Peninsula's Branden Charbonier

Peninsula's Branden Charbonier

COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Peninsula College teams host Edmonds in NWAACC North Division home openers Wednesday

PORT ANGELES — The Peninsula Pirates host Edmonds for their North Division women’s and men’s basketball home openers Wednesday.

For the Peninsula women, it will be the first home game of the 2013-14 season — and the road has not been kind.

The Pirates are 3-8 and looking to turn things around with the help of the home fans. Tipoff for the women against Edmonds (1-10) is 5 p.m.

The Peninsula men’s game marks the first home conference game for first-year head coach Mitch Freeman.

The Pirates men started the season 6-1 and earned a No. 8 spot in the Alaska Airlines NWAACC Coaches Poll, but have since dropped three straight games, all on the road.

The men, too, will return to their home crowd looking to get back in the win column against a Triton team that is 8-6. Tipoff follows the women’s game at approximately 7 p.m.

The Peninsula women are coming off a season that saw Taylor Larson, Karli Brakes and Jonica Durbin rewrite the Pirate scoring, assist, steal and blocked shot records, but those sophomores have moved on and the 2013-14 squad is still finding its way.

Port Angeles sophomore Alison Knowles is averaging 13.9 points per game to lead the Pirates.

Freshman Gabi Fenumiai of Juneau, Alaska, is right behind at 12.8 points and her 13.1 rebounds is second in the NWAACC in that category.

Another freshman, Madison Pilster of Snake River, Idaho, also is scoring in double figures with an 11.8 average. She is also pulling down 8.6 rebounds.

Sophomore Pherrari Brumbaugh leads the team in assists with 2.9 per game.

The women are coming off a 76-62 setback in their conference opener Saturday at Whatcom.

The Pirates, who were 0-13 from three-point range, could hit only 34 percent from the floor, while the Orcas hit on 43 percent.

Peninsula was led by Fenumiai’s 17 points and nine rebounds, 13 from Knowles and 10 points and nine boards from Pilster.

The Pirate men this season are led by Xavier Bazile, who is averaging 21.8 points per game, the eighth highest in the NWAACC, since becoming eligible in December.

The Tacoma sophomore also is leading the team in rebounds with 6.8.

The only other Pirate scoring in double figures with 13.9 per game is sophomore T.J. McKinney of Anchorage, Alaska.

Erron Shamlin leads the team in assists with 3.5 per game.

The Peninsula men fell in their conference opener at Whatcom, 99-76.

The NWAACC’s fourth-ranked Orcas outshot the Pirates 61 percent to 40 percent and outrebounded them 43-27 to account for the lopsided outcome.

Bazile led Peninsula with 21 points and six rebounds, Daren Hechanova added 18 points and five assists and Markus Rawls chipped in 11 points.

More in Sports

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 Roughriders.
PORT ANGELES BASKETBALL: Roughriders lose another heartbreaker at the buzzer

The Port Angeles boys basketball team rallied in the fourth… 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)
PREP ROUNDUP: Balanced Sequim girls outroll Port Angeles

The Sequim girls bowling team used consistent individual scores… Continue reading

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… 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)
PREP WRESTLING: East Jefferson second at home invitational

East Jefferson finished second in its home Rivals Invitational… Continue reading

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

Forks’ Jade Blair and Peyton Johnson and Port Angeles’ Lilly… Continue reading

BOYS SWIMMING: Riders dominate Buccaneers

The Port Angeles boys swim team came away with… 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… Continue reading

COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Peninsula women sweep three at Clark tournament

The Peninsula College women’s basketball team swept three games… 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