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  • Climber girls wrestle past Bobcats

    Jan 30, 2025

    The Shelton High School girls wrestling team beat Aberdeen 42-30 on Jan. 22 at the Shelton Mini-Dome, wrapping up the home portion of their schedule....

  • 'Dogs run wild against Knights

    Jan 30, 2025

    The North Mason High School girls basketball team steamrolled to a 58-29 win over rival Bremerton on Friday night at Bulldog Gym in Belfair. The win earned the Bulldogs a season sweep of the Knights and moved North Mason to 10-5 overall this year....

  • Prep Roundup

    Jan 23, 2025

    Shelton boys wrestling The Shelton High School boys wrestling team had a solid week, capturing a league dual meet against Centralia on Jan. 15 at the Shelton Mini-Dome and then earning a second-place finish at the Dave Holter Invitational on Saturday at Kelso. At the Holter Inviter, the Climbers' Hunter Leth won the 175-pound weight class, and Richie Lingle and Cole Borden were second in the 132 and 138-weight classes, respectively. William Lacey (3rd, 106), Aiden Dodge (4th, 120), Jace Wolfe...

  • Climbers pin down Tigers

    Jan 23, 2025

  • Highclimbers bowl to victory on senior day

    Jan 23, 2025

    The Shelton High School bowling team rolled to a senior day win Jan. 16 at Westside Lanes in Olympia. Shelton finished its regular season with a 7-5 overall record and will head to the 3A District tournament Jan. 31 in Vancouver. Shelton honored eight seniors prior to the match....

  • Year in Review - Sports

    Staff report|Dec 26, 2024

    A trio of athletes claiming state titles highlighted 2024 for sports in Mason County. In late February, North Mason's Sadie Evans won the 1B-2A girls 155-pound wrestling title, and then in May, the Bulldogs' Adrianna Tupolo won the 2A state girls discus title and Mary M. Knight's Logan Green won the 1B high jump title....

  • 'Dogs run wild

    Dec 26, 2024

    The North Mason High School boys basketball team routed Kingston 77-53 on Dec. 17 at Bulldog Gym in Belfair, giving the Bulldogs a 2-2 record in Olympic League play. North Mason then defeated Orting on Friday to improve to 5-3....

  • Bowl 'Dogs

    Dec 5, 2024

  • Three Mason County harriers headed to state meets

    Staff report|Nov 7, 2024

    North Mason High School sophomore Alisha Carpenter finished 10th at the 2A Westside Classic district girls cross county meet on Saturday at Chambers Creek in University Place. Carpenter’s 5K time of 21 minutes, 5.6 seconds qualified her for Saturday’s 2 A state meet at Sun Willows Golf Course in Pasco. The 2A girls state race is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. Bulldog freshman Samantha Neil finished 28th overall with a time of 22:59.7 and also qualified for the state meet. Shelton High School junior Trayson Bartholomew finished 37th ove...

  • Finishing with a win

    Nov 7, 2024

    The Mary M. Knight High School volleyball team wrapped up its 2024 season on Oct. 28 in Matlock with a straight-set sweep of Oakville. It was the Owls' second win of the year over the Acorns....

  • Finding a hole

    Oct 31, 2024

  • Senior Night in Shelton

    Oct 31, 2024

    The Shelton High School football team hosted Prairie on Friday at Jack Stark Field at Highclimber Stadium and the Highclimbers' seniors were honored during the game. Shelton plays its final two games on the road, Friday at Kelso and Nov. 7 against Timberline at South Sound Stadium in Lacey....

  • Owls roll to victory

    Oct 17, 2024

    The Mary M. Knight High School volleyball team swept Lake Quinault in straight sets Thursday in Matlock....

  • Climbers hit the links

    Oct 17, 2024

    The Shelton High School boys golf team took on Tumwater on Oct. 9 at Alderbrook Golf & Yacht Club in Union....

  • Sports & Outdoors

    June Williams|Oct 3, 2024

  • Home Thriller

    Oct 3, 2024

    The Shelton High School volleyball team captured its second straight five-set win Tuesday at the Mini-Dome, defeating Black Hills 3-2 to improve to 2-0 in 2A Evergreen League play and 3-3 overall....

  • Competitive swim

    Sep 26, 2024

  • Swimming into fall

    Aug 29, 2024

  • Shelton prepares for return to 3A sports

    Matt Baide, For the Journal|Aug 29, 2024

    Shelton High School enjoyed playing in the Evergreen 2A Conference, but after reclassification last year, the Highclimbers found themselves moved up to 3A. But the Highclimbers enjoyed the Evergreen 2A Conference so much, they decided to continue playing a 2A EvCo schedule in all sports except football. "We appealed and hoped that we would stay 2A. I don't think our work was quite done with the appeal that we got right when COVID came," Shelton Athletic director Scott Chamberlain told the...

  • Allyn hurdler 0.15s short in Paris

    Gordon Weeks|Aug 8, 2024

    Allyn native C.J. Allen on Wednesday finished fourth in his heat in the semifinals of the 400-meter hurdles at the Olympic Games in Paris, and was 0.15 seconds off the pace of qualifying for the medal round. The 2013 North Mason High School graduate had a time of 48.44. He advanced to Wednesday’s heat by placing second with a time of 48.64 on Monday. The finals are Friday. The former Washington State University track star, now a 29-year-old Atlanta resident, qualified for the Olympics on June 30 by placing second in the 400-meter hurdles w...

  • Sports & Outdoors

    Aug 1, 2024

  • MMK girls basketball coach, school board president dies

    Journal Staff|Jun 13, 2024

    You would probably be hard-pressed to find someone in Matlock that didn't have a story about Mike Bateman. Bateman, 59, a life-long community member and graduate of Mary M. Knight High School who served as the president of the Mary M. Knight school board and the Owls' head girls basketball coach, died on May 29. "It is with a heavy heart that I report the passing of one of our school board members, Mr. Mike Bateman," MMK Superintendant Matt Mallery wrote in a district statement. "As some of you...

  • Tupolo is 2A discus champion

    Justin Johnson|May 30, 2024

    North Mason High School junior Adrianna Tupolo became the first Bulldog to win a state girls track title in 30 years Friday. Tupolo won the discus event at the 2A state Track & Field Championship meet Thursday to Saturday at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma. "Coming back from finishing 8th in the discus last year at the state championship, I knew from the beginning of this season that Adrianna was ready to put in the work to make some serious progress," North Mason girls coach Lily Campbell...

  • District champion

    May 23, 2024

  • Shelton High tennis duo preps for final state run

    Matt Baide, For the Journal|May 23, 2024

    Jayden Lovingfoss and Wyatt Wagner were paired up to play as a doubles team in ninth grade, and now they are getting ready to play in their final tennis tournament of their Shelton Highclimber careers. The duo will compete at the 2A boys state tennis tournament Friday and Saturday at the Nordstrom Tennis Center on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle. Both players are feeling good, but they have had a lot of time off since they last played tennis together. The duo finished 14-0...

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