Category: KCKCC

KCKCC plans Spring Fling Friday

by Kelly Rogge

Kansas City Kansas Community College is having a Spring Fling Celebration later this week.

The event is from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. March 14 in Lower Jewell on the KCKCC campus, 7250 State Ave. The event is free to all students. However, raffle tickets can be purchased in Room 2313 or from any Student Senate Officer for a chance to win an iPad Mini.

In addition, The Strive will be performing live throughout the Spring Fling event, which serves as a sendoff into spring break from Student Senate. Spring break is March 17 to 22.

The band, Strive, is a nationally-known pop band from the Kansas City area. It released its debut EP, Anything Goes, in 2011 and is known for its infectious spin on the current “pop-vibe.” In addition to performing at Kansas City hotspots such as the Beaumont Club and Uptown Theatre, it has also played shows in Milwaukee, Dallas, Austin and Houston and were featured at Mix 93.3’s “Red, White & Boom” concert that featured additional performances from Colbie Caillat and Gavin DeGraw.

The Blue Devil Deli will be selling a barbecue lunch for $6. This includes a pulled pork or turkey sliders, barbecued beans and chips.

For more information, contact Linda Sutton at 913-288-7652 or by email at [email protected].

Freshman pitches KCKCC to softball split at Coffeyville

Leslie Ford (KCKCC photo)

by Alan Hoskins
Kansas City Kansas Community College rode Leslie Ford’s strong pitching and hitting to a 3-2 win at Coffeyville Tuesday but had to settle for a split when Coffeyville rallied for a 4-3 win in the nightcap.

The split left the Lady Blue Devils 3-1 in the Jayhawk Conference and 5-1 overall heading into doubleheaders at Hesston Friday and Hutchinson Saturday.
A freshman from Garden City, Ford scattered six hits, struck out 12 and drove in the game-winning run in the 3-2 win. She was backed by an 11-hit attack that included two singles and a triple by leadoff hitter Lacey Santiago and a double and single each by Ford and Justice Scales.
Trailing 1-0 in the fifth, the Blue Devils took the lead on five straight singles by Ford, Megan Dike, Santiago, Scales and Mierra Morisette. Coffeyville tied it in the bottom of the inning before KCKCC scored the decisive go-ahead run on a one-out single by Ashley Henigton and Ford’s RBI double to center.
Coffeyville threatened in the bottom of the sixth with a leadoff double but Ford escaped with a pair of strikeouts and a popup and set down the Red Ravens in order in the seventh.
The Blue Devils took a 3-0 lead in the first inning of the nightcap. After a leadoff single by Santiago, Scales tripled and scored on Morisette’s single. A double by Hanna Barnhart and a single for Ford added the third run.
Santiago and Scales each had a pair of hits in the 9-hit attack but the Blue Devils managed on four more base-runners the rest of the way.
Elizabeth Seimear took the loss despite allowing only six hits and two earned runs. She struck out four and walked one.
After tying the game with two unearned runs in the second, Coffeyville won it on a two-out single in the fifth.
“Elisabeth Seimear threw well but they were able to score on a couple of bloop hits,” said KCKCC coach Kacy Tillery. “Leslie Ford pitched well in the first game and Megan Dike called a good game behind the plate with the 12 strikeouts. And the defense played well both games with just one error.”

Fairfax group to meet March 13 at TEC center

The Fairfax Industrial Association will meet at 11:15 a.m. Thursday, March 13, for lunch at the KCKCC Technical Education Center, 6565 State Ave., Kansas City, Kan.

The program topic will be on the KCKCC TEC, “Highlighting Technical and Manufacturing Educational Programs and Opportunities.”

The welcome will be from Michael Vitale, vice president of academic affairs; presentation from Patrick McCartney, executive director of Endowment Association; and a tour will be given of the TEC.