By Dave Ornauer
Published: June 15, 2008
One is a junior, fleet of foot, a proud representative of a rising Zama American program. He's the reigning Far East High School Cross Country 3.1-mile individual race boys champion. He lost but one race in the Kanto Plain Association of Secondary Schools track and field season, posting region bests in the two-mile and mile.
The other is leaving us after three stellar years in Kadena uniform. She exits having led the Panthers to their second straight Far East Class AA Basketball Tournament title and six straight Okinawa Activities Council girls softball crowns.
By Dave Ornauer
Published: June 9, 2008
It's a matchup two years in the making. The Yokosuka Seahawks, seven-time U.S. Forces Japan-American Football League champions, are off to a 2-0 start this season and are set to host the two-time Okinawa Football League champion Kadena Dragons on Wednesday at 6 p.m. at Yokosuka's Berkey-by-the-Bay.
It should be an interesting matchup of championship teams. Not for spots in the USFJ-AFL standings -- Kadena plays the three USFJ-AFL members as an exhibition entry -- but for bragging rights between the regions.
By Dave Ornauer
Published: June 8, 2008
Hail to your Stars and Stripes' male and female Athletes of the Quarter for the spring season.
Hail to Mike Fulwiler, senior shortstop and cleanup batter, who led Kubasaki's baseball team to a school-best 18-7 record, a second straight Okinawa Activities Council championship for the Dragons.
By Dave Ornauer
Published: June 4, 2008
Saturday's U.S. Forces Japan-American Football League season resembled any other day at the office for the league's seven-time champion Yokosuka Seahawks.
They began the 2008 campaign in style, as new running back Carl Harris ran 19 times for 111 yards and five touchdowns and Derreck "Tractor" Traylor recorded a sack and recovered three fumbles, one for a touchdown, in a 48-6 romp over Yokota.
By Dave Ornauer
Published: June 1, 2008
Consider this a sort of a guest book in reverse.
To all seniors in the region: Now that you're leaving, and we will miss you, how about letting SportsBlog Nation know where you're going to be next fall?
By Dave Ornauer
Published: June 1, 2008
Out of the hundreds of interesting, intense and at times unusual games and contests, one or another had to stand out in the minds of the many in SportsBlog Nation.
The last-second touchdown or basket to win the game. Coming from behind when the deficit seemed hopelessly large. Or the heroic star once again stepping up, looming large when the situation desperately called for it.
By Dave Ornauer
Published: June 1, 2008
Turning the page onto the final month (or two weeks) of the school year, all across the region, they're planning the mass exodusas the minutes tick down to that last day of class (yes, I was a clock watcher in school. A French teacher once told me, "Time will pass. Will you?").
So, what are your plans for the summer?
