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Bill Dickie's Si00DELINE SLANT-0000-0000 Shelton Highclimbers Lose Finale, 21-0, In Bremerton
By JAN DONALDSON own 47 yard line. From there, liams kicked the extra point, Bruce Williams kicked off to and West
WHO DAT MAN? Laurie ,Somers, Lieut.
(jg) U. S. Coast Guard, that's who. The
former Highclimber 3-sport luminary will
play with the Shelton Coaches Association
lineup in Friday night's benefit basketball
game.
If Could Even
Be Worth Your Buck!
Money is "hot stuff", it burns holes in
the pockets of the Shelton Coaches Associ-
ation. I mean there isn't any left in the
SCA treasury, which puts the SCk c dm-
pletely in tune with the times, doesn't it?
There is a difference, though. Where I
blow much of mine on piffle and stuff I
can't even remember you,.. too?) , the SCA
€la!eu oU i ollars to
, tifiable ends; to wit,
The SCA foresees some worthy needs
the cinder track rather than the maple
court, will be out there on the floor Friday
night doing his bit and his best for the SCA
against the WCC.
Three former high school athletic bud-
dies will keep Dave company, Ron Ellis,
Laurie Somers and Greg Vermillion wore
the Red & Black egimentals of Shelton
high in the days Dave did. Ron and Lau-
rie were classmates, graduating with Dave
in 1961. Greg beat them by a year. Ron
also is a fellow SCA member with Dave,
having come back to Shelton this year as
Highclimber assistant football and base-
ball coach after joining Dave as a WWSC
alumnus. Laurie went on to hoop heights,
and considerable football and track ac-
claim as well, at the U. S. Coast Guard
Academy back in Connecticut and Greg
earned national basketball attention with
some of. Seattle University's best teams.
Greg is now admissions officer at St. Mar-
tin's College, where his brother and former
Highclimber cage coach, Jerry, is varsity
basketball mentor. Jerry is pledged to
play with the SCA lineup Friday, too.
Laurie is still Coast Guarding, as a line
officer aboard the ice-breaker Staten Is-
land. The fellow with the fuzz in the pic-
ture accompanying this piece may not be
recognizable under all that brush but that's
Laurie camouflaged behind what in living
color is a nifty red beard fading into the
blond thatch for which he is so well re-
membered in his Highclimber athletic
days. Lieut. (jg) Somers grew the beard
while the Staten Island was proceeding to
the recent rescue of its ice-bound, crippled
sistership, the North Wind. Lieut. Som-
ers had been a crew member of the North
Wind not long before.
It should be an intriguing reunion for
this quintet of one-time Shelton athletic
figures Friday night and I hope whoever
governs the SCA lineups sees that Dave,
Ron, Laurie, Greg and Jerry make it onto
the floor at least once as a team.
Now let's shift back to the main track
before we sign off, the reason for this Fri-
day fillip. The SCA is financially flat be-
cause it doled out its last $300 to Rob Mills,
Jim Borst and George Williams for scholar-
ships this year, $100 apiece. Jim is attend-
ing Grays Harbor College, George Olympic
College in their first years. Rob is at Ore-
.:. ,,On State f,ohis seOnd-year,and,with his
scoficJ A' award. The first was $200 a
year earlier.
approaching on the horizon and is moving
into a state of preparation, the first step
toward which comes up this Friday night.
It needs your assistance.
That "step" is a benefit basketball game
in which SCA members risk life and limb
for their treasury against a younger, bet-
ter-conditioned, possibly less experienced
epponent machine-tooled from Washington
Corrections Center residents.
The place is Shelton gym and the time
$ :00 p.m. tomorrow.
The SCA is relatively new as an active
body, having seen the light of day as re-
cently as 1963; yet in the short period since
then it has handed out $1,700 in scholar-
ships to eleven Shelton high school ath-
letes who went on to college with the idea
of entering the coaching ranks or becom-
ing physical education teachers.
Nine of those eleven are still in school:
one (Brian Brickert) had his schooling in-
terrupted by military service, and one has
graduated . . . right back into the SCA.
He's Dave Sund, who was granted a $100
scholarship in 1965 to help him through his
senior year at Western Washington. When
he collected his sheepskin in 1966 he joined
the Shelton faculty, accepted a couple of
coaching assignments, and promptly be-
came eligible for membership in the Shel-
ton Coaches Association.
