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Spartan Miley Blanton (center) controls the ball between Ilwaco players Sharon Merino Orozco (6) and Jacquelyn Hernandez (10).  Forks defeated the Fisherman 4 to 0 at Spartan Stadium.  Photo by Lonnie Archibald.

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PREP ROUNDUP: Forks soccer breaks through for first win

Miley Blanton scores a hat trick

Sequim Wolves, from left, Ethan Melnick, Malachi Hampton and Liam Wiker take on North Kitsap in Poulsbo in a rare Thursday game. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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PREP FOOTBALL RECAP: Sequim defensive battle sets up huge game Thursday

A serious traffic collision threw a wrench into the travel plans for both the Sequim Wolves and Port…

Amayah Nelson, Port Angeles swimming.

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ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Amayah Nelson, Port Angeles swimming

Port Angeles’ Amayah Nelson has been a big part of the reason why the Roughriders girls swim team…

The Run the Peninsula’s inaugural Spruce Railroad Trail 5K/10K on Oct. 19 will go along the north shore of Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park. (Pierre LaBossiere/Peninsula Daily News).

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RUN THE PENINSULA: Spruce Railroad Run to debut Oct. 19

PORT ANGELES — The fourth race of the 2024 Run the Peninsula Series set for Oct. 19 will…

Former Port Angeles cross-country teammates Max Baeder, left, and Jack Gladfelter competed against each other at the Charles Bowles 8K Cross-Country Invitational in Salem, Ore., this weekend. Baeder runs for The Evergreen State college while Gladfelter runs for Corban University in Salem. (Joe Gladfelter)

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Former Riders’ XC teammates compete in college

SALEM, Ore. — Former Port Angeles Roughriders teammates Jack Gladfelter and Max Baeder competed against each other at…

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PREP ROUNDUP: Sequim volleyball sweeps Bremerton; wreck cancels swim meet

BREMERTON — The Sequim volleyball team crushed Bremerton this weekend, allowing just 26 points in a 3-0 (25-3,…

East Jefferson midfielder Olivia McClemans beats Bush's Kate Van Nimwegen to the ball in a nonleague game Saturday in Chimacum. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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PREP ROUNDUP: East Jefferson soccer learns from powerhouse; PA swimmers dominate

NOTE: This story was corrected that the Port Angeles swimmers competed at Olympic High School.

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SATURDAY FOOTBALL: Crescent wins another wild one 56-52

JOYCE — The Crescent football team, beset by a rash of injuries, nearly blew a 28-point lead, but…

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Rivals' quarterback Silas Morford spots a hole and runs for yardage in a Nisqually League game played against the Klahowya Eagles on Friday night at Memorial Field in Port Townsend.

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PREP FOOTBALL: Rivals show fight in homecoming game with Klahowya

Sequim edges Bremerton 7-6; Forks thumps Ilwaco 28-0

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Sequim boys basketball plans golf tournament plus dinner and auction event Nov. 16

Sequim hoops plans tourney, dinner/auction

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The Port Angeles girls swim team assembles before an Olympic League match with Bremerton at the Bremerton Family YMCA on Wednesday. Team members are, from left, Emerson DuBois, Amayah Nelson, Lynzee Reid, Lizzy Shaw, Mia Francis, Lucy Townsend, Damun Seera, Chloe Kay-Sanders, Grace Williams, Grace Kathol, Brooke St. Luise, Danika Asgiersson, Bella Sains, Shavari Epps, and Sally Kasten.

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PREPS: Port Angeles swimmers edge Bremerton

Rider tennis also wins big

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Port Angeles' Ava-Anne Sheahan, right, takes the header as Bremerton's Melanie Uhrich closes in on Tuesday night in Port Angeles.

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GIRLS SOCCER: Shehan scores second-half hat trick for Port Angeles

Wolves fall 1-0 to league leading North Kitsap

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PREP ROUNDUP: Port Angeles tennis sweeps Kingston

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles boys tennis team swept Kingston 7-0, not losing a single set during…

Sequim’s Zeke Schmadeke ran for 148 yards on 24 carries against the Port Angeles Roughriders on Friday night. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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PREP FOOTBALL RECAP: Sequim takes back the trophy; Quilcene wins a thriller

SEQUIM — The Sequim Wolves had surely been looking forward to getting back the Rainshadow Rumble trophy all…

Left, Andrew Perez-Lopez, Quilcene football, and Lilly Anne Lancaster, Port Angeles girls soccer.

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ATHLETES OF THE WEEK: Andrew Perez-Lopez, Quilcene football, and Lilly Anne Lancaster, Port Angeles girls soccer

This week, we recognize a pair of athletes who came through in the clutch for their teams in…

Henry Nelson finishes the mountain bike stage in second place at Saturday’s Big Hurt at Pebble Beach in Port Angeles. Nelson finished third overall in the ironman category. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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BIG HURT: More than 200 endurance athletes take on 55-mile race

PORT ANGELES — A total of 48 ironman athletes and 68 two- , three- and four-person teams took…

Members of the “So Every BODY Can Move” teams competing at the Big Hurt get await their mountain bike teammates Saturday at Pebble Beach in Port Angeles. From left are Katya Madden (kayak), Nicole Ver Kuilen (cycling, running), Sierra Landholm (kayak) and Katy Gaastra (cycling). The group is working to require insurance companies to help pay for orthotics and prosthetics so people can not only be mobile but to be able to run and cycle. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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BIG HURT: Adaptive teams compete and advocate for change

PORT ANGELES — The two “So Every BODY Can Move” teams at this year’s Big Hurt weren’t just…

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OUTDOORS BRIEFS: Season’s first coast razor clam digs begin Thursday

OLYMPIA — The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced the season’s first round of razor clam digging…

Forks' Estevan Ramos is tackled by Meridian defenders in a game Friday in Forks. The Spartans lost 54-7 in a nonleague game against the 1A powerhouse. (Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News)

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PREP FOOTBALL ROUNDUP: Quilcene wins in a nailbiter

All other Olympic Peninsula teams in lopsided games

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PREP ROUNDUP: Riders swim team handles East Jefferson, Kingston

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles girls swim team turned in a powerful performance this weekend, easily defeating…