The possibility of Manhattan hosting a state baseball tournament is back on the table.<\/p>\n
KSHSAA announced this week that if Kansas baseball is selected to host an NCAA regional, the 4A, 3A and 2-1A state baseball tournaments would shift from Hoglund Ballpark in Lawrence to Tointon Family Stadium in Manhattan.<\/p>\n
The NCAA will announce regional host sites May 24.<\/p>\n
According to D1Baseball\u2019s latest Field of 64 projections, No. 14-ranked Kansas remains projected as one of the NCAA\u2019s 16 regional hosts despite being swept at home by No. 9 West Virginia last weekend.<\/p>\n
The move would not impact Manhattan High\u2019s postseason path in 6A, as that classification\u2019s state tournament remains scheduled for Eck Stadium in Wichita.<\/p>\n
Softball state tournament sites would remain unchanged as well, with 4A, 3A and 2-1A continuing at Arrocha Ballpark in Lawrence and 5A and 6A staying at Wilkins Stadium in Wichita.<\/p>\n
KSHSAA said the schedule for the smaller-class state tournaments will not change, only shifting locations to Manhattan if necessary. Quarterfinal games for 4A, 3A and 2-1A baseball are still slated for May 25 at neutral sites across the state, including Emporia, Salina and Overland Park, with higher-seeded teams playing closer to home.<\/p>\n
If moved to Manhattan, semifinals for 2-1A and 3A would begin May 27 at Tointon Family Stadium, followed by 4A semifinals and 2-1A\/3A consolation games on May 28. Championship games for all three classifications would be played May 29.<\/p>\n
Several area teams remain alive in the smaller-class postseason picture.<\/p>\n
In 4A, Rock Creek enters regional play next week as the No. 1 seed in the East bracket with a 21-4 record, while Wamego sits at No. 4 at 18-6.<\/p>\n
Council Grove, meanwhile, is in the midst of its 3A playoff run as the top seed in its regional. The Braves improved to 24-1 after opening postseason play with a 15-0 win over Herington.<\/p>\n
Wabaunsee\u2019s season ended in regional play with an 8-7 loss to Doniphan West, while Riley County (3-24) fell in the opening round to top-seeded Jefferson West. Blue Valley-Randolph (1-16) did not qualify for the postseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The possibility of Manhattan hosting a state baseball tournament is back on the table. KSHSAA announced this week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,4531,88144,2328,2304,4,2305,2303,2431,185,2339,2324],"class_list":["post-699839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-baseball","tag-competitions","tag-kansas-state-high-school-activities-association","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-playoffs","tag-sports","tag-sports-competitions","tag-sports-events"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116580255225060643","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}