BY SALINA POST
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Hello and happy Wednesday, everybody, it’s Tyler Henry, back with another KINA Sports Update presented by Salina Regional Orthopedic and Sports Medicine…
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On Tuesday it was announced that Kansas Wesleyan will launch its 26th intercollegiate sport in the fall of 2025, as women's wrestling will begin competition that semester. A coach will be hired this fall, with assistant coaches to follow.
The program is the first KWU has added since Sept. 2020, when men's volleyball joined the slate. Current offerings Esports, women's flag football, and men's and women's bowling have also joined the Coyote Athletic Department in the past decade.
There are 37 NAIA schools in the United States who offer women's wrestling programs. More than one-third of them are in Kansas, Missouri or Nebraska, and the Coyotes will become the sixth KCAC school to sponsor the sport. 2024 was the second year that the program held championship status in the NAIA.
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Elsewhere Zebby Matthews threw five crisp innings to win his major league debut for the Minnesota Twins, who hit Seth Lugo hard to hand the All-Star right-hander his worst start of the season and beat the Kansas City Royals 13-3 on Tuesday night.
The Twins have won 18 of their last 20 games against the Royals at Target Field, a stretch of dominance during which they’ve outscored them 123-56. The Twins are 7-2 against the Royals overall this year.
The Royals will return to Target field looking to stave off the sweep this afternoon at 12:10.
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