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March 15, 1973     Shelton Mason County Journal
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HIGHCLIMBER BARRY GESCHE fights for a loose ball while John Eager, 33, and Terry Knight, 15, watch. Gesche and Knight each scored five points and Eager scored 19, but it wasn't enough to prevent a 68-62 loss to R.A. Long in the district playoffs Friday. By JOHN BOGGS A fourth-quarter comeback attempt by the Shelton Highclimbers fell short Friday night as R.A. l_xmg defeated the Climbers in the district playoffs and ended Shelton's season with a 68-62 win. Doug [xmg, a senior guard playing his last high school basketball game, led the fourth quarter rally by scoring I0 points with some incredible off-balance lead. John Eager hit a basket for Shelton to narrow the lead, but a R.A.l.xmg guard hit a jump shot from about 35 or 40 feet at the buzzer to give the Lumberjacks a ( ", six-point lead again, at I,LI.~. John Eager and Drew Eken each scored six points to account for 12 of ~lelton's 13 points in the first quarter. John Eager got the first score in the second quarter, but R.A. Lxmg ran another streak of six shots, but the comeback was too straight pt)ints to take a IO-point late as the game ended with R.A. lead. The Climbers nranaged to LOng still holding a six,point lead. ~ cut the le~d T[lown '~o" fiv~, 'bul Drag finished the game with 14 points, while center John Eager was high with 19. Shelton forward Drew Eken got Shelton off to a good start by scoring the first two baskets to give Shelton a 4-0 lead. R.A. Long tied it up at 4-4, and the scoring was even until the Lumberjacks ran off six straight points near the end of the quarter to take the The annual high school winter sports banquet will be Thursday. March 15 at the Mountain View ~hool at 6:30 p.m. The banquet which will be sponsored by Rotary Club will honor all the athletes who participated in basketball, wrestling and swimming. Tickets, at $2.50 per person, are available in the high school office or at the door. eaux, Mt. View share title The City-County Elementary Basketball League finished another successful season. All the schools in the city and most of the county schools participated in the league. Bordeaux and Mountain View wound up as co-champs, after splitting a pair of home and home encounters. Mountain View won the first game 18-17 and Bordeaux won the second 28-18. Fifth grade games were also played but the results aren't available. Sixth grade final standings: Won Lost Bordeaux 9 ] Mt. View 9 ] Evergreen 6 4 Southside 5 5 Pioneer 4 6 Hood Canal 2 8 March 26 to April II TRUCKLOAD TIRE SALE Prices Slashed Watch for Next Week's Ad COOPER . .E.S Valley Center Service IC an Tom Cruickshank 1817 Olympic Hwy. No. --- Mt. View Complete Automotive Service For Call Alex another six-point outburst at the end of the ttua~ter gave R.A. Long an l I-point lead at the half, 35-24. In the third quarter Shelt(m once again managed to cut R.A. l.ong's lead to live, but the [.unlberjacks scored the last four points of the quarter and held a nine-point lead, 47-38, going into the final period. R.A. Long started the fourth quarter by scoring the first four points to extend their lead to 13. The Lumberjacks held their lead for me, st of the quarter bill in the man ]e 426-3971 Page 10 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, March 15, 1973 closing minutes Doug Long put on a shooting exhibition that cut R.A. Long's lead to six. The Climbers could get no closer, however, and R.A. Long took the 68-62 win. The loss ended Shelton's s eason, while R. A. Long advanced to the district finals where they lost to Battleground. The leading scorer for Shelton was John Eager, who hit a hot 0-12 from the field and ended with 19 points. Drew Ekerl, who hit several long bombs, finished with 14 points to tie Doug Long for runner-up in the scoring. Barry Gesche and Terry Knight each scored five points, Steve Sparks put in four, and Norbert Huber finished the scoring with 1 point. Shehon scored one more field goal than R.A. Long in the game, but shot an 8-17 from the foul line, while the Lumberjacks put in 16 of their 23 attempts. "On behalf of the team I would like to thank our student body and fans for their loyal support throughout this year," Coach Terry Gregg said. ol rop les Tom Cruickshank is this week's featured Junior Trailblazer. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Cruickshank of 1431 East Ellinor, is 16 years old and a sophomore at_L_ Shelton -IZlilgh ~hool. Tom is the club's first vice-president. He is a past nrember of the Civil Air Patrol and is presently employed at Merv's Tirecap in Shelton. Tom began racing two years ago at the age of 14. ttis first race was a molo-cross at Highside in Bremerton, and his first motorcycle was a Bridges{one 100. Since then Torn has ridden at Slraddleline, Thunderbird Park, Puyallup Raceways, Jolly Rogers in Kent, Lucky Spokes in Orting, Castle Rock, Ehua, Port Angeles, Tenino, Rainier, Twin Cities, Bellingham, South Bend and Shelton. Young Cruickshank has won more than 50 trophies in the last two years. The two hardest earned, and of which he is most proud, are two second-place trophies won for a nine-race series at Twin Cities Raceways and Straddleline Park in the 125- and 250-class, respectively. Tom was competing against riders from all of Washington state and Northern Oregon, Cruickshank says his favorite type of racing is moto-cross, and secondly TT flat-track. His favorite moto-cross track is