Spring Break
The best thing about the UMKC men's soccer team's 8-1 loss to the Kansas City Wizards reserve unit on Saturday was that the match didn't count. Forward Ivan Trujillo's four-goal first half highlighted a 90-minute preseason soccer clinic at Wizard's practice facility in which the Major League Soccer pros schooled their NCAA Division I opponents all morning long.
Present and former members of the UMKC women's volleyball team played before a packed house Friday night at Swinney Recreation Center (SRC). While all five games were close, it was the current installment of Kangaroos who prevailed with a 3-2 victory ((25-13), (20-25), (25-21), (26-28), and (17-15)).
Held scoreless after 110 minutes last week, the UMKC men's soccer team broke loose Friday night at William Jewell College, punching across two goals in each frame against the Cardinals for a 4-1 victory. Four separate scorers found the back of the net for the Roos.
UMKC Volleyball is gearing up for another season with new faces and talents, as well as familiar ones from last year. The experienced players of last year combined with these new athletic recruits form a team their coach is confident about. "One of my goals was to get the team more athletic and I think we did that in pretty much every position," said head volleyball coach Geno Frugoli.
I always seem to be missing out on something. In 1972, my Cub Scout group was scheduled to go watch the Royals play on Opening Day at the brand new Harry S. Truman Sports Complex. My buddies from Pack 430 in Clinton, Mo. and I instead watched the game from the unspectacular confines of the dying Municipal Stadium.
Clark pulls out of golf championship UMKC senior Stephen Clark, formerly of the Kangaroo men's golf team, withdrew from the U.S Amateur Championships in Pinehurst, N.C. due to a death in the family, Tuesday, Aug. 19. The 2008 UMKC Circle of Champions award winner reportedly excused himself from action before his scheduled second round tee-off time to return to his native Scotland; Clark originally hales from Glasgow.
