Notice: Undefined index: HTTP_REFERER in /home/stparch/public_html/headmid_temp_main.php on line 4394
Newspaper Archive of
Shelton Mason County Journal
Shelton, Washington
July 29, 1999     Shelton Mason County Journal
PAGE 23     (23 of 36 available)        PREVIOUS     NEXT      Jumbo Image    Save To Scrapbook    Set Notifiers    PDF    JPG
 
PAGE 23     (23 of 36 available)        PREVIOUS     NEXT      Jumbo Image    Save To Scrapbook    Set Notifiers    PDF    JPG
July 29, 1999
 
Newspaper Archive of Shelton Mason County Journal produced by SmallTownPapers, Inc.
Website © 2025. All content copyrighted. Copyright Information
Terms Of Use | Privacy Policy | Request Content Removal | About / FAQ | Get Acrobat Reader




Spikedom's inutterable truth: ? By STEVE PATCH Leo notwithstanding, the un- Speakable happened again last Weekend. Indeed, folks could no more them than beat 'em four northern visitors as "Ornsnadwiya" came to OWn Saturday to defenda:h:a  crown in Shelton s lloll e ball Coed Outdoor 4-on 4 ,. ! Tournament at Lonn'i,l Y Vat¢i te::rlaying big-man power and mWise sophistication to turn 00omo- P' ', --.andout Leo Blakley & lab,  a0mPany, the Port-Angeles-area "ursome made it through the l:3U - -'" 12 team, all da aff • ssin-le .... - Y air without a --| ,b, sOatary setback. j ..... ep: They never lost the d:p day long," says Climber _ .l ne.%.°ach Steve Beck, the tour- rdaY Y long time director. INDEED, DESPITE the ef- frtcSo,°,f Blakley and the presence "ege-calibre talents the likes of Shelton's own Stephanie Beck and Kandi Wiggins, the title de- fense went pretty much according to plan for the champs - Sequim's Tom Baermann and Nancy Le- Blanc, Port Townsend's Kiya Sequoia and Port Angeles' Tom Lotz. They knocked off Piece Com- munity College coach Clyde Reise's fresh-from-nationals boys and tourney veteran Becky Rags- dale's "Serves You Right" contin- gent in opening championship- round action and then made short work of ex-Climber Blakley's team in the finale. "Leo's team kinda got beat fair- ly handily," says Beck. "But I was surprised they got to the finals, actually." TO BE SURE, the comeback performance of Leo and wife Beth along with their teenaged son Derek and veteran setter Carol Coughlin was "the surprise of the urnal compete i Don's memory...00 ,., racqueteers celebrated of one of their own when they hosted the LUal Shelton Open Tennis rnament under the commemo- name of the Don Knudsen Tournament. Past champion felled by in the off season, Knudsen Well known in local tennis for his love not only of the those involved in it. r of Sheltonians Wound up divisional thrones this Middle school teach- Vernon and Dann Gag- amed to beat Shelton's and Olympia's Alan m three sets in the men's finale. Another Shelton past champ Vera Sutton, up second in mixed dou- MEMORIAL TOURNEY singles Isson beat Drake Nicholson 6-2, 6-4. Open doubles Brian Hartley & Chris Madsen beat Jim Branz & Ron Espedol 6-4, 6-4. Mixed doubles Sarah Borkowski & Brian Hartley beat Vera Sutton & Steve Daniels 6-3, 6-1. Women's B singles Laurie Gielbelhaus beat Rebecca Law- son by default. Women's B doubles Ainsley Walden & Connie Lorenz beat Patty Ktlmer & Phyllis Lindsey (score unre- ported). Men's B singles Paul Fleming beat Steve Thompson 7-6, 6-2. Men's B doubles Steve Daniels & Chris Madsen beat Den- nis Karras & Charlie Gavigan 6-4, 6-3. Men's C singles Alan Martin beat John Vernon 6-0, 2-6, 6-3. Men's C doubles John Vernon & Dann Gagnon beat Alan Martin & Andy Harlow 7-6, 5-7, 7-5. Boys' 18 & under singles Tim Fill beat Shane Fisher 6-2, 7-6. Little League Photo Courtesy of Eaton and Tennefoss Photography of Shelton |OAT STORE of Mason County Little League: In are Casey Magee, Cody Barnhart, Robert Barnhart. Second row: Billy Hewitt, Bo Ti- or McKay, Shannon Alvarez, David Fitzgerald Uraham. Back: coaches Ray Putvin and Scott Bill Hewitt and coach Dale Smith. are Jacob Hill and Kyle Smith. tournament," as Beck put it. "Leo's team finished sixth in the morning round," says the di- rector. "Leo had sprained his ankle, and it looked a little grim for 'em. "But when the tournament 'In