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SPORTS JOURNAL VARIOUS reaction of starting sophomore Robert Moliga (left, top and near), the battle mighty Lakes Friday night at Harry Lang Stadium in Lakewood. That's 'State Player of the Year' pick Kavario Middleton - all 6-6 and 255 pounds - drawing a disputed Climber pass-interference call in the upper inset; team- and fellow Division One recruit Dominick Davis snaking in on a 10-yard TD run in next photo down; season.ended Climber junior Kevifl Eichhorn (11) hobbling in on to a hero's welcome at the game's outset, and a visibly groggy Climber running Burbridge exiting at halftime just seconds after being nearly knocked out by in the back of the head. Finished for the day? Not on your life: The all-league led a second-half resurgence that saw the Climbers outscore their hosts 14-7, and finished with a rushing total of 258 yards - second most in Climber history. Coach Hinkle was quick to give some of the credit to the O line, boasting Adam Arellano, Schlauderaff, Ryan Fernandez, Isaac Garfias, Jacob Nicolaisen, Jacob Hanes, Matt and Chad Cook, along with lead-blocking fullback Luke Deakins. t knee injury I ever saw' same point in time at full charge in the process of trying to block a Renton punt, and apparently Kevin had caught Adam's helmet squarely in the thigh. "And when I looked down and saw his leg I got a real sick feel- ing," recalls Rehwaldt. He shakes his head. "Freakin' knee cap was over here," he says, pointing to the side of his leg. "They put it back before it got too swollen - under no anesthe- sia. Now, tell me that wasn't-" He shakes his head again in lieu of finishing. PAINFUL INDEED, the in- jury also appeared to be serious to the extreme. The fear was that in the process of fracturing the fe- mur the impact had wreaked such physical havoc on the surround- ing tendons and ligaments as well that even time might not bring full recovery. "His morn called me about 4 a.m. and said the doctor said it was bad," says Rehwaldt, who'd bondedwith young Eichhorn from the start and says he thinks of him as "like my own kid." Surgery (Please turn to page 22.) The leg fracture suffered by linebacker Kevin Eich- in Renton the Friday before was more than just season- says one of his biggest assistant coach Eric "Gray ddt. "It was the worst knee injury I saw," says the former WSU who had to quit the game tccount of injury. he didn't see the impact it- says Rehwaldt. All he knew was young Eichhorn and defensive back Adam Spurl- had ,,meh,, , arrived at the Despite Kyle's huge night Lakes blue,chippers win shootout 41,21 By STEVE PATCH Climber football weathered the state's top-ranked team Friday night with bragging room to spare despite losing the game 21-41. The mighty Lancers of Lakes High School lived up to their bill- ing and then some with a score-at- will tour de force on offense, but they wound up looking a good deal less invincible on the defensive side of the ball. Indeed, with all-league senior Kyle Burbridge shaking off bell- ringers that would have sidelined lesser mortals and winding up with a second-best-in-Climber-history 258 rushing yards, Shelton's boys out-first-downed their ballyhooed hosts 22-19 and amassed fully 451 yards of offense -just 26 short of 'They made us look silly a t ti mes.' the Lancers' total. AND HOW, YOU might ask, does a team boasting an almost unheard-of seven Division One college recruits - as does Lakes - manage to come off so incredibly Jekyll-&-Hydish? "Well," says Climber coach Matt Hinkle, "I thought offensively our game plan was real solid. And I thought the kids executed very well. We've been really pleased with the offensive line. Their prog- ress the last three weeks has been really good. "Kyle ran the ball well. And we were consistent on the pass- es, catching 'em when they were there. "We can obviously work on everything still, but the only dis- couraging component of the offense was we had penalties at times that took us out of drives." AS FOR LAKES' offense, which boasts 6-6, 255-pound tight end (and the state's projected top player) Kavario Middleton and projected all-state quarterback Calvin Schmidtke and five oth- ers already getting major-college courtship, it was the real deal, says Hinkle. "We