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SHSGIRLSBASKETBALL
Climbers unable to match Thunderbirds' speed
By DEAN SIEMON
Shelton High School girls bas-
ketball will tell you after their 85-
24 home game loss to Mount Ta-
homa High School on Friday that
speed kills.
So do a large number of turn-
overs.
Shelton (0-11, 0-5 4A Narrows
League) fell behind 23-4 after
the first quarter, turning the ball
over 19 times.
Mount Tahoma (10-1, 4-1
league) held a 51-18 lead at half-
time and Shelton's turnover total
for the half reached 30.
Nigel Warren, Shelton head
coach, said the team did not exe-
cute their gameplan, knowing the
Thunderbirds were going to push
the pace.
"We wanted to slow down the
pace and keep it half court," War-
ren said. "We weren't success-
ful when we tried to force tough
passes."
Warren gave credit to Mount
Tahoma as a fast tempo, full court
team that can transition back to
offense after a turnover.
'~rhey are definitely a well
conditioned team, more so than
teams we have faced this season,"
Warren said.
Mount Tahoma shot 47 per-
cent in total field goals, convert-
ing six out of 19 3-point field goal
attempts.
"I knew they were going to
shoot three-pointers," Warren
said. "If they're not scoring lay-
ups, they're shooting threes."
The majority of Shelton's 45
turnovers turned into fastbreak
points for the Thunderbirds, with
Warren said the team has
recently worked on not only re-
bounding with the use of medi-
cine balls, but also on blocking
shots.
"We have a couple of girls in-
crease their verticle [jump] by two
inches," Warren said.
Despite the winless start to
their league schedule this season,
Warren is hopeful that Shelton
will be ready for the second go
around of the league opponents
after road games at Bellarmine
Prepatory School on January 12
and Olympia High School on Jan-
uary 14.
"It's just 'are we going to come
out and work hard?" Warren
said. "We're going to sneak some
W's and people won't be expecting
it."
January 7 at Shelton High
School in Shelton
Mt. Tah. 23 28 18 16 - 85
Shelton 4 14 4 2-24
Mount Tahoma - Anderson 31,
Journal photo by Dean Si .... Williamson 13, Davis 12, Bunger
Shelton High School's Clara Robbins attempts to keep 8, Williams 6, Ruffin 4, Lopez 3,
the ball despite a steal attempt from Mount Tahoma Lee 3, Johnson 3, Chambers 2
High School's Ashley Keys during Friday's game in
Shelton. Shelton - Robbins 6, Gad 4,
Krumpols 4, Decicio 2, Sawyer 2,
senior Deborah Anderson benefit- While Mount Tahoma's Jessi Bragg 2, Gustafson 2, Graden 2
ring the most with 31 points. Williamson, their tallest player at
Shelton junior Clara Robbins six-foot-seven, had 13 points and Field goals - Mount Tahoma
led the team with six points and earned a few rebounds, she was36-76, Shelton 8-40; 3-point field
came offthe bench and began tak- blocked on a few attempts inside goals - Mount Tahoma 6-19, Shel-
ing the role of floor leader for the the paint, ton 0-3; Free throws - Mount Ta-
Highclimber offense. One of the blocks came from homa 7-12, Shelton 8-9; Rebounds
"Her [Robbins] shot selection Heather Sawyer, six-foot even,- Mount Tahoma 32, Shelton 35;
and confidence on the offense has and even one from Robbins, whoTurnovers - Mount Tahoma 12,
improved," Warren said. stands at five-foot-three. Shelton 45
Shelton swimmers earn best times despite meet loss
By DEAN SIEMON league," Youngquist said. won by less, than two-
After two nonleague Andrew Grant won the tenths of a second.
dual meet wins, Shel- 50-yard freestyle event "Either weshouldhave
ton High School boys with a time of 24.47 sec- won the 200 free relay or
swimming suffered a 4A onds, more than two they blew the 50 free,"
Narrows League loss on seconds faster than fel-Youngquist said.
