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SheltomMason County Journal !!!i!!ii!i!ii!iTRACK Highc imbers end track season at state By DEAN SIEMON It may not have been the way Shelton High School track and field expected the season would end, but the Highclimbers were proud of their 2011 spring season. Three individuals and a relay team represented Shel- ton at the 4A WIAA Track and Field Championships on Thursday, Friday and Satur- day at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma. Junior Bryton Rodgers earned a seventh-place med- al in the boys' pole vault with a height of 13 feet. It was a shaky start for the first-time state competi- tor. After two misses at the first height of 12 feet, Rodg- ers cleared the height in his last chance. He was able to clear 12 feet, six inches on the second attempt and made 13 feet on the first. "It took him a while to dial in his runs," Shelton pole vault coach Kathy Cole said. "It started out rough but he came out and competed," Shelton head coach Doug Sells said. "I saw great com- petiten." The 4A boys' pole vault, which was originally sched- uled for the late afternoon on Friday had to be moved to early Saturday morning due to the continuous rain. "The change of time was h'd to overcome," Coie said. "It was mentally tough." Sheiton coaches are positive about Rodgers' im- provements rom last year, when his personal best was See State on page C-4 helton Igh School's Bryton Rodgers clears 13 feet in the boys' pole vault on Saturday at the 4A WIAA Track and Field Championships at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma. Rodgers finished in seventh place. :TRACK Bulldogs earn a few medals at 2A state championships By DEAN SIEMON eighth place throw just more than a foot away. North Mason High School senior Tevin Wil- liams never had a com- plete track and field sea- son, missing last year's 2A WIAA Track and Field Championships due to an injured hamstring. But Williams completed his senior season with a fifth place finish in the 2A 100-meter dash, finishing with a time of 11.10 sec- onds on Saturday at Mount Tahoma High School in Ta- coma. "That's a big deal for him," North Mason head coach Jeff Bevers said. Earlier in the year, Wil- liams signed his letter of intent to play football at Eastern Washington Uni- versity, the defending na- tional champions in the NCAA Division I - Football Championship Subdivision. "Now he's got the next chapter, going on to Eastern to play football healthy," Bevers said. Two other seniors that have finished their high school athletic careers were Shannon Heiter and Kam- eron Crosswhite. Heiter, a returning state competito r in the girls' jav- elin throw, finished 10th overall on Thursday with a throw of 111 feet and two inches. She was not far from earning a medal; with the Crosswhite competed at state for the first time in the long jump on Thursday, finishing 13th with a dis- tance of 19 feet and two and three quarters inches: Bevers was proud of the two seniors who made im- provements throughout the season. "Shannon threw her best of the season," he said. "And [Crosswhite] moved up a few feet from last year." But the future of the program also shined when sophomore C.J. Allen fin- ished fifth in the 300-me- ter hurdles with a personal best time of 39.94 seconds. In the preliminary round on Friday, Allen set a time of 40.03 seconds to take second place in the first heat, which was his previ- ous record. "I just tried my best ev- ery race and I finall) broke 40," Allen said. "It doesn't get better than that," Bevers said. Other state athletes for North Mason include fresh- man Tommy Marsh, junior Joshua Hosier, sophomore Ahron Stroud, sophomore Evelyn Williams, fresh- man Tabitha Schwerzler, sophomore Emma Berg and freshman Alivia Sandquist. "So excited about all these kids," Bevers said. "Great season and a lot of kids coming back." Journal photo by Dean Siemon North Mason High School's Tevin WilliAmR finishes fifth in 100-me- ter dash at the 2A Track and Field Championships at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma. Timbers str00ngg le on offense loss By DEAN SIEMON The Shelton Timbers 17U American Legion baseball team has hit a bit of an offensive slump in their last seven games, includ- ing a loss to North Thurston on Tuesday, 6-4, at Shelton High School. Shelton (5-10) fell behind ear- ly after allowing two runs after three hits were allowed by start- ing pitcher Levi Goodburn, as well as two errors from the de- fense. "They [errors] just happened at a costly time and that was the difference in the end," Timbers' Joe Strand said. North Thurston also had three runs in the third inning and one in the fifth, totaling 10 hits. 'rhey just had routine hits," Strand said. "It was just those leadoff guys getting hits." The Timbers used four differ- ent pitchers, which Strand said helped keep North Thurston's batters off balance. "Once they pick up on a guy, it becomes a hit parade," Strand said. Goodburn lasted two and two- third innings, allowing three runs on five hits. Sam Gerhold fmished the top half of the third inning and the fourth, allowing two runs. } Jared Hayes and Curtis Wuestner combined for the final three innings, allowing one hit and one run. "After we made some outs, we realized we could do it," Strand said. See Timbers on page fi-4 Thursday, June 2, 2011 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page C-1 Journal photo by Dean Siemon Shelton Timbers' Pat- rick Fabrizio checks his swing during Tuesday's home game against North Thurston at Shelton High School.