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Criticism led to mistakes, poor play

By Tyler HueyNisqually Valley News

When Rainier’s fastpitch team is having fun they often win, but if they lose focus, losses seem to mount.

Take last week as a prime exam-ple.

Rainier (5-10 overall, 2-8 league) split a double-header against Roches-ter, winning 5-2 and losing 7-1.

The two games, including its fi nal scores and team focus, were mere op-posites of each other.

In Rainier’s win, the team was confi dent. Senior Jen Jones, who pitched a complete-game fi ve-hitter with six strikeouts, attributed her per-formance to the team’s morale.

“It was really fun,” Jones said. “I

didn’t get caught up in everything and wasn’t concentrating on everything else. I focused on my game.”

Accompanied with solid pitch-ing and defense, Rainier’s bats came alive.

Freshman Kara Schoenherr went 1-for-4 with a triple and 2 RBIs. Se-nior Teresa Coberly-Mayer went 2-for-4 with an RBI and senior Sarah Vincent went 2-for-3 and knocked in an insurance run in the sixth inning.

But most everything — including fundamentals — came crashing down in the rubber game.

“We just got mentally tired,” Rainier coach Don Franklin said. “We committed seven errors in the second game for whatever reason. Their pitcher wasn’t all that over-whelming, but we couldn’t seem to dial into her.”

A snowball effect ensued once the fi rst couple of errors were commit-ted.

“We weren’t having as much fun,” Jones said. “We kind of gave up at the end. In the beginning we were doing good, but the errors got (the team)

down.”Once mistakes manifest, the blame

game can often rear its ugly head.“People take (their frustration) out

on others,” Jones said. “We need to try to not give up and just keep trying to have fun.”

“When we’re having fun we win, instead of doing this and that, which (results) in team criticism.”

Despite Rainier’s record as of Wednesday, they are not mathemati-cally eliminated from the postsea-son, but they must sweep Toledo and Tenino in two double-headers to have a chance.

“Overall, we’ve made some prog-ress,” Franklin said. “Pitching has been better and we’ve improved our hitting.”

But aside from team morale, pitching and hitting, the team’s big-gest improvement potential may lie with its youth.

“We have nine really good fresh-man out this year, but we’re losing fi ve key seniors,” Franklin said. “With varsity experience, the freshman will be ready to step in next year.”


Despite around fi ve no-shows due to prom, several Yelm track standouts were on display at Sat-urday’s respective Shoreline and Lake Washington Invitationals.

At Shoreline, the boys scored 24 points to place 11th out of 57 schools; the girls tied for 39th place out of 50 teams.

Seniors Jesse Elvrom and Gabe Cadero-Smith placed fi rst in javelin and pole vault, respec-tively.

Elvrom won by three feet, two inches with a 184-09 throw. Cadero-Smith’s top vault was 14-06.

Elvrom also took fi fth place in the 300-meter hurdles at 39.66 seconds.

Yelm coach Mike Strong said pole vault and javelin are the two most diffi cult events.

“In pole vault, there are a number of things you have to line up with tremendous speed, coordination, strength, fl ex-ibility and a dynamic take off,”

Strong said. “There are so many things you have to put together. If one little thing is off you can’t vault well.”

“Javelin is tough for differ-ent reasons. It is about lining up force … and accelerating between the teeny tip of the jav-elin.”

If everything is not done properly, it won’t go as far, he said.

Last year Elvrom took fourth at state in javelin.

“Jesse is a guy who can

throw up to 215 feet,” Strong said. “He’s really strong and ex-plosive.”

In Cadero-Smith’s win, hetopped last year’s state cham-pion and looks poised to make a run throughout the postseason.

“He’s kind of coming into his own,” Strong said. “He might beable to get (more than 15 feet.) He will be tough to beat, that’sfor sure.”

Other top performers weresophomore Michael Herlinger-Hopkins, who took 12th place

in the 200 meters at 23.27; se-nior Zach Smith placed 17th in the 3,200 at 10:44:08 and junior Andrew Almeida placed 22nd in the 100 at 11.75.

Junior Ashley Taylor was the girls team’s top performer. Tay-lor placed fi fth in the 3,000 at 10:39:52.

Taylor said she hopes to make the state tournament and place in the top 10 in the 3,200. To do so, she said she needs


When Mark Tate became Yelm’s soccer coach seven years ago, the program still needed balls and uniforms.

“Competing was hardly even a goal,” Tate said. “We didn’t have the players to compete.”

Now fast forward to the pres-ent day: Yelm has an opportunity to win its fi rst league champion-ship Friday at Timberline. The Tornados netted a district berth with a 2-1 victory against North Thurston on Tuesday night.

At a mini-mum, Yelm will be crowned co-league champi-ons with a vic-tory Friday. A Yelm win, ac-companied by a Capital loss, will make them league champs.

Yelm midfi elder Greg Will-mann struck fi rst blood with an unassisted goal in the 49th min-ute, but North Thurston tied the game one minute later.

Forward Miguel Gonzalez got the fi nal goal in the 75th minute off an assist from his brother, Daniel. Miguel received the pass at the 50 yard line, got around the last defender and sprinted toward the goal.

The North Thurston victory came at a critical point for stand-ings in the Western Cascade Conference. Yelm (4-1 WCC) lost its previous game to Capital last Friday. The loss gave Capital (4-1) the upper hand with a fi rst-place tiebreaker over Yelm due to a higher differential in their

head to head matchups — Yelm won in a shootout, 2-1, April 17.

