Monday, July 10, 2017
Midwest Veterans At Rossville
The Rattlers lead the Midwest Veterans 7-5 after 3 innings at Joe Campbell Stadium on Monday Evening.
Rattlers Win Against Blues
The Rattlers came out on top of their Sunday evening game with the Baldwin City Blues in Rossville. The see-saw game ended with the Rattlers ahead 8-6.
Sunday, July 9, 2017
Baldwin City Blues At Rossville
The Rattlers are hosting the Baldwin City Blues Sunday evening at Joe Campbell Stadium
After 5 innings, the score is tied 3-3.
After 5 innings, the score is tied 3-3.
Peggy Baird Passes Away
Peggy L. Conger Baird, 70, Rossville, KS passed away at her home July 1, 2017. She was born October 13, 1946.
She graduated from Highland Park High School in 1964. She worked for Rossville City Hall for numerous years, and was also Mayor of Rossville for eight years. She owned the Rossville Liquor Store for fifteen years as well.
She married Vernon W Baird in May 1964. He survives. She has one son, Thomas Baird and one daughter, Karla Shafstall (Chad). Four grandchildren, Kiefer, Kayla, and Kody Hurla and Annasha Baird and many great grandchildren.
Peggy also loved watching her grand kids participate in sports, playing with her great grand kids, and going to the casino.
Graveside services will be held at the Rossville Cemetery July 15, 2017 at 10am.
Rossville Pool Celebrates 10 Years
From the Capital-Journal:
ROSSVILLE — A celebration to mark the 10th anniversary of Rossville Community Pool will be from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, July 15, at the pool in northwest Shawnee County, the county’s parks and recreation department said in a news release Friday.
Admission will be free, as a result of an arrangement involving the Rossville Community Foundation.
Free hot dogs, chips, cookies, water and watermelon will be served to the first 150 people to arrive between 11 a.m. and noon, with swimming opening at noon. The celebration will also feature giveaways and games.
Shawnee County’s parks and recreation department, which manages the complex, provided updates for its 10th anniversary that included painting the pool basin, adding a shade structure and adding lockers.
A community fundraising effort involving the Rossville Community Foundation and a local task force brought about the 2007 opening of the pool, which cost about $1.2 million.
County Commissioner Shelly Buhler, who joined that body in 2007 after serving since 2001 as mayor of Rossville, recalled in Friday’s news release how residents of the community had wanted a pool for more than 20 years.
A $5,000 donation made in 2002 launched the fund-raising effort., which included collecting cans and holding concerts.
Major contributors, members of the task force and the Rossville Community Foundation, current and past Shawnee County commissioners, and parks and recreation staff members are expected to be on hand for the July 15 celebration.
Saturday, July 8, 2017
Bonnie VandeVelde (49) Passes Away
Rossville-Bonnie VandeVelde, 85, passed away Thursday, July 6, 2017 at her home.
She was born July 30, 1931 at Willard the daughter of John Stanley and Viola Mary Burns Martin. Bonnie graduated from Rossville High School in 1949 where she was active in the glee club and played basketball.
Bonnie worked for the University Of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City for many years. She moved back to the Rossville community in the 90’s and worked as a PBX operator at Payless Shoe Source Corporate Office in Topeka. Bonnie was a member of St. Stanislaus Catholic Church and was member of the church choir.
She was preceded in death by her parents, siblings, James, John, Robert and Dutch Martin and Nona Haltom; son, Dennis Paul VandeVelde and a grandson, Brandon Keith Snyder.
Survivors include three sons, Timothy, Donnie and Marvin VandeVelde; four daughters, Kathleen Strohl, Bernadette Bye, Dianne VandeVelde and Mary Harden; her brother Raymond Martin, Topeka; eight grandchildren; four great-grandchildren with one on the way.
Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:00 A.M. Friday, July 14, 2017 at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Rossville. Interment will be in the Rossville Cemetery. Mrs. VandeVelde will lie in state and the family will receive friends from 5:00 until 7:00 P.M. Thursday at the church where a rosary will be recited at 7:00 P.M. Memorial contributions may be made to the Bonnie VandeVelde Memorial fund and sent to Piper Funeral Home, 714 Maple Street, St. Marys, Kansas 66536. To leave an online condolence please go to www.piperfuneralhome.com.
Roduner Helps Giants Beat Rattlers
Rossville High graduate Christian Roduner was more than happy to take one for the team.