Dave, though his high school and col-
lege athletic deployment was principally on
Prior to that the SCA had gwen schol-
arships in this fashion to Highclimber ath-
letes: 1963--Ken Droscher $100 (deferred
until 1966 at Ken's request) ; 1964Brian
Briekert ($200); 1965--Ed Dawson $200,
Fred Lamont, Dave Sund, Brickert $100
each; 1966--Dawson, Denny Bailey, Bob
Johnson $100 each, Mills $200.
You need any more sales talk for shell-
ing out a buck Friday night to see an ex-
hibition basketball game? Besides, it
might even be a pretty fair bit of enter-
tainment !
SPORTS SPLINTERS---Can't help it,
sports, but the Class of '61 keeps persist-
ing with news, this time Roy Kimbel the
manufacturer. Roy has just re-associated
himself with the University of Puget
Sound, from which he graduated in 1966
after an injury-plagued baseball career.
He returns to UPS as its admissions offi-
cer and athletic department staff assist-
ant, responsibilities which place him in di-
rect competition with his one-time Shelton
schoolmate, Greg Vermillion, possessor of
identical assignments at St. Martin's Col-
lege. Roy's athletic accomplishments as a
Highclimber were confined to the baseball
diamond, where he structured a record as
one of the greatest base-runners in the
school's history, in a highly select group
which includes only Bill Taylor and Ken
Latham that come to mind readily.
Annual Golf Awards Event Draws I00
More than 100 members, plus
a few guests, turned out for the
annual Shelton Golf Club awards
dinner Saturday night in the Bay-
Iflore clubhouse and were re-
warded wlth the usual top-quality
potluck choice of food plus a
barrel of laughs.
A w a r d s for achievements
earned during the past year in
various club competitions were
,meted out as follows:
Club Championship: (c h a m-
pionship flight) S o n n y Lowe,
first; Larry Larson, second;
(first flight) Dick Bostrom, first;
Don Pauley, second; (second
flight) Bob Olson, st; ly
Rice, second; (third flight) Dave
Dunnlngton, first; Ivan Myers,
second; (fourth flight) Curt
Wolfe, first; Bob Turner, second;
,, flight) Kurt Broman, first;
imnie Holt, second.
Team Captain's Tournament:
Bob Coots and Guy Beckwith,
first; Jim Archer and Glen
Sowers. second.
President's Cup: Jerry Thomp-
son, first; Larry Larson, second;
Ray Rice and Gene White. tied
Bowling Results
_ - _
FRIDAY MIXED FOURSOME
Men's Hi Game: Jim Brewer 210
Men's Hi Series: Gene Benedict
W43en's Hi Game & Series: Sue
Bennett 186492
4 Bees 1-3, Gene Benedict 553;
Farmers 3-1, Wayne Clary 526;
Skokers 2-2, Ted Blair 490: Sand-
baggers 2-2, L. L. McInelly 521;
007 4-0, Sue Bennett 492; Mdsfits
04, Don Protell 434; Waders 04,
Harold Davis 392; Slow Starters
4-0, Phll Adams 460.
Standings: Farmers 20-12, 4
Bees 20-12, Skokers 18-14, Sand-
baggers 16-16, 007 15-17, Slow
Starters 15-17, Misfits 12-20, Wa-
ders 12-20.
third.
The presentations were made
by Glen Robertson, president of
the 19th Hole Club. and Bob Coots,
tournament chairman. In the wo-
men's division, awards presented
by President Nita Kimbel went
to: Pat Beatty, for lowering her
handicap the most during the sea-
son (ten strokes), and for win-
ning the Spring Eclectic; Add
Oltman, second place in the
Spring Eclectic; Gert Batstone,
first in the Summer Eclectic:
and Ruth Heuston, second in the
Summer Eclectic.
The evening also served as a
means of introducing the 28 new
members of the club who joined
during the past year, one of the
largest groups of new members
in many years. Fred Stuller is
club membership chairman. Club
President Rocky Hembroff pre-
sided and was the instigator of as
well as the target for consider-
able repartee and joshing during
the evening.
1 The Shelton Highclimbers
ended their 1967 season with a
21-0 loss to the West Bremerton
Wildcats in a game played at
Bremerton last Thursday night.
The field was in poor condition,
due to constant rain.
First quarter action showed
both teams unable to move the
ball, and punting the ball away.
Shelton got into trouble at the
beginning of the second quarter.
With a third down and three
situation with the ball on their
own 14 yard line Shelton elected
to quick kick.
