Chapter #45: EG3's Favorite Moments of 2012 #6-8

Alright I'll switch it up a little bit...coming up I've already done number 10 and 9. After a little bit, now it's time to round out my favorite moments 6 thru 10.

EG3 Favorite #8: Road to Ames
Hitting a critical stretch in the season for Kansas State in football where the Wildcats had to go on the road to take on Iowa State and West Virginia in back to back weeks but first it was going up to Ames, Iowa getting ready to do color commentary for this broadcast for the Wildcat 919 station. The night before the game I left Manhattan with Steven and Jake on an rainy night tag along with some of the boys from the Collegian and once we got to Ames...well we were really close to staying in the hotel some 30 minutes away from Ames and saved by a last minute switch to a hotel room that just opened up in Ames. Once we all got there some 7 guys in one tiny small hotel room, haha...yeah you can do the math there. You gotta make the best of a kinda bad situation but us guys like to have fun and talking about sports...which was the night the St. Louis Cardinals came all the way back to beat the Washington Nationals in the division series in DC where at least the Nationals had the best team in the National League and look how that ended up.

Shoutouts:
Steven Seib
Jake Brew
Mark Kern
John Zetmeir
and 2 more guys

EG3 Favorite #7: Fireworks
Back in July while I was still in Manhattan for the summer...for the Fourth of July celebration I went with the Bowman's to Junction City, KS where the Fuller's are located and celebrated a fun night with them. I can stay that the traditions that they do are dangerous fun in a good way; before that I saw their fireworks show. It was once again an great opportunity to hangout with people from the church that I go to and get to know them more.

Shoutouts
Bowman family/Derek Bowman
Fuller Fam/Kenneth and Kylie

EG3 Favorite #6: What's Up West Virginia
That 's about 16 hours...well almost it took us to get to Morgantown, West Virginia for the showdown between K-State/West Virginia. This matchup was downplayed a bit because of the beatdown that Texas Tech gave West Viginia down in Lubbock, TX the week before. Again, I was color commentary for the  game and obviously we left the day before going through at least 7 states in the car. Lucky this game was in primetime, lol. Just going up there and seeing Collin Klein outplay Geno Smith who was in the middle of the Heisman was something else. K-State was on point everything including shutting down Smith which kept the Wildcats at the time undefeated. If they would've lost then we are talking about something else. To this game was the fact that Kansas State and West Virginia met as Big 12 opponents. The way with my own eyes just seeing K-State embrass WVU...I was in complete awe and happy the way that they did it.

Shoutouts
Mark Kern
Steven S.
Mav. McCoy
John Z.

Until next time,
*EG3

Chapter #44 EG3 Favorite (#9): Hanging out in Manhattan

EG3 #9: This favorite moment from the fall semester of 2012 comes from once again earlier in the semester where pretty all of the sports teams for Kansas State like the football team, volleyball, the Men's and Women's basketball teams getting introduce to the city of Manhattan, KS for an event which is called the Purple Power Play on Poyntz...yeah a lot of P's in that tilte. But that's what it's called which was on Poyntz Avenue where fans from not just in the area but outside the state of Kansas who are big fans of K-State get fired up for the upcoming season. It was just great to be out in the environment with some of my staff friends at the Wildcat 91.9 giving tons of items away to some of the students and folks at the events. It was cool being out there and also I felt I was at a carnival or something, haha!!

*EG3

Shoutouts to:
Elijah
Jen
Caitlin
Mary
Jared

Chapter #43: EG3 Favorite (#10) Calling 1st ever Football Game

EG3 #10: Going back early this past semester in September before this epic season by the K-State football team; the semester prior I called my first basketball and baseball games of my radio career and I was really exciting and very anxious to get started with the season. Even though the opponent in Missouri State coming into Manhattan the unknown of myself and this Wildcat team led by Collin Klein which we all knew at least me and K-State country knew the potential of this team coming off a Cotton Bowl lost a season ago to Arkansas, this had a lot players return and ready to take to the next level. At least in the 1st half of the opening game of the season, Missouri State kept things really close and the Cats playing to their level making the game interesting with field goal after field goal. If I remember correctly the game was all tied up going into break and the guys in the booth with that evening were saying up here we close again...meaning that the Wildcats nearing the opening last year to a not so good opponent. But the 2nd half of this game though was totally different with the Cats exploding with big play, after big play. Special Teams was huge with Tramanie Thompson and Tyler Lockett making plays. My excitment in calling this game turned in to just trying to finished at the same time losing my voice after the Jon Hubert run. K-State turned on the jets to defeat Missouri State on opening night. I still think that was a lot of fun...a lot of fun to do. You got to make the most of your oppurtunities and I'm blessed with just a chance to do the game which that would my first out of two games of the season. Ashton Glacier did prove himself the QB of the Missouri State team would came into the kinda trash talking on twitter but that would not be enough as the Wildcats prove they were obviously the better team. Shoutout to Mark Kern color commentary guy for that game we were all laughing and enjoying ourselves.

