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 Port Angeles’ Teanna Clark, pictured driving against Sequim’s Gracie Chartraw in a game Tuesday night, scored nine points in the fourth quarter of the Roughriders’ win over Bainbridge on Wednesday.

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PREP BASKETBALL: Port Angeles clamps down defensively, gets rolling offensively in first-place showdown with Bainbridge

BAINBRIDGE — Port Angeles rallied back from a 10-point halftime deficit — outscoring Bainbridge 17-2 in the fourth…

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COLLEGE HOOPS: Peninsula men open North Region play with OT win

Pirate women win going away

It was a fast moving game between Forks and Raymond-South Bend on Tuesday in Forks. The Spartans defeated RSB 49-42. Here, Forks' Chloe Gaydeski looks for an outlet while surrounded by Ravens from left, Avalyn Stigall, Kassie Koski, Ava Baugher and Megan Kongbouakhay.  Looking on is Forks' Avery Dilley.  (Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News)

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PREP ROUNDUP : Forks girls top Raymond-South Bend

Rivals fly high in fourth, edge Eagles

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East Jefferson’s Luke O’Hara drains a 3-pointer from the top of the key over the outstretched arm of a Cascade Christian opponent during a Nisqually League game at Bruce Blevins Gymnasium.

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PREP BASKETBALL: East Jefferson boys make strides with strong first half

Neah Bay blows out Sequim girls

Brayden Wopperer and Dylan Mann represented the North Olympic Peninsula in The Hawaii Tiki Bowl on Saturday in Kunuiakea Stadium in Honolulu.

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FOOTBALL: Gridiron duo play in Tiki Bowl

HONOLULU — Longtime friends and football teammates Brayden Wopperer and Dylan Mann competed in Saturday’s Hawaii Tiki Bowl…

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Port Angeles’ Teanna Clark is guarded by Onalaska’s Renzy Marshall during the Roughriders’ 74-52 loss to the Loggers.

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PREP BASKETBALL: Roughriders stymied by Onalaska pressure, Jacoby

PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles struggled in implementing every aspect of its pregame plan in a 74-52 nonleague…

Port Angeles and Sequim gymnasts held their first home meet of the season recently at Klahhane Gymnastics Center. Back row, from left, Port Angeles’ Mya Callis, Denise Galvan, Lillian Sutherland, Tish Hamilton and Raynee Ciarlo. Bottom, Port Angeles’ Ryah Deleon, Elyse Brown and Sequim’s Emily Bair.

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GYMNASTICS: Riders open season with home meet

PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles freshman Elyse Brown impressed with a first-place finish on the bars as Port…

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Portland’s Grace Melville caught this hatchery steelhead with a Hawkins jig while fishing on an unnamed Olympic Peninsula river.

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OUTDOORS: Shellfish dig changes slated Jan. 1 in Jefferson County

Razor clam digs Dec. 31-Jan. 6

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Sequim’s Raimey Brewer avoids a flag grab by a Klahowya player during an Olympic League flag football game, the first on the Sequim High School football field.

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PREPS: Sequim flag football defends turf in first home games

SEQUIM — Sequim’s Kiley Winter scored three touchdowns, Ruby Moxley-Horgan added another and Stella Dennis hauled in an…

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Sequim’s Noah Green, right, guards Lindbergh’s Christian Serrano on a drive to the rim on Wednesday in Renton.

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PREPS: Wolves fall in regional round rematch

RENTON — In a road rematch of the their Class 2A state regional round game last February, the…

North Olympic Peninsula cheerleaders performed in the Pearl Harbor Memorial Parade on Dec. 7 in front of thousands of spectators lining the streets at Hawaii’s Waikiki Beach. From left, Port Angeles’ Madison Bishop, Forks’ Danikka King and Libby Owen and Port Angeles’ Addisen McNeece and Melia Webber.

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AREA SPORTS: Forks, Port Angeles cheerleaders perform in Pearl Harbor Day Parade

Port Angeles, Forks perform in Pearl Harbor

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Port Angeles’ Allison Fricker avoids Olympic Trojan Kathryn James, right, trying to strip her flag during their flag football match Thursday evening in a heavy mist at Wally Sigmar Field at Peninsula College. The Roughriders beat Olympic 42-0 and Kingston 42-35 to improve to 3-1. Sequim (3-1) edged North Kitsap 15-14 and lost to Klahowya 35-6.

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PREPS: Port Angeles flag football spikes the competition

Neah Bay boys win opener

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OUTDOORS: Severity, frequency of storms increasing

STORMS OF THE century, 100-year floods, a perplexing Heat Dome, wildfires turning Seattle into New Dehli — all…

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Forks’ Avery Dilley defends against Port Angeles’ Storey Schmidt during the team’s season opener last week.

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GIRLS BASKETBALL PREVIEW: Forks wants to repeat as league champs, compete for state berth

FORKS — Forks returns its entire starting five from its district playoff run last season as the Spartans…

Port Angeles’ 400-yard free relay team achieved a state-qualifying time, improving their previous best by two seconds during the Riders’ swim meet against defending state-champion Bainbridge at Shore Aquatic Center on Wednesday in Port Angeles. Swimmers are, from left, Patrick Ross, Miles Van Denburg, Adam Kaminski and Thomas Jones.

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PREPS: Roughriders swimming pushes defending state champ Bainbridge to the limit

PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles added a state-qualifying time, six new district cuts and set an impressive 22…

Neah Bay Red Devils

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PREP BASKETBALL: 4-0 Neah Bay girls run past Forks

NEAH BAY — Neah Bay executed its halfcourt offense and got numerous good looks inside in blowing past…

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Sequim sophomore Aiden Glenn gains an advantage over East Jefferson’s Aiden Kraft during a four-team season-opening jamboree at Port Townsend High School. Other teams in attendance were Port Angeles and Forks. Glenn and Kraft both wrestled at Mat Classic, the state wrestling tournament, last season.

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WRESTLING JAMBOREE: Sequim, Port Angeles and Forks attend East Jefferson season kickoff

Marcie Lammers

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East Jefferson’s Luke O’Hara rises for a layup during the Rivals’ 71-42 season-opening win over Nisqually League foe Charles Wright on Thursday at Bruce Blevins Gymnasium.

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PREPS: East Jefferson Rivals rise to occasion in season-opening win

PORT TOWNSEND — Five East Jefferson players reached double digits in scoring as the Rivals put away Charles…

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BOWLING: Van Gordon sets new Roughrider pinfall record

PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles dropped an Olympic League bowling match 5-2 to Bremerton, but team and personal…

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OUTDOORS: Transition to mobile licenses beginning

MORE CELL PHONES plunging to the bottom of water bodies is the unintended consequence expected after the state…