Journal photo by Dean Siemon

Sophomore Matt Goldsby has an even record in his first year wrestling.

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By KELLY RIORDAN

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Cavaille caps career smelling the rosesBy CHRIS WEST

Former Highclimber Rory Cavaille couldn’t have dreamed of a better ending to his college football career.

The former walk-on from Shelton battled his way onto the field the last four seasons and earned a scholarship this year on one of the best college teams in the nation.

On New Year’s Day, all of his hard work will culminate inside the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Ca-lif., as his No. 7 Ducks take on No. 8 Ohio State in one of the most anticipated matchups of the bowl season.

“Everybody is really excited. It is really a once in a lifetime opportunity,” Cavaille said.

After spending Christmas

with family at his grandpar-ents’ home in Grass Valley, Ca-lif., Cavaille is now in Pasadena soaking up all the Rose Bowl festivities.

Among other events on his schedule this week are a trip to Disneyland with his team-mates and an eating contest at a brunch against his opponents from Ohio State.

“We are going to a Hollywood comedy club one night, too,” Cavaille said. “We are trying to stick to our normal practice rou-tine most of the week, but there are a lot of fun events. Both teams will be at the brunch — there are some big boys who can really eat on both teams.”

Rory Cavaille

WATCH THE GAMEFormer Highclimber Rory Cavaille (No. 81) will be on the field as the Oregon Ducks take on Ohio State in the Rose Bowl at 2 p.m. on Jan. 1. ABC will broadcast the game.

See Cavaille on page C-3

By DEAN SIEMONShelton sophomore wres-

tler Matt Goldsby had never wrestled before joining the team this season.

In fact, he admitted to never having watched the sport before.

“I went in fresh,” Goldsby said. “I did not know what to expect.”

But Goldsby has proven to be a tough competitor on the mat, with a even record early this season.

Yet, what can be found more impressing is the fact that Goldsby was born with-out a portion of his left leg, missing everything that is past the halfway mark of

his calf.“I think that in other

places where his leg would be considered a weakness, it is a strength in wrestling. It is an advantage,” said Shel-ton head coach Chris Lacy.

“His opponents are not used to wrestling that way.”

Back in the fall, Goldsby was thinking about playing basketball at Shelton, hav-ing played before. During the games, he wore a pros-thetic. Goldsby said that it was never a problem when he played.

“It has fallen off a few times during a game, but other than that not really,” Goldsby said.

“I originally wanted to try out for basketball.”

During a Highclimber football game earlier this year, Goldsby was intro-duced to Coach Lacy by fellow sophomore wrestler Colby Barber.

“Colby said, ‘Matt, you should wrestle,’ and I said, ‘Yeah, try it,’ ” Lacy said.

After Barber had Goldsby show his left leg, Lacy said that he was immediately ex-cited.

“I knew the possibilities of what we could do,” Lacy said.

“At that time I did not know how good of an athlete he is, and we are learning

that now.”Lacy noted that Goldsby

does what every wrestler does: training hard and wrestling even harder.

He also said that the coaches have worked with Goldsby to model him after Anthony Robles, an All-American collegiate wres-tler at Arizona State Uni-versity.

Robles is also missing one of his legs.

“We have watched a lot of techniques he uses,” Lacy said.

“We have patterned some of the

See Wrestling on page C-2

Not bad for a novice

Capital’s offense tops Highclimbers

SHELTON GIRLS BASKETBALL

SHSWRESTLING

Journal photos by Greg Skinner

Coach Justin Parker works to rally his team in a timeout called during Tuesday’s 56-31 loss to Capital. Below: Highclimb-er Madison Gaa reaches for a loose ball in the fourth period.

New year, new hopes and new goals

Tonight people all across the United States will anx-iously watch as the clock counts down to yet another passing of a year. For me, it is a time of reflection and thoughts of resolutions for the upcoming year.

Many interesting things happened in 2009. Some great, while others, well, not so great. From an outdoors-man’s perspective there are still some key issues that need to be addressed and not just swept under the mat. I would like to revisit a couple matters that need to be left on the table and another that needs to be brought to the table.

Topping the list of sub-jects is the debate over the fecal coliform in and around the Skokomish River and Anna’s Bay. There was quite a stink (no pun in-tended) over the closing of the majority of Anna’s Bay to shellfish harvest due to a large outbreak of fecal coli-form.

Immediately, people started slinging mud over who was to blame. All par-ties involved had their say on what the cause was and the sport fishers took the blame. This blame game was then escalated when the sport fishermen who care realized that the infor-mation was shady about the coliform outbreak.

There does appear to be a problem and there is a fix. A group effort from ev-eryone will solve it. Locals whose livelihoods depend on the Skokomish and Anna’s Bay should unite, not fight.

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By DEAN SIEMONThe holiday break might

have affected the Shelton girls basketball team, as they fell to Capital at a neutral Olympia High School on Tuesday, 56-31.

The Highclimbers (1-7) looked inconsistent with re-bounds and shooting opportu-nities, as well as ball handling.

Shelton head coach Justin Parker said that all of those were caused by a lack of inten-sity.

“The girls did not come out

with the passion and intensity that we have been known for,” Parker said.

Capital (6-3) has been a fa-miliar foe, as both teams were in the same conference when Shelton played at the 3A level.

Parker said that the history the teams had should have got-ten the Highclimbers a little more excited on Tuesday.

“Tonight it did not happen,” Parker said.

“It showed in our play.”Shelton was held to shooting

a field goal percentage under 35, and were two out of eight behind the three-point arc. Re-bounds were rare for the High-climbers, as they totaled 24 in the game.

“We just were not crashing the boards to get those,” Parker said.

“We could not get second-chance points.”

Parker also said that while the team did not take care of the ball, with 25 turnovers, the

See Basketball on page C-2