Along with today's expansion draft that saw Tyson Wahl head to Seattle, the Wizards waived 3 players today as well. The casualties are Ryan Pore, Carlos Marinelli, and Ivan Trujillo.

Pore was drafted in the second round of the 2005 MLS draft, a Generation Adidas player, Pore had led the nation in scoring at Tulsa. Click to continue reading...

Good luck to you Tyson--except against KC.

Today, the Wizards lost defender Tyson Wahl to Seattle Sounders FC in the expansion draft and waived forwards Ryan Pore and Ivan Trujillo and midfielder Carlos Marinelli. Good luck Tyson in Seattle and the other three in their future endeavors. We appreciate their efforts here in KC and wish them nothing but the best. Click to continue reading...

Two first half goals by Ryan Pore were enough to lead the KC Wizards reserves to a victory over the Chicago Fire this evening at Community America Ballpark, after the first team game against the Fire. Thanks to a season ticket holder perk, I was able to watch the game from the "expensive" seats field side, and sample the Wizards' Drop Kick Ale that they have. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards reserves took care of business in their friendly today, defeating William Jewell College 3-0 out at the training complex this morning. Goals by Ivan Trujillo, Michael Kraus, and Ryan Pore led the team to the win. Click to continue reading...

Sorry for the delayed post, here's the release about the match. On the Marinelli goal, I've seen elsewhere that Souter scored, but the refs said the initial fumble by Edwards went over the line and Souter pushed it in afterward. Enjoy the rest of the rundown.

KCW Reserves Defeat Toronto FC Reserves 6-0 Sunday

Kansas City Gets Hat Trick from Ivan Trujillo, Two Goals from Ryan Pore

MLS Reserve Division Match
Sunday, September 21, 2008 – 10:00 a. Click to continue reading...

The KC Wizards reserves had no problem taking down the Toronto FC reserves this morning out at the Wizards Swope Park training complex. Ivan Trujillo had a hattrick as the reserves beat Toronto 6-0 today. The first half for the game was fairly quiet, as the Wizards and Toronto didn't have many great chances. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards played a friendly today at their Swope Park training complex against the U-23 Arkansas Wizards. Hillcrest Road has a more indepth write up on the game. The Wizards, though, had no problem taking out their Arkansas counterparts, as they beat them 13-0. All healthy Wizards players got into the game and most played a half. Click to continue reading...

The reserve division stats on MLSnet are incomplete for both 2005 and 2007; the pdf's for those seasons only go up to a certain point in the season. The former is only missing the final four games, but the latter is missing a huge chunk of the season, so I had to go through each match report and add up things by hand. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards reserve players topped UMKC easily this morning out at the Swope Park training center, 8-1. The game was as close as it was, as the reserves dominated the performance for long stretches of the game. Here's how the reserves started out:
Kronberg
Myers - McMahen - Wahl - Watson
Marinelli - Souter - Morsink - Espinoza
Pore - Trujillo

The scoring started early, as in the 9th minute, Kevin Souter overlapped Carlos Marinelli, who backhealed the ball as he went by. Click to continue reading...

Thad over at The Back Post has the story. It looks like Onalfo is going to be switching things up this weekend with Chivas coming to town on Saturday. Roger Espinoza, Kurt Morsink, and Ryan Pore are dropped in favor of Josh Wolff, Kerry Zavagnin, and rookie Matt Marquess. So we can expect something like this on Saturday it looks like. Click to continue reading...

The reserves were able to get something out of the trip to DC this weekend, as the league leaders took down second place DC United 4-2 this morning to increase their lead on top of the division. Ryan Pore opened the scoring from the penalty spot, after Nelson Pizarro was fouled in the box. Early in the second half, the Wizards doubled their lead, when Kevin Souter, let loose a bomb that curled into the corner. Click to continue reading...

Our reserve squad turned in an impressive performance today against D.C. United's, winning 4-2 at the RFK Auxiliary Field. Below is a write-up from DCU's press dude Kyle Sheldon. He summed it up pretty well, so I won't try to squeeze it in before catching the bus to the airport. Note: Souter's goal was an absolute BOMB to start the second half. Click to continue reading...

