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By EMILY HANSON
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The Shelton girls' soccer
team was unable to find the
net in its games last week.
On Oct. 2, the Lady High-
climbers lost 3-0 to Wilson.
"Wilson was the only un-
defeated team left for us to
play," head coach Dan Dea-
con said.
He said Wilson legiti-
mately scored two of its
goals.
."Unfortunately, we tend
to just let one goal go by us,"
Deacon said. "We had con-
trol for most of the game,
but we couldn't finish."
That problem carried
over into Shelton's Oct. 4
game at Olympia. The Bears
defeated Shelton 8-0.
"(The Olympia game)
was horrible," Deacon said.
"They're a 4A school with no
downtime, so they run their
program year-round."
He said when an en-
tire varsity team consists
of year-round players, it is
difficult for a team such as
Shelton, with mostly sea-
son-only players, to com-
pete.
"Fortunately, it was not
as bad as it could've been or
as it has been in the past,"
Deacon said.
To improve, the Lady
High-
climbers
are work-
ing on
strength,
control,
possession
OCT. 4: and ball-
Olympia ........ 8 control.
Shelton .......... 0 "O n c e
we get
TONIGHT: those to-
Shelton at
gether,
Mt. Tahoma, we should
6:30 p.m. be able to
put in a
solid performance and start
winning some games," Dea-
con said. "This week, we're
trying to put everything
together from the front of
the game to the back of the
game."
Two season-ending inju-
ries from the Olympia game
will make this difficult for
the Lady Highclimbers,
however. Deacon said junior
captain Priscilla Ramirez
and senior ReAnn Stratton,
both defenders, were injur-
ied while playing the Bears.
"Our defense could be
questionable now," he said.
The Lady Highclimbers
(2-7) are set to play at 6:30
p.m. tonight at Mt. Tahoma.
"The girls are in a lot bet:
ter shape and they're faster
than they were at the start
of the season, which is great
because their speed wasn't
Journal photo by Emily Hanson
Shelton sophomore Madison Jacoby attempts
to steal the ball from a Wilson player Oct. 2
during the Lady Highclimbers' home game.
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By EMILY HANSON
In 2007, Kerstin Fischer immigrat-
ed to Washington from Germany with
her husband.
Six months later, Fischer was di-
vorced, jobless and friendless in a
country where she didn't speak the
language.
All Fischer, 47, had was her ability
to run:
"I'm addicted (to running)," Fischer
said. "I just love it. It helps me to deal
with life."
Growing up in Germany, Fischer said
she was always involved in sports but
she was too busy raising her children,
daughter Cherstine and son David, to
participate. Once her children were
grown, Fischer began running in 1997.
By 2000, Fischer was running at
the Olympic trials in Germany, but
didn't make the team.
Ten years after she began running,
she was in Washington and the sport
was helping her through her life.
"When I got here, [ didn't know
one soul and I didn't speak English,"
Fischer said.
She said learning English was dif-
ficult for her. but she went to college to
learn and then became a U.S. citizen
and found a job.
For three years. Fischer drove a
semi-truck through Washington and
~Oregon.
"That was a job,"
she said.
The Lake Lim-
erick resident now
works for Puget
Sound Health Care
Center and Extended
Care, but she said
running is becoming
Kerstin her
career.
Fischer As an endurance
runner, Fischer:;said
she likes markt~ons
better than short races. In her time in
Washington, she has run the Tacoma
Narrows Half-Marathon, the You Go
Girl Marathon in Tacoma, the Race for
a Soldier Half-Marathon, the Lakefair
Half-Marathon and the Capital City
Half-Marathon.
Fischer's greatest running chal-
lenge so far has been the Boston Mara-
thon, which she's run five times, in-
cluding this year's, on April 16.
"It was the hardest marathon ever,"
Fischer said. "The weather was ex-
tremely hot, it was 97. They actually
asked people not to run it."
Fischer trained for the marathon
in Mason County, where she said the
temperatures were still in the low 30s.
