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Shelton-Mason County Journal
Journal photo by
Emily Hanson
Knight Owl
junior Cory
O'Neil keeps
his eye on
Afari Rich-
ardson, a
Christian
Faith junior,
during Mary
M. Knight's
home game
on Saturday,
Dec. 3
By EMILY HANSON think some of the guys were surprised with how well
we did."
In its first three games, the Mary M. Knight boys' On Monday, Dec. 5, the Knight Owls won at Ocosta
basketball team has won once. 49-42.
On Saturday, Dec. 3, the Knight Owls lost at home "Ocosta was a battle the whole way," Diggle said.
69-64 to Christian Faith. "We played more man defense in this game than in
"I think we played well overall," Tim Diggle, head the first."
coach, said. "We had our turnovers low and were right Coming off the bench, Dierkop again led the Owls
there with them." with 13 points and senior Eric Johnson stole up nine
Senior Sean Sexton led the Owls. with 19 points rebounds.
while junior Nick Dierkop came off the bench and also "We could've done better at the freethrow line," Dig-
put up 19 points. Dierkop helped the Owls out by grab- gle said.
bing up 15 rebounds as well. Finally, on Friday, Dec. 9, the Knight Owls lost at
"The freethrow line is where we lost the game," Dig- home to Three Rivers Christian 61-57.
gle said. "We made 13 of 28, which is not good; that's "The team wasn't in sync," Diggle said. "They
46 percent and we gave up 10 three-point shots. Losing couldn't run the plays and they got the defensive rota-
by five points and giving up 15 freethrows is not good." tion wrong."
Dierkop said he thought there was room for ira- Several of the Owls played while feeling sick, Diggle
provement for the Knight Owls. said.
"We've got a whole season ahead of us, so we'll get "It was just one of those nights," he said. "We went
there," he added. "It's our first game and honestly, I See Owls on page C-5
ATHLETEOFTHEWEEK
SHS soph.
hits mat,
tumbles
and cheers
By EMILY HANSON
Kaitlin Woods is not an
average wrestler.
Woods, a sophomore on
the Shelton wrestling team,
also competes in a sport
which many would consider
to be on the opposite side
• of the spectrum from wres-
tling. Woods is a high school
cheerleader.
"When I tell people that
I wrestle and cheer, people
give me that look like 're-
ally?' basically thinking
I'm joking
around,"
Woods
said.
Though
she has
been
cheering
since she
was 4 or 5,
she didn't
Kaitlin b e g i n
.Woods wrestling
untillast
year.
"My brother was a wres-
tler and somebody told me I
couldn't do it, so I wanted to
prove them wrong," Woods
said.
Wrestling at 118, Woods
has certainly proved nay-
sayers wrong by making it
through last season and re-
turning this season.
"Kaitlin trains hard and
she splits her time," Chris
Lacy, wrestling coach, said.
"She is very active and com-
petitive with high school
cheer, too."
Though Woods was not
able to compete at regionals
or state last season due to
a non-sport related injury,
she said she returned this
year because she likes the
different mindset wrestling
gives her.
"It's meaner than cheer-
leading, I guess," Woods
said.
She stuck with cheerlead-
ing, which she began as a
Shelton Kings cheerleader,
because she enjoys tumbling
and being competitive. Over
the summer at cheer camp,
Woods was even chosen as
an All-American nominee..
She said that managing
the two sports is not as dif-
ficult as people think it is.
"Practices are different;
cheer is in the morning and
wrestling is after school,"
she explained. "Both sports
are really time-consuming,
though, so being more in-
See Athlete on page C:5
Mary M. Knight sophomore Ashley Kiliz sets
Lady Owls' first game of the Season.
By EMILY HANSON
In its first two weeks of play, the Mary M.
.Knight girls' basketball team has won three of,
four games.
On Saturday, Dec. 3, the Lady Owls defeat-
ed Christian Faith High School 49-26.
"The girls passed the ball well and were un-
selfish," Lance Valley, head coach, said. "The
pressure of our defense set the tone for the
game."
MMK freshman Melodie Snyder led the
Lady Owls with 11 points while freshman
Lauren Dierkop and sophomore Hannah Frost
both put up 10 and senior Emily Johnson
scored eight. Frost also collected 14 rebounds.
"We prepared very well and it was a good
first game," Frost said. "We've come a long
way since last year. Everybody is working re-
ally hard at practice and there's a lot of poten-
tial and skill."
On Monday, Dec. 5, the Lady Owls lost to
Journal photo by Emily Hanson
her sights on a shot against Christian Faith on Saturday, Dec. 3 in the
.!
Ocosta 4-38.
"We came out strong
again with pressure defense
and set the tone in the first
half," Valley said. "The third
quarter we started to force
the ball inside and had too
FRIDAY: many turnovers. We had a
MmyM:Knit~-38 seven-point lead going into
M~c~~ the fourth quarter and again
turnovers killed us and they
TOMORROW: went up by eight points with
Mary M. I~aight two minutes remaining."
vs. South Bend, Snyder hitting a three-
7 p.m. point shot with 23 seconds
left brought the Lady Owls
within two points of Ocosta.
"We fouled and had a chance at the buzzer
but couldn't get a shot off," Valley said. "The
girls played hard and I was happy with the ef-
fort."
Snyder again led the team with 10 points
Shelton-Mason
while Dierkop scored eight and Johnson and
sophomore Carlie Adsero both scored six. Frost
grabbed 10 rebounds while Johnson snatched
seven rebounds and four steals. •
On Friday, Dec. 9, MMK defeated Three
Rivers Christian 43-22.
"Our man-to-man full court press set the
tone and limited TRC to two field goals in the
first half," Valley said. "Hannah Frost had 13
of her 17 points in the first half and she had
five rebounds and two steals. Our fastbreak
was working really well and the girls took
care of the ball with only 17 turnovers for the
game."
Valley said that senior Linda Cook, in her
first game back, snatched up nine rebounds
while Dierkop also had nine rebounds. John-
son collected six rebounds, two steals and
passed out six assists.
"The girls are improving every game and
See Lady Owls on page C-5
County Journal - Thursday, December t 5, 2011 - Page C-1