Coming off Friday’s loss, Tate wasn’t even focused on the district tournament.

“I am more concerned with the fact that we have given up 13 goals in the last three games,” Tate said. “Our motivation to compete in games is not the same as earlier in the season. If we can’t get these issues fi gured out, then we may not want to go to the district tournament.”

But since that loss, Yelm has regained its focus.

“We now prepare different-ly,” Willmann said. “Before that we prepared by talking about a lot of things and laughing. Now we’re kicking the ball around, listening to music and focus-ing.”

Though a district berth has been guaranteed, Tate said all the team’s focus is on Friday. A league title would be the culmi-nation of a season-long goal.

“Coach would be proud of us (if we win legue) and I would be proud of the team,” Willmann said.

Some kids would pick on him, but he couldn’t stop them. He had never been in a fi ght, so he ran away. His youth was fi lled with hopelessness and frequent lock ups.

Mike Tyson grew up in a “kill or be killed” neighbor-hood of Brooklyn. One time an older kid tried to steal

his pigeon. After an altercation, the guy broke the pigeon’s neck and threw it on the fl oor. This led to Tyson’s fi rst fi ght.

He won. Tyson, a boxer once known as Iron Mike

and the Baddest Man on the Planet, fought out of fear and the need to never be humiliated again.

“Tyson” is a documentary that hits hard both in and out of the ring. This is Tyson’s story in his own words.

Not only is the story compelling, powerful and saddening, Tyson is persuasive. He attempts to shed misconceptions of psychotic craziness and reveals the truth behind his life.

This documentary is like a boxing match from Tyson’s past: it’s must-watch TV that’s impossible to turn away from. You just want to know what he is going to say next.

Tyson touches on all aspects of his life including fame, money, women, prison and his later career.

Tyson is humanized early on. He has never gotten over the death of Cus D’Amato, his late trainer, mentor and best friend. It’s been more than 20 years since he died, but Tyson’s feelings toward him tug on the heart strings.

If it wasn’t for D’Amato, this documentary wouldn’t have been made. For Tyson, boxing would have been an afterthought. He prob-ably would have been on the streets hustling, possibly dead. Tyson was a boy when they met. D’Amato made him a man.

“He spoke with me every night about discipline and character,” Tyson said while fi ghting back tears. “I knew nobody, nobody physically, was ever going to (expletive) with me again.”

Tyson said he has lived his entire life with an inferiority complex. The fear of being de-feated drove him to greatness.

As several footages indicate, it wasn’t just the victories that made Tyson famous, it was the sheer speed, power and dominance of his fi ghts that captivated a nation.

“Once I’m in the ring, I’m a god,” Tyson said. “Nobody can beat me.”

That confi dence, however, was also hisdownfall. Once Tyson became cocky and his marriage to ex-wife Robin Givens crumbled,he overlooked opponents, trained lackadaisi-cally and began to lose what had made him unbeatable. Tyson regrets his past mistreat-ment of women, but adamantly denies his rape conviction of Desiree Washington, which led

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Senior Jen Davis went the distance in game one of a double-header last Thursday against Rochester. Rainier won5-2 but lost the second game 7-1.

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to run times around 11:20 and no higher than 11:30.

If Taylor achieves her goals, it will be thanks to o f f - s e a s o n training.

“Ashley’s a person who is very disciplined,” Strong said. “She works hard to get herself fi t.”

Coming into each race, Tay-lor has a plan in mind.

“Usually, at harder meets when facing someone who is faster than me, I try to stay with them the whole race and not get far behind,” Taylor said. “The last lap I pick up the pace. ”

“If it’s a race that is not as hard, I try to lead because that’s the right thing to do.”

And as of now Yelm is “com-ing down to the home stretch,” Strong said.

The fi nal regular season invitational is 4 p.m. Friday at Tumwater.

Sub-districts are Thursday, May 14 and Saturday, May 16 in Sumner.

to a three-year prison sen-tence.

And despite the highest of highs and lowest of lows,Tyson spoke candidly. He was honest, contrite, humble and ashamed.

This isn’t the same man who bit Evander Holyfi eld’s ear in 1997, nor is it the man who spewed out a profanity-laced tirade during a Lennox Lewis press conference in

2002. Instead, he’s more like the man who lost his last fi ght to journeyman Kevin McBride in 2005.

“I’ve got the ability to stay in shape, but I don’t have the fi ght and guts anymore,” said Tyson after his fi nal fi ght. “Ijust don’t have this in my heart anymore. … I’m not an animal anymore.”

But Tyson is still angry. He is mad at himself.

Life’s all about choices, and he knows that he’s made the

wrong decision countless times.But that was in the past.

Tyson seems prepared for the future — but only to a cer-tain degree because, at times, a bullied child still seems to lurk behind his high-pitched lisp.

All of his misfortunes are documented, so this fi lm provided a platform to tell his side. He sought vindication, sympathy and an opportunity to get paid.

Just like his prime, “Tyson” wins by knock out.

Name: Daniel Gonzalez Age: 16Parents: Jose and Martha

Gonzalez How would you describe

your performance this month?“I’ve been working hard.”Who’s your biggest inspira-

tion?(Professional soccer player)

Cristiano Ronaldo. I like his techniques and the way he plays. I’d like to be as good as him.”

When did you get into playing soccer?“When I was about 8 years old.”What was your most memorable soccer

moment?“In my club soccer team (South Sound Se-

lect), we won a league championship a year ago. It was really cool.”

