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Shelton girls suffer senior night defeat
Lady Highclimbers
win physical battle,
lose to Lincoln
By EMILY HANSON
em ily@masoncounty.com
The Shelton girls' basket-
ball team received high praise
after its senior night game last
week.
"One of the best compli-
ments a coach could have
about his team is that (the op-
ponents' coach) wishes their
team could play as physical
as us," head coach Aaron Leth
said. "Lincoln's coach asked
me after the game to have a
copy of game film so he could
review it with his team and
show them how they lost the
physical battle on the floor."
Despite Shelton losing 52-
31 Feb. 5 in the Mini Dome,
Lincoln's head coach told Leth
he had not seen a team play
with more heart than the Lady
Highclimbers put forth.
The game was an emotional
one for the team, particularly
the seniors, because it was the
final home game of the season.
"It being senior night, I had
so much fire in me to win and
prove we're good enough," se-
nior Cheyenne Overlin said.
"I think we out-hustled them
and put more heart in. They
thought they'd destroy us and
they didn't."
Shelton struggled to gen-
erate offense in the first half
and went into halftime down
42-12.
Leth said the Lady High-
climbers' goal was to hold
down Lincoln's leading scorer,
sophomore Tamia Braggs.
"Our focus was to keep their
big post off of the boards and
out of the paint," Leth said
about Braggs, who is 6-foot-1.
"Although she was able to get
some easy rebounds, we made
her night pretty tough. She is
the leading scorer in the (3A
Narrows League) right now
and you have to contain and
hold down on her at all times."
Overlin praised junior var-
sity swing player sophomore
Kaitlyn Allen for her perfor-
mance at post.
"(Kaitlyn) handled Lincoln's
post better than any of the se-
niors," Overlin said.
Leth agreed, adding that
Allen stepped up to the coach-
es' challenge of holding Braggs
down.
Leth said the Feb. 3 game
was an improvement on Shel-
ton's first meeting with Lin-
coln, a 67-14 loss Jan. 10 in
Tacoma.
"The girls played a good
game during the final home
game of the year," Leth said.
"We set out to improve from
the last time we played them.
A month ago, we played Lin-
coln at their house and were
beat up pretty bad."
Senior Taylor Stroud led
the Lady Highclimbers with
eight points, while senior Jor-
dan Leach put up seven.
Senior Alyssa York netted
six points and Overlin added
four.
Senior Kassy Slone and ju-
nior Jessica Johnson contrib-
uted three points each.
The loss came two days
after Shelton played its best
game of the season, losing 49-
47 at Capital.
"I was really proud of how
we just wouldn't give up and
a played a great game," Leth
said.
Shelton led the first quar-
ter, outscoring Capital 12-10
and then fell behind to go into
halftime down 26-23.
Capital pulled further
ahead with a 13-8 third quar-
ter.
"Capital took advantage of
a couple of slipups we had on
the defensive end in the third
quarter, jumping up on us by
10," Leth said. "We talked be-
tween the third and fourth
quarters about being patient
on offense and making them
come out to guard us."
Shelton picked its game up
in the fourth to score 14 points.
With 51 seconds left in the
game, Shelton trailed by eight
and had two remaining time-
outs.
"Lincoln had the ball and
we were able to get a steal in
the posts," Leth said. "Chey-
enne took it the length of the
court and was contested at the
rim."
Johnson picked up the re-
bound and finished the play to
bring Shelton within six points
with 34 seconds to go.
"They played great defense
and forced a bad shot," Leth
Journal photos by Emily Hanson
ABOVE: Shelton sophomore
Aurora Gouley guards
Lincoln senior Kayla
McLean on Feb. 5 during the
Lady Highclimbers' senior
night home game in the
Mini Dome. RIGHT: Shelton
senior Cheyenne Overlin
attempts to stop a layup by
Lincoln sophomore Tamia
Braggs.
said. "They took their time
on the offensive end and with
10 seconds left, Johnson hit a
huge 3-pointer to put us with-
in three points."
After a Lincoln shooter
missed her first free throw on
a 1-and-l, York grabbed the
rebound and the Shelton girls
pushed the ball up the floor.
Shelton missed tying the
game with less than 1 second
remaining.
Capital sent Stroud to the
line, where she made 1-of-2.
"With 0.3 seconds to go, she
missed on purpose to give her
team a chance to get a tip-in
and go to overtime," Leth said.
"Cheyenne secured the re-
bound, but we just ran out of
time."
The Lady Highclimbers (3-
15 as of Feb. 5) played their
final game last night at Wil-
son.
Prep Roundup
Senior swimmer
earns wild card
entry to districts
Dalton Green, a senior on the Shel-
ton boys' swim team, earned a wild
card entry to the 3A West Central Dis-
trict III Championship last week.
At the Coaches' Challenge meet
Friday at Foss, Green swam the 200-
yard individual medley with a per-
sonal best time of 2 minutes, 30.14
seconds, fast enough to earn the wild
card entry.
Green also dropped more than three
seconds in the 100-yard breaststroke,
earning a personal best at 1:18.17.
"More than half of our swimmers
came out with personal records," co-
head coach Chad Youngquist said.
The meet was'a last-chance meet
for swimmers to qualify for districts
or the 3A WIAA State Champion-
ship.
Sophomore Jason Apple also earned
a personal best in the breaststroke
with a time of 1:18.77.
Youngquist said sophomore Levi
Vance's 50-yard freestyle time was a
huge drop. He swam the event in 25.09
seconds.
"He might've earned a spot on
the 200-yard relay with that time,"
Youngquist added.
Senior Luke Fiedler dropped one
full second in the 100-yard freestyle to
1:00.58.
Finally, senior Scan Kealy earned a
district-qualifying time in the 100-yard
backstroke at 1:04.87. He is not swim-
ming the event at districts, Youngquist
said.
The district championship is at 4:30
p.m. tomorrow and 5 p.m. Saturday at
Hazen High School in Renton.
SHS boys' basketball
drops 2 to league teams
The Shelton boys' basketball team
struggled against two 3A Narrows
League opponents last week.
On Feb. 5, Lincoln defeated the
Highclimbers 70-30 in Tacoma.
"They just beat us shooting, rebound-
ing and won the turnover battle in the
first half," head coach Del Sandberg said.
The highlight of the game was win-
ning the third quarter, he added. Shel-
ton outscored Lincoln 13-7 in the third.
Junior Tyler Speaks led the High-
climbers with eight points.
The Highclimbers then lost their se-
nior night game 79-48 against Foss on
Friday at home.
"Foss is very athletic and quick and
we couldn't match them," Sandberg
said. "They won the battle of the boards
and after the first quarter, they started
to hit their shots."
Seniors Andrew Quantz and Colby
Fuller led the Highclimbers with eight
points each.
Knight Owls fall
to Lake Quinault
The Mary M. Knight boys' basket-
ball team couldn't keep up with Lake
Quinault on Friday night.
Lake Quinault defeated the Knight
Owls 44-34 in Lake Quinault.
Paul Werly led the Knight Owls
with 12 points. Three boys -- Austin
Thompson, Austin Renecker and Adam
Pais -- scored six points each. James
Anderson contributed five points.
• Compiled by reporter Emily
Hanson
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