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Shelton bowlers bounce back from loss
RIDAY:
helton .......... 7
3ellarmine .... 0
tUESDAY:
helton vs.
(elm, 3 p.m. at
By EMILY HA
The Shelton
for the first ti
back from it for
On Tuesday,
climbers lost to
"This was nq
Snyder, head
out extremely
got a little oveJ
In the second g
ing and our girl
Danielle Ew
¢est Side Lanes in the first gan
game while Mi
NSON
girls' bowling team lost
Le last week but bounced
a victory two days later.
Nov. 15, the Lady High-
Mt. Tahoma 3-4.
)t a pleasant trip," Curt
'oach, said. "We started
ell and I think the girls
confident and let down.
.me, Mt. Tahoma kept go-
s kept getting worse."
.rt led the team with 224
ce and 174 in the second
hawn Ewart scored 207
in the first game and 113 in the second game.
Caitlyn Borys scored 149 in game one and 160 in game
two while Brittany Smith scored 133 and 145 and Lindsey
Cox scored 144 and 91.
"It came down to the Baker games," Snyder said. "We
won the first by a little bit and Mt. Tahoma flat-out beat
us in the second game."
Snyder said the team had a meeting after the Mt. Ta-
homa loss and talked about what happened and how they
could prevent a repeat.
The meeting seemed to work for the Lady Highclimb-
ers. On Thursday, Nov. 17, the team defeated Bellarmine
7-0.
"The girls concentrated against Bellarmine the whole
game," Snyder said. "If there is something like a good loss,
I think we had one [against Mt. Tahoma]."
M. Ewart led the Lady Highclimbers with 215 in game
one and 218 in game two while D. Ewart scored 162 in
game one and 201 in game two.
Cox scored 149 and 140 while Borys scored 169 and 117
and Smith scored 139 and 135.
"I was really pleased with the way the girls came back
and bowled against Bellarmine," Snyder said. "I think the
girls, all-in-all, are doing really well this season and we'll
have a successful season."
As of press time, the Lady Highclimbers had not yet
bowled against Central Kitsap at All Star Lanes in Silver-
dale on Tuesday, Nov. 22.
The team's next scheduled match is at 3 p.m. on Tues-
day, Nov. 29 at West Side Lanes against Yelm High School.
See Scores on page C-3
COACHOFTF SEASONQ&A
Shelton girls' rugby sevens
from the basket held by Du
sevens team - during the te
" ' gby
Shelton girl ru to
s going Las
|y EMILY HANSON / for rugby 15 last year, he ex
With a total of $4,500 raised
lrough raffle tickets and at its
ilent auction, the Shelton girls'
ugby sevens team is headed to
he Las Vegas Invitational in Feb-
uary.
"The silent auction went well,"
',hris Nesmith, head coach of the
irls' rugby team, said. "We raised
he money we needed."
Nesmith said the biggest ticket
:em at the auction was a case of
,ongshadow Wine worth $600.
¢¢o other big ticket items were
USA Eagles rugby jersey auto-
raphed by the whole team and a
reek stay in Mexico.
'vVe're definitely going to Las
regas in February," Nesmith said.
I'm just really happy we had so
luch support to help the girls
o. That's what I'm really excited
bout."
Between now and February,
Iesmith said the team is going to
)cus on preparing for the tourna-
ment.
"We've been invited to a few
life camps to train with premier
ams out of Seattle," Nesmith
aid. "The Seattle Breakers are
)oking into holding a camp in
anuary."
The team to beat, Nesmith said,
a team from Southern California.
"We had eight of our rugby girls
the Washington All-Star team
Journal photos by Emily Hanson
teammember Quincie Ball calls out the name of a raffle winner after taking a ticket
ane Nault, the father of Diandra Nault - another member of the Shelton girls' rugby
am's fund-raiser at the Grovestreet Brewhouse on Saturday, Nov. 19.
plained. "On the first day, we beat
the Southern California team but
on the second day, they beat us. I
think We're retty evenl: matched
so I guess it depends on how the
brackets are layed out."
Nesmith said the girls' team
jerseys, purchased by Seattle
Shellfish, should come in at the
end of January.
He also explained why the Shel-
ten team is headed to this tourna-
ment, rather than a Washington
All-Star team.
"Because Shelton won the state
championship and organized for
the fundraising for this tourna-
ment, we really only have Shelton
girls interested in going to Las
Vegas," he said, "Next year, there
will be a Washington All-Star
Team with t:youts the girls will
have to go to in order to go to the
invitational."
Another Shelton rugby player
Vegas
- ninth-grader Brian Nault from
the boys' rugby team - tried out to
be on the boys' high school Wash-
ington All-Star team on Sunday,
Nov. 20 in Tacoma.
"His dad told me he stayed in
the entire time for the try-out, so
we've got our fingers crossed," Ne-
smith said.
If Nault is chosen for the boys'
team, he will also be traveling to
the Las Vegas Invitational in Feb-
ruary.
MMK head
football coach
focuses on
leadership
By EMILY HANSON
Zach Norton, from the Yelm boys' rugby team, holds up
the jersey signed by Waisale Serevi - the biggest raffle
item during the Shelton girls' rugby sevens' silent
auction fundraiser on Saturday, Nov. 19.
The Mary M. Knight
football program made a
180-degree turn from last
season under the leadership
of a new head coach.
Mike
Evans,
in his
first year
as head
coach of
the Knight
Owls, led
the team
from a 1-8
Mike finish in
Evans 2010 to a
7-1 regu-
lar season
finish and into the playoffs
for the first time in recent
memory.
I sat down with Evans
to discuss the success of the
Knight Owls, work and life.
Q: Have you ever
coached football before?
A: I was the assistant
coach for three years at
Mary M. Knight before this
season
Q: What inspired you
to apply for the MMK
head football coaching
job?
A: I was inspired to ap-
ply to try to give the boys
some consistency. I was the
only coach who'd been there
since the beginning and I
didn't want the boys to start
all over again.
Q: What's your job out-
side of coaching?
A: I am the police chief of
the Squaxin Tribe and have
been for coming up on six
years now
Q: How did you bal-
ance the two jobs?
A: Carefully. I've got a
.good department that is
running well. Most of the
coaching was in the evening,
more of my time. It really
didn't interfere with work
Q: What was the easi-
est part about coaching
the Knight Owls?
A: The easiest part was
that there's talent and
depth in some positions so
that, even with injuries, we
were able to compete.
Q: What was the most
difficult part about
coaching them?
A: Probably the most dif-
ficult part was the same for
the boys - we made a lot of
fundamental changes. As a
coaching staff, we focused
on positive reinforcement,
which is harder than it
sounds.
Q: Are you surprised
with how successful this
season was?
A: A little. I knew we
would do well. I didn't ex-
pect it to go that well. I knew
the capability was there but
whether we could
See Evans on page C-3
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