Corsicana —
The 2011 JUCO World Series champion Navarro Bulldogs have been celebrated by the Daily Sun in Thursday’s newspaper and online with a 40-page commemorative edition “2011 Road Through Grand Junction.”
The glossy covered edition includes recaps of all six games Navarro played in — the Bulldogs were 5-1 in the tournament — as well as box scores, season results and a two-page “Meet the Bulldogs” presentation with photos all of the players and coaches.
Daily Sun sportswriter Todd Wills has a column on “The Journey” in Grand Junction as well a short stories on Bulldogs coach Whoa Dill and unofficial team mascot “Rally T Turtle.”
The commemorative edition is in Thursday’s print edition of the Daily Sun and are also available at the Daily Sun offices.
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