Sports Section :: Page 54

• T-ball finale — Love for the sport, and one another

  By Geneva GanoAugust 14, 2013

  It was a dark and stormy day: blustering thunder boomed in the Miami Valley, and anxious parents of dedicated t-ballers worried: would t-ball happen that evening? The concern was acute: it was t-ball trophy night, the blowout ballgame/wiener roast/celebration of what we’d done that is held at the end of the t-ball season each summer. […]

• Sea Dog team triumphs in spirit

  By Megan BachmanAugust 11, 2013

  

  After a slow start plagued by a closed pool and bad weather, the Yellow Springs Sea Dogs swimming team won its last two games of the season.

• Yellow Springs Perry League t-ball — We can all do it, if we try

  By Geneva GanoAugust 8, 2013

  “Look what I can do!” says Dorothy Paddison, 7. This creative, fun-loving girl is reversing the instructions, lifting her toes up in the air, all the way to her nose, ‘til she is wobbling around. The inevitable happens; she falls backwards.

• Locals contend at racewalk nationals

  By Megan BachmanAugust 4, 2013

  

  Yellow Springs High School sophomore Charlotte Walkey placed 11th at last week’s USA Junior Olympic Track & Field Nationals at North Carolina A&T University in Greensboro, N.C. Walkey competed in the 3,000-meter race walk, placing 11th out of the 28 walkers in her division with a time of 17:36. Also competing in the same race […]

• Minor League Indians’ major win

  By Tim SherwoodAugust 1, 2013

  The Minor League Indians finished out the season last week as league champions with a 12–0 undefeated record, and then just held off a surging Pirates team to also take the post-season tournament championship on Sunday evening.

• T-ball: all business, all fun

  By Geneva Gano

  After the rains this summer, the Gaunt Park diamond where we play every Friday night became kind of hard. In fact, it was a little bit like concrete. But this last Friday night we played in glorious, beautiful, perfect dusty-dirt.

• Each week, a little t-ball miracle

  By Geneva GanoJuly 25, 2013

  While I am a newcomer to reporting on t-ball, I’m pretty sure that a t-ball miracle happens every time we play.

• Local runners to compete at junior olympics

  By Megan BachmanJuly 21, 2013

  

  Youth runners with the Miami Valley Track Club qualified for next week’s junior olympic nationals.

• To honor Coach Jimmy, play ball!

  By Geneva GanoJuly 18, 2013

  As they were having their picture taken on the bleachers “for Coach Jimmy”, the closing crowd of about 30 children spontaneously cheered, over and over, “PER-RY LEAGUE, PER-RY LEAGUE, PER-RY LEAGUE!”

• Guest Blog: Win One for Coach Jimmy!

  By Sommer McGuire

  

  As soon as the news was out on what had happened a number of us had two immediate responses: “Please let this terrific human being be okay,” and “T-ball must go on. Coach Jimmy will only worry about his kids if we don’t.”