had a real hard time matchin' up with 'era defensively," says the Climbers' 14th-year head coach. "We made some adjust- ments at halftime that seemed t' slow 'em down a little bit, but they were extremely fast in four or five positions offensively. "And their quarterback caused us a lot of problems because of his elusiveness. Very quick. And the premise of that offense is to spread you out horizontally and then find creases. And they did a good job of it. And when you compound that with a quarterback that runs as well as he did, it causes you all kinds of problems." TO THEIR CREDIT, says Hinkle, his Climbers never hung their heads. "I thought against the run we played fairly well defensively," he says. "Other than the quarterback scramblin', we stopped their run game. We didn't stop their pass uarterbacktheir scram- or game bling, and th really hurt us. "You know, I think when the weather goes south a little bit it'll (Please turn to page 23.) _The Yardstick SHELTON 21, LAKES 41 SCORING Shelton 0 7 7 7-21 Lakes 21 13 7 0-41 HOW THEY SCORED Lakes - Calvin Schmidtke 69- yard run (Tony Thomas kick). Lakes - Korey'e Dixon 53-yard pass from Calvin Schmidtke (kick failed). Lakes - Dominick Davis three- yard run (two-point pass from Calvin Schmidtke to Kavario Middleton). Shelton - Jacob Hanes two-yard run (Austin Case kick). Lakes - Tony Thomas 55-yard pass from Calvin Schmidtke (Spen- cer Rodriguez kick). Lakes - Dominick Davis 10-yard run (kick failed). Shelton - Matt Tuttle three-yard pass from Jacob Hicks (Austin Case kick). Lakes - Tony Thomas 13-yard pass from Calvin Schmidtke (Spen- cer Rodriguez kick). Shelton - Brandon Burns 13-yard run (Austin Case kick). RUSHING Shelton - Kyle Burbridge 28 car- ries for 258 yards, Brandon Burns eight for 37 and a TD, Luke Desk- ins six for 25, Jacob Hicks two for 23, Jacob Hanes two for five and a TD and C.D. Hinkle one for no gain. Lakes - Calvin Schmidtke eight carries for 118 yards and a touch- down, Teddy Cotton four for 31, Dominick Davis 10 for 29 and two TDs, Korey'e Dixon one for 18 and Tony Thomas one for eight. PASSING Shelton - Jacob Hicks eight com- pletions in 20 attempts for 101 yards and a touchdown with two intercep- tions and C.D. Hinkie one for one for two yards with no interceptions. Lakes - Calvin Schmidtke 13 completions in 20 attempts for 273 yards and three touchdowns with no interceptions. RECEMNG Shelton - Derrick Johnson five catches for 52 yards, Matt Tuttle two for 34 and a touchdown, Kyle Bur- bridge one for 15 and Zeth Brock one for two. Lakes - Jermaine Kearse five catches for 77 yards, Korey'e Dixon three for 84 and a touchdown, Tony Thomas three for 77 and two touch- downs. Brandon Jimenez one for 27 and Watson Togiailua one for eight. CLIMBER DEFENSE Jacob Hanes - made five primary tackles. Matt Tuttle - made four primary tackles and assisted on one other. Adam Spurling- made four prima- ry tackles and assisted on two others. Chad Chapman - made three primary tackles and assisted on a fourth. Stephen Carnahan - made one pri- mary tackle and assisted on a second. Derrick Johnson - made two pri- mary tackles. Zack Ball - made two primary tackles. Cameron Wagner - made one pri- mary tackle. Api Moliga - made one primary tackle. Kyle Burbridge - made one pri- mary tackle. Isaac Garfias - made one primary tackle. Jared Fralsure - made one pri- mary tackle. Jeff Wells - made one primary tackle. Niko Pacholke - made one primary tackle. Ryan Davis - assisted on a tackle. PUNTS Shelten - Matt Tuttle one punt for 30 yards. Lakes - Dominick Davis one punt for 38 yards. KICKOFFS Shelten - Adam Arellano four kicks for a 47.8-yard average. Lakes - Tony Thomas seven kicks for a 53.1-yard average. PUNT RETURNS Shelten - Luke Deakins one for no gain. Lakes - Tony Thomas one for no gain. KICKOFF RETURNS Shelten - Chad Chapman three for 57 yards (long: 37) and Cameron Wagner four for 21 (long: 21). Lakes - Korey'e Dixon three for 105 yards (long: 59) and Jermaine Kearse one for 12. COMPARATIVE STATS Shelten Lakes First Downs 22 19 Rushes/Yards 47/348 24/204 Passing Yards 103 273 Total Offense 451 477 Comp/AttYInt 9/21/2 13/20/0 Fumbles/Lost 1/0 0/0 Punts/Avg 1/30 1/38 Penalties/Yards 12/110 10/67 Thursday, September 20, 2007 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 