High school football roundup: Shelton holds off Yelm for first 3A SSC victory
The Shelton High School football team started both halves strong and fought off Brandon Thompson and Yelm time and again in a 36-28 Class 3A South Sound Conference victory Friday night at Yelm High School.
Tyler Giraldes, a 6-foot-4, 210-pound senior, tossed four touchdown passes for Shelton, and Skyler Ross had three interceptions as Shelton improved to 2-1 (1-0 3A SSC). Yelm dropped to 2-1 (0-1).
After playing a 14-14 tie in the first half, Shelton marched the second-half kickoff 71 yards to take a 20-14 lead on a Willy Ruiz 4-yard run. The Highclimbers went up 26-14 on a Giraldes 6-yard pass to Taylor Toney.
Yelm countered with a 13-yard touchdown run by Thompson, set up by a 57-yard kickoff return by Jacob Lenoue.
Giraldes extended the Shelton lead to 33-21 with a 36-yard scoring pass — the first of two touchdowns tosses to senior Marshall McCullough.
A 28-yard Cody Bragg field goal pushed Shelton’s lead to 36-21.
Yelm answered with a 14-yard scoring pass from Dakota Hill to sophomore Kodee Gifford, but could not get closer.
Shelton got on the board first in a ragged first quarter on a 9-yard pass from Giraldes to senior wideout Kyle Kimball. A 39-yard Giraldes connection to Kimball and a 17-yard run by junior Trenten Osman got the Highclimbers close.
The second interception of the second quarter by Ross set the Highclimbers up at the Yelm 24 before Ruiz, a 5-7, 180-pound senior, ran 21 yards to the 3. Two Shelton penalties later, Giraldes found McCullough in the end zone from 13 yards as Shelton took a 14-0 lead.
Giraldes finished 13 of 27 passing for 230 yards.
Yelm got rolling with two touchdowns to pull into a 14-14 tie before halftime. The Tornados moved 72 yards on five plays, juiced by runs of 14 and 27 yards by Thompson and a 16-yard ramble by Nicholas Blanco, to reah the end zone on a 4-yard Thompson run.
The Tornados recovered a fumble at the Highclimber 26, and after a 14-yard Dakota Hill swing pass to Thompson, Hill found Thompson for a 12-yard touchdown.
The bruising Thompson, a 5-9, 187-pound senior, rushed for 109 yards in the first half and finished with 137 yards on 18 carries, with two touchdowns on the ground and one receiving.
BOX SCORES
3A SSC
SHELTON | 7 | 7 | 12 | 10 | — | 36 |
YELM | 0 | 14 | 7 | 7 | — | 28 |
S – Kyle Kimball 9 pass from Tyler Giraldes (Cody Bragg kick)
S – Marshall McCullough 13 pass from Giraldes (Bragg kick)
Y – Brandon Thompson 4 run (Cody Frye kick)
Y – Thompson 12 pass from Dakota Hill (Frye kick)
S – Willy Ruiz 4 run (pass failed)
S – Taylor Toney 6 pass from Giraldes (pass failed)
Y – Thompson 13 run (Frye kick)
S – McCullough 36 pass from Giraldes (Bragg kick)
S – Bragg 28 field goal
Y – Kodee Gifford 14 pass from Hill (Frye kick)
NORTH THURSTON | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3 |
CENTRAL KITSAP | 7 | 0 | 7 | 6 | — | 20 |
NT – Wesley Krall 22 field goal
CK – Roque Blas 4 run (Thomas Ingles kick)
CK – Derrick Lovelace 75 fumble recovery (Ingles kick)
CK – DeAndre Sincere 1 run (kick failed)
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2A SPSL — SOUND DIVISION
NO. 4 RIVER RIDGE | 6 | 14 | 20 | 6 | — | 46 |
ORTING | 0 | 7 | 7 | 7 | — | 21 |
RR – Trey Dorfner 50 run (kick blocked)
RR – Dorfner 1 run (Dorfner run)
O – Grffin Rose 10 run (Tristan Lea kick)
RR – Alex Coleman 90 interception return (2-pt failed)
RR – Dorfner 5 run (Paddy Green from Kelle Sanders)
O – Asutin Spader (Lea kick)
RR – Dorfner 55 run (2-pt failed)
RR – Dorfner 5 run (kick blocked)
RR – Brian Blast 41 pass from Sanders (kick failed)
O – Bryce Mecham 7 run (Lea kick)
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2B CENTRAL/PACIFIC — MOUNTAIN DIVISION
CHIEF LESCHI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 |
RAINIER | 35 | 7 | 7 | 14 | — | 63 |
R – Devon Stancil 75 kick return (Nathan Anderson 2 run)
R – Anderson 50 run (Ian Russell 2 run)
R – De. Stancil 42 run (DyLAN Stancil kick)
R – Zach Losgeren 5 run (kick failed)
R – Losgeren 51 run (kick failed)
R – De. Stancil 10 run (Dy. Stancil kick)
R – Brody Klein 2 run (Dy Stancil kick)
R – De. Stancil 79 run (Dy. Stancil kick)
R – Dy. Stancil 46 interception return (Dy. Stancil kick)
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NONLEAGUE
SEQUIM | 7 | 6 | 8 | 7 | — | 28 |
CENTRALIA | 6 | 8 | 0 | 0 | — | 14 |
C – Jose Pineda 55 pass from Joey Aliff (kick failed)
S – Keeshawn Whitney 8 run (Cowan kick)
S – Whitney 30 run (kick failed)
C – Pineda 3 run (Aliff pass to Pineda)
S – Tyler Conn 5 run (Conn run)
S – Conn 9 run (Cowan kick)
W.F. WEST | 14 | 14 | 3 | 3 | — | 34 |
HIGHLINE | 0 | 0 | 6 | 8 | — | 14 |
WFW – Ka’Imi Henry 23 pass from Nole Wollan (Cory Davis kick)
WFW – Kolby Steen 2 run (Davis kick)
WFW – Jacob McCarthy 14 pass from Wollan (Davis kick)
WFW – Tyson Guerrero 24 pass from Wollan (Davis kick)
H – Ceanda Taylor 59 pass from Ricky Castillo (2-pt failed)
WFW – Davis 30 field goal
WFW – Davis 29 field goal
H – Taylor 30 pass from Castillo (Malik White run)
This story was originally published September 16, 2016 at 11:27 PM with the headline "High school football roundup: Shelton holds off Yelm for first 3A SSC victory."