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Daniel Roy wins 200-meter breaststroke at Junior Nationals in record time

Fri., Aug. 11, 2017

Daniel Roy lived up to his billing on Friday in the 2017 Speedo Junior National swimming championships in East Meadow, New York.

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Five players from Spokane teams picked for USA Softball 12U All-American Games

Tue., Aug. 8, 2017

Two members each from the Spokane Diamonds and Spokane Mudhens and one from Spokane Stealth programs were selected for the Region 9 Red team that will participate in the inaugural USA Softball 12U All-American Games on Aug. 18-20 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

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Youth notebook: Spokane Diamonds wins 16U A Western national championship

UPDATED: Wed., Aug. 2, 2017

For the second time in three years, Spokane has a USA Softball national-level girls fastpitch champion. Spokane Diamonds won the USA Softball 16U A Western National championship Friday following a week-long run in Lake Elsinore, California.

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Former CV standout Emily Westerberg selected for Arizona State University Hall of Fame

UPDATED: Mon., July 31, 2017

It wasn’t only about basketball for Emily Westerberg. Family and friends were right up there. She made that clear in 2007 when she passed on an opportunity to play in the WNBA.

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Youth sports notebook: Spokane Diamonds win 16U championship at Idaho state event

UPDATED: Tue., July 11, 2017

The thermometer was an unyielding opponent in the USA Softball Idaho State Championships during the weekend.

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Brian Strimbiski, who helped take Spokane hockey to new heights, dies at 75

Tue., Jan. 31, 2017

Brian Strimbiski, a key member Spokane’s first two Allan Cup senior amateur hockey championship teams in the early 1970s, has died after a battle with cancer in Renton, Washington. He was 75.

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Norm Johnson, who coached Spokane Jets to Allan Cup, dies at 83

Wed., April 6, 2016

He had played hockey his whole life, including the previous 19 years at the professional level. But when he arrived in Spokane in the fall of 1971 at the age of 39, Norm Johnson was a rookie.

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GSL slowpitch: University rolls past Mead for title

Tue., Oct. 27, 2015

Sophomore Gracee Dwyer’s offensive contribution sparked University to its eighth Greater Spokane League District slowpitch softball championship on a sunny Tuesday afternoon on its home field with a 13-3, five-inning victory over Mead.

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Former senior hockey star Trembecky dies

Tue., April 22, 2014

For seven seasons during the 1970s, Bob Trembecky was one of the scoring stars during the midst of the heyday of senior amateur hockey in Spokane. Five times from 1970-71 through an injury-plagued 1977-78 season, Trembecky finished in the top 10 in scoring in the Western International Hockey League. During the 1973-74 season he tied for the scoring title with teammate Ken Gustafson with a career-high 78 points.

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Premier softball pitcher Stoddard dies at 78

Sun., Sept. 23, 2012

When softball was king in Spokane a half-century or so ago, Don Stoddard was a member of a Royal Army of dominant pitchers. No-hitters, one-hitters, perfect games … all appeared regularly on his resume during a playing career that spanned nearly 30 years from the 1950s into the 1980s when he retired from the game for a second and final time.

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Prep sports chronicler Derrick dies

Wed., June 16, 2004

For going on two decades, the brown sweater has followed The Spokesman-Review sports department from one move to another. For a while there, it was on the back of its owner, protecting slumping shoulders from the chill of an unforgiving air conditioner. For the last 12 years, it has hung faithfully in the sports department newsroom, the intended start to a sports staff "hall of fame" that never expanded.

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Reardan Regroups To Down Waterville

Sun., Nov. 16, 1997

B-11 football Reece Jenkin waited four weeks for this game. Impatiently, he would say. He didn't want it to be the last. So Jenkin, who had missed three games with a hip flexor injury, helped rally the Reardan Indians from a second-quarter snooze to a 35-20 win over Waterville in the first round of the State B-11 football playoffs on a sunny but cold Saturday afternoon.

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