reality I think Leo played some of his best volleyball EVER.' started those guys got serious. And in reality I think Leo played some of his best volleyball ever, because he had to really focus on doing things right instead of just athletically." A basketball standout at SHS in the Eighties, the 6-3 Blakley has been the local spike commun- ity's acknowledged power leader for years, adds Beck, who encour- aged Leo and late-Seventies' Climber Coughlin to join him on the now-legendary Union City Plumbing team that went on to enjoy rec-league preeminence for a decade here and in Olympia. "AND I STILL put Leo as the number-one slugger," says Beck, referring to the prevailing spike talent in Mason County. "He can still hammer the ball hard. "But what I really like about Leo, besides his athleticism, is he's a real gentleman on the court." Quick-tempered though he is ' not, adds Beck, L/0 'Is anytliig but slow in all other respects. "His reflexes still amaze people," intones the Climber coach. "Ya know, he'll block one and then he'll turn and dig it up when it's coming so fast. I mean, the things you don't think about - that just happen - still blow peo- ple away all the time. "Besides the raw power, that pure athletic reaction time is amazing." SO WHAT DID Port Angeles' inutterable "Omsnadwiya" have over Leo's Team in Saturday's finale? "They had three weapons all the time," says Beck. "The girls hit a little bit better than the Shelton girls; they had two guys that were hitting the ball really well, and the group not only hit the ball hard but they ran some option kinds of plays, ya know. And nobody all day long could pick up the defense on that." Of course, not everybody got the chance to try. The winner- meets-winner format effectively isolated the lower-bracket entries - among them the team featuring the aforementioned Climber all- leaguers, Stephanie and Kandi, along with another Beck off- spring, Daniel, and Climber Class of '97 football/baseball star Tim Arndt. STEPHANIE, THE '99 grad fresh from a starring role in the prestigious all-state tour that played in three venues across Washington recently, is soon to jet off to New Mexico Highlands, where she's accepted a locally un- precedented full-ride scholarship to play Division II volleyball. And '98 grad Wiggins, like Stephanie a withering hitter, is bound for Central and the NAIA spike program there after lan- guishing on the bench as a fresh- man at Lewis Clark College last year. Alas, though, neither college- bound ex-Climber had much suc- cess Saturday - frustrated as they were by the vagaries of the outdoor game and the added chal- lenge presented by Saturday's un- seasonably strong wind. "IT NEVER QUIT - the whole day long!" intones Coach Beck. "It really did change the tempo of the game, caused some funny things to happen. "And Stephanie's team never actually showed any real talent, anyway. They just goofed (Please turn to page 24.) Decathlon stunner: Sells soars over 6,500 Soon-to-be collegiate decathlete Doug Sells returned to his ten- event forte for the first time in three years last weekend and promptly shot to the number-two spot among high-school athletes in the entire nation. On a pace to break the all-time U.S. high-school record of 7,359 points till subpar performances in the final two events, the Universi-. ty-of-Oregon-bound Highclimber grad nonetheless finished the British Columbia Provincial Championships in Abbotsford, BC, with a first-place total of 6,515 points - second most by any American prepster in 1999. THE LAST TIME the multi- ple SHS recordholder and two- time state shotput champion com- peted in the decathlon - way back in the summer following his freshman year - he broke 1956 Olympian Des Koch's school record with a total of 5,207 points. Last year brand-new grad Scott Armstrong upped the all- time Climber mark to 5,413 - more than a thousand points shy of Doug's total this past weekend. En route, the 6-2, 195-pound Sells registered fully five personal bests, including a scintillating 10.8 in the 100 meters. Hand- timed, the clocking moves him to number two on the all-time Climber list - behind the