports Arena on Tuesday night and gazed out over the 7,000-plus fans packed to capacity, screaming, on their feet, crammed into every nook and cranny waiting for the first game at the NJCAA Tournament in 16 years for Hutchinson Community College.
A good look at Walters State was all that Coffeyville needed Monday night.
Emporia State finished a point shy of an Elite Eight trip, losing 75-74 to Augustana on Monday in the NCAA Division II Tournament at Topeka. Alex Feeney hit two clutch free throws with .7 remaining for the Vikings to ice the game. Feeney led all scorers with 24 points.
It all begins with a haircut.
Newman’s first NCAA Division II basketball appearance ended with a rocky second half, as Midwestern State beat the Jets 81-60 on Saturday night in Denver.
Ryan Mesh is nervous.