AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Forks’ Marky Adams earns conference honorable mention

Area soccer team hosting tryout Sunday in Sequim

Forks’ big man Marky Adams earns honors

LACEY — Forks’ Marky Adams was named to the Great Northwest Athletic Conferences’ All-Conference Honorable Mention men’s basketball team Wednesday.

The Saint Martin’s University junior led the conference in shooting percentage at 67.3 percent, blocks at 2.1 per game and added a league-high nine double-doubles on the season.

Adams posted totals of 10.7 points per game and 8.3 rebounds per game, the rebounding total good for second in the GNAC.

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He started all 29 games for the Saints (6-23) and posted 22 points and a season-high six blocks in a season-ending 70-66 win over Northwest Nazarene last week.

Soccer club tryout

SEQUIM — Northern Peninsula Football Club — a new semipro soccer squad opening play in late April — needs to find some players.

The new Western Washington Premier League Second Division team will play a 10-game schedule from April 25 to July 11, with five home games set on Saturdays at Memorial Field in Port Townsend.

Practices will be held in Sequim a couple of times a week.

Tryouts for the team will be held at the Albert Haller Playfields, 500 N. Blake Ave., in Sequim at 1 p.m. Sunday. Players will pay a $30 tryout fee (cash or check) that will go toward startup expenses for the team.

To register for the tryout session, email NorthPenFC@gmail.com.

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