PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles’ golf teams were both defeated by North Kitsap in their Olympic League matches at Peninsula Golf Club.
The Roughriders lost to the Vikings 253-264 in the girls match.
North Kitsap’s Abbey Holmberg earned match medalist honors by shooting an nine-hole round of 60.
Par for Tuesday’s contest was 36.
Port Angeles sophomore Lexie Jeffers shot the match’s second-best round, a 62.
The Riders’ other three counting scores were Rose Shinn-Clark with a 66, and rounds of 68 shot by Maddie Boe and Jaden Dugger.
North Kitsap won the boys match 194-227.
Kellen Fitz and Nolan Setterland led the Vikings and shared medalist honors with identical scores of 44 strokes.
Justus Jagodzinske had a 52 for North Kitsap.
Parker Elias’ round of 53 was Port Angeles’ best score of the match.
Royce Duncan shot a 57, Carson Wilder finished with a 58 and Kaleb Sheldon was at 59.
“The guys are giving it their best and have great attitudes,” Riders coach Gil Stockton said.
“There is little doubt they will be improving as the year goes on. This is a terrific group of young men and a treat to coach.”
The Port Angeles boys and girls teams travel to face Klahowya today at Gold Mountain Golf Club in Bremerton.
BOYS SOCCER
Sequim grabs first win of season
COUPEVILLE — The Sequim Wolves overcame a difficult start to defeat a different pack of Wolves, the one from Coupeville, 7-2.
The goals were Sequim’s first of the season, as was the victory.
“We played real well after we settled down,” Sequim coach Dave Brasher said of Tuesday’s game.
“The first 20 minutes were a little sketchy.”
Coupeville opened the scoring with a 10th-minute goal.
Sequim’s Liam Harris evened the score at 1-1 off an assist by Josiah Urquia.
Urquia gave Sequim the lead with a goal of his own that was set up by Cameron Chase in the 23rd minute, but Coupeville tied the game at 2-2 with a 26th-minute score.
Three minutes after that, Coupeville had another shot at scoring, but Sequim goalkeeper Austin Wagner made a save on a penalty kick to keep the score even.
“That might have been the spark that settled us down,” Brasher said.
Sequim scored the last five goals of the match, two of which came before halftime.
Thomas Winfield netted an unassisted goal in the 31st minute, and Harris scored his second goal of the match off an assist by Patrick McCrorie in the 39th minute.
Chase’s second assist of the game went to Josh Gonzalez in the 46th minute, extending Sequim’s lead to 5-2.
Chase scored a goal of his own in the 69th minute. The assist came from Lane Danielson.
A 76th-minute corner kick by Evan James set up a goal by Blake Eriks to conclude the scoring.
Sequim outshot Coupeville 19-6.
Wagner made five saves, including the penalty kick.
Brasher chose Gonzalez as Sequim’s player of the match.
Sequim (0-1-0, 1-2-0) plays its home opener against rival Port Angeles (2-0-1) on Saturday at 12:45 p.m.
“We’re excited to play PA Saturday,” Brasher said.
After dropping its season opener to Klahowya 1-0 last Thursday, Sequim then went to Kingston on Saturday and lost 2-0.
The Buccaneers scored goals in the fourth and 23rd minutes.
The Wolves settled down and had chances, but couldn’t find the goal.
“Second half was much better,” Brasher said.
“We had most of the play towards the end of the second half, had a lot of good chances — Thomas Winfield headed a corner kick right over the top, Patrick McCrorie had one close chance on a corner kick.
“A lot of pressure, couldn’t quite do it, but [we] played real well.”
BASEBALL
Sequim 13, Coupeville 1
COUPEVILLE — Daniel Harker lit ’em up in the first inning and shut ’em down for three innings.
Harker hit a three-run home run during Sequim’s eight-run first to start Tuesday’s game.
Sequim had 13 at-bats in the top of the first inning. The first eight batters of the game reached base.
After that, Harker took the mound and gave up only three hits and one run over three innings to earn the win for the Sequim Wolves.
Ian Miller and Gavin Velarde each worked one inning of hitless and scoreless relief.
Sequim’s lead grew to 12-1 with a four-run fourth inning, and then 13-1 when Velarde scored on Justin Porter’s sacrifice fly in the fifth inning.
Velade was 3 for 4 with a double, two runs, an RBI and a steal. Harker finished 3 for 4 with two doubles, the homer, two runs and two RBIs.
Nigel Christian doubled, drove in a run and scored two runs for Sequim.
Sequim (3-0) plays its Olympic League 2A opener at Bremerton (3-1) on Friday.
Sequim 13, Coupeville 1, 5 innings
Sequim 8 0 0 4 1 — 13 9 2
Coupeville 1 0 0 0 0 — 1 3 2
WP- Harker
Pitching Statistics
Sequim: Harker 3 IP, ER, 3 K; Miller IP, 0 H, 0 R; Velarde IP, 0 H, 0 R, BB, 2 K.
Hitting Statistics
Sequim: Harker 3-4, 2 2B, HR, 2 R, 4 RBI; Velarde 3-4, 2B, 2 R, RBI, SB; Christian 1-2, 2B, 2 R, 2 RBI; Hankinson 1-2, R, 2 RBI; Dennis 1-1, 2 BB, 2 R, RBI; Hilliard 0-3, R, RBI, SB; Porter 0-0, RBI; Grubb 0-2, R.
Coupeville: Bayne 1-3, Trumbull 1-2, RBI, Smith 1-3, R.
GIRLS TENNIS
Sequim starts season 2-1
BREMERTON — After opening their season with a pair of 7-0 victories over North Mason and Chimacum/Port Townsend, the Wolves dropped their first match of the season to Bremerton.
The Knights swept Tuesday’s singles matches and took one of the four doubles matches.
Sequim duos Katey Wake and Hannah D’Amico, Kalleigh Cassal and Jessica Craig, and Melisa Copeland and Ashley Rosales won their doubles matches.
Against Chimacum/Port Townsend, Sequim’s Karen Chan defeated Port Townsend’s An Nguyen 6-1, 6-1 in the No. 1 singles match last Thursday.
Stephanie LaCour won the No. 2 singles contest against Chimacum’s Sophia Thurston 7-5, 6-3, and Isabelle Hugonoit topped Port Townsend’s Amelia Breithaupt in a thrilling No. 3 singles showdown 4-6, 7-6 (7-5), (10-7).
Sequim’s No. 1 doubles tandem of Wake and D’Amico defeated Chimacum’s Jordyn Johnson and Tessa Rasmussen 6-1, 6-2.
The No. 2 doubles match went to a tiebreaker before Craig and Cassal prevailed over Chimacum’s Gladys Hitt and Renee Woods 4-6, 6-2, (10-6).
In No. 3 doubles, Andrea Albaugh and Tia Gauthun won by forfeit, and Copeland and Lindsey Carlson defeated Chimacum’s Emma Craighed and Anna Pace 6-2, 6-2 in No. 4 doubles.
“We are a young team and are building,” coach Justine Wagner said of the Wolves this season.
“We do have a couple top returners who are upperclassmen, Karen Chan, Katey Wake and Stephanie LaCour.”
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Compiled using team reports.
