By BRAD FRANK Gazette Sports Editor SHELBY — The Bellevue Redmen varsity wrestling program will take six qualifiers to the Division II district tournament this coming weekend at Marion. From the 13-team sectional tournament at Shelby on Friday and Saturday, Bellevue earned fifth place overall and had one wrestler come away with a championship. Lexington […]
By BRAD FRANK Gazette Sports Editor CLYDE — Watching the Bellevue-Clyde varsity boys basketball game Saturday night was like sitting in the movie theaters watching trailers of upcoming films prior to the movie you are there to see. Based on the “trailer” that those in attendance Saturday at Clyde saw, the upcoming sectional game will be […]
Tied at 8–1 in the Northern Ohio League entering Saturday, the Bellevue Lady Red and Shelby Lady Whippets each needed to win their respective games to clinch the NOL girls basketball title for 2011-12. Both teams won handily Saturday, so they will split the regular season NOL championship this season. Bellevue beat Sandusky, 78–41, to move […]
GROVE CITY — Bellevue’s Cory Santoro, 9, finished fifth in the Elks State Hoop Shoot Free Throw Contest, held at Jackson Middle School in Grove City on Saturday. Cory is the daughter of Betsy and Kory Santoro of Bellevue. Competing in the girls 8–9 division, Santoro made 15-of-25 free throws in a very competitive age […]
By BRAD FRANK Gazette Sports Editor PHOTOS: Bellevue boys basketball vs. Shelby (Friday, February 17, 2012) The Bellevue Redmen have given the top two teams in the Northern Ohio League their best shot the past two Fridays. Though the Redmen fell just shy versus undefeated Norwalk on Feb. 10, they finally pulled out a win in […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Associated Press released its final Ohio high school girls basketball poll Tuesday. The Clyde Lady Fliers, champions of the Sandusky Bay Conference, are back in third place in this week’s Division II poll after falling back to fourth last week. In the Northern Ohio League, also in Division II, the Shelby Lady […]
OREGON — Though the non-league matchup between Bellevue and Clyde this Saturday will not have an impact on tournament seeding, as the draw was held Sunday, the winner of their meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 29 will play for a sectional championship two nights later at the Division II Oregon Clay sectional. The Route 20 rivals […]
By BRAD FRANK Gazette Sports Editor PHOTOS: Bellevue wrestling at NOL tournament (Saturday, February 11, 2012) SANDUSKY — The Bellevue Redmen exited Saturday’s league wrestling tournament with a trio of seniors who earned their second career Northern Ohio League title. Notching back-to-back NOL titles for the Redmen were seniors Damon Cheek and Anson Hupp while fellow […]