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COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Peninsula men fall in double-OT thriller

Pirate women remain unbeaten atop North

Port Angeles’ Lindsay Smith is surrounded by Foster defenders Wednesday night in Port Angeles in a bi-district playoff game. She scored 17 points as the Roughriders won 67-37 to qualify for the state 2A tournament. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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PLAYOFF BASKETBALL: Port Angeles girls dominate Foster 67-37

Game never in doubt as Riders qualify for state

Sequim’s Gracie Chartraw avoids the defense of Enumclaw’s Sydney VanHoof, center, and Ava Smith during the Wolves’ Class 2A bi-district defeat at home Wednesday. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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PREP BASKETBALL: Sequim shots won’t fall in bi-district loss

Forks boys bow out with 2-2 district record

Port Angeles’ Gus Halberg drives the ball against Sammamish on Tuesday night in Port Angeles. The Roughriders lost the district playoff game 65-57, but they are still alive in the postseason and play again at home tonight at 6 p.m. against Steilacoom. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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PREP PLAYOFF BASKETBALL: Port Angeles loses playoff opener but remains alive

PORT ANGELES — This time, there would be no miracle finish for the Port Angeles boys basketball team.

Sequim’s Charlie Grider (11) defends the rim against Evergreen’s Mohamed Abdi (5) in Tuesday’s bidistrict basketball playoff game in Sequim. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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PREP BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS: Sequim boys and Forks girls remain alive

SEQUIM — Sequim’s seniors came through in their final game in Rick Kaps Gym as the Wolves stayed…

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1B BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS: Neah Bay boys, girls qualify for state

NEAH BAY — The Neah Bay boys and girls basketball teams both qualified for the state 1B basketball…

Sequim’s Jack Henninger signs a letter of intent to play football at the University of Mary (North Dakota). The all-Olympic League kicker plans to study occupational therapy and kick for the Marauders’ football squad. Behind him are, from left, soccer coach David Breckenridge, football special teams coach Cody Buckmaster and football head coach Erik Wiker. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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COLLEGE SIGNING: Sequim’s Henninger signs to kick for University of Mary

SEQUIM — Jack Henninger spent much of the fall with a laser focus of splitting the uprights.

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PREP PLAYOFFS: Online tickets only for PA, Sequim bidistrict games

PORT ANGELES — Cash will not be taken for tonight’s Port Angeles and Sequim boys playoff basketball games…

The Klahhane XCel Gold team of Carly Mae Riggs, Paytynn Lindley, Gracelyn Goss, Lainey DePiro and Raynee Ciarlo took first place at the Realm Classic gymnastics meet this weekend in Everett. (Courtesy photo)

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GYMNASTICS: Klahhane Xcel Gold team takes first in Everett

EVERETT — The Klahhane Gymnastics Xcel Gold Team placed first over the weekend at the Realm Classic, hosted…

The Port Angeles girls gymnastics team that competed at subdistricts late last week. From left, standing, are Shavari Epps, Scarlett Sullivan, Faith Carr, Summer Hirst-Lowe, Maddie Adams. From left, kneeling, are Ryah Deleon and Waverly Mead. (Courtesy photo)

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HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASTICS: Port Angeles, Sequim gymnasts qualify for district

TUMWATER — Sequim and Port Angeles gymnasts competed against seven other schools last week in the 2A/3A subdistrict…

Teyah Elofson-Cross, 11, of Port Angeles qualified for the UCI World BMX Championship in the 24-inch challenger class in Lexington, Va., this weekend. (Courtesy photo)

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BMX: Port Angeles’ Elofson-Cross qualifies for second UCI World Championship event

LEXINGTON, Va. — Port Angeles’ 11-year-old Teyah Elofson-Cross traveled across the country this past weekend to qualify for…

Port Angeles’ Paige Mason, right, shoots against Sequim on Feb. 6. She scored 26 points in the Port Angeles victory and is the Peninsula Daily News Athlete of the Week sponsored by Swain’s General Store in Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Paige Mason, Port Angeles basketball

Port Angeles’ Paige Mason has been a big part of the Roughriders girls basketball team for the past…

Sequim, Port Angeles.

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PREP BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS: Port Angeles, Sequim boys and girls to host four playoff games

PORT ANGELES — Postseason basketball is moving into high gear this week as the Port Angeles boys and…

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15) holds the Vince Lombardi Trophy after the NFL Super Bowl 58 football game against the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024, in Las Vegas. The Chiefs won 25-22. (AP Photo/John Locher)

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Peninsula's Javon Ervin, center, pushes through the defense of Edmonds' Kalifa Ceesay, left, and Solomon Barnes on Saturday afternoon at Peninsula College.

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Pirates drop physical battle to Edmonds

PC remains tied for first place

Colby Ellefson.

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BOYS SWIMMING: Sequim’s Ellefson district champion in 200 freestyle

BREMERTON — Sequim’s Colby Ellefson is a bidistrict champion in the 200-yard freestyle.

Forks' Miley Blanton, left, and East Jefferson's Manaseh Lanphear-Ramirez were both regional wrestling champions.

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PREP WRESTLING: Forks first at regionals

20 grapplers from around the Olympic Peninsula make the Mat Classic

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Peninsula's Shania Moananu, from, presses to the key defended by Edmond's Maggie Salas, left, and Jada Walters on Saturday at Peninsula College.

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WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Peninsula finds a way, wins 12th straight through defense

PORT ANGELES — The Peninsula College women’s basketball team remained unbeaten in the North Region, digging out of…

Forks Spartans.

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PREP BASKETBALL: Forks boys crush Ocosta in district playoffs to set up rematch with Chief Leschi

ROCHESTER — The Forks boys basketball team got another big game from Aidan Salazer and blew out Ocosta…

Napavine’s Cal Bullock, center, splits the defense of Forks’ Kyle Lohrengel and Dylan Micheau during a Class 2B Southwest District Tournament game at W.F. West High School in Chehalis. (Dylan Wilhelm/The Chronicle)

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BOYS BASKETBALL: No. 1 Napavine too much for Forks in district quarterfinal

East Jefferson hangs on for win