How's that for a confidence booster? With only 7 of our normal starting 11 in the lineup, and only 6 guys starting who started against KC in the season opener, United somehow came together to produce a big win and their first shutout of the year. With a first look at the starting lineups and the revelation that Ryan Pore was starting at forward, I kind of had a feeling that this could finally be THE ONE, and the team did not disappoint. Click to continue reading...

Below is the official game summary from the reserves 4-2 loss to the Wizards this morning. Of note, Ben Olsen's older brother Jeremy did see the field, coming on at half and playing 25 minutes. Additionally, after being out for a number of weeks, both Jeff Carroll and Dan Stratford made their returns today coming on as second half substitutes.

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that was just plain bad tonight. The Wizards facing another undermanned team (as many as 8 starters missing) and lay a complete egg in DC losing 2-0. The first shut out of the season for Zach Wells and DC United. Yet again, the Wizards offense looked anemic, refusing to take shots until it was too late and then putting them wide or straight at the keeper. Click to continue reading...

Yes, I know this is from last year, but it's still great.

Anyways, the Wizards travel to DC this weekend to take on United. The two teams come in going in entirely different directions. The Wizards are undefeated in their last 6 games (2-0-4). DC on the other hand has lost their last 4 games, all at home. Click to continue reading...

Sorry for the late notice everyone, but hopefully you still have time to get prepared for tomorrow's "Stuff the Bus" activity. As some of you have heard on 94.9 KCMO, we're collecting extra school supplies at tomorrow's match to assist the City Union Mission in providing school supplies for those less fortunate. Click to continue reading...

Below is today's press release. Pizarro's goal was a serious rocket. I couldn't describe it as such in the release quite enough, and the own goal was created by Pizarro's great ball that would have been converted by Kraus even if the defender didn't touch it. At one point in the game, we kept the ball for over two minutes and completed at least 35 straight passes (they were counted) without New York touching the ball. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards make their token appearance on ESPN tomorrow night when they travel to Columbus to take on the Crew. The Wizards are 0-2 against the Crew this year after dropping the first game in Columbus 2-1 and then being humbled at home 3-0 a few weeks ago. The Wizards come in on a four game unbeaten run in the league (2-0-2) and on a 6 game unbeaten run overall (3-0-3). Click to continue reading...

The Wizards today announced the trade of forward Scott Sealy to the San Jose Earthquakes for allocation money. Sealy had scored 2 goals this season, in what had so far been a down year. He'll move to San Jose, who is the lowest scoring team in the league and look to reestablish himself as a goal scorer. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards got a dramatic winner against their sister club Atlas last night out at Community America Ballpark. Michael Kraus put in a rebound from an almost impossible angle after Atlas' keeper, Pedro Hernandez, blocked a shot by Nelson Pizarro in the 91st minute to give the Wizards the win.

The Wizards started almost the same team from the Open Cup game against Seattle, the only change was Pizarro replacing Kraus. Click to continue reading...

For the first time since the second game of the season, the Wizards scored more then one goal in an MLS game. Goals by Jimmy Conrad and Davy Arnaud helped the Wizards to the 2-1 win over Red Bull New York tonight at Community America Ballpark.

The Wizards started the first half strong, keeping the action in New York's end of the field. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards bowed out of the US Open Cup to the Seattle Sounders 0-0 (5-6) on penalty kicks tonight. Misses by Jimmy Conrad and Tyson Wahl during the spot kicks gave Seattle the edge, as Sebastian Le Toux hit the cross bar as well to keep it even. In the PKs, Ryan Pore, Ryan McMahen, Roger Espinoza, Kerry Zavagnin, and Michael Harrington all put their chances away. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards dropped two points tonight down in Dallas. Holding the lead as added time started, the Wizards allowed a goal by Abe Thompson to tie the game at one. And in the end, it is likely what Dallas deserved, the goal was coming. The Wizards opened the game as they have the first few, coming out and attacking. Click to continue reading...

