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All that&apos;s left after Climbers' stunning district exit: 'A real bad 'te in 00rou mouth By STEVE PATCH those were either deflected out of   [  I I I  :i!:! Big D, little O: bP :u:dwsa:r'7:hg°t st?lwSe-:er:he I'"  ""]  I I I  It was supposed to be position to make a play. HI  b B00]If'h B00rT ' 'l Ill I I more than enough to 'Do "And you didn't see that Tues- I• ''! jww I" "1 I I I  Alas,. though, .the same l ir lllib4ill /  [] defense so conspicuous for CURIOUSLY enough, most of I "1 v- -- = } I I II I I the past month and a the Monarchs re.sultantoffensive  i i   ¢I I I  ! half wound u n shrivelin carnage was not mmcea y melr - -- - - [ I • II II"T, i ] I I I  v . -- P star forward, 6-4 senior all- - - - I I [] IIIi"k\\;\ i  ] ! ql I I  unaccountably for the Shel- leaguer Ryan Polk, but by his  ! I Ii 11  / | I i m !ll,]i: tan Highclimbers Tuesday  I I II l]   I I I I,,::%IID night, and the upshot was  I I II | I I ' an early and unceremonious  I I II .-..J''l I F W];=. " exit in the first round of the '  | ;.  tt  I , :/ There ikl , distrlctplayoffs. W' / I II L00ll/ It , il , l/I Ooe wio tour- were a lot o - I IIIf?000000 I 3&: nament's double-elimina- . o. m:m - I ', - - tion bracket, the Climbers pene00ranons + I" .m p T " , m I, "ilia thumping at the hands of Iillll:::ll  ...  l)<  II|l. - ] :: •lib).. |: underdog Mark Morris .....  1=  ........  ...... It jus: was one o ;nose --,-- - *,-- ....  iilI ' I ,"a$' deals where we didn't play dtdn't aet  liln ] .... t ,1- very good and they played a_. ...... Bill well," said Mark Jensen, the regatta ' ! , :./ li II. Ill   Climbers fourth-year head " '*" 77: :it li ,, ill i  : :: coach. "We weren't really very :;::! :7I in Ill i []  "- fluid at the offensive end and ,.:!,! t. .... ' < .... tt y,..,, "  " then when our defense broke ]--<,el-u-l=..la,l su--ortina i'+i; i I" : :'00r.itl i , down a little bit that became a cas  .......... "':  '::;: ill ; ;:i)!i  i [] : lll :ii bad situation for us." ,," :,,: II i!!i ':V [] -" --< Yeah, the guys that hurt us i! n :! in $-- ii::: !I _'., i A.e , .pp. *h <,,, were guys that hadn't done a i!!!!i: i i: I [] ) llll i w'e;oset]l-lus"a-coui'le whole lot," said Jensen, alluding )!7!;i i II - : i [] i!  L: , , to what he d seen of them on film , minutes before the half. That s " " ' .<:+ i i ? :; _ := I I , II : when the Monarchs went on a ,, " ' i Ill ..... , iI  ii :[][ <::I 10-0 run to the buzzer, and the There was a kid named Lamb :: q : 'ii  I: "1) I Climbers couldn't turn things (6-3 senior forward Dave Lamb) i Ill ,   ill,  i: :I i around after that despite their that went three for three. And he *< II ill  ::7..!.:- I ;7,   ......... (. : ..... : well deserved reputation for de- hadn't done a whole !or in any of " li': Ii pip  ,"(:: : .g" , ..  fensive stinginess, the games I d watched, ya Know. Ia i   !!*! ' " +"' i "Probably over the last half o So when those three in a row ,lil  1 #  '::. -*tliilli dozen games we had gotten to went down,from 16 or 17 feet I  ! m In Iit .':' :>.l. where we rotated deinsively and went, I don t like this at all.  ! I. ...... " got people comin' to help," said ' A .... : : -: :  ...... Jensen. "And when somebody "You had a sense that they iullI went to help, the next guy rotat- were in a pretty good groove and II  : - ..................  ed, and we did a lot of great in a pretty good rhythm- and we "': .... ? ....... things that way. weren t.   : ._.,. WITH 6-5 SENIOR Jim Rich- ardson long-arming to distraction in the Monarchs' passing lanes and capping a steal with a twist- ing lay-up to key a brief defensive rally, the Climbers pulled to with- "And we didn't do that Tuesday night. Ya know, there were a lot o' penetrations where our back- side didn't get rotated, so they got little dump-offs for lay-ups. And you hadn't seen that for about half a dozen games. Ya know, By CHUCK ROBERTSON The A Teams broke out the brooms at the old middle school gym last weekend. No, the sartorial Mr. T and his nefarious cronies didn't escape from the netherland of syndicated re-runs to clean up on some equally shady threat to our