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Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016 - Shelton-Mason County Journal- Page B-3
Shelton sophomore Quinn Lacy holds down
Yelm's Jasmine Welch during a Dec. 22
match in the Mini-Dome.
Journal photo by Shawna Whelan
THURSDAY FRIDAY
Boys basketball -- Shelton Wrestling -- Shelton at
vs. Tumwater at North Thur-Holiday Brawl tournament,
ston High School, 5:15 p.m.Bremerton, 10 a.m.
TUESDAY
Boys basketball -- Mary M.
Knight at Lake Quinault, 5:45
p.m.; Olympic at North Ma-
son, 7 p.m.
Girls basketball -- Mary M. WEDNESDAY
Knight at Lake Quinault, 7 Girls basketball -- Shelton at
p.m.; North Mason at Olym- Peninsula, 7 p.m.
pic, 7 p.m. Boys basketball -- Peninsula
at Shelton, 7 p.m.
Basketball
Bremerton 1-3 2-8
North Mason 0-3 4-5
Prep standings Sequim 0-4 1-6
Through games of Dec. 24
2A Olympic League Girls basketball
Boys basketball League Overall
League Overall Olympic 3-0 7-2
Kingston 4-0 6-1 North Kitsap 2-1 6-2
North Kitsap 3-0 6-2 Port Angeles 2-1 4-4
Olympic 2-1 7-3 Bremerton 2-2 4-4
Port Angeles 2-1 5-3 Sequim 2-2 3-2
Kingston 1-3 3-4
*North Mason 0-3 2-5
•Missing results from
Chimacum at North Mason
(12/19) and Shelton at North
Mason (12/20).
3A South Sound Conference
Boys basketball
League Overall
Capital 4-0 7-1 Gig Harbor 4-0 5-2
Gig Harbor 3-1 5-1 Timberline 3-0 5-3
Central Kitsap 3-1 4-5 *Shelton 2-1 6-1
Timberline 2-1 4-3 Peninsula 2-2 6-2
Yelm 1-2 2-6 Yelm 1-2 2-5
N. Thurston 1-2 4-3 Central Kitsap 1-3 5-5
Shelton 0-3 4-3 Capital 1-3 3-5
Peninsula 0-4 2-5 N. Thurston 0-3 2-6
Girls basketball *Missing results of Shelton at
League Overall North Mason (12/20).
surprises
continued from page B- 1 been through the previous 52 years
could never have imagined the once
presidential election that took the proud city would be holding a chain-
pollsters by surprise, 2016 also pionship parade after the Cavs erased
provided the unexpected in the world a 3-1 deficit for the first time in NBA
of sports. Finals history. Something tolls me Las
That began the same weekend I Vegas made a lot of money on the 2016
decided to take the job at the Journal. Cleveland Cavaliers.
On June 19, which just happened to In October, it was the Chicago
be Father's Day, the Cleveland Cava- Cubs' turn to flip the sports world on
liers completed the most unexpected of its ear by winning their first World
rallies to erase a three-games-to-one Series in 108 years. Yes, expectations
deficit in the NBA Finals against the were high when the season started
Golden State Warriors and claim the for the Cubs, who featured a lineup
city of Cleveland's first major sports of young hittors that might make the
championship since the Browns won lineup of the 1927 New York Yankees
the 1964 NFL championship in the blush. But how often does the best
pre-Super Bowl days. team on paper at the beginning of the
For those of us with ties to the season fulfill its perceived destiny?
teams from Cleveland, winning that ti- The Cubbies also found themselves
tle against arguably the most dominant trailing the best-of-seven-games Series
NBA team assembled since the Chicago 3-1, and this to the upstart Cleveland
Bulls of Michael Jordan's heyday was Indians, who limped into the postsea-
a shock to the system. Since that 1964 son with a depleted starting rotation
NFL championship, Cleveland has and a sputtering offense. This time
had a handful of close calls in nearly the team from Cleveland reprised the
winning its coveted title, including familiar role of the Cleveland team,
some epic collapses by the 1986 and '87 and despite the Tribe sending Game
Browns as well as the 1997 Cleveland 7 into extra innings, the Cubs finally
Indians, but anyone with any recollec- prevailed. With that, the curse of the
tion of what Cleveland sports fans had Cubs was broken, noted Cubs fans Bill
Murray and Eddie Vedder of Pearl
Jam joined much of the population of
Chicago and celebrated deep into that
dark night and all was right along
the shores of Lake Michigan. Who
would've thought it?
The trend of the unexpected result
this past year continued across the
pond in the name of an English foot-
ball club named Leicester City.
For those who don't know the story,
in a surprisingly dominant campaign,
Leicester City won the English Pre-
miere League championship by a full
10 points over league powerhouse
Arsenal, amassing a 23-3-11 mark.
Leicester City, which according to the
BBC was a 5,000-to-1 longshot to win
the EPL at the start of the season,
held a plus-32 goal differential over its
foes in claiming its first league cham-
pionship in its 132-year history. Mak-
ing Leicester City's title run all the
more improbable is how it narrowly
staved off relegation to the league's
second division the season prior due to
lack of success.
Experts far more familiar with the
inner workings of European football
than I am, such as Ian Chadband of
Reuters, put Leicester City's run in
perspective.
"One of sustained and fantastic im-
probability, stretching into incredulity,
that has nurtured a nation's imagina-
tion and its love of an underdog for
almost nine marvelous months," Chad-
band wrote.
There were other improbable stories
of sporting success in 2016, includ-
ing a Super Bowl victory by a Denver
Broncos team that weighed heavily on
its defense and Villanova claiming its
first NCAA men's basketball champi-
onship since 1985 and just the second
in school history with a buzzer-beating
winning shot by Kris Jenkins. It goes
to show, you don't ever know when
it comes to winners and losers in the
sports arena.
So, as we put 2016 behind us and
look ahead to 2017, let's be thankful
for all the twists and turns the sports
world provided us the last 12 months
and have hope the next 12 months are
filled with more of the same.
• Reporter Michael Heinbach had
an unexpectedly wonderful 2016 and
wishes Journal readers all the best in
the coming year. He can be reached at
426-4412.
360-426-1388 • 707 SOUTH 1ST STREET • WWW.SHELTONATHLETICCLUB.COM • SHELTON ATHLETIC CLUB