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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."
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