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Former cyclist By STEVE PATCH e conflict was unavoidable, They were wear- ing shorts. Because you found ,ses - to stare kneeward at sun-bronzed protuberances of muscle mass or to let the same wide-eyed gaze fall instead on most  garishly brig a Carrot Top convention. "What, these?" shoulda see ng-. along with perhaps wasn't the that came to mind there in the • and [.)oll n a home la were in latest house CYou pat your mind at ease on th:t score' in a twinkle-eyed instant. "As a guy already hard 'normal'," he anyway, "-when you wear hair tn a ponytail..  And so it was that a wake-u good, healthy, self abasement off" to a fine ollicial De Jeromt Kingman, Arizona. In their mid forties but It n fitness eyes, are not nonconformists. " They're bona bike-pedalin' faith. BUT, maybe it, what with proselytizing manner of mis the But same that, between' of them last pedaled 1 fulfillment "travel t $ ,.: along with boots. ome, was irrefutable. He was hoo00d, THE ROAD BECKONS anew last week for Lucia and Jerome. that point..." Jerome back , he joined into a Actually,, he stud, ff I had :I woulda :: and the "Yeahl Let's trash the milttary/" she joked. "But. any- way, I put in four years in the Army, and then I got out." SHE & JEROME crossed paths first when Lucia, in the Northwest for a three-year stint with the Oregon Army National Guard, decided to en- roll at the University of Ore- gon and get a degree in the journalism field. Already a Baha'i and a recreational/ecological biker by then, she chanced to encounter Jerome at a Baha,i.sponsored New Year's Eve party in Eu- t: 1994. [rlfriend introduced "Oh! Absolutely," said Jer- me to him," says Lucia. "I was ome. "Yeah. Mean-spirited. divorced and had been for Hateful. Downright hateful, several years. I found out he "UI, the movie Breaking had this interest in bicycles. € is very accurate- where And we had so much in com- a pump and men, we just clicked. stick it in the spokes, i was in "And I knew that he did the a race :once, and I was going bicycle travel.teaching- that up a hill and somebody from that was really his life and behind yelled 'blockY- and the that he was only employed to guy I was passing just moved support travel-teaching with over and forced me off the the bicycle. road." Jerome pau race." He made the lastremark hisbreath loud about it. said arri mile after grinning, "see, i was a bicycle commuter, and I guess the most I had ever done was ten thrice. =But Jerome told me that . it's not really so much a '8 m as matter of fitness. It a matter upon ' 1 wasn t that way can ' d km of there., I "I turned 15 in 1970," said the ponytailed one forth in his t and friendly way cot:tim. "And that summer was either to-a relig ride What? Religiously even as a kid? "No," said Jerome, summertime. I become 1,9 Baha'i Los her still . What? once more. Went the Lucia to:   the Army to Rtmsian and thtm augment the she'd earned Or at least do something plan ' 1 'But, wel, be. ing , grin. 'those plans didn't out for me. he I could y of control 30 miles without stopping, and threshold, mentally. "And then Jerome told me that if I could do 30 miles I could do 60 miles. It was just a matter of doing it at the same pace I was doing it at and taking breaks." A subsequent organized bi- cycling event of that precise distance convinced her that her husband was righti "We got to the 40-mile mark and stopped by the side of the road, said Lucia. =And he Page 20 - Shelton-Mason County Joumal - Thursday, September 23, 1999 Shelton 21,be00s_Black Hills 14speed; Climbers go 2-0 By STEVE PATCH Beating fleet with meat, the Shelton Highclimbers parlayed size advantage into a 21-14, come-from-behind victory over speedy Black Hills here Friday in their Pac-9 League opener. Hitching their wagon to the meat of a front four averaging nearly 275 pounds and thus evok- ing [bur-yards-and-a-cloud-o'-dust sensibilities worthy of the most grounded of Climber seasons past, the hosts offset third-year starter Brian Sapp's quarterback- ing proficiency and super-speedy supporting cast by rolling up 158 rushing yards, 110 of them by ju- nior halfback Zach Sheetz, whose two-game yardage total thus went to 262. AND THEN, AS an almost macabre coup de gras, they turned loose for two-touchdown punctuation the one Climber in- capable of laboring in Zach's con- siderable shadow. Of course, it's probably worth noting that Climber senior Tavita Tausa, the second-generation Samoan-American