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@bellevuereporter.com.
Seattle Sounders FC and Washington Youth Soccer have partnered to integrate new programs into the youth soccer development system in…
Lauren Sewell finally got her second chance.
Sewell, a 17-year-old who will be a senior at Kentridge High School next year, won the girl’s 16-17 title at the Washington Junior Golf Association’s State Championship. Sewell finished the final round, held at Bellevue’s Glendale Country Club, at par, winning the tile by four strokes over Kirkland’s Simone Strauss.
As the heat in region rose to record temperatures, there was nothing to cool down the Lakeside Recovery Senior Legion baseball club.
The team, composed of Newport, Skyline and Issaquah players, rolled through the Senior Legion State Tournament, capturing its sixth state title and a Regional Tournament bid with an 8-0 win over Yakima Pepsi Pak in the championship game Wednesday night at Heidelberg Park in Tacoma.
Mudville Pinnacle captured its second AABC state championship crown in three years, defeating the JBA Bruins of Kent 5-2 in the championship game of the Connie Mack State Championships at Bannerwood Park in Bellevue
Bellevue’s rep as a ‘fit’ city just got a little bit more legitimate thanks to Northwest CrossFit.
The gym, located at 12121 Northup Way, Suite 100 in Bellevue, is one of two official CrossFit affiliated gyms owned by Jake Platt in the greater Seattle area that can now call itself the fittest CrossFit gym in the world.
Members representing Platt’s Northwest CrossFit gym recently took home that title when they won the 2009 CrossFit Games Affiliate Cup, defeating 96 other teams representing official CrossFit affiliated gyms.
Earlier this summer in our June 11 issue, we published a story about how Craig Runnels, Newport Hills resident, was organizing a reunion match between old community soccer rivals, the Bears and Panthers.
The teams hadn’t played since the fall of 1975, but that didn’t hurt the interest at all.
Like nearly every other American kid who ever laced up the skates, Matt Boyd spent his youth on the ice rink hearing about the triumphs of the 1980 USA Hockey team.
The story of how the underdog Americans topped all expectations, defeating the heavily-favored Soviets en route to a gold medal gave Boyd, much like many other American youths, an urge to sport the USA name across on his jersey.
The Bellevue East Juniors team clinched the district 9 championship, earning a berth in the state tournament this weekend in Yakima.
Bellevue point guard Aaron Bright has committed to play for the Stanford Cardinal in 2010.
Bright, the KingCo 2A/3A and Bellevue Reporter Most Valuable Player last season, confirmed today that he would be leaving the state and playing for coach Johnny Dawkins.
Come late August, the TPC at Snoqualmie Ridge will be packed with such golfing luminaries as Tom Kite, Gary Player, Fuzzy Zoeller and Fred Funk for the fifth annual Boeing Classic golf tournament.
Thankfully, the jokers hacking it up last Monday will be back where they belong once August 24th arrives; with a pen and paper in hand, leaving the golfing to the pro’s.
Bellevue Christian alumnus Hans Struzyna was one of three University of Washington rowers to be selected to represent the United States in the 2009 Under 23 World Rowing Championships July 23-26 in Racice, Czech Republic.
Blaine Lints craves a challenge.
That’s the only way to explain it; why else would someone willingly travel 100 miles in one day by foot, bike and kayak – then proclaim it to be easy?
The Lakeside Recovery Senior Legion baseball club kicks off its annual Brandy Pugh Memorial Classic tomorrow night, taking on Bellevue Honda at 8 p.m. at Bannerwood Park.
The USGA is offering an exclusive, limited-time combination ticket package for the 2010 U.S. Senior Open and 2015 U.S. Open, giving golf fans in the Pacific Northwest an opportunity to experience two national championships in the area.
After losing four-straight games, the Lakeside Recovery Senior Legion baseball club, made up of Newport, Issaquah and Skyline players, split a pair of doubleheaders against the Pilots baseball club last weekend, including a pair of walk-off wins.
After the Bellevue West Little League Dukes-2 championship game, there were no tears to be found.
Ari Morales, who will be a freshman at Bellevue next year, recently garnered high honors at the National Underclassman Combine for football in Seattle on May 29th.