Thursday at its home low Highclimber Grey Grant also won in the
pool against Stadium Endicott in second place. 100-yard backstroke With
High School, 117-69. Bryton Rodgers finished a time of 1:01.57. While
Shelton coach Chad third, the time was a bit slower
Youngquist said the Youngquist said the than his personal best at
loss came against one offirst through third sweep Lincoln High School on
the favorites to win thein the 50-yard freestyleJanuary 4, Youngquist
league championship by does not really line up said he is improving to-
season's end. with the results from the wards a state qualifying
"In our league, it'll be200-yard freestyle relay, time of 57 seconds.
Gig Harbor or them for where Stadium's team "He's just getting clos-
er to the state cut,"
Youngquist said.
Three more High-
climbersqualified
for the Narrows
League champion-
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ship meet on January dium] weren't prepared
27 (at Foss High School for," Youngquist said, cit-
in Tacoma) - Brandon ing diving off the side of
Smith (100-yard butter- the pool rather than div-
fly),: Grey, Endicq£~ .(100-~ing blocks ..... ~ ............
yard bad stroke) : and : :' B;ut::Y0(h gquist;was
Kyrk~:" Taylor (100~yard proud of his: swimmers
breaststr~h). ~ competing against a
"They're all pret- higher level opponent
ty happy about that," and earning their times.
Youngquist said. "If it isn't the perfor-
Younquist said two- mance of your life, then
thirds of Shelton swim- it's a practice for excel-
mers earned personal lence," Youngquist said.
best times while he said Shelton is scheduled
Stadium swimmers did for two more league dual
not have similar success meets before the league
(i.e. 50 freestyle and 100 championships-at South
backstroke) in earning Kitsap High School in
best times. Port Orchard on January
"We came away getting 13 and at home against
best times and beating Olympia High School on
them in things they [Sta- January
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Climbers
Thunderstruck
at Mount
Tahoma
By DEAN SIEMON
After earning their first 4A Nar-
rows League win on January 5
against Stadium High School (56-
47), the Highclimbers were unable
to carry the momentum into Mount
Tahoma High School on Friday in
an 85-56 loss.
Shelton (3-8, 1-4 4A Narrows
League) was competitive within
the first three quarters, trailing by
11 before being outscored 25-7 in
the fourth quarter.
"For three quarters, we played
pretty well," said Mark Jensen,
Shelton head coach. "We got back
within eight or 10 and they would
blitz us and score 10."
The Thunderbirds (6-5, 3-2
league) were led by senior Xavier
Bazile with 33 points. Bazile ver-
bally committeed to play basket-
ball at the University of Idaho
back in October.
Shelton senior Berry Peterson, a
transfer student from 1B "Oakville
High School who has performed
well in his first season back in
Shelton since leaving in his sopho-
more year, led the Highclimbers
with 23 points
"He [Peterson] shot the ball
pretty well," Jensen said. "I think
he only missed six shots and he hit
nine."
Senior Tre Fisher contributed
17 points for Shelton, but was held
scoreless in the second half.
"Tre had a really good first half
but struggled in the second half,"
Jensen said. "We didn't shoot well
tonight."
Junior Curtis Wuestner had 10
points plus five rebounds, continu-
ing to play at a consistent level.
"Curtis had his typical Curtis
game," Jensen said. "He gets four
or ~ive buckets and four or five re-
~ :- :b0finds."
Jensen said the Highclimb-
ers are not the "quickest"group,"
matched up against a Mount Ta-
homa squad that has a group of
athletes that have full-court speed.
"It's something we haven't seen
in our nonleague games," Jensen
said. "This is the first team we've
seen play up tempo."
January 7 at Mount Tahoma
High School in Tacoma
Shelton 13 16 20 7 - 56
Mt. Tah. 25 17 18 25 - 85
20.
Shelton - Peterson 23, Fisher 17,
RWuester 10, Ownby 4, Padgett 2
Mount Tahoma - Bazile 33, Wil-
son 14, Traylor 8, Smitherman 7,
Burse 7, Rollins 6, Harris 3, Ba-
ines 3, Troung 2, Howard 1
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for 50 airplanes and still fail to create a significant
number of jobs. So, why do we support aviation?
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