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PREPS: Sequim baseball rallies, sweeps North Mason

BELFAIR — Sequim’s Zeke Schmadeke’s two-run double with two outs in the top of the sixth broke a…

Port Angeles’ Kody Williams delivers a pitch to the plate at Volunteer Field on Tuesday against Bainbridge. (Pierre LaBossiere/Peninsula Daily News)

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BASEBALL ROUNDUP: Sequim hangs for win after wild seventh inning

Bainbridge scores two in the seventh to edge PA

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AREA SPORTS: Port Angeles sailing team competes in Anacortes

Crippen Tournament returns in Forks

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Port Angeles’ Eve Burke, right, recently wrapped her senior season at Linfield University by being selected as a First-team All-Northwest Conference member.

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COLLEGE SPORTS: Port Angeles’ Eve Burke earns All-Northwest Conference First Team for Linfield University

Swan, Ray, Greene, Julmist, Nickerson all playing ball

Outdoors & Recreation

OUTDOORS: King season similar to 2025, salt water coho fishing could be constrained by river returns

A CHINOOK SEASON similar to 2025, with a coho fishery that could be limited in Puget Sound’s Marine…

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Sequim’s Colten Anderson, right, vies with North Kitsap’s Bryan Montes De Oca during the Wolves’ 1-0 loss to the Vikings on Thursday at Sequim High School.

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PREPS: Wolves keep it close against state runner-up North Kitsap

SEQUIM — Sequim yielded an early own goal when a header clearance attempt spun backward into goal, but…

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TRACK & FIELD: Revamped PA Invite returning Saturday

PORT ANGELES — A long-running athletic tradition returns today as the PA Invitational Track Meet returns in earnest.

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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.

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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…

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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.

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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…

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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DISTRICT BASKETBALL: Rough night for area squads

Forks boys and girls and Sequim girls all fall