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The Port Angeles Lefties recognized their summer 2024 host families prior to a recent contest at Civic Field.

LEFTIES: Port Angeles wraps season Thursday night

Port Angeles scored twice and had the potential game tying and game-winning runners on base in the bottom of the ninth, but… Continue reading

The Port Angeles Lefties recognized their summer 2024 host families prior to a recent contest at Civic Field.

AREA SPORTS: Registration open for fall adult soccer, volleyball leagues offered by Peninsula College

Pickup basketball also set for noon at PC this fall

Photo courtesy of Turella family / Sequim's Clare Turella celebrates a 17th place finish in the high jump at the USA Track & Field National Junior Olympic Championships in Texas on July 25.

AREA SPORTS: Sequim’s Turella competes at Texas A&M in Junior Olympics

Turella competes at Texas A&M in Junior Olympics Sequim teen Clare Turella just keeps finding new bars to leap over and new personal milestones to… Continue reading

Photo courtesy of Turella family / Sequim's Clare Turella celebrates a 17th place finish in the high jump at the USA Track & Field National Junior Olympic Championships in Texas on July 25.
Tyler Mattos of Monroe caught these kings while fishing out of Neah Bay over the weekend. Mattos said it was the largest salmon he's ever caught.

OUTDOORS: Another day on Port Townsend Bay

ANOTHER DAY FOR hatchery chinook fishing in Marine Area 9 (Admiralty Inlet) has been approved by state Department of Fish and Wildlife salmon managers. Anglers… Continue reading

Tyler Mattos of Monroe caught these kings while fishing out of Neah Bay over the weekend. Mattos said it was the largest salmon he's ever caught.

LEFTIES: Errors lead to series sweep

Port Angeles’ defensive miscues were a difference maker as Nanaimo turned a 2-2 tie fifth inning tie with the Lefties into a… Continue reading

Courtesy Eastern Washington Athletics Forks' Luke Dahlgren, second from right, shown during a pregame coin flip during the 2023 season, has been selected as a captain for the second straight season for the Eastern Washington football team.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Forks’ Luke Dahlgren an Eastern Washington captain for second straight season

Grad student also a four-time All-Big Sky Conference Academic Team pick

Courtesy Eastern Washington Athletics Forks' Luke Dahlgren, second from right, shown during a pregame coin flip during the 2023 season, has been selected as a captain for the second straight season for the Eastern Washington football team.
Steve Hazard of Angler's Hideaway in Sekiu reeled in this quality hatchery chinook while fishing Sunday morning in Marine Area 5.

OUTDOORS: King retention ends Aug. 1 off Sekiu; Area 9 has best opener in a decade

ANGLERS WENT AND caught all the chinook while I vacationed in my living room playing countless hours of the first college football video game released… Continue reading

Steve Hazard of Angler's Hideaway in Sekiu reeled in this quality hatchery chinook while fishing Sunday morning in Marine Area 5.

LEFTIES: Doubleheader loss drops PA’s chances at playoff berth

The lights dimmed on Port Angeles’ West Coast League playoff hopes in the wake of a 4-1 and 8-5 7-inning doubleheader loss… Continue reading

Port Angeles Roughriders football players were treated to an evening on the water at the Lake Sutherland home of Bruce and Kathy Skinner on Tuesday. Watersports equipment was donated by Lake Sutherland Watersports' Nick Lenicka. Prep football practices begin Aug. 21 statewide with the remainder of fall sports starting Aug. 26.

AREA SPORTS: Rivals youth football registration Aug. 8 and 10 in Chimacum

East Jefferson Rivals youth football will hold in-person regular season registration and gear distribution on… Continue reading

Port Angeles Roughriders football players were treated to an evening on the water at the Lake Sutherland home of Bruce and Kathy Skinner on Tuesday. Watersports equipment was donated by Lake Sutherland Watersports' Nick Lenicka. Prep football practices begin Aug. 21 statewide with the remainder of fall sports starting Aug. 26.
Photo by Kirsti Turella / Clare Turella celebrates with high jump coach Ten Gordon after Turella won the Region 13 high jump championship in Gresham, Oregon, earlier this month. Turella, who will be a sophomore at Sequim High this fall, earned a spot in the Junior Olympic Championships in August.

