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SPORTS JOURNAL
SATURDAY'S POWERLIFT INVITE gives way to the usual visceral
assortment. Getting checked out in the wake of a successful bench press
in the nearmost scene is Climber veteran Casey Chamberlin. That's
teammate Chelsie Uffelman bearing up good-naturedly as a fellow
lifter helps her squeeze into her muscle shirt, top left, and at the upper
right is Climber Jared Fraisure giving his all at the squat-lift station
while briefly injury-sidelined teammate Matt Tuttle provides spotter's
assistance behind him.
Muscles flex anew
The local muscle community
gathered anew in the Minidome
Saturday as Climberville hosted
its annual Shelton Powerlift Invi-
tational.
Lifters from seven high schools
vied in three disciplines - the
squat lift, the bench press and the
deadlift.
Shelton's hosts wound up with
one individual champ and five
runners-up. Mounting the top
step of the award stand was junior
Mattie Sobotka. Earning second-
place points for Shelton were se-
nior veteran Casey Chamberlin,
Texas transfer Nikki Robinson,
sophomore Sarah Brownstein and
juniors Kyle Burbridge and Jacob
Nikolaisen.
Meet director Lorna Martinson,
the Climbers' powerlift coach and
weightlifting teacher, credited
Shelton's many volunteers for an-
other invitational well run.
SHELTON POWERLIFT INVITATIONAL
(squat/bench/deadllft-total)
GIRLS
97 pounds - Hilary Gouchnour (Monte-
sane) 110/70/150-330.
105 pounds - no entrants.
114 pounds - Jamie Dierick (Montesano)
190/100/245-535; Ali Ohashi (Montesano)
(Please turn to page 28.)
EVENTUAL RIYNNER-UP Nikki Robinson of the Climbers strains to
bench her second attempt in Saturday's Shelton Powerlift Invitational.
Dave Austin, Mike Johnson, Don Brown:
Three make
all of Fame
Former Highclimbers Dave
Austin, Mike Johnson and Don
Brown have been voted into the
Shelton-Mason County Sports Hall
of Fame.
Unanimous selections all, they
are due to be inducted formally at
a special ceremony following the
June 2 Forest Festival Parade.
The late Austin and Johnson will
be posthumous inductees while
Brown, still a Shelton resident, is
expected to be on hand in person.
Austin, who was nominated
by brother and fellow Climber
all-state athlete Dan Brown, led
Shelton's 1955 football team to the
first undefeated season in school
history and was voted no less than
the premier quarterback in all of
Washington prepdom that year.
He graduated from SHS in 1956
.with top-ten academic credentials,
a theretofore unprecedented nine
varsity letters in three sports (foot-
ball, basketball and baseball) and
a football scholarship at the Uni-
versity of Washington, where he
was cocaptain of the Husky fresh
team his first season and backup
quarterback on the varsity squad
his sophomore year.
That Husky team eventually
went on to win two Rose Bowls,
by the way, but it was without the
Highclimber grad - Austin hav-
ing opted to retire from the sport
in the interest of concentrating on
his master's degree in metallurgi-
cal engineering.
The degree served him well in
the business world, where he rose
in the ranks over a long and cel-
ebrated career at Boeing. A de-
voted husband and father as well,
Austin nonetheless found time to
be a master counselor of DeMolay
and later a president of his local
Rotary club and maintain a handi-
cap between 9 and 11 in his other
great sporting love, golf.
Sandy Ekse, a fellow Mill Creek
Rotarian and one of the many
friends and associates who spoke
at his memorial service when Dave
died recently, had this to say in a
letter to the Hall of Fame Board
last fall:
"In 2000 Dave received the Paul
Harris Fellowship Award, and
this is the highest award bestowed
upon a Rotarian. One must be a
good leader, active in their corn-
(Please turn to page 28.)