But West Bremerton's Dale
Nesse came through to block the
punt, which West Bremerton re-
covered on the Shelton seven
yard line. This gave West Brem-
erton an excellent scoring
chance. West Bremerton had bad
luck strike for them, as quarter-
back Frank Jackson fumbled on
first down, and Shelton's Bill
Daniels recovered to end the first
serious threat.
West Bremertons' first touch-
down was set up on an intercep-
tion by Gregg Jackson of a Bud
Tuson pass. This gave West
Bremerton a first down on its
Gail Dahl
Takes First
In Tourney
By RICK BURRELL
. Gail Dahl of North Mason
took top honors in Olumpic
League tennis Saturday in a ten-
school tournament on the West
High courts in Bremerton.
The favored Gall Dahl, a
sophomore, stopped the defend-
ing champion Linda Tuohy of
Vashon in the 2½ hour champion-
ship match with a score of 6-1,
2-6, and 9-7,
The team of Barbara Schilling-
er and Susie Kowalczyk of
North Mason took second place
in the doubles action. Also com-
peting in the tournament for
North Mason was Sue Malone.
The tournament was a fitting
climax to a fine fall season for
North Mason, who finished in
second place with a 9-1 win-loss
record.
SHS Harriers
00Win League
Sub-District
By JAN DONALDSON
The Shelton cross-country
team won the Olympic League
sub-district meet at West Brem-
erton with a score of 46 points.
West Bremerton finished r,C-
ond with 50 points, Sout Kitsap
third with 51 points, and East
Bremerton fourth with 77 points.
As has been present all season,
Shelton's team depth was again
the key to the victory. It ap-
peared that the Shelton runners
formed an impassable block, as
the first five Shelton finishers
were Within a nine-second
spread.
Shelton's Olympic League rec-
ord this year was four wins and
two losses. The team that beat
Shelton was West Bremerton, who
Shelton beat in the sub-district
meet.
First five Shelton finishers :
6 Jim Connolly 13:51
8 Martin Savage 13:53
9 Jim Swayze 13:54
10 Joel Zehe 13:55
13 John Flower 14:00
After the sub-district Shelton
went on to an eighteen team dis-
trict meet. The district meet con-
tained many of the top teams
in the state. These teams were
from schools with a much larger
enrollment than Shelton.
Renton was the first place dis-
trict finisher with only 77 points.
Highline was a close second with
79 points. Shelton finished
fifteenth place with 393 points.
Order of Shelton finishers:
Jim Swayze 12:06
Joel Zehe 12:16
Martin Savage 12:17
Jim Connolly 12:18
John Flower 12:22
Mike Sparks 12:46
Shelton's cross-country team
had seven lettermen this year.
Seniors Jim Swayze and Martin
Savage have earned their second
letters. Juniors John Flower and
Ross Godwin earned their first
letter.
Three sophomores have also
earned their first letters, Jim
Connolly, Joel Zehe, and Mike
Sparks. This gives cross-country
coach Lowell Stuart five return-
ing letterman for next year, three
of which are sophomores.
Brush Enduro
Set Sunday
• The annual Brush Enduro will
be held this Sunday by the Shel-
t o n trailblazers Motorcycle
Club at Mason County Fair-
grounds.
Signup begins at 8 a.m. with
the first rider leaving the start-
ing line at 9 a.m. Entrance fee
is $3. Coffee and chili will be
provided for contestants.
Vest Bremerton called on Bruce
Larson who carried the ball all
seven times for 53 yards and the
first West Bremerton touchdown.
Larson scored the touchdown
on a four yard run. Bruce Wil-
giving West Bremerton a 7-0
lead. The touchdown was scored
with only 1:22 remaining in the
first half. Larson had three other
good carries of 17, 12, and 13
yards during the drive.
Shelton, and the ball rolled into
the end zone. So Shelton took the
ball on its own 20 yard line. The
first down play was an in-
complete pass. On second down
Tuson again went bck to pass,
SHELTON'S HIGHCLIMBERS were the
visitors at West Bremerton Thursday night,
so they wore white uniforms. This is the
way a couple of the local gridders looked
after three quarters of action in the clay
swamp in the middle of the field. The game
was played in a steady drizzle, and damp-
ened everything but the spirit of the host
Wildcats, who won the contest 21-0.
Herish intercepted,
Bremerton the ball
ton 16 yard line.