Why do you like playing forward more than goalie?

“Goalie gets kind of boring after a while. I like running.”

What is you favorite video game?“Fifa ’09 for PS3. It’s kind of realistic and fun

to play.”Would you rather score a goal, make an as-

sist or have a game-altering save as goalie?“Have a save as goalie.” If you could take a free vacation, where

would you go?“Hawaii because the weather is really nice.”Favorite movie: “Taken”Favorite band/artist: NoneCoach Mark Tate on Gonzalez: “Daniel is

obviously a huge part of our team and one of the many reasons we have been successful this year.”


Rainier High School had all-around strong performances in the fi ve-team track meet last Thursday

The boys placed fi rst with 137.5 points and the girls took second at 81. The boys bested Forks, who placed second, with 81 points and the girls trailed Toledo by 61.

“I’ve been really happy with them,” Rainier coach Rob Henry said. “We’re competing well.”

Junior Ryley Reese was the top placer on the boys side, tak-ing two fi rsts and two seconds.

Reese placed fi rst in the 200 meters at 24.15 seconds and was lead in the 4x100 relay at 46.84. He took second in the 100 at 11.60 and lung jump at 17 feet, three inches.

“I did pretty well,” Reese said. “I could have done better in the 200 and the long jump wasn’t my best. I was surprised a bit.”

Reese said he wants to “at least make district” because he has never advanced to the post-season. His best chance is in the 100 and 200, but his favorite event is the 4x100.

“It’s so competitive,” he said. “It’s really, really quick. … I get to watch because I’m in the fi rst leg. It’s a pretty cool feeling.”

Henry said Reese has come a long way and is showing im-provement.

“He’s got an outside shot

to qualify for state in 100 and 200,” Henry said. “He’s right in the mix and is as good as any-one.”

Seniors Bradon Franklin and Kevin McCrea placed fi rst in discus and javelin, respectively. Franklin topped out at 127 feet and McCrea at 151-8.

Senior Jimmy Soto was an all-around performer in plac-ing second in the 200 at 24.20, fourth in the 100 at 11.90 and javelin at 139-8, as well as part of the fi rst place 4x100 team.

“He’s been around the pro-gram for four years,” Henry said. “He’s always the one per-son you could really count on.”

On the girls side, sophomore Kristen Schoenherr reigned su-preme yet again. She placed fi rst in the 200 at 27.93 and 300 hur-dles at 50.62, and was second in the 100 hurdles at 18.09.

Henry said this was the fi rst time Schoenherr competed in hurdles since eighth grade.

“She’s a natural athlete,” he said. “I’m really happy with her results. Now we need to make a decision on where to put her at (for the postseason).”

Freshman standout Zoie Daniels took fi rst place in the 800 and second in the 1,600. With a time of 2:28:59 in the 800, Daniels won by 24 sec-onds. She lost the 1,600 by one second.

Henry said Daniels has a good chance to place at the state tournament.

Sub-districts are Friday, May 15 at Onalaska.

The District 4 Champion-ships are Friday, May 22 at Rainier.

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TRACK: Regular season ends Friday at Tumwater


RHS track places 1st, 2nd at league meet

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Q&A: Athletes of the MonthYHS: Daniel Gonzalez

Name: Mitchell McCombAge: 16Parents: Mitch and Mary

McCombWhat is your best pitch?“My fastball. I like getting

hitters out on fastballs. Curve-balls are great, but blowing a fastball past a hitter to over-power them is one in the best

feelings in the world. It makes them look stu-pid.”

Who’s your biggest inspiration?“My dad, by far. He played ball thoughout his

life. He’s given me everything I’ve ever needed to become what I have become.”

How does it feel to have a dominant pitch-ing performance?

“It feels great. I get an adrenaline rush and that rush gets me in the zone. I don’t think or hear anything that’s going on. When I’m on themound I’m totally in the zone.”

Do you have a nickname?“Mitch-Tits”Who’s your favoorite baseball player?“Albert Pujols because of what he does for his

community. I always see him in magazines about how he helps kids with down syndrome, which my sister has.”

What is your favorite video game?“MLB 2K9 for the Xbox 360.”How would your teammates describe you?“A quiet leader.”Favorite movie: “61*”Favorite band/artist: Hollywood UndeadCoach Mark Mounts on McComb: “He’s a

quiet leader. He leads with his actions.”

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DOESN’T IT SEEM like yes-terday when the world was about to end because of Y2K? Technological Armageddon had breached mankind because representing a year from ’99 to ’00 is something the world’s com-puters would not, and could not, han-dle. But once clocks struck midnight and the date rolled over, nothing hap-pened.

Seems kind of funny now, but so is the fact that 10 years later and the name for this decade is still up in the air. Is it known as the 2000s, double zeroes or the fi rst decade of the 21st century?

Whatever the case, 2009 should be known as a good sports year. Sports can provide moments which take people to a place where time stands still and the only thing that matters is right here, right now. Some athletic achievements are so profound and memorable they can never be forgot-ten.

Just ask members of the greater Yelm community.

FATHER’S DAY 2009 will be impossible to forget for one Yelm fa-ther and son. Kelly Kabat and his 10-year-old son, Evan, attended a Seattle Mariners game. Sounds like a great way to celebrate the occasion, right? Not much could top a Father’s Day enjoying the great American pastime, except if Evan threw out the ceremo-nial fi rst pitch to his dad.

