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T Wint’sfirstday ABOVE LEFT: Shelton High School boys basketball coach Sam Kreiger directs a conditioning drill Monday at the Mini-Dome during the Highclimbers’ first practice of the year. Boys and girls basketball, boys and girls wrestling and boys swimming seasons started on Monday. ABOVE RIGHT: Shelton senior Ty Thompson runs during a conditioning drill. Journal photos by Justin Johnson Mason County football players earnAll-League "ByiJustin Johnson Senior receiver Zack Jonker, senior receiver Senior defensive backJacob Anderson, senior justin@masoncounty com The high school football season is over in Mason County and 28 local players were recently named to their respective league’s All-League teams. Thirteen players from North Mason High School, eight players from Shelton High School and seven players from Mary M. Knight High School were hon— ored. . The Shelton—Mason County Journal’s All-County Most Valuable Players and teams will be announced in the Dec. 12 edition of the paper. Shekon Eight Shelton High School players were named to the South Sound Conference All-League team. Junior linebacker Zach Speaks earned second team honors. Charlie Hurt, senior linebacker Nick Morales, junior running back Gavin Gould, junior receiver Christian Lopez, junior defensive lineman Kyle McGregor and junior defensive back Donovan Wood-Kicker were named honorable mention. North.Mason. Thirteen North Mason High School football play— ers earned Olympic League All-League honors re- cently. Senior running back Reese Smelcer, sophomore linebacker Aiden Powell and senior offensive line- man Glenn Phillips were named to the league’s first team. Senior kicker Gary Thomas, senior quarterback/ punter Shawn Ward, junior linebacker Mason Shu- maker and junior offensive lineman Trey Sherfick were named to the second team. ‘ receiver Julian Betancourt, senior receiver Ryan Nogues, senior defensive lineman Jared Dyer and sophomore defensive lineman Aiden Simons earned honorable mention honors. ‘ Sophomore Josh Simons was honored with an All- League Sportsmanship Award. Mary M. Knight Seven members of the Mary' M. Knight High School football team received Northwest Football League West Division All—League honors. Sophomore quarterback Quinnton Krippelcz was named Offensive Most Valuable Player after leading the Owls to a 2-1 record in divisionplay (2-6 overall) and a 1B Quad District playoff game. Tayden Sowle, Dylan Ralph, Tristin Murray, Isaiah Compton and Nic Milbourne also earned All— League honors for the Ow1s. Far PoVst: Not a fan of seeds continued from page 8—1 mythical ranking chart? The answer is: it’s not. This isn’t an NCAA tournament where a team has a half-dozen out of conference games that give good indi— cator of where it sits among its peers. It’s a high school sport where teams play 1-2 non—league matches and a non-league tournament where they generally play shortened two-set matches for experience. « Even if one looks at the WCD3 bracket as it was seeded, the lack of balance is glaring. . The upper portion of the fifth-sixth place bracket featured the No. 8-No. 11 seeds, the lower portion had the N3. 2,‘No. 5, No. 6 and No. 12 seeds. In the end, the No. 10 seed, River Ridge, advanced to the state tourna- ' ment after beating No. 9 Kingston — a team North Mason handled deci- sively three times during the season while the Bulldogs were forced to . play the No. 2 Vikings. North Kitsap won that match in four sets, beating North Mason for the ‘ fourth time and ending the Bulldogs’ 4. l4—win season. , I’m not a fan of predetermined seeds like those used in the WCD3 tournament. There isn’t enough of a body of work to know where the teams truly stack up. Basic bracket principles, which are I used everywhere from youth sports to the grand stage of March Madness, dictate that you don’t put two teams from the same league on the same side of the bracket. If Duke and North Carolina fin- ished 1-2 in the Atlantic Coast Con— ference, the NCAA men’s basketball selection committee would never pair them to meet in the Elite 8. There’s no guarantee that North Mason would have made it to state. It still would have had to win to get there. That they had to play the top team from their own league on the same side of the bracket, however, is the shame of West Central District 3. ' I Justin Johnson is the Sports Outdoors Editor of the Shelton-Mason County Journal. He can be reached by email at justin@masoncounty.com. 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