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Tickets are on sale for the 2012 Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship, which will be May 23-27 at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City. Kansas State, which clinched its spot in the tournament field Friday night in a 5-1 victory at Texas Tech, will be either the No. 7 or No. 8 seed, which will be determined following play on Saturday. The Wildcats are making their sixth straight appearance in the conference championship.

Junior left-hander Joe Flattery tossed Kansas State's first complete game since 2009 as he helped the Wildcats to punch their ticket to the 2012 Phillips 66 Big 12 Championship with a 5-1 win over Texas Tech on Friday night at Rip Griffin Park.

With the season opener against UCLA just four weeks away, the Kansas State football program began preparations for its 115th season of football and the 19th under head coach Bill Snyder on Wednesday, when players reported to the Vanier Football Complex. Kansas State, selected to finish third in the 2010 Big 12 North race, returns 40 lettermen and 15 total starters from last season’s 6-6 team that was one win shy of advancing to the Big 12 Championship game.

Continuing in that proud tradition of K-State men's teams finishing in fourth place, the golf team (Links Cats?) finished in fourth place at the Big 12 Championship, played over the last three days at Prairie Dunes in Hutchinson. Particular congrats go to Robert Streb for finishing in third place with an impressive even-par 280, and to Mitchell Gregson for firing a four-under-par 66 in the final round. Regional assignments should be announced soon, and I would imagine Tim Norris' crew will be included this year. Congrats!