Port Angeles Football Boosters
The Port Angeles Roughriders football team at Lumen Field in Seattle this fall, where the Riders played a game against North Kitsap.

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Sports trivia night to support football seniors

The Port Angeles High School Football Boosters are hosting a sports trivia night on Wednesday to raise money for senior scholarships. The… Continue reading

Port Angeles Football Boosters
The Port Angeles Roughriders football team at Lumen Field in Seattle this fall, where the Riders played a game against North Kitsap.
Forks Spartans.

PREP ROUNDUP: Forks girls win home track and field meet

Sequim golf boys nipped by Bainbridge by one stroke

Forks Spartans.
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Port Angeles' Zak Alton, center, keeps track of the ball as teammate Eli Fischer, left, and Olympic's Justin Thorsen look on during Thursday's match at Peninsula College in Port Angeles.
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Port Angeles' Zak Alton, center, keeps track of the ball as teammate Eli Fischer, left, and Olympic's Justin Thorsen look on during Thursday's match at Peninsula College in Port Angeles.

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Gillespie rows at Vashon Island contest

Port Angeles rower Edward Gillespie, age 14, placed second in his class while representing Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association in the Burton Beach Invitational… Continue reading

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Peninsula College soccer coaches Jake Hughes, left, and Kanyon Anderson speak during the official opening of a new pitch surface at the Wally Sigmar Athletic Complex on Wednesday on the school's Port Angeles campus.

SIGMAR FIELD: Peninsula College, soccer community celebrate new turf surface

Peninsula College cut the ribbon Wednesday on a new $770,000 field turf surface that, according to local coaches and college officials, will… Continue reading

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Peninsula College soccer coaches Jake Hughes, left, and Kanyon Anderson speak during the official opening of a new pitch surface at the Wally Sigmar Athletic Complex on Wednesday on the school's Port Angeles campus.
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Forks' Keira Johnson slides in safely with a steal of second base during the Spartans' doubleheader with Pe Ell on Wednesday at Tillicum Park in Forks.

PREPS: Spartans softball splits Pacific League opener; East Jefferson baseball drops double dip

Forks split its Pacific League softball opening doubleheader, walking off the Titans with an RBI double in the bottom of the seventh in… Continue reading

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Forks' Keira Johnson slides in safely with a steal of second base during the Spartans' doubleheader with Pe Ell on Wednesday at Tillicum Park in Forks.

OUTDOORS: Additional Area 6 chinook and non-selective coho are salmon season possibilities

A recent state Department of Fish and Wildlife North of Falcon presentation shed a little more light on what the 2023 salmon season for the… Continue reading

Gonzaga's Anton Watson (22) reaches for the ball in the second half of a Sweet 16 college basketball game against UCLA in the West Regional of the NCAA Tournament, Thursday, March 23, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)

NCAA TOURNAMENt: Gonzaga in Elite 8 after Strawther’s 28-foot game-winner

Gonzaga and UCLA played one NCAA Tournament game that left the Zags’ star player bawling, and another game that stunned the Bruins.… Continue reading

  • Mar 23, 2023
  • By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer
Gonzaga's Anton Watson (22) reaches for the ball in the second half of a Sweet 16 college basketball game against UCLA in the West Regional of the NCAA Tournament, Thursday, March 23, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
Forks Spartans.

PREP BASEBALL: Forks earns doubleheader split with clutch hit

Port Angeles, Sequim softball teams win big

Forks Spartans.
Sequim’s Adrian Mendez dribbles the ball against Olympic on Tuesday night in Sequim. (Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

PREP ROUNDUP: Sequim soccer shuts out Olympic

Port Angeles and East Jefferson boys win

Sequim’s Adrian Mendez dribbles the ball against Olympic on Tuesday night in Sequim. (Emily Matthiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
Neah Bay's Allie Greene shoots a floater over the Mossyrock defense Saturday night in Spokane. Greene finished with 19 points, leading all scorers, in the 56-54 Neah Bay win.
(Bridget Mayfield/for the Peninsula Daily News)

PIERRE LaBOSSIERE COLUMN: It was a remarkable season of hoops on the Peninsula

While Gonzaga and the NCAA tournaments are still going, we’re out of the gymnasiums for a while and back outdoors on the Olympic Peninsula. Well,… Continue reading

Neah Bay's Allie Greene shoots a floater over the Mossyrock defense Saturday night in Spokane. Greene finished with 19 points, leading all scorers, in the 56-54 Neah Bay win.
(Bridget Mayfield/for the Peninsula Daily News)
Port Angeles Roughriders.

