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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- The Colorado Springs Sky Sox baseball club announces that Matt Pauley will be join longtime radio play-by-play man, Dan Karcher, for the 2010 season’s radio broadcast on AM-1300 “The Sports Animal."

This season also marks the 21st year of Karcher's broadcasting Sky Sox games.

Pauley will take over for Sam Farber, who was recently hired on as the radio broadcaster for the Inland Empire 66ers.

For the past two seasons, Pauley served as the director of broadcasting and media relations for the Burlington Bees, the Midwest League affiliate of the Kansas City Royals. While there, he also worked as the director of sports programming for Pritchard Broadcasting where he oversaw all sports content on a cluster of six radio stations. Prior to his time in Burlington, Pauley also broadcast in the independent leagues. In 2007, he was the voice of the South Georgia Peanuts of the South Coast League and in 2006 he was the number two broadcaster for the Evansville Otters of the Frontier League.

Pauley, a native of St. Louis, MO, brings eight years of broadcast experience to the Sox’s booth. He began his radio career in 2000 at KFNS radio in St. Louis where he worked in a number of different capacities. There he covered St. Louis Cardinals baseball and produced local talk-shows. After moving to Manhattan, KS to attend Kansas State University, he provided play-by-play for Kansas State football, basketball, baseball, and volleyball on the school's student station. While in Kansas, he was a nine-time award winner from the Kansas Association of Broadcasters. He is a 2006 graduate of Kansas State University.

Outside of baseball, Pauley has also broadcast football and basketball games for WHCO radio in St. Louis. In addition, he has also worked in print media where he contributed to several publications, including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Sports Illustrated on Campus.

Karcher and Pauley will broadcast all 144 Sky Sox games this season starting April 8 on the new home for Sky Sox radio, AM-1300 “The Sports Animal."