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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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