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Port Angeles girls basketball head coach Michael Poindexter has retired after spending 15 seasons as the Roughriders head coach. Poindexter guided Port Angeles to nine Olympic League championships and his Rider teams made eight trips to the Class 2A state tournament in Yakima.

High School Sports

PREP BASKETBALL: Port Angeles head coach Michael Poindexter retiring after 15 seasons

Won 9 league championships, 3 West Central District championships, made 8 state trips

East Jefferson’s Rene Martin (25) boots the ball down field and away from South Whidbey’s Aedan Fisher in a Tuesday game played in Memorial Field in Port Townsend. The Rivals won 3-2 to improve to 3-0 on the season. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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BOYS SOCCER: East Jefferson, Port Angeles stay unbeaten; Sequim starts with win

Henery’s boot lifts Rivals to victory

Peninsula College’s Makena Patrick goes up for a shot against Walla Walla in Friday night’s NWAC semifinal. (Rick Ross/Peninsula College)

College Sports

NWAC SEMIFINAL: Walla Walla’s Sailors sinks Pirates’ championship hopes

PASCO — Peninsula College came close, but could never completely recover from digging a 15-point hole in their…

Sports

AREA SPORTS: Clallam and Jefferson County YMCA’s hosting spring break youth sports camps

Camps in PA, Sequim and Port Townsend

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Forks' Dani Ornelas, left, heads the ball during the Spartans' season-opening 17-0 win over Chief Leschi at Spartan Stadium.

High School Sports

PREPS: Port Angeles boys soccer rolls in second half of season opener

STEILACOOM — Port Angeles started a goal down and lost a player to injury but made a short-handed…

Chilsey McKee caught this good-sized halibut along the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

Outdoors & Recreation

OUTDOORS: Halibut derby returning to PA

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND will see the reintroduction of what had become an annual outdoors tradition, the Port Angeles…

High School Sports

STATE BASKETBALL: Neah Bay boys bounced by defending state champion No. 1 Lummi

Will play Liberty Christian Friday morning at 9 a.m.

Roger Harnack/Cheney Free Press Neah Bay’s Angel Halttunen eyes the basket while guarded by a Pateros Nannie’s player during the Red Devils’ state quarterfinal win on Thursday night at the Spokane Veterans Arena.

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UPDATED STATE BASKETBALL: Neah Bay to play for 4th straight Class 1B championship Saturday night

Angel Halttunen, Wiinuk Martin lead Red Devils past Nannies

High School Sports

STATE BASKETBALL: Neah Bay comeback falls just short, Swan breaks single-season scoring mark

SPOKANE — Neah Bay’s second-half comeback attempt fell just shy of the mark, but a piece of program…

The 2025-26 Port Angeles High School varsity basketball team qualified for the state 2A tournament, finishing the season with an 18-8 record after losing to Archbishop Thomas Murphy on Wednesday.

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STATE BASKETBALL: Rough time for Riders in Yakima’s SunDome against ATM

YAKIMA — Beaten badly on the boards, Port Angeles put up a fight defensively but still made a…

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Sequim’s Kiley Winter was selected as the Olympic League’s flag football Offensive Player of the Year.

High School Sports

FLAG FOOTBALL: Sequim’s Kiley Winter is Olympic League Offensive Player of the Year

Port Angeles, Sequim players make All-League team.

Port Angeles’ Isaac Halfacre and his sled dog team of Rakka, left, and Bruce recently claimed the Junior Alaskan Sled Dog and Racing Association’s Two Dog Novice 1-mile Junior World Championship.

Sports

SLED DOG RACING: Port Angeles’ Isaac Halfacre enjoys Alaskan sled dog adventure

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A Port Angeles boy and a pair of borrowed sled dogs recently enjoyed a truly…

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Forks’ Karee Neal, right, defends as Napavine’s Nicholle Valentine looks to shoot during a Class 2B District 4 semifinal against Forks at Castle Rock High School on Wednesday.

High School Sports

DISTRICT BASKETBALL: Rough night for area squads

Forks boys and girls and Sequim girls all fall

Neah Bay’s Qwaapeys Greene goes up for a lay-up against Muckleshoot Tribal on Thursday in Sequim. Greene led the Red Devils with 28 points as Neah Bay won its Tri-District playoff game. (Diamond Gentile/for Peninsula Daily News)

High School Sports

DISTRICT BASKETBALL: Greene goes off for 28 points as Neah Bay heads to Tri-District title game

SEQUIM — Neah Bay started off on a blisteringly hot pace and cruised past Muckleshoot 78-48 in a…

Sequim Wolves

Sports

PREP BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS: Sequim rally comes up short against Bainbridge

BAINBRIDGE — Sequim started strong, suffered a lull before the Wolves played themselves back into the contest, but…

Sports

DISTRICT BASKETBALL: Sequim girls stay alive with big win over Olympic

SEQUIM — Sequim shook off a slow start, navigated early foul trouble for do-it-all point guard Gracie Chartraw…

The Port Angeles girls flag football team will play Klahowya for third/fourth place in the Class 1A/2A state tournament today at 10 a.m. at Federal Way Stadium.

Sports

STATE FLAG FOOTBALL: Roughriders’ upset bid derailed in state semifinals

Port Angeles held 14-0 lead

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East Jefferson’s Landon Hoppe shoots a long jump shot while defended by a Vashon player during the Rivals’ 55-53 Nisqually League loss at Chimacum High School on Thursday.

Sports

BOYS BASKETBALL: East Jefferson takes mental step forward in final minutes of loss to Vashon

CHIMACUM — East Jefferson boys basketball head coach Alex Little belives his team turned a corner mentally in…

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East Jefferson’s Penina Vailolo drives around a pair of Vashon Pirates on her way to the rim during the Rivals’ 55-30 Nisqually League win at Chimacum High School on Thursday.

Sports

GIRLS BASKETBALL: Seniors pave the way for East Jefferson win on senior night

Vailolo scores 32 points with 23 rebounds in victory

Forks’ Ty Rowley, left, defends Napavine’s Eric Bullock during Napavine’s 52-33 win over Forks in a 2B District 4 Quarterfinal in Rochester. Courtesy Dylan Wilhelm/The Chronicle

Sports

BOYS BASKETBALL: Spartans shut down in district quarterfinal

ROCHESTER — Forks struggled on the offensive end of its Class 2B Southwest District IV boys basketball quarterfinal…