For those baseball fans dismayed with the escapades of the Seattle Mariners – they of the 28-50 record at press-time – can take a trip back to yesteryear with the “Grand Old Game,” an exhibition baseball game played on the Fourth of July.
Put on by the Bainbridge Historical Baseball Society, this year’s contest takes place at the baseball field at Bainbridge High School at 9 a.m. and pits the Bainbridge Reds “All-Stars” against the Winslow “Homestead” Grays.
It was a year to remember for the Bainbridge fastpitch team this season.
The Spartans defeated Holy Names for the first time in recent memory as they raced through the regular season losing just one game and won its first Metro League Mountain Division title.
The Bainbridge Island Little League All-Stars were announced this week.
It was a tough year for the Bainbridge baseball team.
Injuries to numerous players – including its top returning pitcher in Colin Feldtman – and a lot of bad luck kept the Spartans from making a serious charge to the playoffs.
They started the season 5-1 and were ranked high in the 3A polls. But then came a long losing streak that dropped Bainbridge out of the rankings and the playoffs altogether.
Yankees pitcher Blake Swanson pitched 5 and 1/3 strong innings while his teammates backed him up with the bats as the Yanks defeated the Red Sox 10-6 in the Bainbridge Island Little League Majors championship Friday night at Lower Rotary Field.
With the impeding construction of the new artificial turf and the resurfacing of the track at Bainbridge High School, it put all-comers meet founder Jim Whiting in a bit of a pickle.
If Matt Acker is going to lose, at least it’s to one of his own.
In a back and forth game, it’s the little things that can cost you.
That was the case for the Ice, as a dropped fly ball led to the Diamonds scoring the winning runs in its last at-bat to defeat the Ice 8-6 in a tightly contested Bainbridge Island Little League Majors softball championship Wednesday night at Strawberry Field.
It’s the third title for the Diamonds in the last four years.
Little league scores from around Bainbridge Island.
Even though the conditions aren’t ideal, the members of the Bainbridge Junior Rowing team still head out for practice on Eagle Harbor.
As the city of Seattle sat in the background walled behind a gray sheet of rain Monday, BIRC coach Morgan Seeley calls out the start to the three boats floating in the harbor.
As soon as he yells out “Go!” the sculls take off, oars hitting the water in unison.
The Bainbridge Island Rowing Club sent fifteen crews to the U.S. Rowing Northwest Junior Regional Championships at Vancouver, Wash. on the weekend of May 16-18 and will be sending a record six athletes to the National Championships in Cincinnati Ohio, June 13-15.
When Scott Orness announced his resignation as the head coach of the Bainbridge boys basketball team back in March, there were people who asked him whether he was taking another high school head coaching job somewhere else or possibly moving onto the college basketball scene.
After four successful years in high school lacrosse, Bryan Gilbreath is making a name for himself in college lacrosse.
