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KCKCC board to meet March 17

The Kansas City Kansas Community College Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting and regular meeting Tuesday, March 17.

The regular meeting is at 5 p.m., and it will be preceded by a special meeting at 3 p.m. March 17.

According to a note on the KCKCC website, because the campus is closed, the public will not be allowed to attend the board meeting.

According to the note, the meeting will be livestreamed. The meeting was listed at a YouTube address of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTf3a1vFVqg.

Blue Devils divide, go in to break in second place

by Alan Hoskins, KCKCC

Kansas City Kansas Community College will enter a 2½-week baseball hiatus in second place in the Jayhawk Conference.

Edged 3-2 at Labette Thursday, the Blue Devils bounced back with a 16-2 win and a 4-2 conference record, one game back of Johnson County (5-1) and tied for second with Coffeyville.

With March games suspended by the KJCCC because of the coronavirus, KCKCC is tentatively scheduled to return to action April 3-4 when the Blue Devils are slated for a 3-game series at Cloud County. If the season is resumed, KCKCC will have 13 playing dates before the start of regional playoffs.

Limited to five hits in the 3-2 loss, the Blue Devils rebounded in the second game with vengeance, lashing out 19 hits and scoring in six of seven innings.

Leadaoff hitter Seth Kenagy led the way with three singles and a double; Trey Hoover drove in five runs with a single and 3-run home run; and Raymond Paniagua belted a solo home run and two singles. Six Blue Devils had two hits, Griffin Everitt, Eduardo Acosta, Jose Sosa, Tyler Henry, Palmer Hutchinson and Hoover.

The Blue Devils took a 2-0 lead in the first inning on a walk and singles by Acosta, Sosa and Hoover, added a third run in the second on hits by Hutchinson, Kenagy and Everitt and made it 4-1 on a Paniagua single and Kenagy’s double.

KCKCC blew the game open with five runs in the fifth and six in the seventh. Paniagua homered, Sosa tripled, Everitt doubled and Kenagy, Acosta, Henry and Hutchinson singled in the fifth; Everitt doubled in two runs and Hoover capped the 6-run seventh with a 3-run home run.

Backed by three double plays, Gaby Ramos went the distance for the pitching win, allowing two runs on 11 hits. Striking out two and walking none, he stranded eight Cardinals.

Held to three innings the first four innings, Labette won the 3-2 nightcap with a 3-run fifth inning rally capped by a 2-run home run by Mason Pierce, the Cardinals’ ninth place hitter.

The Blue Devils took a 1-0 lead in the fourth without a hit, scoring on two hit batsmen, an error and Kenagy’s sacrifice fly and then closed to 3-2 in the sixth on Hutchinson’s solo home run. The Blue Devils had only four other hits off Labette’s Kenlee Hall, singles by Kenagy, Everitt, Acosta and Sosa. Sophomore southpaw Osvaldo Mendez (4-1) suffered his first loss, allowing six hits, striking out seven and walking one.

KCKCC to go on extended spring break through March 29, with virtual classes through April 10, because of COVID-19 risk

Kansas City Kansas Community College announced on Friday that it would be closed from March 14 to 22, and that there would be an extended spring break of March 23 to 29 for all students.

Then, from March 30 to April 10, classes will resume in either a virtual or hybrid delivery, according to a letter sent Friday from the college president, Dr. Greg Mosier, to students, employees and the community.

“For the remainder of the semester our goal is to limit the number of people (faculty and students, and community) physically on campus while ensuring students receive the critical information they need to be successful in their classes and in the future,” Dr. Mosier wrote in the letter.

All public and community events, as well as nonessential events on campus were canceled through May 20, according to the announcement.

Dual enrollment and concurrent enrollment classes at the high schools will continue as normal until a schedule change is announced at each individual school district, according to the announcement.

Only essential personnel will be on campus from March 14 to 29, according to the letter.

Instructors will be making the transition to online courses during the week of March 23 to 29. Classes that need hands-on instruction will be a hybrid of online and lab work. Faculty are receiving support to make the transition, according to the letter.

The COVID-19 situation will be re-evaluated to determine actions that need to be taken for the remainder of the semester on April 9, and students and employees will be notified on April 10, according to the letter.

Also, KCKCC has banned all work-related travel for employees on airlines, trains, ships and large public transportation until May 22.

The letter stated that final plans have not yet been determined for KCKCC’s commencement ceremonies on May 21.

For more information, visit https://www.kckcc.edu/communications/letter-to-all-03-13-2020.pdf.