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• . .4 Shelt6n-Mason County Journal ATHLETEOFTHEWEEK Shelton pitcher Lynae Brown throws against Shelton's Brynnen Beierle looks for her pitch against Olympia's Nicki Schroeder. Journal photos by Emily Hanson Olympia on Friday at Mason County Recreation Area. Lady Highclimbers struggling early in the season with three losses in a row By EMILY HANSON emily@masoncounO.com After having three tough games, the Shelton fastpitch team shutout Mt. Ta- homa last week. On March 21, Bellarmine shut out the Lady Highclimbers 10-0. "Their pitcher, Courtney Schwan, had nine strikeouts against us," Shel- ton head fastpitch coach Kim Geldsby said. "She's one of the better pitchers in the league." Goldsby said one thing the Shelton girls did well was that they did not have any errors against Bellarmine. Kylie Schnitzer and Lynae Brown both hit one single. On March 22, the Lady Highclimb- ers lost to Bremerton 13-10. "We should have killed that team but we had four physical errors and 12 mental errors," Goldsby said. Despite the errors and the loss, Goldsby said the Lady Highclimbers outplayed Bremerton. "I made a pitching change," she said. "Morgan Mitchell started pitching and I should have changed up about four batters before I did. Brown shut them down after that, though." - Kelsey Albaugh hit 4-5 and Jor- danne Krumpols hit two triples. On Friday, the Lady Highclimbers lost at home to Olympia 16-0 at Mason County Recreation Area (MCRA). "We could not hit the ball," Goldsby said. "It was ugly." She said the Olympia pitcher, Nicki Schroeder, had five strikeouts against Shelton and three of them were look- ing strikes. "I- think Olympia's a better team than Bellarmine," Goldsby said. "They have bet- ter hitters and their fielding is excellent." Finally, on Men- MONDAY: day, the Lady High- Shelton ........ 20 climbers had a re- Mt. Tahoma.. 0versal of fortunes against Mt. Tahoma TOMORROW: when Shelton won Shelton at 20-0 at MCRA. Curtis, 4p.m. "The only time I stole against Mt. Ta- homa was to get out of a double play situation," Goldsby said. "I was really torn by this game. It's no fun losing 16-0 but it's also no fun winning 20-0." She said the Shelton girls hit the ball well, despite being walked 15 times. Albaugh hit 3-3, Krumples hit 2-3 with one home run, Schnitzer hit 3-5 with one double and Brown hit 2-4. "Everyone got a hit," Goldsby said. "Almost all of the girls scored twice and a couple of them scored three times." If there is no poor weather, the Lady Highclimbers are scheduled to play at 4 p.m. today at Curtis High School. "We beat Curtis last year," Goldsby sai& "I really don't know what they have this year but Olympia beat them handily and we didn't play to our po- tential against Olympia, so we'll see how we do." She said she and the team appreci- ate how packed the stands have been at the Lady Highclimbers' home games so far this season. Paul Bunyan plays soccer By EMILY HANSON ernity@rnasoncounty.con~ Paul Bunyan is normally described as a larger-than- life man who wields an ax and has a huge blue ox. This year, Paul Bunyan also loves soccer. Shel- ton senior Mike Bow- man was chosen to be Paul Bunyan in the Forest Festival Court this Mike year and he is also Bowman a year- round soc- cer player with an offer to play in col- lege. "I wanted to be Paul Bu- nyan for a couple of differ- ent reasons," Bowman said. "First, it's another opportu- nity to serve my community and give back what they've given me. Second, the schol- • arship appealed to me and third, I have a massive Paul Bunyan beard I can grow." Bowman is already work: ing on that beard and says it isn't bothering him. "During No Shave No- vember, I had about twice as much as this, so I'm used to it," he said. Bowman has been play- ing soccer since he was 3 af- ter his father put him in a recreation league. "When I was 9, I tried out for a team with Blackhills Football Club in Olympia that was for kids two years older than me," Bowman said. Since joining the Blackh- ills Football Club, Bowman has been playing soccer year-round. He plays with the club during the fall and winter, is a varsity player for Shelton High School in the spring and plays in tour- naments during the sum- mer. "I love soccer so the more I play, the more I like it be- cause it's more time with the ball," Bowman said. "It's hectic being on more than one team at a time, but I love it." He manages the multiple teams by taking a break from Blackhills for the spring, he said. "I think a lot of the time, people don't look at soccer as a mental game," Bow- man said. "But it is. It's a lot like chess. You have to make plays and you have to position yourself in places that are sometimes even four positions ahead for the strategy." Though the boys' soccer season started earlier this month, Bowman has al- ready received a scholarship See Athlete on page C-4 I If Highclimbers playing at Alderbrook Golf Course today By EMILY HANSON third most difficult course in the Jensen said. "He had a very good emi/y(Onasoncounty.com state." day." ..................................................... Despite how tough the course The boys are scheduled to play was and how many Shelton golf- at 2:45 p.m. today at Alderbrook The Shelton boys' golf team de- ers had never seen it before, Jen- Golf Course in Union against feated Timberline 62-34 on March sen said there were five golfers Capital. 22. with scores under 44. "The team will hopefully do "The kids played pretty well"That's pretty good," he said. pretty well," Jensen said. "With Considering it was the firstAtec Martinson was the medal-the bad weather, we've done some match," Shelton head boys' golf ist for this match with a best score conditioning so we may be in bet- coach Mark Jensen said: "Indian of 38, which was two over par. ter shape than we usually are at Summer Golf Course is rated the "He bogeyed his last two holes," this point in the season." Shelton-Mason County Journal- Thursday, March 29, 2012 -Page C-1