Gumm sparks 17U Bullpups to 9-4 victory

Jaytin Gumm fired six impressive innings on Friday to lead the McPherson 17U Bullpups to a 9-4 victory over the Colorado Bandits on the opening day of a baseball tournament Friday at Light Capital Diamond.

Gumm allowed only one earned run over six innings and fanned six to pick up the win. Jakob Feil pitched the final inning.

The Bullpups scored three runs in the second, two in the third and three in the fourth to swell their lead to 8-1.

Gumm helped his own cause with a triple and double, good for two RBIs, and also reached base two more times by walks.

Hunter Alvord and Gavin Richardson also came up with a pair of knocks. Alvord and Dawson Feil drove in two runs apiece. Alvord and Luke Schroeder scored two apiece.

The Bullpups play at 8:30 a.m. Saturday against the Kansas Crushers and at 1 p.m. against CPU 16.

Bracket play Sunday starts at 9:30 a.m.

McPherson (9) – Gumm 2-1-2-2, Hoover 3-0-1-0, Alvord 4-2-2-2, D. Feil 4-1-1-2, J. Feil 3-2-1-1, Pearson 3-0-0-0, Richardson 3-1-2-1, Buchman 2-0-0-0, Myers 1-0-0-0, Schroeder 2-2-1-0.

Shrine Bowl to be played with limited fans

TOPEKA – The Kansas Shrine Bowl has announced the crowd size for the 47th annual football game scheduled for July 18 at Hummer Park in Topeka will be limited.

Shrine Bowl officials said approximately 2,000 people will be allowed into Hummer Park, including players, participants, staff and fans.

That means approximately 1,500 fans will get to view the game in person.

A statement from the Topeka Partnership reported that new procedures for the Kansas Shrine Bowl “have been vetted by local health officials as well as the Kansas State High School Activities Association.”

A limited supply of masks will be available for fans at the gate. It has been recommended that the individuals bring their own.

The stadium will have sanctioned-out seating for fans and players will be given extra space on the sidelines. Also, players will be required to wear mask when they’re not on the field.

Longer breaks will be put into the game.

New turf project at Anderson Field completed

Jim Turner

LINDSBORG – Bethany College Department of Athletics, in partnership with USD 400 Smoky Valley, announces the completion of the new turf installation in Anderson Stadium.

The work was completed by EnviroTurf, the same company who installed the prior turf field 12 years ago. This playing surface is used for all Bethany home football and soccer games as well as Smoky Valley High School varsity, junior varsity and Smoky Valley middle school football teams.

Work on this installation began on May 30. This process featured the removal of the old turf, repair of the wood boards around the base, and installation of new, state of the art, turf. This project was completed on Thursday, June 18.

The Bethany soccer teams will host Oklahoma City University in their first home regular season game on the new surface on September 12. The Swedes’ football team will be in action on the turf for the first time on September 19 in the First Bank Kansas Smoky Hill Showdown when it hosts Kansas Wesleyan.

Here is the Royals' 2020 schedule

Here is the Kansas City Royals’ revised schedule for 2020. All times CDT.

July 24 – at Cleveland, 6:10 p.m.

July 25 – at Cleveland, 4:10 p.m.

July 26 – at Cleveland, 12:10 p.m.

July 27 – at Detroit, 6:10 p.m.

July 28 – at Detroit, 6:10 p.m.

July 29 – at Detroit, 6:10 p.m.

July 30 – at Detroit, 6:10 p.m.

July 31 – Chicago White Sox, 7:05 p.m.

Aug. 1 – Chicago White Sox, 6:05 p.m.

Aug. 2 – Chicago White Sox, 1:05 p.m.

Aug. 3 – at Chicago Cubs, 7:15 p.m.

Aug. 4 – at Chicago Cubs, 7:15 p.m.

Aug. 5 – Chicago Cubs, 7:05 p.m.

Aug. 6 – Chicago Cubs, 6:15 p.m.

Aug. 7 – Minnesota, 7:05 p.m.