Stepping to the plate with the bases loaded, two outs and the score tied in the bottom of the ninth inning, Roduner was hit by a pitch in the middle of his back to bring in the winning run in the Topeka Golden Giants’ 2-1 victory over the Rossville Rattlers on Friday at Jerry Robertson Field.
“I just told myself I was going to get him in one way or another,” said Roduner, who was hit by the first pitch from Rossville pitcher Nick Cole. “If I was taking a pitch, that’s what I was going to do.”
Roduner also was hit by a pitch in the fifth inning, and his RBI single in the third drove in the Giants’ first run.
“That’s always my approach. If anything is going to hit me, I’m just going to let it no matter what,” he said.
Roduner, a third baseman from Rossville, has had a strong summer for the Giants after an impressive freshman season at Colby Community College. He was a walk-on with the Trojans and was a Jayhawk Conference West Division all-conference selection as a utility player.
“I just keep working,” he said. “Anything you put your mind to and put your time into, you can do it. Rossville is a big football school and people never really talk about baseball. I’m a 6-foot kid who runs a 4.7 40 from a 3A school so I wasn’t going to do a whole lot at the next level in football. Colby gave me a chance and I was lucky to have a good year.”
The Giants (16-8) remained in first place in the Mid-Plains League West Division, taking two-of-three games in the series with the Rattlers (6-17). All three were one-run games with the winning run scored in the ninth inning.
Along with his two RBIs, Roduner also had a hand in the Rattlers’ run. His fielding error in the sixth allowed Keishon Brown to each first, then Brown then stole second and scored on Dylan Watts’ single.
“I let the ball get behind my eyes and I tried to catch it out front,” Roduner said of the error. “I just misjudged it, but it happens to the best of us.
“I was ready to make up for it when I got to the plate.”
Cole retired the first two Giants in the ninth, then Carson Green and Casey Wulfkuhle singled and Brett Owen walked to bring up Roduner.
After the offenses and defenses dominated the first two games of the series, pitching took over Friday. Giants starter Zach Ebert allowed one unearned run on three hits with four strikeouts and one walk in seven innings, and Jaxon Passino retired all six batters he faced for the win.
“Zach had a great start,” Roduner said. “He’s been really good for us all year and one (run) is usually enough for him, but you always need some insurance.”
Rattlers starter Joe Fragano allowed one run on six hits with five strikeouts and no walks in five innings.
Rossville 000001000— 1 3 0
Topeka 001000001— 2 9 2
Topeka 001000001— 2 9 2
Fragano, McClung (7), Cole (8) and Maxson, Watts (7). Ebert, Passino (8) and Green. W — Passino. L — Cole. 2B — Rossville: Dees.
Friday, July 7, 2017
Giants Get 2-1 Win Over Rattlers
The Rattlers lost a close one Friday night against the Topeka Golden Giants. Once again the Rattlers lost the game in the bottom of the 9th inning when the Giants broke a 1-1 tie.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTTL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| TPKG | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 1 |
Rattlers Victorious Over Knights
From the Capital-Journal:
It’s been a tough season for the Rossville Rattlers, and the trend seemed to be taking another downward spiral.
The Rattlers started strong to build a 7-2 lead over the Topeka Golden Giants in the fifth inning, but that lead slipped away. The Giants rallied and scored the go-ahead run in the seventh inning on a balk.
Rossville didn’t get rattled. The Rattlers pulled even with a run in the eighth and scored again in the ninth for a 9-8 Mid-Plains League victory over the Giants on Thursday at Jerry Robertson Field.
“We could have folded a lot of times and, to be honest, earlier in the summer we might have folded,” Rattlers manager Tobi Cowdin said. “It’s been a big step for our young group to realize those things are going to happen in baseball and you have to regroup, get yourself back together and get ready to compete with the next pitch.
“Eventually, you can work yourself out of it and we did an excellent job of that tonight.”
Topeka starting pitcher Gavin Greenwood faced the minimum nine batters through three innings, allowing a single in the first but erasing the baserunner with a double play.
Rossville (6-16) then scored four runs in the fourth off Greenwood and three in the fifth off reliever Cameron Kay with a total of eight hits for a 7-2 lead.
“We started to sit back a little bit and let the ball get to us,” Cowdin said. “We were a little excited early trying to hit the ball hard, but once we let it get to us we did a good job of putting some good swings on the ball, moving runners and getting them in when we had chances to.”
The Giants (15-8) chipped away and took the lead in the seventh. Cole Hoover’s RBI groundout scored Christian Roduner to make it 7-7, and Erik Webb was on third with two outs.