intrinsi- cally superior 11.00 registered by automatic timing by Scott "Scooter" Craig back in 1985. OTHER SELLS' PRs in Brit- ish Columbia included a 20-11 leap in the long jump, a 5-11a mark in the high jump, a 53.61 clocking in the 400 meters and a 14-1a mark in the pole vault. The long jump and quarter- mile efforts are the best by any SHS athlete this year, and the vault mark moves him into the number-four spot on the all-time Climber list. Doug's other performances in- cluded a 46-2 effort in the shot put (collegiate 16-pound imple- ment, not the 12- of prep competi- tion), 132-8 in the (two-kilogram) discus, 15.20 in the 42-inch high hurdles (roughly equivalent to a 14.2 over the prep ranks' 39-inch hurdles), 123-1 in the javelin and 5:30.04 in the 1500 meters. ALAS, THE LATTER two were rather poor, relatively speaking, says Doug's dad, Climb- er shotput coach John Sells. Otherwise the '99 SHS grad would have wound up tops among all prepsters in America this year and might well have threatened the all-time U.S. high-school mark as well. All in all it was a most encour- aging return to the sport, though, added John, noting that Doug's 100-meter performance was espe- cially significant and shows that indeed he "has the speed to devel- op into a good decathlete." OUTDOOR SPIKE TOURNEY action Saturday on Loop Field finds Shelton's own college-bound all-stater Stephanie Beck sprawling for a dig (near) after an earth. shaking kill by teammate and fellow Climber grad Tim Arndt (top). Looking on in both shots is Steph's older brother, Daniel Beck. Inset, top to bottom: Hometown collegian Kandi Beck offers teammate Arndt some midmatch congratulatory skin; the champs' 6-5 Tom Baermann pounds a winner, and hometown hammer Leo Blak- ley blocks a shot off the fist of the "Beckster" - aka tourney director Steve Beck. Umpire tourney on tap Local rec softball's third an- nual Umpires Invitational is this weekend at MCRA on Johns Prairie. Set to start at 8 a.m. sharp both Saturday and Sunday, this year's donnybrook boasts a 24- team field - a dozen squads in the men's division and an equal share in the coed. Back to defend its title in the latter, by the way, is Shelton's own PCFCU contingent. Alas, the men's two-time defending champ, HairSmith out of Port Angeles, is a no-show this time, reports tour- ney director Phil Harraves. ll,ursaay, July 29, 1999 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 23 Spikedom's inutterable truth: ? By STEVE PATCH Leo notwithstanding, the un- Speakable happened again last Weekend. Indeed, folks could no more them than beat 'em four northern visitors as "Ornsnadwiya" came to OWn Saturday to defenda:h:a  crown in Shelton s lloll e ball Coed Outdoor 4-on 4 ,. ! Tournament at Lonn'i,l Y Vat¢i te::rlaying big-man power and mWise sophistication to turn 00omo- P' ', --.andout Leo Blakley & lab,  a0mPany, the Port-Angeles-area "ursome made it through the l:3U - -'" 12 team, all da aff • ssin-le .... - Y air without a --| ,b, sOatary setback. j ..... ep: They never lost the d:p day long," says Climber _ .l ne.%.°ach Steve Beck, the tour- rdaY Y long time director. INDEED, DESPITE the ef- frtcSo,°,f Blakley and the presence "ege-calibre talents the likes of Shelton's own Stephanie Beck and Kandi Wiggins, the title de- fense went pretty much according to plan for the champs - Sequim's Tom Baermann and Nancy Le- Blanc, Port Townsend's Kiya Sequoia and Port Angeles' Tom Lotz. They knocked off Piece Com- munity College coach Clyde Reise's fresh-from-nationals boys and tourney veteran Becky Rags- dale's "Serves You Right" contin- gent in opening championship- round action and then made short work of ex-Climber Blakley's team in the finale. "Leo's team kinda got beat fair- ly handily," says Beck. "But I was surprised they got to the finals, actually." TO BE SURE, the comeback performance of Leo and wife Beth along with their teenaged son Derek and veteran setter Carol Coughlin was "the surprise of the urnal compete i Don's memory...00 ,., racqueteers celebrated of one of their own when they hosted the LUal Shelton Open Tennis rnament under the commemo- name of