At fi rst everything seemed nor-mal, aside from spending the day with Kabat’s brother, Brian, who fl ew in from Arizona. Once they entered Safeco Field, however, the wheels went into motion.

An employee told them they could walk on the fi eld as part of a pregame parade to celebrate “Youth Baseball Day.” So they did, walking from the center fi eld warning track to home plate. Brian then took a photo of the happy father and son. The next part was out of a movie script.

A Mariners representative then asked Kabat and Evan if they wanted to be part of the pregame festivities and throw out the fi rst pitch.

“I thought it was a dream,” Evan said in April. “I was excited and ner-vous.”

Evan, despite playing organized baseball for just two years, went on to throw a strike from the pitcher’s mound to his dad, who was crouched behind home plate. Kabat said the moment was “fantastic,” and Evan said he just threw the ball like it was practice.

Talk about a remarkable moment. Now every other father and son are jealous.

“It was a once-in-a-lifetime ex-traordinary event,” Kabat said. “It was an out-of-body experience.”

BLAKE RAUSH IS living proof that good things come in small pack-ages. Standing 3-feet tall and weigh-ing in at 40 pounds, Blake, of Rain-ier, is a 6-year-old who doesn’t mind getting dirty on the race track.

At his birthday in July, he hit the dirt tracks with several friends. To the naked eye, he’s small in stature,

but in hindsight his bedroom proved that he was larger than life – 21 dirt bike trophies.

Blake looks to have inherited his stepdad’s love for dirt bike racing.

“I’ve always been into it,” said Blake’s stepdad Chris Waller. “He just took a ton of it.”

Blake got his fi rst dirt bike for Christmas when he was 4 and hasn’t looked back. In the summer, he raced in the Burnt Ridge MX series and Mudslingers out of Tenino in two 50cc dirt bike series. One class is pee wee for ages 4-6. The other is an open class where riders can range up to age 9.

Blake was in fi rst place in both series.

“I just like to go out there and have fun and try to win it,” Blake said. “I just go out there and try to do my best.”

THINGS TO DO on the last full day of a 20-day vacation in Spain: relax, pack bags and compete in the Pamplona Running of the Bulls.

Spanning June 24 to July 14, Jim-my and Casaundra Soto, of Rainier, did all three things. The relaxing and bag packing just came in between their July 13 Running of the Bulls. The brother and sister, who graduat-ed from Rainier High School in 2009 and 2005, respectively, took the vaca-tion before embarking on their mili-tary careers. They ended the vacation with a bang, not a gore.

“Oh my gosh, it was intense,” Casaundra said after returning home.

“It was crazy because you could see when the bulls were coming near be-cause everybody’s face would show it.”

Jimmy and Casaundra were two of more than 1,000 runners. They dressed in the traditional white shirts and pants with red waistbands and neckerchiefs.

The Running of the Bulls, which is about 850 meters, began in an alley, went onto a main street and ended in the Plaza de Toro bullring. Once each runner got a head start, a rocket was set off to alert everyone that the cor-ral gate was open.

If adrenaline had not already kicked in, it certainly did now. Legs moved quicker and heart rates rose exponentially.

Another rocket then went off to signify the bulls were within 30 sec-onds of the runners.

In total, six bulls and six steers ran through the streets.

Casaundra didn’t see any bulls during the event because she was up toward the front of the pack. Jimmy was a little more brazen.

At one point he was so close he could have touched a bull, but didn’t because offi cials would have hit him with a stick for breaking the rules.

“It was probably one of the most amazing moments of my life,” he said. “It probably should be on ev-erybody’s to-do list in life. I’ve never been so full of adrenaline and fear at the same time. It was just crazy.”


Creating a rugby club in Yelm was just an optimistic goal three months ago.

The dream has now become reality.“I was hopeful but a little nervous that it

might not come together, but it did,” said Pat Norton, who organized the club.

“I’m really excited for the boys in Yelm. It’s going to bring a different dimension into the area.”

“It’s another positive outlet for the youth in the community to work as a team, have camara-derie, build friendships and do something posi-tive.”

The Prairie Rugby Football Club Mustangs, which is a USA Rugby registered club, look to have a U19 and U16 team, and possibly a U14. More than 15 ruggers have signed up and about the same number have said they are “serious” about playing.

Several students who are currently playing winter sports have also expressed interest, and seven current and former rugby players volun-teered to coach.

“The club formed because of advertising, or-ganizational meetings and by word of mouth,” Norton said.

“In a club, it’s a little different than a team,” he said.

“It’s like a big family where you get together around rugby to help the team out.”

Mike Baker, the club’s head coach, has lived

An anonymous man is taking high-stakes blackjack to a whole new level.

One year ago he used his skills to win a family out of debt, and now Las Vegas’ self-proclaimed Robin Hood is set to do it again.

The gambler is in search of anyone who’s in dire

straits and needs help.“I’m going to look for the story that’s really

going to touch my heart,” he said, according to Fox News. “That’s it.”

Last year, calling himself “RobinHood702” after Vegas’ 702 area code, he asked for sub-missions on his Web site, RobinHood702.com, and received thousands of responses.

He selected a couple from Detroit with ayoung daughter whose battle with brain cancer put them $35,000 in debt.

What ensued was like USA hockey beating the Soviets all over again: “Do you believe in miracles? Yes!”

The man fl ew the family to Vegas fi rst class, set them up in a primo suite and treated them like royalty.