whom many here still refer to as David despite certain, er, Goliath-sized argu- ments against it, is hard-pressed to so much as f/t in anyone's shadow, much less labor in it. Tavita, you see - and you can confirm this with probably any of the poor chaps so unlucky as to get in his way Friday night - packs a frighteningly un-jiggly 322 pounds on a 6-2 frame. WHAT'S MORE, the all- league senior has been clocked over a distance of 100 meters in an otherworldly 11.8 seconds - faster than all but a handful of the very top sprinters in high- school track. Again: Tavita violated the ene- my end zone twice Friday - stacked goal-line defenses not- withstanding. Daunting sight, is it - a 322- pounder thundering toward you - when you're a big, bad, bruisin' middle linebacker giving up, oh, say, a hundred pounds or more? "Well," says the Climbers' Matt Hinkle, giving in to that vaguely apologetic smile only a winning coach can pull off under such cir- cumstances, "it does make ya think..." AND WHAT DOES he think, personally, of his boys'Week Two performance? Especially after falling behind by a TD in the sec- ond half against a similarly un- beaten team ostensibly growing bolder with every snap of the ball. "I thought our defense came to- gether and played a real good series," says Hinkle, referring to the third-quarter turn of events set up by sophomore all-leaguer A.J. MeWs "great punt" of some 50 yards that pinned the Climb- ers' rivals inside their own 10. "And then we were able to pressure their punter into fum- bling in the end zone - where (6-6 senior college prospect) Jacob Galloway fell on it and scored a touchdown. "And so we got the momentum back." OTHER KEY PLAYS, says Coach, included senior Johnny Fleshman's two interceptions and Climber bowling ready to resume Shelton High School PE stu- dents will return to the Timber Bowl Monday as Climberville resumes its bowling partnership with the downtown pin establish- ment. A regular weekly part of all phys-ed students' curriculum dur- ing the 12-week trimester, the bowling unit will have a special incentive this year, advises Cathy Cole-Dew, one of the Climber PE teachers involved in the program. Timber Bowl owner Mae West has promised to give each trimes- ter's "most improved" boy and girl brand-new bowling balls. Besides Cole-Dew, the Climber PE teachers involved in the bowl- ing program include LeeAnn Johnson, Brian Brickert, Rich Unterseher and Mark Jensen. classmate Josh Yost's twin sacks, both in the heat of the second half. "And our movement to the ball on defense," adds Hinkle. "We were real pleased with the defen- sive flow." And relievedly so, assures the coach. "We were real apprehensive of their wide receivers' and back- field's speed and athleticism," he says. "They have some great kids at wide receiver, and they have a quarterback that is very profi- cient. He has a real quick release and good decision-making skills. And, actually, he runs better than we thought he would." CREDIT HIS BOYS with re- fusing to buckle under heapin' helpin' of Hinkle. "The kids scratch and claw," he we've got a saying, mean, 'if you hard enough you're blood.' And they did." Game Three the Climbers on first time. They take on there starting at 7 p.m. "And they've got kids," says Hinkle, they're 1-1 now after characteristically deen 38-zip last got a 340-pound tight end that's about couple other n "So it's gonna be a C]ournal Grid j ayveeS settle for a The Climber jayvee football team settled for an 18-18 tie with Black Hills High School at Tum- water's T-Bird Stadium Monday evening. No overtime period was played. The Climbers scored first, sophomore Brandon Dahl run- ning in from 15 yards out to cap a first-quarter drive. The PAT kick was blocked. After Black Hills answered by way of a 20-yard TD pass, the Climbers took a 12-6 lead late in the third quarter when sopho- more Ryan Norris - Climber grad and all-leaguer Steve's brother - returned an interception 58 yards to paydirt. This time the Climbers tried a two-point pass, but it fell incomplete. Early in the fourth quarter Shelton extended the lead to 18-6 when yet another sophomore, former WSU Coug lineman Mike McCarty's son Anthony - hauled in a 25-yard scoring pass from classmate Reuben Cuzick. The PAT kick was no good. Black Hills scored on a three- yard run with a hair over two minutes to go and then tied the game via a 47-yard TD bomb with just 47 seconds left on the clock. Neither PAT pass was completed, however. Accolades? "We had real good line play," says Brickert, "and like era' (the SHS varsity straight ahead real well. "We improved so darn from our first game." The Climber jayv, Centralia here around 4:30 p.m. in Stadium. GRANGE Agate Harstine Ye Old Shoppe Shelton Lock & Key Pioneer Kiwanis Matlock 1 Team 8 Skokomish Men's Hi Game: Chuck Lesli Men's Hi Series: Women's Hi Game and 188 and 492. MONDAY NONSMOKERS Smids Sloe Moes Oh-oh Jo-co Doers Go Getters Men's Hi Game and serieS: Smids, 171,478. 