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AREA SPORTS: Big game from Braydan White lifts Wolves

Brayden White led a strong Sequim batting attack as the Wolves battered Olympic 18-8… Continue reading

 

Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News Port Angeles’ Trae Hanan reaches out to tag home plate before North Kitsap catcher Greyson Prichard can tag him out. He was safe for the second run of the game for the Roughriders.

PREP BASEBALL: Roughriders burn up the base paths in win over North Kitsap

The Port Angeles baseball team has had more than its share of tough losses this season. They were due for a tough,… Continue reading

 

Forks pitcher Conner Clark delivers the pitch to the North Beach batter on Tuesday at the Fred Orr Memorial Field where Forks took both games of this double header 8-1 and 24-3. (Lonnie Archibald/Peninsula Daily News)

PREP BASEBALL: Forks sweeps Hyaks; PA loses tough one-run game

The Forks baseball team didn’t get a lot of hits, but pitched strong and took advantage of North Beach errors in a sweep… Continue reading

 

Sequim, Port Angeles

PREP SPORTS ROUNDUP: Port Angeles, Sequim soccer teams both win

Port Angeles golf girls in top spot in Olympic League

Sequim, Port Angeles
Port Angeles pitcher Lynzee Reid delivers a pitch to catcher Persephone Perry in Monday's 17-0 victory over Bremerton. Reid and Heidi Leitz combined for a one-hitter, striking out nine in just five innings. (Pierre LaBossiere/Peninsula Daily News)

PREP SOFTBALL: Port Angeles isn’t missing a beat so far this season

The Port Angeles softball team keeps graduating great players to college programs every year, yet the team keeps rolling with another exceptional… Continue reading

Port Angeles pitcher Lynzee Reid delivers a pitch to catcher Persephone Perry in Monday's 17-0 victory over Bremerton. Reid and Heidi Leitz combined for a one-hitter, striking out nine in just five innings. (Pierre LaBossiere/Peninsula Daily News)
Quilcene Rangers

PREP ROUNDUP: Quilcene baseball wins again in eighth inning

The Quilcene Rangers baseball team won its second game of the year in extra innings, scoring two runs in the eighth to get… Continue reading

Quilcene Rangers
Photo by Caleb Steele Photography/ Petra Bernsten makes a dramatic entrance for her finals match at the NCWA National Championships in Louisiana in March.

COLLEGE WRESTLING: Sequim’s Bernsten elevates her athletic career at WSU

To finish her wrestling career at Washington State University, Petra Bernsten, 20, is going out as a three-time National Collegiate Wrestling Association (NCWA)… Continue reading

Photo by Caleb Steele Photography/ Petra Bernsten makes a dramatic entrance for her finals match at the NCWA National Championships in Louisiana in March.
Rachel Hardies of Port Angeles finishes the half-marathon at this year’s Olympic Adventure Trail Run, which took place in near-perfect sunny conditions this weekend. (Matt Sagen/Cascadia Films)

PENINSULA ADVENTURE SPORTS: More than 340 have fun in the sun for the OAT Run

More than 340 runners in the 12th annual Olympic Adventure Trail Run Saturday were treated to sunshine and spring wildflowers in this… Continue reading

Rachel Hardies of Port Angeles finishes the half-marathon at this year’s Olympic Adventure Trail Run, which took place in near-perfect sunny conditions this weekend. (Matt Sagen/Cascadia Films)
Port Angeles' Jack Gladfelter, left, and Max Baeder, competed this weekend at the John Knight Invitational in Monmouth Oregon. Gladfelter now runs for Corban University in Salem, Ore., and Baeder runs for The Evergreen State College. (Joe Gladfelter)

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Gladfelter, Baeder compete at Western Oregon meet

Former Port Angeles track and cross-country teammates Jack Gladfelter and Max Baeder met again in an Oregon college meet, with Gladfelter putting… Continue reading

Port Angeles' Jack Gladfelter, left, and Max Baeder, competed this weekend at the John Knight Invitational in Monmouth Oregon. Gladfelter now runs for Corban University in Salem, Ore., and Baeder runs for The Evergreen State College. (Joe Gladfelter)
Lexie Smith, Port Angeles softball.