"Then I got to Boston and it was
82," she said.
Fischer said her dream was always
to run in the Boston Marathon, which
requires an invitation, but this year's
event was special for her.
"It was my first time as a U.S. citi-
zen," she said.
Fischer's official Boston Marathon
time was not available.
Competing in a race which is more
than 50 miles takes a lot of hard work,
Fischer said.
"I run 50 miles a week to train," she
said. "It's very time-consuming and
you have to have a lot of discipline. I
• think what motivates me is that I'm
older now and I always place in the top
three. I'm very competitive."
Another thing that motivates
Fischer is the response she gets from
those around her at races.
"What always gets me is young girls
tell me I'm such an inspiration to them,"
she said. "They want to be just like me."
Fischer said her children and
grandchildren -- Lane, 4, and Pryia, 1
-- are all proud of her, especially Lane.
"Lane wants to be just like Oma
(the German word for "grandma'),"
Fischer said.
When Fischer is out running, she
said she thinks about a lot of things.
"I plan my life because I struggled
a lot when I first came here with my
divorce," she said. "The running kept
me going."
She advises younger runners to
"just go out there and do it."
"They need to train hard and stay
motivated," Fischer said. "That's the
biggest problem, the motivation."
By EMILY HANSON
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The Shelton Mini Dome
will be the scene of some se-
rious fights next week.
On 13, Rude Enter-
tainment -- assisted by
alphight.com and Battle
Tested -- is promoting the
Big Town Beat Down 2, a
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA)
cage fight to raise funds for
the Shelton High School
athletics program.
"We usually give some-
thing to a charity when we
hold an event," Chet Chap-
man with Battle Tested
said.
He said someone told
him the high school needed
more money for its athletics
program and that's why the
groups decided to donate a
portion of their profits to the
Highclimbers.
"Ever since we did the
cage fight last year, •we've
had people asking us to do it
again," Chapman said.
Last summer, the same
organizations hosted the
Big Town Beat Down at the
Port of Shelton's Sanderson
Field Events Center and
Fairgrounds. They wanted
to try hosting one indoors
this year, which is where
the Shelton Mini Dome
came into play.
Chapman said there are
not a lot of locations in Shel-
ton where a cage fight could
be hosted, but said the high
school has been helpful in
the planning stages of the
event.
Though nearly all of the
fighters are traveling for
this event --there could be
two from Canada -- Juan
Barcelona is the local favor-
ite.
"This will be Juan's de-
but fight." said Jean Boone,
marketing relations person
for the fight. "Juan trains
with Jacob's Fighting Sys-
tem in Shelton and also does
conditioning with (Chap-
man) and Battle Tested."
The event officially be-
gins at 7 p.m. with general
admission tickets costing
$25, VIP floor seating avail-
able for $35 and ringside
seats available for $55.
"We're expecting to sell
out," Boone said. "There are
only 1,600 tickets available
so people should consider
getting them in advance."
Tickets are available at
the Shelton Athletic Club
and at alphight.com. Only
cash will be accepted at
the athletic club. Cash-only
tickets may also be avail-
able at the door.
"This will be a nicer prq-
duction than the one last
year at the fairgrounds,"
Boone said.
One way this year's cage
fight differs from last year is
the presence of the National
Guard, who is bringing a rock
wall and providing music.
"The National Guard is
going to try ~o set up by 3
p.m.," Chapman said.
Boone said attendees
should wear comfortable
clothes so they can try to
climb the rock wall.
Another difference from
last year is that Chapman
and Boone are hoping to
set up a screen in the Mini
Dome to project images of
the fighters on to as well as
their biographies and spon-
sors when they are intro-
duced to the crowd.
"Hopefully it works,"
Chapman said.
Though this is officially
an MMA fight, there will
also be kickboxing and
Muay Thai fighting.
"A lot of people are re-
ally into MMA, so it's a big
deal to bring it to Shelton,"
Boone said. "It's going to be
a nice event."
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