Robby General of The Star Press in Muncie, Ind., won first place in the 2021 Associated Press Sports Editors contest in the Division D Game Story category.
General will be presented a first-place plaque at the 2022 APSE Summer Conference banquet at The Alexander Hotel in Indianapolis on June 18. Click here to register for the conference.
Kyle Dawson of the Aiken Standard finished second, and Ryan Black of The Manhattan Mercury took third.
Sports editors in Division D submitted 44 Game Story entries.
Contest chair Jorge Rojas and fellow APSE officers Gary Potosky, Naila-Jean Meyers and Ed Reed prepared the entries. The contest is open to APSE members.
In February, judges at the APSE Winter Conference in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., selected a top 10, with each judge ranking the entries in order from 1 to 10 on a separate ballot. Entries were given 10 points for a first-place vote, nine points for second and so on down to one point for a 10th-place vote. The final 10 were given to a second judging group, which ranked the entries 1-10 in the same fashion.
The final rankings are determined by tallying the ballots.
The winner in each category will receive a plaque at the summer conference. The second- through 10th-place finishers will receive frameable certificates.
The top 10 is listed below with voting results and links to the winning entries.
1. Robby General, The Star Press (Muncie, Ind.), 52 points (3 first-place votes)
2. Kyle Dawson, Aiken (S.C.) Standard, 49 points
3. Ryan Black, The Manhattan (Kan.) Mercury, 47 points (3 first-place votes)
4. Rodd Baxley, The Fayetteville (N.C.) Observer, 37 points
5. Nathan Dominitz, Savannah Morning News, 34 points
6. Brett Vito, Denton (Tex.) Record-Chronicle, 30 points
7. Don Williams, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, 29 points
8. Tim Buckley, The Daily Advertiser (Lafayette, La.), 23 points
9. John Murphy, Century Newspapers (Yucaipa, Calif.), 17 points
10. Cory Diaz, Monroe (La.) News-Star, 12 points
