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NMBOYSBASKETBALL
Bulldogs struggle at la00)me against Br emerton
By DEAN SIEMON
As the final seconds ticked in North Ma-
son High School boys basketball's home loss
to Bremerton High School, 79-58, head coach
Steve Hackett told his players on the bench
"We'll get them next time."
The 2A Bulldogs (5-8, 4-5 Olympic League)
fell belind early as the 3A Knights (8-4, 5-3
league) went on a 12-0 run. North Mason
turned the ball over twice in the first four min-
utes.
"We didn't match their heart coming out,"
Hackett said. "Didn't match their speed and
that's hard to come back from."
After trailing 33-28 at halftime, Bremerton's
offense was highlighted by their long-range
shooting - converting eight out of 17 3-point
field goals in the second half (13-25 total).
"They sure got some easy ones," Hackett
said. "Tip your hat to them. They knocked
down some open threes."
The Bulldogs turned the ball over 17 times
in the game while the Knights only lost the ball
in eight possessions.
"You can't give a good team like that the
ball," Hackett said. "You have to take care of
the ball and rebound. We didn't do that to-
night."
Bremerton was led by Andre Coleman's 29
points, while Virgo Banks contributed 14 and
Andrew Shadle had 12.
Four North Mason seniors scored double dig-
it points - Kris Bishop (13 points), Kasey Bielec
(11 points), A.J. Barker (11 points) and Austin
Sandquist (10 points).
As a team, the Bulldogs shot 36 percent from
the field with six out of 17 behind the arc.
Hackett said he wants his team to continue
being balanced every night and shooting well
as a team.
"I tell my guys I'd rather have five guys score
10 than have one guy score 30," Hackett said.
January 13 at North Mason High School in
Journal photo by Dean Siemon
North Mason High School's Austin Sandquist drives past Bremerton High
School's Virgo Banks during Thursday's game in Belfair.
Belfair
Bremerton
North Mason
18 15 21 25 - 79
9 19 17 13-58
Field goals - Bremerton 27-56, North Mason
21-57; 3-point field goals - Bremerton 13-25,
North Mason 6-17; Free throws - Bremerton
12-23, North Mason 10-14; Rebounds -Bremer-
ton 33, North Mason 30; Turnovers, Bremer-
ton 8, North Mason 17; Fouls - Bremerton 17,
North Mason 18
Bremerton - Coleman 29, Banks 14, Shadle
12, Lawrence 7, Soinski 5, Wesby 4, Wales 3,
Jones 3, Pounds 2
North Mason - Bishop 13, Bielec 11, Barker
11, Sandquist 10, Graeber 5, Burley 3, Casteel
3, Frender 2
Journal photo by Dean Siemon
Shelton High School's Jon Ownby attempts a jump
shot over Olympia High School defenders during
Friday's game at the Shelton Minidome.
Oly tops Climbers at the dome
By DEAN SIEMON
Shelton High School boys
basketball lost it's third straight
4A Narrows League game at
home on Friday against Olym-
pia High School, 64-27.
The Highclimbers (3-10, 1-5
Narrows League) fell behind
20-10 in the first quarter, which
included an Olympia (12-1, 6-0
Narrows League) 10-0 run to
give a 12-2 lead.
Shelton head coach Mark
Jensen said after playing
league rivals Mount Tahoma
High School and Bellarm-
ine Prepatory Schol, Olympia
proved they deserved to be on
top of the league standings.
"Last three games, those
were the best three teams we've
seen," Jensen said. "At least to-
night showed me more than the
other two. They were very phys-
ical, well disciplined, well exe-
cuted and had nice size across
the board."
Shelton was four out of 20
inside the arc during the first
half. Jensen said a few of the
easy shots got away during the
first quarter.
"Berry [Peterson] missed
those three lay ups and [John]
Padgett misses a put back ... we
make those four shots and it's
20-18 and it's a whole different
ball game," Jensen said.
The Highclimbers were only
11 out of 51 from the field total,
led by Tre Fisher's 14 points.
See Climbers on page C-4
Climbers earn
best times at
South Kitsap
By DEAN SIEMON
Shelton High School boys
swimming continues to build con-
fidence with personal bests and
a dual meet win at South Kitsap
High School on Thursday, 109-78.
Shelton coach Chad Youngquist
said the win built confidence in
the Highclimbers.
"They [South Kitsap] tradi-
tionally have a strong program,"
Youngquist said.
Younquist said he worked the
team hard in practices the days
leading up to the dual meet.
