Port Angeles senior Katie Gibson performs on the balance beam at the district meet. Gibson qualified for state in beam and vault.

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PREP SPORTS: Port Townsend girls basketball advances to 1A Tri-District; other area reports

TACOMA — For the second consecutive year, the Port Townsend girls basketball team ended Charles Wright’s season in…

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WRESTLING: Area grapplers qualify for state meets

BRUSH PRAIRIE — The North Olympic Peninsula will be well represented at Mat Classic, the state high school…

Peninsula's Alison Knowles squares up at the 3-point line. Knowles set a new school single-season record by hitting her 62nd 3-pointer of the year. Jeff Halstead/for Peninsula Daily News

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Peninsula women earn playoff spot as Pirates sweep Olympic

BREMERTON — Peninsula College’s basketball teams picked up a road sweep over NWAACC League foe Olympic thanks to…

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PREP SWIMMING: Port Angeles third at districts; Sequim’s Prosser makes state

RENTON — Port Angeles finished third at the West Central District boys swimming and diving Championships at Lindbergh…

Andrew Chapman

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COLLEGE SOCCER: Peninsula men’s coach Chapman also will coach Kitsap Pumas

BREMERTON — Peninsula College men’s soccer coach Andrew Chapman has a new job as the head coach of…

Steven Lauderback of Port Angeles goes for a breakaway dash to the lane during the Roughriders' game against Sequim last month in Port Angeles. Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News

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PREP BASKETBALL: Port Angeles boys, Sequim girls gear up for district tournament

PORT ANGELES — West Central District basketball playoff action begins for the North Olympic Peninsula’s largest high schools…

Joe Munn fishes through the ice at Lake Leland. Munn caught three trout fishing from the dock through a hole in the ice.

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LEE HORTON’S OUTDOORS: Halibut seasons shortened again

THE DATES FOR the upcoming halibut season have been circulating throughout the North Olympic Peninsula. I hate to…

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Peninsula women keep postseason dreams alive; men’s hopes dim with loss

EVERETT — Peninsula College women’s basketball edged Everett 71-66 to stay in control of their NWAACC tournament destiny,…

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PREPS BASKETBALL: Quilcene boys and girls advance to 1B Tri-District tournament

TACOMA — Quilcene’s boys and girls basketball teams each advanced to Class 1B Tri-District play-in games Saturday, both…

Former Port Angeles High School baseball player Easton Napiontek

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Port Angeles’ Easton Napiontek set for first baseball spring training with Texas Rangers

PORT ANGELES — Easton Napiontek is headed back to the pingpong table. The 2012 Port Angeles High School…

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Peninsula women keep postseason dreams alive; men’s hopes dim with loss

EVERETT — Peninsula College women’s basketball edged Everett 71-66 to stay in control of their NWAACC tournament destiny,…

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PREPS BASKETBALL: Quilcene boys and girls advance to 1B Tri-District tournament

TACOMA — Quilcene’s boys and girls basketball teams each advanced to Class 1B Tri-District play-in games Saturday, both…

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LEE HORTON’S OUTDOORS: Marine Area 9 salmon limit reduced

THE LAST THING a salmon derby needs is a daily limit decrease. The Olympic Peninsula Salmon Derby is…

Payton Lee

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PREP BASKETBALL: Port Angeles seniors go out with win over Port Townsend; Sequim clinches postseason berth; other area reports

PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles dominated Port Townsend 63-26 after putting together some of their “smoothest play of…

Port Townsend's Cody Russell

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BOYS BASKETBALL: Port Angeles holds off Port Townsend’s rally to win 50-48

PORT TOWNSEND — Appropriately enough for Senior Night, a pair of senior duos stood out on both sides…

Sequim's Rory Kallappa

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BOYS BASKETBALL: Bremerton beats Sequim to earn Olympic League title

SEQUIM — Bremerton won the Olympic League boys basketball championship by beating Sequim 80-74 at Rick Kaps Gymnasium.…

Port Townsend Golf Club director of golf Gabriel Tonan

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MICHAEL CARMAN ON GOLF: 2015 U.S. Open seeking volunteers

ANOTHER CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY will wing its way to the Pacific Northwest in little more than a year. A…

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LEE HORTON’S PREP NOTES: Teamwork gives Sequim boys basketball shot at league title

SEQUIM BOYS BASKETBALL coach Greg Glasser made a point after last season to point out how much talent…

Peninsula College women's soccer players on hand for national signing day last week were

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COLLEGE SOCCER: Peninsula players sign up for next level

PORT ANGELES — The Peninsula College soccer program has become a pipeline to high-level university soccer. Players from…

Matt Robbins of Port Angeles

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WRESTLING: Port Angeles second at sub-regionals, sends eight to regionals; other wrestling reports

PORT ANGELES — Olympic League sub-regional tourney titles were earned by Port Angeles’ smallest wrestler, 106-pound Tyler Gale…