Month: May 2021

Blue Devils go deep into bench in sweep of Baker JV

by Alan Hoskins, KCKCC sports information

Coach Matt Goldbeck went deep into his pitching staff and bench in Kansas City Kansas Community College’s 9-4 and 5-4 sweep of Baker University junior varsity Monday.

With the final four games of the Jayhawk Conference regular season coming up Thursday and Saturday and a 9-inning game at Baker Tuesday, Goldback used seven pitchers and two totally different lineups with no pitcher throwing more than three innings in the 7-inning contests.

The wins lifted the Blue Devils’ record to 26-15 with conference games at Coffeyville Thursday and home Saturday to close out the season.

Home runs by Caleb Adams and Palmer Hutchison powered the Blue Devils to their 9-4 opening win. Adams followed a single by Cole Slibowski and a double by Hutchison with a 3-run homer to start the first inning and Hutchison made it 5-0 in the second with a 2-run shot following Beau Grable’s single.

The Blue Devils pounded out 14 hits including three by Adams and Hutchison and two each by Slibowski, Brendyn Bard and Grable. KCKCC scored its final four runs in the fourth on a double by Grable, consecutive singles by Slibowski, Hutchison and Adams and a 2-run double by Bard.

Tre Simmons got the win, allowing two hits in two innings, Alan Mercado worked two innings, allowing three runs on three hits before Steven Santiago finished up, giving up one run and three hits in two innings.

Four Blue Devils had two hits in the 5-4 nightcap. Samuel Juarez singled and doubled and Cole Dawson, Caleb Brown and Ivan Ortiz each singled twice in a 10-hit outburst.

Tied 1-1 after scoring an unearned run in the first, the Blue Devils scored three times in the third. Singles by Asnaldo Caicedo and Dawson and a sacrifice fly by Caleb Troutt scored one run and Caleb Brown doubled in two more.

Juarez’ double, the Blue Devils’ only extra base hit, and Troutt’s single made it 5-1 in the fifth before Baker scored three runs in the sixth.

Logan Barnard pitched the first two innings, allowing one hit. Jonah Dobson got the win, allowing one run on four hits in three innings. Brock Stewart was touched for three runs and two hits before Hunter Cashero got the last five outs.

Providence supports new naming sponsor of amphitheater

It was announced this week that the amphitheater, formerly Providence Amphitheater, an entertainment venue in Bonner Springs, Kansas, will now be named Azura Amphitheater.

Providence Medical Center has worked with New West Management the past six years to highlight and support the venue and community, a Providence spokesman stated. The relationship of Providence and the amphitheater was strong and remains strong, according to the spokesman.
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“We have been proud to support this local institution the past several years and we are very excited to learn about their new sponsor, Azura.” said Karen Orr, CEO, Providence Medical Center.


“It is part of our history to support and help promote our local partners and we look forward to learning about future concerts planned for this summer at the Azura amphitheater,” she said.

Providence Medical Center will continue to engage and invest into the community through new partnerships and affiliations that it believes will further the mission to provide quality accessible health care to Wyandotte County residents, a spokesman stated.

Providence officials helped the amphitheater identify and work with potential sponsors during the past year, according to the spokesman.

As entertainment attractions, especially outdoor entertainment venues, are able to open safely this spring and summer, there is a lot of growth opportunity for the amphitheater, according to the spokesman.

“We congratulate the amphitheater and the new sponsor Azura Credit Union and wish them ongoing success,” the spokesman stated.

Convicted killer of three at Jewish Community Center dies in prison

The convicted killer of three people at the Jewish Community Center in Overland Park has died in prison, according to a statement from the Kansas Department of Corrections.

Frazier Glenn Cross Jr., who was convicted of the murder of three people at the Jewish Community Center, died on Monday, May 3, at the El Dorado Correctional Facility, according to a statement from KDOC.

He was serving a sentence for capital murder, attempted murder and firearms convictions.

Frazier Glenn Cross Jr. was an alias for Frazier Glenn Miller Jr.

Miller, an anti-Semite, shot and killed three persons in the parking lot of the Jewish Community Center on April 13, 2014, including a 14-year-old boy, Reat Underwood; his grandfather, William Corporon; and a woman visiting her mother at an assisted living center, Teresa LaManno. None of the persons he killed was Jewish.

Miller reportedly shouted “Heil Hitler” while in the back seat of a police car at the Jewish Community Center, following the shooting.

A preliminary assessment indicated that the cause of Miller’s death Monday was from natural causes, according to KDOC. The cause of death is pending an autopsy.

Miller was appealing his death sentence in a case heard before the Kansas Supreme Court on March 29 and 30. The decision was pending. Miller had represented himself at the district court trial.

According to information online from the Southern Poverty Law Center, Miller was the founder and former leader of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and the White Patriot Party, paramilitary organizations in the 1980s. He was a member of a neo-Nazi group in North Carolina. The group attacked and killed Communist marchers in Greensboro, North Carolina.

He later turned up in Missouri after serving a prison term. In 1987, he was in the Springfield, Missouri, area. He went to prison for another three years on a weapons charge, and as part of a plea deal he testified against other white supremacists, according to SPLC information.

He later ran for Congress in Missouri in 2006. He ran for the Senate in Missouri in 2010. While running for office he made anti-Semitic statements, according to the SPLC website.