Highside in Bremerton, although i~e says Shelton's new moto-cross track runs a very close second. He has ridden in many types of events, including, of course, moto-cross, TT flat-track, ½ mile, slfort-track, rough scrambles, enduro's, poker runs, and hill climbs. Tom has raced not only a 100 Bridgestone, but also a 125 and 250 Yamaha and a 175 Kawasaki. He presently owns and races a 250 Yamaha. He says his next bike will be a 250 two-stroke Honda set up for moto-cross and TT flat-track. Tom hopes someday to compete professionally with the young European moto-cross experts. cycle results Last week was a busy one for the Shelton Junior Trailblazers. Friday night at Monroe four Trailblazers placed with Jeff StrutZ and Rob Goodwin second and third in the 125A main, Mike Goodwin fourth in the 1 25C main and Ray Holt eighth in the 125B main. Sunday in the moto-cross at Straddle Line Cycle Park, Tad Richards finished second in the I oOA class and Marc Tomlinson finished second in the I OOB class. Also racing Sunday at the Jolly Rogers SCrambles tract, Rob Goodwin won the 100B main event, while Mike Goodwin finished second in the IOOA map IIIIIIIIIIIII I Ill Ill ill Ill I IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlJllllllllllllllIIlII i iiiiiiiiih h,h,,,,,.dlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll• III IIIIllll....--_ =- Attention/ , - MEM | a_ Saturday, March 17 St. Patrick's DaY Dance Kenny Knight and the Good Guys Saturday, March 24 Family Night John Anderson's fam°us spaghetti Swimming at airp°rt pool every 3rd Thursday, Moose members Only. ~~~i~~~~~ ~ :g =_ m E i I I E ::c =_.. The Shelton High School baseball team started practice last week and is currently hard at work for its season-opener against West Bremerton March 21. The Climber baseballers have eight lettermen back from last year's club which finished second in the league with a fine 14-5 record. Seniors Ken Kingery, Duane Makoviney, Terry Knight, Ray Krumpols, Doug Long, Pat Davidson and Sonny Vercher and juniors Larry Schuffenhauer, Tim Allen and Dan Morgan make up the varsity team right now. There's also a JV team made up of freshmen and sophomores and Coach Buitenveld says that two or three JV's will be moved up to varsity for games. Buitenveld says the pitching should be strong with Ray Krumpols and Terry Knight back from last year's fine team. Krumpols had a 6.0 record last season. The have also been ablel advantage of a new pitching machine to hdPi their hitting. The Climbers' first be against West Wedqesday on Loop and Friday Central to Shelton for contest. wen rmen urn ou on ran new By JOHN BOGGS The Shelton High School track team started turnouts March 1 on the new rubberized asphalt track at Hi~.,hclimber Stadium. The track team has been one of the most successful sport teams in Shelton in the last few years, and Coach Bill Brickert has 20 lettermen back this year, including a senior group that has lost only one dual track meet in the last two years. Seniors Steve Baze, John Boggs, Paul Dwyer, Rick Endicott, Norbert Huber, Mark Lewis, Bill Madison, George Miller, Tom Noreen, and Brad Oling are two-year lettermen, while Barry Gesche, Jim Hillier and Rick Yates are seniors who lettered last season. Juniors Dana Boelk, Jim Gonzalez, Fred Miller, Tony Molinero, Ken O'Dell, Lyle Oling and Steve Settle also were letter winners last season. Molinero was the leading scorer on the team last year and qualified for the state meet in the low hurdles. There are letternren back in every event, which should make for a strong team, as well as a pronlising group of sophomores. Looking at the upcoming season, Brickert is optimistic, and he says that the new AA District and state meet should help the team. AA and AAA size schools both had to be in the same sub-district, district and state meets in the past but this year will be separate. Shelton finished year's district, but AA school. The annual which is a between the so and seniors, will week and anyone this year's team in welcome to come up The meet will be three days, WednesdaY, and Friday. SHELTON HIGH SCHOOL TRACK March 30 Lima April 3 Centralia I-Ier April 6 Olympia April 7 Longview Relays Mark April 10 Timberline April 13 Hoquiam Here April 17 Aberdeen & N. Thurston Here April 27 Chehalis April 28 SHELTON INVITATIONAL Thel May 4 Tumwater May 11 or 12 Sub-district Herel May 18 or 19 District l-lere May 25 & 26 AA State wlns February 15 and 16 the Mary M. Knight Alumni held a city league tournament. Participating teams were ITT, Shelton Firemen, Skokomish and the host, Mary M. Knight Alumni. The first night's games saw ITT meeting the Skokomish and Mary M. Knight meeting the Shelton Firemen. In the first contest ITT led all the way in taking an 82-43 win. Dick Antilla was the high scorer with 17 points, while teammate Jerry Mallory scored 16. Dan Hess and Bill Smith led the Skokomish • . ,n~g with 13 points each. The second game was another runaway as Mary M. Knight took a 73-41 win from the firemen. MMK's Ray Rothrock was high scorer with 16, while the firemen were led by George Hunter and Rocky Hylton with 12. On the second night the Skokomish and firemen met first for third place. The game was Rocky Hylton led t11¢ with 28. In the chain ITT led all the way 69-61 win and the ::troph:yl ITT's Di~k :high scorer with 20, Rothrock of MarYl scored 19. ITT and MarY received trophies close all the way, and in the end second phlce, the Skokomish pulled out an Skokonrish wa 82-80 win. 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