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August 30, 1973     Shelton Mason County Journal
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] i! ii ". 4:~ 4•'•'"¸ •~ TONy MOLINERO is the fastest of the in the 40-yard dash at 4.7. Also a track star, he Molinero caught four passes for 107 yards and a wns last season. was second team All-League in 1972 at One of Shelton's two-year lettermen, he tips 190 pounds. is a 198-pound offensive and defensive e senior has two years of experience. "~: ~, ¥ ~",." ~,~ ~!:~i~ DAN MORGAN won All-League honors last year at cornerback as a junior, when he made 47 tackles. But watch number 40 at halfback. He carried 91 times last year and gained 480 yards for a 5.3 average. HE WON'T harm you in a dark alley, but don't mess with him on a football field. It's Shelton senior Fred Gold, 270 pounds of tackle. ;ii¸ : / ; JUNIOR CRAIG JACOBSEN has some placekicking experience from last year. He is one of six returning lettermen in his class for Shelton. Shelton High School girls tennis coach Ruth Willard has plenty of experienced players from last season returning for the 1973 team. She lost just two seniors from last year's team which had five wins and four losses. Sophomore Lori Huber played number o~ singles for Shelton last year 1~ a freshman and went 7-2. Shereturns with her letter and a summer of tournament experience. Number two singles players last year, sophomore April Kuhr was 5-4 and earned her letter as a freshman last season. She, too, has been playing on the summer tournament circuit. Junior letter,roman Mary Wittenberg, who played number three singles last year, also returns. She will play doubles this season, said Mrs. Willard. The Highclimbers lost their number one doubles team of 1972 by graduation, but the number two doubles team of senior Connie Bennett and junior Robin Schad, which posted a 4-1 record, returns. Schad has added experience this year from the summer tournaments. Others turning out for the team who are not letterwinners are Patty Brewer, a junior who has played in summer tournaments; senior Carol Thonrpson, sophomore Karen Kramer, sophomore twins Robin and Renee Trucksess, freshman ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~u~~~~~~~~~t~~t~M~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~u~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~u~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SHELTON GIRLS' TENNIS SCHEDULE Thursday, September 6 Monday, September 10 Thursday, September 13 Monday, September 17 Thursday,September 20 Monday, September 24 Thursday, September 27 Monday, October 1 Thursday, October 4 Subdistrict: October 6-8 North Thurston Home Centralia Home Hoquiam Away Olympia Away Timberline Home Aberdeen Away Tumwater Home Elma Home Chehalis Away District: October 13-1 5 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~t~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Little League g Little League football begins its fourth season in Mason County this fall All boys who are in the sixth grade in the Southside, Pioneer, Hood Canal and Shelton school districts ate eligible to participate. All participants must have a physical exanrination and a note rid to start from their family doctor. Registration forms will be available at the schools and turnouts will begin during the first week of school. Those who need more information may call Pete Janda at 426-8735 or Merv Settle at 426-8525. Karla Knudsen and sophomore Eva Kubinsky. The young squad appears to have depth for future years. Managers are Kathy Wittenberg and Betty Andrews. Mrs. Willard said many of the top players are already in good condition because of the summer tour. She started official turnouts on Wednesday, August 22 and ~said the team is involved in a "crash" ladder play because its first match is September 6 against North Thurston, during the first Vernon Gonzales of Shelton took first place in a freestyle wrestling tournament in Longview sponsored by Lower Columbia College on August 4. Gonzales, who will be a senior at Shelton High School this year, won four matches in a period of about six hours to take the championship in the 141-pound weight class. He beat a wrestler from Highline Community College in the finals. He was entered in the open class for those 17 years of age and older. Gonzales wrestled at 148 pounds for the Shelton ltighclimbers last year and took third at district, fourth at regionals and went to the state AA tournament. Freestyle wrestling, said Gonzales, is a little rougher than high school or college wrestling. Things like slams and full nelsons are legal in freestyle wrestling, he said. "Sometimes you can even week of school. The ladder play. or challenge matches, is set up to determine positions on the team. The girls are also working on fundamentals, said the coach. Mrs. Willard is starting her tenth year as coach of the girls tennis team at Shelton High School, and she said this season will be her last. Her 1967 won the Olympic League championship and she has had many successful seasons. bite him and get away with it," he chuckled. The matches were run for three two-minute rounds with a minute of rest in between each round. Vernon Gonzales in AI Hopp, Shelton High School tennis coach, won two doubles titles at the recent Olympia City Tennis Tournament. Several other players from Shelton also fared well in the tourney Hopp teamed with Jim Smith in the men's open doubles to defeat Bill Coates and Nell Brandsma in the finals, 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. He won mixed doubles with Kathy Hemion. The pair beat John and Margaret Mundt 6-3, 6-1 in the finals. Sean Byrne beat Greg Start in identical 6-1 sets in the finals of the boys 12 and under division. Both boys are from Shelton; both had beaten Olympia opponents earlier to reach the finals, Dave Hanson reached the finals of the boys 