Play continues Friday

Ravens rookie linebacker Arthur Brown will be sidelined for at least a month while he recovers from sports hernia surgery.

Kansas State reaped the rewards of its first-ever Big 12 Championship season as a school-record seven players earned All-Big 12 First Team honors Tuesday and head coach Brad Hill was named Coach of the Year for the second time.

Kansas State outfielder Mitch Meyer and relief pitcher Jake Matthys were named the Big 12 Player and Newcomer of the Week, respectively, for their roles in helping the Wildcats capture their first regular-season conference title in 80 years, the conference office announced Monday.

Tarik Black will have one year for the Jayhawks.

No. 19 Oklahoma registered a pair of three-run innings and received a solid pitching performance from Jake Fisher as the Sooners salvaged the final game of the series with a 7-3 win over No. 18 Kansas State in the regular-season finale Sunday at Tointon Family Stadium.

Kansas State senior starting pitcher Joe Flattery worked 5.1 scoreless innings with four strikeouts and the 18th-ranked Wildcats plated two runs in the sixth and seventh frames en route to a 5-2 victory over No. 19 Oklahoma Saturday evening at Tointon Family Stadium.

Kansas State senior outfielder Tanner Witt scored on a bases-loaded passed ball in the bottom of the ninth to send the 18th-ranked Wildcats to their first Big 12 Championship in school history with a 6-5 victory over No. 19 Oklahoma Friday evening at Tointon Family Stadium.

Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self was among the celebrities from the world of sports and entertainment crowded the Ritz-Carlton Sarasota on Friday for the Eighth Annual Dick Vitale Gala to raise money in the fight against pediatric cancer through The V Foundation for Cancer Research.

KU plays at Florida, KSU is home against Mississippi