Amer- ican way of life. Rather, the "A" division assem- blage of local rec basketballers swept their "B" division counter- parts in Shelton Parks & Ree's crossover-style league playoffs. Sea West Mortgage/Colo's Cor- ner claimed the league title with an 86-64 win over Mason County Garbage, and Skokomish nailed down third place by topping Olympic Herb Farm 89-76. MC Garbage and Olympic Herb finished second and fourth, respectively. THE TITLE GAME Thurs- day night saw Sea West/Colo's parlay a stifling zone defense into an eight-point lead in the first period and then stretch it to 13 by the half when Mark Eichhorn's blind, over-the-head fling from behind the arc found nothing but net at the buzzer. After inching their lead to 21 by the * third-quarter break, the champs maintained a comfortable cushion in the final period with some scintillating shooting from the free-throw line, dropping down 22 of 26. Eichhorn led all scorers with 21., one more than MCG's Mike Bogh. MARTY PETERSON scored 11 and Victor Andrews 10 to lead Skokomish to a 28-15 lead after one quarter. Olympic Herb came back in the fourth quarter to climb within six, but Skok regrouped and went on to win by 13. SW/Colo's tops hoop. rec Peterson led all scorers with 28, including four treys, and Trevor Peterson tossed in 17 (three treys). Olympic Herb's Jim Buck buried five treys and finished with 23, as did running mate Wayne Farr. IN NON-TROPHY match- ups, Soundview Chiropractic/Lix Construction bested the Potlatch Pirates 61-53, and Little Creek Casino handled Olympic Motors/ Railer Logging 77-58. Soundview/Lix opened up a 14- point lead by intermission before Potlatch rallied - actually taking the lead briefly at 46-45 - and closed the gap to just one after three periods. SOUNDVIEW/LIX, however, stiffened on defense and rallied back in the fourth quarter to pre- vail by eight. Kevin Tinsley and Larry Shee- dy scored 14 points each for the winners. Jamie Marley led Pot- latch with 13. Eric Burfiend scored 19 of his game-high 26 in the first half and Anthony Brown poured in 13 of his 17 in the second half to lead Little Creek past Olympic Motors/ Railer. Brandon Felix led OM/R with 13. See Weat/Colo's 20 40 59 86 Macon County Garbage 12 27 38 64 Sea WestJColo's Corner - Mark Eich- horn 21, Ty Davidson 11, Dan Rodius 11, Scott River 10, Mark Ziegler 8, Scott Eich- horn 7, Greg Harvey 7, Brad Lev 6, Eric Zie- gler 5. FG - 22; FT - 37-48 (77%). Mason County Garbage - Mike Bogh 20, Matt Bogh 11, Eric Bee 9, Pat Rhodes 8, Ahmed Goins 8, Los Smith 6, Chris Giraldes 2, Jason Hitsman, Josh Johnson. FG - 18; FT - 13-20 (65%). Skokomlah 28 47 67 89 Olympic Herb Farm 13 32 50 76 Skokomish - Marry Paterson 28, Trevor Paterson 17, Victor Andrews 12, Rob Breh- (Please turn to page 19.) Page ia- Shelton-Mason' County Journal- Thursday, March 4, 1999 EXPRESSIONS HARDLY WITHSTANDING, the Climbers go down to stunning defeat Tuesday night at Black Hills High School, scene of their Round One 58-38 rout at the hands of district rival Mark Morris. in six points early in the third quarter. But then the Monarchs promptly shot their way back out to a double-digit advantage and never looked back - finishing the night with a blistering 53% fieldgoal mark and 57% from three-point land. The Climbers' response? Alas, All-league junior guard Aaron Brown, who sizzled to the tune of seven-for-nine shooting from three-point range inthe Climbers' regular-season finale nine nights before, was 0-3 from out there Tuesday and 0-5 overall. THAT LEFT OUR friend Richardson and fellow senior Chris Gray to pick up the slack offensively, and they did so to the tune of 15 and eight points. But from there the Climbers' produc- tion fell off dramatically. "I don't know if it was because of the layoff," said Jensen, refer- ring to that nine-day interlude, ferent times. And so then we'd start rotating people and we lost some of the fluidity that we did have - which, ya know, wasn't real good to begin with." THE CLIMBERS' season thus ended at 15-6 - best numbers hereabouts in years, conceded Jensen. But that's not "but when we got down we didn't how it felt Tuesday night. show much enthusiasm for gettin' the ball up the floor and lookin' '<Yeah, there were a lot o' tears early, ya know? shed," said the coach. 