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PREP SOCCER: Sequim beats PA 5-1; will play for league title Friday

PREP SOCCER: Sequim beats PA 5-1; will play for league title Friday

Earlier this season, the Port Angeles soccer boys easily handled Sequim, beating them 4-0. This is an entirely different Sequim team now.… Continue reading

PREP SOCCER: Sequim beats PA 5-1; will play for league title Friday
PREP SPORTS ROUNDUP: Dropped third strike costly for Chimacum baseball

PREP SPORTS ROUNDUP: Dropped third strike costly for Chimacum baseball

The Chimacum baseball team got an outstanding performance from pitcher Issac Purser, but two small mistakes in the third inning cost the Cowboys… Continue reading

PREP SPORTS ROUNDUP: Dropped third strike costly for Chimacum baseball
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Riley Martin, Sequim hurdler

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Riley Martin, Sequim hurdler

Sequim’s Riley Martin this past weekend at the Li’l Norway Track and Field meet in Poulsbo won the 110-meter hurdles for the seventh time this… Continue reading

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Riley Martin, Sequim hurdler
PIERRE LaBOSSIERE COLUMN: The Beautiful Game takes root in a beautiful place

PIERRE LaBOSSIERE COLUMN: The Beautiful Game takes root in a beautiful place

The Beautiful Game is finding a beautiful part of the world to settle down in. We’ve got a soccer mecca here on the Olympic Peninsula.… Continue reading

PIERRE LaBOSSIERE COLUMN: The Beautiful Game takes root in a beautiful place
PORT ANGELES HALL OF FAME: First class inducted in front of hundreds

PORT ANGELES HALL OF FAME: First class inducted in front of hundreds

Seventeen Port Angeles athletes or their surrogates traveled home from around the country to be part of the historic inaugural class of… Continue reading

PORT ANGELES HALL OF FAME: First class inducted in front of hundreds
PREP TRACK: Roughrider girls win Li’l Norway

PREP TRACK: Roughrider girls win Li’l Norway

Thanks to 22 top 10 finishes, the Port Angeles girls won the Li’l Norway Track and Field meet in Poulsbo, edging out host… Continue reading

PREP TRACK: Roughrider girls win Li’l Norway

PREP BASEBALL: Port Angeles pitchers outstanding; team splits a pair

The Port Angeles baseball boys got spectacular perfomances from their pitching staff in a doubleheader, giving up just eight hits and one earned… Continue reading

HALL OF FAME: Port Angeles High School’s inaugural class to be inducted Saturday

There’s still a few tickets left if you want to rub elbows with some of the elite members of Port Angeles sports… Continue reading

BASEBALL: Woods throws 3-hitter, Roughriders’ offense clicking as Port Angeles blanks Bremerton

BASEBALL: Woods throws 3-hitter, Roughriders’ offense clicking as Port Angeles blanks Bremerton

Hayden Woods pitched a gem, getting a rare complete-game shutout on a three-hit, nine strikeout performance as the Port Angeles baseball team… Continue reading

BASEBALL: Woods throws 3-hitter, Roughriders’ offense clicking as Port Angeles blanks Bremerton
PREP ROUNDUP: Sequim softball puts a scare into Port Angeles

PREP ROUNDUP: Sequim softball puts a scare into Port Angeles

Sequim gave league-leading Port Angeles all it could handle in a heavy rainstorm at the Billy Whiteshoes Memorial Park, but the Roughriders… Continue reading

PREP ROUNDUP: Sequim softball puts a scare into Port Angeles
NORTH OLYMPIC DISCOVERY MARATHON: Group running to bring water to those who have none

NORTH OLYMPIC DISCOVERY MARATHON: Group running to bring water to those who have none

We all take our water for granted in America. In much of the world, the fight for clean and safe water is… Continue reading

NORTH OLYMPIC DISCOVERY MARATHON: Group running to bring water to those who have none
NW CUP: Over 500 riders battle gravity and the mud

NW CUP: Over 500 riders battle gravity and the mud

More than 500 downhill mountain bikers from the Pacific Northwest, Canada, California, New Mexico and as far away as Vermont descended on… Continue reading

NW CUP: Over 500 riders battle gravity and the mud
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Aubry Botkin, Port Townsend track and field

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Aubry Botkin, Port Townsend track and field

Port Townsend’s Aubry Botkin was a double winner at this past weekend’s Port Townsend’s home track meetin. Botkin won both the 100-meter hurdles and the… Continue reading

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Aubry Botkin, Port Townsend track and field
PREP TRACK: Forks boys, PA girls win at Forks Lions Club Invite

PREP TRACK: Forks boys, PA girls win at Forks Lions Club Invite

Dominating the field events and getting three first-place finishes from Cole Baysinger, the Forks boys won the Forks Lions Club Invitational meet, edging… Continue reading

PREP TRACK: Forks boys, PA girls win at Forks Lions Club Invite
PREP ROUNDUP: Forks softball sweeps a pair in the wind

PREP ROUNDUP: Forks softball sweeps a pair in the wind

The Forks softball girls showed no rust after a long spring break layoff, surviving howling winds on Whidbey Island to sweep a pair… Continue reading

PREP ROUNDUP: Forks softball sweeps a pair in the wind
ALL-PENINSULA WRESTLING MVP: Forks’ Lucas repeats as state champ and MVP

ALL-PENINSULA WRESTLING MVP: Forks’ Lucas repeats as state champ and MVP

After winning the state wrestling championship for the second straight year, all Forks’ Josue Lucas could think about was … eating. One of… Continue reading

ALL-PENINSULA WRESTLING MVP: Forks’ Lucas repeats as state champ and MVP

ALL PENINSULA WRESTLING TEAM: Forks grapplers honored for efforts

Forks, with eight state medalists, dominates the All-Peninsula Wrestling Team, with one exception, a very solid girls’ wrestler from Sequim. Forks wrestlers… Continue reading

PREP ROUNDUP: Chimacum pitchers two-hit Port Townsend

PREP ROUNDUP: Chimacum pitchers two-hit Port Townsend

Chimacum’s Matthew Bainbridge had a monster game and a trio of Cowboys pitchers held Port Townsend to two hits in a 12-1… Continue reading

PREP ROUNDUP: Chimacum pitchers two-hit Port Townsend
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Ben Schneider, Port Angeles soccer

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Ben Schneider, Port Angeles soccer

Port Angeles’ Ben Schneider has been battling a sore hip this season, but that didn’t stop him from scoring two goals Saturday in a friendly… Continue reading

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Ben Schneider, Port Angeles soccer
About 25 kids on eighth-grade and U-18 squads from Luxembourg played in the Port Angeles Parks and Rec April Fool’sDay Tournament this weekend. Port Angeles High School coach Kasey Ulin (fourth from right, middle row), who playedprofessionally in Luxembourg, and his wife Bracey coached these kids in Luxembourg and helped make arrangements tobring them to Port Angeles to play. (Dave Logan /for Peninsula Daily News)

YOUTH BASKETBALL: Luxembourg teams compete in Port Angeles tourney

They came 5,000 miles to Port Angeles for the sights amd cuisine, but most of all for the basketball. And they walked… Continue reading

About 25 kids on eighth-grade and U-18 squads from Luxembourg played in the Port Angeles Parks and Rec April Fool’sDay Tournament this weekend. Port Angeles High School coach Kasey Ulin (fourth from right, middle row), who playedprofessionally in Luxembourg, and his wife Bracey coached these kids in Luxembourg and helped make arrangements tobring them to Port Angeles to play. (Dave Logan /for Peninsula Daily News)