Giants' 2nd season comes to an end

The Topeka Golden Giants lost to Clarinda on Tuesday, 12 runs to 7. They faced the Omaha Diamond Spirit in the loser's bracket on Wednesday, this time falling by the score of 8 to 5. TH Giants' final overall record for 2006 is 20 wins, 18 losses.

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Giants win opening game at regional

Found this little tidbit in the Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune.

Clarinda began defense of its regional tourney title with a 7-0 whitewash of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes Grays Monday and, also in the bottom half of the bracket, Topeka's Golden Giants topped Omaha Winery, the Upper Deck champ, 10-5.

The bracket has also been updated

Giants finish out regular season with 2 losses

The Topeka Golden Giants lost 13-6 in Parkvlle on the 20th, and also lost to Chillicothe on the 21st, 6-1.

The Golden Giants final regualar season record for 2006 is 19-16 overall, they finished 4th in the MINK League with an 11-12 league record.

The postseason starts tomorrow.

Giants lose final home game

The Topeka Golden Giants were defeated by the Beatrice Bruins in their final 2006 game at Hummer Sports park. Final score: 14 to 3.

Update: Capital-Journal article.

There is a make up game in Parkville this evening, followed by a Friday night game in Chillicothe. The opening game of the regional will be against winner of the Omaha Upper Deck League pennant at 5:45 p.m. Monday in Clarinda. Info and bracket are availiable on the A's site.

Giants over Grays, 6-4

The Topeka Golden Giants won at home tonight over the FCA Grays of Blue Springs, Missouri. The final score was 6 runs to 4. Bringing them to 11-9 in the MINK and 19-14 overall.

The final home game will be tomorrow night versus the Beatrice Bruins. 7 o'clock first pitch.

Final regular season game will be Friday night in Chillicothe, also at 7 p.m. The postseason begins with the National Baseball Congress Central USA Regional tournament in Clarinda starting on Tuesday the 25th.

Update: Capital-Journal article

Giants lose close game to Clarinda

Monday's game ended on a failed suicide squeeeze play in the bottom of the ninth, alowing Clarinda to win, 9 runs to 8.

Capital-Journal article

Final Homestand begins

The Topeka Golden Giants will face the Clarinda A's at Hummer Sports Park tonight. This is the first game of their final homestand of the season. The FCA Grays will be in tomorrow and Beatrice arrives Wednesday. All games start at 7:00 p.m.

Today's game canceled

Today's Golden Giants game at Seaman High School against the Wichita Gators has been canceled.

Golden Giants sweep doubleheader

The Topeka Golden Giants won both games tonight. The final score for Game 1 was Topeka 3, Parkville 2. Game 2 ended Topeka 6, Parkville 4.

Update: C-J article

Game in Beatrice "hailed out"

The Giants game with Beatrice was rained/hailed out. The hail and heavy rain started just before 6 p.m. in Beatrice. The Giants and Bruins will make the game up if needed on July 20th in Topeka.


The Giants play on Friday July 14th at 4:00 p.m. at Hummer Park in Topeka. The first game will be continued from an earlier game that was rained out. The game will resume in the top of the 3rd inning with the score tied at 1. Both games will be seven inning affairs.


On Saturday the Giants will play at Seaman high school against the Wichita Gators. This game is a 6 p.m. start.

Giants lose close one

The Topeka Golden Giants lost a close game in Chilicothe to the MINK-leading Mudcats on Tuesday. Final score was 3-2.

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Giants lose to Generals

The Topeka Golden Giants lost to the Junction City Generals in Topeka tonight. Final score was 2-0.

Update: Capital-Journal article

Giants-Generals rained out

Today's Golden Giants game at Seaman High School vs. the Junction City Generals has been rained out. Tomorrow's 7:00 p.m. game vs. the Generals at Hummer is still on.

Giants sweep Generals in Ozark

The Topeka Golden Giants swept the Ozark Generals in a doubleheader Friday. The Giants won the first game 5-3 in nine innings in a scheduled seven inning game, with a solid pitching performance from Austin Todd. Todd gave up only one earned run, scattering eight hits. Jake Dean singled in two runs in the ninth inning to give Topeka a two run lead. Kyle Knuteson pitched the bottom of the ninth, allowing no Generals to reach base.

The second game was scheduled for seven innings also. Tim Brown pitched six of those innings, giving up only two hits. Jake Dean hit a towering solo-shot home run, off the right field foul pole, which seemed to ignite the Giants as they went on to score four more runs in the top of the 4th. The Giants momentum continued into the 5th with three additional runs. Josh Corpening came on in relief in the 7th to finish the game for the Giants.

The Giants are now 8-7 in league play and 16-11 overall, they are currently 3rd in the MINK, 2 1/2 games behind the first place Chillicothe Mudcats.

The Sunday game with the Junction City Generals is scheduled for a 4:00 p.m. start at Seaman high school.

The Giants will play Junction City again on Monday, this time at Hummer Sports Park with a 7:00 p.m. start.

Giants win in Beatrice

I don't have results for yesterday's game in Parkville, but I just caught the score for tonight's road game in Beatrice on WIBW-TV. Giants won 13-8.

Update: Here's the Capital-Journal article on the Beatrice game. The Parkville game was not mentioned in the article, but the Giants league record is listed as 6-7, which implies they haven't played another league game since the Nevada tournament. If anyone knows for sure, please post a comment below.

2nd update: The game in Parkville was rescheduled to July 20th.

Giants take second at Tournament of Champions

The Topeka Golden Giants got to the finals of the Nevada Tournament of Champions the hard way, fighting through the entire loser's bracket. In the end, they fell to the Nevada Griffons for a second time, and came in second.

From the Topeka Capital-Journal:

While coming up short of a tournament title -- falling 11-10 to the Nevada Griffons in the championship game Monday in Nevada, Mo. -- coach Daniel Esposito believes the Golden Giants may have turned a corner.

"Teams have to go through stuff like this to become closer and come together," Esposito said Tuesday.

"I'm hoping that after going through some adversity to come back and finish second in the tournament , it will catapult us into the second half of our conference season."

The tourney games make Topeka 13-11 overall, but they remain 5-7 in league play. The Giants are currently in 5th place in the MINK.

The tournament so far....

The Topeka Golden Giants have advanced to the semi-final game of the Tournament of Champions in Nevada, Missouri. After an opening round loss to the Nevada Griffons, the Giants bounced back and defeated the Topeka Badgers 14-0. The Giants later beat the Parkville Sluggers 14-3 and won the night cap against the Ozark Generals 6-2, highlighted by a Matt Berner 2-run 4th inning homer. The Giants play the semi-final on Monday July 3rd at 10:45 a.m.