the Don Knudsen Tournament. Past champion felled by in the off season, Knudsen Well known in local tennis for his love not only of the those involved in it. r of Sheltonians Wound up divisional thrones this Middle school teach- Vernon and Dann Gag- amed to beat Shelton's and Olympia's Alan m three sets in the men's finale. Another Shelton past champ Vera Sutton, up second in mixed dou- MEMORIAL TOURNEY singles Isson beat Drake Nicholson 6-2, 6-4. Open doubles Brian Hartley & Chris Madsen beat Jim Branz & Ron Espedol 6-4, 6-4. Mixed doubles Sarah Borkowski & Brian Hartley beat Vera Sutton & Steve Daniels 6-3, 6-1. Women's B singles Laurie Gielbelhaus beat Rebecca Law- son by default. Women's B doubles Ainsley Walden & Connie Lorenz beat Patty Ktlmer & Phyllis Lindsey (score unre- ported). Men's B singles Paul Fleming beat Steve Thompson 7-6, 6-2. Men's B doubles Steve Daniels & Chris Madsen beat Den- nis Karras & Charlie Gavigan 6-4, 6-3. Men's C singles Alan Martin beat John Vernon 6-0, 2-6, 6-3. Men's C doubles John Vernon & Dann Gagnon beat Alan Martin & Andy Harlow 7-6, 5-7, 7-5. Boys' 18 & under singles Tim Fill beat Shane Fisher 6-2, 7-6. Little League Photo Courtesy of Eaton and Tennefoss Photography of Shelton |OAT STORE of Mason County Little League: In are Casey Magee, Cody Barnhart, Robert Barnhart. Second row: Billy Hewitt, Bo Ti- or McKay, Shannon Alvarez, David Fitzgerald Uraham. Back: coaches Ray Putvin and Scott Bill Hewitt and coach Dale Smith. are Jacob Hill and Kyle Smith. tournament," as Beck put it. "Leo's team finished sixth in the morning round," says the di- rector. "Leo had sprained his ankle, and it looked a little grim for 'em. "But when the tournament 'In reality I think Leo played some of his best volleyball EVER.' started those guys got serious. And in reality I think Leo played some of his best volleyball ever, because he had to really focus on doing things right instead of just athletically." A basketball standout at SHS in the Eighties, the 6-3 Blakley has been the local spike commun- ity's acknowledged power leader for years, adds Beck, who encour- aged Leo and late-Seventies' Climber Coughlin to join him on the now-legendary Union City Plumbing team that went on to enjoy rec-league preeminence for a decade here and in Olympia. "AND I STILL put Leo as the number-one slugger," says Beck, referring to the prevailing spike talent in Mason County. "He can still hammer the ball hard. "But what I really like about Leo, besides his athleticism, is he's a real gentleman on the court." Quick-tempered though he is ' not, adds Beck, L/0 'Is anytliig but slow in all other respects. "His reflexes still amaze people," intones the Climber coach. "Ya know, he'll block one and then he'll turn and dig it up when it's coming so fast. I mean, the things you don't think about - that just happen - still blow peo- ple away all the time. "Besides the raw power, that pure athletic reaction time is amazing." SO WHAT DID Port Angeles' inutterable "Omsnadwiya" have over Leo's Team in Saturday's finale? "They had three weapons all the time," says Beck. "The girls hit a little bit better than the Shelton girls; they had two guys that were hitting the ball really well, and the group not only hit the ball hard but they ran some option kinds of plays, ya know. And nobody all day long could pick up the defense on that." Of course, not everybody got the chance to try. The winner- meets-winner format effectively isolated the lower-bracket entries - among them the team featuring the aforementioned Climber all- leaguers, Stephanie and Kandi, along with another Beck off- spring, Daniel, and Climber Class of '97 football/baseball star Tim Arndt. STEPHANIE, THE '99 grad fresh from a starring role in the prestigious all-state tour that played in three venues across Washington recently, is soon to jet off to New Mexico Highlands, where she's accepted a locally un- precedented full-ride scholarship to play Division II volleyball. And '98 grad Wiggins, like Stephanie a withering hitter, is bound for Central and the NAIA spike program there after lan- guishing on the bench as a fresh- man at