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Prep sports' voice finds new on-air home

Olympian -- HS Sports - Fri, 06/27/2008 - 11:22pm
OLYMPIA - 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 penalty

Olympian -- HS Sports - Thu, 06/26/2008 - 6:59am
OLYMPIA - 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 undecided

Olympian -- HS Sports - Thu, 06/26/2008 - 6:59am
Kramer Champlin is still mulling his future in baseball after being drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays on June 6.
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Monroe hangs up his racquet

Olympian -- HS Sports - Thu, 06/26/2008 - 6:59am
He admits it. He's a nut about sports.
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State media selects All-State prep team for three sports

Olympian -- HS Sports - Thu, 06/26/2008 - 6:59am
Rochester’s Ryan Knutz and Northwest Christian’s Nathan Burres were named their classification’s Players of the Year by state media outlets on the All-State baseball team.
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West falls despite efforts of Squires, Bryant

Olympian -- HS Sports - Thu, 06/26/2008 - 6:59am
YAKIMA - 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 hurrah

Olympian -- HS Sports - Sat, 06/21/2008 - 6:11am
The 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 Knutz

Olympian -- HS Sports - Sat, 06/21/2008 - 6:11am
After 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 coach

Olympian -- HS Sports - Sat, 06/21/2008 - 6:11am
When 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 announced

Olympian -- HS Sports - Sat, 06/21/2008 - 6:11am
Timberline 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 coach

Olympian -- HS Sports - Sat, 06/21/2008 - 6:11am
Tumwater High School didn’t 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 country

Olympian -- HS Sports - Sat, 06/21/2008 - 6:11am
Cameron Peck of Lacey moved from 40th to 11th in national high school junior golf rankings after winning last week’s AJGA JoyFoot Invitational in North Carolina.
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Balancing act for Black Hills' Zilla

Olympian -- HS Sports - Sat, 06/21/2008 - 6:11am
To the football players huddled around him after practices each fall, he's "Coach."
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Balancing act

Olympian -- HS Sports - Sun, 06/15/2008 - 5:54am
At 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 future

Olympian -- HS Sports - Sun, 06/15/2008 - 5:54am
TUMWATER - 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 talent

Olympian -- HS Sports - Sun, 06/15/2008 - 5:54am
Turnover 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 golf teams

Olympian -- HS Sports - Sun, 06/15/2008 - 5:54am
Caral Martinson
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The Olympian's All-Area boys soccer team

Olympian -- HS Sports - Sun, 06/15/2008 - 5:54am
Austin Kelley
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The Olympian's All-Area boys and girls track and field teams

Olympian -- HS Sports - Sun, 06/15/2008 - 5:54am
Christina Alexander
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State's best stand out in baseball series

Olympian -- HS Sports - Sun, 06/15/2008 - 5:54am
The past two home runs Kramer Champlin has hit have been memorable.
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