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Parents Meeting Scheduled
A Parents meeting will be held on Saturday, May 28th at 3:30pm following Saturday's practice.
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Initial Practice Scheduled
May 22, 2005 --
The initial practice for the Mid Kansas Redbirds has been scheduled for Tuesday Night, May 23rd in Lindsborg. Players whose teams have qualified for State will not be at this practice.
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Jim Black forms new Team
May 15, 2005 --
Jim Black, a former American Legion coach at McPherson, KS for many years, formed a new team based in Lindsborg, KS, called the Mid-Kansas Redbirds.
Jim used his extensive contacts from his many years in American Legion baseball to put together an organization made up of players from a number of different Mid-Kansas Schools. Though the majority of players come from McPherson High School, there are also players from Smokey Valley, Moundridge, Inman and Buhler.
Many of his players will be playing college baseball next fall.
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Augusta Tournament Information
May 25, 2005 --
Information for the Augusta Tournament has been announced today. The Redbirds will open on Thursday, June 2nd, with the Kansas Intimidators at 8:00pm in Augusta. The Redbirds will then play the Lugnuts at 10:00pm on Saturday, June 4th, and the Cardinals at 2:00pm on Sunday, June 5th.
Other teams in the tournament are: Kings, (Wichita) Metros, (Topeka) Stars, (Wichita) Thunder, Bucs, Dawgs, (Wichita) Gators and the (Wichita) Lobos.
Additional games may be played depending upon the results of pool play.
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Redbirds sweep McPherson Sr. Babe Ruth
May 29, 2005 - 06:00 PM --
The Mid-Kansas Redbirds swept the McPherson Sr. Babe Ruth team today in their first double-header of the season at their home field in Lindsborg.
In the first game, Darrin Biegert pitched a complete game 2 hitter to shut out the McPherson team 2-0.
In the second game, Cory Youngblood, Jonathan Bowers and EJ Schrag teamed up to get the win 12-5. Schrag came in as relief to Bowers in the bottom of the second and shut down McPherson to get the win.
The Redbirds next game will be at Larned on Tuesday Night, May 31st at 6:00pm and 8:00pm. The Redbirds record now stands at 2-0.
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Eldorado Tournament Information Released
May 25, 2005 --
Information about the Eldorado Tournament has been announced today. The Redbirds will play their first game of the tournament on Friday, June 10th at 11:00am versus the Eldorado "AAA" American Legion Team at McDonald Stadium in Eldorado. The second game will be at 3:00pm, also on Friday at McDonald Stadium versus the Circle "AA" American Legion team. The initial pool play will then seed into a single elimination tournament. There is a 4 game guarantee.
Other teams in the tournament: Hutchinson (Williams), Andover Jags, Newton.
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Larned Game Postponed
May 30, 2005 - 12:30 PM --
The double-header scheduled for tonight in Larned has been postponed due to rain. The game has been rescheduled for July 12th.
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Redbirds drop two to Wichita Intimidators
June 5, 2005 - 07:00 PM --
The Redbirds finally got into action again after a soggy week in the area when they played a double header against the Wichita Intimidators in Augusta on a beautiful Sunday afternoon.
While the weather was good, it didn't seem to help the bats of the Redbirds as they were able to eek out just two hits in the first game of the double header against Garret Kasper who will be playing for Garden City Junior College next year. Those hits were spread almost as far apart as they could be with Lane Wolfer hitting a double in the 1st and Darrin Biegert singling in the 7th.
Meanwhile, the Intimidators scored 1 in the first off of Suderman who then yielded to Vieramontez who finished the game. The Intimidators scored 4 runs in the 2nd on a grand slam by Lowry and also had a solo homer in the 5th from Lewis.
That pretty much sums it up as the Redbirds suffered their first loss of the season without scoring a run, 6-0.
In the second game, Vieyra kept the Redbirds bats quiet, with a shutout going through 5 innings. Cory Youngblood had a complete game 7 hitter for the Redbirds. The Intimidators scored 3 runs in the 1st, one of which was unearned. The Intimidators also scored another unearned run in the 4th.
Farias came on for the Intimidators in the top of 6th and promptly dispatched the Redbirds 1, 2 and 3 batters. However, the Redbirds weren't done yet. The Redbirds scored 4 runs in the top of the 7th to tie the game, highlighted by a 2 RBI double by A. J. Youngblood and singles by Suderman, Bowers and Biegert.
In the bottom of the 7th, the Redbirds managed to get the first two batsmen out, but two singles and an error allowed the Intimidators to score one run in the bottom of the 7th to hold on to the sweep.
The losses drop the Redbirds to 2-2. Their next games will be Wednesday, June 8th at 6:00pm and 8:00pm in Lindsborg versus Larned.
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Redbirds win first two games in Eldorado
June 10, 2005 - 06:10 PM --
The Mid Kansas Redbirds won a pair today in Eldorado in the opening day of the Eldorado Legion Classic.
In the first game, the Redbirds came out swinging the bats scoring 8 runs in the first inning and held on to defeat the host team Eldorado. Eldorado scored 3 runs in the bottom of the first and 4 runs in the bottom of the second to close within 1 run of the Redbirds, but that was as close as they got as the Redbirds went on to win 15-11.
The second game didn't feature nearly as much hitting as the Redbirds scored 1 run in the bottom of the first on a Lane Wolfer solo homer and 1 run in the bottom of the second following a Sam Stucky hit and two errors by the Circle catcher. The game remained at 2-0 until the bottom of the 6th when the Redbirds scored 5 runs on 3 walks and singles by Sam Stucky, Josh Nathan, A.J. Youngblood and EJ Schrag. Jonathan Bowers pitched a complete game shutout allowing just 4 hits over 7 innings, striking out 6.
The Redbirds will be in action again on Saturday in Eldorado at 5:00pm. The opponent is yet to be determined. The wins raise the Redbirds record to 4-2.
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Eldorado Tournament a washout
June 11, 2005 --
Following an overnight storm in Eldorado, the remaining games in the Eldorado tournament have all been cancelled. This marks the second straight weekend tournament shortened by rain for the Redbirds.
The Department of Interior denies that there are any plans to turn the entire south central portion of Kansas into an aquatic playground called "Lake 'o the Plains"!
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Russell Tournament Schedule released
June 12, 2005 --
The tournament schedule for Russell on June 17th, 18th and 19th has been released.
The Redbirds will start pool play on Friday, June 17th at 1:00pm versus Santa Fe Trail (Topeka). They will play a second game on Friday at 3:00pm versus Larned.
The final game of pool play will be on Saturday, June 18th versus Hays at 11:00am.
Pool play will seed the teams into a single elimination tournament that will start at 3:00pm on Saturday. The Redbirds will play at 1:00pm, 3:00pm or 5:00pm depending on the results of pool play.
Other teams in the tournament are Russell, Hoisington and Pratt.
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Russell Game Cancelled ... but Newton scheduled in their place!
June 14, 2005 - 04:30 PM --
Coach Jim Black was flabbergasted on Tuesday when Russell called to cancel their double-header with the Redbirds scheduled for Wednesday night. The Redbirds have had 8 of their 14 games scheduled through this point in the season cancelled due to weather or other difficulties.
But Coach got on the phone and found an opponent to take Russell's place: Newton. Newton has likewise had a number of their games cancelled and was happy to get a chance to play the Redbirds a double header on Wednesday night.
So, the Redbirds will play as scheduled on Wednesday night, June 15th at 6:00pm and 8:00pm. However the opponent will now be Newton!
All players are asked to be at the field at 4:30pm.
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