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Molokai Student Earns Top Prize for Baseball Invention

Hawaiʻi Public Radio

Published July 8, 2013 at 11:23 AM HST

A Molokai 13-year-old entered his invention into a national competition and was named the Hawaii merit award winner. Catherine Cluett reports from The Molokai Dispatch.

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