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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 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...
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...
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,...
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...
Mason County Disc Golf Club vice president Janice Jones won the women's Amateur Master 60+ Championship tournament at the 2022 Pro Disc Golf Association U.S. Championships on June 30 to July 3 in Madison, Wisconsin. Jones, 64, won with a score of +14, four shots better than second-place Janet Cranshaw. "I'm thrilled. In the last year, I think I've worked very hard, deliberately, to put myself in that position," Jones told the Journal. Jones said she moved back to the state about a year ago...
Pierce Parnell of Lacey won the advanced division at the Washington State Amateur Championships disc golf tournament at Shelton Springs disc golf course July 2-4. Parnell finished at 11-under, one shot better than Noah Phillips in second place. Bryan Roush won the Amateur Masters 40+ division at 1-over, two shots better than second place Deane Phillips. The Amateur Masters 50+ division was dominated by James Huestis, shooting 17-under for the three-round tournament. Jeffrey Arnold won the...
Shelton's Alauna Carstens ended her senior year with an exclamation point, winning the State 2A 1,600- and 3,200-meter races Thursday and Saturday at the state 2A, 3A and 4A track and field meets at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma. Carstens competed in the 1,600-meter race Thursday and pulled ahead in the third lap and was able to narrowly edge Ellensburg's Kate Laurent at the finish line with a time of 4:58.34 to Laurent's 4:58.48. The time was a personal record and school record. "It feels...
North Mason senior Addilyn Varick saved her best for last to earn second place in the state 2A girls javelin throw Thursday at Mount Tahoma High School. Varick's final throw of her high school career measured 116 feet, 4 inches, a personal best and good enough to take second place. Tumwater's Natalie Sumrok won the state title with a toss of 126 feet, 2 inches. "It felt really nice because I've been dealing with really bad rib issues all season and that one was probably my best because I was abl...
Shelton's Alauna Carstens continued her record-breaking senior season, winning the 1,600-meter and 3,200-meter race at the District 4 2A track and field meet Friday at Highclimber Stadium in Shelton. Carstens won the 1,600-meter race in 5:08.57 and the 3,200-meter race in 11:13.35. Ali Clifton was the other Shelton girls athlete to qualify for state, finishing fourth in the 3,200-meter race with a time of 12:08.95. On the boys side, Kaden Pearson qualified for the 100- and 200-meter races....
The North Mason High School softball team earned the No. 10 seed in the District 2/3 2A Bi-District tournament on Friday and Saturday at the Regional Athletic Complex in Lacey. The Bulldogs defeated Tyee 15-0 in three innings to open the tournament and then cruised past White River 15-2 in five innings. North Mason's season ended in heartbreaking fashion Saturday with a 3-2 loss to Olympic League rival North Kitsap, which went on to finish fifth in the tournament and advance to the 2A state...
