Month: August 2019

Rowe traded to Salt Lake

Sporting Kansas City has traded midfielder Kelyn Rowe to Real Salt Lake in exchange for $75,000 in Targeted Allocation Money and a 2019 international roster spot.

Sporting will retain $171,856 of Rowe’s 2019 budget charge. Real Salt Lake will be responsible for the remaining $100,000 of his budget charge this season.

Rowe, 27, joined Sporting ahead of the 2019 campaign after spending seven seasons with the New England Revolution. He has started eight of 19 appearances this season in all competitions, recording two assists.

Sporting and Real Salt Lake will square off this Saturday in a Western Conference clash at Children’s Mercy Park. Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. matchup are on sale at SeatGeek.com as Sporting will hold its third annual Sporting Salutes military appreciation night.

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Free boys baseball clinic at KCKCC on Sunday, Aug. 25

by Alan Hoskins, KCKCC

Thanks to a group of former players, a free baseball clinic for boys will be held Sunday, Aug. 25, at Kansas City Kansas Community College.

The free clinic is being made possible through sponsorships and donations from local businesses and more than a dozen former Blue Devil baseball players. The clinic will be held from 9 a.m. on the KCKCC field at 7250 State Ave. In addition to instruction, participants will receive lunch and a clinic T-shirt.

The clinic will be limited to the first 50 boys who sign up. It is open to ages 7 to 12.

“If we get enough sponsorships, we will also offer an afternoon clinic,” said KCKCC head baseball coach Matt Goldbeck. Boys can register online at KCKCCbaseball.com.

Instruction will be provided by the KCKCC coaching staff and players and will focus on fundamentals in the areas of hitting, fielding, pitching, catching and base running.

Primary sponsors are Heartland Title and KC Sports. Heartland owner T.J. Lorson is a former Blue Devil player; Rick Fortuna of KC Sports had a son play baseball at KCKCC. Other major sponsors include Varsity Sports, Rainbow Roofing, Quinn Concreate Construction, Parkway Service Center and Pat Crilly of Commercial Claims.

Additional commitments have been made by Italian Delight, the Blue Devil Deli, Jeff Nick of Nill Brothers Sporting Goods, Reid Roberts of Kansas Lawn, former KCKCC coach Steve Burleson and alums Josh Moulin, Jerry Goza, Greg Beashore, Ray Schmaltz and Jason Haworth.

Blue Devil alums making cash donations include Brad Eikenbary of Piper Family Dentistry, Tyler Windholtz, Todd Windholtz, Steve Rezin, Mike Hinkle, Rob Morrow, the Goldbeck family and Blue Devil coaches Bill Sharp, Dean Long and Pedro Leon. Others include Pier Haen, Shirley Morrow and Brian Woods.

Donations are still being accepted and can be made on line at https://www.kckcc.edu/foundation/giving/index.html and checking on the blue box “Donate to the KCKCC Foundation.” Persons using Pay Pal will be asked for a specific location, to which BASEBALL should be designated.

T-Bones win 5-2 in Texas

by Luke Schrock

Jon Perrin’s quality start helped keep the Cleburne Railroaders (45-30) offense at bay while the Kansas City T-Bones (35-37) offense went to work early in the game to help secure a 5-2 win.

After a couple of silent innings to start off the affair, the third inning heated up for the T-Bones. Mason Davis started it off with a two-RBI triple off starting pitcher for Cleburne Charlie Gillies. Davis would score Dylan Tice and Ramsey Romano, but the T-Bones weren’t done yet.

Former Red Sox outfielder Daniel Nava scored Mason Davis on a groundout to the Railroader shortstop Daniel Robertson. Tyler Marincov hit a double to score O’Malley and make it a 4-0 ballgame. Danny Mars, who was hitting sixth today for the T-Bones, scored Marincov to end the onslaught that was the third inning.

Winning pitcher Jon Perrin (4-1) fought on for six innings, only allowing two hits and two walks, but the most impressive part was he almost hit double digits in strikeouts, ending his night with nine.

Robert Calvano came in relief in the seventh inning and let go the combined shutout by letting up two runs in two innings of work, but Calvano got the outs he needed and held the Railroaders for a Carlos Diaz final inning.

Diaz came in and put the game away in the 9th with a double-play to Shawn O’Malley that capped off the win for the T-Bones.

Cleburne was solid on the mound despite the big third inning. Losing pitcher Charlie Gillies (4-6) had the roughest night with nine hits and five runs. There was only a total of two hits and one walk awarded to the T-Bones from the collective effort of Bryan Saucedo and Edward Cruz.

The Railroaders weren’t without their chance to threaten. In the seventh, Grant Buck scored Hunter Clanin off an RBI double to put Cleburne on the board, and Zach Nehrir scored Angel Reyes on an RBI double as well.

Kansas City and Cleburne have one more game left Thursday night at 7:05 p.m. at The Depot. Hear all the action on the T-Bones Broadcast Network, http://mixlr.com/t-bones-baseball/, with Dan Vaughan on the call. The T-Bones travel back to JustBats Field at T-Bones Stadium to take on the Texas Airhogs and the Railroaders follow to end the upcoming six-game homestand beginning Friday night.

Tickets to all T-Bones home games are on sale online or by calling 913-328-5618 or by visiting the Saint Luke’s Box Office between the hours of 10 a.m. through 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Group ticket sales are also on sale.