2014 Wenatchee AppleSox GAME NOTES Wenatchee at Kelowna Friday-Sunday (July 4 - July 6) Game Times: 6:35 p.m. Elks Stadium (Kelowna, BC) Wenatchee AppleSox Baseball Club, 610 N. Mission St. #204, Wenatchee, WA 98801 [email protected] June -- (16-9, 13-9) INDPENDENCE DAY SERIES IN CANADA 4 SAN FRANCISCO SEALS W (5-0) The Wenatcchee AppleSox (17-12, 14-12) venture out of the United States for the first 5 SAN FRANCISCO SEALS W (16-4) time in 2014 to face the Kelowna Falcons (8-18) in a three game divisional series...The 6 at Yakima L (3-4) 7 at Yakima W (7-1) AppleSox are entering their 15th season (10th in the WCL) and are 478-261 (.645) under 8 at Yakima W (3-2) skipper Ed Knaggs, who is in his 14th season as head coach of the AppleSox club...The 9 KITSAP L (4-14) AppleSox have achieved a winning record in all 14 seasons during Knaggs’ tenure... 10 KITSAP W (5-4) 11 KITSAP W (13-12) (11) Knaggs is assisted by AJ Proszek and Jason Krohn. 12 NORTHWEST HONKERS W (18-7) 14 at Medford L (4-8) COVERAGE OF THE APPLESOX 15 at Medford W (3-2) 16 at Medford L (2-7) The three game series with the Falcons will have live stats for all games provided by 17 at Klamath Falls L (8-10) pointstreak.com...all games will have live radio coverage on KCSY Sunny 93.9 FM in 18 at Klamath Falls W (2-1) Wenatchee and on various translators throughout North Central Washington (Lake 19 at Klamath Falls W (17-4) 20 WALLA WALLA L (5-15) Chelan Valley 95.3 FM, Okanogan Valley 101.9 FM, Methow Valley [Twisp-Winthrop] 21 WALLA WALLA W (5-1) 106.3 FM)...audio is also available at applesox.com/listen-live...AppleSox play by play 22 WALLA WALLA W (7-3) broadcaster Trevor Williams will call the action...Pregame shows each of the three 23 CORVALLIS W (5-4) 24 CORVALLIS W (3-0) games start at 6:45 pm...KWCC-TV (LocalTel cable channel 12 or Charter cable channel 25 CORVALLIS L (5-6) 19) will televise games, allowing fans to hear the Sunny FM radio broadcast and simul- 27 at Corvallis W (5-2) taneously watch the animated playbook provided by pointstreak...AppleSox Baseball 28 at Corvallis L (1-2) 29 at Corvallis W (5-4) provides updates on Twitter on @AppleSox, on Facebook (Wenatchee AppleSox) and 30 BELLINGHAM L (1-8) via Instagram by searching: AppleSox. JULY 1 BELLINGHAM L (2-6) 2 BELLINGHAM* L (6-7) 4 at Kelowna W (9-1) 5 at Kelowna L (4-13) 6 at Kelowna 8 EVERETT MERCHANTS 9 NORTHWEST STAR ACADEMY 10 WALLA WALLA PITCHING PROBABLES 11 WALLA WALLA 12 WALLA WALLA Monday 14 at Walla Walla Wenatchee - RH Tom Zarosinski (4 G, 4 GS, 1-2, 7.52 ERA, 20.1 IP, 21 H, 7 BB, 21 K) 15 at Walla Walla Kelowna- RH Joshua Nuernberg (5 G, 2 GS, 1-1, 5.09 ERA, 17.2 IP, 12 H, 8 BB, 18 K) 16 at Walla Walla 17 at Yakima 18 at Yakima Tuesday 19 at Yakima Wenatchee - RH Ian Buckles (4 G, 4 GS, 3-1, 1.03 ERA, 26 IP, 14 H, 6 BB, 14 K) 21 ALL STAR GAME (Klamath Falls) 22 KELOWNA Kelowna - LH Sam Murphy (5 G, 1 GS, 0-1, 4.21 ERA, 10.2 IP, 12 H, 4 BB, 13 K) 23 KELOWNA 24 KELOWNA Wednesday 25 at Bend 26 at Bend Wenatchee - RH Drew Rasmussen (4 G, 3 GS, 2-1, 4.33 ERA, 18.2 IP, 18 H, 9 BB, 17 K) 27 at Bend Kelowna - RH Jeremy Newton (4 G, 4 GS, 1-2, 3.09 ERA, 20.1 IP, 21 H, 5 BB, 13 K) 29 VICTORIA 30 VICTORIA 31 VICTORIA AUGUST 1 COWLITZ 2 COWLITZ 3 COWLITZ 5 at Kelowna SOMETHING HAS GOT TO GIVE 6 at Kelowna The Kelowna Falcons have lost 8 of their last 9 games and the AppleSox have lost three 7 at Kelowna 8 YAKIMA consecutive and have dropped four straight at Paul Thomas Sr. Field. The AppleSox are 9 YAKIMA currently standing in second in the WCL East. The Falcons are in fourth. 10 YAKIMA DIVISIONAL 12-14 -- CHAMP. 