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Softball assistant was manager, married pitcher
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money so I applied."
By Ryan Dolan
The Kansas softball team announced the addition of a new assistant coach, Aaron Clopton, last week.
Like any basketball player that grew up in Kansas, Clopton wanted to walk on to the Kansas basketball team and play for Roy Williams in front of thousands of screaming fans in Allen Fieldhouse. But Clopton never made the team.
"New" is a relative term.
"I saw an ad when I started my sophomore year to do fieldwork on the softball diamond for ten bucks an hour," Clopton said. "I thought that was pretty good
Shortly after he was hired, the softball manager resigned, and Clopton started to perform the duties. That same spring a softball player named Sarah Workman redshirted because of an injured elbow. Consequently, Workman and Clopton spent a lot of time together during practice.
we started dating and a couple of months later we were engaged," he said. "It was that fast."
The Andover native managed the softball team for three years before graduating in 1999. Clopton and Workman married that summer.
"Softball has been good to me," Clopton said. "It's given me a wife and it's given me a job to pay for the wife."
Clopton's softball career has paid off for Kansas softball coach Tracy Bunge as well.
"The thing about Aaron is that he's a high-quality person and has a tremendous knowledge of the game." Bunge said. "Aaron was always around. He helped out with hardcore meetings and sat in on
Clopton's duties will include recruiting, coordinating team travel plans and hitting instruction, as well as working in the field with the position players.
A sports junkie who played baseball, football and basketball growing up, Clopton said he always wanted to coach at the collegiate level.
strategy sessions."
"I always thought it would be in basketball, not football," he said. "I think it's something I'll stick with for a very long time."
Clopton started coaching the Ottawa University basketball team in 1999 before deciding to return to his managing post with the softball squad.
"I love learning and studying about sports," said Clopton, who is currently studying for his masters in sports science at the University. "Sociology and psychology are big aspects of coaching. I feel learning makes you a better person and a better coach."
- Edited by John Audiehelm
Royals beat Red Sox, heat
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Dave McCarty and Jermaine Dye each hit two-run homers and Dan Reichert won his fourth straight decision as Kansas City beat
Boston 11-7 yesterday
in withering 100-degree heat.
The official temperature in downtown Kansas City in the sixth inning was 102, while the thermometer at a hotel across from
Kauffman Stadium read 103.
Reichert has not lost since July 16, the date of Boston knuckleballer Tim Wakefield's last victory.
Wakefield (6-9), who began the year 7-2 lifetime against Kansas
Reichert (8-6) got his fourth win in five starts, giving up three runs on six hits with five strikeouts and two walks in 5 2-3 innings.
City, lost to the Royals for the second time this month and fell to 0-4 during his last eight starts.
He lasted five innings and was charged with nine runs — seven earned — on eight hits, striking out five and walking three.
The Royals jumped on Wakefield for three runs in a second inning that had Boston manager Jimy Williams yelling at home plate umpire Pat Spieler.
After Wilson Delgado's basesloaded RBI single, Jeff Reboulet hit a tapper back to the mound. But Spieler ruled that McCarty was safe coming in from third because catcher Scott Hatteberg's foot was not on the plate when he took Wakefield's throw.
Johnny Damon added a sacrifice fly, then Dye made it 5-0 with his two-run homer in the third, his 31st.
In the fifth, Mike Sweeney hit an RBI single and later scored from third on an unusual fielder's choice when Lou Moriani caught
Mark Quinn's foul pop behind third base and threw to first in a futile try for a double play.
McCarty hit Wakefield's next pitch for a two-run homer, his 11th, and a 9-1 lead.
Merloni had two sacrifice flies, then ignited a four-run eighth inning against Chris Fussell with an RBI double.
Trot Nixon, who had an RBI single in the sixth, added a sacrifice fly in the eighth before Mike Lansing's RBI single. Boston cut it to 1-17 when Damon bobbled Jose Offerman's single to center.
The Royals got two runs in the sixth on Dye's sacrifice fly and Quinn's fielder's choice.
BOX SCORE
Boston 013 200 300 3—9
Kansas City 510 100 600 1—7
E-MJSweeney (9), DP-Boston 2, Kansas
E-LOB-Boston 13, Kansas City 3.2B-
Offerman (10), CEverett (22), Alexander (4)
Damn (33), Quinn (26), Zauan (8). HR-
Daubach (18), MJSweeney (22). SB-
CEverett (1), Alexander (1).
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