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Shelton-Mason County Journal
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FRIDAY:
Mary.S_58
Quinault ..... 18
TOMORROW:
Mary M. Knight
at Oakville,
7 p.m.
Final regular season
game this Friday
By EMILY HANSON
The Knight Owls added another notch
to their goalpost of wins last weekend.
On Saturday, Oct. 29, the Mary M.
Knight football team defeated Lake
Quinault 58-18 in a game that turned out
more difficult than the team expected.
"[Lake Quinault] got ahead of us in the
first quarter and I was really proud the
guys were able to stick it through and overcome that," Mike
Evans, head coach, said. "The boys did well, in the end."
Evans said that going into this game, the Knight Owls
thought they would win and were therefore surprised when
Lake Quinault scored two touchdowns in the first quarter.
The Knight Owls entered the second quarter down 18-16
and dominated the next three quarters, scoring 22 points
in the second quarter, 14 in the th'rd and six in the fourth.
"We were able to make some changes and come back,
though," Evans said. "We're also down our starting fullback
so that was a challenge, too. But the guys filled some posi-
tions they're not used to and did a good job."
Junior quarterback Kyle Willey threw for 215 yards with
junior tight end Nick Dierkop receiving for 128 yards and
three touchdowns, junior tight end Cory O'Neil received for
57 yards and junior Juan Jimenez received for 30 yards.
Willey rushed for 137 yards and scored three touch-
downs while Jimenez rushed for 92 yards, freshman tight
end Adam Pais rushed for 72 yards and one touchdown and
junior lineman Jeremy Pais rushed for 31 yards and scored
one touchdown.
Lake Quinault rushed for a total of 167 yards while
MMK held them to just four passing yards.
The Knight Owls (6-1) finish their regular season at 7
p.m. this Friday, Nov. 4 at Oakville.
"We beat Oakville at the beginning of the season," Evans
said. "We've got a couple of guys out on injury so that will
make it more difficult, but we're expected to win."
See Knight Owls on page C-5
ATHLETEOFTHEWEEK
Shelton junior
fourth quarter
running back Shelby Salisbury carries
against Olympia on Friday, Oct. 28.
the ball up the field for his first varsity
Journal photo by Emily Hanson
touchdown late in the
By EMILY HANSON
The Olympia Bears soundedly defeated the Shelton
football team during the Highclimbers' last regular season
league game on Friday, Oct. 28.
At Ingersoll Stadium in Olympia, the Highclimbers were
held off the scoreboard for three quarters by the Bears in
their 42-13 loss.
"It's the same old story," said Shelton head coach Matt
Hinkle. "The run defense is showing up real well; I think the
team is doing a good job of stopping the run. We're still hav-
ing problems in third-and-long situations
and consequently, the defensive is having
to stay out longer than they should."
Hinkle said the Highclimbers' often-
sive problems came from a physical Bears
defensive line, which limited the High-
FRIDAY: climbers.
Olympia ...... 42 "(Shelton running back) Ralph Kinne
Shelton ........ 13 ran hard as he always does but we had a
hard time with the passing game because
TOMORROW: Olympia's pressure was pretty substan-
Shelton vs. tial," Hinkle said.
Central Kitsap, He stated that the Bears played the
way he expected them to prior to Friday
7 p.m. night's game.
"Olympia is a good team. They re-
ally have no weaknesses that are apparent. They're well-
coached and fundamentally sound," he said.
Kinne, a junior, scored the first Highclimber touchdown
with 3:31 remaining in the fourth quarter on a three-yard
run. Sophomore running back Gordon Henry knocked in the
PAT. Shortly afterward, Henry, who also plays as a line-
backer, broke his ankle in two places on a defensive play.
"It's unfortunate," Hinkle said regarding Henry's injury.
"He was doing really well for us. However, he's young and
it was toward the end of the season so he won't miss much
and has time to recover before next season."
The final Highclimber touchdown came from a 56-yard
run by junior running back Shelby Salisbury. This was the
See Highclimbers on page C-5
Journal photo by Emily Hanson
Highelimber junior running back Ralph Kinne holds off an Olym-
pia lineman on his way up field during Shelton's game at Olympia
on Friday, Oct. 28.
Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011 -
Knight Owl
junior leads
by example
By EMILY HANSON
'1
In the middle of being
interviewed, Kyle Willey
dropped to the field to do 10
pushups.
The Knight Owls were
practicing hand-off drills
and part of the drill was
that if one player dropped
the ball, the whole team had
to do pushups. Though Wil-
ley, the junior quarterback
for the Mary M: Knight foot-
bali team, wasn't participat-
ing in the drill, he felt he
should still take part in the
punishment.
;' This is
how Willey
has led the
Owls this
season: by
example.
"What
has really
made the
difference
this year
Kyle is that we
Willey are play-
ing as a
team,"
said Mike Evans, MMK
head football coach. "Lead-
ership is the cornerstone to
accomplishing that effort
and Kyle is doing a fantas-
tic job of leading his team
this year. Without that, we
would probably be down
three or four games instead
of down only one."
For the past two seasons,
Willey has been the quar-
terback for the Owls and he
said he thinks he's doing a
fair job of leading his team.
"I'm still learning to be
a good leader but it's com-
ing along pretty well and
the team's learning to trust
me and my decisions," he
said. "This season is a com-
plete turnaround from the
last few seasons. We're all
still learning and focusing
on one game at a time. It's
a whole new season every
time we go out there."
Willey said part of the
Owls' success this season
has been that the team lets
things go easy instead of al-
lowing negative things, such
as the team's 56-16 loss to
King's Way on Oct. 1 -- the
team's only loss of the sea-
son --to get to them.
At MMK, Willey is not
only leading the football
team but the entire school -
despite being just a junior,
he is the Associated Student
Body president.
"I decided to run for ASB
president because last year I
thought [the ASB] was run
the wrong way and I wanted
to send things in a new di-
rection, not only money-wise
but also to have less bully-
ing and aggression in the
See Athlete on page C-5
Shelton-Mason County Journal - Page C-1