Sports Section :: Page 63

• SPORTS SUNDAY — Girls soccer kicks off

  By Megan BachmanAugust 12, 2012

  On a day when the U.S. women’s national soccer team won Olympic gold, the Lady Bulldogs of Yellow Springs took to the field for the first time this year.

• T-ball finale­— Opening our hearts to children

  By Jimmy ChesireAugust 9, 2012

  

  It was a splendid night. I was in an end-of-season, love-fest state of euphoria.

• T-ball winds down this Friday

  By Jimmy ChesireAugust 2, 2012

  At the beginning of the evening, Edwin Harrah, 2, is running with us from right field, where we do our warm-up exercises, back onto the diamond. Well, not running exactly. Edwin’s 2. He’s a toddler. And toddlers toddle.

• Seadogs win two to finish season

  By YS News StaffJuly 26, 2012

  

  The Yellow Spring Seadogs Swim Team finished their season with a win against Clinton County swim team, 334 to 315, on July 19.

• T-ball’s festival of love and play

  By Jimmy ChesireJuly 19, 2012

  “I enjoyed your article,” Elijah Yelton, one of the most fantastic four year olds in the whole world, says. “You what?” I ask, stunned, not believing my ears. The boy is only four. “I enjoyed your article,” he repeats, telling me his grandfather, Charlie Bunton, read it to him. “I am sorry we were late,” […]

• Talk trumps t-ball in the heat

  By Jimmy ChesireJuly 12, 2012

  It’s hot, hot, hot, 100 degrees at t-ball time. And still a couple dozen children and their remarkable parents and grandparents and families show up to play!

• No tomatoes in baseball

  By Jimmy ChesireJuly 5, 2012

  At 4 p.m. it’s sunny, hot and humid. 98 degrees. Then the skies darken.

• The continuing delight of t-ball

  By Jimmy ChesireJune 28, 2012

  The colorful mosaic that is the Perry League continues to startle, astound and delight.

• Intoxicated by t-ball

  By Jimmy ChesireJune 21, 2012

  So many wonderful things make up this Perry League. Like Melissa Tinker, who brought her two beautiful, athletic, eager, running, hitting boys, Kian Barker, 5, and Neirin Barker, 2.

• Cold weather, warm hearts: t-ball begins

  By Jimmy ChesireJune 14, 2012

  It was cold. Very cold. And two minutes after I got there, it started to rain. A misty, drizzly, coat-you-completely, icy rain.