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DALE CAMPAGNA reflects the tension of a 20-point Climber lead while he
soaks the sprained ankle for which he left the Centralia game midway
through the second period Monday. The senior floor leader came back
briefly in the second half but had to favor the heavily bandaged joint.
GOING TO THE HOOP in a recent jayvee game is junior Dale "Red"
Johnson, who also sees action with the Climber varsity. Against Centralia
Friday, Red scored 11 for the junior varsity and then put in 10 in the varsity
tilt.
Climbers romp to fifth straight
Shelton High School's varsity
basketball team ran away from its
fifth straight opponent last week,
and did so largely on a strength
that was supposed to have been a
weakness.
"Board strength was really
one of our early-season worries,"
said Climber Coach Terry Gregg
after his team had dominated the
rebounding statistics Friday en
route to a 79-59 homecourt
victory over Centraha.
"But now I have to think in
the overall picture this may be a
strength for us."
With its starting front line
combining for 34 rebounds,
Shelton enjoyed a 42-28 board
advantage over the visiting Tigers.
"Our rebounding had to be the
thing that impressed me most,"
repeated Gregg. "Centralia has a
really big team - not just tall, but
big. When you talk about
potential, that's a team that could
really dominate on the boards."
The Climbers were led in that
category by Dave Sutton's 14.
Stan Kaszycki and Chris McGee
pulled down lO each.
Shelton's running game also
was quite effective, as evidenced
by the numerous lay-ins scored.
All but four of McGee's
game-high 15 points were scored
as a direct or indirect result of
fast breaks, for instance, and
Gregg credited his players with
doing an excellent job of filling
the lanes and hitting the open
mall.
The coach had special praise
for the continued fine play of
junior Sutton. "lie's just a
heckuva team player," said Gregg.
"He is extremely unselfish and is
always in control of himself out
there. He's shown himself to be
one of the most consistent players
on the team."
In addition to his
team-leading 14 rebounds, Sutton
also scored 12 points - tied for
second most with senior Randy
Bostrom - and passed off for
seven assists.
Dale Campagna came back
from his only non-start of the
year - last week against
Timberline - to contribute eight
points, six assists and his usual
swarming presence on the press.
And all in the first half, no
less.
The senior guard came down
sideways on an ankle after sinking
a 25-foot jumper in the second
half, and he had to spend some
time soaking it before returning
just briefly - heavily taped- in
the second half.
"It was iust a sprain and it's
healing fine," said Gregg. The
coach added that his floor leader's
absence from the starting lineup
the week before was merely a
reflection of Campagna's own
self-initiative and high standards.
"Dale's the kind of guy who
isn't pleased with anything but
the best out of himself," he said,
"and he just got kind of down on
himself- really somewhat
depressed. But he's come out of it
real well."
Gregg is pleased to point out
that his club doesn't give up a
whole lot, however, when Dale's
not on the floor. Junior guard
Roger Ayers, he said, "is coming
along really well, and deserves to
be in there playing, too." Ayers
scored six points against the
Tigers and again played a key role
in the fast break, according to the
coach.
Other Climbers on the
scoreboard Friday were Kaszycki
with nine, Dan Fitchitt with
three, John Vernon and Pete
Francis with two apiece, and Dale
Johnson with 10 - all in the
fourth quarter.
Johnson cavorted in that
stanza to the joyous
accompaniment of a chorus of
"Go, Red!" from his teammates
on the sideline. The redheaded
junior hit four of five from the
field and canned both charity
tosses.
Only an hour or so earlier, he
had scored 11 points in a losing
effort for the ttighclimber
jayvees.
If Gregg were to find fault
with anything Friday, it would be
the fact that Centralia's 59 points
represented the highest total given
up this season by the stingiest
team in the league.
"We were actually pretty
lackadaisical on defense in the
second half," he said, pointing to
the 42 points scored against them
after halftime. "We were letting
them penetrate much too easily,
and you just can't do that -
especially against a team like
Centralia which has so much
strength inside. Once they got in
close there wasn't much we could
do to stop them."
Still, Gregg admits his
Climbers are getting stronger and
stronger, and the idea of winning
the league championship is not a
new one to him. "Each time we
go out we seem to get a little
stronger in every phase of the
game," he said. "If we win the
championship, though, it's going
to be a result of our playing our
best every time we take the court.
"But, sure. If we play the way
we can, we can win it."
The Climbers enjoy a rest over
the holidays but resume play at
Aberdeen January "6. Results of
the December 23 contest in Elma
will appear in next week's
Journal.
The Climber jayvees met and
succumbed to a fine Centralia
junior varsity in the first game,
losing 74-52. Marty Rae led the
losers with 14 points and Dale
Johnson chipped in 11. Stan
Bourgault had eight points and
nine rebounds.
"We looked bad," said Coach
Jack Marquett, "but they really
made us look that way. They
rebounded very well and shot
excellently. Centralia is just a very
fine team."
The sophomores, meanwhile,
chalked up their fourth straight
win without defeat, beating their
Centralia counterparts 60-46. Bill
White and Benny Ward keyed the
press and pumped in ten and nine
points, respectively, while Glenn
Jacobsen and Matt Petty
contributed seven apiece.
Jacobsen led all rebounders
with 11, while Tim Avey had ten
and Fred Johnson six. Coach
Brian Brickert again played his
first and second strings about
equally, and at one point in the
third quarter the Climbers held a
30-point bulge.
"We just played super team
ball," said Brickert. "And our
press really gave them trouble."
Brickert credited Jacobsen
with an outstanding all-around
game and Bill White and Benny
Ward, starting guards, with their
continued excellent floor play. He
said Tim Avey responded well to
a cold shooting night by passing
off for four assists and coming up
with four steals.
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SHELTON SOPHOMORE Tracy Ridout grapples with an opponent during
the Climbers' Second Annual Invitational Christmas Tournament Saturday in
the Minidome. Eight schools were represented at the tourney. For details,
see story on page 13.
NICKI SCHOUVILLER of Shelton's girls' gymnastics team
extends on the balance beam during the team's triangular
meet with Olympia and Tenino December 10 in the
Minidome. Nicki, whose specialty is floor exercise, earned a
sixth on the beam.
PIVOTMAN STAN KASZYCKI curls ip a shot on the end of
a reverse move during Friday's varsity game with Centralia.
The Climbers posted their fifth win without defeat.
JUNIOR DAN FITCHITT eyes the hoop Friday as a
Centralia defender gives him the o1' double whammy. Coming
into the lane at left is senior John Vernon (42).
'Hoop $
A freethrow-shooting practice
session for winners of the Elks
Lodge "Hoop Shoot" Contest will
be held this Saturday at 2 p.m. in
the Shelton High School
Minidome.
The session will serve as a
tune-up for the January 3 county
championship, also at 2 p.m. in
the high school gym. Those
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emerging from that competition
will travel to Bremerton for the
district championship January 10.
The annual event, featuring
boys and girls ages 8-13,
culminates in March with the
nationals in Kansas City, Missouri.
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