16's and lost to the number one player of Olympia High School, Tony Kronawetter, 6-2, 6-0. Lincoln Miner made the semifinals in the same division. In the junior men's 18 and under doubles, Jack Frost and Jeff Okano lost their semifinals match in three sets. Steve Evander and Jim Kowalczyk lost in the finals of the men's 21 and under doubles. Jack Frost, Shelton High School's number one player last season, reached the quarterfinals of the Southwest Washington Regional Center Tournament held two weeks ago. Bruce Dorcy and Dave Wicken made the finals of the boys 14 and under doubles, where they lost to Mike Hawkins and Gene Ockinga of Tacoma in identical 6-2 sets. Hopp beat three opponents at the Pacific Northwest Grasscourt Sectionals in Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island, a week ago to make the semifinals and he teamed with Smith to win three doubles matches before losing in the semifinals. The tournament is the largest in the area and is open only to Northwest residents. After a first-round bye, Hopp beat Ralph Mclntyre of lrvington Tennis Club in Portland, 6-2, 6-2. He then dumped Dan Merrill of Tacoma 1-6, 6-1, 6-0. it was a satisfying win for Hopp, who was beaten earlier in the year at the Lakewood Summer Festival Tennis Tournament by Merrill. The teams of Leo and Betty Finnegan and Ray and Marian Reames tied for first in the first flight of the third annual Skippers and Mates Invitational Golf Tournament played at Alderbrook August 25 and 26 They had 124 scores. Howard and Jean Andersen were second in first flight with 126, and Lucian and Thelma Gray were third with 127. in second Eight Indian hardball teams will compete in the Skokomish Labor Day Baseball Tournament this Saturday, Sunday and Monday at the Skokomish baseball field. Teams from Tahola, Nisqually, Muckleshoot, Little Boston, Warm Springs, Oakville, Skokomish and another unnamed squad will go for first prize money of $200 starting Saturday morning at I0 a m Second prize is worth $150 and third place Hopp reached the semifinals by winning a default match over Bill Sallay of Jericho Tennis Club in Vancouver, B.C. He lost to Roger Skillings of Victoria in three sets, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the semis. In the doubles competition, Hopp and Smith beal Dick Hunter and Mark Soper of Vancouver, B.C 6-7,7-6, 6-4, then defeated Bruce Robertson and Dan Merrill of Tacoma in another marathon, 6-7, 6-4. 6-4. The), won a default match in the names olf flight, Tex and Evalyn Stirling took first with 119½; Harry Craft and Phyllis Guenther were second at i 25 ; and the teams of Tory and Barbara Davidson and John and Norma Priel tied for third at 127. Third flight winners were Milt and Pat Raymond, first, 123½; Gene and Mildred Boyd, second, 125; Bob and Kay Ellison, and Larry and Martha Roberts, third, 127½. Low net for the field was won lans money is $ 100. Games will last all day Saturday and Sunday and the championship contest is scheduled for Labor Day. The Indian teams have been competing with each other all summer and the Skokomish tourney is the last action of the season. Salmon bakes and boogies will be run in conjunction with the tournament on Saturday and Sunday. The dances will be in the tribal gym. quarterfinals and lost to Roger Skillings and Ernie Cockayne of Victoria 6-1,7-6 in the semis. Hopp and Smith waited 26 hours to get off Vancouver Island during the ferry workers' strike. Hopp's latest play was at the Pacific Northwest Hardcourt Sectionals in Salem, Oregon this week~, the results of which are not available. He will compete in the Yakima Valley Tennis Championships in Yakima over the Labor Day weekend. winners by Deryl and Nyla Wood of the Olympia Golf and Country Club with a score of !16½. The teams of Gene and Mildred Boyd, and Deryl and Nyla Wood tied for Saturday's lap prize with 49's. Mill and Pat Raymond, and Harold and Helen Stephens took Sunday's lap prizewith 52's John and Yvonne Whiteley won Saturday's horse race. Second were Deryl and Nyla Wood and third were Elmo and Marian Samuelson. Jazers Shelton Junior High football coach Harlen Buitenveld has announced that uniforms will be handed out for Blazer eighth and ninth graders Thursday, August 30. He said ninth graders will get their uniforms at 9 a.m. and eighth graders will receive their at ! p.m. He also reminded players to get their physicals, insurance and ASB cards. ALL-STARS from the recent Mason County Women's Fastpitch Tournament are left to right, front row: Dena Settle, shortstop, Mason County Federal Credit Union; Jenny Cross, second base, Kamilche JJ's; Becky Herrel, catcher and leftfielder, KMAS; left to right, top row: Lou Harger, most valuable player in the tournament, KMAS pitcher; Cinda Laney, first base, - KMAS; Pat Ayers, third base, KMAS; Leslie Cochran, (not an all-star but accepting tournament's third-place trophy for Shelton Merchants}; Patti Peck, catcher, Shelton Merchants; Sally Radcliffe, shortstop, Shelton Merchants; Monica Kneeland (not an all-star, but accepting second-place trophy for MCFCU); Chris Brotche, pitcher, MCFCU; and Darcy Sytsma, left field, MCFCU. KMAS won the tourney. Harry James, St. and son Dennis beat a field of 33 couples to win low gross honors in Bayshore's second annual Father-Son Golf Tournament held in the rain on August 23. Rex Beatty and John Gray won second low gross. Morley Preppernau and Mark Hovind won first low net and second low net winners were Amiseua and Seoles. Glen Sowers and son Breek had high gross and long drive ended ill a tie between the Flakus ieam and the Holt team. The men thank the women in the Ladies' Division for their job in the kitchen. Bowlers The Thursday Trio Bowling League will hold its meeting September 6 at 10 a.m. and bowling will follow the meeting at I l o'clock. Thursday, August 30, 1973 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 19