Nevada Tiger football players are completing two weeks of Summer drills with a morning work-out today. Tiger head coach Jay Fleeman says the workouts have been pretty good. The Tigers spent two weeks in conditioning drills and adding several new schemes on offense and defense. Two-a-day pre-season practices start a week from Monday at the Logan Field practice facility. The Tigers open the regular season August 27 at Warrensburg. A pre-season jamboree is planned August 20 at Carl Junction. The head coach says the players made good strides during the Summer camp and he's looking forward to the start of pre-season drills August 9.

The Nevada Griffons completed their 2010 regular season with a 3-2 victory over the Neosho Dirt Bags Thursday night at Crowder College, Neosho. Head coach Ryan Mansfield used the non-league game as a final tune-up for the National Baseball Congress World Series at Wichita, Kansas, starting this weekend. Seven different Nevada pitchers got some work on the mound and left-hander Kyle Ostereicher was credited with the victory for two innings of scoreless pitching. He allowed just one hit and is 2-3 this Summer. New Griffon Michael Patman, Butler County, Kansas Community College, struck out the side in the ninth for the save. M.J. Sartin drove in two runs for the Griffons with a single in the third inning and Zach Carter doubled home a run in the fifth inning. Neosho scored twice in the seventh inning but that was a close as the Dirt Bags could get. The Griffons finished the regular season with a 29-18 record and are to play Jayhawk League champion Haysville at 10:00 p.m. Saturday in the first round of of the NBC World Series at Lawrence Dumont Stadium. Coverage of the game on KNEM/KNMO as well as www.knemknmo.com starts fifteen minutes before the first pitch.

The NBC World Series actually starts this evening with two games. Play Ball Sports, Colorado, was set to play the Derby, Kansas Twins at 7:00 p.m. and the Team Tulsa Red Rockets were to play the MINK League champion Sedalia Bombers at 9:30 p.m. The St. Joseph, Mo. Mustangs, out of the MINK League's Northern Division, are to play Greeley, Colorado at 5:00 p.m. Saturday. The double elimination tournament continues through August 13.

The Cardinals managed just four hits off knuckleball pitcher R.A. Dickey and the Mets blanked St. Louis, 4-0, Thursday afternoon at Citi Field in New York. The Cardinals are to play the Pirates this weekend at Busch Stadium in St. Louis starting with a game at 7:15 p.m. today. Cardinal Network coverage on KNEM/KNMO begins at 6:32 p.m.

The Orioles defeated Kansas City, 6-5, in eleven innings Thursday night at Kauffman Stadium. Ty Wigginton drove home the winning run with a sacrifice fly in the eleventh -- his second sacrifice fly of the game. The Royals have lost five games in a row and are to host Baltimore again this evening at 7:10.

Philadelphia shaded the Diamondbacks, 3-2, in eleven innings Thursday night in Philadelphia. Adam LaRoche, Fort Scott, was one-for-four as Arizona's first baseman. He's batting .254 in his first season with the Dbacks. LaRoche's brother, Andy, was 0-for-1 as a pinch-hitter in the Pirates' 9-3 loss to Colorado Thursday afternoon in Denver. The younger LaRoche is batting .228 for Pittsburgh this season.