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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Salt Creek 24 seeks volunteers

PORT ANGELES — There is still time to sign up for the Salt Creek 24 race to be…

East Jefferson's Deken Lorenzen makes a 65-yard touchdown run against Annie Wright on Friday night at Port Townsend Memorial Stadium. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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PREP FOOTBALL ROUNDUP: East Jefferson, Sequim defenses stout in losses

PORT TOWNSEND — The East Jefferson Rivals played a tough physical battle on defense and was able to…

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Sequim’s Annie Ellefson competes in the 100-yard breast stroke during an Olympic League swim & dive meet against North Kitsap at the Sequim YMCA on Wednesday.

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PREPS: Sequim swimmers make strides

Winter scores game winner

Port Angeles' Jordin Dunaway (8) hits a smash against the North Mason's Mari Morris and Sophia 
Sparks-Zabel (9). (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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PREP VOLLEYBALL ROUNDUP: Peninsula spikers have a good week

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles volleyball team beat North Mason 3-0 (25-18, 25-17, 25-23) to improve to…

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PREP SOCCER: Port Angeles opens up offensively against North Mason

Desjardins notches hat trick, Alton three assists

Kasey Ulin coached the Port Angeles boys basketball team from 2015 to 2025. He announced his resignation late last month. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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PIERRE LaBOSSIERE COLUMN: Kasey Ulin’s departure leaves huge hole in Port Angeles sports scene

I was sad to hear the news a couple of weeks ago that Kasey Ulin was stepping down…

Corban College's Jack Gladfelter, left and The Evergreen State College's Max Baeder, right, after competing in the Charles Bowles Cross-Country Invitational in Salem, Ore., last week. (Joe Gladfelter)

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Gladfelter sixth at Charles Bowles Invite

SALEM, Ore. — Port Angeles graduate Jack Gladfelter improved on his time in the 50th running of the…

Sequim quarterback Kaden Miller (15) evades a Bremerton tackle as he tries to get a pass off to teammate Patrick Elias (22) on Friday night in Sequim. Bremerton won the game 34-12. (Diamond Gentile/for Peninsula Daily News)

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PREP FOOTBALL RECAP: Forks wins a thriller; Sequim, Port Angeles fall to league foes

FORKS — It was a rough weekend for 2A teams Sequim and Port Angeles, but Forks got its…

Kade Highfield, Forks football

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ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Kade Highfield, Forks football

There were a lot of heroes who helped lead the Forks Spartans to an exciting 37-33 win over…

Spartan Tannon Gaydeski holds for kicker Mario Reyes who had a great night kicking extra points and a field goal for Forks in their 37 to 33 win over the Ilwaco Fishermen at Spartan Stadium Friday night.  Photo by Lonnie Archibald.

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PREP FOOTBALL ROUNDUP: Forks rises up to beat Ilwaco for first win of the year

Quilcene wins big, Neah Bay falls in nailbiter

Runners begin heading up the hill between the starting line and the McFee Tunnell at the Spruce Railroad Trail run Saturday. (Pierre LaBossiere/Peninsula Daily News).

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RUN THE PENINSULA: It was a family affair at Spruce Railroad Run

LAKE CRESCENT — The second Spruce Railroad Trail Run went off without a hitch and it was a…

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Port Angeles' Jude Wallace breaks away from a would-be tackle by North Kitsap's Tyler Prouse on Friday night at Port Angeles Civic Field.

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PREP FOOTBALL: Turnovers stymie Riders in loss to North Kitsap

Sequim allows 400 yards rushing in loss

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Rivals Emma Joy, #18, and Penina Vailolo, #15, jump up to block a spike by Annie Wright Gator Ni'Yah Christopher during a game played on Wednesday in Chimacum.

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VOLLEYBALL: Hot-starting Rivals fall to Annie Wright

Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News

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GIRLS SOCCER: Riders post shutout in stormy conditions

BREMERTON — The Port Angeles girls soccer team bounced back from a loss to league-leading North Kitsap with…

Competitors in the first Spruce Railroad Trail 5K/10K in 2024 run down a leaf-covered path along Lake Crescent. (Matt Sagen/Cascadia Films)

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RUN THE PENINSULA: Spruce Railroad 5K/10K coming up Saturday

PORT ANGELES — There is still space available for entrants in the second annual Spruce Railroad 5K and…

Kids compete on rowing machines at the Peninsula College campus as part of the Little Hurt on Sunday. The Little Hurt encourages youths from first through eighth grades to try different disciplines of running, cycling and rowing in conjunction with Peninsula Adventure Sport's Big Hurt on the same weekend. Full names of winner are not available for kids under 13, but the seventh- eighth-grade winner was Levi Simoneau of Port Angeles. A total of 84 kids participated in the event. (Rick Ross/Peninsula College)

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PENINSULA ADVENTURE SPORTs: 84 kids participate in Little Hurt

Kids compete on rowing machines at the Peninsula College campus as part of the Little Hurt on Sunday.…

Forks' Kim Camacho controls the ball in Forks while teammate Kendyl Woody is on the play against East Jefferson's Paula Ibarra. Forks won the game against an East Jefferson JV squad 7-0. (Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News)

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PREP SOCCER: Forks girls win second match in saved season

FORKS — The Forks girls soccer team won Monday, but more importantly, they are getting to have a…

Sequim’s Patrick Elias, left, expresses disbelief after Port Angeles’ Jude Wallace, right, completed a pass reception near the Sequim goal line while teammate Taylor Abold celebrates during Friday night’s game in Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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PREP FOOTBALL RECAP: Port Angeles takes back Rainshadow trophy

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Roughriders had their biggest win in more than a year Friday night,…

Emma Desjardins, Port Angeles soccer, and Dylan Mann, Port Angeles football.

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ATHLETES OF THE WEEK: Emma Desjardins, Port Angeles girls soccer, and Dylan Mann, Port Angeles football

Our athletes of the week each led their respective teams to victories over their Rainshadow Rivals this week.

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Big Hurt iron man competitor Joey Gish of Sequim races through the transfer zone on the way to his kayak after finishing the mountain bike leg of the race in first place on Saturday at Pebble Beach Park in Port Angeles. Gish finished second in the iron division in the 2024 Big Hurt

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BIG HURT: Team and individual races come down to tight duels

PORT ANGELES — In a very close finish for such a long endurance race, the team of Senior…