PREP ROUNDUP: Port Angeles softball wins again behind trio of home runs

The Port Angeles softball team remained unbeaten, getting past 3A Gig Harbor 14-13 thanks to the Roughriders’ defense and home runs from… Continue reading

Port Angeles Roughriders.
Japan pitcher Shohei Ohtani (16) celebrates after defeating the United States at the World Baseball Classic final game, Tuesday, March 21, 2023, in Miami. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)

WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC: Ohtani slams door on Team USA, Trout in dramatic ninth-inning showdown

Shohei Ohtani emerged from the bullpen and fanned Los Angeles Angels teammate Mike Trout for the final out in the matchup the whole… Continue reading

  • Mar 21, 2023
  • By RONALD BLUM AP Baseball Writer
  • Baseball
Japan pitcher Shohei Ohtani (16) celebrates after defeating the United States at the World Baseball Classic final game, Tuesday, March 21, 2023, in Miami. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
Jelissa Julmist, Sequim Wolves

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Sequim’s Julmist scores 18 points in all-state game

Sequim’s Hannah Bates and Jelissa Julmist played this weekend in the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association girls all-state game for the 2A squad. The… Continue reading

Jelissa Julmist, Sequim Wolves
Elijah Flodstrom, Port Angeles baseball

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Elijah Flodstrom, Port Angeles baseball.

It was hard to single out just one player for the Port Angeles Roughriders baseball team for our Athlete of the Week, but we’re going… Continue reading

Elijah Flodstrom, Port Angeles baseball
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Dena Dinius of Port Angeles competes in the 5K of the Red, Set Go St. Patrick's Day run/walk races held in Port Angeles this weekend.

FUN RUN: More than 220 competitors enjoy St. Patrick’s race in Port Angeles

More than 220 participants competed in this weekends Red, Set, Go St. Patrick’s Day run/walk that raises funds for the Olympic Medical… Continue reading

Lexi Winters photo
Dena Dinius of Port Angeles competes in the 5K of the Red, Set Go St. Patrick's Day run/walk races held in Port Angeles this weekend.
Peninsula College
Peninsula College is holding a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday for a new field surface at Wally Sigmar Field.

Ribbon cutting set for new Peninsula College soccer field surface

Pirate soccer will celebrate a new field turf surface on Wally Sigmar Field at Peninsula College with a ribbon cutting ceremony at… Continue reading

Peninsula College
Peninsula College is holding a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday for a new field surface at Wally Sigmar Field.
Port Angeles Roughriders.

PREP ROUNDUP: Roughriders soccer rallies late with pair of goals

PA softball outscores opponents 30-1 in pair of wins

Port Angeles Roughriders.
Peninsula’s Itaua Tuisaula battles through a Lane double team during the NWAC semifinals held Saturday in Pasco. Tuisaula had 14 points, 15 rebounds and four blocks before leaving the game with an ankle injury. (Jay Cline/Peninsula College)
Peninsula’s Itaua Tuisaula battles through a Lane double team during the NWAC semifinals held Saturday in Pasco. Tuisaula had 14 points, 15 rebounds and four blocks before leaving the game with an ankle injury. (Jay Cline/Peninsula College)
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Sequim's Preston Kurtze take the header over the top of Port Angeles' Zak Alton on Thursday in Port Angeles.
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Sequim's Preston Kurtze take the header over the top of Port Angeles' Zak Alton on Thursday in Port Angeles.