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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...
The Shelton boys basketball team concluded the regular season on Monday with a 66-47 win against Rochester on the road. The Highclimbers earned a 54-53 win on Feb. 2 in Centralia against the Tigers and earned a win on senior night against Aberdeen 87-55 on Jan. 31. Shelton has won five in a row to end the regular season and finish 11-8 overall and 6-6 in Evergreen Conference games. After losing the entire starting lineup last season, coach Sam Krieger said the Highclimbers had a pretty good seas...
North Mason High School senior Sarah Pruitt capped her prep bowling career with a top-25 individual finish at the 1A/2A state bowling tournament Friday at Bowlero in Tukwila. “One of my goals at the beginning of this season was to make it to state again and I was pretty happy to achieve that,” Pruitt said in a text message. “I feel like I did decent; definitely could have gone better, but that’s bowling though.” Priutt, who was the Shelton-Mason County Journal’s All-County Most Valuable Bowler as a junior in 2022, bowled games of 163, 147, 1...
The Shelton High School boys wrestling team finished third at the subregional wrestling tournament Feb. 4 at Black Hills High School in Tumwater. The only Highclimber earning a league title was Logan Peach at 132 pounds. Peach won the championship match by a 6-3 decision against Black Hills’ Khristian Brant. Shelton’s Ty Fleshman at 120 pounds, Cole Borden at 126 pounds, Mario Boxley at 170 pounds and Daniel Tausa at 285 pounds each earned second place in their respective tournaments. Ric...
Gabi Munro admits having modest expectations for her senior year. "My goal was to win at least four games this season. That was my goal," Munro said. "Now, since we've made it this far as a team, we haven't won this many games in a while, but now my goal is to go further as a team and make it to the playoffs and to work together and just achieve that big goal." On Saturday afternoon, Munro scored a game-high 16 points to lead the Shelton High School girls basketball team to a 54-38 win over King...
Danyka Squire is officially set to compete at the next level. Squire, a senior multisport athlete at Shelton High School, has signed a letter of intent to compete in softball at Clark College in Vancouver, beginning in the fall. "I'm really excited," said Squire, who plays catcher. "It wasn't something that I always planned on my entire life because I do struggle with anxiety, but proving to myself that I can do it and sticking with it over the years is super exciting to me and the one thing I...
Ray Bonnell is in his first year as athletic director at North Mason High School. His journey to Belfair took him around the world with American football. Bonnell was born in Cincinnati. His family moved to Kent while his uncle, Barry Bonnell, played baseball for the Seattle Mariners from 1984 to 1986. He attended Kentwood High School and played football, which got him recruited to play linebacker at Washington State University from 2000 to 2003. The Cougars had three 10-win seasons while Bonnel...
The stormy seas have settled and the Highclimbers are full sail ahead. Shaking off an 0-5 start to the season, the Shelton High School boys basketball team routed Centralia 68-40 Tuesday night at Terry Gregg Court in Shelton for its fourth consecutive victory. "We're still working on consistency," Shelton coach Sam Kreiger said. "In those first couple of weeks, when we were struggling, we were making a good play and then we made a bad play. And unfortunately a lot of the teams that we faced...
North Mason's Winter Classic wrestling tournament was pinned due to weather before Christmas, but Jake Mathews and Pedro Salvador did some pinning of their own Dec. 28 as each won their respective weight classes. The Bulldogs finished fourth as a team at the North Mason Hawkins Memorial Classic tournament Dec. 28 in Belfair. Salvador wrestled at 152 pounds and defeated North Kitsap opponents by pin, against Solomon Furne in the quarterfinals and Mason Holmes in the semifinals, before winning...
Jaylin Moore is set to become a Raider next fall. The Shelton High School senior volleyball standout signed with Pierce College of the Northwest Athletic Conference to compete for the Raiders' volleyball team. "I'm excited to play close to home so my family and friends can watch me," Moore wrote in an email. "I like that I will be near home for at least the next year of college." Moore plays right side and outside on her club team, Dakine, and right side for the Highclimbers, but said she's...
The Shelton girls bowling team dropped two matches last week against Rochester and Aberdeen in Evergreen Conference matches at Westside Lanes in Olympia. Shelton hosted Rochester on Nov. 15 and lost 1,419 to 1,296. Summer Foreman led the Highclimbers with a high game of 149. On Nov. 17, Shelton lost to Aberdeen 1,552 to 1,384 in the Highclimbers' highest team total of the season. Marsybel Hernandez-Zacarias bowled above her average for both games and Audrey Knauf, Hernandez-Zacarias and Foreman...
After the final event of the state 2A girls swim meet in Federal Way, the Shelton relay team of Lelia Ollenburg, Madeline Allred, Kaylin Mutoli and Abbi Sachs jumped into the pool to celebrate their 2022 season accomplishments. As the team scores were revealed, Shelton celebrated again. The big readerboard showed Shelton taking ninth place, the highest finish in school history, at the state 2A swim meet Nov. 11 and 12 at the King County Aquatic Center. "That's awesome. That's the first time the...
What a difference a year makes. The Shelton Highclimbers football team was back in a Kansas tiebreaker once again on Monday at Tumwater District Stadium with Black Hills and Aberdeen, with two spots in the district crossover playoff games on the line. Shelton defeated Black Hills in the first matchup, and then took down Aberdeen to secure the No. 4 seed out of the Evergreen Conference into the District crossover games. The Highclimbers will travel to Washougal to take on the Panthers at 7 p.m....
The mark of the best teams is that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. It's the philosophy that has guided the Mary M. Knight High School volleyball team to one of its best seasons in recent history. "I think one of the biggest things is, in the program, we really work hard," Owls coach Kitty Brehmeyer said. "I mean from day one, even at the junior high level, we stress that you need to go out there and be the best teammate you can be. When you are the best teammate for someone else...
The Shelton boys cross country team qualified for the state tournament with a fourth-place finish at the District IV cross country meet Oct. 27 at Lewis River Golf Course in Woodland. Jacob Miller was the highest finisher for the Highclimbers in third place, completing the race in 16 minutes, 9 seconds. Jaydon Blackburn took ninth place in 16:43. Carson Bursch took 21st place in 17:10, Landon Bursch finished 39th in 17:55 and Jack Parker ended in 51st place with a time of 18:32. Richard Beckman...
Shelton's Jayden Lovingfoss and Wyatt Wagner won the Evergreen Conference boys doubles tennis tournament on Oct. 17 and 18 at Tumwater High School. Lovingfoss and Wagner, both juniors, enter the district tournament at Club Green Meadows in Vancouver today and Friday as the No. 1 seed. "It was pretty awesome," Lovingfoss told the Journal about winning the league championship. "I'm just so excited God's provided so many opportunities for me to play tennis and get to expand my game. It's a real...
Goals are powerful motivators. After a summer of intense training, Kezlie Thygesen is reaping the rewards. "I have had lots of progress and worked hard during the offseason and in-season training," Thygesen wrote in an email interview with the Journal. "My commitment to summer training was a key to my improvement this season." Thygesen, a senior for North Mason High School's girls cross country team, finished third overall and second among 2A runners at last week's Olympic League championships...
Trailing by a point in the final minutes of the first half, the Bulldogs had a choice: put their heads down or go to work. It was an easy decision. After an underthrown pass resulted in a drive-killing interception on Sequim's 5-yard line, the North Mason High School football team's defense backed the Wolves up and a shanked punt gave the Bulldogs the ball on the 13-yard line with 30 seconds left. Given a second chance to end the first half on a high note, North Mason took advantage as junior...
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...
