I know we’re only a day away from real live actual college football, but there are other Kansas State sports teams also doing things of note.
Primarily the women’s soccer team, who has now opened the season at 3-0 after a third 2-0 win. This one came on the road against South Dakota (1-1-1), and the Wildcats actually scored a first-half goal this time. Sophomore forward Hannah Palmer picked up her second goal in as many games as her shot in the 36th minute hit the bottom of the crossbar but made it across
the goal line anyway. Then sophomore Allison Marshall grabbed her first goal of the season in the 51st minute off an assist from junior McKinnan Braswell.
Maddie Sibbing, who was just named Big 12 Goalkeeper of the Week for her two shutout performances last week, tallied three saves on her way to her third-straight shutout. Her three saves were a season high, and the sophomore now has six saves on the young season.
The win marks the third time in program history that K-State has notched three straight wins, and the second time, after 2018, that the Cats have opened the season 3-0. The Cats have a break this weekend so they can get back to Manhattan and start classes on Monday, but they return to action next week with a two-game trip in Massachusetts starting with UMass Lowell on Thursday evening, and wrapping up against Harvard in Boston on Labor Day. That match against Harvard will be available on ESPN+ at 10:30am CT.
Over on the American football side of things, we’ll start with a story from ESPN’s Dan Wetzel, lamenting, as many of us already have, the presumed end/pause of the Farmageddon rivalry that has been continuously contested since 1917. Both fanbases agree that the schools need to find a way to meet in 2027 and keep the streak alive, but nobody is holding their breath that it will actually get figured out.
The Wildcats are all officially, and safely, in Ireland prepping for tomorrow’s contest. And, in a first thanks to a new conference rule, we have an official injury report ahead of the game. Several players listed we’ve known would be missing time — like George Fitzpartick who had an emergency issue in late July — but we also found out that this will not be the grand entrance of K-State’s 5-star recruit Linkon Cure. But on a positive note, Gunner Maldonado is listed as “probable”, as the Arizona transfer is expected to be a key piece on defense for the Wildcats. The only notable name for the Cyclones is guard Trevor Buhr, who was listed as the starting left guard on the initial depth chart.
