Juice Boxes and Post Game Stats: 50 Games for Sanchez

It wasn’t a great weekend across KC soccer this weekend with Sporting Kansas City drawing the New York Red Bulls while the Kansas City Comets and Swope Park Rangers both dropped games. Here’s stats and milestones from this weekend’s game.

Sporting Kansas City

Ilie Sanchez made his 50th straight league start for Kansas City.

Johnny Russell scored his 14th league goal for KC, tying him with Jack Jewsbury and Daniel Salloi for 20th all time on that list.

Russell scored his 9th league goal at home for KC, tying him with Gerso Fernandes and Claudio Bieler for 20th all time on that list.

In the 62nd minute, Roger Espinoza moved ahead of Jimmy Conrad and into 6th place for minutes played in league play for KC, he finished the game with 18,199 minutes played.

In the 15th minute, Tim Melia moved ahead of Jimmy Nielsen and into 18th place all time for minutes played in all competitions, Melia finished the game with 12,923 minutes played for KC.

Melia made his 143rd start in all competitions for KC, breaking his tie with Nielsen and moving him into a tie with Michael Harrington for 17th all time on that list.

Melia recorded his 30th tie in league play for KC, tying him with Tony Meola for the 2nd most in team history.

Kansas City Comets

Bryan Perez’s goal was his 99th league goal for the Comets, tying him with Byron Alvarez for 4th all time on that list.

Perez made his 143rd league appearance for the Comets, tying him with Vahid Assadpour for 5th all time on that list.

Byron Alvarez’s assist gave him 250 points (MPS and single point) for his Comets career in league play, he’s the 3rd player to hit that mark.

John Sosa’s goal gave him 223 points (MPS and single point) in league play for the Comets, breaking his tie with Lucas Rodriguez for 4th all time on that list.

Anthony Grant’s goal and assist gave him 41 points in league play for the Comets, tying him with Neto for 20th all time on that list (MPS and single point scoring).

Swope Park Rangers

Felipe Hernandez made his 53rd start in all competitions, breaking his tie with Colton Storm for 3rd all time on that list.

Wilson Harris scored his 4th goal in league play, tying him with Christian Duke for 13th all time on that list.

It was Harris’ 4th in all competitions as well, tying him with Duke and Wan Kuzain Wan Kamal for 15th all time on that list.

In the 49th minute, Graham Smith moved ahead of Ualefi and into 14th place for minutes played in league play for Swope. In the 79th minute, Smith passed Mark Anthony Gonzalez and moved into 13th place all time on that list. Smith finished the game with 2,553 minutes played.

In the 28th minute, Smith moved ahead of Gonzalez and into 13th place for minutes played in all competitions, he finished the game with 2,733 minutes played for Swope.

Smith made his 29th league appearance for Swope, tying him with Lebo Moloto for 17th all time on that list.

Smith made his 31st appearance in all competitions, tying him with Ualefi for 18th all time on that list.

Smith made his 30th start in all competitions, breaking his tie with Moloto for 14th all time on that list.

In the 78th minute, Wan Kuzain Wan Kamal moved ahead of Hadji Barry and into 10th place all time for minutes played in all competitions for Swope, he finished the game with 2,947 minutes played.

Kuzain made his 31st league start, tying him with Barry for 10th all time on that list.

It was Kuzain’s 33rd start in all competitions, tying him with Barry for 10th all time on that list as well.