In this case the story of Robin Hood is true, since he took from the rich and gave 35 grand to a struggling family.

Now, with the help of a friend, Robin-Hood702 plans to get two families out of the red.

This seems like a fairy tale because it practically is, only better: “Are you buried in bills? About to lose your home? On the brink of fi nancial ruin? If so, this could be your big break.”

RobinHood702’s online help ad is no joke. He’s already proved it once before, and now it’s going to be double the pleasure.

Even if he hits a bad run, the card sharkguarantees at least half of the chosen family’s debt will be paid.

Since Santa Claus doesn’t exist, maybe RobinHood702 should take his place. Not only does he offer complete strangers the chance of a lifetime near Christmas, he is real, yet secre-tive, like Old Saint Nick. RobinHood702, how-ever, is even more incognito than the festively plump Kris Kringle.

Unlike most people who want their gen-erosity to be praised, he keeps his identity a secret.

In his eyes, his face doesn’t need to be shown. For all anyone knows, he’s a card coun-ter, which isn’t illegal, but is frowned upon.

If his face was revealed, he may get black-listed from casinos, thus there would be no families to help.

Casinos, after all, don’t continue to grow because they’re losing money.

They want to net as much cash as possible, and ridding themselves of a potential card counter would make it easier to build brand new complexes.

But even if that isn’t the case, being name-less only adds to his mysterious allure. He’s a masked vigilante minus the mask and vigilan-

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Blake Raush, of Rainier, rides over a hump in July during his birthday party. Blake, 6, had won 21 dirt bike trophiesat the time.

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Evan Kabat, of Yelm, threw out the first pitch to his dad, Kelly, at the Seattle Mariners game on Father’s Day. Evan, who pitched from the mound, threw a perfect strike.

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Casaundra and Jimmy Soto, of Rainier, competed in the Pamplona Running of the Bulls in July on a 20-day vacation. Jimmy was so close to the action he could have touched a bull.

Nisqually Valleyshared many sports moments in 2009

ON THE SAME day a brother and sister ran with bulls, two Nisqually Valley residents were pedaling toward the Golden Gate Bridge. After completing the Seattle to Port-land Bicycle Classic in two days, Mike Rurup, 60, of McK-enna, and Robert Doidge, 71, of Rainier, kept on trekking to San Francisco.

Not only did they ride more than 900 miles in nine days, Ru-rup did it with a prosthetic right hand, and Doidge wore steel-toed boots and street clothes.

Rurup and Doidge seemed to take separate paths for the same trip. Rurup wore bicycle gear and rode a Cannondale touring bike. Doidge rode a 1950s-style cruiser that had thick tires and a basket to hold his coffee.

“It (the bike) is comfortable and I always wanted to be a lit-tle different, I suppose,” Doidge said after returning to Yelm. “Everybody asked me, even on the STP, ‘You gonna ride that bike?’ and I said, ‘Well, you’re gonna ride yours, aren’t ya?’ They looked at me like, ‘You aren’t gonna make it.’”

“Well,” he replied, “at 71, yes I am.”

From Astoria, Ore. to San Francisco, danger lurked all around.

For instance, there were no shoulder guard rails with 1,500-foot drops, parts of the roads were eroded and narrow, pot holes were everywhere, and uphill climbs appeared all too often.

But that was just part of the

journey. After all, the two had been planning this trip for two years.

“For the last few years, after the STP I felt so good I wanted to do it again,” Rurup said. “I anticipated the urge this year.”

BASEBALL AND SOUNDgo hand in hand, yet umpire Da-vid Hankinson, of Yelm, proves the two don’t have to be linked. Hankinson, 48, has umpired more than 100 games in a two-year span, despite being deaf since 1968 due to mumps and measles.

“I went to bed hearing fully and woke up the next morning totally unable to hear anything at all,” Hankinson said in Sep-tember. “It was really a shock to me and I had a lot of adjusting to do.”

Hankinson, who is licensed with the Olympic Sports Spe-cialty Umpires Association, offi ciates throughout Thur-ston County in games for Pony League, Cal Ripken and Babe Ruth. The highest level he has umpired is 14 and younger. He has been assigned to umpire high school games, but they were canceled or rained out.

“My biggest reward is see-ing the kids play and learn the fundamentals of the game,” he said. “I hate to see games can-celed due to lack of umpires available.”

Hankinson actually became an ump because of his disdain for cancellations. It all started when one of his son’s games was on the verge of being called until he stepped in from the stand to fi ll in as umpire.

With two years under his belt, Hankinson continues to hone his craft as he gains re-spect from his peers.

“I will umpire for as long as I can skillfully offi ciate games,” he said. “If I retire from my job, I would consider umpiring full-time.”

AS THE DECADE comes to an end, another 10-year time frame patiently awaits. So what will Nisqually Valley residents have to offer sportswise in 2010?

Just by looking at what was, it’s clear anything is possible in the 2010s. Wait, perhaps it’s the twenty-tens or the tens. What-ever the case, 2010 and beyond is an empty slate for unforget-table sports occasions.

Who’s next?

tism. Thousands of people have

seen him at the blackjack table, yet had no clue of his true identity.

And just like last year, many people have submitted video and photo requests plead-

ing for help.Go ahead, read or watch

some of the entries. Men and women are liter-

ally begging a stranger to help them get their life back on track.

It’s sad and depressing.How did they get in that

position?