Mike Johnson
Don Brown
After comeback win:
Fastgals can't
sustain magic
The girls of Climber softball
staged a late-inning rally to beat
league frontrunner Lakes last
week but then couldn't parlay it
into a winning streak as confi-
dence plateaued with the advent
of spring break..
"In tennis you call it the 'big
high,' " says veteran coach Val
James, characterizing her Climb-
ers' collective mood following their
6-3 come-from-behind victory over
visiting Lakes. "But then you have
the letdown. And that's what we're
experiencing now."
Indeed, as spring break com-
menced here last Friday afternoon
the Climbers took on a second
straight league contender, Yelm,
and wound up on the short end of
a 3-2 count despite playing near
error-free ball. "Still, it was deft-
nitely a good game," said Coach
James. "I'm not going to complain
about that kind of loss ever, But
we just didn't seem to play with
any real consistency."
Then came Monday's debacle
- an l 1-run shutout thrashing
at the hands of a third straight
title contender, now-league-lead-
ing Capital. And, to make matters
worse, the host Cougs' Jefferson
Field stomping grounds were an
uncharacteristic disaster, with
patches of sand wreaking havoc in
the infield.
"The kids were like little chick-
ens out there, peckin' around,"
said Coach. "It was just a mess."
The Climbers' record dipped to
3-7 going into Tuesday's meeting
with Timberline there. Results of
that contest will be in next week's
Journal.
Lakes 000 102 O - 3/617
Shelton 000 204 X - 6/8/0
Climber pitching - Carissa Krumpols sev-
en innings, six hits, five strikeouts and one
walk.
Climber batting - Courtney Johnson two
hits and two runs scored, Paige Barrett a
single and two runs scored, CarrieAnne AI-
legri a two-run single, Carissa Krumpols an
rbi single, Annie Johnson an rbi single, Tara
Grant two singles and a run scored and Ali
Lund a single.
Yslm 201 000 O - 31611
Shelton 200 000 0 - 2/6/2
(Please turn to page 27.)
Thursday, April 5, 2007 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 25
SPORTS JOURNAL
SATURDAY'S POWERLIFT INVITE gives way to the usual visceral
assortment. Getting checked out in the wake of a successful bench press
in the nearmost scene is Climber veteran Casey Chamberlin. That's
teammate Chelsie Uffelman bearing up good-naturedly as a fellow
lifter helps her squeeze into her muscle shirt, top left, and at the upper
right is Climber Jared Fraisure giving his all at the squat-lift station
while briefly injury-sidelined teammate Matt Tuttle provides spotter's
assistance behind him.
Muscles flex anew
The local muscle community
gathered anew in the Minidome
Saturday as Climberville hosted
its annual Shelton Powerlift Invi-
tational.
Lifters from seven high schools
vied in three disciplines - the
squat lift, the bench press and the
deadlift.
Shelton's hosts wound up with
one individual champ and five
runners-up. Mounting the top
step of the award stand was junior
Mattie Sobotka. Earning second-
place points for Shelton were se-
nior veteran Casey Chamberlin,
Texas transfer Nikki Robinson,
sophomore Sarah Brownstein and
juniors Kyle Burbridge and Jacob
Nikolaisen.
Meet director Lorna Martinson,
the Climbers' powerlift coach and
weightlifting teacher, credited
Shelton's many volunteers for an-
other invitational well run.
SHELTON POWERLIFT INVITATIONAL
(squat/bench/deadllft-total)
GIRLS
97 pounds - Hilary Gouchnour (Monte-
sane) 110/70/150-330.
105 pounds - no entrants.
114 pounds - Jamie Dierick (Montesano)
190/100/245-535; Ali Ohashi (Montesano)
(Please turn to page 28.)
EVENTUAL RIYNNER-UP Nikki Robinson of the Climbers strains to
bench her second attempt in Saturday's Shelton Powerlift Invitational.