Phew, a long day of travel from Raleigh to Dallas and training now behind us, Hillcrest Road is free to check back in. We're settling into the Sheraton Stonebriar hotel here in Frisco. Very nice, and very new. Today on the way to training, Mr. Chet North donned a pair of oh-so-handsome (and not just because they're mine) white sunglasses to go with his "yes-I-have-huge-guns" cutoff shirt. Click to continue reading...

It was a rare sight to see yesterday as the Wiz score more than one goal in a 4-2 win over the Carolina Railhawks. What a pleasure to see so many goals from the boys in blue, and while the RailHawks were the inferior opponent, it didn't stop them from jumping out to a 2-0 lead 55 minutes in. Carolina got a couple of nice goals from Santiago Fusilier and Matthew Watson.

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After collecting the exhibition Saturn Cup and New Mexico Cup, we moved to 2-0 in Open Cup matches. One was a play-in game, but a win is a win. We now play the Seattle Sounders next Tuesday at Qwest Field. Check kcwizards.com for a full recap.

Scoring Summary:
CAR – Santiago Fusilier (Ryan Solle) 44
CAR – Matthew Watson (Dan Antuniak) 58
KC – Ivan Trujillo (Michael Harrington) 68
KC – Claudio Lopez (penalty kick) 82
KC – Ivan Trujillo (Claudio Lopez) 94
KC – Ryan Pore (penalty kick) 119

Highlights from tonight:

Harrington's cut before serving to Trujillo for the first goal. Click to continue reading...

It took a late PK in regulation and two goals in extra time, but the Wizards made it by the Carolina Railhawks 4-2 after extra time tonight, in Cary, NC. KC started the game strong and looked to be bringing the game to Carolina, when Chance Myers went closer early in the match. KC, though, couldn't get the offense going, as Ryan Pore, and Carlos Marinelli both missed good chances. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards reserves followed the example of the first team, and lost 3-2 to the Columbus Crew in reserve league play today. Like the first team, the reserves fell behind 2-0 early. Unlike last night, though, the reserves fought back and Ryan Pore scored right before the half to make it 2-1. In the second half, the Wizards controlled the play, especially down their left wing. Click to continue reading...

It's hard to put into words just how bad the Wizards played last night. In front of an honest to god sell out crowd, the Wizards laid one of the biggest eggs in team history, with a 3-0 loss to the Crew. The Wizards looked unable to do the simplest of soccer basics like passing and marking. The Crew scored early and after that, the Wizards never looked like there were going to score. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards got a 2-2 draw with Colorado tonight in their Open Cup qualifier, and won the game 5-3 on PKs. Due to travel, I was unable to attend the game, but you can read a play-by-play of the game over on Hillcrest Road, as well as first hand accounts of people over on bigsoccer once they get back from the game. Click to continue reading...

Sorry so blurry, the Moto Q camera phone on 6X zoom isn't the highest res ever. Coach talking to media, Jimmy signing autographs and Jimmy holding the trophy.


Ok, the running commentary is done. Some other notes. Jimmy Conrad's post-game speech to the crowd upon taking the trophy from an event organizer included the following:

"Thanks for coming out. Click to continue reading...

For those of you who didn't, check out Bob Luder's story about the new Wizards Golf Tour created by players and salesdude Brian Roberts. Leg 3 took place Tuesday, with Ryan Pore winning his second-consecutive outing. Pore shot an 85 (67 with handicap). Jack Jewsbury remains in the overall lead. They're not sure, but guesstimate that Tyson Wahl is in last. Click to continue reading...

The Wizards intra-squad scrimmage today ended in a 2-2 draw. The White team, which was made up of starters started the scoring in through Carlos Marinelli, after Claudio Lopez beat his defender from Chance Myers long ball.

The Orange team, made up of reserves equalized when Kurt Morsink curved in a ball from about 25 yards out. Click to continue reading...

Today, the boys took part in a spirited scrimmage out at Swope since we don't have an MLS match this weekend. The game was just as you would expect for a weekend MLS contest. Lots of high-energy play, including a few physical tackles, yellow cards and players yelling at the opposition.

White took the lead early through Marinelli then surrendered two goals to Morsink and Pore before equalizing through Sealy just 30 seconds from the final whistle. Click to continue reading...