PORT TOWNSEND — The Chimacum volleyball team served its way to a 3-0 sweep of archrival Port Townsend in a nonleague match Thursday night.
Megan Dukek connected on all 26 of her serves, hitting 11 aces, to lead the Cowboys to a 25-19, 25-20, 25-12 win.
Chimacum served nearly 90 percent in the match, with four other girls missing on just one serve against an out-manned Redskin team with just seven eligible players.
“It’s a big rivalry, so it didn’t matter,” Cowboys coach Sally Dankert said.
“It was like, ‘OK, this is it. We’ve got to beat Port Townsend.”
Dani Kaminski added six kills and Cailey Snyder three kills to help Chimacum improve to 4-4 overall on the season.
The big star of the night, however, was Dukek at the service line.
“I think Megan’s serving really just takes the cake. That was incredible,” Dankert said. “She’s one of our top servers. She’s got a really good serve. A nice floater too.”
Chimacum had lost two straight Nisqually League matches earlier in the week. That included a 3-1 setback to Seattle Christian on Wednesday.
Dankert said the team came together in the Seattle Christian loss, and the momentum carried over into Thursday night.
“We played the best we ever played [Wednesday],” said Dankert, whose team is 0-4 in league play. “We moved players around this week, and it finally clicked together.
“Tonight it was nice. It was a different excitement because it was a PT-Chimacum game.”
Port Townsend (0-5) was able to challenge the Cowboys in the first two games before finally fading.
Britta Janssen led the Redskins with three kills, six assists and three digs.
Ashlee Nollette had four assists, two aces and four digs. Gen Poilizzi added three aces
“This is one of the best games we’ve played so far,” Port Townsend coach Nettie Witheridge said.
“It was nice to play a team finally that is the same level as we are.”
Port Townsend hosts Port Angeles on Tuesday in its next match.
Sequim 3, Klahowya 0
SEQUIM — The Wolves (3-2) had a fairly easy time at it by putting the Eagles away 25-9, 25-18, 25-14 in the nonleague match Thursday night.
Setter Taylor Balkan led Sequim with 23 assists, eight digs, an ace and 9-for-10 serving while Maddy Zbaraschuk had 11 kills, eight digs, two blocks and five aces.
Haleigh Harrison added eight kills, three stuff blocks and an ace while Kyla Martin had eight kills, four perfect passes and three assists.
Martin also was 15-of-17 in serves.
Rylleigh Zbaraschuk also had eight digs, and she recorded four kills.
Marissa Haner came in for the last game and earned five digs and two kills. Jessica Lauritzen was a perfect 12-for-12 in serving with four kills.
The Wolves next play at the prestigious Mark Morris Tournament in Longview Saturday and then will host Bremerton on Tuesday for the start of Olympic League action.
North Kitsap 3, Port Angeles 0
POULSBO — The Roughriders lost a close, hard-fought nonleague match to the Vikings on Thursday night.
The final scores were 25-19, 25-21, 25-20.
“It was back-and-forth the whole way until the final four or five points,” coach Christine Halberg said.
Kiah Jones led with seven kills, 8-for-8 serving, three digs and two blocks while Chloe Johnston had an amazing 10 digs.
“That was awesome,” Halberg said about Johnston’s digs.
“That kept us alive out there.”
Lauren Norton had eight digs and a kill while Danielle Rutherford had six digs, two kills and two blocks.
Setter Emily Drake earned 13 assists.
The Port Angeles JV and C teams both won by 2-1 scores.
The Riders (2-3) next play at the South Whidbey Tournament on Saturday, and then open Olympic League play at Port Townsend on Tuesday night.
Montesano 3, Forks 0
FORKS — The Spartans (2-2 in the Southwest Washington League) dropped the league match 25-19, 25-16, 25-9 on Thursday.
Whitney Fairbanks and Brittany Decker both were 100 percent in serving while Fairbanks also had three kills.
Raven McCann had four kills and two stuffs while Casey Williams put down three kills and had two stuffs.
Jillian Raben dished out 10 assists.
The Spartans next play at Rainier on Tuesday night.
Girls Soccer North Kitsap 2, Port Angeles 1, OT
POULSBO — It took overtime before the Olympic League favorite Vikings could put away the improving Roughriders in the nonleague game Thursday night.
“We have never played North Kitsap so close,” Port Angeles coach Scott Moseley said. “It shows where we’re at.”
The Riders lost 6-2 and 3-0 to the Vikings last year.
This comes right after the Riders improved to 4-1 after Tuesday’s victory for the best start since 2001.
North Kitsap led 1-0 at halftime after scoring in the 25th minute.
Paxton Rodocker tied it up by scoring on a penalty kick at the 45th minute.
The Vikings scored 2 minutes into overtime and then held on to earn the victory.
The Vikings outshot the Riders 17-7 as Port Angeles goalkeeper Kearsten Cox had 11 saves.
Kathryn Moseley was named offensive player of the game while Rodocker received transition player of the game honors and Kearsten Cox was picked as defensive player of the game.
The Riders (4-2) open Olympic League competition at Port Townsend on Tuesday.
Port Townsend 6, Seattle Lutheran 0
SEATTLE — Irina Lyons scored a hat trick and Lydia Young had a goal and three assists as the Redskins handed the 2B Saints their first loss of the year Thursday night.
Port Townsend (5-2-0) scored three goals in the first half before finally putting the game away in the final 10 minutes with three more scores.
“With such a scoreline the offense gets the glory, but the movement and positional play of the whole team was a pleasure to watch,” Port Townsend coach Colin Foden said.
Port Townsend 6, S. Lutheran 0
Seattle Lutheran 0 0 — 0
Port Townsend 3 3 — 6
Scoring Summary
First half: 1, Port Townsend, McHugh (Young) 3rd minute; 2, Port Townsend, Lyons (McHugh), 20th minute; 3, Port Townsend, Berkshire (McHugh).
Second Half: 4, Port Townsend, Lyons (McHugh), 70th minute; 5, Port Townsend, Young, 72nd minute; 6, Port Townsend, Lyons, 73rd minute.
Girls Swimming Port Angeles 144, Klahowya 34
PORT ANGELES — Double event winner Tracie Macias helped Port Angeles cruise to an easy Olympic League victory Thursday with the Roughriders placing first in all 12 events.
The undefeated Riders (3-0 in league and overall) picked up five new district qualifying times.
Macias had two first place finishes in the 200-yard freestyle and the 500 free, claiming district qualifying times in both events.
Jenna Moore had two third place finishes, also setting district qualifying times in both events.
Also setting a qualifying district time was Tarah Erickson, who claimed second in the 200 free.
Port Angeles will travel for their next meet against Bainbridge on Tuesday.
Kingston 86, Sequim 82
SEQUIM — It was a close Olympic League meet with it coming down to the last two events Thursday.
Kingston had 24 swimmers to Sequim’s 14 and finally used the extra numbers to win the last two events and the meet.
Sequim won seven of the 11 events with freshman Cassie Calderon dropping two seconds off her 200-yard individual medley race and consistently dropping time from her 50 free and 100 free races.
Along with Calderon, the three seniors, Rachel Hardy, Rachel Hughes and Gianna Venetti, continue to win the 200 medley and the 200 free relays and have high hopes for getting to state.