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KANSAS CITY -- Here are three takeaways from the Royals’ 8-2 win over the Rays in the second game of a doubleheader Wednesday, completing a sweep. The Royals won the opener, 3-2. It was the Royals’ first traditional doubleheader sweep since Sept. 13, 2008, at Cleveland. 1. Tip of the hat to Sparky Right-hander Glenn Sparkman, called up ...

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WICHITA, Kan. - The Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference is pleased to announce the 2019 All-KCAC baseball awards. Student-athletes were selected for all awards by vote of the KCAC head baseball coaches. The Eagles of Oklahoma Wesleyan University earned the KCAC Regular Season title for the third-straight year, finishing the conference season at 28-5 and 37-9 overall. Head coach Kirk Kelley was selected by his peers as KCAC Coach ...

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Boys tennis Salina Central swept the AVCTL-I meet, winning the singles division, doubles division and team championship. Central finished with 49 points, edging Maize with 42. Doubles team of Reed McHenry and Max Shaffer remained undefeated on the season, taking down Maize's Chase Schreiner/Tanner Ohnmeis 6-4, 6-4 in the championship. Freshman Collin Phelps defeated Maize's Bode Carter 7-6, ...

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KANSAS CITY -- Royals right-hander Brad Keller, making his first start since coming off his five-game suspension, struggled early on, giving up four runs in the first two innings in the Royals’ 8-5 loss to the Rays on Monday night. The Rays’ first run came home with plenty of assistance from Keller. Ji-Man Choi walked, went ...

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KANSAS CITY -- Royals right-hander Homer Bailey had a rough start, giving up three runs in the first inning. But Bailey did his manager Ned Yost a huge favor by saving the bullpen, gutting it out through six innings and keeping the Royals close early at 4-1. The Royals eventually lost to the Angels 7-3 Sunday ...

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Round Six Pick 29 (201 overall) - Rashad Fenton, CB, South Carolina Fenton tallied a team-leading three interceptions in 2018 to go along with 34 tackles, six pass breakups and 2.5 tackles-for-loss. It was a strong finish to an impressive career for Fenton, who appeared in 48 games (30 starts) over the course of his four-year ...

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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Dekoda Watson is headed back to Denver. The Broncos traded one of their fifth-round picks (No. 148) to the San Francisco 49ers on Saturday for the veteran linebacker and a sixth-round pick (No. 212). Watson, a 10th-year veteran, played all 16 games for the Broncos in 2016. The former seventh-round pick forced a fumble, ...

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KANSAS CITY -- An annoying case of back spasms earlier this week temporarily slowed the runaway offensive train that has become Royals’ infielder Hunter Dozier. But Dozier was back smashing the ball Saturday night, posting his first two-triple game of his career and his first career four-hit game to go along with a career-high four RBIs ...

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KANSAS CITY -- The much-awaited return of left-hander Danny Duffy to the Royals' rotation on Friday night offered mixed results. Duffy, on a pitch count of 90, delivered five serviceable innings in the Royals’ 5-1 loss to the Angels at Kauffman Stadium. Duffy, who threw 86 pitches, struggled early, throwing 48 pitches to get through two innings. ...

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Round Two, Pick 24 (56 overall) - Mecole Hardman, WR, Georgia Carey Mecole (MEE-cole) Hardman was a high school All-American defender as well as Class AAA Georgia Offensive Player of the Year at quarterback his senior year at Elbert County High School. The top 50 prospect nationally signed with the Bulldogs for the 2016 season, and ...

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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — The Broncos made a splash in the second round of the 2019 NFL Draft. Denver selected offensive lineman Dalton Risner and quarterback Drew Lock with the 41st- and 42nd-overall picks, respectively. The Broncos traded the 52nd-overall, 125th-overall and 182nd-overall picks to Cincinnati to move up to the 42nd pick and select Lock. "Dalton bring great ...