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With fall camp officially underway, and football season within sight, what better way to get prepared for the 2022 season than reading some of Chronicle staffers' most educated season …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/19/22
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NAPAVINE — With so much coming back from the team that came a quarter away from a state title last December, it could be easy to assume that the current goal in Napavine is to create the 2021 …
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By Josh Kirshenbaum / josh@chronline.com
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8/18/22
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LEBAM — Roughly halfway between Pe Ell and Willapa Valley, just inside the borders of Pacific County and overlooking the Willapa River, the Pe Ell-Willapa Valley football team conducted its …
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By Alec Dietz / alec@chronline.com
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8/18/22
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The 60-point performances, the gaudy numbers, and Nolan Swofford’s record-breaking performances led to the Winlock football team’s return to the state stage in just its second season …
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Josh Kirshenbaum / josh@chronline.com
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8/17/22
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Finally settled in, and ready for the season to get underway, Centralia’s new football coach is ready to hit the ground running after moving across the country with a championship resume.
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By Alec Dietz / alec@chronline.com
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8/17/22
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TOLEDO — Just like each of the first five years of his tenure as Toledo’s head coach, Mike Christensen has to break in a new quarterback.
But as the Riverhawks opened fall camp …
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By Josh Kirshenbaum / josh@chronline.com
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8/17/22
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Under a sweltering heat wave and running through drills in a helmet, jerseys, and shorts, the W.F. West football team opened up its first day of fall camp Wednesday, and though practice had barely …
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By Alec Dietz / alec@chronline.com
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8/17/22
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What could have been a rebuilding year for the Centralia College volleyball team ended up being hampered by postseason turnover, leaving the Trailblazers in much the same place they were 12 months …
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By Josh Kirshenbaum / josh@chronline.com
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8/15/22
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Even for the electrically-fast Talon Betts — who dazzled at Rochester with his speed and explosion for the past few seasons in blue and gold — the college game has been a huge …
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By Alec Dietz / alec@chronline.com
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8/12/22
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When coaches around the area went to sleep on July 31, they crossed a threshold. Waking up in August, programs around the state entered the WIAA’s dramatically-nicknamed “dead …
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By Josh Kirshenbaum / josh@chronline.com
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8/10/22
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For just the third time in the past two decades, the Toledo girls soccer program will be under new management come the fall.
But while Horst Malunat revitalized the Riverhawk program and Noel …
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By Josh Kirshenbaum / josh@chronline.com
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8/7/22
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Taking the Lewis County Amateur gross championship by four strokes at Riverside Golf Course in Chehalis, Capital High School student Eli McNelly took the short drive down from Olympia to take home …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/7/22
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Growing up in what she called an “underdog town and school,” Paige Winter never thought she would play Division I women’s basketball.
A prep standout at Rochester — …
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By Alec Dietz / alec@chronline.com
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8/5/22
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Last weekend at the Northwest Nations Tournament in Eugene, Oregon, the Lewis County Closers 12u baseball team captured the tourney championship.
In the Closers’ opening game of the …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/4/22
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Clarence Gunderson is starting to think he’s got a good thing going at Centralia College.
For the first time in his tenure leading the Trailblazers’ women’s soccer program, …
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By Josh Kirshenbaum / josh@chronline.com
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8/3/22
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The long wait for football fans in Lewis and South Thurston counties is nearly over. Nearly nine months after state champions were crowned last fall, new faces — both on the field and the sidelines …
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By Alec Dietz / alec@chronline.com
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8/2/22
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TENINO — For a game that meant nothing, with one unofficial referee, at a stadium a quick drive away from both schools, Centralia and W.F. West’s meetup Sunday sure felt like it had a bit …
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By Josh Kirshenbaum / josh@chronline.com
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8/1/22
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Colorado Rockies manager Bud Black was fly fishing when the news broke. Not wanting to scare the fish away while enjoying a brief respite from the rigors of the 162 game major league baseball season …
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By Jordan Nailon / The Daily News
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7/30/22
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From Late Bloomers to State Champs: How the Olmsteads’ Competitive Nature Pushed Them to New Heights
Down the street from where the pair would eventually make their varsity debuts, Carson and Conner Olmstead spent most of their childhood days locked in endless competitions. A one-on-one hoops …
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By Alec Dietz / alec@chronline.com
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7/30/22
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In a rematch with Wilder Baseball Club in the state championship play-in, I-5 Jeep Renegades fell into an early hole and couldn’t complete another comeback in a 7-4 loss Wednesday afternoon in …
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By The Chronicle staff
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7/27/22
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