Month: March 2019

McDonald’s to raise funds for flood victims tonight

Tonight, McDonald’s will hold a fundraiser to help flood victims and relief efforts.

McDonald’s restaurants in the Kansas City metropolitan area and in St. Joseph, Missouri, are participating in the fundraiser from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 27.

Twenty percent of the sales generated between those hours will be donated to local American Red Cross chapters in Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa, and other organizations that help flood victims. The proceeds will go to help communities devastated by Missouri River flooding.

The goal of the fundraiser throughout the area is $100,000 for flood relief efforts.

“I’m just pleased to have this opportunity to help,” Cassandra Savage, a McDonald’s owner-operator, said. She owns two McDonald’s restaurants in Kansas City, Kansas, one in Roeland Park, Kansas, and six other McDonald’s restaurants.

None of the local restaurants was affected by flooding, but communities such as St. Joseph, Missouri, Omaha, Nebraska, and along the Missouri River in other locations have suffered devastating losses from the flood.

“We were fortunate enough not to have any devastation at all,” Savage said. “That’s why we feel we are in a position to help them.”

KCKCC pitchers fan 13 as Blue Devils rally for 9-5 win

Griffin Everitt (KCKCC photo)

by Alan Hoskins, KCKCC

Getting 13 strikeouts from three pitchers, Kansas City Kansas Community College came from behind in the middle innings for a 9-5 win over the Baker University junior varsity in Baldwin Monday.

The win boosted the Blue Devils’ record to 22-6 heading into a doubleheader at Fort Scott Thursday. The two teams will conclude their four-game series at KCKCC Saturday at 1 p.m.

Baker scored an unearned run in the first and then took a 4-0 lead in the second, scoring three runs on two walks and a pair of two-out singles off starter Jake Martin. Martin worked three innings, allowing four hits, striking out three and walking three.

Freshman Griffin Everitt tripled and doubled and drove in three runs and Troy Hoover doubled and singled to power the comeback.

The Blue Devils scored three times in the third on just one hit, Everitt’s two-out, two-run double with the bases loaded after three walks and a third strike passed ball. Trailing 5-3 in the fifth, Everitt tied the game with a run-scoring triple following a walk, single by Jose Sosa and a run-scoring passed ball.

Hoover ignited KCKCC’s winning two-run rally in the sixth with a leadoff double. After a pair of walks loaded the bases, Traice Harter and Kevin Santiago delivered sacrifice flies. Hoover singled in the Blue Devils’ eighth run in the seventh and scored on Christopher Viera’s single.

Sophomore Hunter Paxton and freshman Zavier Morin allowed just one unearned the final six innings. Paxton got the win, scattering five hits, striking out five and walking none while Morin struck out five and allowed one hit in two innings.

T-Bones make deal with Skeeters

The Kansas City T-Bones have acquired right-handed pitchers Andury Acevedo and Dylan Baker from the Sugar Land Skeeters (Atlantic League) for future considerations, and they have agreed to terms with Baker for a 2019 contract.

Dylan Baker comes to Kansas City, Kansas, after one season with the Los Angeles Dodgers organization where he went 3-6 in 34 games all in relief with a 6.08 ERA over 37 innings and notched eight saves in 2018. Primarily a starter throughout his career, it was his first season to notch a save as a pitcher. Prior to his one season with the Dodgers system, he spent 2012 to 2017 with the Cleveland Indians organization.

Baker, is a native of Alaska, and graduated from Douglas High School, in Juneau, Alaska, before attending Tacoma Community College. He then transferred to Western Nevada College where he became the highest draft selection for a player out of Western Nevada in 2012. He resides in Juneau, Alaska.

Andury Acevedo is a former infielder who spent the first four years of his career with the Pittsburgh Pirates organization from 2007 to 2010. He signed with the New York Yankees and converted to a pitcher in 2012. From there he climbed the Yankees system, reaching AAA.

He then spent parts of two seasons with the Chicago Cubs, earning a spot on the 40-man roster, and a part of a season with the Arizona Diamondbacks before moving to independent baseball this off season.

Full and half-season 2019 ticket packages, as well as mini plans, are on sale online, by calling 913-328-5618 or by visiting the Saint Luke’s Box Office between the hours of 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Group ticket sales are also on sale. The public also may purchase individual game tickets.

Opening day for the T-Bones is set for Friday, May 17, at T-Bones Stadium when the T-Bones play host to the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks to open the 2019 season.

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