Sports
February 6, 2018

Past Super Bowl champion Blackburn to be inducted into Monarch Hall of Fame

By Tim Miller

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A man with a pair of Super Bowl championship rings will join fellow Marysville High School alumni in the school’s athletic Hall of Fame on Friday evening.
Chase Blackburn, a 2001 MHS graduate, is one of three new inductees, along with his Monarch gridiron teammate Keith Slone a...

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