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Shelton baseball The Highclimbers lost all three games last week in Evergreen Conference and nonlegue games. Shelton lost a pair of games to defending state champion Tumwater, falling 6-4 in Tumwater on March 21 and dropping a 10-3 contest March 22 in Shelton. The Highclimbers dropped a nonleague game to Aloha, Oregon, on Friday, 11-0. Shelton (1-4, 0-2) faced Aberdeen in a home and home series Tuesday in Aberdeen and Wednesday in Shelton before spring break. North Mason baseball North Mason...
Shelton track The Shelton boys and girls each won an Evergreen Conference track meet on March 21 in Centralia to open the track season. Miller won the 1,600-meter race in 4:34.7. Huisingh won the high jump with a height of 5 feet, 8 inches and Steven Gee won the pole vault at a heigh of 7 feet. Nathan Gomez placed second in the 200-meter race and long jump, Gabriel Menefee finished second in the 400-meter race, Anthony Warren-Keyzers placed second in the shot put and discus and Scott Jordan finished second in the triple jump. The 4x100 relay...
The North Mason boys and girls lost their opening meet of the track season against Kingston on Wednesday in Belfair. The Kingston girls defeated the Bulldogs 64-40. North Mason's Natalya Garcia won the 100-meter dash in 14.16 seconds. Cali DuPont won the 400-meter race in 1:10.91. Kezlie Thygesen won the 1,600-meter race in 5:31.81. Kisslyn Kama-Tandal won the shot put with a throw of 19 feet, 6 inches, and Adrianna Tupolo won the discus with a toss of 95 feet, 5 inches and the javelin with a th...
Shelton baseball The Shelton baseball team earned its first win of the season against Port Angeles 5-2 on Saturday in a nonleague game on the road. Shelton (1-1) began Evergreen Conference games this week, traveling to Tumwater on Tuesday before hosting the Thunderbirds on Wednesday. The Highclimbers host Aloha, Oregon, at 2 p.m. Friday in a nonleague game. Shelton girls golf Shelton was scheduled to face Rochester at Alderbrook Golf Course on Monday, but no results were posted in time for the Journal’s print deadline. The Highclimbers are sche...
Wild doesn't quite cover it. After three hours, 10 minutes on a frigid, prespring Monday evening, the North Mason High School softball team defeated Mason County rival Shelton 15-14 in an offensive shootout at Bulldog Field in Belfair. It could have gone even longer. Shelton led 19-15 with two on and two outs in the top of the 7th inning before the game was called on account of darkness. Because North Mason was unable to bat in its half of the inning, by rule the final score reverted to the end...
North Mason High School's Teegan Skjonsby is taking her volleyball talent to the next level. Skjonsby signed last week with Linfield University in McMinnville, Oregon, to compete for Wildcat volleyball. Skjonsby, who was a team captain for the Bulldogs, helped North Mason earn a third-place finish at the Olympic League postseason tournament and a berth in the West Central District III tournament in the fall. Linfield competes at the NCAA Division III level in the Northwest Conference, which...
Shelton Baseball The Shelton baseball team lost its opening nonleague game 6-0 against Olympic on Friday at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds. The Highclimbers (0-1) will travel to Port Angeles on Saturday for another nonleague contest and will play its first Evergreen Conference game of the season Tuesday against Tumwater. Shelton Girls golf Shelton will begin the season Monday in an Evergreen Conference match against Rochester at Alderbrook Golf Course. Shelton Boys soccer The Highclimbers faced W.F. West on Tuesday in an Evergreen Conference...
The Shelton Family YMCA opened March 1, 2021, and it is continuing to grow with each passing year. YMCA Senior Director Claudia Suastegui has been with the Shelton YMCA since September, but has worked for the YMCA for at least 20 years. "I moved here from a larger YMCA association in Idaho, and this association has been like a breath of fresh air because every association has a different community," Suastegui said. "It is so small so you can deepen relationships with people here and you immerse...
Three Owls make coastal all-league Mary M. Knight High School has three players on the 1B Coastal League all-league girls basketball team. Sophomore guard Hailey Morris was named to the all-league first team, just three points shy of being named the league MVP. Sophomore Cloey Fletcher earned first team recognition, coming in third place in the MVP voting. Senior Hailey Lohman was named an honorable mention. MMK coach Mike Bateman was named the girls coach of the year. The Owl boys did not have...
It was a good day to be odd. Six of the 12 wrestlers representing Mason County high schools at Mat Classic XXXIV on Friday and Saturday at the Tacoma Dome earned odd-number state placings, signifying they won their final match of the tournament. Shelton High School's EliBeth Cervantes and North Mason High School's Sadie Evans bounced back from singular defeats to finish with the bronze medal. The Bulldogs' Jake Mathews and Pedro Salvador finished fifth and Shelton's Logan Peach and Mario Boxley...
Shelton freshman Tawan Benedict made his first appearance at state a memorable one, placing sixth in the 100-yard butterfly at the State 2A swimming championships on Saturday at King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way. Benedict finished the butterfly in 55.98 seconds. Quincy's Trenten Calloway won the race in 49.25 seconds, setting a meet record. He finished 14th in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:05.08. "I was a lot happier with the prelims. The finals weren't bad per se, but I...
She held it in as long as she could. In the seconds after EliBeth Cervantes became the first girls wrestler from Shelton High School to win a regional title in 14 years, she danced her way through congratulatory fist bumps and short hugs from her teammates and coaches until she reached her father, Henry. As father and daughter embraced, the emotion flowed. A dream realized, but a tale not quite finished. "It feels great; Being able to feel like I've accomplished more and that I'm being a better...
Shelton had five wrestlers finish second in their weight classes to lead the Highclimbers to a fifth-place finish at the Region 3 wrestling tournament Saturday in Aberdeen. "This team has been incredibly steady all season," Shelton coach Chris Lacy told the Journal in an email. "We have had a consistent mental approach and readiness all season. We wrestled well at subregionals, but some of our wrestlers felt too much pressure. Our regional wrestlers seemed to be poised, this allowed them to...
The Shelton High School boys basketball season saw its season end with a 65-49 loss to Columbia River on Feb. 9 in a 2A District IV Pigtail game at Terry Gregg Court in Shelton. Mason Goos led Shelton with 17 points, while Weetly Cordova added 11 for the Climbers, who finished their season 11-9 overall. Shelton went 11-4 in its final 15 games after starting the season 0-5....
Shelton freshman Tawan Benedict was the district champion in the 100-yard butterfly as the boys swim team finished second at the District IV 2A Championships at Dick Mealy Pool at Mark Morris High School in Longview. Benedict finished the 100-yard butterfly in 55.72 seconds, two seconds faster than the second-place finisher. He finished second in the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:05.33. Charlie Morson finished second in the 200-yard freestyle in 2:00.51 and fourth in the 500-yard freestyle in 5:41....
The Mary M. Knight High School girls basketball team saw its season come to a close with a 42-32 loss to Three Rivers Christian during the 1B District IV touranment Feb. 7 in Matlock. Hailey Morris scored 12 points to lead MMK (9-11)....
North Mason senior Jake Mathews won the 152-pound tournament at the Region 2 2A wrestling tournament Saturday in Belfair. Mathews won his opening match by pin in 18 seconds against Washington's Kai'lee Hale before earning a technical fall win against Orting's Talgat Aldabergen. Mathews defeated Bremerton's Brennan Galloway by a 14-4 major decision to capture the title. North Mason junior Pedro Salvador finished second in the 145-pound tournament. Salvador earned an opening victory by pin...