Shoutouts:
Mark Kern
Chris Harrison
Caleb Jones

*EG3

Chapter #42: Cats' Get Back on Winning Track

West Virginia

The K-State women's volleyball team was back in action again on Wednesday night travel all the way to Morgantown to take on the Mountaineers a few days after the football team lead by Heisman frontrunner Collin Klein just ran through the football team did. And Kansas State took care of business like the football team did by sweeping West Virginia in striaght sets 25-15, 25-16, and 25-19. It is the Wildcats 15th sweep this season led by Lilla Porubek who had a career night with 4 aces. Courtney Traxson continued her excellent play adding in 8 kills. Alex Muff on the defensive side had 6 total blocks and five assists along with it. And, Kaitlynn Pelger had five blocks. Cats' started hot and pretty much never slowed down against West Virginia. Last weekend the Wildcats defeated the Red Raiders and now winners of two striaght games. On Saturday, K-State returns to Ahearn Fieldhouse to take on the Baylor Bears at 7pm. Cats are now 19-3 on year and 6-3 in Big 12 conference play.

EG3

Chapter #41 Kansas State Volleyball : Week #6 Texas

#9 Texas
Last time we left off the Kansas State volleyball was in the middle of an important homestand with on Last Saturday when they took on Texas. Coming into this game, the Longhorns where ranked #9 in the mation coming into a packed house at Ahern but at the end the 'Cats didn't put away Texas in the seconf set and that ended costing them the entire match. Texas sweeped the Kansas State 17-25, 28-30, and 15-25. Texas depth was the key in the match wearing down the Wildcats after playing really hard to win set #2 could not get control of the momentum. Kaitlynn Pelger for K-State had another great great but it wasn't meant to be this time around with 19 kills in the game. Alex Muff and Kuulei Kabalis had good games on the defensive end for the 'Cats. Nest game will be at TCU one of the newset members of the Big 12 on Saturday at 1pm.

Chapter #40: Intermission

Taking a break from writing my weekly blog post for volleyball and finally talking about something else...at least for a little bit and talk about what's up in the world of radio for the first half of the fall semester. Before I can do that I will do a little recap on the K-State volleyball team who done some great things already this season even though they just lost to Texas earlier this evening. Still got some things to work on, but they are right there in the mix for the Big 12 title race led by their best player junior Kaitlynn Pelger.

School with the combination of radio for The Wildcat 91.9 has been SUPER busy this semester. By far, the busiest semester since I been here at Kansas State it's been sometimes tiring but it's been fun. There are just a couple of issues outside of school that I need to take care of but other than that it's time to turn up heat a little bit here and work hard in pretty much everything weather it's in the classroom or not. Each day has it's challenges you just got to take it one day at a time. School is racking up quickly with a ton of big essays, reading, reading, and more reading. I feel like I have been reading over 100 books and we are only halfway, lol. Also, group projects...I have 3 of those not that I am complaining or anything like that but I'm at that stage where work is piling up and you just have to deal with it and try to do the best you can that's all you can ask for. Radio this semester has been fun once again! I feel blessed for this opportunity to work with a lot of awesome people. From hanging out with the staff people which I feel like are the best people that I can possibly have to other students at the station who have made their mark this year and helping them out as well. Enjoy the Purple Power Play earlier this semester getting prepared for the college football season for K-State. To hanging out with some of my favorite friends on staff Jen, Elijah and Caitlin. I have also spent some time with a few more people Krystal, Mike, Katie, Dan and more. This month is big and special for me in just a few weeks I have big weekend in store...more on that in the next blog post ahead.

Oklahoma Trip
Haha, 3 weeks ago I went down to Norman, Oklahoma with some of the sports staff and some of the sports staff from the Collegian as well. That was a fun trip with those and it had a little bit of everything in it. Lucky for all of us we got along really went. The trip down there had it's moments for sure guys been well you guys but K-State ended up knocking off #4 Oklahoma that weekend...oh and wee managed to park behind someone house after not evening getting a parking pass, lol. I was a little worried about that but at the end it didn't matter because we won the game. Got back to Manhattan between 5:30 and 6 in the morning, whoooo...

Until next time,
Eddie III (EG3)

Chapter 39: K-State Volleyball Recap: Week #5

Baylor

Last weekend, the Kansas State volleyball team snapped a four game road losing streak to the Baylor Bears last Saturday afternoon in Waco (Sept 29). Kaitlynn Pelger had one of her best matches of the season to this point. The Wildcats defeated Baylor 18-25, 25-22, 25-23, and 25-16. Courtney Traxson played her best game of the year, shy from her personal best game for K-State. Traxson came off the bench for Suzie Fritz team and provided a huge spark for the Cats' when they needed it most. Had 10 kills on the night, meanwhile senior Caitlyn Donahue had 55 assists in this game two shorts of her best. Other highlights for K-State Kuuiel Kabalis had a career high in digs with 17. Torri Campbell and Laura Jones for Baylor led the way in kills but it was not enough for the Bears to overtake the Wildcats.

#22 Iowa State
Kaitlynn Pelger came into this game coming off another player of the week award from last weekend's action. Another plus for Pelger, she and her teammates came out and stunned the #22 ranked Iowa State in striaght sets at Ahern Fieldhouse on Wednesday night (Oct 3). Pelger led the way with 5 kills along with 6 swings, Alex Muff and Lilla Porubek also helped the Cats against the Cyclones. Kansas State came into this contest ranked #14 and right from the start just took it to the Cyclones who had no answer all night long. Iowa State had an oppurtunity to seal the second sets but the 'Cats rallied back to steal the set and pretty much closed the door on Iowa State for the match. Kansas State with the sweep 25-15. 27-25, and 25-17. The Wildcats move to 16-1 on the year and 3-1 in the Big 12 with #9 Texas coming to Manhattan on Saturday night. This will be the biggest test for K-State to see if they can contend for the Big 12 title. Game at Ahern Fieldhouse starts at 7pm Saturday night.

*Eddie III (EG3)