TIFFIN — Bellevue native, Bellevue High School graduate and Heidelberg University senior first baseman Bessie Artino has been named to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-Central Region second team. Artino was also a second-team pick a season ago and is only the fourth person in program history to earn all-region honors. Artino, a first-team All-Ohio […]
Bellevue finished third in the fifth and final Division II state baseball coaches poll of the 2012 season, released Monday by the Ohio High School Baseball Coaches Association. The Bellevue Redmen were ranked in all five polls this spring. They opened at 11th and were ranked as high as fourth twice. Bellevue received one second-place […]
By BRAD FRANK Gazette Sports Editor SHELBY — Bellevue junior Matt Rowland, the defending Division II state champion in pole vault, is 16 inches higher than where he was last year. After winning the 2011 state championship at a height of 14 feet, 9 inches, Rowland officially began his march toward this year’s crown with a record-breaking performance Saturday […]
Bellevue wins NOL for just the 3rd time since 1955 By BRAD FRANK Gazette Sports Editor SHELBY — As the Bellevue Redmen came away from the Northern Ohio League boys track and field championships Saturday, not one effort could have been taken away from them and still walked away with the title. The meet came down to […]
Lady Red 4x800 relay team sets new NOL record By BRAD FRANK Gazette Sports Editor SHELBY — After winning each of their five Northern Ohio League dual meets in the 2012 season, in many ways the Bellevue Lady Red were the favorite to win the NOL Championships on Saturday. Though it was a close finish […]
By BRAD FRANK Gazette Sports Editor CLYDE — Lately the Bellevue Lady Red have made it a habit of surrendering runs in the first inning to their opponent. Luckily for them, they have survived those early deficits and gone on to win. That was the case again Thursday in their 11–6 win in a Division II […]
By BRAD FRANK Gazette Sports Editor CLYDE — Bellevue’s 2–0 deficit after the top of the third inning versus Lexington on Thursday was its largest of the game. It was also their last deficit. The Bellevue Redmen answered Lexington’s second run of the game with three runs in the bottom of the third. Grabbing the […]
By BRAD FRANK Gazette Sports Editor PHOTOS: Bellevue boys tennis at Port Clinton sectional tournament (Thursday, May 10, 2012) PORT CLINTON — The Bellevue Redmen were eliminated completely from the two-day Division II boys tennis sectional tournament Thursday at Port Clinton High School. Semifinal and final rounds will resume at 9 a.m. Saturday. For the third […]