Aug. 8 – Minnesota, 6:05 p.m.

Aug. 9 – Minnesota, 1:05 p.m.

Aug. 10 – Off day

Aug. 11 – at Cincinnati, 5:40 p.m.

Aug. 12 – at Cincinnati, 5:40 p.m.

Aug. 13 – Off day

Aug. 14 – at Minnesota, 7:10 p.m.

Aug. 15 – at Minnesota, 6:10 p.m.

Aug. 16 – at Minnesota, 1:10 p.m.

Aug. 17 – at Minnesota, 7:10 p.m.

Aug. 18 – Cincinnati, 7:05 p.m.

Aug. 19 – Cincinnati, 7:05 p.m.

Aug. 20 – Off day

Aug. 21 – Minnesota, 7:05 p.m.

Aug. 22 – Minnesota, 6:05 p.m.

Aug. 23 – Minnesota, 1:05 p.m.

Aug. 24 – at St. Louis, 7:15 p.m.

Aug. 25 – at St. Louis, 7:15 p.m.

Aug. 26 – at St. Louis, 7:15 p.m.

Aug. 27 – Off day

Aug. 28 – at Chicago White Sox, 7:10 p.m.

Aug. 29 – at Chicago White Sox, 1:10 p.m.

Aug. 30 – at Chicago White Sox, 1:10 p.m.

Aug. 31 – Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.

Sept. 1 – Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.

Sept. 2 – Cleveland, 7:05 p.m.

Sept. 3 – Chicago White Sox, 7:05 p.m.

Sept. 4 – Chicago White Sox, 7:05 p.m.

Sept. 5 – Chicago White Sox, 6:05 p.m.

Sept. 6 – Chicago White Sox, 1:05 p.m.

Sept. 7 – at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m.

Sept. 8 – at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m.

Sept. 9 – at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m.

Sept. 10 – at Cleveland, 5:10 p.m.

Sept. 11 – Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m.

Sept. 12 – Pittsburgh, 6:05 p.m.

Sept. 13 – Pittsburgh, 1:05 p.m.

Sept. 14 – Off day

Sept. 15 – at Detroit, 6:10 p.m.

Sept. 16 – at Detroit, 6:10 p.m.

Sept. 17 – Off day

Sept. 18 – at Milwaukee, 7:10 p.m.

Sept. 19 – at Milwaukee, 6:10 p.m.

Sept. 20 – at Milwaukee, 1:10 p.m.

Sept. 21 – St. Louis, 7:05 p.m.

Sept. 22 – St. Louis, 7:05 p.m.

Sept. 23 – St. Louis, 7:05 p.m.

Sept. 24 – Detroit, 7:05 p.m.

Sept. 25 – Detroit, 7:05 p.m.

Sept. 26 – Detroit, 7:05 p.m.

Sept. 27 – Detroit, 2:05 p.m.

Royals announce revised 2020 schedule

KANSAS CITY, Mo.  — In conjunction with Major League Baseball, the Kansas City Royals have announced their revised 60-game schedule for the 2020 regular season.

Opening Day is scheduled for 6:10 p.m. CT on Friday, July 24, at Progressive Field vs. the Cleveland Indians, to mark just the second time in the last six seasons in which Kansas City will open on the road.

It will be the sixth time in Royals’ history in which they will open on a Friday, and the first since 2012. This will represent the latest Opening Day in Royals history, after the club played its earliest Opening Day last season on March 28. Their 2020 opener will mark the 300th day since the Royals last took the field in a regular season game on Sept. 29, 2019, when they closed out the season with a 5-4 walk-off win vs. Minnesota.

The Royals’ 2020 home opener is now scheduled for 7:05 p.m. CT on Friday, July 31, vs. the Chicago White Sox, which will end a streak of 305 days without a regular season game at Kauffman Stadium.

Kansas City will play 60 games in 66 days this season, including 30 games at home and 30 on the road. Forty games (66.7%) will be played within the American League Central division, and the remaining 20 games will be played vs. the National League Central division.

