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January 23, 2012

Thanks to local student-athletes for making us look good

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CORBIN — Both myself and Tim Branstetter didn’t know what to expect when we ventured north to Lexington to attend the annual Kentucky Press Association 2011 Excellence in Kentucky Newspapers contest this past Friday.

We both thought the Times-Tribune sports department had a good chance of winning some awards, but we’ve also been around long enough to not get our hopes up.

But with that said, I’d like to say — Friday was a good day for the Times-Tribune in general. The paper racked up awards on both the sports and news sides and the 16 combined awards were good enough for second place overall with the Winchester Sun taking home top honors.

On the sports’ side of things, we did about as good as we could have asked for. We took home top honors for the Best Sports Section in Daily Class I. That’s the second time in four years the Times-Trbune sports department has taken home the top honor, while the Richmond Register won the other two times. We also won first place honors for Best Sports Story (North Laurel vs. South Laurel 13th Region Fastpitch title game); Best Sports Picture Essay and Best Graphic.

We placed second in Best Headline; third in Best Sports Picture; placed third and Honorable Mention in Best Sports Picture Essay while also earning Honorable Mention in Best Sports Section.

I’ll be the first to say none of these accomplishments could take place if we didn’t have some of the best student-athletes, Little Leaguers, ect. to cover in the entire state. They are the reason we accomplished what we did. They are the ones out there busting their behinds, supplying us the action that gives us the opportunity to report and take pictures of their events or to simplify it even more — to do our job.

But that’s not all.

It takes a team to be successful and none of this could have happened if not for the work of Tim Branstetter, John Stepp, Darrin Spencer, Brad Hall and Becky Killian. They go above and beyond to make sure events are covered and things are edited.

And with that said — it’s time to get back to work.

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