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PREP SOCCER PLAYOFFS: Riders give No. 5 Spartans all they can handle

PA loses 2-1 in penalty kicks but still alive in postseason

The Future Riders C team won the Olympic League championship late last month with a last-second victory. Back row, from left, are coach Nathan Hofer, Jonathan Ermineskin, Ashton Page, Seager Fowler, Jordan Billingsley, Damanson Sifagaloa, James Murray Jr., Cannon Delabarre, coach Josh Love, Jonathan Armenta, Duke Sifagaloa, Rhyder Murray, Paisley Johnson, Miles Philp, Coach Ryan Detorres, Camden Cox, Coach Lukas Cox, Joshua Shiepko and Ben Botero. From left, front row, are Dreyson Black, Alistair Hodge, Jackson Haguewood, Aaron Johnson, Dean Spurrier, Devin Gaines, Reed Lancaster, Levi Thompson, Kheeilan Murdock, Casey Goldsbury, Landyn Hutto, Donnie Fors, Kellan Detorres, TJ Goldsbury, Archer O’Leary and Liam Gilbert. (Courtsey of Denver Page)

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Future Riders C team wins dramatic championship

PORT ANGELES — The Future Riders C-Squad football team completed an unbeaten season by winning on a touchdown…

Port Angeles quarterback Blake Sohlberg hands off to running back Dylan Mann on Friday night at Port Angeles Civic Field against Olympic. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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PREP FOOTBALL RECAP: Area teams prepare for playoffs

This is the beginning of football playoffs this week with five local teams in the postseason and another…

Millie Long, left, and Kyrsten McGuffey, both of Port Angeles, won Great Northern Athletic Conference players of the week last week in basketball and football. (Kyrsten McGuffey (20) scored four goals last week and leads the GNAC with eight this season (Photos by Stephanie Burgoon, Alaska-Anchorage and Imogene Eagan, Western Washington).

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COLLEGE SPORTS: Port Angeles’ Long, McGuffey GNAC players of the week

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Former Port Angeles Roughriders and Peninsula College teammates Kyrsten McGuffey and Millie Long were both…

Kedryn DeScala, Port Angeles soccer, and Luke O’Hara, East Jefferson football.

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ATHLETES OF THE WEEK: Kedryn DeScala, Port Angeles soccer and Luke O’Hara, East Jefferson football

Port Angeles girls’ soccer player Kedryn DeScala did her best this weekend to extend the Roughriders season at…

Avery Dilley tips the ball against Toutle Lake in this District 4 2B volleyball tournament held in Forks on Saturday. Forks won 3-1 to move on to the district semifinals against Mossyrock in Raymond on Wednesday. (Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News)

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PREP VOLLEYBALL: Forks one win away from state; Sequim No. 2 seed at district

FORKS — The Forks Spartans volleyball team is one win away from qualifying for the state 2B tournament,…

The Klahhane XCEL Bronze team celebrates its first-place finish at the Harvest Fest Gymnastics meet in Mukilteo this weekend. From left are Kinley Matthews, Penny Goodwin, Sasha Gmazel, Addie Brown, Lucy Monaghan, Aubrie Huisman, Nora Pecoraro, Adrie McGuire and Reagan Haguewood. (Klahhane Gymnastics)

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Gymnastics: Klahhane XCEL Bronze team takes first place at Harvest Fest

MUKILTEO — The Klahhane Gymnastics XCEL Bronze team opened its competition season with a first-place team win at…

Strait Slice Pizza won the Fall Peninsula Soccer League championship. From left, back row, are Rob Walton, Sam Watson, Luke Strong-Cvetich, Kaye Thomas, Allison Mahaney, Ian Miller, Sam Havens, Kyle Henderson, Zach Gray and Sean Rankin. From left, front row, are Kevin McGruther, Allison Snavely, Taryn Asmus, Kelsey Kuhn, Jimmy Quigley, Christine Loewe, Jack Waknitz, Victoria Jones, Mel Messineo, Isaiah Jindrich, Aaron Lee and Jay Marazon. (Courtesy photo)

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PENINSULA SOCCER LEAGUE: Strait Slice Pizza wins PSL title

PORT ANGELES ­— Strait Slice Pizza shut out High Energy Metals 3-0 Sunday to win the Peninsula Soccer…

These Port Angeles boys tennis players qualified for the District 3 tournament. From left are Tate Alton, Nathan Basden, Luke Flodstrom, Keatyn Hoch and Austin Worthington. Basden and Flodstrom won the district championship.

