I have stories in Monday’s paper about the first day of practice for Hays High and Thomas More Prep-Marian football, but wanted to post more of the interviews here.
 
TMP-Marian head coach Gene Flax on the schedule that features 2-1A opponents Kinsley and Ness-Dighton in Week 1 and 2. In past years, TMP-Marian often played 4A […]

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I have stories in Monday’s paper about the first day of practice for Hays High and Thomas More Prep-Marian football, but wanted to post more of the interviews here.
Hays High head coach Rick Blosser on numbers:
 
(Hays High had about 80 kids out for camp): “Total program numbers were better and we were going into […]

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WICHITA - The Larks vs. Beejays game will start at approximately 2:10 a.m. Lake Havasu (Ariz.) Heat run-ruled the Maxim (Ca.) Yankees, 12-2, in a game called in the bottom of seventh.
If Hays wins tonight against Liberal, they will face Havasu in the championship bracket. Havasu, the defending champions, defeated the Larks to win the 2007 championship. […]

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WICHITA – Billy Boockford, like the rest of his Hays Larks teammates, wants to win a national title at the 2008 National Baseball Congress World Series. He, though, wants Hays’ path to go through Liberal, a Jayhawk League rival from the regular season.
 
Boockford has his wish.
 
Liberal and Hays will meet in a round of eight […]

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WICHITA - The Hays vs. Liberal game, originally scheduled for 12:30 a.m., will likely start about 3 a.m. (KAYS 1400).

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WICHITA - The Hays Larks versus Liberal Beejays round of eight contest at the National Baseball Congress World Series was supposed to start at 12:30 a.m. Central time (KAYS 1400 AM). However, the game before between the defending Lake Havasu (Ariz.) Heat and the Maxim (Ca.) Yankees is in the bottom of the fourth inning at […]

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Editor’s note (updated): This is the Hays Larks’ Game 5 game story. This does not appear in the Wednesday print edition of The Hays Daily News. The game story in Wednesday’s paper is Game 6, a contest that began at 2:30 a.m. Wednesday morning between Hays and Jayhawk League rival Liberal.
By CONOR NICHOLL
cnicholl@dailynews.net
 
WICHITA – The […]

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WICHITA – Here is Hays’ lineup for the Monday morning, 8 am start against the Clarinda (Ia.) A’s:
 
Leadoff: Brandon Eckerle, CF
2. Rich Michalek, 2B
3. Mike Brownstein, SS
4. Eric Roof, DH
5. Dusty Washburn, 1B
6. Joe Huwer, LF
7. Rafael Neda, C
8. Billy Boockford, RF
9. Clayton Karst, 3B
RHP: Patrick Cooper (7-3, 2.48 ERA)
 
Notes:
 
-Huwer has been the team’s […]

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WICHITA – The Larks will play the Clarinda A’s on Monday morning at 8 am at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium. Clarinda (Iowa) is actually staying in the same hotel as the Larks and I’ve been able to talk with several of their players throughout the past few days.
 
Clarinda defeated Gunnison (Co.) Colts, 13-4, in the last game […]

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4 a.m. update
 
WICHITA – The Hays Larks will have first pitch about 4 a.m. KAYS’ Gerard Wellbrock and I arrived to the ballpark around 2:30, roughly the same time the players and coaches got there.
 
It has started to ran at about 3:40, but it’s a light rain and the players are still on the field […]

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