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The Highclimbers scored 21 points in the first half en route to a 30-0 victory against Centralia on Oct. 6 at Tiger Stadium. Dante Trikoff led the Shelton backfield with 88 yards on 18 carries. Skyler Smith had three carries for 49 yards. Weetly Cordova caught two passes for 42 yards and a touchdown, and Gabe Menefee had three catches for 40 yards. Bradley Eleton led the defense with four tackles, including a tackle for loss. Mario Boxley and Phenix Oleachea each added three tackles. Each had a...
Shelton girls soccer Shelton lost two Evergreen Conference games last week to Black Hills and W.F. West. The Highclimbers fell 3-0 to Black Hills on Oct. 4 in Shelton and lost 5-0 to W.F. West in Chehalis on Oct. 6. Shelton (2-8, 1-6) faced Elma in a nonleague game Tuesday at home and hosts Centralia today in an EvCo game. Shelton volleyball The HIghclimbers were swept in two Evergreen Conference volleyball matches against Black Hills and W.F. West. Shelton fell 3-0 to Black Hills in Tumwater on Oct. 4 and the Highclimbers lost to the Bearcats...
The Owls' took flight with gusto. Led by strong serving and veteran leadership from its five seniors, the Mary M. Knight volleyball team dispatched league foes Oakville and Wishkah Valley in straight sets last week. MMK entered this week with a 2-0 record in 1B Coastal League action (3-4 overall). In the Sept. 27 match against Oakville, the Acorns led 5-2 early before a 13-2 scoring surge by MMK, capped by a one-handed kill from Owls' senior Hailey Lohman - one of two players for the Owls that...
The Highclimbers fell to Montesano 35-13 in a nonleague football game Sept. 30 at Highclimber Stadium. Montesano had 353 yards of offense compared to 266 yards for Shelton. Shelton quarterback Mason Goos was 10 of 18 passing with 111 yards. Bradley Eleton led the Shelton backfield with seven carries for 66 yards for one touchdown. Bradley Tiller had one carry for three yards and a score and Conner Gilman tallied 19 carries for 46 yards. Gabe Menefee led Shelton receivers with five catches for...
Shelton Girls Soccer Shelton earned a win against Rochester before a loss to Aberdeen in EvCo girls soccer action last week. The Highclimbers won 2-1 in Rochester on Sept. 27, but dropped a match 3-0 in Aberdeen on Sept. 29. Shelton (2-6, 1-4) hosted Black Hills on Tuesday and is on the road in Chehalis today against W.F. West. Shelton Volleyball The Highclimber volleyball team earned a win against Aberdeen last week in an Evergreen Conference match. Shelton fell in a 3-2 match to Rochester at home Sept. 27. The Highclimbers hosted Aberdeen on...
Shelton scored 14 points in the third quarter to pull away for a 21-7 victory against Rochester in an Evergreen Conference football game Sept. 23 at Jack Stark Field at Highclimber Stadium. The Warriors scored first with a Braden Hartley 3-yard run and a 7-0 lead. Shelton responded on the next drive and tied the game, with Shelton quarterback Mason Goos pump-faking a pass before throwing a 22-yard touchdown pass to Gabe Menefee. The game was tied at 7 at halftime. Goos completed his second...
I don’t want to jinx it, curse it, whatever you want to call it, but after 21 years of involuntary abstinence, the Seattle Mariners should break the longest playoff drought in pro sports. It’s been a long time since the Mariners were in the playoffs. To put it in context for you, it was the same year as 9/11, and I’m sure many people reading this remember where they were that day. I was 11 years old that day. I remember attending opening day and watching Ichiro play and my mom bought me matching...
Shelton High School Girls swimming Shelton won its opening swim meet of the season on the road against Tumwater on Sept. 20 and followed it up with a victory on the road against Black Hills on Sept. 22 in Evergreen Conference meets. The Highclimbers defeated the Thunderbirds 96-83. Shelton’s Lelia Ollenburg won the 200-yard freestyle race with a time of 2 minutes, 20 seconds. Kaylin Mutoli won the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:37. Madeline Allred won the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 26 seconds and the 100-yard freestyle w...
Shelton's Jacob Miller won the boys race by two legs as the Highclimber boys earned a win in an Evergreen Conference meet with Aberdeen and Rochester on Sept. 14. Miller beat Aberdeen's Will Boling with a time of 13 minutes, 57 seconds. Shelton runner Jaydon Blackburn finished third with a time of 14:08 and Carson Bursch placed fourth with a time of 14:20. Landon Bursch placed seventh for Shelton with a time of 15:29 and Jack Parker placed 10 with a time of 16:14. The Shelton girls had no...
Shelton Football Shelton lost 48-6 against W.F. West in its opening EvCo game of the season Sept. 16 in Chehalis. The lone touchdown for the Highclimbers was a Mason Goos’ 55-yard pass to Weetly Cordova. The Bearcats scored 13 in the first quarter and 14 in the second quarter to build a 27-6 lead at halftime and cruised to victory in the second half. Goos was 16 of 32 for 187 yards, with one touchdown and one interception. Bradley Eleton led the rushing attack with six carries for 22 yards. Dante Trikoff was the leading receiver with nine c...
