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Hundreds of endurance athletes enjoy a variety of events and landscapes offered during the year by Peninsula Adventure Sports. (Matt Sagen/Cascadia Films)

PENINSULA ADVENTURE SPORTS: 2025 calendar of endurance and team events set

Peninsula Adventure Sports has announced its 2025 race lineup, packed with outdoor challenges that showcase the natural beauty and rugged terrain of… Continue reading

Hundreds of endurance athletes enjoy a variety of events and landscapes offered during the year by Peninsula Adventure Sports. (Matt Sagen/Cascadia Films)
Port Angeles Roughriders

PREP BOYS ROUNDUP: Riders bury W.F. West in fourth quarter

Gus Halberg scores 37; Brock Hope with seven blocked shots

Port Angeles Roughriders
Forks Spartans

PREP WRESTLING: Forks girls shine at Hammerhead Invite

The Forks girls wrestling team had the most impressive showing of the six Olympic Peninsula squads that competed at the prestigious Hammerhead Invitational.… Continue reading

Forks Spartans
Sequim Wolves

GIRLS PREP BASKETBALL ROUNDUP: Sequim in total control in romp over Foss

The Sequim girls basketball team got 22 points from Gracie Chartraw and was in complete control all game in a 66-19 win over… Continue reading

Sequim Wolves
Port Angeles’ Teanna Clark goes up for a basket against North Kitsap in Port Angeles on Tuesday. Clark had a solid game with 14 points, five assists and four steals in a 53-28 Roughriders victory. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

PREP ROUNDUP: Port Angeles girls overwhelm North Kitsap

Lindsay and Lexie Smith: 32 points and 18 rebounds

Port Angeles’ Teanna Clark goes up for a basket against North Kitsap in Port Angeles on Tuesday. Clark had a solid game with 14 points, five assists and four steals in a 53-28 Roughriders victory. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
Port Angeles Roughriders.

PORT ANGELES BASKETBALL: Roughriders lose another heartbreaker at the buzzer

The Port Angeles boys basketball team rallied in the fourth quarter in a near-miraculous comeback against North Kitsap, but for the second time… Continue reading

Port Angeles Roughriders.
Sequim's Victoria Nava rolls in a match Monday against Port Angeles at Laurel Lanes. Nava led the Sequim bowlers with a two-game score of 313 while Port Angeles' Zoey Van Gordon led all bowlers with a 337 . (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

PREP ROUNDUP: Balanced Sequim girls outroll Port Angeles

The Sequim girls bowling team used consistent individual scores to beat Port Angeles at Laurel Lanes on Monday. The Wolves put up… Continue reading

Sequim's Victoria Nava rolls in a match Monday against Port Angeles at Laurel Lanes. Nava led the Sequim bowlers with a two-game score of 313 while Port Angeles' Zoey Van Gordon led all bowlers with a 337 . (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
Gus Halberg, Port Angeles basketball.

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Gus Halberg, Port Angeles basketball

The boys on the Port Angeles basketball team had their backs against the wall entering their game against 5-0 Olympic on Friday. Lose, and the… Continue reading

Gus Halberg, Port Angeles basketball.
East Jefferson’s Manaseh Lanphear Ramirez gets a pin against Charles Damien of Kingston at 150 pounds during the Rivals’ duals tournament held this weekend in Port Townsend. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

PREP WRESTLING: East Jefferson second at home invitational

East Jefferson finished second in its home Rivals Invitational Wrestling tournament this weekend. It was an eight-team bracketed team tournament similar to… Continue reading

East Jefferson’s Manaseh Lanphear Ramirez gets a pin against Charles Damien of Kingston at 150 pounds during the Rivals’ duals tournament held this weekend in Port Townsend. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

GIRLS WRESTLING: Trio of Forks, Port Angeles girls take first at Olympic tourney

Forks’ Jade Blair and Peyton Johnson and Port Angeles’ Lilly Lancaster all won their weight classes at the Olympic Girls Wrestling Tournament held… Continue reading

BOYS SWIMMING: Riders dominate Buccaneers

The Port Angeles boys swim team came away with a commanding 116-66 nonleague victory over Kingston this weekend, winning 11 out of… Continue reading

