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Real Salt Lake drafted Ghanian midfielder Amass Amankona out of the University of Dayton with its third-round pick in the 2016 MLS SuperDraft Tuesday afternoon. The club followed up that selection by drafting Creighton goalkeeper Connor Sparrow with the 65th pick in the fourth round. With the following pick, RSL opted to pass with its final pick of the draft at No. 66.

Rounds 3 and 4 of the draft were conducted via conference call with league officials.

Amankona, a 5-foot-7 offensive midfielder at Dayton, led the Flyers in goals scored in 2015 with 13. He added five assists — second-most on the team last season. He started all 23 matches he appeared in a season ago, in which he was named the Atlantic 10 Conference's Most Valuable Player, as well as Midfielder of the Year, first-team All-Conference and an academic All-Conference selection.

In three seasons at Dayton, Amankona scored 23 goals and had 18 assists in 61 career games with the Flyers.

RSL took Sparrow, a 6-foot-2, 175-pound goalkeeper, from St. Louis, Mo., with pick No. 65. Sparrow spent the last three seasons at Creighton after spending his freshman season at University of Missouri-Kansas City. In 2015, Sparrow had nine shutouts and 53 saves in 23 appearances in goal.

The two late-round picks are likely candidates to join RSL's USL side Real Monarchs in 2016. Will update with quotes on both Amankona and Sparrow from general manager Craig Waibel later today. With the fifth pick in the SuperDraft last Thursday, RSL selected North Carolina midfielder Omar Holness and later took Notre Dame left back Max Lachowecki No. 25 in Round 2.

-Chris Kamrani

Twitter: @chriskamrani