16,18-19 2014 APPLESOX BASEBALL GAME NOTES Wenatchee at Kelowna Elks Stadium Page 2 ABOUT THE KELOWNA FALCONS WENATCHEE’S RECORD... The Kelowna Falcons Baseball Club is the lone Canadian representative in the West 2014 Coast League. In 2000 the Kelowna Grizzlies were purchased by the Nonis Family who Overall 17-12 changed the name to Falcons. The Falcons first started play in the Pacific International League 14-12 Non-league 3-0 League (PIL) and competed in the league championship in 2004. The following year the Division 5-3 Falcons along with six other teams created the West Coast Collegiate Baseball League Home games 9-6 Away games 8-6 (which became the WCL in 2009). Day games 1-1 Night games 16-11 SERIES WITH THE FALCONS The AppleSox own the the overall series against the Falcons, 53-19, dating back to the Series 8-2 beginning of WCL play in 2005. The two teams have met in the playoffs six times and the Home Series 5-1 Away Series 3-1 AppleSox have swept all three playoff series. All three series continued in consecutive First game of series 5-6 seasons starting in 2008 and ending in 2010. The two clubs have met in extra innings five Rubber game of series 5-1 Last game of series 7-3 times. The AppleSox own the lead in extra frames, winning four of the games and losing Series sweeps 2-1 only one. The one loss came in the sixth meeting between the two teams in 2008. Doubleheader 0-0 Extra innings 1-0 PUT IT IN THE RECORD BOOKS Shutouts 2-0 The AppleSox home attendance of 2,125 on Wednesday night was officially the largest June games 16-9 crowd to witness a baseball game at Paul Thomas Sr. Field. July games 1-3 August games 0-0 NEVER BEFORE SWEPT AT HOME Sunday games 4-0 The Bellingham Bells did what no other visiting WCL team has done at Paul Thomas Sr. Monday games 1-3 Field as they swept the AppleSox earlier this week. The AppleSox have now been swept Tuesday games 2-2 Wednesday games 3-2 a total of 11 times, since the beginning of WCL play. Thursday games 3-0 Friday games 2-2 Saturday games 2-3 OH CANADA The Kelowna Falcons have four players from Canada. The AppleSox have zero. AppleSox score first 11-4 Opponent scores first 6-8 ABOUT KELOWNA’S COACH CLONTZ 1-run games 7-4 Coach Clontz spent his entire childhood in Oregon, played there, and even coached 2-run games 0-1 Sox scored 3 runs or less 4-5 there. The native of Corvallis starred at Corvallis High School and then moved on to play Sox scored 4 runs or more 14-6 at Mt. Hood Community College (2006-08). From there, he moved on to NCAA Division II Western Oregon where he helped lead the Wolves to 34-14 (2009) and 34-15 (2010) Leading after 6 innings 14-0 Tied after 6 innings 1-1 seasons. His best season came in 2009 as a junior when he hit .357 (41-115) in 33 games Trailing after 6 innings 2-11 while rapping out 8 doubles and 3 homeruns. Leading after 7 innings 16-0 Tied after 7 innings 0-0 Trailing after 7 innings 0-12 After his time at Western Oregon, Coach Clontz returned to Mt. Hood and immediately Leading after 8 innings 16-0 began coaching, where he assisted with hitters and infielders during the 010,2 ‘11, and Tied after 8 innings 0-1 Trailing after 8 innings 1-11 ’12 seasons. Mt. Hood is a nationally renowned program that has won 20 conference championships since 1971, including 16 of the last 22. Sox outhit opponent 12-4 Opponent outhits Sox 4-8 Clontz has also been extremely busy on the summer circuit where he coached three Hits are equal 1-0 Sox hit a HR 6-0 summers for the Corvallis Knights (2010, ’11, ’13), who played their home games at Or- Sox hit 2 or more HRs 1-0 egon State University and a summer with the Klamath Falls Gems (2012). While coach- Sox have a SB 12-6 ing with the Knights, he helped lead them to West Coast League Championships in both Sox have 2 or more SBs 2-0 2011 and ‘13 Sox starter with 6+ IP 7-1 Sox starter with 7+ IP 2-1 Sox starter with 8+ IP 0-0 LOW NUMBERS Sox are errorless 3-1 Kelowna has the second least attend ballpark in the WCL. Only Kitsap’s stadium attracts fewer fans (815 vs. 461). Come-from-behind Wins 7 Last At Bat Wins 2 EQUAL AVERAGE The AppleSox have played in front of an average 1,230 fans at home each night and 1,230 fans on the road... A very odd equalized stat. 2014 APPLESOX BASEBALL GAME NOTES Wenatchee at Kelowna Elks Stadium Page 3 Wenatchee vs... MEET THE SOX 2014 All-time* #1 Joe Gillette - Played football and baseball for the Falcons, however, he shifted his Bellingham Bells 0-3 35-23 Bend Elks 0-0 24-25 focus entirely to baseball before his junior season of high school...Gillette was named to Corvallis Knights 4-2 34-32 the 2013 New Balance All-Area Code Games Team and he competed for the L.A.