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Bellevue grad Raifsnider helps Malone to win

LESLIE RAIFSNDER
Photo courtesy of Malone University athletics

From staff reports NORTH CANTON — Mal­one Uni­ver­sity fresh­man Leslie Raif­s­nider posted season-highs in points, rebounds and min­utes played in the Pio­neers’ reg­u­lar sea­son finale Sat­ur­day, a 6549 win over Walsh Uni­ver­sity in Great Lakes Inter­col­le­giate Ath­letic Con­fer­ence women’s bas­ket­ball action. Raif­s­nider tied for the team-high in points with 15 and grabbed six rebounds in […]

Raifsnider wins female 2012 Gazette Award

FILE — Bellevue senior Leslie Raifsnider (22) squeezes between a pair of Clyde defenders in a nonleague varsity girls basketball game on Dec. 29, 2011 at Clyde High School. (Gazette photo by Brad Frank)

Lady Red stand­out Raif­s­nider wins award for sec­ond time By BRAD FRANK Gazette Sports Edi­tor Belle­vue senior Leslie Raif­s­nider will grad­u­ate from the high school as one of the most suc­cess­ful bas­ket­ball play­ers in its his­tory. She also will leave with a mem­o­rable senior sea­son that capped an out­stand­ing career in Lady Red ath­let­ics. And for […]

Bellevue’s Raifsnider to play in North-South basketball game

BEXLEY — Leslie Raif­s­nider will play in one of the most pres­ti­gious all-star games in the state of Ohio this Sun­day. The Belle­vue senior has been cho­sen to play in the Divi­sion I-II girls North-South All-Star Clas­sic by the coaches in the North­west Dis­trict. Raif­s­nider, a three-time All-Ohioan, will be on the North ros­ter, which […]

Bellevue's Raifsnider earns third career All-Ohio selection

LESLIE RAIFSNIDER

San­toro gains hon­or­able men­tion all-state COLUMBUS, Ohio — Belle­vue senior Leslie Raif­s­nider made her third career appear­ance on the girls bas­ket­ball All-Ohio lists Mon­day with the Asso­ci­ated Press’ release of the 2011-12 teams. Raif­s­nider earned second-team hon­ors Mon­day in Divi­sion II, fol­low­ing up a spe­cial men­tion selec­tion as a sopho­more and first-team acco­lades last season […]

Raifsnider collects first-team Northwest District honors

LESLIE RAIFSNIDER

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Belle­vue senior Leslie Raif­s­nider gar­nered another appear­ance on the North­west District’s first team in Divi­sion II, the Asso­ci­ated Press announced Thurs­day. Raif­s­nider, who won the district’s Player of the Year award in 2010-11, appeared on the first team for this sea­son after lead­ing Belle­vue to back-to-back North­ern Ohio League and sec­tional tournament […]

Bellevue's Raifsnider breaks another school record

LESLIE RAIFSNIDER

By BRAD FRANK Gazette Sports Edi­tor SANDUSKY — With 5:54 left in the fourth quar­ter of Saturday’s Divi­sion II sec­tional cham­pi­onship game ver­sus Oak Har­bor at San­dusky High School, Belle­vue senior Leslie Raif­s­nider broke another sig­nif­i­cant school record. She passed cur­rent Belle­vue vol­ley­ball coach and for­mer Lady Red bas­ket­ball stand­out Karen (Lep­ley) Irons for most […]

Raifsnider, Santoro named first-team District 6 choices

NORWALK — The Ohio Dis­trict 6 Coaches Asso­ci­a­tion announced its all-district bas­ket­ball teams for the 2011-12 sea­son fol­low­ing a vote Sun­day at Nor­walk High School. The Belle­vue Lady Red had three play­ers named to the Divi­sion II squad, with senior Leslie Raif­s­nider and fresh­man Carly San­toro earn­ing first-team hon­ors. Raif­s­nider was a first-team choice last […]

Raifsnider breaks Bellevue hoops career scoring mark

Shortly after breaking the Bellevue basketball career scoring record Friday, senior Leslie Raifsnider, center, is hugged by freshman Carly Santoro (10) while other teammates greet her on the court with smiles. (Gazette photo by Brad Frank)

Girls career lead­ing scorer passes David Fal­knor for most points in school his­tory By BRAD FRANK Gazette Sports Edi­tor Records are kept to cel­e­brate and mea­sure accomplishments—those val­ued expe­ri­ences that so many peo­ple work toward achiev­ing and that so many enjoy observ­ing. To some peo­ple, how­ever, the names, dates, years and num­bers in record books […]

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