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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.