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Virginia’s clutch hitting too much as Cavaliers end Kansas State baseball’s season
Kansas State baseball coach Pete Hughes on his resilient Wildcat team
Kansas State baseball coach Pete Hughes says he expects the Wildcats to battle back Saturday after losing their super regional opener to Virginia.
NCAA
Kansas State baseball’s magical postseason run finally ran out of gas.
Host Virginia put on a clutch hitting clinic, scoring all of its runs with two outs and pulling away late for a 10-4 victory Saturday at Disharoon Park, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
With the win, No. 12 overall seed Virginia (46-15) swept the Charlottesville Super Regional in two games and will advance to the College World Series in Omaha. K-State, making just its second super regional appearance in program history, finished with a 35-26 record.
Virginia never trailed in the game, scoring twice in the first inning. K-State came back to tie it at 2-2 in the second, but a two-run fourth put the Cavaliers in front for good.
Virginia took a 5-4 lead to the final inning and then blew it open with a five-run ninth.
Jay Woolfolk (4-1) was the winning pitcher for Virginia and Chase Hungate got his second save, while K-State starter Jackson Wentworth took the loss.
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Kyan Lodice led K-State’s offense with a triple and home run. Brendan Jones also homered for the Wildcats. Casey Saucke and Henry Ford had two hits each for Virginia.
K-State reached the super regional by sweeping three games last week in the Fayetteville Regional but could not duplicate that effort against a strong Virginia team.
Here are three takeaways from the Wildcats’ season-ending loss.
Aggressive base running backfires for Wildcats
True to form, K-State remained aggressive in the seventh inning when Jaden Parsons drew a leadoff walk with the Wildcats trailing 4-3. This time it could have cost them a tying run.
Parsons was caught stealing, and Chuck Ingram followed with a double to the wall in left center. At worst, the Wildcats would have had runners at second and third with nobody out, but instead Ingram was stranded at second when reliever Angelo Tonas got pinch hitter Danniel Rivera and Jones on fly balls to center.
Virginia’s Jay Woolfolk outduels K-State starter Jackson Wentworth
Kansas State starting pitcher Wentworth was solid, throwing 99 pitches and allowing four runs on eight hits over six innings while striking out five and walking two. Trouble is, Virginia counterpart Woolfolk was even better.
Woolfolk scattered six hits with seven strikeouts and two walks over his 6 1/3 innings, giving up three runs. He came in with a 6.15 earned run average, but has been money in the NCAA Tournament, holding Mississippi State to two runs in eight innings in the regional final.
K-State manufactures early runs
After spotting Virginia a pair of runs in the top of the first, K-State turned to its signature small ball to tie it after two innings.
Jones led off the bottom of the first with a walk, stole second, moved to third on Lodice’s bunt and scored on Kaelen Culpepper’s sacrifice fly to deep center.
In the second inning, Nick English led off with a single and moved to third on David Bishop’s base hit. After Bishop stole second, Parsons got the RBI on a ground out to shortstop.
Arne Green is based in Salina and covers Kansas State University sports for the Gannett network. He can be reached at agreen@gannett.com or on Twitter at @arnegreen.
Virginia
Gov. Spanberger leads Virginia public safety readiness briefing
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger met with public safety leaders from across the commonwealth Monday as part of a “unified readiness” coordination effort.
The governor met with police and fire chiefs, sheriffs, emergency managers and private sector members — including Dominion Energy — to discuss Virginia’s commitment to public safety, intelligence sharing and interagency collaboration.
“As global tensions continue to evolve, I want to be very clear: there are no known threats specific to Virginia at this time,” Spanberger said. “Today’s briefing was about making sure that information can be shared quickly and we remain at the ready.”
The meeting relates to Spanberger’s Executive Order 12, which she says reaffirms Virginia’s commitment to public safety, community trust, and readiness.
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Opinion | Virginia Giuffre’s brothers join protest outside Epstein’s former New Mexico ranch
The brothers of the late Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre joined demonstrators outside Epstein’s former ranch in New Mexico on Sunday to demand more transparency.
The protest, pegged to International Women’s Day, was attended by what the Santa Fe New Mexican estimated to be hundreds of demonstrators, including activists and lawmakers, outside the estate formerly known as Zorro Ranch.
Sky Roberts said it was the first time he had visited the ranch, and demonstrators’ presence was important as a show of “force” that they’re not “going away,” as some people, including the president, try to direct attention away from the Epstein scandal. During his remarks, he rebuked the government for what he called a cover-up and demanded the Justice Department release documents that show who visited the ranch, among other things.
“All those names are in the files, and right now the government is covering those up,” he said, according to Reuters.
Epstein reportedly talked about using the ranch (now owned by Don Huffines, the GOP candidate for Texas state comptroller) for a eugenics-inspired plan to impregnate several women to “seed” the human race with his DNA (there’s no evidence he carried out such a plan). Giuffre’s posthumously released memoir includes allegations about meeting politicians and CEOs at Zorro Ranch, which was also recently linked to an unverified claim in the Epstein files alleging the deceased sex criminal had the bodies of two women buried near the property. After that allegation surfaced among the recently released Epstein files, New Mexico’s state legislature formed a truth commission to investigate Epstein’s activities at the ranch; the state DOJ has opened a probe of its own.
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Brothers of Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre visit New Mexico ranch, demand unredacted documents
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