Sports Notebook: Colts baseball receives rings

BOB WILLIAMS / THE CHRONICLE. Thurston's Jacey Roberts shows off the Colts' baseball state championship ring. The Colts received their rings during halftime of a football game earlier in the season.

Thurston’s baseball team handed out its state championship rings at halftime of the Colts’ football game Sept. 8. Head coach Dennis Minium and the Colts took home the program’s second state title (2009) with a 2-1 walk-off extra-inning win over West Albany on June 3.

The Thurston Colts baseball team poses with their state championship rings.

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