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Freewhee:ling Climbers power to the fore
Tall Timber
topples by ten
Tile league-leading Shelton
ltighclimbers survived a tough
encounter with tall timber last
Tuesday and showed they can
rebound in a lofty crowd.
Despite the impressive
presence of 6-8 pivotman John
Greig in the opposing lineup, the
Climbers crashed the boards with
authority, romped to a 21.point
halftime lead and then survived
Greig's one-man offensive circus
in tile final minutes to drop
visiting Timberline 67-57.
Although the Climbers have a
rangy lad of their own in 6-7
senior center Brian Martin, the
other matchups clearly gave the
Blazers tile height advantage.
Timberline's front line went 6-5,
6.4 and 6-8, while Shelton's read
6-2, 6-7 and 6-4.
Be that as it may, the
Climbers used the very thing that
might have hurt them -
rebounding- to practically run
away front the Blazers in the first
half. Grabbing down 19 boards to
Timberline's nine, the hosts
turned the advantage into a 40-19
lead at intermission and it looked
for a time there that it would be
no contest.
"We played very well in the
first half," agreed Coach Terry
Gregg. "Our passing was very
crisp and we were getting some
good shooting. But that
rebounding edge had to be the
biggest factor."
Just when the Climbers
appeared to be wrapping things
up, though, who should begin to
make his presence known but big
John Greig. Held to just five
points in the opening two periods,
with Climber Martin doing a fine
job ell him with sagging assistance
from 6-4 Todd Young and 6-2
Stan Bourgault, Greig began to
work himself into the middle a
little more in the third period,
when Shelton started standing
around a bit.
Hitting well on perirneter
shots, te Blazers dosed to 52.39
with 6:30 remaining in the game,
and then suddenly it was all
Greig.
The 6-8, 195-pounder
proceeded to hit his next eight
SHS girls
now third
Shelton's girls' basketball
team moved into an undisputed
third place in the Black Hills
Division Two Monday with a
52-46 victory over winless
• Hoquiam in the Minidome.
The win gave the Climbers a
4-2 league mark and vaulted them
past 3-3 Timberline into third
place behind 6-0 Capital and 5-1
Centralia.
Leading the way as she has all
season was junior guard Cathy
Cole, with 35 points. Karen
Evankovich, a 5-5 forward, led
both teams with 11 rebounds.
Rounding out the scoring for
Shelton were Julie Sandquist's six
points, Vanessa Struz' five and
two each by Marci Allen,
Evankovich and Tammy Young.
In the preceding jayvee game,
Shelton lost 30-31 to the
Grizzlies.
Cole, the league's leading
".scorer and owner of the all-time
BHL one-game mark for both
sexes (46), hit both inside and out
and keyed the Climbers' fast
break.
shots. Four of them were on
offensive rebounds in close. Four
were jumpers from 12 to 20 feet
out.
Before it was over, Greig had
scored 16 of his game-high 23
points - and in a span of about
six minutes.
"He's definitely one of the
better centers around," praised
Gregg. "But Brian (Martin) did a
good job on him."
Indeed, despite Greig's
impressive offensive flurry, the
boards inevitably told the story:
Shelton 27, Timberline 18. And
leading the way was none other
than Shelton's Brian Martin, with
nine rebounds to go along with
his 11 points.
Leading the Climbers
offensively was senior Bourgault,
who served notice perhaps that
his recent shooting hesitancy is a
thing of the past. The 6-2 veteran
hit 9-14 - most of them from
long range and over the flailing
hands of some big Blazers - and
finished with 18 points.
Junior Jim O'Dell added 12
points, Martin had 11, Young 10,
Les Smith six, Bruce Dorcy four,
Gary Orr four and Dave Danielson
two. Grant Fox and Jay Swift saw
action but did not score.
Guards Dorcy and O'Dell
earned praise from their coach for
their playmaking performances.
Each dished out four assists and
combined to break up a half
dozen Blazer offensive advances.
While both teams employed a
press at times, the game suffered
from relatively few turnovers.
Shelton committed only 14,
Timberline 16.
In the jayvee game, Shelton
poured it on from the outset and
won going away, 81-54.
