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such as Oakland Bay Junior High and Olympic
Middle School, being more active than others.
The season began with a 2-mile race on Oct. 3 at
Olympic Middle School.
Olympic sixth-grader Josiah Salazar-Fox won
the boys' middle school race with a time of 12 min-
utes, 40.27 seconds. Hunter Carlstrom, a Moun-
tain View Elementary fifth-grader, won the boys'
elementary school race with a time 14:33.14. Win-
ning the girl's middle school race was Oakland
Bay eighth-grader Laynie MacAlevy with a time
of 13:53.40. Finally, Southside Elementary School
fifth-grader Lily Dose won the girls' elementary
school race with a time of 15:15.37.
The young Harriers next competed at the Lake
Isabelle 3K race on Oct. 11. Oakland Bay eighth-
grader Anika Parker won the girls' middle school
race with a time of 13:07.73, while Salazar-Fox
once again won the boys' middle school race, this
time with a time of 12:27.05.
The division's third race of the season was the
Southside race. Kennedy Bowen, an unattached
runner, won the 3,000-meter elementary school
boys' race with a time Of 13:31.19. Salazar-Fox
took home his third first-place finish with a time
of 12:11.18 in the middle school boys' race. Dose
won.the elementary school girls' race with a time
of 14:21.23, while Parker won the middle school
girls' race with a time of 13:06.99.
The season concluded with a cross country
championship on Oct. 31 at the Huff'n' PuffTrail.
Cade Fischer, a fifth-grader with the Striders,
won the boys' ll-and-under 3,200-meter race with
a time of 13:28.26 while Any Fry, an unattached
sixth-grader, won the boys' 12-18 3,200-meter race
with a time of 13:09.52.
Dose won the girls' ll-and-under 3,200-meter
run with a time of 15:25.16 while Parker won the
girls' 12-18 3,200-meter race with a time of 13:56.
"They're running well and they're working
hard," Johnson said. "They ran all summer and are
learning how to race."
He said the Shelton Harriers is a grassroots or-
ganization that brings runners to its events. For
the elementary and middle school level, the run-
ners who have participated for multiple years are
starting to improve on their times and forms.
"Having youth cross country is awesome be-
cause they get to high school and they're not ask-
ing, 'What's cross country?'" Johnson said.
Currently, the junior high and middle school
runners are leading the pack as far as strength
goes. Johnson said there is a good core of runners
at Southside as well.
"The kids are getting stoked," he said. "Some
races, we had almost 60 kids doing it."
With so much interest coming from the sixth-,
seventh- and eighth-graders, Johnson said the
Shelton Harriers are working on finding a middle
school league the student athletes can compete in.
He said he's been impressed with the running
ability of the youths and their level of commitment.
"These kids are running in the rain and get-
ting excited," Johnson said. "Cross country is a
hard sport because it requires total concentration
for 15-20 minutes, which is becoming increasingly
difficult. The intensity of the effort is challenging,
too."
Though the elementary and middle school cross
country season is now over, Johnson said youth
runners still have races available to them. The
USATF Pacific Northwest Junior 01ympie Cham-
pionships are scheduled for Nov. 10 at Upper Low-
er Woodland Park in Seattle.
The Shelton Harriers are also hosting the Mis-
tle Toe Mile on Dee. 1.
Shelton Axemen wrestler Sky Sherman, 10, top, attempts to roll his
his back during their round robin match on Saturday at the Axemens'
By EMILY HANSON
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"! was pretty
impressed with
The Shelton Mini Dome was taken the wrestlers this
over by 210 youth wrestlers on Satur-
day.
The grapplers were competing inVV~~| |U,H
a round robin tournament hosted by
the Shelton Axemen, the local youth coach Chris Lacy and his assistant
wrestling program. Rodgar Garrick.
"That was the very first wrestling "We also have two 18- or 19-year-
tournament of the year with a lot of • olds who are helping out and will
first-time wrestlers," Axemen Trea- take over once the high school season
surer/Secretary Dawn Thompson starts," Thompson said.
said. "It was a round robin, so they're Those soon-to-be head coaches are
put into groups of four and just wres- Skylar Core and Kusiah McCullough.
tle each other. That way, each wres- The team is also assisted by Jakeob
tlerhas three bouts." Garrick, who will wrestle for the
The Shelton Axemen has 46 wres-Highclimbers as a senior this winter.
tlers this year, but only 38 turned out "I was pretty impressed with the
for the tournament. Of those 38, sev- wrestlers this weekend," Thompson
en won first place, eight took second said. "The tournament was actually
place, 10 came in third place and 11 really smooth. The kids did awe-
finish in fourth place. Thompson said some."
the bout sheets for two ~)f the Axemen This was the only home meet the
were missing. A~emen will have this season.
The wrestlers range in age fromNext up for the youth wrestlers is
4- to 12-years-old and are coached by the round robin tournament on Sat-
Shelton High School head wrestling urday at Franklin Pierce.
Journal photos by Emily Hanson
teammate Robbie Allred, 9, on
only home meet.
Shelton Axemen wrestler
Quinn Lacy, 12, tries to break
out of a hold by Franklin
Pierce wrestler Jordan
LaPointe.
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