00' Women's Hi Game: Theresa 163. Women's Hi Series: DadenS R Moes, 432. _The SHELTON 21, BLACK HILLS 14 SCORING Black Hills 0 7 7 0-14 Shelton 7 0 14 0 - 21 HOW THEY SCORED Shelton - Tavita Tausa one-yard run (Abe Gardner kick). Black Hills - Spencer Gore 12-yard run (Dan Parascand kick), Black Hills- Michael Freund 18-yard pass from Brian Sapp (Parascand kick). Shelton - Jacob Galloway fumble recovery in the end zone (Gardner kick), Shelton - Tausa one-yard run (Gardner kick). RUSHING Black Hills - Brian Sapp 11 carries for 21 yards, Spencer Gore 12 for 16. Shelton - Zach Sheetz 22 carries for 110 yards, Nick Cronquist four for 24, Vic Gardenhire eight for 18, A,J. Mell four for nine and Tavita Tausa four for six. PASSING Black Hills - Brian Sapp 11 comple- tions in 24 attempts with two intercep- tions for 127 yards. Shelton - A.J. Mell one completion in four attempts for no net gain and Nick Cronquist one for one for 35 yards. RECEIVING Black Hills - Michael Freund five catches for 67 yards, Martin three for 47. Shelton - Adam Beeler one catch for 35 yards and Nick Cronquist one for no gain. COMPARATIVE STATS Black Hills First Downs 14 Rushes/Yards 17/36 Passing Yards 127 Total Yards 163 Com/AWInt 11/24/2 Fumbles/Lost 1/1 Penalties/Yards 3/30 Punts/Avg 4/32 CLIMBER DEFENSE Johnny Fleshmen primary tackles, passes and had two pass Jacob Galloway ary tackles and had a pass defense, a QB .. ble recovery for a touchdOW'"-. 0 Jesse Boelk - made thrw"" tackles and deflected a PaShSe s Emil Dally - made ""- tackles and deflected Josh Yoet - made tackles, both of them quart Jeremy Horton - ary tackles. Nick Cronqulst - made an/tackles, Tevlta Teusa - tackles and registered a q Doug Rlchert- tackles, VIc Oardenhlre- sack, Zach Sheetz- tackle, o00  Brsndon Daffi - made tackle. Former cyclist By STEVE PATCH e conflict was unavoidable, They were wear- ing shorts. Because you found ,ses - to stare kneeward at sun-bronzed protuberances of muscle mass or to let the same wide-eyed gaze fall instead on most  garishly brig a Carrot Top convention. "What, these?" shoulda see ng-. along with perhaps wasn't the that came to mind there in the • and [.)oll n a home la were in latest house CYou pat your mind at ease on th:t score' in a twinkle-eyed instant. "As a guy already hard 'normal'," he anyway, "-when you wear hair tn a ponytail..  And so it was that a wake-u good, healthy, self abasement off" to a fine ollicial De Jeromt Kingman, Arizona. In their mid forties but It n fitness eyes, are not nonconformists. " They're bona bike-pedalin' faith. BUT, maybe it, what with proselytizing manner of mis the But same that, between' of them last pedaled 1 fulfillment "travel t $ ,.: along with boots. ome, was irrefutable. He was hoo00d, THE ROAD BECKONS anew last week for Lucia and Jerome. that point..." Jerome back , he joined into a Actually,, he stud, ff I had :I woulda :: and the "Yeahl Let's trash the milttary/" she joked. "But. any- way, I put in four years in the Army, and then I got out." SHE & JEROME crossed paths first when Lucia, in the Northwest for a three-year stint with the Oregon Army National Guard, decided to en- roll at the University of Ore- gon and get a degree in the journalism field. Already a Baha'i and a recreational/ecological biker by then, she chanced to encounter Jerome at a Baha,i.sponsored New Year's Eve party in Eu- t: 1994. [rlfriend introduced "Oh! Absolutely," said Jer- me to him," says Lucia. "I was ome. "Yeah. Mean-spirited. divorced and had been for Hateful. Downright hateful, several years. I found out he "UI, the movie Breaking had this interest in bicycles. € is very accurate- where And we had so much in com- a pump and men, we just clicked. stick it in the spokes, i was in "And I knew that he did the a race :once, and I was going bicycle travel.teaching- that up a hill and somebody from that was really his life and behind yelled 'blockY- and the that he was only employed to guy I was passing just moved support travel-teaching with over and