The Bainbridge Babe Ruth baseball team began and ended the District 4/8 tournament by playing the team from South Kitsap.
But the matchup that gave Bainbridge a 16-2 six-inning victory on Friday turned into a 6-4 loss on Monday in a third-place game at Poulsbo’s Snider Park. In between, Bainbridge dropped a 6-1 decision to Olympic of Port Angeles.

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Arsenal tunes up for trip to Europe
BIYSC Arsenal won two games and tied a third during round-robin play in the BU-15 division of last weekend’s Baker Blast Tournament, but a 2-0 loss to Snohomish United 87 dropped the team out of contention for the tournament title.

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Chris Charles will go for a perfect 10 on the Fourth of July.
The 1995 BHS grad has won the Grand Old Fourth 5K run for nine years in a row, starting with his first venture as a sophomore in 1993. And most of the time he’s never been pressed. His time of 15 minutes, 17 seconds in 2000 stands as the course record.
“I pretty much PR’d (established a personal record) every year except last year,” he said. “Sometimes after the first mile I’d hear footsteps, but they’d be mine.”

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The Bainbridge Island Little League recently announced the members of its All-Star baseball and softball teams.

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After Meadowmeer dominated the early years of the Fred Schaffer Helpline House Memorial Golf Tournament, Wing Point has won the last three times and hopes to make it four in a row in the 11th annual edition on June 30.
The tournament, which matches the pros at Meadowmeer and Wing Point in a 36-hole best-ball format, raises several thousand dollars to benefit Helpline House. It was renamed several years ago to honor Fred Schaffer, former president of the Helpline Board.

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One doesn’t normally regard marathon runners as a fertile field for recruiting potential crew members – let alone national title holders.
But 2001 BHS grad Evan Galloway – who ran the Christmas Marathon in Olympia as a junior, competed in the state cross country meet as a senior and logged personal bests of nine minutes, 55 seconds in the 3200 meters and 4:37 in the 1600 – rowed bow for the University of Washington fours-with-coxswain shell that won the Intercollegiate Rowing Association national championship on June 1.

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Once again demonstrating his knack for perfect timing, BHS baseball player Simon Pollack parlayed a three-for-six plate performance at the State Senior All-Star Games last weekend into an invitation to join the Washington State All-Stars in a doubleheader in Vancouver, Wash. on June 22 against a corresponding team from Oregon.

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Give the coaches “a good pop,” said athletic director Neal White, summarizing Bainbridge’s first year in the Metro League.
“They had to make a lot of adjustments, playing teams they’d never seen before, scouting across the water. It takes a lot more time,” White said. “But our coaches care about their kids. They’re in it for all the right reasons – emphasizing discipline, a positive work ethic, motivation.

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