An unfortunate trend in Washington and across the nation must be stopped: the bad behavior of coaches, parents and fans at high school and middle school athletic events. We’ve all seen it: the yelling, harassing, berating, disrespecting, and even assaulting referees, umpires and other officials during and after games. Oftentimes, the harassment continues on social media. Perhaps you’ve witnessed it firsthand or been one of those offenders yourself. Not only is this behavior unacceptable and embarrassing, but it’s having serious conse...
Madison Gill was feeling it. Was she ever. Gill, a senior forward for the Shelton High School girls soccer team, scored two goals in each half as the Highclimbers topped Mason County Cup rival North Mason 6-0 on Sept. 8 at Phil Pugh Stadium in Belfair. "It feels really good to come in," Gill said. "It's my last year playing soccer. I won't be here in college, so it feels really good to be coming out and playing with the ladies I grew up with." As a sophomore during the COVID-altered spring 2021...
Shelton scored 27 points in the second quarter to cruise to a 34-7 win against White River on Sept. 8 in Buckley. The Highclimbers started the scoring with eight seconds left in the first quarter, with Roy Perez catching a 7-yard touchdown pass from Mason Goos for a 7-0 lead. Bishop Manning caught a 16-yard touchdown pass from Goos to begin the second quarter scoring, followed by a 29-yard touchdown pass from Goos to Gabe Menefee for a 20-0 lead. Bradley Eleton returned an interception for a...
The axe is staying in Shelton after the Highclimbers defeated North Mason 39-18 Friday in the 10th Mason County Cup game. It was a tale of two halves for Shelton, scoring just six points in the first half, but the team scored on all but one possession in the second half. "Well, I wasn't very happy with the first half," Shelton coach Mark Smith said after the game. "We didn't get anything started. We struggled and we really didn't get much flow, just staggering, wasn't much energy. We found...
The Shelton boys finished second as a team at the Ultimook cross country race in Tillamook, Oregon, on Saturday. Shelton's Jacob Miller finished sixth with a time of 16 minutes, 56 seconds. Jaydon Blackburn placed 10th with a time of 17:10. Carson Bursch was also in the Top 15, earning 13th place with a time of 17:39. Jack Parker placed 45th, Landon Bursch finished 69th, Richard Beckman took 71st and Nathan Gomez rounded out the Highclimbers with a 130th place finish. In the girls race,...
After two seasons filled with disruptions due to the coronavirus pandemic, this year's version of Friday Night Lights feels like a return to normalcy. Perhaps that's tempting fate, but, for now, Mason County's three high school football teams are heading into this week's season openers with a full, structured offseason for the first time since 2019. Amid the height of the pandemic in 2020, the fall football season was postponed until spring 2021 when, after a rapid week of practice, teams...
The Shelton Highclimbers football team has high hopes as they prepare for the 2022 football season. Mark Smith, in his third season at the helm, said the transformation from the end of last year to this year was great. It was much better with a full offseason after having a shortened offseason following the spring 2021 COVID season and turning around three months later for a fall season. "The first year, we played in February, March, so gave the kids off April so we basically had May, June,...
The snap ended in a fumble. As did the next one. The one after that was flagged as a penalty. Under a scorching late-summer sun at Belfair's Phil Pugh Stadium, the Bulldogs kept grinding. "Our first thing is hold yourselves accountable," North Mason High School football coach Rob Thomas said last week after his squad's sixth day of practice. "Mistakes are going to happen. Mistakes are part of football. Part of growing is what do you do after you make that mistake? That's going to dictate how...
Mary M. Knight enters the 2022 football season with something they're not experienced with: inexperience. "I have one returning starter, and it's only his second year of football," MMK coach Tom Kerr told the Journal. "I've got another returner, a non-starter, second year of football and then five new players that have never played the game before." The Owls had an experienced senior class last season, highlighted by Ryan Good and Quinnton Krippelcz, but the four seniors are gone along with...
Shelton High School grads are preparing for the 24 Hours of Lemons race Oct. 15 and 16 at the Ridge Motorsports Complex. Mike Beyer, Shelton High School's career and technical education auto instructor, was able to get some alums and former students together who were interested in competing in the race. "It was my idea to try this race and give a shot at an endurance race," Beyer told the Journal. "It's not our first attempt, it's probably going to be our most successful, I think. We tried to...
Dusty slides, plenty of laughs and a whole lot of trash talking. That was the 24th annual Fuddpuckers Draft softball tournament in a nutshell. The two-day, six-team event Saturday and Sunday at Callanan Park in Shelton had a little of everything, including a few things that probably needed a couple of ibuprofen afterwards. "We would like to thank all our players and coaches," co-organizers, and sisters, Kacy Fladager and Chelsey Ceniza said after the tournament concluded. "Without you, this tour...
