Preps

PREP BASKETBALL: Roughrider girls roar back in fourth, reach district title game

Port Angeles rallied behind a 27-point fourth quarter to return to the Class 2A state tournament and the West Central District Girls Basketball… Continue reading

 

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Port Angeles' Lindsay Smith, center, holds onto the ball surrounded by North Mason defenders, from left, Adrianna Tupolo, Adrianne Tupolo and Briana Cauhtenango on Tuesday's playoff game in Port Angeles.

PREP GIRLS BASKETBALL: Roughriders rally in final 3 minutes to overcome North Mason

The Port Angeles girls basketball team, which was given everything it could handle and then some from a feisty North Mason squad,… Continue reading

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Port Angeles' Lindsay Smith, center, holds onto the ball surrounded by North Mason defenders, from left, Adrianna Tupolo, Adrianne Tupolo and Briana Cauhtenango on Tuesday's playoff game in Port Angeles.

PREP GIRLS BASKETBALL ROUNDUP: Forks’ season ended by Mossyrock

Neah Bay begins defense of state title with victory

Courtesy of Stephen Grimm
East Jefferson's Rylen Kruse, left, here wrestling against Cascade Christian is one of four East Jefferson wrestlers with outstanding won-loss records looking to place at the Mat Classic this weekend.
Courtesy of Stephen Grimm
East Jefferson's Rylen Kruse, left, here wrestling against Cascade Christian is one of four East Jefferson wrestlers with outstanding won-loss records looking to place at the Mat Classic this weekend.
Bailey Johnson, Forks basketball.

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Bailey Johnson, Forks basketball

Forks’ Bailey Johnson is getting red-hot at the perfect time of the year for the Spartans. Johnson showed the kind of explosive scoring she is… Continue reading

Bailey Johnson, Forks basketball.
Left, the Port Angeles boys 200 freestyle relay team came in second at the West Central District III championships this weekend. Clockwise from top left are Finn Thompson, Patrick Ross, Miles Van Denburg and Thomas Jones. At right, Port Angeles’ Grant Butterworth won the West Central District III diving championship this weekend. (Port Angeles Swim Team)

PREP DISTRICT SWIMMING: Port Angeles boys finish third

Grant Butterworth wins district diving title

Left, the Port Angeles boys 200 freestyle relay team came in second at the West Central District III championships this weekend. Clockwise from top left are Finn Thompson, Patrick Ross, Miles Van Denburg and Thomas Jones. At right, Port Angeles’ Grant Butterworth won the West Central District III diving championship this weekend. (Port Angeles Swim Team)
The East Jefferson girls basketball team celebrates their district playoff win over Cascade Christian on Saturday in a game that the Rivals trailed by nine points in the fourth quarter. The win also assures the Rivals a winning season. (East Jefferson girls basketball)

PREP BASKETBALL RECAP: Peninsula teams prevail in must-win games

The Port Angeles boys, Forks boys and girls and East Jefferson girls basketball teams all came out on top in must-win playoff games… Continue reading

The East Jefferson girls basketball team celebrates their district playoff win over Cascade Christian on Saturday in a game that the Rivals trailed by nine points in the fourth quarter. The win also assures the Rivals a winning season. (East Jefferson girls basketball)
The Port Angeles and Sequim gymnastics teams competed at the District 3 meet this weekend. From left are head coach Elizabeth DeFrang, Lillian Sutherland, Lexi Possinger, Denise Galvan, Amelie Martin (Sequim), Lucy Spelker (Sequim), Shavari Epps, Ryah Deleon, Mya Callie and assistant coach Laura Rooney.

GYMNASTICS: Port Angeles and Sequim will send two gymnasts to state

Two members of the Port Angeles/Sequim gymnastics team qualified to move on to the state championships thanks to their performances at the District… Continue reading

The Port Angeles and Sequim gymnastics teams competed at the District 3 meet this weekend. From left are head coach Elizabeth DeFrang, Lillian Sutherland, Lexi Possinger, Denise Galvan, Amelie Martin (Sequim), Lucy Spelker (Sequim), Shavari Epps, Ryah Deleon, Mya Callie and assistant coach Laura Rooney.
Forks, East Jefferson

GIRLS BASKETBALL: Forks, East Jefferson win postseason games

Spartans’ Bailey Johnson scores 37

Forks, East Jefferson

DISTRICT WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIPS: Forks girls second, Sequim boys third at district

The Forks girls wrestling team finished a close second to 1A Montesano in the District 4 1B/2B/1A wrestling tournament. The Spartans finished with… Continue reading

Port Angeles Roughriders
Port Angeles Roughriders
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Sequim’s Solomon Sheppard is surrounded in the paint by three Bremerton basketball players during a contest Monday at Rick Kaps Gymnasium.

PREP BASKETBALL: Sequim boys fall to Bremerton, will take No. 3 seed into district tourney

Bremerton and Sequim produced another thrilling boys basketball contest, the second in three days, with the Knights taking down the Wolves 77-67 in… Continue reading

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Sequim’s Solomon Sheppard is surrounded in the paint by three Bremerton basketball players during a contest Monday at Rick Kaps Gymnasium.
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Peninsula College's Carliese O'Brien drives the lane during the Pirates' 63-41 NWAC North Division victory over the Bellevue Bulldogs. Teammate Makena Patrick is at left.
Jay Cline/Peninsula College Athletics 
Peninsula College's Carliese O'Brien drives the lane during the Pirates' 63-41 NWAC North Division victory over the Bellevue Bulldogs. Teammate Makena Patrick is at left.
East Jefferson

PREP BASKETBALL ROUNDUP: East Jefferson girls win to lock up .500 season

Forks girls lose playoff opener; play again tonight

East Jefferson
Sequim's Jericho Julmist drives to the basket against Bremerton in Sequim on Monday night. In on the play is Sequim's Zeke Schmadeke. Sequim won 66-61 to earn a share of the Olympic League title. (Emily Mathiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

BOYS PREP BASKETBALL: Big night for Sequim and Port Angeles

Wolves earn share of league title; Riders punch postseason ticket with win

Sequim's Jericho Julmist drives to the basket against Bremerton in Sequim on Monday night. In on the play is Sequim's Zeke Schmadeke. Sequim won 66-61 to earn a share of the Olympic League title. (Emily Mathiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
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Port angeles roughriders
Sequim Wolves

PREP BASKETBALL: Sequim boys earn share of Olympic League title

The Sequim boys basketball team overcame a hot-shooting Bremerton squad with a furious comeback in the final 3 minutes, 18 seconds of a… Continue reading

Sequim Wolves
Sequim’s Gracie Chartraw dribbles against North Kitsap on Friday in the Wolves’ final home game of the year. (Emily Mathiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

PREP BASKETBALL RECAP: Sequim boys, PA girls victories set up huge games

Snow and icy roads disrupted the basketball schedules of most of the teams on the Olympic Peninsula, but the teams got some… Continue reading

Sequim’s Gracie Chartraw dribbles against North Kitsap on Friday in the Wolves’ final home game of the year. (Emily Mathiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)