forced me off the the bicycle. road." Jerome pau race." He made the lastremark hisbreath loud about it. said arri mile after grinning, "see, i was a bicycle commuter, and I guess the most I had ever done was ten thrice. =But Jerome told me that . it's not really so much a '8 m as matter of fitness. It a matter upon ' 1 wasn t that way can ' d km of there., I "I turned 15 in 1970," said the ponytailed one forth in his t and friendly way cot:tim. "And that summer was either to-a relig ride What? Religiously even as a kid? "No," said Jerome, summertime. I become 1,9 Baha'i Los her still . What? once more. Went the Lucia to:   the Army to Rtmsian and thtm augment the she'd earned Or at least do something plan ' 1 'But, wel, be. ing , grin. 'those plans didn't out for me. he I could y of control 30 miles without stopping, and threshold, mentally. "And then Jerome told me that if I could do 30 miles I could do 60 miles. It was just a matter of doing it at the same pace I was doing it at and taking breaks." A subsequent organized bi- cycling event of that precise distance convinced her that her husband was righti "We got to the 40-mile mark and stopped by the side of the road, said Lucia. =And he Page 20 - Shelton-Mason County Joumal - Thursday, September 23, 1999 Shelton 21,be00s_Black Hills 14speed; Climbers go 2-0 By STEVE PATCH Beating fleet with meat, the Shelton Highclimbers parlayed size advantage into a 21-14, come-from-behind victory over speedy Black Hills here Friday in their Pac-9 League opener. Hitching their wagon to the meat of a front four averaging nearly 275 pounds and thus evok- ing [bur-yards-and-a-cloud-o'-dust sensibilities worthy of the most grounded of Climber seasons past, the hosts offset third-year starter Brian Sapp's quarterback- ing proficiency and super-speedy supporting cast by rolling up 158 rushing yards, 110 of them by ju- nior halfback Zach Sheetz, whose two-game yardage total thus went to 262. AND THEN, AS an almost macabre coup de gras, they turned loose for two-touchdown punctuation the one Climber in- capable of laboring in Zach's con- siderable shadow. Of course, it's probably worth noting that Climber senior Tavita Tausa, the second-generation Samoan-American whom many here still refer to as David despite certain, er, Goliath-sized argu- ments against it, is hard-pressed to so much as f/t in anyone's shadow, much less labor in it. Tavita, you see - and you can confirm this with probably any of the poor chaps so unlucky as to get in his way Friday night - packs a frighteningly un-jiggly 322 pounds on a 6-2 frame. WHAT'S MORE, the all- league senior has been clocked over a distance of 100 meters in an otherworldly 11.8 seconds - faster than all but a handful of the very top sprinters in high- school track. Again: Tavita violated the ene- my end zone twice Friday - stacked goal-line defenses not- withstanding. Daunting sight, is it - a 322- pounder thundering toward you - when you're a big, bad, bruisin' middle linebacker giving up, oh, say, a hundred pounds or more? "Well," says the Climbers' Matt Hinkle, giving in to that vaguely apologetic smile only a winning coach can pull off under such cir- cumstances, "it does make ya think..." AND WHAT DOES he think, personally, of his boys'Week Two performance? Especially after falling behind by a TD in the sec- ond half against a similarly un- beaten team ostensibly growing bolder with every snap of the ball. "I thought our defense came to- gether and played a real good series," says Hinkle, referring to the third-quarter turn of events set up by sophomore all-leaguer A.J. MeWs "great punt" of some 50 yards that pinned the Climb- ers' rivals inside their own 10. "And then we were able to pressure their punter into fum- bling in the end zone - where (6-6 senior college prospect) Jacob Galloway fell on it and scored a touchdown. "And so we got the momentum back." OTHER KEY PLAYS, says Coach, included senior Johnny Fleshman's two interceptions and Climber bowling ready to resume Shelton High School PE stu- dents will return to the Timber Bowl Monday as Climberville resumes its bowling partnership with the downtown pin establish- ment. A regular weekly part of all phys-ed students' curriculum dur- ing the 12-week trimester, the bowling unit will have a special incentive this year, advises Cathy Cole-Dew, one of the Climber PE teachers involved in the program. Timber Bowl owner Mae West has promised to give each trimes- ter's "most improved" boy and girl