Lewis Clark College last year. Alas, though, neither college- bound ex-Climber had much suc- cess Saturday - frustrated as they were by the vagaries of the outdoor game and the added chal- lenge presented by Saturday's un- seasonably strong wind. "IT NEVER QUIT - the whole day long!" intones Coach Beck. "It really did change the tempo of the game, caused some funny things to happen. "And Stephanie's team never actually showed any real talent, anyway. They just goofed (Please turn to page 24.) Decathlon stunner: Sells soars over 6,500 Soon-to-be collegiate decathlete Doug Sells returned to his ten- event forte for the first time in three years last weekend and promptly shot to the number-two spot among high-school athletes in the entire nation. On a pace to break the all-time U.S. high-school record of 7,359 points till subpar performances in the final two events, the Universi-. ty-of-Oregon-bound Highclimber grad nonetheless finished the British Columbia Provincial Championships in Abbotsford, BC, with a first-place total of 6,515 points - second most by any American prepster in 1999. THE LAST TIME the multi- ple SHS recordholder and two- time state shotput champion com- peted in the decathlon - way back in the summer following his freshman year - he broke 1956 Olympian Des Koch's school record with a total of 5,207 points. Last year brand-new grad Scott Armstrong upped the all- time Climber mark to 5,413 - more than a thousand points shy of Doug's total this past weekend. En route, the 6-2, 195-pound Sells registered fully five personal bests, including a scintillating 10.8 in the 100 meters. Hand- timed, the clocking moves him to number two on the all-time Climber list - behind the intrinsi- cally superior 11.00 registered by automatic timing by Scott "Scooter" Craig back in 1985. OTHER SELLS' PRs in Brit- ish Columbia included a 20-11 leap in the long jump, a 5-11a mark in the high jump, a 53.61 clocking in the 400 meters and a 14-1a mark in the pole vault. The long jump and quarter- mile efforts are the best by any SHS athlete this year, and the vault mark moves him into the number-four spot on the all-time Climber list. Doug's other performances in- cluded a 46-2 effort in the shot put (collegiate 16-pound imple- ment, not the 12- of prep competi- tion), 132-8 in the (two-kilogram) discus, 15.20 in the 42-inch high hurdles (roughly equivalent to a 14.2 over the prep ranks' 39-inch hurdles), 123-1 in the javelin and 5:30.04 in the 1500 meters. ALAS, THE LATTER two were rather poor, relatively speaking, says Doug's dad, Climb- er shotput coach John Sells. Otherwise the '99 SHS grad would have wound up tops among all prepsters in America this year and might well have threatened the all-time U.S. high-school mark as well. All in all it was a most encour- aging return to the sport, though, added John, noting that Doug's 100-meter performance was espe- cially significant and shows that indeed he "has the speed to devel- op into a good decathlete." OUTDOOR SPIKE TOURNEY action Saturday on Loop Field finds Shelton's own college-bound all-stater Stephanie Beck sprawling for a dig (near) after an earth. shaking kill by teammate and fellow Climber grad Tim Arndt (top). Looking on in both shots is Steph's older brother, Daniel Beck. Inset, top to bottom: Hometown collegian Kandi Beck offers teammate Arndt some midmatch congratulatory skin; the champs' 6-5 Tom Baermann pounds a winner, and hometown hammer Leo Blak- ley blocks a shot off the fist of the "Beckster" - aka tourney director Steve Beck. Umpire tourney on tap Local rec softball's third an- nual Umpires Invitational is this weekend at MCRA on Johns Prairie. Set to start at 8 a.m. sharp both Saturday and Sunday, this year's donnybrook boasts a 24- team field - a dozen squads in the men's division and an equal share in the coed. Back to defend its title in the latter, by the way, is Shelton's own PCFCU contingent. Alas, the men's two-time defending champ, HairSmith out of Port Angeles, is a no-show this time, reports tour- ney director Phil Harraves. ll,ursaay, July 29, 1999 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 23