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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Area pickleball athletes win medals at senior games

LACEY — Several Olympic Peninsula senior athletes won silver and gold medals in pickleball at the Washington State…

Barry Wilcox winning his bronze medal at the para-cycling world championships in Glasgow, Scotland in 2023. (Casey Gibson/USOPC)

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PORT ANGELES ROUGHRIDER HALL OF FAME: Riders’ Barry Wilcox back in the saddle

Suffered major spinal cord injury in traffic accident, now races in para-cycling

Sequim’s Riley Pyeatt with her high school coach Brad Moore at Sequim’s new track surface earlier this month. Pyeatt just signed a scholarship to run track and field for Washington State as both her and Moore are now proud Cougars. (Tracie Pyeatt)

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COLLEGE ATHLETICS: Sequim’s Riley Pyeatt returns to the Pacific Northwest

Track star for the Wolves will now run for Washington State

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Lefties' pitcher Joshua Verkuilen throws in the first inning against Cowlitz on Wednesday at Civic Field.

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LEFTIES: Summer a success for Port Angeles

Growth of pitching staff, Giesegh, Nunez impressive at the plate

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AREA SPORTS: Registration open for fall adult soccer, volleyball leagues offered by Peninsula College

Pickup basketball also set for noon at PC this fall

Western Washington Athletics Sequim’s Claire Henninger was recently named the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Defender of the Year and a first-team all-conference selection for her performance as Western Washington’s goalkeeper in voting held by league coaches.

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WOMEN’S SOCCER: Sequim’s Claire Henninger signs to play for Portuguese pro team

BELLINGHAM — After an All-League career for the Sequim Wolves followed by an NCAA national championship with Western…

Airstream, a tiny snail named for the home on her back, bursts across the finish in a record run of less than four minutes in one of the early heats of the annual Joyce Daze slug races. (Sam Nugent)

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JOYCE DAZE: Gary shows his fury at annual slug races

JOYCE — It doesn’t get more exciting than this.

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Cedars at Dungeness golf women compete

SEQUIM — A total of 11 women from the Cedars at Dungeness Women’s Golf Association competed in the…

Port Angeles' Wyatt Hall had five hits in his first two games for the Port Angeles Lefties this weekend. The former star for the Roughriders and the Skagit Valley College Cardinals now plays for Cal State, San Bernardino. (Maevis Photography)

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PORT ANGELES LEFTIES: Lefties’ playoff hopes end as Edmonton sweeps three-game series

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles Lefties fell out of the playoff picture this weekend after getting swept…

A cyclist takes a photo of his friend during the Ride the Hurricane up Hurricane Ridge Road on Sunday morning. More than 800 cyclists from Canada and the U.S. participated in this year's 17-mile-long ride. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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RIDE THE HURRICANE: More than 800 cycle to Hurricane Ridge

A cyclist takes a photo of his friend during the Ride the Hurricane up Hurricane Ridge Road on…

The Port Angeles Youth Baseball team's Liam "Frosty" Grice comes home to score on a groundout during the 25th annual Dick Brown tournament at the Lincoln Park ballfields Saturday. A total of 12 teams attended the tournament for 18 games over two days. (Pierre LaBossiere/Peninsula Daily News)

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STANDALONE PHOTO: Dick Brown tournament’s silver anniversary

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LEFTIES: Errors lead to series sweep

NANAIMO, B.C. — Port Angeles’ defensive miscues were a difference maker as Nanaimo turned a 2-2 tie fifth…

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LEFTIES: Doubleheader loss drops PA’s chances at playoff berth

NANAIMO, B.C. — The lights dimmed on Port Angeles’ West Coast League playoff hopes in the wake of…

Port Angeles Roughriders football players were treated to an evening on the water at the Lake Sutherland home of Bruce and Kathy Skinner on Tuesday. Watersports equipment was donated by Lake Sutherland Watersports' Nick Lenicka. Prep football practices begin Aug. 21 statewide with the remainder of fall sports starting Aug. 26.

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AREA SPORTS: Rivals youth football registration Aug. 8 and 10 in Chimacum

Rivals football registration set Aug. 8 &10

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WEST COAST LEAGUE: Lefties sweep Falcons; one game out of first place

KELOWNA, B.C. — The Port Angeles Lefties completed a three-game sweep over the Kelowna Falcons, vaulting themselves back…

An umpire gives an emphatic out sign as Wilder Senior shortstop Alex Angevine applies a tag to a Twin-Cities Titans player at second base in Sunday night’s AAA state tournament game at Civic Field. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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AMERICAN LEGION: Wilder overwhelmed by Twin-Cities late

Seniors still alive in state tournament

Dan Morrison and Sami Gustafson of Port Angeles-based Wicked Racing dominated the ASBR Stihl unlimited class at Extreme Sports Park this weekend. (Jeff Halstead/for Peninsula Daily News)

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SPRINT BOATS: Wicked Racing cooks at home

PORT ANGELES — The racing was loud and the spills spectacular at this weekend’s American Sprint Boat Racing…

The winners of the 13th annual Sonny Sixkiller Huskies Celebrity Classic at Cedars at Dungeness. From left, Ed Cribby, Mark Mitrovich, Bob Mathews, Hunter Larson and Nick Larson played on the D.A. Davidson team. (Courtesy photo)

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SONNY SIXKILLER CLASSIC: D.A. Davidson team takes first

SEQUIM — The D.A. Davidson team of Mark Mitrovich, Nick Anderson, Bob Mathews, Hunter Larson and Husky celebrity…

The No. 360 Jolly Roger boat with Chris Farmer driving and Jen Farmer navigating goes airborne after leaving the water at the Extreme Sports Park qualifying Saturday. They crashed into a fence but both driver and navigator quickly got out of the boat. Finals were held Sunday at the Extreme Sports Park. Look in Tuesday's sports section for final results. (Lonnie Archibald/for Peninsula Daily News)

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EXTREME SPORTS PARK: Thrills and spills during qualifying

The No. 360 Jolly Roger boat with Chris Farmer driving and Jen Farmer navigating goes airborne after leaving…

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WEST COAST LEAGUE: Lefties’ bats erupt in two wins over Kelowna

26 runs and 35 hits over the weekend