SEQUIM — Sequim tuned up for the upcoming Class 2A Bi-District Tournament with a 3-1 win over Kingston in the first round of the Olympic League tournament, beating the Buccaneers 26-24, 25-14, 20-25 and 25-23 at home Tuesday.
“It was a really close match,” Wolves coach Jennie Webber Heilman said of the win over the No. 3 Olympic League seed.
“We worked on our blocking because the last time we played them we didn’t block at all, so this helped us this time. And we served 90 percent as a team and we did not do that the time we lost to them.”
Some big service runs by Malorey Morey helped boost Sequim.
“She had a nine-point serving run in game two and a four-point run in the fourth game,” Webber Heilman said.
Morey served a perfect 25-for-25 and added two kills and two digs.
Kendall Hastings led the Wolves at the net offensively with 16 kills. She added 11 assists, two stuff blocks, four digs and served 9 of 10 with two perfect passes.
Sequim’s Kendall Hastings (15) looks to put a spike past the block attempts of Kingston’s Marion Stejer (11) and Eva Stejer (2) in the Wolves’ 3-1 win over Kingston on Tuesday. (Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
Allie Gale served 17 for 19 with two aces, three perfect passes, a kill, 20 assists and seven digs for Sequim, while libero Jordan Hegtvedt chipped in with nine perfect passes, two kills and 16 digs.
Jolene Vaara served 14-for-15 with an ace, dealt six perfect passes and had 11 kills, three stuff blocks and eight digs.
Sequim’s Kelsi Bergeson served 11-for-13 with an ace and two kills while Jordan Kidd served 3-for-4 with a kill and five digs, and Angel Wagner was 5-for-6 with two kills and two digs.
The Wolves (11-5) will visit North Kitsap (14-2) tonight at 6 p.m. in the Olympic League Championship game. Regardless of a win or loss in tonight’s match, Sequim will be seeded at the Bi-District Tournament based on WIAA RPI rankings.
Girls Soccer Fife 5, Sequim 0
FIFE — The Wolves couldn’t find the net or hold back the Bi-District Tournament’s top-seeded Spartans in a shutout loss to open the postseason.
“They were very good, a very solid team,” Sequim coach Ken Garling said of Fife (14-1-1), the No. 4 team in the WIAA Class 2A RPI rankings. We just couldn’t get into a rhythm. They did a good job of keeping up high pressure. They were able to disrupt our passing game, and they were beating us to 50/50 balls. They are the No. 1 seed for a reason.”
Garling said his squad had difficulties stopping junior midfielder Kaylee Mithun, who scored four of Fife’s goals on the night.
“She’s a very dynamic player,” Garling said.
“We tried to adjust our formation [after halftime] to get a little more presence up and put Hannah [Wagner] up there with Taryn Johnson, but No. 4 is just tremendous for them. She came back and scored two goals in the second half and had four for the night.”
Sequim (10-5-0) will face the Orting Cardinals (7-7-1) in a loser-out game tonight at 5 p.m. at Peninsula College’s Wally Sigmar Field. Orting shut out Olympic League No. 4 Bremerton 7-0 in a loser-out game on Tuesday.
“I want to see how our girls respond, and I think they will be ready for the challenge,” Garling said.
Klahowya 8, East Jefferson 0
SILVERDALE — The Rivals fell to No. 2 overall Klahowya in a district tournament contest on Tuesday.
“We didn’t expect to get anything out of this game, so we had an eye toward [tonight] and playing a loser-out contest,” coach Rob Cantley said.
“We used the opportunity to rotate and rest because we didn’t want to risk injury or fatigue against Vashon. It’s been a long season and our girls are feeling it.”
Cantley said the game against the Eagles did allow one Rivals senior some time in the field.
“It was an opportunity for our goalie Savannah Hoffman, it’s her senior year and she told me she wanted to play in the field for a full game, so we were able to do that.”
East Jefferson (6-6-3) will play Vashon (13-4-1) tonight at 5 p.m. in a loser-out contest at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma. The Rivals fell 1-0 and 3-0 to the Pirates earlier this season.
“They are a good team but not unbeatable. We can definitely compete with them,” Cantley said. “The first game at Vashon could have gone either way, and in the second game, they got a couple of goals early and when we were pushing they scored their third.”
If East Jefferson wins, it will face the loser between Klahowya and Bellevue Christian on Saturday back at Mount Tahoma for the district’s third and final state tournament seed.
Football East Jefferson-Sultan, canceled
PORT TOWNSEND — Tuesday night’s regular season finale between the Rivals and the Turks was canceled due to COVID-19, according to East Jefferson head coach Tony Haddenham.
Haddenham didn’t answer when asked via text message which school was dealing with a positive case.
The Nisqually League-champion Rivals (6-2) will play in the Class 1A state Football Tournament against a to-be-determined opponent the weekend of Nov. 12-13.
