BELFAIR — The Sequim boys basketball team came into the season regarded as one of the Olympic League’s top teams.
After winning its fifth straight to begin the year Friday night, it’s starting to look like Sequim (3-0 in league, 5-0 overall) is one of the state’s best as well.
Senior guard Evan Hill scored a career-high 22 points, and freshman Alex Barry added 12 points to lead the Wolves to a 56-28 drubbing of North Mason.
With the Bulldogs intent on stopping senior all-league guard Corbin Webb with a box-and-one defense, the two sharpshooters combined to hit eight 3-pointers.
“Of course, Corbin after he scored 32 [in a win over 3A Peninsula] was going to draw attention,” Sequim coach Greg Glasser said.
“I’m just really happy with how patient we were. We missed a couple of looks early, but we kept going to those guys, Evan and Alex Barry, and they made some big shots for us.”
Sequim has been playing without all-league forward Gabe Carter, who broke his left pinky finger during the team’s first game of the year, almost from the start of the season.
In his absence, the Wolves have managed to beat a pair of Class 3A teams in Peninsula and Bainbridge and start off the Olympic League schedule 3-0.
Sequim stands as the last remaining unbeaten in the league, with defending champion Kingston even falling once to the same Bainbridge team the Wolves topped 56-52 on Nov. 30.
Friday’s win proved to be a little less challenging as the Wolves limited North Mason (0-3, 0-4) to just 12 first-half points and 19 after three quarters.
Hill knocked down five three-pointers and Barry three, taking advantage of several open looks afforded them by the Bulldogs’ zone defense.
Sequim faces a bit of a challenge this week with three games in five days, beginning with a league matchup at Bremerton (1-1, 1-3) on Monday.
The Wolves will then host Klahowya (2-0, 2-4) on Wednesday before traveling to North Kitsap (2-1, 2-2) on Friday.
Sequim 56, North Mason 28
Sequim 9 13 20 13 — 56
North Mason 6 6 7 8 — 28
Individual Scoring
Sequim (56)
Hill 22, Barry 12, Brocklesby 7, Guan 3, Catelli 4, Webb 9.
North Mason (28)
Price 8, Crummey 2, Allen 1, Sanquist 4, Henderson 6, Rowand 4, Davenport 2.
Chimacum 72, Orting 54
ORTING — All of the sudden, the Cowboys are looking like Nisqually League contenders.
Chimacum (1-0, 5-0) won its fifth straight in Friday night’s league opener, riding another offensive barrage from its three-guard lineup.
Landon Cray scored a game-high 23 points, Quinn Eldridge added 22 and Rafael Pagasian 13 as the Cowboys raced out to a 35-25 halftime lead and didn’t look back.
“I’ll take the win, but we got to play better than this against better teams,” Chimacum coach Jim Eldridge said. “It wasn’t our best game, we didn’t shoot the ball that well.
“We were just better athletes than they were. Landon Cray and Rafael could pretty much take the ball to the hole whenever they wanted to.”
As it was, the Cowboys sank eight 3-pointers.
They played Olympic on the road Saturday night after press time.
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Chimacum 72, Orting 54
Chimacum 17 18 16 21 — 72
Orting 15 10 10 19 — 54
Individual Scoring
Chimacum (72)
Cray 23, Eldridge 22, Pagasian 13, Dukek 5, Madayag 2, Ajax 3, Downs 1, Glessing 3.
Orting (54)
Pronh 2, Harper 3, Keefer 2, Williams 10, Sunmore 15, Rios 15, Teuteu 3, Marino 4.
Port Angeles 64, Olympic 51
SILVERDALE — Big man Easton Napiontek continued his outstanding season with 22 points to lead the Roughriders back in the second half after a slow start Friday night.
Napiontek, 6-foot-8, led three Riders in double figures as Hayden McCartney swished in 16 and Reggie Burke had 13.
Port Angeles won its third game on the year, and its second straight, improving to 2-1 in the Olympic League and 3-1 overall.
The Riders trailed 29-21 at the half but outscored the Trojans 43-22 in the second half to cruise to the 13-point win.
Trent Gallagher scored a game-high 23 points for Olympic.
Port Angeles now has three league games this week, two of them on the road.
The Riders first go to Port Townsend on Monday night, then host Bremerton on Wednesday night and travel to Klahowya on Friday night.
Port Angeles 64, Olympic 51
Port Angeles 14 7 22 21 — 64
Olympic 14 15 13 9 — 51
Individual Scoring
Port Angeles (64)
Napiontek 22, McCartney 16, Burke 13, Walker 6, Uvila 6, Elliott 1.
Olympic (51)
Gallagher 23, Setten 9, Fulilove 7, Encomienda 6, Tyson 6.
North Kitsap 38, Port Townsend 24
PORT TOWNSEND — The Vikings shook off a 4-4 first quarter to outscore the Redskins by 10 points in the second period and held on for the Olympic League victory Friday night.
Port Townsend’s Kyle Kelly was the high scorer in the defensive-minded game with 13 points.
Trevor Waller put in 11 for North Kitsap.
The Redskins, who fell to 0-3 in league and 0-4 overall, will host Port Angeles on Monday night.
North Kitsap 38, Port Townsend 24
North Kitsap 4 12 12 10 — 38
Port Townsend 4 2 9 9 — 24
Individual Scoring
North Kitsap (38)
Lindsey 4, Harrel 4, Ford 2, Hill 7, Gill 7, Waller 11.