brand-new bowling balls. Besides Cole-Dew, the Climber PE teachers involved in the bowl- ing program include LeeAnn Johnson, Brian Brickert, Rich Unterseher and Mark Jensen. classmate Josh Yost's twin sacks, both in the heat of the second half. "And our movement to the ball on defense," adds Hinkle. "We were real pleased with the defen- sive flow." And relievedly so, assures the coach. "We were real apprehensive of their wide receivers' and back- field's speed and athleticism," he says. "They have some great kids at wide receiver, and they have a quarterback that is very profi- cient. He has a real quick release and good decision-making skills. And, actually, he runs better than we thought he would." CREDIT HIS BOYS with re- fusing to buckle under heapin' helpin' of Hinkle. "The kids scratch and claw," he we've got a saying, mean, 'if you hard enough you're blood.' And they did." Game Three the Climbers on first time. They take on there starting at 7 p.m. "And they've got kids," says Hinkle, they're 1-1 now after characteristically deen 38-zip last got a 340-pound tight end that's about couple other n "So it's gonna be a C]ournal Grid j ayveeS settle for a The Climber jayvee football team settled for an 18-18 tie with Black Hills High School at Tum- water's T-Bird Stadium Monday evening. No overtime period was played. The Climbers scored first, sophomore Brandon Dahl run- ning in from 15 yards out to cap a first-quarter drive. The PAT kick was blocked. After Black Hills answered by way of a 20-yard TD pass, the Climbers took a 12-6 lead late in the third quarter when sopho- more Ryan Norris - Climber grad and all-leaguer Steve's brother - returned an interception 58 yards to paydirt. This time the Climbers tried a two-point pass, but it fell incomplete. Early in the fourth quarter Shelton extended the lead to 18-6 when yet another sophomore, former WSU Coug lineman Mike McCarty's son Anthony - hauled in a 25-yard scoring pass from classmate Reuben Cuzick. The PAT kick was no good. Black Hills scored on a three- yard run with a hair over two minutes to go and then tied the game via a 47-yard TD bomb with just 47 seconds left on the clock. Neither PAT pass was completed, however. Accolades? "We had real good line play," says Brickert, "and like era' (the SHS varsity straight ahead real well. "We improved so darn from our first game." The Climber jayv, Centralia here around 4:30 p.m. in Stadium. GRANGE Agate Harstine Ye Old Shoppe Shelton Lock & Key Pioneer Kiwanis Matlock 1 Team 8 Skokomish Men's Hi Game: Chuck Lesli Men's Hi Series: Women's Hi Game and 188 and 492. MONDAY NONSMOKERS Smids Sloe Moes Oh-oh Jo-co Doers Go Getters Men's Hi Game and serieS: Smids, 171,478. 00' Women's Hi Game: Theresa 163. Women's Hi Series: DadenS R Moes, 432. _The SHELTON 21, BLACK HILLS 14 SCORING Black Hills 0 7 7 0-14 Shelton 7 0 14 0 - 21 HOW THEY SCORED Shelton - Tavita Tausa one-yard run (Abe Gardner kick). Black Hills - Spencer Gore 12-yard run (Dan Parascand kick), Black Hills- Michael Freund 18-yard pass from Brian Sapp (Parascand kick). Shelton - Jacob Galloway fumble recovery in the end zone (Gardner kick), Shelton - Tausa one-yard run (Gardner kick). RUSHING Black Hills - Brian Sapp 11 carries for 21 yards, Spencer Gore 12 for 16. Shelton - Zach Sheetz 22 carries for 110 yards, Nick Cronquist four for 24, Vic Gardenhire eight for 18, A,J. Mell four for nine and Tavita Tausa four for six. PASSING Black Hills - Brian Sapp 11 comple- tions in 24 attempts with two intercep- tions for 127 yards. Shelton - A.J. Mell one completion in four attempts for no net gain and Nick Cronquist one for one for 35 yards. RECEIVING Black Hills - Michael Freund five catches for 67 yards, Martin three for 47. Shelton - Adam Beeler one catch for 35 yards and Nick Cronquist one for no gain. COMPARATIVE STATS Black Hills First Downs 14 Rushes/Yards 17/36 Passing Yards 127 Total Yards 163 Com/AWInt 11/24/2 Fumbles/Lost 1/1 Penalties/Yards 3/30 Punts/Avg 4/32 CLIMBER DEFENSE Johnny Fleshmen primary tackles, passes and had two pass Jacob Galloway ary tackles and had a pass defense, a QB .. ble recovery for a touchdOW'"-. 0 Jesse Boelk - made thrw"" tackles and deflected a PaShSe s Emil Dally - made ""- tackles and deflected Josh Yoet - made tackles, both of them quart Jeremy Horton - ary tackles. Nick Cronqulst - made an/tackles, Tevlta Teusa - tackles and registered a q Doug Rlchert- tackles, VIc Oardenhlre- sack, Zach Sheetz- tackle, o00  Brsndon Daffi - made tackle.