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Snell beating cancer and winning games

By Jeff Miller
Special to ESPNRISE.com

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

In mid-May, the hitting and pitching of junior left-hander Justin Snell led the Northside Methodist Academy Knights (Dothan, Ala.) to a fourth consecutive baseball championship in the Alabama Christian Education Athletic Association. Just last week, Snell started practice for a soccer season that will begin in a few weeks. He recently began unpacking the seemingly gazillion pieces of the new 21-speed Windsor Falkirk racing bike that he'd saved for years to buy. "I'm going to try to ride 30 to ...

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