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POSTSEASON BOYS TENNIS: PA’s Flodstrom, Basden win district championship

BREMERTON — Port Angeles’ Nathan Basden and Luke Flodstrom won the District 3 boys tennis duos championship, coming…

Dawn Hulstedt, Sequim

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DISTRICT CROSS-COUNTRY: Sequim’s Hulstedt finishes third

TACOMA —Sequim’s Dawn Hulstedt finished third at the District 3/4 Westside Classic Cross-Country meet, qualifying for the state…

Port Angeles' Teanna Clark is congratulated by her teammates after she scored on a penalty kick against Franklin Pierce in the Roughriders' district playoff victory Saturday at Wally Sigmar Field. (Pierre LaBossiere/Peninsula Daily News)

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PREP SOCCER: Port Angeles girls win playoff opener behind flurry of goals

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles girls soccer team made sure to extend its season, erupting for four…

East Jefferson's Luke O'Hara ran for 201 yards and four touchdowns Friday night against Vashon as the Rivals won their season finale 55-0. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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PREP FOOTBALL: Rivals romp over Vashon for season-ending win

Port Angeles drops season finale to league champ Olympic

Hustle played a big role towards Forks winning the Class 2B Pacific League championship Wednesday night in the Spartan gym where Forks defeated Raymond-South Bend 3-0. Forks' Chloe Gaydeski dives for the dig while teammates Bailey Johnson (2) and Eladia Hernandez-Stansbury look on. Photo by Lonnie Archibald.

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VOLLEYBALL: Forks nets Pacific League crown

Spartans on to district tourney

Sequim's Amara Gonzalez gets past the Bremerton keeper for a goal Tuesday night in Sequim. Gonzalez was one of seven Wolves who scored in a 13-1 win. (Courtesy of Daniel James)

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PREP SOCCER: Sequim lights up the scoreboard in 13-1 win

Roughriders fall to Kingston, but both teams in postseason

Senior Sophia Petta spikes the ball against Annie Wright on Monday night in Chimacum. It was Petta's final home match for the Rivals and she responded with 44 digs. (Courtesy of Carrie Beebe)

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PREP ROUNDUP: East Jefferson and Forks volleyball win

CHIMACUM — East Jefferson came away with a 3-1 (25-14, 25-20, 23-25, 25-23) win over Annie Wright, finishing…

Brandon Morales was the winner of the Salt Creek 24 Last Man Standing competition this weekend. In the Last Man Standing, 13 competitors ran up and back down the 3.7-mile trail to the top of 1,100-foot Striped Peak adjacent to the Salt Creek Recreation Area. Morales ran 66.6 miles, climbing 19,000 vertical and went nonstop for nearly 17 hours to win. (Photo courtesy of Brittany Shrout)

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Last Man Standing went 66 miles and 19,000 vertical feet

SALT CREEK — Brandon Morales won this year’s Last Man Standing event, part of Peninsula Adventure Sports’ Salt…

Rosemary Gala Moorhead, already a member of the Peninsula College Athletic Hall of Fame, was recently inducted into the Salpointe Catholic School Sports Hall of Fame in Tucson, Ariz.

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PENINSULA COLLEGE: Retired teacher inducted into her high school’s hall of fame

TUCSON, Ariz. — Rosemary Gala Moorhead, a longtime Peninsula College instructor and already a member of the Peninsula…

Forks’ Noah Foster runs down the sideline against Raymond-South Bend at Spartan Stadium on Friday night. Forks won 35-8. (Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News)

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PREP FOOTBALL RECAP: Forks uses fast start to snap streak

Neah Bay crushes Tulalip Heritage to win Northwest 1B League

Mariah Traband, Port Angeles soccer and Arianna Stovall, Sequim volleyball.

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ATHLETES OF THE WEEK: Mariah Traband, Port Angeles soccer and Arianna Stovall, Sequim volleyball

Last week saw some outstanding performances in Sequim and Port Angeles from girls helping their respective teams make…

Dan Greer (32) was the individual winner of the Salt Creek 24 at the Salt Creek Recreation Area west of Port Angeles. He went 107.8 total miles. Also running in the race are Jennifer Jones (46) and Samanth Carrel (16). (Matt Sagen/Cascadia Films)

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PENINSULA ADVENTURE SPORTS: Toughest of the tough take on the 24 hours at Salt Creek

SALT CREEK — Through rain, shine and the dark of night, more than 100 individuals and team members…

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