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Shelton-Mason County Journal
Season Ol 00ners postponed due to weather
By DEAN SIEMON
Rain, rain, go away.
A number of season opening games were
forced to reschedule due to the week of wet
weather.
On Monday, North Mason High School
baseball and fastpitch teams had to post-
pone their games at Peninsula High School
in Gig Harbor.
Fastpitch head coach Molleigh Fusare
told the Journal that the game has been
rescheduled for today at 4 p.m.
The Bulldogs baseball team rescheduled
their game against the Seahawks for Sat-
urday at noon and the game is now moved
to Belfair.
Shelton High School baseball's home
opener against Yelm High School was also
postponed for a date to be announced on
Monday.
The weather almost forced a schedule
change for Shelton High School boys soc-
cer season opener on Monday at Bremer-
ton High School with reports that the field
was under water. But the game was played
as scheduled.
The Shelton High School fastpitch soft-
ball team's opener at Bremerton High
School was scheduled to Wednesday,
March 16 (after the Journal's press dead-
line).
North Mason baseball's home opener
against Lakes High School has also been
rained out on Tuesday and rescheduled for
Wednesday (after the Journal press dead-
line).
Corner kick gives
Highclimbers
season opening
in Bremerton
By DEAN SIEMON
In a game that was almost
canceled due to field condi-
tions, the 4A Shelton High
School boys soccer team tied
with 3A Bremerton High
School on a corner kick goal
on Monday in Bremerton, 2-2.
Trailing 2-1 in the sec-
ond half, senior Alex Nunez
scored in the 53rd minute
from a corner kick right of the
Bremerton goalkeeper, get-
ting the ball on the opposite
side.
Shelton head coach Maceli-
no Dumpit said Nunez's goal
was "brilliant."
"[Nunez] noticed that the
goalie was off his line and
he noticed that the defense
wasn't paying attention and
he took full advantage of it,"
Dumpit said.
The Highclimbers (0-0-1)
struggled in the first half, be-
ing outshot 4-1 in the first 25
minutes.
Bremerton (0-0-1) scored in
the 15th minute from a Nick
Riders assist to Matt Sawyer,
followed by a Douglas Erick-
son goal in the 20th minute.
"We put ourselves in a dif-
ficult situation," the first year
Shelton head coach said.
Shelton was able to score
a goal on their lone first
half corner kick, granted it
bounced in off a Knights play-
er after a strike from senior
Michael Millard.
In the second half, Shel-
ton's offense controlled
the game, outshooting the
Knights 3-2 and creating five
corner kicks - one of which
came from the Nunez goal.
"I think it's great that we
"It's too bad
[Bremerton]
got those
two early
goals
because we
should have
won this
game,"
came back and built team
morale - to know that we
can come back and do that is
something," Dumpit said.
Dumpit said he felt the
Highclimbers played better
soccer than Bremerton over-
all with better possession
time.
"It's too bad [Bremerton]
got those two early goals be-
cause we should have won
this game," he said. "We didn't
outshoot them but we played
better soccer than them."
The two lone second half
shots from the Knights came
from Sawyer- both wide
right.
After miscommunication
between goalie junior Cody
Wilkes and a Shelton defen-
seman, Sawyer ended up with
the ball and an empty net, but
See Shelton on page C-6
Journal photo by Dean Siemon
Shelton High School's Austin Schirato fights
for possession of the ball with Bremerton High
School's James Hill during a nonleague game on
Monday in Bremerton in the season opener for
both teams.
Journal photo by Dean Siemon
North Mason High School sophomore
Colin Ralston maintains possesion
past Bonney lake High School defend-
ers on Friday.
00ulldogs fall short in season opener at Bonney Lake
By DEAN SIEMON
Matt Friesen, first year head coach for
North Mason High School boys soccer, had
his first look at this season's team in ac-
tion in a 6-0 loss at 3A Bonney Lake High
School on Friday.
"That's what preseason is for - figur-
ing out what changes to make and getting
people into position," Friesen said.
The Bulldogs (0-1) fell behind early af-
ter Bonney Lake (1-0) sophomore Nick
Alexander scored in the fourth minute off
a deflected save from North Mason junior
Joel Ferguson.
Ferguson also allowed a goal in the sec-
ond half off a deflected save, which was
capitilized by Alexander again in the 63rd
minute.
"We're going to talk to him about if he
can't hold onto the ball, get it out wide be-
cause that's a danger area," Friesen said.
"But [Alexander] was in the right place at
the right time."
The Panthers also scored in the seventh
minute (Cameron Goenner) and in the
ninth minute (Brody Fitzsimmons) for a
3-0 lead.
Bonney Lake's Tyler Free scored in the
25th minute and Jacob Curtis in the 37th
minute gave the Panthers the 5-0 halftime
lead.
Bonney Lake finished last season 0-2 in
the 3A West Central Districts after a 10-3-
2 regular season record and third place in
the 3A South Puget Sound League.
Friesen said he wasn't able to say
whether the game against the Panthers
gave a good measure of the Bulldogs abil-
ity and expects Bonney Lake to win the 3A
SPSL title.
"It's hard to say where we'll place in our
league [1A/2A/3A Olympic League], but I
got to see what a lot of people could do," he
said. "They've got 13, 14 seniors and we've
got three. So when you're talking about
experience, they have a lot of it and they
showed it."
The Bulldogs allowed 14 shots on goal,
but held the Panthers to eight shots in the
second half.
Friesen said he made the second half
adjustment of moving junior Nick Rasmus-
sen to the middle defense, next to Hunter
Ralston, an adjustment he may keep the
See Bulldogs on page C-4
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