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Journ 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 Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page C-1