The breakdown includes 10 games each vs. Cleveland, the Chicago White Sox, Detroit and Minnesota. Kansas City will host three games vs. Cleveland, seven games vs. the Chicago White Sox, four games vs. Detroit and six games vs. Minnesota. The Royals will travel for seven games in Cleveland, three games at the Chicago White Sox, six games in Detroit and four games in Minnesota.

The Royals’ 20-game Interleague schedule will feature six games vs. their intrastate rivals, the St. Louis Cardinals, including a three-game set at Busch Stadium from Aug. 24-26 and a three-game set at Kauffman Stadium from Sept. 21-23. They will host Pittsburgh for the first time since 2015, for a three-game series from Sept. 11-13, and will travel to Milwaukee’s Miller Park for the first time since 2018, for a three-game set from Sept. 18-20. The Royals will round out their Interleague schedule with four games each vs. the Reds and Cubs, including two games in Cincinnati from Aug. 11-12, followed by two games vs. the Reds in Kansas City from Aug. 18-19; and a home-and-home set vs. the Cubs, beginning with two games at Wrigley Field from Aug. 3-4, and concluding with two games at Kauffman Stadium from Aug. 5-6.

The Royals will play on just one national holiday this season, when they travel to Cleveland on Labor Day (Sept. 7).

Kansas City’s home games will feature weeknight first-pitch times at 7:05 p.m. CT. Saturday home games will begin at 6:05 p.m. CT and Sunday home games will start at 1:05 p.m. The only two exceptions are on Thursday, Aug. 6, when the Royals will host the Chicago Cubs beginning at 6:15 p.m. CT, and on the final day of the regular season, Sunday, Sept. 27, when the Royals will host Detroit beginning at 2:05 p.m. CT.

The Royals will host two season-high seven-game homestands, from Aug. 31-Sept. 6 vs. Cleveland and the Chicago White Sox, and to close out the regular season from Sept. 21-27 vs. St. Louis and Detroit. Kansas City will open the schedule with a season-long seven-game road trip from July 24-30 at Cleveland and Detroit. The Royals will have two 17-day stretches without an off day, from July 24-Aug. 9 and Aug. 28-Sept. 13. They are scheduled for four off days in August (10th, 13th, 20th and 27th) and two in September (14th and 17th).

4 more Royals games to be aired this week

Four more memorable Kansas City Royals games will be replayed this week on 96.7 KBBE-FM.

Tonight at 7:00, recall a game from Aug. 11, 2014. This is known as the “Sung Woo Super Fan” game.

On Thursday, with a 7 p.m., airing, it’s a game from April 23, 2015, known as the “Royals Rumble in Chicago.”

At 6 p.m. Saturday, a game from July 18, 2015, when Ned Yost becomes the all-time winningest manager in Royals history.

At noon Sunday, listen to a game from July 18, 2016, when light-hitting Jarrod Dyson hits a grand slam.

Register now for Little Pups volleyball camp

McPherson High volleyball coach Christy Doile has announced that the MMS and Little Pups 2020 Volleyball Camp is scheduled for July 13-16 at the Roundhouse.

This is for girls who will be entering grades 1-6 for the 2020-21 school year.

Here are the divisions and times:

10:00-11:30 a.m. – 7th-and-8th-graders

11:45-1:00 – 4th-5th-6th-graders

1:30-2:30 – 1st-3rd-graders

The cost is $35 for grades 7-8, $30 for grades 1-6 and an additional siblings pay $20.

The camp is conducted by Doile and members of her coaching staff. Current MHS players and MMS coaching staff will be assisting.

The camp will focus on the fundamentals of the game as well as rules of the game. No prior exposure to volleyball is necessary. If you have prior experience, you will be grouped accordingly.

Due to COVID-19, parents are not allowed to watch the camp. Temperatures of all participants will be taken and sanitizer will be provided. Those who are feeling ill on a certain day are asked to stay at home.

