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Shelton-Mason County Journal Shelton senior Colton Twiddy leads off first base during baseball practice on Tuesday, March 6. Journal photo by Emily Hanson By EMILY HANSON Erik Engstrom said. "This season, ex- c-team and Trevor Cahoon, varsity as- emily(i_~nasoncounty.com pect a very competitive team that has sistant and head pitching coach. the opportunity to do very, very well. I "I'm very impressed with the talent honestly think we can be in every game in our younger programs," Engstrom Laden with seniors, the Shelton and it'll be the little things that make said. "It made it really hard to select baseball team will be competitive this the difference between winning and the varsity positions." season, losing." Engstrom said the main weakness The Highclimbers have eight return- This is Engstrom's second year asof the team is hitting. ing seniors on varsity: Colton Twiddy, head Coach of the Highclimbers and he "That needs a lot of work," Engstrom Joe Strand, Forest Puterbaugh, Patrick said the entire varsity team has out- said: "Our strength is our unity." Fabrizio, Curtis Wuestner, David Gor- standing character on and offthe field. The team's first game is set for noon man, Dylan Helser and Levi Goodtlurn. "This is the best we've ever looked on Saturday. March 10, at North Ma- Joining the returners is senior Will this early in the season," Engstrom son. Stiles as well as juniors Thomas Gettle, said. The Highclimbers' first home game Jared Welander and Jared Haynes. Engstrom is assisted this season by is at 4 p.m. on Friday, April 16, against "Last season, the talent was there Craig Gregory, head of the junior var- Bellarmine. and the weather wasn't," head coach sity team, George Salono, head of the More info see Baseball on page C-4 Journal photo by Emily Hanson Shelton junior Shelby Fratello aims her javelin during track and field practice on Tuesday, March 6. i Twenty-two freshmen provide youngest team head coach has seen in six years By EMILY HANSON dyce Bragg, Mikey Striplin, Lolly Jones erni[y@rnasoncounty.com and Conner Ward. Sells, in his sixth year as head coach, named Redgers, Endicott, Bonita and The Shelton track and field team hasBragg as athletes to watch this season. more than 60 athletes this year and "Rodgers made it to the 4A state tour- roughly one-third are freshmen, nament in the pole vault last season, Last season, the Highclimbers per- Endicott is our best multi-event athlete, formed well despite having a young team. Bonita is back healthy after being injured This season, head coach Deug Sells last season and Bragg is our top sprinter." said to expect Shelton to have a great dual At this point in practice, Sells said ev- meet team. erybody on the team is getting their feet "We have some top athletes who will wet and seeing what events they like. do well at invites," Sells said. "This is the "Our strength is that we have a lot of youngest team I've seen with 22 fresh- multi-event athletes," he said. "Our cur- men. There are a lot of new faces." rent weakness is all the newcomers but Among the returning athletes are 13 that will turn into a strength." seniors: Roman Hurst, Nathan Morgan,The Highclimbers are set to open their Kyle Bonita, Indi Endicott, Hannah Mack- season with the Mason County Jamboree iewicz, Christopher Taunt, Bryton Rodg- at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, March 16, at High- ers, Alex Johnson, Derrick Larsen, Kan- climber Stadium. Shelton senior pole vaulting. Indi Endicott practices Shelton-Mason County Journal - Shelton fastpitch rebuilding this season Lady Highclimbers inexperienced in the circle By EMILY HANSON emily@masoncounty.com L~L¸ AfLer nine seniors gradu- ated last year, the Shelton fastpitch team is rebuilding this season. Head coach Kim Goldsby said the team has a lot of youth, with three returning seniors. "We have 16 sophomores among the three teams, three seniors, four juniors and the rest are freshmen," Goldsby said. "Neither of the pitchers we have has varsity experience." Seniors Kylie Schnitzer and Jordanne Krumpols re- turn this season along with Kelsey Holloway. Holloway suffered a concussion dur- ing basketball season, how- ever, and is not yet cleared to play. The team has two soph- omore pitchers, Morgan Mitchell and Nicole Chris- tensen, and two freshmen pitchers, Allie Simon and Kennedy O'Connor. Goldsby named Krumpols, Schnitzer, Cassie Crabtree, Kelsey Albaugh and Lynae Brown as players to watch. "They are all returners," Goldsby said. "I could put Brown at any position on the field." So far this season, the Lady Highclimbers have ex- hibited awesome attitudes, Goldsby said. "We've been kind of un- conventional this year, we broke everything down and worked on defense," she said. "Their mental atti- tudes so far are good and we have a lot of girls that are just good athletes." The weaknesses of the team this season are its youth and inexperience. "We're going against teams that have all of their players doing select ball," Goldsby said. 'Tee have to get our community on board with youth programs to im- prove." She said the team has a great group of parents sup- porting it. The team's first game is set for 4p.m. on Monday, March 12, home against Spanaway at Mascon Coun- try Recreation Area (MCRA). See Fastpitch on page C-4 Thursday, March 8, 2012 - Page C-1