Webb attempted to steal home and was out by two steps, but the base umpire called a balk on Rossville pitcher Jimmy Larson that brought Webb home with the go-ahead run.
The Rattlers tied it in the top of the eighth on an RBI single by Jordan Maxson, who was 3-for-4 with two RBIs.
Justin Cooper led off the Rossville ninth with a double, moved to third on Brandon Wilkerson’s sacrifice bunt and scored the winning run on a sacrifice fly by Dylan Watts.
Watts, Caleb Littlejim and Reid Fehr, the top three hitters in the Rossville lineup, had two hits apiece and Aaron Dees had three RBIs with a sac fly and two-run triple.
Larson earned the win, allowing two runs on one hit and four walks in three innings.
“Larson came in and did his job,” Cowdin said. “He did a good job keeping his composure, hanging in there and throwing strikes and making them beat him. And the defense picked him up.”
Webb was 3-for-5 with a double and two stolen bases for the Giants.
The three-game series, tied at 1-1 concludes at 6 p.m. Friday at Robertson field.
Rossville 000 430 011 —9 13 2
Topeka 100 131 200 —8 9 2
Topeka 100 131 200 —8 9 2
Skoro, Middendorf (5), Larson (7) and Fehr. Greenwood, Key (5), Wulfkuhle (6), Cooper (7), Marreel (8), Smith (8), Demmel (9) and Hoover, Green (9). W — Larson. L — Demmel. 2B — Rossville: Fehr, Cooper. Topeka: Webb. 3B — Rossville: Dees.
Thursday, July 6, 2017
Golden Giants Win In 9th Inning
From the Capital-Journal:
As the summer baseball season winds down, each game becomes more important for the Topeka Golden Giants as they try to win a Mid-Plains League title.
The Giants were battling from behind much of the night Wednesday, facing early deficits of 1-0 and 4-2 against the Rossville Rattlers along with ties at 6-6 and 7-7. The Giants kept coming back and pulled out an 8-7 victory on Erik Webb’s walkoff sacrifice fly in the bottom of the ninth inning at Jerry Robertson Field.
“We’ve been talking to them about the grind of the summer and we’re at that point where we’re hitting that grind,” Giants manager Connor Crimmins said. “I tell them you have that target on your back being at the top of the division right now.
“We found a way to win. Coming out on top in a game like that is big for us. We have to keep moving and take care of business.”
The Rattlers (5-16) scored four runs in the first three innings off Topeka starter Chris McPherson but the Giants used a four-run third to take a 5-4 lead.
Cole Hoover’s RBI single put the Giants up 7-6 after seven innings, but the Rattlers pulled even in the eighth when Justin Cooper led off with a single and scored on Dylan Watts’ two-out sacrifice fly.
The Giants had one more rally in them, getting started when Casey Wulfkuhle led off the ninth with a walk. Brett Owen followed with a bunt single and Christian Rodruner put down another bunt that forced out Owen at second but moved Wulfkuhle to third, setting up Webb’s game-winning sac fly to left field.
“Casey had a great at-bat to work himself to 3-2 and got a walk,” Crimmins said. “Brett had a great bunt to get on, then we had sac bunt but they made a good play on defense to get the guy at second.
“Erik has been our RBI guy all summer and comes up in the clutch. We have a lot of confidence when he’s at the plate.”
McPherson pitched five innings, allowing five runs on six hits, Harry Hefner worked three innings and Garrett Smith pitched the ninth to earn the win.
“Harry came in and did a great job for us in relief,” Crimmins said. “He got in a couple of jams but worked out of it. In the last inning, Garrett did the same thing with a double play to get out of the inning and give us a chance to win in the bottom of the ninth.”
Shortstop Jaxon Passino was 2-for-4 with a double and three RBIs for the Giants while Owen, Webb and Hoover had two hits apiece. Rattlers catcher Jordan Maxson was 4-for-4 with a double and Watts was 2-for-3 with two doubles and four RBIs.
The three-game series continues at 6 p.m. Thursday at Robertson field.
TOPEKA 8, ROSSVILLE 7
Rossville 121 011 010 — 7 12 1
Topeka 204 000 101 — 8 11 2
Topeka 204 000 101 — 8 11 2
Brown, Rotramel and Maxson. McPherson, Hefner (6), Smith (9) and Hoover. W — Smith. L — Rotramel. 2B — Rossville: Watts 2, Maxon. Topeka: Passino. 3B — Topeka: Owen.
Wednesday, July 5, 2017
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