Others may not care, but two entries will fi nd out fi rst-hand that someone does.

Consider RobinHood702 to be a low-level superhero.

Though this unknown guy cannot fl y, shoot webbing from his wrists or teleport, he pos-sesses something much more powerful: a big heart.

in Yelm for three years. He played rugby for more than 22 years worldwide.

“It’s a good time to go from playing to coaching,” Baker said. “I’m a little older, but I’m addicted to rugby. It’s hard to get away from. I saw ads for rugby in Yelm and couldn’t re-sist to call.”

Rugby, he said, is the num-ber two sport in the world be-hind soccer.

“It brings all the action of high-impact tackling in foot-ball at a non-stop, unrelentless pace,” Baker added. “The sport itself is great for the kids be-cause of that. Rugby is bonded more than any sport. It’s not just a bunch of jocks.”

“It’s a community.”Another coach, Phil North-

craft, has played/coached rugby from South Africa to the Uni-versity of Washington. He also witnessed South Africa win the 1995 Rugby World Cup, which the movie “Invictus” is based on.

“I’ve realized the importance of a life experience around a club, which is very important,” Northcraft said. “Rugby is very social. It can provide positive social aspects.”

Some of the things North-craft wants to teach the players are how to cooperate and com-promise.

“It’s a life experience through the rugby fi eld,” he

said. “With 15 members on a team, there has to be a glue that really binds them together, a real spirit and attitude.”

The club is currently hold-ing fundraisers to raise money to buy game jerseys, shorts, socks and fi eld equipment. One fundraiser involves roasted cof-fee for delivery, which includes four blends, whole bean or ground, for $10. The Mustangs are also looking for a sponsor.

The league costs $110. Prac-tices start Jan. 5 and the season ends in June.

The season includes a few friendlies (non-league games) and seven regular-season con-tests, followed by a three-game round-robin playoff for the state championship.

“Playing rugby is like hav-ing a credit card,” Northcraft said. “You can literally go any place in the world … and if you called up some rugby club I bet you they’d come pick you up and throw the ball around just like that.”

“It would be nice to have that spirit here in Yelm.”

Baker said the interest in a small city like Yelm proves the point.

“It’s more than just a sport,” Baker said. “What (the play-ers) will get out if it is a hard work ethic that can guide them through life. It helps overcome obstacles.”

“When they think they can’t do something, they’ll learn they can.”

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With a state tournament berth on the line, it’s déjà vu all over again for Rainier High school’s baseball team.

Last year, in a winner-goes-to-state game, Rainier lost 3-1 to Castle Rock. Now it’s time to do it all over again.

Rainier and Castle Rock face each other at 4:30 p.m. Friday at Castle Rock High School.

The winner advances to state; the losing team’s season is over.

“The kids are motivated to beat Castle Rock because we’re in the exact same position as we were last year — playing Castle Rock to go to state,” Rainier coach Mark Mounts

said. “Oh, yeah (the rematch is motivation). They want to go to state really bad.”

And for this scenario to un-fold, it took a “movie script” ending Tuesday afternoon in Rainier’s second game. But fi rst things fi rst.

Rainier (15-4) entered the postseason as a No. 2 seed. Rainier washed away La Cen-ter 13-3 amid rainy conditions in game one. The 10-run rule was issued after fi ve innings.

“We were really aggressive at the plate,” Mounts said. “We did a good job of putting the ball in play.”

Sophomore Mitchell Mc-Comb pitched fi ve innings and struck out seven. McComb also


All things went according to plan for Yelm in Friday’s 45th annual Shaner Invi-tational.

The boys and girls placed third and eighth, respectively, amongst the 11-team fi eld. With 115 points, the boys fi nished fi ve points behind Capital and one shy of River Ridge.

Because of their success, Yelm is send-ing more than 30 competitors to sub-dis-trict on Thursday and Saturday. The top seven competitors in each event advance to district May 22-23.

“The goal was to get them prepared for the championship part of the season,” Yelm coach Mike Strong said. “What you’re try-ing to do is compete and stay rested. We want them to perform close to what they’re capable of.”

In fact, the meet could have gone even better. Yelm simply decided to not win the event.

“We were really good,” Strong said. “We could have won that meet if we want-ed to. … I pulled some people out of some

events. (Winning) wasn’t the goal.”Yelm placed fi rst in fi ve events: javelin,

300-meter hurdles, 4x100 and 4x400 relays and pole vault.

Senior Jesse Elvrom won javelin at 183 feet — winning by nearly 13 feet — and set a personal record in the 300 hurdles at 39.21 seconds.

Even though Elvrom took fi rst in jav-elin, he can throw much farther, such as his 194 feet mark at the Viking Classic on April 25.

Strong attributed the different distances to varying conditions.

“This place (Tumwater High School) has a rug surface, which is not great,” Strong said. “It’s a little bit loose and is not great to throw far.”

Yelm ran the 4x100 in 43.59 and the 4x400 in 3:29.81, winning the events by a combined 2.28 seconds.

Six teams, including two alternates, ad-vanced to sub-district.

“We’re loaded with good kids,” Strong said of the relay teams. “They have trained very hard and we haven’t had injuries.”

And in what Strong considers is the

most diffi cult event, senior Gabe Cadero-Smith placed fi rst in pole vault at 13 feet.

But Yelm was much more than its fi ve top fi nishes.

