AREA SPORTS: Semipro Northern Peninsula FC sets soccer tryouts

Coed youth soccer registration through March 17 in JeffCo

Northern Peninsula FC Soccer tryouts

SEQUIM — A two-part open tryout is planned for Northern Peninsula FC, the area’s mens semipro soccer club which competes in the Cascadia Premier League’s D2 Pacific Division.

The tryouts will be held at the Albert Haller playfields, 500 N. Blake Ave., from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 18 and 25.

Potential players must turn age 16 by May.

Registration is required to participate. A $25 fee also must be paid.

Training sites include Sigmar Field in Port Angeles, the Haller playfields and Memorial Field in Port Townsend

The team will play five home games at Memorial Field and five away games in the Seattle/Tacoma area this spring and summer.

To register, visit https://northernpeninsulafc.com/team-tryouts.

For more information, email coach@northern peninsulafc.com.

Coed youth soccer

PORT TOWNSEND — Registration is open until Friday for Jefferson County Department of Recreation’s spring outdoor coed soccer season.

The league is open to players from Pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, with coed divisions for pre-K and kindergarten, first and second grades, third and fourth grades and fifth through eighth grade.

Practices will begin April 10 and run through the end of May. Games and practices will be held Mondays and Wednesdays at 4:30 p.m. (Pre-K through second grade) and 5:30 for third through eighth.

Fees are $65 per player and will include a T-shirt.

To register, visit https://tinyurl.com/PDN-JeffCoSoccer23.

For more information, call Chris Macklin at 360-385-2221 or email cmacklin@countyrec.com.

Clendening ace

SEQUIM — The Cedars at Dungeness member Richard Clendening of Sequim notched his first-ever hole-in-one Friday.

Clendening sank the ace on the par-3 fourth hole from 142-yards out. He used a yellow Titleist ProV1 golf ball and his 8-iron on the shot, which was witnessed by Jan Clendening.

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