21 SPORTS JOURNAL VARIOUS reaction of starting sophomore Robert Moliga (left, top and near), the battle mighty Lakes Friday night at Harry Lang Stadium in Lakewood. That's 'State Player of the Year' pick Kavario Middleton - all 6-6 and 255 pounds - drawing a disputed Climber pass-interference call in the upper inset; team- and fellow Division One recruit Dominick Davis snaking in on a 10-yard TD run in next photo down; season.ended Climber junior Kevifl Eichhorn (11) hobbling in on to a hero's welcome at the game's outset, and a visibly groggy Climber running Burbridge exiting at halftime just seconds after being nearly knocked out by in the back of the head. Finished for the day? Not on your life: The all-league led a second-half resurgence that saw the Climbers outscore their hosts 14-7, and finished with a rushing total of 258 yards - second most in Climber history. Coach Hinkle was quick to give some of the credit to the O line, boasting Adam Arellano, Schlauderaff, Ryan Fernandez, Isaac Garfias, Jacob Nicolaisen, Jacob Hanes, Matt and Chad Cook, along with lead-blocking fullback Luke Deakins. t knee injury I ever saw' same point in time at full charge in the process of trying to block a Renton punt, and apparently Kevin had caught Adam's helmet squarely in the thigh. "And when I looked down and saw his leg I got a real sick feel- ing," recalls Rehwaldt. He shakes his head. "Freakin' knee cap was over here," he says, pointing to the side of his leg. "They put it back before it got too swollen - under no anesthe- sia. Now, tell me that wasn't-" He shakes his head again in lieu of finishing. PAINFUL INDEED, the in- jury also appeared to be serious to the extreme. The fear was that in the process of fracturing the fe- mur the impact had wreaked such physical havoc on the surround- ing tendons and ligaments as well that even time might not bring full recovery. "His morn called me about 4 a.m. and said the doctor said it was bad," says Rehwaldt, who'd bondedwith young Eichhorn from the start and says he thinks of him as "like my own kid." Surgery (Please turn to page 22.) The leg fracture suffered by linebacker Kevin Eich- in Renton the Friday before was more than just season- says one of his biggest assistant coach Eric "Gray ddt. "It was the worst knee injury I saw," says the former WSU who had to quit the game tccount of injury. he didn't see the impact it- says Rehwaldt. All he knew was young Eichhorn and defensive back Adam Spurl- had ,,meh,, , arrived at the Despite Kyle's huge night Lakes blue,chippers win shootout 41,21 By STEVE PATCH Climber football weathered the state's top-ranked team Friday night with bragging room to spare despite losing the game 21-41. The mighty Lancers of Lakes High School lived up to their bill- ing and then some with a score-at- will tour de force on offense, but they wound up looking a good deal less invincible on the defensive side of the ball. Indeed, with all-league senior Kyle Burbridge shaking off bell- ringers that would have sidelined lesser mortals and winding up with a second-best-in-Climber-history 258 rushing yards, Shelton's boys out-first-downed their ballyhooed hosts 22-19 and amassed fully 451 yards of offense -just 26 short of 'They made us look silly a t ti mes.' the Lancers' total. AND HOW, YOU might ask, does a team boasting an almost unheard-of seven Division One college recruits - as does Lakes - manage to come off so incredibly Jekyll-&-Hydish? "Well," says Climber coach Matt Hinkle, "I thought offensively our game plan was real solid. And I thought the kids executed very well. We've been really pleased with the offensive line. Their prog- ress the last three weeks has been really good. "Kyle ran the ball well. And we were consistent on the pass- es, catching 'em when they were there. "We can obviously work on everything still, but the only dis- couraging component of the offense was we had penalties at times that took us out of drives." AS FOR LAKES' offense, which boasts 6-6, 255-pound tight end (and the state's projected top player) Kavario Middleton and projected all-state quarterback Calvin Schmidtke and five oth- ers already getting major-college courtship, it was the real deal, says Hinkle. "We had a real hard time matchin' up