On Monday, March 15, the GateWay Gecko Baseball team battled Cloud County Community College from Kansas. The game started out close but the Geckos managed to pull away from Cloud to take the win 7-4. The game was also Tweeted Live through Twitter (to follow us on Twitter go to http://twitter.com/GateWayGeckos).
To see all the photos from the win over Cloud County, please visit http://tinyurl.com/2010baseballvscloud.
Kevin Collinge, a freshman baseball player at GateWay Community College, competed March 11 in Kansas City for a national ESPN Contest. Last month, Collinge submited a video of his best impersonation of sports broadcaster Dickie Vitale and was picked to be in the Top 25 by ESPN staff. After a month of voting, Collinge was voted into the Top 15 by viewers & his fans and was flown out to Kansas City for the Big 12 College Basketball Tournament on March 10. Yesterday (March 11) he performed his impression in front of a live audience and against several other impersonators and the audience voted Collinge as their favorite. Collinge received a $10,000 check! CONGRATULATIONS KEVIN!
(more pictures/video/story to come)
Casey Maloney has been chosen as the "Divison II Player of the Week" by the National Junior College Athletics Association! Along with one other player and two other pitchers, Maloney was chosen by the NJCAA as one of the first "Baseball Players of the Week" for 2010 for his outstanding play during the last few games. Check out the full article here.
Congratulations, Casey!