"Even after working real hard,
they [Shelton] showed up and
they swam fast," he said. "It's
confidence that when it matters,
we can step up."
The Highclimbers won all
three relay races. The closest to a
state qualifing time was the 200-
yard freestyle relay team of Ricky
Rutledge, Bryton Rodgers, Jon
Ramsey and Indi Endicott.
The group finished with a time
of 1:39.90. The time to set to earn
a spot at the state championships
is 1:33.70.
Shelton swimmers took first
place five out of the seven indi-
vidual events, including fresh-
man Andrew Grant with a time
of 1:00.22 (a personal best) in the
100-yard backstroke.
"He's getting really close to
that state time [57.70 seconds],"
Youngquist said.
Youngquist said this season's
freshman class have been swim-
ming well. Not only has Grant
performed at a high level, but the
Shelton coach has been impressed
with other freshman - Ryder
Phelan (200-yard freestyle and
100-yard breastroke), Sean Ke-
aly (100-yard freestyle) and Luke
Fiedler (200-yard medley relay).
"People that are turning out to
be key are freshman," Youngquist
Journal photo by Dean Siemon
Shelton High School's An-
drew Grant continues to
improve on his time in the
100-yard backstroke.
said.
Grant also won the 50-yard
freestyle with a time of 23.72 sec-
• onds, which is less than one sec-
ond from qualifying for the state
championships.
But Grant has already quali-
fied for the 4A West Central Dis-
tricts, along with senior Ricky
Rutledge and Shelton's three re-
lay teams.
"We got a whole bunch that are
close," said Rob Phelan, Shelton
coach, who named Jon Ramsey,
Max Crain, Indi Endicott, Grey
Endicott and Bryton Rodgers.
"Some of them will,"Youngquist
said. "I'd like to say all of them
[will qualify] but we'll see."
Taking
Bob out
MASON
COUNTY
OUTDOORS
By KELLY
RIORDAN
The 2011 waterfowl sea-
son is wrapping up in Wash-
ington and for me it has been
a phenomenal year. In fact
it has been the best duck-
hunting year for me to date,
with one exception. Before
the season ended, there is
one hunting companion that
I had not hunted with, Bob
Mason.
Giving him a call, he was
as excited as I was to get
out on the water. Plans set;
I readied the boat and gear.
This trip was to be differ-
ent from our last as we were
quite short on time and
only ended up with about
two hours of hunting time.
No worries though as I had
picked a spot that had been
filled with good opportuni-
ties thus far in the water-
fowl season.
Pulling into Bob's place
at around 2:30 in the after-
noon, I didn't have to wait
long as Bob came out of his
house with gear in hand and
rady to go. Loading his gear
into the truck, I asked him
if he was set to go, "Gun...
Check. License...Check.
Shells...Check, that's all we
really need," he said, so off
we went.
Arriving at our boat
launch, I made the observa-
tion that the wind was re-
ally kickin' and told Bob the
ride may be a little bumpy.
Not fazing him in the least, I
backed the boat in the water
like a pro (even I get lucky
from time to time) and we
were boat ready in a matter
of minutes.
Our destination was
just a short ride from the
launch and soon I was an-
chored up in my favorite
bay. Like other short trips
this-year, I had elected for
a "pass shoot" style of hunt.
This type of hunt is another
form of duck hunting where
hunters place themselves on
the "X" spot and anticipate
this place being where the
quackers want to go.
Wind howling and in my
estimation blowing steadily
at 25 miles per hour even
in the semi-protected bay,
we noticed the ducks were
holding steady to even more
protected coves.
Both Bob and I waited
patiently for our first fly-by
and while the time passed
we shot hunting stories
back and forth. This is truly
oe of my fvorite angles on
any type of a hunt. During
the slow times, the conver-
sations can go from serious
to outright laughter in mere
seconds.
While I was in the middle
of a good story, both Bob and
I missed a beautiful drake
Bufflehead crossing at 25
yards. We just shrugged our
shoulders and laughed, both
agreeing that the scout duck
had made the passage safe-
ly and that he would go tell
his feathered friends that
the coast was clear.
Our theory proved true
as minutes later another
Bufflehead came blaz-
ing through and Bob and I
opened fire. Looking like the
old Nintendo Duck Hunt
game the bird zigzagged
through the shotgun blasts
and laughed as it continued
on its way, unscathed. Just
like that old video game, I
waited for that dog to pop
up laughing.
Again we shrugging our
shoulders and laughed a lit-
tle. Bob piped up and said,
"Just firing some warning
See Outdoors on page C-4
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