Dave Austin, Mike Johnson, Don Brown:
Three make
all of Fame
Former Highclimbers Dave
Austin, Mike Johnson and Don
Brown have been voted into the
Shelton-Mason County Sports Hall
of Fame.
Unanimous selections all, they
are due to be inducted formally at
a special ceremony following the
June 2 Forest Festival Parade.
The late Austin and Johnson will
be posthumous inductees while
Brown, still a Shelton resident, is
expected to be on hand in person.
Austin, who was nominated
by brother and fellow Climber
all-state athlete Dan Brown, led
Shelton's 1955 football team to the
first undefeated season in school
history and was voted no less than
the premier quarterback in all of
Washington prepdom that year.
He graduated from SHS in 1956
.with top-ten academic credentials,
a theretofore unprecedented nine
varsity letters in three sports (foot-
ball, basketball and baseball) and
a football scholarship at the Uni-
versity of Washington, where he
was cocaptain of the Husky fresh
team his first season and backup
quarterback on the varsity squad
his sophomore year.
That Husky team eventually
went on to win two Rose Bowls,
by the way, but it was without the
Highclimber grad - Austin hav-
ing opted to retire from the sport
in the interest of concentrating on
his master's degree in metallurgi-
cal engineering.
The degree served him well in
the business world, where he rose
in the ranks over a long and cel-
ebrated career at Boeing. A de-
voted husband and father as well,
Austin nonetheless found time to
be a master counselor of DeMolay
and later a president of his local
Rotary club and maintain a handi-
cap between 9 and 11 in his other
great sporting love, golf.
Sandy Ekse, a fellow Mill Creek
Rotarian and one of the many
friends and associates who spoke
at his memorial service when Dave
died recently, had this to say in a
letter to the Hall of Fame Board
last fall:
"In 2000 Dave received the Paul
Harris Fellowship Award, and
this is the highest award bestowed
upon a Rotarian. One must be a
good leader, active in their corn-
(Please turn to page 28.)
Mike Johnson
Don Brown
After comeback win:
Fastgals can't
sustain magic
The girls of Climber softball
staged a late-inning rally to beat
league frontrunner Lakes last
week but then couldn't parlay it
into a winning streak as confi-
dence plateaued with the advent
of spring break..
"In tennis you call it the 'big
high,' " says veteran coach Val
James, characterizing her Climb-
ers' collective mood following their
6-3 come-from-behind victory over
visiting Lakes. "But then you have
the letdown. And that's what we're
experiencing now."
Indeed, as spring break com-
menced here last Friday afternoon
the Climbers took on a second
straight league contender, Yelm,
and wound up on the short end of
a 3-2 count despite playing near
error-free ball. "Still, it was deft-
nitely a good game," said Coach
James. "I'm not going to complain
about that kind of loss ever, But
we just didn't seem to play with
any real consistency."
Then came Monday's debacle
- an l 1-run shutout thrashing
at the hands of a third straight
title contender, now-league-lead-
ing Capital. And, to make matters
worse, the host Cougs' Jefferson
Field stomping grounds were an
uncharacteristic disaster, with
patches of sand wreaking havoc in
the infield.
"The kids were like little chick-
ens out there, peckin' around,"
said Coach. "It was just a mess."
The Climbers' record dipped to
3-7 going into Tuesday's meeting
with Timberline there. Results of
that contest will be in next week's
Journal.
Lakes 000 102 O - 3/617
Shelton 000 204 X - 6/8/0
Climber pitching - Carissa Krumpols sev-
en innings, six hits, five strikeouts and one
walk.
Climber batting - Courtney Johnson two
hits and two runs scored, Paige Barrett a
single and two runs scored, CarrieAnne AI-
legri a two-run single, Carissa Krumpols an
rbi single, Annie Johnson an rbi single, Tara
Grant two singles and a run scored and Ali
Lund a single.
Yslm 201 000 O - 31611
Shelton 200 000 0 - 2/6/2
(Please turn to page 27.)
Thursday, April 5, 2007 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 25