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SPOfffSCOMMENTARY
Discipline key for Owls playoff run
By DEAN SIEMON
After missing last sea-
son due to heart surgery,
Tim Diggle knew he want-
ed to return as head coach
of the Mary M. Knight
High School boys basket-
ball team.
Diggle said he told his
wife that when faced with
the options of sitting at
home or going back, he
chose to go back to the
Owls.
"I've always been in-
volved in some way, either
as a head coach or assis-
tant coach," Diggle said.
"I've never been out of the
gyIn,"
The Owls were sched-
uled for a 1B sub-district
playoff game against Se-
ton Catholic High School
On Wednesday (past the
Journal's press deadline)
at home.
This season has been
an improvement from last
Journal photo by Dean Siemon
Tim Diggle, Mary M.
Knight High School's
boys basketball head
coach.
season's four-win season
and the players said the
changes have helped them.
One thing team lead-
ers sophomore Kyle Wil-
ley and junior Scan Sexton
both agreed on was that
Diggle brought a discipline
to the Owls.
"We play as a team mo-
reso now," Sexton said.
"We just started out
playing with just talent,"
Willey said. "We didn't like
passing the ball."
Discipline has led the
Mary M. Knight to a regu-
lar season record of 7-8 re-
cord and 6-4 in the Coastal
League, good for second
place behind Taholah High
School (10-0 league).
"I figured we would be
roughly around the middle
of the pack," Diggle said.
The team began the
season 4-0 in the league
before four straight losses
- January 22 at Taholah
(57-51); January 28 vs.
Lake Quinault (51-47);
January 29 vs. Oakville
High School (58-53); Feb-
ruary 2 at Taholah (68-62).
"I think they got a little
overconfident when we
started in league," Diggle
said. "And that's what I
feel led to our losses."
Sexton said the team
felt the rest of the schedule
"wasn't a big deal."
"It was rough," Sexton
said about the three league
losses.
"We all felt like the rest
of the teams were easy,"
Willey said. "But they took
us by surprise."
And with the faster-
paced offense that Diggle
has the Owls running, the
team goals of going to state
seem possible.
"My goals are to make
it across the mountain
to Spokane," Diggle said.
"But we have a good shot
at it."
"We wanted to go to
state," Sexton said. "It's
just the determination
now."
NiViWRESTLING
Six NM grapplers return to Mat Classic
By DEAN SIEMON
After sending 11 wres-
tlers to last season's 2A
Mat Classic wrestling
tournament, North Ma-
son High School returns
six Bulldogs to this year's
tournament on Friday
and Saturday at the Ta-
coma Dome.
Junior Zac Joaquin won
the ll2-pound champion-
ship against Steilacoom
High School's Luke Shell
in a 5-1 decision.
His older brother, se-
nior Pedro Joaquin, de-
faulted the ll9-pound
champivnship to North
Kitsap High School's Jake
Velarde after falling ill af-
ter his semifinal victory.
Junior Rene Gaspar
will join Pedro Joaquin in
the 119-pound class at the
Mat Classic after finish-
ing fourth in the weight
class.
Senior Sam Newman
earned the Bulldogs a
second individual champi-
onship at 152 pounds, de-
feating Fife High School's
Carl Finlayson in an 18-6
major decision.
At 160 pounds, senior
Andy Hicks finished sec-
ond after dropping a 14,8
decision to White River
High School's Caden Pug-
mire.
Junior Brian McCar-
ty also earned a berth
at state, finishing third
place in the 135-pound
class after defeating Se-
quire High School's Derek
Fruin, 14-3.
The Bulldogs finished
third as a team with 107
points. White River High
School took the team
championship with 188.5,
followed by Klahowya
Secondary School at 162.
The North Mason grap-
plers are scheduled to
compete in the prelimi-
nary rounds of the 2A Mat
Classic tournament on
Friday.
Those who do not suf-
fer a second loss on Fri-
day advance to Saturday's
medal round, which fea-
tures the top-eight in each
weight class.
North Mason head
coach Tony Coppinger
was unavailable for com-
ment after the Region III
tournament.