Participants should wear comfortable athletic clothing, wear shoes that won’t mark up the floor and those who have knee pads are encouraged to wear them, but are not required. Also, girls should bring their own water bottles.

To register for the camp, contact Doile at 620-480-4805.

17U Bullpups earn split on Friday

McPherson’s 17U Bullpups received a strong pitching effort on Friday to defeat Lawrence, 3-1.

Aiden Hoover unfurled four scoreless innings and fanned six while allowing only two hits. He handed the baton to Hunter Alvord, who wound up with the win as he didn’t allow an earned run in his three innings and fanned three.

It was a scoreless game until the sixth when McPherson plated two runs and then it added a singleton in the seventh.

Luke Schroeder came up with two hits, one a double. Jarret Myers also hit a double.

Earlier on Friday, McPherson took on the Topeka 18 Scrappers and it was tense game until the final two innings when the Scrappers scored nine runs, the difference in a 13-4 victory.

Walks were the undoing as McPherson pitchers gave up 12 free passes and combined that with six errors.

Five Bullpups had a single each.

McPherson vs. Lawrence

McPherson (3) – Gumm 2-0-0-0, B. Hoover 1-0-0-0, A. Hoover 3-1-1-0, Alvord 3-0-1-0, Rinker 2-0-1-0, D. Feil 3-0-1-1, Pearson 3-0-0-0, Richardson 3-0-1-0, Myers 3-1-1-0, Schroeder 2-0-2-1, Buchman 1-0-0-0.

McPherson vs. Topeka

McPherson (4) – Gumm 2-1-0-0, A. Hoover 1-2-0-0, Alvord 3-1-1-1, Rinker 2-0-1-0, Buchman 1-0-0-0, D. Feil 2-0-1-0, Pearson 4-0-1-1, Richardson 3-0-0-0, Wedel 3-0-1-0, Schroeder 1-0-0-0.

Sign up now for Turkey Creek Open

The annual Turkey Creek Open Golf Championship is scheduled for July 25-26.

This is two days of individual stroke play. The highlight of the event is that winners in each flight are put into a drawing for a free Turkey Creek membership for 2021.

Golfers make their own groups on Saturday and can play at any time. Sunday’s tee times will be assigned, with the first group going off at 9:30 a.m.

Divisions include:

Open -- $80 entry fee for members, $100 for non-members. Golfers play the blue tees.

Senior Division I – For golfers ages 50-64. Play the white tees. The fee is $70 for members and $90 for non-members.

Senior Division II – For golfers 65 and over. The fee is $60 for members and $80 for non-members. Play from the gold tees and play the ball up.

Women’s Division – A one-day, 18-hole event. Play the red tees. The fee is $25 for members, $40 for non-members.

The entry fee includes cash prizes for winners in each flight and the winners’ names will be on the permanent Open Championship plaque at the clubhouse.

On Sunday, there are side games of Day Money and a flighted egg game.

To enter, stop by the TC clubhouse or call the course at 241-8530. Also, you can email Treg Fawl at [email protected]

Today's Turkey Creek senior golf winners

Forty-six golfers turned out on a warm Thursday morning at Turkey Creek for the weekly senior scramble.

Here are the placers:

Championship Flight

1st  -- 60  --(with a four-hole scorecard playoff) Mick Norbert, Chuck Allcock, Steve Vogts, Jerry Meng and Don Herrick

2nd   -- 60  -- Tim Karstetter, Jim Ketcherside, Tom Griffith and Rick Anderson

3rd   -- 60   -- Tony Cracchiola, Virgil DeWild, Jim Griggs, Bob Robertson and Rodger Swanson

1stFlight

1st -- 63  -- (with a one-hole scorecard playoff)  Dennis Friesen, Larry Prather, Lane Bomberger and Tom Goldsmith

2nd -- 63  --Harold Curl, Bill Shook, Perry McCabe and Dale Fishback

3rd -- 63  -- Don James, Rex Morris, Gary Walker and Rich Benson