Sophomore Michael Herlinger-Hopkins, who also competes in the 4x100, placed second in the 100 at 11.24 and 200 at 23 seconds. Junior Andrew Almeida placed fourth in those respective events at 11.54 and 23.38.

But their competition is about to in-crease exponentially.

“Sprints in the region are ridiculously competitive,” Strong said. “He missed (qualifying for state) last year by two plac-es. This year is even tougher. It will be dif-fi cult to get through sub-district.”

In the 12-pound shot put, senior Justin Byrd took fourth-place at 49 feet — his second best mark of the year — and placed seventh in discus at 134-08.

Strong said Byrd needs to throw in the 51- to 52-foot range to make the state fi nals. At sub-district, Strong said 48- to 49-feet would probably be enough to


In the wake of a league championship Friday night, Yelm co-captain Jeff Johnson said every player received a mo-tivational note with a quote that roughly stated:

“Coming together is a suc-cess. Staying together is prog-ress. Playing together is an achievement.”

The inspirational message may have helped since Yelm was crowned co-league cham-pion after its regular season fi -nale 5-2 win at Timberline.

“It feels great,” Yelm coach Mark Tate said of the program’s fi rst title. “The boys are very ex-cited because we accomplished one of our goals that we set at the beginning of the season.”

The victory, accompanied with Capital’s win against North Thurston, tied their league re-cord at 5-1. Capital, however, is seeded No. 1 from the Western Cascade Conference because of a fi rst-place tiebreaker over Yelm due to a higher differential in their head to head matchups.

Yelm midfi elder Alejandro Cisneros opened the game with a goal in the 5th minute.

After a pass from defender Juan Cisneros, Alejandro had a one-on-one versus the goalie and knocked it in.

Timberline tied the game in the 11th minute off a direct free kick, but Yelm came back three minutes later.

Play started when Johnson

Trimbody fat. Tone up. Flatten that spare tire.

If those thoughts have ever crossed your mind, you’re cer-

tainly not alone. At one time or another, most everyone has battled the bulge.

Now think of what it would take to lose 200 pounds in one year — without sur-gery.

That was 45-year-old Terence Haynes’ goal. And not only did he accomplish it, Haynes now wrestles on a DIII college team.

Say what? You heard me. Talk about a one-year wonder.

Haynes’ story was re-cently featured on “E:60,” an investigative journalism show on ESPN.

Seeing his before and after pictures is enlightening. Not only is his transformation incredible, it makes everyone else’s failed attempts lookfutile.

He is 5-foot-9 and on Dec. 9, 2007, weighed 405 pounds.

“Food — food made me feel like I had no cares in the world,” Haynes said. “It was like a drug. I’d hide it under my bed, under a pillow, in my pants.”

But it wasn’t always like that. Haynes grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. As a senior in high school he weighed 237 pounds and was the captain of his football team, playing running back, nose guard, linebacker and kicker.

But everything changedin 1982. As a sophomore at nearby Baldwin-Wallace College, Haynes’ mom wasdiagnosed with breast cancer,so he dropped out to support his family. At this point, food was his savior. Wrestling, rather sports in general, were no longer an option.

“When I had to hang up my cleats, I felt like I didn’t even have a reason to live,” Haynes said. “So I had to refocus more on her versus my own needs. But on the other hand, what brought me comfort was more food.”

As a 28-year-old fast food manager, Haynes’ weight ballooned, his self-esteem plummeted and his bank ac-count crashed — no thanks to spending about $2,500 per month on food.

“I didn’t pay my bills all the time,” Haynes said. “My lights were off, my gas was off and I didn’t have running water.”

“Food was much more important.”

How important? Try about 20,000 calories per day throughout his 30s and early 40s. The athlete of his past disappeared with each cheese-burger and french fry.

“He was eating to kill himself,” said Dr. Karen Coo-per, Cleveland Clinic Physi-cian. “If he had not stopped, I’m sure he would not be around much longer.”

Haynes was digging his own grave and it looked like things would only get worse.

Take 2005 as a prime example:

“Getting in my car and breaking the car’s seat,” Haynes said. “How can I break my own car seat? I felt like I began to just sink into the ground. I couldn’t take this any longer.”

But Haynes’ life turned around in April 2007. Now weighing more than 430

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With all his might, senior Justin Byrd’s 49-foot shot put earned him fourth-place at last week’s Shaner Invitational. In the 11-teamleague meet, the boys placed third; the girls were eighth.

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went 3-for-4 with 2 RBIs.Sophomore Cody Schneider

went 2-for-3 with 2 RBIs and se-nior Kevin O’leary was 2-for-4 with an RBI.

Schneider helped the run bar-rage begin early. In the second inning, Rainier scored six runs.

“With the bases loaded, it’s encouraging to get few RBIs to help the team,” Schneider said. “You just want to hit the ball harder and run faster.”

But game two’s 5-4, eight in-ning loss against Onalaska was a true shocker.

Onalaska’s Dalton Richey pitched in the team’s game one win, but he took a line drive to the face and was admitted to a hospital. Without Richey in the lineup, Rainier built a 4-2 lead.

In the fi fth inning, however, Richey returned and hit a two-run homer to tie the game.

“That put us down in the dirt,” Schneider said. “To come back after that (going to the hos-pital) and knowing he tied it up, it’s mentally bad for us to try and come back.”

McComb said the momen-

tum shifted and Rainier was un-able to come back.

“If that happened to us, and we hit a two-run bomb, it’s a confi dence-booster and plays a big factor.”

