Riders, Wolves get their kicks in on all-league team
PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles and Sequim girls soccer players are well represented in All-Olympic League 2A Division voting by league coaches.
Junior defender Gabby Happe was a first-team pick for the Wolves. Happe is joined on the first team by Roughriders’ sophomore forward Millie Long and senior midfielder Kyrsten McGuffey.
Sequim’s sophomore goalkeeper Olivia Hare was a second-team choice in her first season as the varsity netminder.
Port Angeles junior midfielder Delaney Wenzl and junior defender Lucah Folden were second-team selections.
North Kitsap goalkeeper Sophia Pixton was tabbed as MVP.
Olympic League 1A honors
CHIMACUM — Three Chimacum and three Port Townsend athletes were picked to the Olympic League 1A Division All-League Team by league coaches.
Cowboys senior forward Grace Johnson, senior defender Jada Trafton and junior midfielder Elizabeth Shiflett were honored.
The Redhawks senior defenders Brenna Franklin and Margeaux Manuel were selected as well as sophomore midfielder Nylah Garling.
Klahowya junior midfielder Alyssa Peters was voted MVP.
Stevens tops Forks
FORKS — Joaquin Robideau scored 16 points and grabbed nine rebounds to lead Stevens Middle School to a 51-30 eight-grade boys basketball win over Forks Middle School in the team’s season opener.
Elijah Flodstrom added 10 points and nine boards for Stevens and Nason Martinez scored eight points and had two boards.
Josiah Long nabbed seven steals, scored four points and added a rebound for Stevens and Wyatt Edwards snared five steals and had five rebounds and two points.
Roughriders on the run
BOISE, Idaho — Port Angeles girls cross country runners Lauren Larson and Kynzie DeLeon recently competed in the Nike Cross Regionals Northwest Women’s Championship 5K at Eagle Island State Park in Boise.
Larson, who finished fourth in the Class 2A state championships, was 66th out of 167 runners from around the Pacific Northwest plus Hawaii, Alaska and Wyoming, in 19 minutes, 15 seconds. DeLeon, 10th at state for the Roughriders, was 75th in 19:25.
Larson also finished 32nd in 19:15.5 in the invitation-only Nike BoarderClash 20, a gathering of the top individual high school runners from Washington and Oregon last Saturday.
The event is held each year at the Nike World Headquarters.
Pickleball update
PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles’ Steve Bennett has been named an ambassador for the sport of pickleball on the North Olympic Peninsula by the USA Pickleball Association.
Bennett and Sequim’s Bob Sester recently competed in The 2018 USA Pickleball National Championships at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indio, Calif.
Bennett said he and Sester went 2-2 at the event, which drew more than 2,000 pickleballers.
“We felt like we could have lost the two games we won and we could have won the two we lost, so we felt pretty evenly matched,” Bennett said.
A pickleball tournament will be held at Roosevelt Elementary School in Port Angeles on Feb. 23-24.
For more information, call 360-460-7424.
Adams on Saints
LACEY — Forks High School and Peninsula College product Marky Adams is seeing the floor for a talented NCAA Division II St. Martin’s Saints men’s basketball team this fall.
Adams, listed as 6-foot-9 and 260 pounds, has played in two of three games through Monday for the Saints, averaging 3.5 points and two rebounds in 10 total minutes of court time.
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