Kansas City Kansas Community College is inviting the families of all staff, faculty and students as well as community members to the annual KCKCC Kids Halloween Party.
The event is from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25, in Lower Jewell on the KCKCC Main Campus, 7250 State Ave. The host of the event is the KCKCC Student Senate and many of the KCKCC clubs, organizations and other groups.
The night will be filled with fun and engaging activities for children up to 12 years old. Some of the activities include carnival games, candy, food, crafts, animal balloons, magic show, Kids Haunted House, trunk or treat, funnel cakes and more. This is a free event for the entire family.
For more information, call the Student Activities Office at 913-288-7652.
Freshman forward Elijah Bathily, who scored KCKCC’s first goal in a 2-0 blanking of Coffeyville Sunday, leveled a shot from inside the box. (KCKCC photo by Alan Hoskins)
by Alan Hoskins, KCKCC
A 2-0 winner over Coffeyville Sunday, Kansas City Kansas Community College’s men will take on a familiar rival in opening Region VI soccer playoff action.
The Blue Devils will open play at Cloud County Sunday at 2 p.m. The game will be played at the Concordia High School field and will be the third year in a row the two teams have collided in the playoffs. KCKCC used a 1-0 win in the second round of the 2017 regional on the way to a berth in the NJCAA DI national tournament but lost a 1-0 heartbreaker to Cloud in last year’s opening round.
The Blue Devils scored the only goal they would need just four minutes into Sunday’s 2-0 win over Coffeyville. Freshman Elijah Bathily took a pass from sophomore Leonard Bonelli across the middle for the goal. The Blue Devils then scored an insurance goal early in the second half, sophomore Marcus Kawah taking a crossing pass from freshman Javier Blanco for the goal.
The Blue Devil defense excelled, allowing Coffeyville only four shots as freshman goalkeeper Bosco Pery recorded the shutout with two saves. The Blue Devils, meanwhile got off 19 shots including 15 on goal, 13 of which were turned away.
With a lead, KCKCC coach Ruben Rodriguez was able to go to his second unit.
“This gave us a chance to rest our first team and avoid injuries in order to be at 100 percent for the playoffs,” Rodriguez said. “We played well; we just need to keep it up.”
The Blue Devils will take a two-game winning streak and a 7-5-2 overall record into the playoffs. KCKCC finished third in the Jayhawk with a 6-3-1 record. The league champion will be crowned Monday when Cowley (7-1-1) plays at Johnson County (6-1-2).
With an open net behind him, Coffeyville goalkeeper Jose Quifione’s desperation slide just beat KCKCC’s Lucas Santos (3) and Javier Blanco (30) to the ball. However, Blanco later set up Marcus Kawah for a clinching goal in a 2-0 win Sunday. (KCKCC photo by Alan Hoskins)
The first of sophomore Kayla Deaver’s two goals came on this breakaway that left Coffeyville goalkeeper Taylor Lamb defenseless in a 6-1 loss to KCKCC. (KCKCC photo by Alan Hoskins)
by Alan Hoskins,KCKCC
Kansas City Kansas Community College’s young women’s soccer team stamped its first trip to the Region V playoffs with authority Sunday afternoon.
Scoring three goals in the first nine minutes, the Lady Blue Devils’ 6-1 win over Coffeyville not only wrapped up a first time playoff berth but it will be a played at home – this coming Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m. against Barton County (8-7), the defending Region VI champion.
And it could get even better. If third place Butler County should win at league-leading Cowley County in a makeup game Tuesday night, the Blue Devils will finish in a tie for the Jayhawk Conference championship – a program-changing accomplishment considering no Blue Devil women’s team has ever had a winning record let alone sniff a playoff berth in its first seven years.
“We’ve lost a lot of games so this is special, very special,” said fourth year KCKCC coach Shawn Uhlenhake, whose No, 1 goal when he took the coaching reins was to earn a playoff berth. “That’s the goal every year. Getting a big lead today really helped take the pressure off. This team has really stayed disciplined and focused and just got better and better.”
Uhlenhake was particularly pleased with a near shutout of Coffeyville, a team that had defeated the Blue Devils 5-3 earlier. The Red Ravens did not score until the final 1:43. Finishing 12-3 overall and 9-3 in the Jayhawk, the win over Coffeyville enabled KCKCC to avenge each of its three losses. .
The Blue Devils got a record-setting performance by freshman forward Melissa Siegel, who had assists on all six KCKCC records.
“Has to be a record,” Uhlenhake said. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”
Sophomore Kayla Deaver and freshman Maddy Broeker each had a pair of goals; freshmen Corrine Hughes and Jaidyn Yingling one apiece.
Hughes started with a breakaway goal just three minutes into the game and Broeker made it 3-0, scoring twice on crossing patterns in a span of less than two minutes. The second came just eight minutes and 50 seconds into the game.
Deaver’s first goal came at the 26:00 mark, a breakaway blast that left Coffeyville goalkeeper Taylor Lamp grasping for nothing but air. Yingling made it 5-0 at the half. Beating Lamp with goal from outside the box with 6:02 remaining and Deaver got her second goal at 30:17 of the second half, a shot just inside the right goal post.
KCKCC got a standout defensive effort from freshman goalkeeper Jaidyn Takaishi, who had a season high 12 saves as the Red Ravens launched 19 shots. Meanwhile, KCKCC’s six goals came on 15 shots against two goalkeepers.
The big lead enabled Uhlenhake to go to his bench early. For eight sophomores, it was their final regular season game at home – Sydney Guerra, Alex Schemmel, Karleigh Enyart, Kayla Deaver, Tina Alvarez, Arlene Ruiz, Ruth Nunez and Jasmine Diaz. However, with a home playoff Sunday, it was not their last.
Kayla Deaver’s second goal in KCKCC’s 6-1 win over Coffeyville Sunday came on this shot past goalkeeper Kaitlyn Mosely. (KCKCC photo by Alan Hoskins) While freshmen Melissa Siegel did not score a goal Sunday, she assisted on all six Blue Devil goals in a 6-1 win over Coffeyville, a KCKCC record. (KCKCC photo by Alan Hoskins) It took less than three minutes for freshman forward Corrine Hughes to drive a shot past Coffeyville goalkeeper Taylor Lamb that ignited a 6-1 KCKCC win Sunday. (KCKCC photo by Alan Hoskins) Coffeyville goalkeeper Taylor Lamb was left with arms widespread by the second of two Maddy Broeker goals that gave KCKCC a 3-0 lead in the first 10 minutes of a 6-1 win Sunday. (KCKCC photo by Alan Hoskins) KCKCC freshman Jaidyn Yingling made Coffeyville goalkeeper Taylor Lamb pay for being far out of the goal by lofting a shot in to an open goal in the Blue Devils 6-1 win Sunday. (KCKCC photo by Alan Hoskins) Eight KCKCC sophomores got a 6-1 win over Coffeyville in their final regular season game Sunday although they’ll be back for the playoffs Saturday. They are front row, from left, Jasmine Diaz, Sydney Guerra, Kayla Deaver and Arlene Ruiz; second row, assistant coach Sara Matthews, Christina Alvarez, Ruth Nunez, Karleigh Enjyart, Alex Schemmel and head coach Shawn Uhlenhake. (KCKCC photo by Alan Hoskins)
