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Shelton-Mason County Journal Highclimber bowlers take 3,rd at districts Shelton to compete at state this weekend By EMILY HANSON emily@masoncounty.eom The Shelton girls' bowling team is headed to the 4A State Tournament. Danielle On Saturday, Jan. 28, the Lady High- Ewart climbers' secured their berth to state at the West Central District III Tournament at Pacific Lanes in Tacoma with a third place finish. "The girls did pretty well," head coach Curt Snyder said. "Danielle [Ewart] was our leader and placed ninth overall. The rest of the girls bowled as a team; no one really was outstanding but no one bowled poorly, either." Sheltontook third out of 10 4A teams in the tournament with a total score of 3,075 behind Cur- tis High School in second with 3,305 and Emerald Ridge in first with 3,428. Ewart finished in ninth place overall with scores of 178, 209 and 170 for a total of 557 and an average of 185. She received a ribbon for her ninth place finish. "We had one game that was bad in the entire tournament," Snyder said. "Really you're bowling against all of the teams and there's a big over- head keeping track of ev- eryone's scores," Snyder said. "It's a lot of fun and it's very loud." Throughout the "sea- son, Ewart led the team in overall averages with Mishawn 176 during 28 games, Ewart while her sister Mishawn Ewart scored an average of 172 during 28 games. Caitlyn Borys owned the third highest average this season with 158 during 30 games while Brittany Smith scored an av- erage of 147 during 30 games and Lindsey Cox's average during 30 games was 143. With their third-place finish at dis- tricts, the Lady Highclimbers will next compete at the WIAA 4A State Tourna- ment at 10 a.m. on Friday, Feb, 3, and at 7:45 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 4, at Narrows Plaza in Tacoma. "I know of some of the competition [we'll see at state]," Snyder said. "Emer- ald Ridge is an outstanding team, maybe the best in the state. We'll have to get by Emerald Ridge to win state, which [ don't think we can do. I'd like to see it happen, but I don't think we can." Snyder said the fact the Lady High- climbers made it to state this season is quite an accomplishment. "I'm proud of them," he said. This is the eighth team Snyder has coached to the state bowling tournament. Senior cheerleader challenges herself By EMILY HANSON emily@masoncouniy.eom Chelsey Crump likes to challenge herself with new activities and opportunities. Crump, a senior co-cap- tain for the Shelton High cheerleading team, began cheering as a chal- lenge. "1 was a cheerlead- ing man- ager when I was a sopho- more," Chelsey C r u m p Crump said. "As a manager, I noticed how different cheerleading is and how much of a chal- lenge it is and I decided to give it a shot." She said being a cheer- leader for the last two years has been challenging but that she likes to try new things. "Cheerleading is so chal- lenging because you perform for only 2 1/2 minutes but in those 2 1/2 minutes you stunt, tumble, cheer and jump and do a lot of things you wouldn't normally do," Crump said. As co-captain of the team, Crump said it is her responsibility to make sure the other girls are going to practices, wearing their uniforms on the day they'll be performing and keeping them in line. "Being a co-cptain is a See Athlete on page C-4 SHS boys struggle in league By EMILY HANSON ernily@masoncounty.com Journa photo by Emil) Hanson Shelton freshman forward Sean German takes the opening tipoff of the Highclimbers' home game against Stadium on Friday, Jan. 27. The Shelton boys' basketball team is still strug- gling to play a whole game in the Narrows League. On Wednesday, Jan. 25, the Highclimbers lost at Gig Harbor 76-36. 'vVe're having a tough time keeping ourselves going and we're not shooting very well," head coach • Mark Jensen said. "If you don't shoot very well, the game just mushrooms out." Jensen said that while the FRIDAY: Highclimbers made 14-of-38 from C. Kitsap ..... 72 the field, Gig Harbor had a senior Shelton ........ 40 player who was 6'6" and was dif- ficult for the Highclimbers to stop. TOMORROW: Freshman forward Scan Gor. Shelton vs. man led the Highclimbers with Bellarmine, 10 points while sophomore guard 7 p.m. Colton Hubble put up eight points. Next, on Friday, Jan. 27, the Highclimbers lost at home to Stadium 60-36. Shelton stayed closed with Stadium through the first half, going into halftime down 25-19 but in the third quarter, Stadium scored 22 points while Shelton put up nine. "Iffs been a trademark for us: we seem to have real tough third quarters after playing well in the first half," Jensen said. Senior guard Curtis Wuestner led the Highclimb- ers with 14 points, shooting 7-for-10. "He played real well," Jensen said. Finally, on Monday, Jan. 30, the Highclimbers lost at Central Kitsap 72-40. "Again, we played a pretty good first half. We were down eight to 10 points with about one minute left in the half when we missed three free throws and went into halfLime down 14," Jensen said. "We were doing a good job of taking care of the bail but then did things that led to turnovers again." German led the Highclimbers with 11 points while Hubble scored nine. As of press time, the Highclimbers had not yet played at Mt. Tahoma on Wednesday, Feb. 1. The team's next game is set for 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 3, at home against Bellarmine. Shelton's final two games are set for 7 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 6, at home against South Kitsap and 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 8, at home against Olympia. "It's going to be a tough finish," Jensen said. "The two co-leaders of the league are Bellarmine and Olym- pia and South Kitsap is fighting for the last playoff spot." He said the team is going to have to change how they play and do a better job of taking care of the ball. "I've felt like we've played hard and done well on defense but turnovers have been a problem," Jensen said. Sh,elton ch0000erleaders bound for state By EMILY HANSON emily@masoncounty.com The Shelton cheerleading squad is headed to the 2012 WIAA State Cheerleading Championship this weekend. At 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 4, the Lady Highclimb- ers will compete among 53 total teams for state cheer- leading glory. This is the fourth year the Lady Highclimbers have at- tended the state championships and the third with Misty Pagel as head coach. "Every year we compete we get a little better," Pagel said. "We're in a harder division this year, though." For the last three years, the Lady Highclimbers com- peted in the medium tumbling division and this year they will compete in the 4A nontumbling division against seven other schools: Auburn, Kentwood Black, South Kit- sap, Bothell, Skyview, Evergreen and Bethel Silver. Pagel said there are three ways for a team to qualify for state. The first is to earn a score of 195 or higher at a competition, the second is to be in the top 50 percent of teams at a competition and the third is to be one of the top 50 teams in the state. At competitions, squads are judged based on their cheering and dancing, jumping and stunting. On Dec. 3, during the Shelton cheerleading competi- tion in the Mini Dome, the Lady Highclimbers qualified by earning enough points. This was the second of four competitions the team went to this season. On Nov. 12, the Lady Highclimbers competed at Pen- insula High School. "They did pretty well," Pagel said. "It was very, very early in the season so it was good to hear what the judges had to say. We came home and fixed issues." At the third competition in Bellarmine in January, Pagel said half of the team had the flu. Finally, at the fourth competition the Lady High- climbers attended, Pagel said two of the girls were in- jured. The first year the Lady Highclimbers attended state, they brought home eighth place while the team placed sixth the second year. The Lady Highclimbers had to switch to the nontum- bling division this year because a tumbling team needs at least half of the members to have tumbling skills. This year, the team fell a few members shy of the required number. With five seniors, no juniors, 16 sophomores and seven freshmen, this is a rebuilding year for the Lady High- climbers, Pagel said. "I think they've done amazing," she added. "There are a lot of them who are kind of new to cheering, having only done youth cheering or rec-league cheering, and several who've never cheered before. Cofisidering that, we've done very well." Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, February 2, 2012 - Page C-1