Peninsula College's Akeem Sulaiman drives to the hoop Saturday in Port Angeles against Silas Wright (10) and Ben Thornbrue of Lane.Sulaiman scored 20 to go with 12 rebounds. (Jay Cline/Peninsula College)

COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Pirates men win two out of three at home tournament

The Peninsula College men’s basketball team won two out of three at its home NWAC crossover tournament this weekend, going to the… Continue reading

Peninsula College's Akeem Sulaiman drives to the hoop Saturday in Port Angeles against Silas Wright (10) and Ben Thornbrue of Lane.Sulaiman scored 20 to go with 12 rebounds. (Jay Cline/Peninsula College)

COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Peninsula women sweep three at Clark tournament

The Peninsula College women’s basketball team swept three games at the Clark Crossover Tournament, stretching its winning streak to seven games. The… Continue reading

Port Angeles' Gus Halberg drives the lane against Olympic on Friday night. Halberg had 25 points and went to the free-throw line 17 times in a 75-40 Port Angeles victory. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

BOYS PREP BASKETBALL: Riders bounce back with resounding win over Olympic

Sequim remains in first place after crushing Bainbridge

Port Angeles' Gus Halberg drives the lane against Olympic on Friday night. Halberg had 25 points and went to the free-throw line 17 times in a 75-40 Port Angeles victory. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

GIRLS PREP BASKETBALL: Forks gets past Crosspoint; PA game suspended due to water leak

Playing without their big inside presence in Avery Dilley and coming off a lost Friday night against Toutle Lake, the Forks girls basketball… Continue reading

Sequim Wolves port angeles roughriders

PREP BOYS BASKETBALL: Riders lose after buzzer-beater forces OT; Wolves improves to 4-0

The Port Angeles boys basketball team was one second away from beating Bainbridge on the road, but the Spartans’ Luke Johnson hit an… Continue reading

Sequim Wolves port angeles roughriders
Forks Titus Rowley goes up for a basket against Coupeville on Monday night in Forks. The Spartans won 55-47. (Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News)

PREP ROUNDUP: Forks boys, girls hoops sweep

Forks’ big man Titus Rowley was barely able to play in the Spartans’ basketball game against Coupeville due to foul trouble, but it… Continue reading

Forks Titus Rowley goes up for a basket against Coupeville on Monday night in Forks. The Spartans won 55-47. (Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News)
The Forks girls wrestling team finished second at The Prairie Open this weekend, beaten only by Yelm, a 4A school. From left, back row, are coach James Salazar, manager Moli Luong, Kinley Rondeau, Jade Blair, Riley Tjepkema, Alexis Koskela and Natalie Horejsi. From left, bottow row, are LaRayne Blair, Lilly Galeana, Flora Horejsi and Viviana Luna. (Forks High School)

PREP WRESTLING: Forks girls second at Yelm tourney

East Jefferson, Sequim, Forks boys all get weight champions at weekend meets

The Forks girls wrestling team finished second at The Prairie Open this weekend, beaten only by Yelm, a 4A school. From left, back row, are coach James Salazar, manager Moli Luong, Kinley Rondeau, Jade Blair, Riley Tjepkema, Alexis Koskela and Natalie Horejsi. From left, bottow row, are LaRayne Blair, Lilly Galeana, Flora Horejsi and Viviana Luna. (Forks High School)
Cerise Moss, Neah Bay girls basketball.

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Cerise Moss, Neah Bay girls basketball

Neah Bay’s Cerise Moss had a spectacular opening game for the Red Devils, who go into this season as the two-time defending state 1B champions.… Continue reading

Cerise Moss, Neah Bay girls basketball.
Dustin Hines of Port Townsend won the Jamestown Glow Run 5K, a year after finishing second in the same race. John Mauro, also of Port Townsend, won the 10K. Matt Sagan/Cascadia Films

JAMESTOWN S’KLALLAM GLOW RUN: More than 600 enjoy the lights and the gloaming

More than 600 people from the Olympic Peninsula and the Pacific Northwest enjoyed what is turning into one of the most popular 5K/10K… Continue reading

Dustin Hines of Port Townsend won the Jamestown Glow Run 5K, a year after finishing second in the same race. John Mauro, also of Port Townsend, won the 10K. Matt Sagan/Cascadia Films