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Shelton 6th at league
swimming championship
Highclimbers headed to districts this weekend
By EMILY HANSON
emily@masorcoun,com
The Shelton boys' swim team brought
home sixth place from the Narrows League
Championship last week.
On Thursday, Jan. 26, and Friday, Jan.
27, the Highclimbers competed at Henry
Foss High School for the opportunity to set
qualifying times to compete at the West
Coast District III Diving and Swimming
Tournament to be held this weekend.
Co-head coach Chad Youngquist said
the team performed well.
"We had lots of best times," he added.
"Ryder Phelan swam very aggressively and
did very well in the 200- and 500-freestyles
and Brandon Smith achieved a personal re-
cord in the 200-freestyle and the 100-but-
terfly."
Harrison MacAlevy achieved a personal
record in the individual medley and the
backstroke.
"He had exceptional legs in the relays,
too," Youngquist said.
He added that Indi Endicott came in
fourth place overall in the 50-freestyle after
dropping a half-second from his time and
that Scan Kealy achieved personal records
in all four events he swam in.
JD Clemons achieved a personal re-
cord ir, the 100-freestyle and Luke Fiedler
dropped four seconds in the 100-backstroke.
Prior to the league meet, the Highclimb-
ers competed at the Narrows League Divi-
sional Championship on Tuesday, Jan. 24.
"This was a last chance for swimmers
to qualify for the league championship,"
Youngquist said. "We had great perfor-
mances by Chris Willey in the 100-butter-
fly; he dropped 2 seconds offhis time, quali-
fying for league. He also dropped 6 seconds
off his 200-freestyle time."
Youngquist said Jantzen Rodgers was
within a half-second of qualifying for league
in the 50-freestyle and within 1 second of
qualifying in the 100-freestyle.
"He got PR's in both events," Youngquist
added.
He said the distance events were tough
for the Highclimbers because the meet was
one week after the big snow storm and the
team hadn't been able to practice.
"Twelve out of 16 races were personal
records and most of them were an improve-
ment of 1 second or more so we were pretty
U s"
pleased with the performance of the g y ,
Youngquist said, i
The WCD III Diving Preliminaries !and
Finals begin at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday,
Feb. 2, at Foss High School. John Pentony,
Houston Dean, Tyler Faulkner and Josh
Zagrean will compete for the Highclimbers.
"We're hoping to have a good meet,"
co-head coach Rob Phelan said. "Pentony
and Dean have a good chance of getting to
state."
The WCD III Swimming Preliminaries
start at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 3, at Cur-
tis High School. The finals will be at 3 p.m.
on Saturday, Feb. 4, at Curtis High School
MacAlevy will be competing in i the
100-backstroke while Endicott will cm-
pete in the 50-freestyle and the 100-breast-
stroke, i
Youngquist said all three relay teams
will compete at the preliminaries but i the
swimmers for those teams had not been
chosen as of press time.
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Climbers dominate Mt. Tahoma
By EMILY HANSON
emiiy@nason, coun, ty.com,
The Shelton wrestling
team defeated Mt. Tahoma
in its final dual match of the
regular season.
On Thursday, Jan. 26,
the Highclimbers dominat-
ed Mt. Tahoma 58-16.
"We wrestled great
against Mt. Tahoma," head
coach Chris Lacy said. "We
had big wins from Kenny
Zacarias, Kevin Loza and
Skylar Core."
Zacarias, Loza and Core,
along with Ty McCullough,
Dylan Corey, Colby Bar-
ber and Ben Anderson all
pinned their opponents.
"The best performance
of the night belonged to
Ben Anderson at 285," Lacy
said. "Once again, [Ander-
son] faced an excellent op-
ponent and was dominant.
[Anderson] earned a fall in
the third period after being
ahead 13-0."
Johnathen Dennis won
by major decision while
Malachi Conklin and Ku-
siah McCullough both re-
ceived forfeits.
"Our wrestlers are fo-
cused, ready and training at
their highest level in prepa-
ration for the postseason,"
Lacy said. "I am very confi-
dent about our postseason."
The postseason begins
with the Narrows League
Sub-Regionals at 5 p.m, on
Friday, Feb. 3, and at 7 p.m.
on Saturday, Feb. 4, at Foss
High School.
"The wrestlers that we
are taking into the post-
season have a combined
varsity record of 207-128,"
Lacy said. "In league, our
wrestlers have a combined
varsity record of 52;22.
i
These records have been
accumulated during a sea-
son in which we have faced
our toughest competition in
school history."
Lacy said the regular
season tournaments the
Highclimbers attended this
Season were the highest lev-
el he could find for the team
and that the Highclimbers
have competed at the high-
est level at every opportu:
nity.
"My only disappoint-
ment is for one of our ex-
cellent senior leaders,
Matt Goldsby," Lacy said.
"Goldsby has an injury and
will not be able to compete
in the postseason. He has
been a great Highclimber
and deserves a lot of credit
for how much he has grbwn
in the sport over the last
three seasons."
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