Sports Section :: Page 106

• Fall rec soccer to start

  By YS News StaffAugust 14, 2008

  Games and practices for the fall season of the Youth Recreational Soccer program is scheduled to begin soon at Gaunt Park. The Morgan Building soccer fields are undergoing a major improvement project and will not be ready for play until 2009.

• YSHS Soccer Alumni Games set for Saturday

  By YS News Staff

  The annual Yellow Springs High School Soccer Alumni Games will be played on Saturday, Aug. 16, at the YSHS stadium. The girls’ game will kick off at 5:30 p.m., with the boys game beginning at 7:30 p.m.

• I’m sorry that the season’s over

  By Jimmy Chesire

  How do you say goodbye? Parting is such sweet sorrow. (Remember the 1970s best seller, Love Story by Erich Segal, and its promotional line, “Being in love means never having to say you’re sorry.”

• Join McKinney football, harriers

  By YS News Staff

  The McKinney School junior high sports program encourages athletes interested in participating in either the football or the cross country teams to join in now.

• Football parent meeting

  By YS News StaffAugust 7, 2008

  All parents/guardians of prospective McKinney School and Yellow Springs High School football players are asked to attend a meeting with the coaches on Friday, Aug. 8, at 7 p.m., at the high school.

• Football coaches sought

  By YS News Staff

  The Miami Valley Warriors “semi-pro” football team has a few openings for football coaches. Previous coaching experience and football knowledge is preferred.

• Whistles, genetics, trophies, oh my!

  By Jimmy Chesire

  We start the evening and end the evening with a whistle. It’s a fascinating thing how so many of us love the sound of the athletic whistle, the clear-high-pitched, a train’s-a-coming blast of it.

• Harriers begin

  By YS News StaffJuly 31, 2008

  Yellow Springs High School and McKinney School cross country, a good sport for fitness, fun and the competition of friendly rivalries, will begin its fall season on Monday, Aug. 4.

• Teen volleyball practice

  By YS News Staff

  Yellow Springs High School and McKinney School will begin volleyball practice at Mills Lawn School on Monday, Aug. 4. Grades nine through 12 will have practice from 3:30 to 5:30 with grades seven and eight to practice from 5:30 to 7 p.m.

• Psychic or not, come to t-ball

  By Jimmy Chesire

  I ran into a couple of t-ball players Saturday at Docton’s Animal Clinic in Xenia, when I was picking up medicine for our new, 8-week-old puppy, Cody. Olivia Ling, 4, marched in the front door with her fabulous sister Eliana, 6, their mom Audrey, and their guinea pig in a box.