with 'era defensively," says the Climbers' 14th-year head coach. "We made some adjust- ments at halftime that seemed t' slow 'em down a little bit, but they were extremely fast in four or five positions offensively. "And their quarterback caused us a lot of problems because of his elusiveness. Very quick. And the premise of that offense is to spread you out horizontally and then find creases. And they did a good job of it. And when you compound that with a quarterback that runs as well as he did, it causes you all kinds of problems." TO THEIR CREDIT, says Hinkle, his Climbers never hung their heads. "I thought against the run we played fairly well defensively," he says. "Other than the quarterback scramblin', we stopped their run game. We didn't stop their pass uarterbacktheir scram- or game bling, and th really hurt us. "You know, I think when the weather goes south a little bit it'll (Please turn to page 23.) _The Yardstick SHELTON 21, LAKES 41 SCORING Shelton 0 7 7 7-21 Lakes 21 13 7 0-41 HOW THEY SCORED Lakes - Calvin Schmidtke 69- yard run (Tony Thomas kick). Lakes - Korey'e Dixon 53-yard pass from Calvin Schmidtke (kick failed). Lakes - Dominick Davis three- yard run (two-point pass from Calvin Schmidtke to Kavario Middleton). Shelton - Jacob Hanes two-yard run (Austin Case kick). Lakes - Tony Thomas 55-yard pass from Calvin Schmidtke (Spen- cer Rodriguez kick). Lakes - Dominick Davis 10-yard run (kick failed). Shelton - Matt Tuttle three-yard pass from Jacob Hicks (Austin Case kick). Lakes - Tony Thomas 13-yard pass from Calvin Schmidtke (Spen- cer Rodriguez kick). Shelton - Brandon Burns 13-yard run (Austin Case kick). RUSHING Shelton - Kyle Burbridge 28 car- ries for 258 yards, Brandon Burns eight for 37 and a TD, Luke Desk- ins six for 25, Jacob Hicks two for 23, Jacob Hanes two for five and a TD and C.D. Hinkle one for no gain. Lakes - Calvin Schmidtke eight carries for 118 yards and a touch- down, Teddy Cotton four for 31, Dominick Davis 10 for 29 and two TDs, Korey'e Dixon one for 18 and Tony Thomas one for eight. PASSING Shelton - Jacob Hicks eight com- pletions in 20 attempts for 101 yards and a touchdown with two intercep- tions and C.D. Hinkie one for one for two yards with no interceptions. Lakes - Calvin Schmidtke 13 completions in 20 attempts for 273 yards and three touchdowns with no interceptions. RECEMNG Shelton - Derrick Johnson five catches for 52 yards, Matt Tuttle two for 34 and a touchdown, Kyle Bur- bridge one for 15 and Zeth Brock one for two. Lakes - Jermaine Kearse five catches for 77 yards, Korey'e Dixon three for 84 and a touchdown, Tony Thomas three for 77 and two touch- downs. Brandon Jimenez one for 27 and Watson Togiailua one for eight. CLIMBER DEFENSE Jacob Hanes - made five primary tackles. Matt Tuttle - made four primary tackles and assisted on one other. Adam Spurling- made four prima- ry tackles and assisted on two others. Chad Chapman - made three primary tackles and assisted on a fourth. Stephen Carnahan - made one pri- mary tackle and assisted on a second. Derrick Johnson - made two pri- mary tackles. Zack Ball - made two primary tackles. Cameron Wagner - made one pri- mary tackle. Api Moliga - made one primary tackle. Kyle Burbridge - made one pri- mary tackle. Isaac Garfias - made one primary tackle. Jared Fralsure - made one pri- mary tackle. Jeff Wells - made one primary tackle. Niko Pacholke - made one primary tackle. Ryan Davis - assisted on a tackle. PUNTS Shelten - Matt Tuttle one punt for 30 yards. Lakes - Dominick Davis one punt for 38 yards. KICKOFFS Shelten - Adam Arellano four kicks for a 47.8-yard average. Lakes - Tony Thomas seven kicks for a 53.1-yard average. PUNT RETURNS Shelten - Luke Deakins one for no gain. Lakes - Tony Thomas one for no gain. KICKOFF RETURNS Shelten - Chad Chapman three for 57 yards (long: 37) and Cameron Wagner four for 21 (long: 21). Lakes - Korey'e Dixon three for 105 yards (long: 59) and Jermaine Kearse one for 12. COMPARATIVE STATS Shelten Lakes First Downs 22 19 Rushes/Yards 47/348 24/204 Passing Yards 103 273 Total Offense 451 477 Comp/AttYInt 9/21/2 13/20/0 Fumbles/Lost 1/0 0/0 Punts/Avg 1/30 1/38 Penalties/Yards 12/110 10/67 Thursday, September 20, 2007 - Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page 21