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Lexie Smith, Port Angeles softball

Lexie Smith is wrapping up an outstanding prep sports career this spring with the Port Angeles softball team and is putting up monster numbers so… Continue reading

Lexie Smith, Port Angeles softball.
Port Angeles Roughriders

PREP ROUNDUP: Miller nets hat trick in PA soccer victory

Port Angeles track girls shine at Mount Tahoma meet

Port Angeles Roughriders
Forks Spartans

PREP BASEBALL ROUNDUP: Forks doubles up Crosspoint

Sequim, Port Angeles drop nonleague games

Forks Spartans

PREP SPORTS: Sequim’s Aragon, PA’s Wentz fire 4-under-par golf rounds

Lowest scores in years

The Cedars at Dungeness Men’s Club member Robert Beaudette recorded his first hole-in-one on the par-3 11th hole on April 3.

AREA SPORTS: Cedars member Bob Beaudette notches ace

The Cedars at Dungeness Men’s Club member Robert Beaudette recorded his first hole-in-one while playing the course… Continue reading

The Cedars at Dungeness Men’s Club member Robert Beaudette recorded his first hole-in-one on the par-3 11th hole on April 3.
Roger Harnack/Cheney Free Press Clayton Ernst of Port Angeles, right, rides through the holeshot leading to the Desert 100 motorcycle races’ first turn last Sunday near Odessa. Ernst went on to win the 386-participant overall 50-mile race along with his 15-and-younger age division on his KTM.

MOTORCYCLE RACING: Port Angeles’ Clayton Ernst wins Desert 100’s 50-mile race

Biggest racing weekend in Pacific Northwest

Roger Harnack/Cheney Free Press Clayton Ernst of Port Angeles, right, rides through the holeshot leading to the Desert 100 motorcycle races’ first turn last Sunday near Odessa. Ernst went on to win the 386-participant overall 50-mile race along with his 15-and-younger age division on his KTM.

AREA SPORTS: Peninsula College’s Pirate Zombie Mud Run back May 17

The Pirate Zombie Mud Run is back — and organizers say it’s bigger, muddier and more thrilling than ever. The action-packed, family-friendly… Continue reading

Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News Port Angeles’ Lexie Smith jumps on home plate after hitting a grand slam home run while her teammates wait to celebrate during the Roughriders’ win over Sequim.

PREPS: Lexie Smith hits two homers in Riders’ win over Sequim

PA rolls

Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News Port Angeles’ Lexie Smith jumps on home plate after hitting a grand slam home run while her teammates wait to celebrate during the Roughriders’ win over Sequim.
Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News An errant pickoff attempt skipped past Sequim first baseman Braydon White and Port Angeles baserunner Alex Angevine. Angevine advanced to third base on the play, scoring on another throwing error.

BASEBALL: Play at the plate lifts Sequim in instant classic win over rival Port Angeles

In a game for the ages, the Sequim baseball team broke a long losing streak at Port Angeles’ Civic Field, and it… Continue reading

Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News An errant pickoff attempt skipped past Sequim first baseman Braydon White and Port Angeles baserunner Alex Angevine. Angevine advanced to third base on the play, scoring on another throwing error.

BASEBALL: Roughriders rally back past rival Sequim in 7-4 triumph

Back-to-back doubles by Kody Williams and Jordan Shumway, the latter an RBI shot to center field, lifted Port Angeles past rival Sequim 7-4… Continue reading

Port Angeles' Matthew Miller heads the ball at Wally Sigmar Field on Tuesday as Sequim's Joshua Alcaraz (2) and Preston Kurtze are in on the play. Miller scored two goals in a 2-1 victory. (Jay Cline/for Peninsula Daily News)

PREP SOCCER: Roughriders outlast Wolves in entertaining battle

In an entertaining and physical battle between Olympic Peninsula rivals, the Port Angeles boys soccer team got a pair of goals from… Continue reading

Port Angeles' Matthew Miller heads the ball at Wally Sigmar Field on Tuesday as Sequim's Joshua Alcaraz (2) and Preston Kurtze are in on the play. Miller scored two goals in a 2-1 victory. (Jay Cline/for Peninsula Daily News)