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Prep sports' voice finds new on-air homeOLYMPIA - Dick Nichols has broadcast his last high school football and basketball game for KGY Radio, ending 39 straight years with the station found at 1240-AM.
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Olympia board sets party penaltyOLYMPIA - Olympia student athletes will miss at least one game next school year if they don't try to leave a party where people are using alcohol and drugs illegally, the result of a new conduct code adopted Tuesday night by the Olympia School Board.
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Conley says pros can wait; Champlin undecidedKramer Champlin is still mulling his future in baseball after being drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays on June 6.
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State media selects All-State prep team for three sportsRochesters Ryan Knutz and Northwest Christians Nathan Burres were named their classifications Players of the Year by state media outlets on the All-State baseball team.
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West falls despite efforts of Squires, BryantYAKIMA - Tyler Moos of Reardan recovered an errant punt snap in the end zone with 3:34 left to help the East defeat the West 17-6 in the 14th Class 2A-1A-B East-West All-Star high school football game Saturday afternoon at Zaepfel Stadium.
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Local football players gear up for one last hurrahThe West plans to run an option-style offense, something that Squires is familiar with. As the EvCo offensive MVP this past fall, Squires and the Chehalis offense ran the option.
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State baseball coaches honor Rochester's KnutzAfter leading the Rochester baseball team to the Class 1A state title in May, Warriors catcher Ryan Knutz has been named the Class 1A/B all-state player of the year by the Washington State Baseball Coaches Association.
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Tumwater hires Medved, 23, as boys basketball coachWhen it came to hiring a new boys basketball coach at Tumwater High School, youth and inexperience at the coaching level wasn't a concern for Tumwater athletic director Tim Graham.
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Coaches' All-State baseball teams announcedTimberline pitcher Devlin Payton and Capital catcher Sean Simpson were both named to the Washington State Baseball Coaches Association's Class 3A first-team All-State baseball team Tuesday.
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Tumwater hires Olympia grad as boys basketball coachTumwater High School didnt have to look far when it hired its next boys basketball coach.
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Timberline's Peck moves up to No. 11 in countryCameron Peck of Lacey moved from 40th to 11th in national high school junior golf rankings after winning last weeks AJGA JoyFoot Invitational in North Carolina.
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Balancing act for Black Hills' ZillaTo the football players huddled around him after practices each fall, he's "Coach."
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Balancing actAt 17, Jack, who grew up in Pocatello, Idaho, entered the Navy and served for 14 years, traveling the world.
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Four invest in their fastpitch futureTUMWATER - In Las Vegas, life's a gamble - and four South Sound fastpitch players hope to parlay their experience this weekend into scholarship offers.
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WCC awash in golf talentTurnover is in the nature of high school sports. Players come, players graduate and go; teams are built, torn apart in the spring and renewed in the fall.
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The Olympian's All-Area boys and girls track and field teamsChristina Alexander
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State's best stand out in baseball seriesThe past two home runs Kramer Champlin has hit have been memorable.
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