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sports
Bulldogs finish 3rd at district meet By Lauren Heaton For the second consecutive year the Yellow Springs High School boys track team finished third at the Division III Dayton District championships at Welcome Stadium on Saturday, May 20. Junior Sam Borchers helped the team to three first-place finishes, and senior Brad Benning-Clark contributed a win toward the Bulldogs’ 64 team points. West Alexandria Twin Valley South won the district title with 89 points, and Arcanum was second with 70. The YSHS girls team finished 8th out of 14 teams, with 27 points. Tipp City Bethel was first with 127, and Twin Valley was second with 105 points. The top four finishers in each event qualified for the Division Regional competition. Borchers joined teammates Andy Peters, Evan Firestone and Ben Adams in the preliminaries, on May 16, for the finals of the 4x800 relay. Borchers, the anchor runner, received the baton in seventh place and passed six runners before the final turn, where he took the lead and earned a three-second win over Dayton Christian. Borchers, the Division III defending champ in the 1600-meter run, kept the action going in Saturday’s finals as he and Dayton Christian sophomore John Luttrell went after Ken Petty’s 1984 District meet record of 4:26 in the 1600. The slight, 5'8" Borchers slipped past the lanky, 6'3" Luttrell in the back stretch of the third lap and increased his pace to smash the meet record in 4:16.77. Luttrell came in second in 4:20. Neither runner had fully recovered in time for the 800 run, but Borchers assumed the lead at the end of the first lap and won the race in 2:00.1. Luttrell finished two seconds behind him. Benning-Clark set a steady pace in the 300 hurdles and finished first in 41.9. He also placed fourth in the high jump. He led off the 4x400 relay team, which also included Issa Walker, Matt Halm and Borchers, to place fifth. Firestone finished second in the 3200 meters in 9:58. Senior Tina Peters led the girls team with a second-place finish in the 1600 run in 5:41 and a third-place finish in the 3200 in 13:14. Ashanta Robinson placed fourth in the high jump. Alisha Walker finished sixth in the 100-meter dash and led off the 4x200 relay, with Kristen Foster, Robinson and Leslie Holland, for a sixth-place finish. Regional finals May 26 The YSHS boys track team and individuals from the girls team compete in the finals of the Division III regional meet on Friday, May 26, at Piqua High School. Field events begin at 4 p.m. and running events start at 6 p.m. The regional prelims were held Wednesday, after the News went to press. Contact: lheaton@ysnews.com Track club practices The Miami Valley Track Club is holding practices on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6 p.m. at Yellow Springs High School. Adults and youth 8 and older are welcome to participate. For more information, call 767-7424. Batter up for t-ball opener Perry League, Yellow Springs’ happy, happy t-ball program, opens its 2006 season Friday night, June 2, at 6:30, in Gaunt Park. It’s the village’s noncompetitive beginners’ baseball program for girls and boys ages 2–9. Two- and 3-year-olds are welcome if accompanied on the diamond by an adult. There are no fees, no sign-ups, no registrations, and no requirement to play every week. Come when you can, come when you like. We will play on 10 consecutive Friday nights, June 2 through Aug. 4, and you can begin on any of those 10 nights, up to and including our final potluck trophy night on Aug. 4. If you’ve got one of those remarkable creatures in your life, one of those Hi-Energy Love Beings — aka toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners and kids in their middle childhood — and if that creature is frequently flinging him or herself about; or if you have a little person often found roaring about in mysterious raptures we adults can only dimly remember; or if you have a kid who is occasionally going off like a rocket on the 4th of July, that kidder-roo seemingly exploding with an overabundance of something — zeal? passion? an early on-set dementia? — then we may have just the program for you: Yellow Springs’ exuberant, joyous, unpredictable and what some might call mildly demented Perry League. We’ve got the bats, balls and gloves — gloves: which many of our darling young charges find clunky, obstreperous and as often as not, totally useless. We’ve also got both the beautiful Gaunt Park baseball diamonds every Friday night for the rest of the summer. All you need is the time and inclination — and, of course, one of those passionate pint-sized whirling dervishes, one of those Hi-Energy Love Bugs. Just bring her out, just bring him out, cuz we’ll be out there, ready and willing, looking to have ourselves a good time. You’ll find us lining up on the third base line and then running out to right field (it will not be a race this summer, Steffi Cooper, no, it will not) where we’ll do our peculiar Perry League brand of calisthenics — doing one thousand seven hundred eleventeen twelve push ups, four million twelve thousand two-hundred-teen jumping jacks and four hundred million zillion quadrillion trunk twisters. Right? Right. We try to keep it simple and we’re serious about keeping it noncompetitive. There are no outs in t-ball, no runs, no scores and no one ever strikes out in the Perry League: you get a thousand strikes in t-ball. Every child gets a chance to field and bat a couple of times each evening. The first 100 or so kids showing up will get a free cap and a chance to buy the 2006 edition of the often beautiful, frequently glamourous, but always glorious Perry League t-shirt. We’re a Yellow Springs Recreation Board program. United Way funds — which come through the good work of the Yellow Springs Community Council — get us started each summer. Then the sale of t-shirts, donations from generous parents, loving grandparents, awesome aunts, ugly uncles, silly stepsisters, bodacious brothers and the many supercalifragilistic friends of the program — with the Lions Club being uniquely and most sensationally supportive of us these past six or seven years (they’ve been paying for our trophies) — and gifts from the kids themselves, allow us to pay back the Rec. Board and pay for the program ourselves. We welcome all the community’s children regardless of race, color, creed, national origin, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, ability or disability. And we work assiduously at being tender, patient, kind and loving to them all. So, you-all ready to play a little t-ball? Ready for another fantabulous, mugglelicious summer of fun? Yes? Yes? Yes! Of course! Then come on out to Gaunt Park, Friday, June 2, 6:30–8 p.m. We’d just love to have you, to see you again, to play with you-all again. We really and truly and honestly would. For more information call Jimmy Chesire, 767-7300 or Chris Murphy, 767-7408.
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