Area Sports

Kaiden Silva of Bellingham rides in the boys U7 category in the second running of the NW Cup at Dry Hill in May. The championship of the seven-race NW Cup series will be held Sunday at Dry Hill, one of three major sporting/outdoor events on the Peninsula this weekend. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

Mountain bikes, sprint boats and runners to hit Peninsula

Separate events expected to bring hundreds of athletes, spectators to town

Kaiden Silva of Bellingham rides in the boys U7 category in the second running of the NW Cup at Dry Hill in May. The championship of the seven-race NW Cup series will be held Sunday at Dry Hill, one of three major sporting/outdoor events on the Peninsula this weekend. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
Lincoln Park BMX Track riders earned 44 state plates at the Washington State BMX Finals held last weekend at Spokane BMX.

AREA SPORTS: Lincoln Park BMXers earn 44 state plates at BMX State Championships

Lincoln Park BMX Track riders earned a combined 44 state plates at the Washington State… Continue reading

Lincoln Park BMX Track riders earned 44 state plates at the Washington State BMX Finals held last weekend at Spokane BMX.
The Bad Influence 156 boat out of oregon competes at the Extreme Sports Park on July 27. The sprint boats are returning for another weekend of racing beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday. It's part of a very busy weekend of sports with prep football beginning Friday, the NW Cup Downhill bike races all weekend at Dry Hill and the GOAT endurance run. (Jeff Halstead/for Peninsula Daily News)

Busy weekend for sports approaches

The Bad Influence 156 boat out of Oregon competes at the Extreme Sports Park on July 27. The sprint boats are returning for another weekend… Continue reading

The Bad Influence 156 boat out of oregon competes at the Extreme Sports Park on July 27. The sprint boats are returning for another weekend of racing beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday. It's part of a very busy weekend of sports with prep football beginning Friday, the NW Cup Downhill bike races all weekend at Dry Hill and the GOAT endurance run. (Jeff Halstead/for Peninsula Daily News)

AREA SPORTS: PAHS boys basketball raffling firewood cords

PC offering fall soccer, volleyball

Calvin Colander of Bellingham-based Team Improbability Drive heads for the handoff after finishing the mountain bike leg of the 2023 Big Hurt in Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

PENINSULA ADVENTURE SPORTS: Big Hurt registration open; prices increase Sept. 1

Athletes must register by Monday if they want to take advantage of lower prices for the Big Hurt. The Big Hurt, put… Continue reading

Calvin Colander of Bellingham-based Team Improbability Drive heads for the handoff after finishing the mountain bike leg of the 2023 Big Hurt in Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Master Alan Lindwall (in black, rear), head instructor for Seibu Ryu sword school of Iai-battojitsu of Seattle, spent Saturday at White Crane Martial Arts in downtown Port Angeles, teaching a seminar of the Japanese sword arts to the Gumdo class that practices the Korean sword arts with Grandmaster Robert Nicholls (black and gold trim, rear). The class is held at 5 p.m. Tuesdays at the dojang. (Courtesy photo)

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Japanese sword arts seminar at White Crane

Master Alan Lindwall (in black, rear), head instructor for Seibu Ryu sword school of Iai-battojitsu of Seattle, spent Saturday at White Crane Martial Arts in… Continue reading

Master Alan Lindwall (in black, rear), head instructor for Seibu Ryu sword school of Iai-battojitsu of Seattle, spent Saturday at White Crane Martial Arts in downtown Port Angeles, teaching a seminar of the Japanese sword arts to the Gumdo class that practices the Korean sword arts with Grandmaster Robert Nicholls (black and gold trim, rear). The class is held at 5 p.m. Tuesdays at the dojang. (Courtesy photo)
KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Emma Gulley, 14, of Roy takes her turn in the senior girls breakaway during Saturday's Port Angeles Junior Rodeo at the Clallam County Fairgrounds. The event brought youth competitors from across Western Washington for two days of rodeo competition.

JUNIOR RODEO: Rope ‘em, Cowgirls

Above: Emma Gulley, 14, of Roy takes her turn in the senior girls breakaway during Saturday’s Port Angeles Junior Rodeo at the Clallam County Fairgrounds.… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Emma Gulley, 14, of Roy takes her turn in the senior girls breakaway during Saturday's Port Angeles Junior Rodeo at the Clallam County Fairgrounds. The event brought youth competitors from across Western Washington for two days of rodeo competition.
Matt Dryke, 1984 Olympic Games gold medal winner (skeet shooting), joins his wife Yvonne and daughter Ellen at the opening of the new Sequim Museum & Arts building in July 2019. A section of the museum details Dryke's storied career in the sport. Sequim Gazette file photo by Michael Dashiell

SHOOTING SPORTS: Sequim Olympic Gold Medalist Matt Dryke gets his day Sept. 13

Celebrated by Sequim Museum & Arts

Matt Dryke, 1984 Olympic Games gold medal winner (skeet shooting), joins his wife Yvonne and daughter Ellen at the opening of the new Sequim Museum & Arts building in July 2019. A section of the museum details Dryke's storied career in the sport. Sequim Gazette file photo by Michael Dashiell
The Cedars at Dungeness Men’s Club champions are four-time defending Gross champ Jeff Jones, left, and Rick Towery (Net).

AREA SPORTS: Jeff Jones wins 4th straight Cedars at Dungeness Men’s Club title

Sequim’s Linda Hash wins Super Senior Amateur

The Cedars at Dungeness Men’s Club champions are four-time defending Gross champ Jeff Jones, left, and Rick Towery (Net).
Courtesy of OPRA Noah Oberly and Cooper Disque eye the turn buoy in Port Angeles Harbor as they get ready to head back to shore.