'Ya know, there were enough seniors there "I don't think the kids were out that it was probably their 'last o' shape, but I don't know that hurrah' of basketball. they knew how much the adrena- "So, yeah, it was hard to get up lin and the stress would take out- and come to school the next day. ta them. Actually, it was hard to sleep that "Because I thought two or night, too." three kids looked real tired at dif- What he hopes his kids ul- Reacting to a call as things start to unravel, left, are Climber Jim Richardson (right) and James Aries. Driving to no avail at junior guard Aaron Brown. timately will take with them from this season, said Jensen, is the satisfaction of considerable ac- complishment Beating league-champ Olym- pia with a defensive performance for the ages, for instance - when the Bears were ranked third in Mark Morris 8 the state polls. Stringing together Shelton 10 Mark Morris - Dave eight straight wins and going Bryce Clary 9, Evan Kirk 11-12 down the stretch. Ehrlich 3, Tyler Baker 10, "SO, IrEAI'I, in a lot of ways it Dave Lamb 7, Ryan Polk 6, Alan Aim, Reese Baker, Chad was the best season we've had FG- 1g-36 (4-7 t? )e.pt here in a while," said Coach. "And 16-22. that's why Tuesday night was so Shelton - Brian Bradley 2, frustrating. 2, Jim Richardson 15, James Gray 8, Owen Bacon 2, }r, mt Jason Patterson, Chris Spikes "I don't know if it would have den, Jacob Geist, been easier to take, ya know, but FG - 15-35 (1-10 three- you'd have a better taste in your 7-t. mouth about the whole we'd played better a beaten. "So, for having as s season as they did, it h bad taste in your r.m end..." j: ! . 71:: :i ::7i} L, ? ..... ..... %):: : , : I I llllt7  ' :: ANOTHER CLIMBER SHOT rattles off into the hane[s of the Monarchs {)wen Bacon. Boarding for the Monarchs are seniors Dave life Tuesday in Shelton's brief district fling. From left for Shelton are ju- (11) and Ryan Polk (43). nior Aaron Brown, seniors Brian Bradley and James Aries and junior All that's left after Climbers' stunning district exit: 'A real bad 'te in 00rou mouth By STEVE PATCH those were either deflected out of   [  I I I  :i!:! Big D, little O: bP :u:dwsa:r'7:hg°t st?lwSe-:er:he I'"  ""]  I I I  It was supposed to be position to make a play. HI  b B00]If'h B00rT ' 'l Ill I I more than enough to 'Do "And you didn't see that Tues- I• ''! jww I" "1 I I I  Alas,. though, .the same l ir lllib4ill /  [] defense so conspicuous for CURIOUSLY enough, most of I "1 v- -- = } I I II I I the past month and a the Monarchs re.sultantoffensive  i i   ¢I I I  ! half wound u n shrivelin carnage was not mmcea y melr - -- - - [ I • II II"T, i ] I I I  v . -- P star forward, 6-4 senior all- - - - I I [] IIIi"k\\;\ i  ] ! ql I I  unaccountably for the Shel- leaguer Ryan Polk, but by his  ! I Ii 11  / | I i m !ll,]i: tan Highclimbers Tuesday  I I II l]   I I I I,,::%IID night, and the upshot was  I I II | I I ' an early and unceremonious  I I II .-..J''l I F W];=. " exit in the first round of the '  | ;.  tt  I , :/ There ikl , distrlctplayoffs. W' / I II L00ll/ It , il , l/I Ooe wio tour- were a lot o - I IIIf?000000 I 3&: nament's double-elimina- . o. m:m - I ', - - tion bracket, the Climbers pene00ranons + I" .m p T " , m I, "ilia thumping at the hands of Iillll:::ll  ...  l)<  II|l. - ] :: •lib).. |: underdog Mark Morris .....  1=  ........  ...... It jus: was one o ;nose --,-- - *,-- ....  iilI ' I ,"a$' deals where we didn't play dtdn't aet  liln ] .... t ,1- very good and they played a_. ...... Bill well," said Mark Jensen, the regatta ' ! , :./ li II. Ill   Climbers fourth-year head " '*" 77: :it li ,, ill i  : :: coach. "We weren't really very :;::! :7I in Ill i []  "- fluid at the offensive end and ,.:!,! t. .... ' < .... tt y,..,, "  " then when our defense broke ]--<,el-u-l=..la,l su--ortina i'+i; i I" : :'00r.itl i , down a little bit that became a cas  .......... "':  '::;: ill ; ;:i)!i  i [] : lll :ii bad situation for us." ,," :,,: II i!!i ':V [] -" --< Yeah, the guys that hurt us i! n :! in $-- ii::: !I _'., i A.e , .pp. *h <,,, were guys that hadn't done a i!!!!i: i i: I [] ) llll i w'e;oset]l-lus"a-coui'le whole lot," said Jensen, alluding )!7!;i i II - : i [] i!  