Organizers of the 2022 Gay Games in Hong Kong have dropped the International Gay and Lesbian Football Association championships from the Gay Games soccer program, leaving local players in a quandary of where to plan to compete next year.
Gus Penaranda, IGLFA president, said HK2022 notified the international LGBTQ+ soccer organization of the cancellation in an email May 12. IGLFA now expects to receive bids from Sydney and Washington, D.C. and choose a new host city by July. Washington had been the runner-up in previous bidding for IGLFA s 2022 championship. Sydney will be host next year for World Pride. We knew Hong Kong would be difficult, Penaranda told the Bay Area Reporter. But it was quite a shocker. We ve had emails and text messages and calls going back to 2019. The notice gave us such little time to plan.
Baseball In Kansas For Four Games
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Baseball In Kansas For Four Games Posted Thursday, February 25, 2021
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Dordt will travel to Central Christian in McPherson, Kansas for two games on February 26 starting at 12:00 pm. The Defenders will face Central Christian again on February 27 at 11:00 am before wrapping up the weekend against Avila at 3:00 pm Saturday.
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Central Christian is 1-5-1 this season with a win over Dallas Christian and losses to Sterling and Ottawa. Josh Clyden leads the team with nine hits and a .500 batting average with four runs batted in. Julius Sifuentes and Trystin Gilbert each have five hits and three runs batted in. Michael Falcon has five runs batted in and has a .333 batting average.
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Bethany was 16-10 in 2020 and 7-1 in Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference play before the season stopped on March 10.
Braden Scrivner is Bethany’s top returning hitter and had a .357 batting average last season with 30 hits and five homeruns with 26 runs batted in and he clubbed seven doubles. Chase Lorg had 23 hits last season and is back with a .324 batting average and he had five homeruns.
The Swedes return three pitchers with over 24 innings of work last season. Manuel Rodriguez posted a 2.73 earned run average with 36 strikeouts in 33 innings of work. Chase Lorg had 30 innings of work and posted a 4.15 earned run average and struck out 33 batters. Both Rodriguez and Lorg allowed opponent batting averages below .200. Josh Macat threw 24 innings and had 27 strikeouts and had a 2-1 record. Lorg and Rodriguez were both 4-1 in six appearances and both had two complete games.
Organizers of the 2022 Gay Games in Hong Kong attending the Federation of Gay Games annual assembly January 24 projected optimism that Gay Games XI will be held safely despite ongoing concerns about the effects of the pandemic, rocky international relations between the United States and China, and concerns over the increasingly restrictive control of Hong Kong by the Chinese government.
Organizers said they are working with the FGG in identifying trigger points along the way to decide whether to continue, initiate, delay, revise, or cancel planned pre-event actions, such as registration launch.
Willem Hoekstra, operations director for HK2022, said trigger points organizers are paying particular attention to included national crises, securing sports involvement, fundraising, customer engagement, and security.