Bruce Larson
yards on first doWn,
down Frank
end Alan Diefendorf
and the second
touchdown.
no good, making
at halftime, with
ton leading. The
down was scored
remaining in the
Shelton received
half kickoff on their
line. Mary
on the first play.
plays John Koch
were held to no
down Bud Tuson was
a seven yard loss,
down he was
yard loss. This
erton the ball on
yard line.
The Wildcats
the best scoring
game. They
nine plays for
down. The
on a 15 yard run
son, who had
first West
Williams extra
blocked by Gene
the score 19-0
In the fourth
Bremerton started a
own 33 yard line,
l]most 62 yards i
his put the ball on
six yard line, with a
and almost six yards
first down, or
Bruce Larson
and gained nearly
was about two
the first down.
This gave the
'on its own two-foot
defensive effort of
only to save the
Bud Tuson was
end zone for a s
down, giving West
points. This made
ton the winner by a
The starting
West Bremerton
Alan Diefendorf
land at ends,
Pete Elswick at
Goninan and Roger
guards, Bob
Doug Olsen at
Larson and Jim
halfbacks, and
quarterback.
Outstanding effort
of Bruce Larson
the West Bremerton
son got lose for
gains during the
, scored two
Shelton Highclin
Puhn and Doug
Mark Weston
at tackles, Eldon
Miltenberger at
derson at center,
fullback, Scot
Koch at halfbackS,
son at quarterha.
Defensive
pard played one
for Shelton.
25 assisted
tackles. Timpan
very consistent
fensive for
This game
game for fourteen
Shelton squad.
the only senior
man. Seniors
game in a sheltOn
Eldon Allen, Bill
Avey, Lane
Tom Malloy,
McDowell,
Bruce Pearson,
lan Tahja,
Bruce Wilson.
YARDSTICK
First downs
Pass attempts
Pass completions
Passing yar dage
Rushing yar dage
Total yardage
Penalties
Punts
Experience Ib Test Youth In Friday
Experience will be the one edge the Shelton Coaches
Association basketball lineup will tote onto the floor Fri-
day evening in their benefit game with the Corrections
Center Residents.
Condition, height and youth will be on the other bench,
where Coach Dean Cooney will field a squad of 14 eager
cagemen, nine of whom top the 6-foot mark, backed by
victories in two games already under their belts. The
Residents have knocked off the Texaco Chiefs of Port
Townsend, 83-53, and Shelton Recreation, 68-52, in a pair
of practice tilts on the Center floor.
Cooney will open with a lineup of four six-foot-plus
lads in Chris Connell and Andy McCoy, both 6-3, at for-
wards, Ron Swedeen, 6-4, center, and Dick Wilson, 6-1, at
one guard. Chuck Knight, 5-10, goes at the other back-
oourt post.
Others on the Resident squad include Hoyt Baker 6-3,
Mel Modest 6-2, Earl Moore 6-2, Bill Olson 6-1, Jim Mad-
igan 6-2, Art Tabert 5-11, Joe West 5-9, Bob Brewer 5-10,
and Chuck Weiss 5-11.
Cooney himself is a graduate of California State
College at Long Beach, where he played football. He has
coached five years, the past two at the Corrections Center,
where he is athletic director in the recreation program and
coachs all sports.
This will not be the Corrections Center's first appear-
ance in benefit basketball games. Last yea r the Residents
played one at the Hood Canal junior high
the University of Puget Sound. Two yearS
played one in the Shelton gym.
Tomorrow night's benefit is designed
ishment of the Shelton Coaches Association
which Shelton high school athletes desiring
lege educations aimed at coaching and phl
teaching careers can be granted sci
cases. (See Sideline Slants for more
The game starts at 8:00 o'clock in Shelton
admission $1, students 50 cents.
Coach-members of the SCA will
SCA lineup, football coach Jerry Mills,
Lynn Stearns, junior hoop mentors, SteVe
Ellis of the football staff, Dave Sund,
coach, and Jack Marquett, a grade school
But there'll be a few "ringers" in the
familiar sounding names like Vermillion,
ert. The Vermillion brothers, Jerry and
and player respectively the last time
won a basketball title, and Laurie
member of that club. Mike Brickert will
aboard the SCA ship, a 1965 Highclimber '
man.
There's a fair share of altitude in that
that, with the Vermillions, Somers, Brici
Ellis over six feet,
PNl;e 10 - Shelton-Mason Ceunty Journal - Thursday, November 16, 1967