What’s the most important part of any golf swing?
Perhaps it was just fatigue from playing their sixth game in six days. Or maybe it was the hot bats of the Bankers Baseball Club, or the weary Lakeside pitching.
Ashley Blake, who helped lead Lakes High School to a fourth-place finish in state last season, has been hired as Sammamish High School’s girls basketball coach.
Bellevue Community College Athletic Director Bill O’Connor has named former assistant coach Karly Wade as the new head of the Men’s and Women’s Cross Country Program, replacing Jenn Marsh who stepped down in May.
After a pair of tough losses in which they could not find a way to mount an offensive attack, the Lakeside Recovery American Legion Baseball club found itself with its back against the wall on the last day of the Brandy Pugh Memorial Tournament.
It’s All-Star break time in Major League Baseball, so there’s no better time to lay out some bold predictions for the second-half of the season.
Golf is in high gear right now. Have you gotten your swing on video lately?
After enduring a 33-month battle with leukemia, Brandy Pugh died March 15, 1999 at Swedish Medical Center, where he was born in 1966. Pugh was well-known in Eastside baseball circles.
If you like baseball, I can’t encourage you enough to head out to either BCC or Bannerwood Park this weekend.
What looked to be a sure victory quickly turned into a scare for the Lakeside Recovery Senior Legion baseball team in its first game of the Brandy Pugh Memorial Tournament.
For the record, Benjamin Titus didn’t even know what an albatross was until two weeks ago.
But, thanks to two perfect swings of a golf club, both Titus and his father, Bud, know all about albatrosses and the odds against obtaining them.
An albatross is perhaps the most rare event in golf. Also known as a double eagle, an albatross occurs when a golfer shoots 3-under par on a hole. That’s what Titus did June 23 on the second hole at the Bellevue Municipal Golf Course.
The Thunderbird Huskies girl softball team defeated the Thunderbird Wildcats 18-15 in a wild, extra-inning game to claim the Mercer Island, Issaquah and Bellevue City Championship for the Majors Division LL softball league on June 16.
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Finally, a sport that doesn’t disappoint.
Bellevue West Little League ended the season with two championships in this year’s three-division City Tournament. Both the AAA and AA Bellevue West Diamondbacks beat out the AAA Bellevue Thunderbird Tigers and the AA Bellevue East A’s to take the title of their respective divisions. The Mercer Island Tigers won the majors division.
For once in my life, I’m speechless. So I’ll make this brief, because each word typed out on this keyboard makes me sick to write.
In the quiet, early morning hours, oars slip cleanly in and out of Lake Sammamish. A team of master rowers powerfully propels a shell across the water.
The sun was shining, the runners were trained and ready, but due to a organizational snafu, some participants in the Virginia Mason Team Medicine Seafair Marathon were left out of the race.