L: , , to what he d seen of them on film , minutes before the half. That s " " ' .<:+ i i ? :; _ := I I , II : when the Monarchs went on a ,, " ' i Ill ..... , iI  ii :[][ <::I 10-0 run to the buzzer, and the There was a kid named Lamb :: q : 'ii  I: "1) I Climbers couldn't turn things (6-3 senior forward Dave Lamb) i Ill ,   ill,  i: :I i around after that despite their that went three for three. And he *< II ill  ::7..!.:- I ;7,   ......... (. : ..... : well deserved reputation for de- hadn't done a whole !or in any of " li': Ii pip  ,"(:: : .g" , ..  fensive stinginess, the games I d watched, ya Know. Ia i   !!*! ' " +"' i "Probably over the last half o So when those three in a row ,lil  1 #  '::. -*tliilli dozen games we had gotten to went down,from 16 or 17 feet I  ! m In Iit .':' :>.l. where we rotated deinsively and went, I don t like this at all.  ! I. ...... " got people comin' to help," said ' A .... : : -: :  ...... Jensen. "And when somebody "You had a sense that they iullI went to help, the next guy rotat- were in a pretty good groove and II  : - ..................  ed, and we did a lot of great in a pretty good rhythm- and we "': .... ? ....... things that way. weren t.   : ._.,. WITH 6-5 SENIOR Jim Rich- ardson long-arming to distraction in the Monarchs' passing lanes and capping a steal with a twist- ing lay-up to key a brief defensive rally, the Climbers pulled to with- "And we didn't do that Tuesday night. Ya know, there were a lot o' penetrations where our back- side didn't get rotated, so they got little dump-offs for lay-ups. And you hadn't seen that for about half a dozen games. Ya know, By CHUCK ROBERTSON The A Teams broke out the brooms at the old middle school gym last weekend. No, the sartorial Mr. T and his nefarious cronies didn't escape from the netherland of syndicated re-runs to clean up on some equally shady threat to our Amer- ican way of life. Rather, the "A" division assem- blage of local rec basketballers swept their "B" division counter- parts in Shelton Parks & Ree's crossover-style league playoffs. Sea West Mortgage/Colo's Cor- ner claimed the league title with an 86-64 win over Mason County Garbage, and Skokomish nailed down third place by topping Olympic Herb Farm 89-76. MC Garbage and Olympic Herb finished second and fourth, respectively. THE TITLE GAME Thurs- day night saw Sea West/Colo's parlay a stifling zone defense into an eight-point lead in the first period and then stretch it to 13 by the half when Mark Eichhorn's blind, over-the-head fling from behind the arc found nothing but net at the buzzer. After inching their lead to 21 by the * third-quarter break, the champs maintained a comfortable cushion in the final period with some scintillating shooting from the free-throw line, dropping down 22 of 26. Eichhorn led all scorers with 21., one more than MCG's Mike Bogh. MARTY PETERSON scored 11 and Victor Andrews 10 to lead Skokomish to a 28-15 lead after one quarter. Olympic Herb came back in the fourth quarter to climb within six, but Skok regrouped and went on to win by 13. SW/Colo's tops hoop. rec Peterson led all scorers with 28, including four treys, and Trevor Peterson tossed in 17 (three treys). Olympic Herb's Jim Buck buried five treys and finished with 23, as did running mate Wayne Farr. IN NON-TROPHY match- ups, Soundview Chiropractic/Lix Construction bested the Potlatch Pirates 61-53, and Little Creek Casino handled Olympic Motors/ Railer Logging 77-58. Soundview/Lix opened up a 14- point lead by intermission before Potlatch rallied - actually taking the lead briefly at 46-45 - and closed the gap to just one after three periods. SOUNDVIEW/LIX, however, stiffened on defense and rallied back in the fourth quarter to pre- vail by eight. Kevin Tinsley and Larry Shee- dy scored 14 points each for the winners. Jamie Marley led Pot- latch with 13. Eric Burfiend scored 19 of his game-high 26 in the first half and Anthony Brown poured in 13 of his 17 in the second half to lead Little