Sports Section :: Page 94

• Challenger Soccer to return to village

  By YS News StaffJune 11, 2009

  Yellow Springs Soccer, Inc., a non-profit organization which promotes the enhancement of soccer in the Yellow Springs community, will host the third annual Challenger Sports British Soccer Camp this summer. The soccer camp will be held June 22–26 at the boys’ soccer practice field located behind the Yellow Springs High School.

• Yellow Springs Youth Baseball

  By YS News Staff

  More than 60 area youth kicked off the 2009 Yellow Springs Youth Baseball Minor League season this past weekend. In the season opener Friday, June 5, the Pirates outlasted the Dragons 16–11 in a game that saw both teams pound out 25 hits.

• Summer open gym for girls basketball players

  By YS News StaffJune 9, 2009

  The McKinney School and Yellow Springs High School girls basketball program is offering open gym sessions on Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 4 to 6 p.m. The sessions began Tuesday, June 23, and are open to any middle and high school girls interested in playing basketball.

• T-ball begins

  By YS News StaffJune 4, 2009

  Perry League, Yellow Springs’ T-ball program, opens its 2009 season Friday night, June 5, 6:30 p.m. at Gaunt Park. The village’s non-competitive beginners baseball program is open to girls and boys ages 2–9. Two- and three-year-olds are welcome if accompanied on the diamond by an adult.

• 3on3 basketball registration

  By YS News Staff

  Registration is still open for the Street Fair Shootout 3on3 basketball tournament during the Yellow Springs Street Fair on Saturday, June 13, at the Bryan Community Center outdoor courts. There are girls and boys divisions for grade school (up to 6th grade), middle school (7-8th) and high school (9-12th) players.

• Girls medal but don’t advance

  By YS News Staff

  For the YSHS girls team at the Division III regional track meet on Friday, the 4×200 relay finished seventh in 1:48.66, with Ryder Comstock, Elizabeth Gonder, Brenda Jones and Melodie Wright. The same girls came in eighth in the 4×400 in 4:23.03.

• Bulldog Sports Roundup

  By YS News Staff

  “That’s the fastest I’ve ever run that one,” Brock GunderKline said, still out of breath from hitting third place and a personal record in the 800-meter run at the Div. III regional track meet on Friday, May 29. “Vince just told me to stay steady with the pack and use my kick at the end. It worked!”

• They went that-a-way!

  By YS News StaffMay 21, 2009

  

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• Bulldog Sports Round-up

  By YS News StaffApril 30, 2009

  

  Competing in blustery, rain-swept conditions, the Bulldogs boys track team put forth a solid effort at the London tri-meet on Tuesday, April 21, to come in second with 59 points. London won the meet with 93 points, and Fairbanks took third with 15.5.

• Soccer clinic May 2

  By YS News Staff

  This Saturday, May 2, from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Gaunt Park in Yellow Springs, the Challenger Sports British Soccer organization will offer a free soccer clinic and a chance for a free half-day, week-long summer camp in Yellow Springs. Raffle tickets can be purchased for $1 each at the Saturday clinic.