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Calvin Colander of Bellingham-based Team Improbability Drive heads for the handoff after finishing the mountain bike leg of the 2023 Big Hurt in Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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PENINSULA ADVENTURE SPORTS: Big Hurt registration open; prices increase Sept. 1

PORT ANGELES — Athletes must register by Monday if they want to take advantage of lower prices for…

Master Alan Lindwall (in black, rear), head instructor for Seibu Ryu sword school of Iai-battojitsu of Seattle, spent Saturday at White Crane Martial Arts in downtown Port Angeles, teaching a seminar of the Japanese sword arts to the Gumdo class that practices the Korean sword arts with Grandmaster Robert Nicholls (black and gold trim, rear). The class is held at 5 p.m. Tuesdays at the dojang. (Courtesy photo)

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Japanese sword arts seminar at White Crane

Master Alan Lindwall (in black, rear), head instructor for Seibu Ryu sword school of Iai-battojitsu of Seattle, spent…

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Peninsula's Nil Grau, center, fights off Skagit Valley's Fernando Velazquez at Peninsula College's Wally Sigmar Field last season. Grau, who scored eight goals last year for the Pirates, returns for his sophomore season this year.

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COLLEGE SOCCER: Pirates loaded for NWAC title defense

PORT ANGELES — The Peninsula College men’s soccer team will come in to this season being one of…

Courtesy of OPRA Noah Oberly and Cooper Disque eye the turn buoy in Port Angeles Harbor as they get ready to head back to shore.

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ROWING: OPRA members shine at home beach sprint regatta

PORT ANGELES — The Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association hosted its second annual beach sprint regatta on Hollywood Beach…

Ryan Petty, No. 95, crashes into Brandon Rutherford during the 2024 Demo Derby at the Clallam County Fair this weekend. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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CLALLAM COUNTY FAIR: Demolition derby gets airborne

Ryan Petty, No. 95, crashes into Brandon Rutherford, lifting his car off the ground during the 2024 Demo…

Left, Robin Mather, a member of the Port Angeles cross-country teams between 1982-1985 and Burdette Greeny, a baseball player for the Roughriders who graduated in 1993, were among the 2024 inductees at the annual Port Angeles Roughrider Hall of Fame ceremony. Mather went in as a team member while Greeny as an individual. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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PORT ANGELES HALL OF FAME: Special place creates special athletes

Inductees talk about community and humility

Peninsula’s Anna Petty, right, advances the ball past Whatcom’s Tori Oord during a match last year at Wally Sigmar Field in Port Angeles. Petty, who scored 12 goals last year, is back for the Pirates this season. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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COLLEGE SOCCER PREVIEW: Peninsula women get tough tests early

Play defending champion Columbia Basin on Tuesday

A fisherman shows off his halibut catch in Westport. Halibut season reopens today in the Strait of Juan de Fuca and outer coast. David Bergeron/WDFW

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OUTDOORS: Halibut season reopens Friday

OLYMPIA — There will be up to another six weeks of late summer and fall halibut season as…

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WEST COAST LEAGUE: Wenatchee, Portland to play for WCL championship

VANCOUVER, Wash. — For the first time since 2015, the West Coast League champion will be someone other…

Head men's soccer coach Jake Hughes talks with his team during a practice at Wally Sigmar Field last week. The Pirates men and women are both ranked No. 1 in a preseason coaches' poll. (Peninsula College)

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COLLEGE SOCCER: Peninsula College men’s, women’s soccer preseason No. 1

PORT ANGELES — Both the Peninsula College men’s and women’s soccer teams will begin the season as the…

Pierre LaBossiere on the summit of The Whistlers in Jasper National Park in 2023. (PIerre LaBossiere/Peninsula Daily News)

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PIERRE LaBOSSIERE COLUMN: Mountain town of Jasper is near and dear to my heart

PORT ANGELES — This was a depressing past couple of weeks for me.

Clallam County Orca athletes from Sequim and Port Angeles competed against athletes from Anacortes, Bremerton, North Sound and Whidbey Island in the Bocce tournament on Whidbey Island last week, as the Clallam County athletes came home with gold and silver medals. The Orcas extend a special thank-you to Whidbey Island Special Olympics for its hospitality in hosting the Tournament. (Courtesy photo)

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AREA SPORTS PHOTO: Clallam Special Olympics team wins medals

Clallam County Orca athletes from Sequim and Port Angeles competed against athletes from Anacortes, Bremerton, North Sound and…

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Area pickleball athletes win medals at senior games

LACEY — Several Olympic Peninsula senior athletes won silver and gold medals in pickleball at the Washington State…

Barry Wilcox winning his bronze medal at the para-cycling world championships in Glasgow, Scotland in 2023. (Casey Gibson/USOPC)

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PORT ANGELES ROUGHRIDER HALL OF FAME: Riders’ Barry Wilcox back in the saddle

Suffered major spinal cord injury in traffic accident, now races in para-cycling

Sequim’s Riley Pyeatt with her high school coach Brad Moore at Sequim’s new track surface earlier this month. Pyeatt just signed a scholarship to run track and field for Washington State as both her and Moore are now proud Cougars. (Tracie Pyeatt)

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COLLEGE ATHLETICS: Sequim’s Riley Pyeatt returns to the Pacific Northwest

Track star for the Wolves will now run for Washington State

Western Washington Athletics Sequim’s Claire Henninger was recently named the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Defender of the Year and a first-team all-conference selection for her performance as Western Washington’s goalkeeper in voting held by league coaches.

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WOMEN’S SOCCER: Sequim’s Claire Henninger signs to play for Portuguese pro team

BELLINGHAM — After an All-League career for the Sequim Wolves followed by an NCAA national championship with Western…

Airstream, a tiny snail named for the home on her back, bursts across the finish in a record run of less than four minutes in one of the early heats of the annual Joyce Daze slug races. (Sam Nugent)

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JOYCE DAZE: Gary shows his fury at annual slug races

JOYCE — It doesn’t get more exciting than this.

Port Angeles' Wyatt Hall had five hits in his first two games for the Port Angeles Lefties this weekend. The former star for the Roughriders and the Skagit Valley College Cardinals now plays for Cal State, San Bernardino. (Maevis Photography)

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PORT ANGELES LEFTIES: Lefties’ playoff hopes end as Edmonton sweeps three-game series

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Lefties fell out of the playoff picture this weekend after getting swept…

A cyclist takes a photo of his friend during the Ride the Hurricane up Hurricane Ridge Road on Sunday morning. More than 800 cyclists from Canada and the U.S. participated in this year's 17-mile-long ride. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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RIDE THE HURRICANE: More than 800 cycle to Hurricane Ridge

A cyclist takes a photo of his friend during the Ride the Hurricane up Hurricane Ridge Road on…

The Port Angeles Youth Baseball team's Liam "Frosty" Grice comes home to score on a groundout during the 25th annual Dick Brown tournament at the Lincoln Park ballfields Saturday. A total of 12 teams attended the tournament for 18 games over two days. (Pierre LaBossiere/Peninsula Daily News)

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STANDALONE PHOTO: Dick Brown tournament’s silver anniversary

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