Creek past Olympic Motors/ Railer. Brandon Felix led OM/R with 13. See Weat/Colo's 20 40 59 86 Macon County Garbage 12 27 38 64 Sea WestJColo's Corner - Mark Eich- horn 21, Ty Davidson 11, Dan Rodius 11, Scott River 10, Mark Ziegler 8, Scott Eich- horn 7, Greg Harvey 7, Brad Lev 6, Eric Zie- gler 5. FG - 22; FT - 37-48 (77%). Mason County Garbage - Mike Bogh 20, Matt Bogh 11, Eric Bee 9, Pat Rhodes 8, Ahmed Goins 8, Los Smith 6, Chris Giraldes 2, Jason Hitsman, Josh Johnson. FG - 18; FT - 13-20 (65%). Skokomlah 28 47 67 89 Olympic Herb Farm 13 32 50 76 Skokomish - Marry Paterson 28, Trevor Paterson 17, Victor Andrews 12, Rob Breh- (Please turn to page 19.) Page ia- Shelton-Mason' County Journal- Thursday, March 4, 1999 EXPRESSIONS HARDLY WITHSTANDING, the Climbers go down to stunning defeat Tuesday night at Black Hills High School, scene of their Round One 58-38 rout at the hands of district rival Mark Morris. in six points early in the third quarter. But then the Monarchs promptly shot their way back out to a double-digit advantage and never looked back - finishing the night with a blistering 53% fieldgoal mark and 57% from three-point land. The Climbers' response? Alas, All-league junior guard Aaron Brown, who sizzled to the tune of seven-for-nine shooting from three-point range inthe Climbers' regular-season finale nine nights before, was 0-3 from out there Tuesday and 0-5 overall. THAT LEFT OUR friend Richardson and fellow senior Chris Gray to pick up the slack offensively, and they did so to the tune of 15 and eight points. But from there the Climbers' produc- tion fell off dramatically. "I don't know if it was because of the layoff," said Jensen, refer- ring to that nine-day interlude, ferent times. And so then we'd start rotating people and we lost some of the fluidity that we did have - which, ya know, wasn't real good to begin with." THE CLIMBERS' season thus ended at 15-6 - best numbers hereabouts in years, conceded Jensen. But that's not "but when we got down we didn't how it felt Tuesday night. show much enthusiasm for gettin' the ball up the floor and lookin' '<Yeah, there were a lot o' tears early, ya know? shed," said the coach. 'Ya know, there were enough seniors there "I don't think the kids were out that it was probably their 'last o' shape, but I don't know that hurrah' of basketball. they knew how much the adrena- "So, yeah, it was hard to get up lin and the stress would take out- and come to school the next day. ta them. Actually, it was hard to sleep that "Because I thought two or night, too." three kids looked real tired at dif- What he hopes his kids ul- Reacting to a call as things start to unravel, left, are Climber Jim Richardson (right) and James Aries. Driving to no avail at junior guard Aaron Brown. timately will take with them from this season, said Jensen, is the satisfaction of considerable ac- complishment Beating league-champ Olym- pia with a defensive performance for the ages, for instance - when the Bears were ranked third in Mark Morris 8 the state polls. Stringing together Shelton 10 Mark Morris - Dave eight straight wins and going Bryce Clary 9, Evan Kirk 11-12 down the stretch. Ehrlich 3, Tyler Baker 10, "SO, IrEAI'I, in a lot of ways it Dave Lamb 7, Ryan Polk 6, Alan Aim, Reese Baker, Chad was the best season we've had FG- 1g-36 (4-7 t? )e.pt here in a while," said Coach. "And 16-22. that's why Tuesday night was so Shelton - Brian Bradley 2, frustrating. 2, Jim Richardson 15, James Gray 8, Owen Bacon 2, }r, mt Jason Patterson, Chris Spikes "I don't know if it would have den, Jacob Geist, been easier to take, ya know, but FG - 15-35 (1-10 three- you'd have a better taste in your 7-t. mouth about the whole we'd played better a beaten. "So, for having as s season as they did, it h bad taste in your r.m end..." j: ! . 71:: :i ::7i} L, ? ..... ..... %):: : , : I I llllt7  ' :: ANOTHER CLIMBER SHOT rattles off into the hane[s of the Monarchs {)wen Bacon. Boarding for the Monarchs are seniors Dave life Tuesday in Shelton's brief district fling. From left for Shelton are ju- (11) and Ryan Polk (43). nior Aaron Brown, seniors Brian Bradley and James Aries and junior