February 12 at Frank-
lin Pierce High School in
Tacoma
2011 2A Region III
wrestling tournament
1) White River, 188.5; 2)
Klahowya, 162; 3) North
Mason, 107; 4) Kingston,
102.5; 5) Steilacoom, 97;
6) Fife, 82; T7) Port Ange-
les, 71; T7) Eatonville, 71;
9) North Kitsap 69; 10)
Sequim, 56; 11) Olympic,
51; 12) Franklin Pierce,
30.5; 13) Clover Park,
26; 14) Sumner, 21; 15)
Washington, 7
North Mason individu-
als
Championships
112 - Zac Joaquin (NM)
def. Luk Shell (Ste), 5-1;
119 - Jake Velarde (NK)
def. Pedro Joaquin (NM)
via injury default; 152 -
Sam Newman (NM) def.
Carl Finlayson (Fife), 18-
6; 160 - Caden Pugmire
(WR) def. Andy Hicks
(NM), 14-8
Third/fourth0B
119 - J.D. Parrish (Oly)
def. Rene Gaspar (NM),
8-1; 135 - Brian McCarty
(NM) def. Derek Fruin
(Seq), 14-3
Costello ends
season in Shelton
North Mason junior Pa-
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tricia Costello ended her
season at the girls Region
II wrestling tournament
at Oakland Bay Junior
High School in Shelton on
Saturday.
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zen High School's Lexi
Boen in a first round pin
at 54 seconds, Costello
lost to Federal Way High
School's Maria Mazueta
by pinfall at 4:31.
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in the consolation round
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Reviewing the Code
of Conduct for fans
Every sports
fan at every lev-
el has a passion
that they ex-
press, hoping it
is enough to pro-
pel their team to
DEAN victory.
SIEMON Some fans
are casual, some
bring signs, others bring
noisemakers and there are
those that paint themselves
the team colors (which is
okay until those are the ones
that stand outside with their
green and gold "shirt").
But recently, there has
been some concern with fans
at high school games where
I sit and wonder where the
line has to be drawn in what
is considered supporting the
team and what some consid-
er too aggressive/violent.
A few weeks ago in a bas-
ketball game at Mary M.
Knight High School in Mat-
lock, fans from the visiting
team continued to shout at
referees about how kids were
going to get hurt because
they "didn't call enough
fouls."
"This isn't football ref,"
one woman shouted, who
was so loud that I had to
walk to the other side of the
court so that I could save my
ears from bleeding.
While the home fans were
more controlled, there was
enough tension from the vis-
iting stands to raise concern.
Things were a little more
elevated at the boys bas-
ketball game between Kla-
howya Secondary School and
North Mason High School on
February 4 in Belfair.
It was fun to cover a bas-
ketball game that was back
and forth and showed stu-
dents from both sections
feeding off each other.
However, I felt that the
"Sea of Blue" could have
been more cautious about
their chant selections. While
I can't repeat what was ex-
actly said, it was enough to
cause the North Mason pub-
lic announcer to poiz,t out
how inappropriate it was.
Kids are kids and that
wasn't my biggest concern
of the night. There were ru-
mors of a fight between fans.
While I didn't see any after
the game or when leaving
the parking lot, I was in-
formed days later that a con-
frontation was reported to
local police between parents
and students at the North
Mason High School parking
lot.
Later in the police blotter,
it showed that about 30 kids
were fighting outside a Bel-
fair business.
While there was no secu-
rity at the game in Belfair,
the February 9 tiebreaker
game to enter the 2A sub-
district tournament, the
neutral hosts at Bremerton
High School deemed it nec-
essary to bring an officer
from the Bremerton Police
Department in. North Ma-
son also brought their school
secruity guard as well.
The Washington Inter-
scholastic Activities Asso-
ciation has listed a Code of
Conduct for not only school
administration, coaches and
players, but also for specta-
tors.
"Refrain from negative
comments about officials,
coaches/participants," reads
one of the bullets on their
website.
So when a student section
starts to chant a derogatory
statement to the visitors, or
a visiting fan yells at a ref-
eree throughout a game that
her team is trailing, the Code
of Conduct those fans should
try to uphold.
For the most part, I have
not had the reason to com-
ment on crowds at local
games. But maybe all fans
need to look at the Code of
Conduct at the WIAA web:
site.
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