From the Desk of the GM - May 7, 2009

“First Exhibition Game”

With four days of training camp in the books, the Goldeyes ventured out on the road this past Monday night to play what would be their only exhibition game against a Northern League opponent. All five other pre-season games are against former Northern League, and now American Association teams, namely St. Paul, Lincoln and Sioux Falls.

Some highlights from Monday’s game…West hit a two-run homer, Asanovich was 2-2, Pfinsgraff went four innings, no runs, three hits, no walks, three strikeouts, Odom threw two innings, no runs, no hits, four strikeouts.

Monday’s game will be the only game that the Goldeyes play this year that is not on 1290 CFRW. You can catch the five remaining exhibition games plus the 96 regular season games either on your radio dial at 1290 AM CFRW or on-line at www.cfrw.ca.

The rest of the exhibition games are as follows:

Friday, May 8 – 7 p.m. at Sioux Falls vs. Sioux Falls
Saturday, May 9 – 4 p.m. at Sioux Falls vs. Lincoln
Sunday, May 10 – 1 p.m. at St. Paul
Monday, May 11 – 7 p.m. at Canwest Park vs. St. Paul
Tuesday, May 12 – Noon at Canwest Park vs. St. Paul

I’ve heard many times since the beginning of the 2006 season that our fans want to see more variety in teams that visit Canwest Park. Well, on May 11 and 12, they will get that chance when the Saints come to town for a two-game set. It may just be exhibition, but knowing how competitive George Tsamis’s teams have been over the years, those two games will be anything but exhibition-like.

The Goldeyes will open the 2009 campaign on Friday, May 15 in Kansas City against the defending Northern League Champion T-Bones. A week later, the T-Bones will visit Canwest Park on May 22 for the 2009 home opener. As always, there will be fireworks that night following the game put on by our good friends at Archangel Fireworks.

Until next time…
-- Andrew