High-point man for the Climbers
was Gary Orr, with 16. Scan
Byrne and Terry Brown chipped
in ten apiece, Grant Fox and Pat
Rhodes eight each, Kerry Kenning
seven, Les Smith and Lane
JackstadV six ,,ach, and Casey
Ellison and J@ Swift five each.
Swift, Rhodes and Kenning
led the hosts' strong board game,
each hauling down seven
rebounds.
The Climber sophomores
remained unbeaten in six outings
this season as they got past the
Timberline sophs 65-52. The
week before, incidentally, they'd
prevailed 65-45.
Coach Brian Brickert credited
guards Jeff Likes and Jon
Thomason with turning the game
around in favor of the hosts in the
first half, as Shelton spurted to a
34-19 lead.
Brad Hargens led with 14
points while John Weber and Tad
Smith added 12 each, Phil
Franklin 10 points and six
rebounds, Rusty Gigstead seven
points, Likes six, Aaron Roberts
three and Thomason one. Greg
Cole played but did not score.
The victory gave Shelton a 6-0
record in sophomore play.
Next action for the Climbers
is tomorrow night versus the
Capital Cougars in Olympia. The
Coug varsity currently is 2-1.
Against Timberline, incidentally,
Capital won by only five points,
while Shelton's margin was 10.
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A radical is a man with both feet
firmly planted in the air.
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LES SMITH, Climber lunior, flies in for two last Friday as Shelton seals
visiting Yelm's fate in the late goings of the Black Hills League game.
Watching at right foreground is teammate Pat Rhodes.
Hoop Shoot champs
to be determined
The Elks Hoop Shoot annual
competition, underway in the
county's grade schools the past
few weeks, ,.moves to the
Minidome this Saturday when
first-round champs compete for
the chance to advance to district.
The competition, under the
direction of perennial coordinator
Jim Sutherland of Shelton, is
scheduled to start at ! p.m.
Last year Mason County
champs Bryl Gregg, Beth
Bennett and Tina Heath won their
district competitions as well and
Tina went on to place first in her
age-group division at state.
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Bowling Results
ill
(Editor's note: Severe and
unexpected space limitations
have necessitated our
Pool to
be closed
The Minidome pool will
be closed for public
swimming Saturday
morning due to the conflict
with AAA swim meet
action.
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withholding tile rest of the
greater portion of the bowling
this week. All of it, plus next
week's fare, will appear in the
next issue.)
SUNDAY NITE MIXED 1-8-78
Men's Hi Game: Mike Short 201
Men's Hi Series: Sam Diggle 479
Women's Hi Game: Betty
Lawton 161
Women's Hi Series: Jean Diggle
428
Standings: DQ 3-1, Loggers
Inn 3-1, Town 1-3, Four ]-3.
Town 1, Jean Diggle 428;
Loggers Inn 3, Mike Short 441;
DQ 3, Bey Halverson 414; Four
1, Sam Diggle 479.
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Page 20 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, January 12, 1978
Kids' wrestling program
to feature video taping
Shelton's Kids' Wrestling grade, tile program again will
Program will launch'its second concentrate on fundamentals but
season this Saturday at 10 a.m. this.time will have the added
in the Minidome. attraction of video tape.
For all interested wrestlers "This year the kids will be
and would-be wrestlers between able to see tllemselves wrestling,"
five years of age and fourth said coordinator Dick Wentz,
SItS coach.
The program will be headed
AAU meet here by Shelton minister Dennis Tyas,
formerly a prep wrestler at
The Shelton Sharks will host Central Kitsap. It is planned to
an AAU swim meet at the continue at least through
Minidome this Saturday, and February, and envisioned for this
Coach Doug Hanna expects summer is participation in a
perhaps 300 swimmers will be on clinic in Tacoma plus local
hand. tournament action.
The meet, featuringage-group An estimated 50 kids
competition for both sexes, is set participated in the program last
to start at 9 a.m.
year, said Wentz.
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NEWS
ABLE TO ALL SENIOR
AT NO COST:
Assistance, Telephone
Ice, Chore Service,
itance with Forms,
tion& Referral.
MONDAY, Jan. 16:
Kamilche lunch, noon.
