Hello and happy Tuesday, everybody, it’s Tyler Henry, back with another KINA Sports Update presented by Salina Regional Orthopedic and Sports Medicine.
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Last night, the kings of college baseball were crowned as the Tennessee Volunteers defeated Texas A&M 6-5 in game three to win the College World Series.
Even among a championship-winning team, local standout Dylan Drieiling from Hays High School shined the brightest, winning tournament MVP cutest of 13 hits, 11 RBI and 3 home runs.
Dreilling hit .336 for the season, slugging .697 and driving in 72 runs on 82 hits, aiding the Vols to an SEC title as well as a College World Series
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Tennessee wasn’t the only team to be named champions last night as the Florida Panthers staved off a disastrous collapse to win their first-ever Stanley Cup.
Despite squandering a 3-0 series lead, Florida was able to weather the storm, and pull off the game 7 victory courtesy of big goals by Carter Verhaeghe and Sam Reinhart, and a huge performance in net from Sergei Bobrovsky
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Meanwhile more locally the Kansas City Royals snapped another cold streak, defeating the Marlins 4-1 on Tuesday
And finally the Kansas City Chiefs released defensive lineman Isaiah Buggs on Monday after two recent arrests in Alabama. who signed a $1,292,500 contract for the upcoming season, turned himself in on two misdemeanor counts of second-degree animal cruelty
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