Month: September 2019

Blue Devils launch 17 shots in 3-1 win at Coffeyville

by Alan Hoskins, KCKCC

Kansas City Kansas Community College peppered the Coffeyville goal with 17 shots Wednesday night in a 3-1 Jayhawk Conference win on the road.

The win kept the Blue Devils in the thick of the Jayhawk race.

Tied with Neosho County for third place at 3-2, they trail Johnson County (4-0-1) and Cowley College (3-1-1) heading into the second round of conference play.

Home Sunday against St. Louis Community College in a noon kickoff, the Blue Devils resume conference play next Wednesday against Cowley in a battle for third.

Sophomore Marcos Cabral gave KCKCC a 1-0 first half lead by converting a penalty kick with 37 minutes gone in the opening period.

Coffeyville got even with an unassisted goal five minutes into the second half before KCKCC won the sprint to the finish.

Freshman Lucas Santo took a pass from another frosh, Elijah Bathily, and outraced a defender for the go-ahead goal with 32 minutes left in the second half and freshman forward Samba Gnokane clinched the win with an unassisted goal at the 72-minute mark.

“Different players scored for us which is good,” KCKCC head coach Ruben Rodriguez said. “Our first two goals were scored by defenders. We played together and worked cohesively. We want to continue this good run but still have more work to do.”

Three of the Blue Devils final five conference games will be played at home. Coffeyville managed 10 shots against goalkeeper Bosco Pery, who had three saves on four shots on goal.

Turner band to attend festival Saturday at K-State

Turner High School’s band is slated to participate in the Central States Marching Festival on Saturday, Sept. 28, at the Bill Snyder Family Stadium at Kansas State University, Manhattan.

Thirty-six high school marching bands are scheduled to participate in clinics with members of the K-State Marching Band staff.

The bands will present field performances that will be judged by a panel of nationally recognized marching band professionals.

The bands will receive individual clinics with members of the video critique panel after their field performances and will be given a rating with accompanying awards.

The bands will be judged on repertoire, performance, coordination, auxiliaries and music.

The K-State football team will be away from home playing at Stillwater, Oklahoma, that day.

$33.3 million contract awarded to construct three pump stations at Argentine Levee

The Argentine Main Pump Station is one of three to be replaced. (Photo by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District)

A $33.3 million design-build contract has been awarded to replace and modify three pump stations in the Argentine Levee Unit, according to an announcement Thursday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District.

Construction is slated to start in the fall of 2020, with project design to begin in October 2019, according to the Corps of Engineers.

Michels Corp. of Brownville, Wisconsin, will design and construct the stations.

“We are grateful that the Corps of Engineers has committed to upgrading flood protection in Argentine, Armourdale and the West Bottoms, and this contract is a vital step in their upgrade,” Mayor David Alvey said.

Unified Government Commissioner Ann Murguia, whose district includes Argentine, said she was “thrilled with the huge financial investment that the Army Corps of Engineers is making in my district to make my residents safer.”

Improvements will be made to the Turner Pump Station, next to the Turner Memorial Bridge; the Argentine Main Pump Station, 2200 Argentine Blvd.; and the Strong Avenue Pump Station, near the South 18th Street Expressway – Highway 69 bridge; all in Kansas City, Kansas.

The pump stations originally were constructed between 70 and 100 years ago, according to the Corps of Engineers.

This is the first construction contract to be awarded as part of a much larger federal investment in the Kansas Citys Levees Program, according to the corps.

The program includes improvements to 17 miles of existing levees and floodwalls along the Kansas River in Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri.

The project will improve the reliability and reduce the risk of flooding to homes and businesses located behind the levees within the Kansas City metropolitan area, according to a spokesman.  Some seepage was reported while there was high water on the levees, but there were no failures, according to a spokesman.

The Corps of Engineers is responsible for the design, construction and delivery of the Kansas Citys Levees Program through a bi-state partnership with Kaw Valley Drainage District, the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, and the city of Kansas City, Missouri.

In June, Rep. Sharice Davids announced that she had secured an additional $10 million for levee projects in the Kansas City area.

The UG Commission passed a resolution Aug. 15 to improve the levee systems.

The Strong Avenue pump station will be replaced under a contract awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. (Photo by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District)
The Turner pump station will be replaced under a contract awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. (Photo by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District)