Movie Mania meeting,
10 a.m.
TUESDAY, Jan. 17:
Lunch (Shelton), noon.
Program: Health Dept.
services for seniors.
Fact & Fiction Book
Club, 2 P.m.
Lunch (Belfa r), noon.
Singalong (Belfair),
1 l:00-noon.
Weight Watchers, 7:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAy, Jan. 18:
Shelton, noon lunch.
Live music, 11 a.m.
Blood pressure, 1:00-2:00.
Progressive pinochle,
6:30 P.m.
THURSDAY, Jan. 19:
Kiwanis luncheon noon.
Program follows'.
Foosball lessons 2 p m.
Lunch, Belfair, noon.
FRIDAY, Jan. 20:
Lunch (Squaxin Tribal
Center), noon
Shelton Card Ciub, noon
Ladies' Exercse C,ass, "
Check the center activity 10 a.m.
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What ghost of
seasons past?!
Making periodic checks of
the scoreboard last Friday, one
might have experienced a sense
of deja vu.
Familiar as the "nmrgin of
comfort" may have seemed,
though, Shelton's 74-50
trouncing of hapless Yelm was
neither reenactment nor
revisitation.
In short, the fellas still
weren't the Highclin]bers of
recent state-championship fame.
But if" the caliber of
opposition made them look a
little like imitators of their own
lofty predecessors, Shelton's
1978 Itighclimbers didn't exactly
hurt their cause, either.
"That was a fine game for
us," assured Climber Coach
Terry Gregg after the runaway
victory, Shelton's second without
defeat in league play.
"I'm not sure Yelm was
actually such a bad team," he
added. "The truth is we played
probably our best game of the
season ."
In addition to hitting a crisp
.51:5 from the floor (35-68) -
even with untested reserves
playing much of the final quartet'
- and getting balanced scoring
right down through the foster,
the Climbers enjoyed an
overwhelming advantage on the
boards (42-23), had a season-high
16 assists and turned over the
ball only eight times - again a
season record.
Point guard Bruce Dorcy had
perhaps his best overall
performance as a Climber. The
5-10 senior keyed the Climber
press, triggering or personally
accounting for probably a dozen
Yelm turnovers, and passed off
for a game-high seven assists.
Add to that eight points and
heads-up quarterbacking of the
Climber offense.
"The passing was extremely
crisp and our lnovetnent was
good," comtnented Gregg. "And
I was especially pleased to see
that we were beginning to look
for each other out there -- really
starting to play more as a team."
Leading the way on tile
boards for the Climbers were
junior forward Todd Young,
with a game-high 11, and senior
center Brian Martin, with eight
in less than three
play.
The 6-7 pivotman fouled
just seconds before the
the third period, but by
services weren't really
anyway, as Shelton had run
58-30 lead.
Junior Jim O'Dell
another typically fine
night and ended up.
team-leading 12 points
same number tallied by
leader, deadeye guard
Thompson. Shelton's Young
1! Martin 10, Stan
nine, Dorcy eight,
seven, Grant Fox six,
Danielson four, Jay Swift
and Pat Rhodes and Les
two apiece.
If Shelton displayed
sloppiness in the game, it
committing fouls. The
gave Yehn 24 o
the charity stripe, but.
Tornadoes could convert
more than 14.
In jayvee action Frida.y,
Climbers scored 26 points
third period to break
relatively tight game and
to a 75-43 victory over
jayvees. :'
Les Smith scored 16
to lead Shelton's attack,
Danielson added ten,
Jackstadt nine, Swift and
Brown eight each, Rhodes i
Sean Byrne and Casey
five each, Orr four and Fox l
Kerry Kenning two each.
Shelton's so
meanwhile, made it five in
without a loss by
Timberline's tenth-graders
Tad Smith canned 20 poin
lead the way on offense
Franklin had 12; John
Jon TI]omason and Jeff
each; Greg Cole and
Roberts five apiece; and
Hargens and Andy Williams
each.
Great pleasure
It gives me great pleasure
to see the stubbornness of
incorrigible non-t
warmly acclaimed.
Albert
(On receiving the
& Taylor Award,