Daniel Dullum, sports reporter for the Apache Junction/Gold Canyon News and Arizona correspondent for Sports Radio Service, is one of the individual 2015 award winners announced by the Arizona Press Club Saturday.

Dullum received third place in the Community Sports Beat Reporting category for his coverage of a junior high basketball fan’s physical attack on a referee and the local school district’s efforts to stonewall the coverage. He did this work while employed by Casa Grande Valley Newspapers and based in Florence, Ariz.

Here are the judge’s comments, courtesy of the Arizona Press Club:

Judge: Matthew Stanmyre, a staff writer at The Star-Ledger and NJ Advance Media, writes feature and enterprise stories with an emphasis on local sports and projects. He has won 12 national writing awards from the Associated Press Sports Editors for beat writing, project reporting, feature writing and breaking news coverage.

Third place –
Daniel Dullum, Florence Reminder & Blade-Tribune

“Took a sensitive topic and worked every angle hard. Covered the story well from start to finish, finding interesting side stories along the way.”

The award marks the 40th career professional journalism award for Dullum, who has received journalism honors in Arizona, California, New Mexico and North Dakota. He covers MLB, NHL, Stanford and Cal for Sports Radio Service.