To a certain degree, Onalaska was fortunate, Mounts said. Just like the fi rst game, Rainier hit the ball hard, only this time the ball was hit right at defenders.

“For Onalaska, everything went their way,” Mounts said. “It was right out of a movie script, man. The kid comes back from the hospital and hits a home run. Every ball they hit that was close we couldn’t get to, and every ball we hit that was close they got to.”

“They were the No. 4 seed, so it’s kind of like a Cinderella story.”

When Onalaska won the game in extra innings, Rainier was devastated.

“It was like watching those kids rip (our) hearts out,” Mounts said. “It was interesting. I’ve never seen anything like it the way the game played out. It was unbelievable.”

Schneider and McComb agreed with Mounts, saying the loss did “rip our hearts out.”

“The two teams in the dis-trict championship — Monte-sano and Onalaska — are teams we swept (in the regular sea-son),” McComb said. “To know we swept them, we could be in the championship game.”

“We should be there,” Sch-neider added.

Since they know what could have happened and have felt the pain of defeat, Rainier’s focused on defeating Castle Rock on Friday.

“It would mean a lot,” Mc-Comb said. “We have a lot of encouragement because of the reputation we have in Rainier. It would be nice to prove people wrong. We know we’re better than that.”

“It can drive us to win.”McComb and Schneider,

along with the entire team, is hell-bent on making it to state. And after last year’s defeat, they know all too well the ramifi ca-tions their Castle Rock rematch has.

Redemption is on their mind.“It absolutely means every-

thing,” Mounts said. “Rainier hasn’t made it to state in three years.”

advance, “I wanted to throwwell,” Byrd said. “I threwdecent. I’m capable of (morethan) 53 feet, but it will takesome time.”

Last year, Byrd threw 48-1at district and failed to makestate. He hopes this year has adifferent ending.

“State is within my grasp,”said Byrd, noting he wouldneed to “throw at least 51-6 at state to keep himself in conten-tion.”

Byrd said competition fuelshim to reach his potential. Hisgoal is to place in the top 10 at state in shot put and discus.

Senior Greg Hudik alsofared well, placing third in the400 at 53.02 and participating

in both relays. Senior Zac Farino took

third in the 110 hurdles at 15.73; junior JJ Johnson was fi fth in triple jump at 39-11 and sophomore Marcus Crone was second in pole vault at 12 feet.

For the girls, junior Ashley Taylor placed second in the 3,200 at 11:28:49 and third in the 1,600 at 5:17:85.

Sophomore Alex Bachmei-er placed second in the 400 at 59.49 and sixth in the 200 at 26.92.

Senior Alysha McCloud was sixth in the 110 and 300 hurdles.

Leading up to state, Strong said he expects about 50 per-cent of the team’s qualifi ers to advance each round.

took a quick free kick, then passed the ball to Alejandro, who sent in a cross to midfi elder Greg Willmann, Tate said. Will-mann volleyed the ball in.

Yelm forward Daniel Gonza-lez headed in a corner kick in the 38th minute for a 3-1 advantage.

Timberline scored in the 54th minute, but Yelm sealed the fi nal score 10 minutes later.

Yelm defender Edd Brown sent a long ball to forward Miguel Gonzalez who “tracked it down and made a great move around Timberline’s defender.”

Yelm was recently in a lack-adaisical funk, but as of now they have overcome their prior indiscretion.

“I think we have overcome the lack of intensity that we were showing prior to last week,” Tate said. “The boys did a fantastic job of getting mentally ready for both the North Thurston and Timberline games.”

Yelm played its sub-district game versus Bremerton Thurs-day at Clover Park.

A Yelm victory pits them against the loser of the Franklin Pierce-Mt. Rainier game 3 p.m. Saturday at Clover Park.

“Early in the season we talked quite a bit about making a long run into the state tourna-ment,” Tate said.

“However, right now it is important for us to take one game at a time and not get too far ahead of ourselves. Our goal right now is to make it to the district tournament and, after that, the state tournament.”

Johnson, on the other hand, took it one step further.

“My goal is to get the team to the state semifi nals,” Johnson said. “I think we can play well and come together to overcome diffi cult teams.”

pounds, Haynes met a personaltrainer at a local gym. It took a lot of persuasion but in Decem-ber 2007, with his trainer’s help, Haynes dedicated himself to lose 200 pounds in one year.

With an 1,800 calorie diet and working out four to six times a week, Haynes lost 150pounds in nine months. From there, the pounds continued to fall.

Now enter wrestling.In 2008, at age 45, Haynes

reenrolled at Baldwin-Wallace to earn his bachelor’s degree. After talking with the school’s wrestling coach, Haynes was invited to tryout.

Haynes made the team and went 2-13 last season. But his win-loss record was insignifi -cant. Like every other wrestler, making weight was Haynes’ focus.

As of January 2009, Haynes

weighed 227 pounds, besting his goal of weighing less than 230.

“I don’t remember this weight,” he said. “Wow.”

Talk about the understate-ment of the year. This is more than a “wow” moment. Not only did Haynes achieve his weight loss goal, which motivated him to reenroll in college, he made the wrestling team.

Talk about a turnaround that showcased what hard work and dedication can lead to. Whoelse has worked that hard to achieve something? Probably not many.

Even calling this inspira-tional may not be giving him his due.

However, just for the heck of it, might as well play devil’s advocate because there’s one downside to this fairy tale end-ing:

He didn’t become rich like The Subway Guy.

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