ROWING: OPRA members shine at home beach sprint regatta

The Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association hosted its second annual beach sprint regatta on Hollywood Beach earlier this month. The event brought in… Continue reading

Courtesy of OPRA Noah Oberly and Cooper Disque eye the turn buoy in Port Angeles Harbor as they get ready to head back to shore.
Ryan Petty, No. 95, crashes into Brandon Rutherford during the 2024 Demo Derby at the Clallam County Fair this weekend. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

CLALLAM COUNTY FAIR: Demolition derby gets airborne

Ryan Petty, No. 95, crashes into Brandon Rutherford, lifting his car off the ground during the 2024 Demo Derby at the Clallam County Fair this… Continue reading

Ryan Petty, No. 95, crashes into Brandon Rutherford during the 2024 Demo Derby at the Clallam County Fair this weekend. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
Left, Robin Mather, a member of the Port Angeles cross-country teams between 1982-1985 and Burdette Greeny, a baseball player for the Roughriders who graduated in 1993, were among the 2024 inductees at the annual Port Angeles Roughrider Hall of Fame ceremony. Mather went in as a team member while Greeny as an individual. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

PORT ANGELES HALL OF FAME: Special place creates special athletes

Inductees talk about community and humility

Left, Robin Mather, a member of the Port Angeles cross-country teams between 1982-1985 and Burdette Greeny, a baseball player for the Roughriders who graduated in 1993, were among the 2024 inductees at the annual Port Angeles Roughrider Hall of Fame ceremony. Mather went in as a team member while Greeny as an individual. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Patrick Mahoney of Raymond takes aim at his wooden target during the springboard chop competition during Saturday's logging show in the grandstands arena of the Clallam County Fair in Port Angeles. Mahoney went on to win the event against two other competetors.

CLALLAM COUNTY FAIR: Hack attack at logging show

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Patrick Mahoney of Raymond takes aim at his wooden target during the springboard chop competition during Saturday’s logging show in the… Continue reading

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Patrick Mahoney of Raymond takes aim at his wooden target during the springboard chop competition during Saturday's logging show in the grandstands arena of the Clallam County Fair in Port Angeles. Mahoney went on to win the event against two other competetors.
Pierre LaBossiere on the summit of The Whistlers in Jasper National Park in 2023. (PIerre LaBossiere/Peninsula Daily News)

PIERRE LaBOSSIERE COLUMN: Mountain town of Jasper is near and dear to my heart

This was a depressing past couple of weeks for me. Last week, I was supposed to take a vacation I had been… Continue reading

Pierre LaBossiere on the summit of The Whistlers in Jasper National Park in 2023. (PIerre LaBossiere/Peninsula Daily News)
Clallam County Orca athletes from Sequim and Port Angeles competed against athletes from Anacortes, Bremerton, North Sound and Whidbey Island in the Bocce tournament on Whidbey Island last week, as the Clallam County athletes came home with gold and silver medals. The Orcas extend a special thank-you to Whidbey Island Special Olympics for its hospitality in hosting the Tournament. (Courtesy photo)

AREA SPORTS PHOTO: Clallam Special Olympics team wins medals

Clallam County Orca athletes from Sequim and Port Angeles competed against athletes from Anacortes, Bremerton, North Sound and Whidbey Island in the Bocce tournament on… Continue reading

Clallam County Orca athletes from Sequim and Port Angeles competed against athletes from Anacortes, Bremerton, North Sound and Whidbey Island in the Bocce tournament on Whidbey Island last week, as the Clallam County athletes came home with gold and silver medals. The Orcas extend a special thank-you to Whidbey Island Special Olympics for its hospitality in hosting the Tournament. (Courtesy photo)

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Area pickleball athletes win medals at senior games

Several Olympic Peninsula senior athletes won silver and gold medals in pickleball at the Washington State Senior Games held earlier this month. Winning… Continue reading

Barry Wilcox winning his bronze medal at the para-cycling world championships in Glasgow, Scotland in 2023. (Casey Gibson/USOPC)

PORT ANGELES ROUGHRIDER HALL OF FAME: Riders’ Barry Wilcox back in the saddle

Suffered major spinal cord injury in traffic accident, now races in para-cycling

Barry Wilcox winning his bronze medal at the para-cycling world championships in Glasgow, Scotland in 2023. (Casey Gibson/USOPC)
Sequim’s Riley Pyeatt with her high school coach Brad Moore at Sequim’s new track surface earlier this month. Pyeatt just signed a scholarship to run track and field for Washington State as both her and Moore are now proud Cougars. (Tracie Pyeatt)

COLLEGE ATHLETICS: Sequim’s Riley Pyeatt returns to the Pacific Northwest

Track star for the Wolves will now run for Washington State

Sequim’s Riley Pyeatt with her high school coach Brad Moore at Sequim’s new track surface earlier this month. Pyeatt just signed a scholarship to run track and field for Washington State as both her and Moore are now proud Cougars. (Tracie Pyeatt)
James Baker of Longview stalls out his nitrous oxide charged ‘76 Blazer in a race against Ethan Newman of Quilcene in his Chevy 350-powered 1980 Toyota pickup during the mud drags at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds on Sunday. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

MUD DRAGS: Jefferson County Fair wraps with muddy mayhem

James Baker of Longview stalls out his nitrous oxide charged ‘76 Blazer in a race against Ethan Newman of Quilcene in his Chevy 350-powered 1980… Continue reading

James Baker of Longview stalls out his nitrous oxide charged ‘76 Blazer in a race against Ethan Newman of Quilcene in his Chevy 350-powered 1980 Toyota pickup during the mud drags at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds on Sunday. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

AREA SPORTS: Deer Run 5K on Naval Magazine Indian Island set Saturday

Chance to run or walk on closed Naval base