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Neah Bay’s Qwaapeys Greene holds the girls’ basketball state championship trophy as her teammates celebrate its fourth straight title early Sunday morning in Spokane. (NFHS Network)

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STATE 1B GIRLS BASKETBALL: It’s once, twice, four times for Lady Reds

Neah Bay wins its fourth straight state championship

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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…

Neah Bay’s Mathias Greene hit four 3-pointers and scored 15 points in the Red Devils’ 74-58 win over Sunnyside Christian in the state 1B tournament Wednesday morning in Spokane. (NFHS Network)

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STATE 1B TOURNAMENT: Neah Bay boys in the quarterfinals

SPOKANE — The Neah Bay boys basketball team will finish somewhere in the top eight of the state…

Left, East Jefferson’s Penina Vailolo was named to the All-Nisqually League’s first team, while EJ’s Luke O’Hara’s right, was also named to the first team. (Photos by Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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All-NISQUALLY LEAGUE: Vailolo, O’Hara make first team

PORT TOWNSEND — East Jefferson’s Penina Vailolo and Luke O’Hara made the all-Nisqually League girls and boys first…

Teanna Clark brings the ball up the court against Renton on Saturday at the University of Puget Sound court in Tacoma. Clark scored 16 points in the first half in Port Angeles’ 51-39 regional win sending the Roughriders to the state 2A tournament in Yakima. (Benjamin Ray/Federal Way Mirror)

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PLAYOFF BASKETBALL: Three prep teams head to state tournaments

NWAC tournament begins this week with both PC teams

Becca Manson, Port Angeles girls basketball, left and Angel Halttunen, Neah Bay girls basketball

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ATHLETES OF THE WEEK: Becca Manson, Port Angeles girls basketball and Angel Halttunen, Neah Bay girls basketball

Our Athletes of the Week came through in the clutch in a pair of postseason girls basketball games…

Port Angeles’ Morgan Politika passes the ball against Renton on Saturday night in Tacoma the Roughriders 2A state regional. Politika had seven points in the first half to help lead the Roughriders to a 51-39 win. (Benjamin Ray/Federal Way Mirror)

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GIRLS REGIONAL PLAYOFFS: Riders ride off to the SunDome with win

Sequim seasons ends against Nathan Hale

Neah Bay

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STATE 1B REGIONALS: No. 1 Neah Bay girls survive scare from Lummi

Halttunen basket with 45 seconds left the game-winner

Seven sisters of the legendary Moss basketball family in Neah Bay traveled to Port Angeles to watch Ryana Moss play her final home game for Peninsula College on Wednesday night. Four of the Moss sisters — Cherish, Cierra, Ruth and Ryana — have played at Peninsula and six out of the seven have played for Neah Bay High School with Rose Moss, a sixth-grader, an almost certain future member of the team. From left are Cherish Moss, Cierra Moss, current Pirate Ryana Moss, Rose Moss, Cerise Moss, Ruth Moss and Caylee Moss. Caylee and Cerise are current Neah Bay players gunning for their fourth straight state championship. The Neah Bay girls team is coached by Cherish Moss. (Pierre LaBossiere/Peninsula Daily News)

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AREA SPORTS: Moss sisters get together at Peninsula College

Youth golf and lacrosse camps

Matthew Nash/Olympic Peninsula News Group 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 wrestlers who won medals at the state championships held celebrate at the Tacoma Dome this weekend. At left, senior Oliver Martinez closed out his high school career with a seventh-place medal at 175 pounds. Center, Lilly Ann Lancaster won a fifth-place medal at 115 pounds at the girls state championship. At right, Kyler Williams won a seventh-place medal at 126 pounds.

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PREP WRESTLING: Port Angeles trio places at Mat Classic

Port Angeles wrestlers who won medals at the state championships held celebrate at the Tacoma Dome this weekend.…

Forks’ Bailey Johnson and Titus Rowley were selected as the Pacific 2B League’s girls and boys basketball MVPs.

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PREP BASKETBALL: Forks’ Johnson, Rowley league MVPs

FORKS — Putting a cherry on top to their successful seasons, Forks’ Bailey Johnson and Titus Rowley were…

Forks’ Jade Blair, left and Ken Daman both won state championships this weekend at the Mat Classic in Tacoma. (WIAA)

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PREP WRESTLING: Forks duo of Jade Blair and Ken Daman make history

FORKS — Forks has had a lot of state wrestling champions in its history, but Ken Daman and…

Neah Bay’s Cerise Moss made seven 3-pointers to help the Red Devils beat Crosspoint in the 1B Tri-District tournament Saturday. Here, she shoots against Muckleshoot Tribal last week in a playoff game held in Sequim. (Diamond Gentile/for Peninsula Daily News)

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PREP PLAYOFF BASKETBALL: Four Olympic Peninsula teams move on to regional round

After a busy weekend of district playoff basketball, four Olympic Peninsula basketball teams remain standing, moving on to…

Miles Van Denburg, left, and Thomas Jones contributed 105 points as individuals and relay team members for Port Angeles at the state 1A/2A meet this weekend.

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ATHLETES OF THE WEEK: Miles Van Denburg, Thomas Jones, Port Angeles swim and dive

The Port Angeles boys swim and dive team had its best showing at state in more than a…

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Class 1B BASKETBALL PLAYOFFS: Neah Bay boys, girls both to state

AUBURN — Both the Neah Bay boys and girls basketball teams are headed back to the state 1B…

The Port Angeles boys swim team finished fourth at state, the Roughriders’ best finish at state in more than a decade. From left, top, are Miles Van Denburg, Edward Gillespie, Jensen Wolfe, Isaac Meek, Liam Sholinder, Jack Root and Killian Waknitz. From left, bottom, are Jebow Nabua, Thomas Jones, Eli Warren, Adam Kaminski and Patrick Ross. (Sally Cole)

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BOYS SWIM AND DIVE: Port Angeles fourth at state meet

Relay teams all place; Van Denburg, Jones shine