Sports Section :: Page 72

• Play for the Bulldogs

  By Megan BachmanAugust 14, 2011

  

  The fall sports season in Yellow Springs starts soon. Click here for more recreational and high school sports sign-up information.

• T-ball love, Yellow Springs style

  By Jimmy ChesireAugust 11, 2011

  

  Someone put a hundred dollar bill in our donation jar Friday night. A hundred dollars! It stuns and gratifies us.

• Rebuilding YSHS football

  By Megan Bachman

  Football may return to Yellow Springs High School this year if efforts to organize a team by new Head Coach Clayton Wolfe and new Athletic Director Steve Rossi are successful.

• VIDEO: The talented tots of Perry League t-ball

  By Megan BachmanAugust 7, 2011

  

  The Perry League t-ball season closer on Friday showcased the local tot talent. See a video of the action and a gallery of photos.

• The tiny warriors of t-ball

  By Jimmy ChesireAugust 4, 2011

  It was another scorcher. Ninty-three degrees at 6:30 p.m. (though the humidity was only 49 percent, which helped some). Five kids got us started — we had 25 on the diamond before the rains sent us home early, and for the third time this season. Dane Beal, 5, is for me one of the keenest […]

• Trying to blow softer at t-ball

  By Jimmy ChesireJuly 28, 2011

  Mia Campbell was back. And this time with the whole Campbell entourage. Tristan, who will be 13 in August, a big brother so handsome that if I were a 13-year-old girl I’d ask him to marry me. Raven, he’ll be 11 on July 29, who is impressed with the size of his clan: “Five people […]

• The poetry of Perry League

  By Jimmy ChesireJuly 21, 2011

  It was steaming, the temperature in the mid-nineties, the humidity near 100 percent last Friday night, July 22. Six brave children showed up: Tommy Moore, 3, a stalwart, not missing a night this whole season. Tiger Van Ausdal, four-and-a-half, a good, strong, engaged, aware-and-sensitive-to-others kid who calls out every time before she throws the ball […]

• YSHS alumni return for tournament

  By Megan BachmanJuly 7, 2011

  

  At the Yellow Springs High alumni basketball tournament held last weekend, former Bulldog stars went head-to-head.

• At t-ball, as tender as we can be

  By Jimmy ChesireJune 30, 2011

  I had a first last Friday night. When I pulled into Gaunt Park around 6:25 p.m. for our 6:30–8 p.m. evening of Perry League t-ball, there was not a soul in sight. Not a child on the diamond. Not a parent in the bleachers. Not a car in the parking lot.

• Another face of our t-ball kids

  By Jimmy ChesireJune 23, 2011

  

  Evan Galarza, age 4, shines his love beacon up at me and says, “I want to be on the field with you.” I am thrilled to be chosen by such a dream child.