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By EMILY HANSON On Friday, Jan. with eight points, six rebounds and
6, the Highclimb-three assists. Freshman forward
The Shelton boys' basketball ers lost at home Sean German scored eight points
Leam couldn't come up with a win' to Mt. Tahoma 65-and grabbed up five rebounds while
~n the road or at home last week. 47. sophomore gUard Colton Hubble
On Wednesday, Jan. 4, the High- "We had a hard scored eight points, snatched up
climbers lost at Stadium 83-49. time with their three steals and passed out two as-
"We didn't play great but we FRI quickness and ath- sists.
/lidn't play bad," Mark Jensen, head Mt. 65 leticism," JensenAs of press time, the Highclimb-
~oach, said. "Stadium just shot it said. "We really ers had not yet played at Bellar-
vcell against us and we didn't de- struggled and they mine on Wednesday, Jan. 11. The
rend very well in the first half. We TOMORROW: created a lot of de- team is set to play next at 7 p.m. on
Sheldon at flections and turn- Friday, Jan, 13 at Olympia.
~lso didn't shoot it very well, mak- Olyn~pia, 7 p.m. overs. It's like we
[ng only 35 percent." "It'll be very tough," Jensen said.
Senior forward Patrick Fabrizio 1 had a brain freeze "They both have real big lineups.
ed the Highclimbers with 14 points ~ and couldn't run Bellarmine has a 6-foot-eight-inch
tnd six rebounds while junior play . Mr. Tahoma was probablykid who averages 20 points a game
,~uard Dakota Andrews scored eight the ~uickest team we've seen and and Olympia has8'a6'" six-foot-seven-
~oints, grabbed up five rebounds it's l~ard for us to deal with quick- inch kid and a kid they start
~nd handed out two assists. Senior ness ibecause we don't see that lo- pretty often. We'll have trouble
,~uards Curtis Wuestner and Austin callyltoo much." with the match up. They're both on
~chirato each scored seven points. A~drews led the Highclimbers the road, so that makes it tougher."
/
Journal photo by
Emily Hanson
Shelton
sophomore
guard Colton
Hubble
charges to the
hoop
during the
Highclimbers'
home game on
against Mt.
Tahoma
Friday, Jan. 6.
&TH LETE 0 FTH EWE E K
][l~p Journal photos by Emily Hanson
lhelton senior guard Jordanne Kru ols attempts to drive around a Stadium defender during the Lady High-
limbers' home game on Wednesday, lan. 4.
ly EMILY HANSON
In its first two games back from winter
reak, the Shelton girls' basketball team
)st at home and on the road.
On Wednesday, Jan. 4, the Lady High-
limbers lost at home to Stadium 48-33.
The game started well for Shelton, with
oth teams going into the second period
rith 13 points and then going into halftime
,ith Stadium up 22-18.
The second half was a different game,
hough. In the third period, Stadium pulled
head with 12 points to 34-25 and then
.'ored 14 points in the fourth period while
HS scored just seven in the third and eight
1 the fourth.
"That's what happens when you have
~o and a half weeks off without a game,""
aron Leth, head coach, said. "The losses
hat are hardest for me are the ones I know
'e could've won."
Senior guard Clara Robbins led the Lady
[ighclimbers with 13 points while senior
ing Allison Hunter scored five.
"It didn't go as well as I thought it
'ould," Hunter said. "We kind of fell apart
1 the second half and we weren't running
n offense."
Hunter said the Lady Highclimbers had
~o many turnovers and that Leth told them
aring the game to slow things down in-
;ead of taking fast breaks.
"We tried to do that but we forced it in-
side too much," she added.
Leth said that what
killed the team was end-
ing up with 34 turnovers.
OnFriday, Jan. 6, the
Lady Highclimbers lost at
Mt. Tahoma 78-36.
FRIDAY: "The Mt. Tahoma
Mt. Tahoma 78 game actually went re-
Shelton ........ 36 ally well in the first half,"
Leth said. "We were tied
TOMORROW: at 14 at the end of the first
Shelton vs. period and were down by
Olympia, 7 p.m. seven going into halftime.
We broke their press re-
ally well but didn't have
enough momentum in the second half."
Hunter led the team with 11 points and
five rebounds while senior post Nicole Os-
berg scored seven points and sophomore
point guard Taylor Stroud added five points.
Robbins grabbed up four rebounds.
"The girls are starting to see they can
compete and are not expecting to go out and
get beat every time," Leth said. "The girls
know they can beat presses we just have to
work on our turnovers because they're not
forced, we're doing it to ourselves."
As of press time, the Lady Highclimbers
had not yet played Bellarmine on Wednes-
day, Jan. 11. The team is set to play next at
7 p,m. on Friday, Jan. 13 at home against
Olympia.
See Lady Climbers on page C-4
Shelton sophomore point guard Taylor
Stroud hustles upcourt during the Lady
Highclimbers' home game against
Stadium on Wednesday, Jan. 4.
Shelton-Mason County Journal
MMK
senior
works with
his hands
By EMILY HANSON
Eric Johnson likes to
work with his hands.
Johnson, a senior on the
Mary M. Knight boys' bas-
ketball team, enjoys build-
ing, working with machines,
raising livestock and, of
course, basketball.
"I've
~ played
basketball
since I
was a little
boy, prob-
ably about
fourth
grade be-
cause my
Eric dad start-
Johnson ed coach-
ing," John-
son said. "I
love playing with the team
and the intensity of the
game. I love being physical,
making baskets and win-
ning. Even if we lose, it's
still fun to play with the
team."
Tim Diggle, Johnson's
head coach, said Johnson
really stepped up for the
Knight Owls the week of
Jan. 2 through Jan. 7.
"Eric was double-double
three games in a row and is
the one holding us togeth-
er," Diggle said. "He was
solid all week."
By "double-double" Dig-
gle meant that Johnson
scored in the double digits in
each of the three games and
also led the Knight Owls in
rebounds with double digits
each game.
Though basketball is the
main sport Johnson has
stuck with, he said he's also
played soccer since he was
about 8 and that he ran
track in seventh and eighth
grades.
Outside of sports, John-
son is involved with MMK
by being the senior class
representative and work-
ing with his friend, Sean
Sexton, who was the junior
class president last year.
"Me and Sean take care
of the vending machine our
class owns and we take
charge of what the class
needs," Johnson said. "We
started taking care of the
vending machine last year
because other people didn't
seem like they wanted to do
it."
He said he is a decent
student, earning mostly Bs
See Athlete on page C~4
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