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: State champion Clare Turella makes Junior Olympic team

Will compete in Texas in August

Photo by Kirsti Turella / Clare Turella celebrates with high jump coach Ten Gordon after Turella won the Region 13 high jump championship in Gresham, Oregon, earlier this month. Turella, who will be a sophomore at Sequim High this fall, earned a spot in the Junior Olympic Championships in August.

WEST COAST LEAGUE: Lefties’ Giesegh 2-for-3 with a double in North’s 3-2 win

Leadoff hitter

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CLALLAM COUNTY AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP: Chico State sophomore Alex LemMon lifts 2024 trophy

Cousin of Sequim’s golfing O’Mera’s

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KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Wilder Junior pitcher Hunter Stratford hurls on Saturday against the Pipeline Pirates AAA as third baseman Brandt Perry looks on during the first game of a Saturday doubleheader at Port Angeles Volunteer Field.

AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL; Juniors jolt Pipeline Pirates in doubleheader sweep

Senior squad still alive for third at Lakeside Recovery tourney

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Wilder Junior pitcher Hunter Stratford hurls on Saturday against the Pipeline Pirates AAA as third baseman Brandt Perry looks on during the first game of a Saturday doubleheader at Port Angeles Volunteer Field.

BASEBALL: Lefties break out the bats to take road series with Kamloops

Back home through All-Star Break

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Tommy Post, part of a group basing at Sunland, tees off on the first hole of Peninsula Golf Club during Friday's session of the Clallam County Amateur Championship tournament.

AREA SPORTS: Clallam Amateur underway

Wrestling camp starts Wednesday in Port Angeles

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Tommy Post, part of a group basing at Sunland, tees off on the first hole of Peninsula Golf Club during Friday's session of the Clallam County Amateur Championship tournament.
KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Wilder Jr.. batter Hunter Stratford takes his turn at bat in the third innning against Sting AAA on Thursday at Volunteer Field in Port Angeles.

LEGION BASEBALL: Wilder Junior drops doubleheader

Senior opens with shutout at Lakeside tournament

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Wilder Jr.. batter Hunter Stratford takes his turn at bat in the third innning against Sting AAA on Thursday at Volunteer Field in Port Angeles.
Enumclaw's Tim Harder caught this chinook while fishing off of Neah Bay.

King limit rising Saturday off Neah Bay, La Push

ANGLERS CAN RETAIN two kings while fishing off Neah Bay or La Push starting Saturday and running through Sept. 15, if guideline remains. After meeting… Continue reading

Enumclaw's Tim Harder caught this chinook while fishing off of Neah Bay.
Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News Former Seattle Seahawks special teams captain and current coach Neiko Thorpe instructs athletes during a football camp held recently at Spartan Stadium. Some 68 participants from Forks, Neah Bay, Hoquiam and Montesano turned out for the camp. Thorpe is married to Forks native Maegan Leppell.

AREA SPORTS: Everton soccer camp in Sequim

Jefferson County fall youth soccer registration open through Aug. 3

Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News Former Seattle Seahawks special teams captain and current coach Neiko Thorpe instructs athletes during a football camp held recently at Spartan Stadium. Some 68 participants from Forks, Neah Bay, Hoquiam and Montesano turned out for the camp. Thorpe is married to Forks native Maegan Leppell.

SPORTS BRIEFS: Basketball Shooting Clinic offered by Port Angeles coach Kasey Ulin

Oregon State wrestling head coach Chris Pendleton and several of his NCAA Division I wrestlers will lead… Continue reading

There was a lot of smoke and flames during the Forks Fourth of July celebration at the Tillicum Park Arena as a large crowd gathered to watch their favourite demolition cars in action. Photo by Lonnie Archibald.

DEMOLITION DERBY: A smashing celebration in Forks

Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News The West End Motors car slammed the number 41 car half way out of the arena during the Forks Old… Continue reading

There was a lot of smoke and flames during the Forks Fourth of July celebration at the Tillicum Park Arena as a large crowd gathered to watch their favourite demolition cars in action. Photo by Lonnie Archibald.