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Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Port Angeles catcher Zoe Smithson, left, was named the Olympic League MVP for the second year in a row. At right is Sequim's Taylee Rome, whol made the all-league second team.

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PREP SOFTBALL: Roughriders’ Smithson named league MVP

SEQUIM — Port Angeles’ Zoe Smithson was named the Olympic League softball MVP and several of her Roughriders…

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: PA’s Leia Larson winner of women’s Rhody Run Redux 5K

PORT TOWNSEND — Updated results from the Rhody Run Redux showed that Port Angeles middle school student Leia…

Sequim's Ben Sweet sits in second place after the first day of the 2A boys state golf championships.

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STATE GOLF TOURNAMENT: (Updated) Sequim’s Sweet in second place

Five other Olympic Peninsula golfers make second-day cut

Courtesy photo From left, Sequim's Dominic Riccogene, coach Sean O'Mera and Ben Sweet celebrate Sequim's fifth-place finish at the state 2A golf championship at the Capitol City Golf Club in Olympia.

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STATE GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS: Sequim’s Ben Sweet finishes second

Sequim fifth as a team; six Peninsula golfers make second-day cut

Courtesy photo The Forks softball team celebrates representing the west side of the state and qualifying for the state 2B tournament at the Southwest 1/4 tournament this weekend.

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SOFTBALL: Four Olympic Peninsula teams prepare for state tournaments

YAKIMA — Four north Olympic Peninsula high school teams begin play at various state softball tournaments beginning Friday.

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Four PA, Sequim players make all-Olympic League baseball first team

SEQUIM — Port Angeles got three players on the baseball all-Olympic League first team, while Sequim’s Connor Bear…

Adrian Brown, Sequim track and field.

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ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Adrian Brown, Sequim track and field

Adrian Brown has quietly put together a dominant season in track and field this spring.

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Event slated for youths interested in learning rodeo

PORT ANGELES — The Peninsula Junior Rodeo Association is hosting a free event at the Clallam County Fairgrounds…

Sequim softball players relax after swamping Sammamish 21-1 in the Class 2A West Central District Softball Tournament at the RAC in Lacey. The Wolves sealed a state tournament berth with the win.

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PREP SOFTBALL: Riders third at district; Sequim and Forks qualify for state

Forks baseball no-hit at state

Sequim's Riley Pyeatt (1) won the 400, 800, 1,600 and anchored the Wolves' 4x400 girls relay team that took first at the 2A West-Central District 3 track and field meet in Belfair. (Michel Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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DISTRICT TRACK: Pyeatt dominates; Sequim girls second

East Jefferson boys and girls second at 1A meet

Sequim's Malory Morey returns a volley with teammate Jordan Hegtvedt in the background in the West-Central District 3 tennis tournament held this weekend in Bremerton. Morey and Hegtvedt won two matches at district. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

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DISTRICT GIRLS TENNIS: Sequim’s Hastings finishes second

BREMERTON — Sequim’s Kendall Hastings won three matches to come in second place at the 2A West Central…

After a two-year hiatus, the Rhody Run took off again on Sunday in a new venue, the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. At the starting gun, the trio of Owen Chamberlain, from Tacoma, John Munro, from Port Townsend and the city manager, and Seamus Fraser, from Port Townsend, lead the pack around the 6.2-mile (10K) course. Fraser won the event with an official time of 35 minutes, 12.33 seconds. Munro was first in his age group of 45-49 and third overall with a time of 36:56.72. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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OUTDOOR SPORTS: (Updated results) Rhody Run returns in style

PORT TOWNSEND — More than 900 runners took part in the 2022 Rhody Run Redux at a new…

Sequim softball players relax after swamping Sammamish 21-1 in the Class 2A West Central District Softball Tournament at the RAC in Lacey. The Wolves sealed a state tournament berth with the win.

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PREP ROUNDUP: Sequim and Port Angeles softball seal up state tournament berths with wins Friday

Sequim faces Fife, Port Angeles takes on Olympic Saturdays in semifinals

Courtesy of Riley Nachtrieb Ultramarathoner Riley Nachtrieb of Seattle, left, recently became the first person to run the Olympic Discovery Trail's entire length from Port Townsend to La Push non-stop, finishing the 135-mile journey in 41 hours 29 minutes.

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OUTDOORS: Ultrarunner Riley Nachtrieb runs entire length of Olympic Discovery Trail in 41 hours, 29 minutes

Covered a distance equal to more than 5 full marathons

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STATE SOCCER: Late goal ends Sequim’s season in 2-1 loss to Burlington-Edison

Wolves set to graduate 11 seniors

Port Angeles’ Jack Gladfelter pulls away from the pack to win the boys 1600m race on Thursday at Port Angeles High School. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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TRACK AND FIELD: Area hopefuls seek state marks at Friday and Saturday’s district meets

BELFAIR — District championships abound this weekend for North Olympic Peninsula track and field athletes from Class 1B…

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News An excavator moves dirt on Thursday at the site of a pump track under construction at Erickson Playfield in Port Angeles. Volunteers are sought to help with asphalt installation from May 25 to June 1.

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OUTDOORS: Port Angeles pump track project seeking volunteers May 25-June 1

Asphalt installation portion of new bicycle pump track

Washington Sea Grant Volunteers with Washington Sea Grant have captured a male European green crab Seabeck in Kitsap County, the first known detection of European green crabs in Hood Canal.

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OUTDOORS: Invasive green crab found near Seabeck on Hood Canal

An invasive European green crab has been found for the first time in Hood Canal, the farthest southerly…

PA’s Edun Bailey sinks a 10 foot putt for a birdie on the 5th green dlogan

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DISTRICT GOLF: Port Angeles’ Flores, Bailey co-champs

Pair will join a contingent of Port Angeles girls, Sequim golfers at state tourney

Peninsula College Sequim's Hannah Wagner signs to play college for the Peninsula College Pirates and poses with her teammates and coach Kanyon Anderson.

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COLLEGE SOCCER: Sequim’s Hannah Wagner signs to play at Peninsula College

PORT ANGELES — The pipeline of North Olympic Peninsula sports stars going on to Peninsula College continued this…

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