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The Olympic Chapter of Salmon For Soldiers hosted 77 service veterans on 34 volunteer skippered fishing boats during last Sunday's Summer Salmon Slammin' event in the waters off Sekiu. Fishing was red-hot across the board as veterans enjoyed a day out on the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

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OUTDOORS: Veterans salmon fishing outing a huge success

The smoke cleared, then the fog burned off, and 77 service veterans enjoyed the treat that is summer…

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Field cleanup plus dinner and a movie Saturday in Sequim; Soccer refs needed; West End Thunder drags Saturday and Sunday

SEQUIM — A day of field cleanup followed later by an old-fashioned spaghetti dinner and a baseball movie…

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Sequim Elks Golf Tournament set

Women’s golf results and ODT trail segment closure

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OUTDOORS BRIEF: Additional elk tags available

OLYMPIA — Hunters who bought a multi-season permit application for elk earlier this year, but were not selected…

No. 32 Damien Avila of Spokane and No. 228 Vaunn Zimmerman of Redmond doing a little wiggle with his bike trying to get some advantage to overtake the leader and in the lead No. 12 Peyton Calhoun of Port Orchard in Sunday's Gold Cup qualifier at the Lincoln Park BMX track in Port Angeles. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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LINCOLN PARK BMX: A total of 876 riders compete in weekend of qualifiers

PORT ANGELES — State and Gold Cup qualifying races this weekend at the Lincoln Park BMX track attracted…

Port Angeles High School graduate Bob Peterson, left, meets with Egypt's Anwar Sadat, U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Isreal's Menachem Begin in the 1970s. After starring as a Roughriders football player, Peterson joined the U.S. Air Force and will be inducted into the Roughrider Hall of Fame on Saturday.

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PORT ANGELES HALL OF FAME: Bob Peterson, member of 2020 class, has met kings and emperors

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Port Angeles’ Bob Peterson went from playing football to “carrying the football” in his lifetime.

Peninsula College's Chunghwan Lee (15), goes up for a header against the University of Washington's Ryan Sailor (4) in a scrimmage played Sunday at the University of Washington. (Rick Ross/Peninsula College)

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COLLEGE SOCCER: Peninsula men scrimmage against powerful UW

SEATTLE — The Peninsula College men’s soccer team, which last played less than three months ago, got on…

Kathleen LaBossiere in 1969.

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PIERRE LaBOSSIERE COLUMN: A champion who was better than she realized

Last week would have been my mother’s 91st birthday.

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Port Angeles quarterback Parker Nickerson gets off a pass as Kingston's Kyler Coe-yarr closes in during a Roughriders win earlier this year.

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PREP FOOTBALL: Storylines to watch as prep football practices get underway

PORT ANGELES — High school football practices herald the arrival of a new school year, and Wednesday, when…

Lincoln Park BMX Track was the center for BMX racing in Western Washington over the weekend as the park hosted state qualifying races for the state championships in Spokane next month and Gold Cup qualifiers for a five-state regional championship in Richland in September. In the 14 Expert class are No. 10 Josiah Ringstad of Port Orchard, #63 Cash Coleman of Port Angeles and in the lead, No. 6 Jackson Beal of Port Townsend.

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BMX RACING: Lincoln Park hosts state and Gold Cup qualifiers

Local riders compete

Winners, left to right: Adam Shantz, Dean Owen, Derek Moore, Brandon Lancelle

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Golf tourneys, scrambles benefit schools, organizations

PORT TOWNSEND — New uniforms for East Jefferson — the Port Townsend and Chimacum high school athletics combine…

Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News Lefties first baseman Nathan Chong, left, tags out Portland's Gabe Skoro before he can reach first in the third inning on Tuesday at Port Angeles Civic Field.

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LEFTIES SEASON REVIEW: Port Angeles ends summer on a high note

Lefties spoil Portland’s playoff shot

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RECREATIONAL SPORTS: Peninsula College to manage city recreational leagues for soccer, basketball, volleyball

Softball still run by city

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LEFTIES: Port Angeles falls to Portland in 15-inning marathon

Late homer does the job

Holly Bauman Quilcene angler Ward Norden found beach casting success from the shore of Fort Flagler State Park recently, catching this pink with a pink rotator jig. Pinks are at the height of their odd-year return this month.

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OUTDOORS: Olympic Peninsula anglers can fish Canadian waters with caveats

Who’s up for a leisure cruise in Canadian waters? While the land borders between the Great White North…

Port Angeles' Chase Cobb, front, makes his way past Klahowya's Robbie Slater in a game last March at Port Angeles High School. Masks will not be required for vaccinated athletes playing high-risk indoor sports such as basketball and wrestling this winter. Non-vaccinated athletes must mask and pass twice weekly COVID screening. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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Masking changes lifted for high school athletes

OLYMPIA — Mask wearing will not be required for fall sports athletes in high school sports, according to…

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LEFTIES: Port Angeles can’t take bite out of Pickles’ playoff hopes

PORT ANGELES — Playing out the string against a pack of Pickles, Port Angeles couldn’t play playoff spoiler…

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Big Quilcene River clean-up Thursday; Mitch Black Memorial Golf Tournament coming up at Port Ludlow

QUILCENE — A community clean-up of The Big Quilcene River watershed is planned today.

Sam Nugent photo Turbo the slug came, he saw and he conquered at Joyce Daze this weekend.

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PIERRE LaBOSSIERE COLUMN: Long live Turbo … we’re just two weeks away from fall sports

You know you’re doing local news when you’re rewriting a press release on Turbo the extreme sports slug.

Cameron Colfax of the Port Angeles 12s fires to home plate against the Federal Way Outlaws at the Dick Brown Memorial Baseball Tournament held this weekend at Lincoln Park. He struck out the side. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Port Angeles teams place at Dick Brown baseball tournament

PORT ANGELES — The PA 10s and PA 11s both finished second in their respective divisions during the…

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