Port Townsend (24)
Kelly 13, S. Coppenrath 3, King 2, Spaltenstein 2, LeMaster 2, Smith 2.
Clallam Bay loses two games
CLALLAM BAY — The Bruins lost two nonleague games this weekend, falling 69-63 to Taholah on Friday night and 53-38 to Wishkah on Saturday afternoon.
Clallam Bay now is 1-3 overall.
Kevin Hess led the Bruins with 18 points against Taholah while Jacob Portnoy was right behind with 14 and Ryan Willis scored 10. Austin Ritter sank nine in the game.
The Bruins led 12-11 at the end of one quarter but Taholah outscored them 40-30 in the two middle periods to take control.
Wishkah took a 10-point lead early in Saturday’s game and held on.
“We had one starter out with a suspension for that game and it didn’t help,” Bruins coach Cal Ritter said.
Portnoy led the Bruins with 21 points.
The Bruins next host Neah Bay in nonleague action Tuesday night.
Girls Basketball
Chimacum 41, Orting 36
ORTING — Mallori Cossell took over in the fourth quarter to spark the Cowboys to the crucial Nisqually League win Friday night.
Orting was one of three teams in league that the Cowboys had to beat if they wanted to challenge for a playoff spot, Chimacum coach Brad Burlingame said earlier in the week.
Chimacum (1-0, 2-3) took care of business as Cossell scored 16 points in the game, most of them coming in the final period. She netted four 3-pointers
Cydney Nelson added 11 and Ke Ke Snyder scored eight. Nelson also had six steals.
Krista Hathaway, meanwhile, was a thorn in Orting’s side defensively.
“Krista did a great job on defense for us,” Burlingame said.
Hathaway grabbed seven rebounds and had four steals.
“The story is that we always have one bad quarter and that came in the first quarter for us in this game,” Burlingame said.
The Cowboys scored only five points in the first period but outscored Orting 28-21 in the second half to erase a 15-13 halftime deficit.
Chimacum 41, Orting 36
Chimacum 5 8 15 13 — 41
Orting 6 9 9 12 — 36
Individual Scoring
Chimacum (41)
Cossell 16, Nelson 11, Snyder 8, Thacker 2, Johnson 1, Hathaway 3.
Orting (36)
Burr 8, Minniham 2, Whatley 1, Loftes 4, Carson 21.
Sequim 56,
North Mason 45
SEQUIM — Haleigh Harrison led three players in double figures with 17 points as the Wolves broke through to the win column.
Alexas Besand dropped in 14 points while Melanie Guan added 10 as Sequim jumped to a 16-5 lead in the first quarter and never looked back.
The Wolves improve to 1-2 in the Olympic League and 1-3 overall.
Harrison also had eight rebounds.
Sequim 56, North Mason 45
North Mason 5 11 21 8 — 45
Sequim 16 16 14 10 — 56
Individual Scoring
North Mason (45)
Stromberg 3, Hicks 10, Q. Satran 1, Shumaker 8, Martin 5, Johnson 10, Nelson 3.
Sequim (56)
Balkan 7, Hudson 2, Harrison 17, Guan 10, Hamer 2, Briones 4, Besand 14.
North Kitsap 52, Port Townsend 44
POULSBO — Kiley Maag and Irina Lyons combined for 30 points but the Redskins fell short in Olympic League action Thursday night.
The game was originally scheduled for Friday but was moved up a day so Port Townsend coach Randy Maag could see his son graduate from Washington State.
Kiley Maag led everybody with 16 points while Lyons added 14.
The Class 1A Redskins led 17-14 after the first quarter but the 2A Vikings outscored Port Townsend 38-27 the rest of the way.
The Redskins fell to 1-2 in league and 2-2 overall.
North Kitsap 52, Port Townsend 44
Port Townsend 17 9 9 9 — 44
North Kitsap 14 14 11 13 — 52
Individual Scoring
Port Townsend (44)
Johnson 6, Maag 16, Lyons 14, Hassock 4, Hallinan 5.
North Kitsap (52)
L. Baugh 4, Cardoza 4, Brown 6, R. Baugh 12, Snyder 2, Bray 4, Nold 2, Williams 8, Simmons 10.
Boys Swimming
North Kitsap 106, Sequim 77
POULSBO — Eric Prosser qualified for the district championships in the 500-yard freestyle and Connor Christianson won diving competition for the Wolves in the Olympic League dual meet Thursday.
Prosser had a time of 5 minutes, 58.39 seconds to win the event. He dropped nearly 30 seconds off his previous best time.
Christianson, meanwhile, won diving with a score of 202.45.
Steve Dewey won the 200 free for the Wolves in 2:23.60, improving his previous best time by 35 seconds.
Sequim’s Doug Dunbar also won as he took the 100 free in 1:02.05, his best time ever.
Port Angeles 130, Bremerton 36
PORT ANGELES — Tyler Burke and Avery Koehler were double winners as the Roughriders won every event to swamp the Knights in the Olympic League dual meet Thursday.
Burke won the 100-yard freestyle and the 100 backstroke while Koehler captured the 200 individual medley and the 500 free.
Other winners were C.J. Urnes in the 200 free, John Macias in the 50 free, Jay Liang in the 100 butterfly, Austin Fahrenholtz in diving and Matt Watkins in the 100 breaststroke.
The 200 medley relay team won with the foursome of Burke, Watkins, Connor Reid and Kris Wannquist while the 200 free relay won with Macias, Reid, Wannquist and Watkins.
Swimmers Liang, Urnes, Wannquist and Burke combined to win the 400 free relay.