The following is a listing of players with Bellevue ties playing professional baseball. If you know a player who should be added to the list, please call Joel Willits at 425-453-5045 or e-mail him at jwillits@reporternewspapers.com.
Kingsgate Ice Arena in Kirkland for adults or youth to learn to ice skate or enhance the skills of experienced skaters for ice hockey or figure skating, 14326 124 Avenue, N.E. Visit www.kingsgateskatingclub.org or 425-821-7133, ext. 5.
The Boys and Girls club of Bellevue gave out its annual awards at the July 16 board meeting, recognizing several young Bellevue athletes.
The 10U Bellevue Dragons Pony League team swept opponents from Spokane, Portland and Seattle on the way to winning the West Seattle Pony tournament championship the weekend of July 12-14.
With a 3-1 victory over Snoqualmie Valley North Little League in the District 9 championship game on July 12, Bellevue West Little League advanced to the Junior baseball state tournament in Mt. Vernon.
A month into his professional baseball career, Brad Reid has learned one thing: you need to have a short memory to succeed as a pitcher in pro ball.
After appearing in only one game with the Peoria Mariners of the Arizona League, the Seattle Mariners’ rookie team, Reid was called up to the High Desert Mavericks, the M’s Class A advanced team in the California League.
Can’t get enough sports? Want to be closer to the action? Boy, do I have the job for you. Many, in fact. All it takes is a little searching.
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.
