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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- Upcoming Foster / Adopt Parent Training Orientation: Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011 • 5:30-8:30pm Pre-Service Training: Feb. 25,26 & March 4,5 • 9am-5pm Location: Shelton DCFS Office • 2505 Olympic Hwy N. Ste 440 Pre-register for the classes: through Bill Todd at towi300@dshs.wa.gov or call (360) 565-2296 Division of Children & Family Services For more information about Foster or Adoptive PamJti. call: 1-888-KDS-414 tricia Costello ended her season at the girls Region II wrestling tournament at Oakland Bay Junior High School in Shelton on Saturday. After defeating Ha- 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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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. 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