AREA SPORTS: Port Angeles boys basketball hosting season-opening dinner and auction

Event set Nov. 22

PA boys hoops hosting tipoff dinner/auction

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles High School boys basketball program will host a new event to introduce the varsity, junior varsity and C squad teams on Nov. 22 — a fundraising dinner, complete with a silent auction.

The event will be held at the Red Lion Hotel ballroom at 7 p.m.

Attendees can enjoy a night off from cooking while members of the boys basketball teams serve dinner.

The cost is $50 per ticket.

Table sponsors also are sought.

For more information, call/text Kasey Ulin at 360-640-1845.

Winterfest dinner

PORT ANGELES — Winter sports education at Hurricane Ridge will benefit from the annual Winterfest banquet set Nov. 23 at the Vern Burton Community Center, 308 E. Fourth St.

The event will include dinner by Kokopelli Grill, a no-host beer and wine bar, live and silent auctions along with variety and cash raffles.

Appetizers by Upper Valley Charcuterie, a Hurricane Ridge Oyster Bar with oysters from Jamestown Seafood, after dinner beverages from Fogtown Coffee and pie sponsored by DA Davidson also are on the menu.

Doors will open at 5 p.m. and festivities will begin at 6 p.m.

Proceeds from the evening will fund the youth ski and snowboard programs, training for instructors and medical training for the volunteer Ski Patrol as well as capital improvements to the ski area.

Tickets are $80 in advance and $95 at the door, or a community table for eight can be purchased for $600, a community table for 10 for $750 or a community table for 12 for $900.

Tickets can be purchased at www.hurricaneridge.com.

Paddlers meeting

AGNEW — Jesse Wiegel will tell tales about two major races at the next Olympic Peninsula Paddlers meet set for 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Solana Clubhouse, 135 Solana Parkway.

Wiegel, who will present “Tales of Epic Paddling Races in the Salish Sea” to the club, is the race boss at Northwest Maritime in Port Townsend, responsible for Race to Alaska, SEVENTY48 and the new race, WA360.

Wiegel spent nearly a decade teaching maritime skills aboard traditional sailing vessels and as a lead instructor for Hurricane Island Outward Bound School in Maine before landing back home on the Olympic Peninsula.

UW soccer moves on

Joe Dale’s goal on the fifth attempt of the shootout sent the Washington men’s soccer team past Michigan State and into the Big Ten tournament semifinals with a dramatic finish Thursday at SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview, Ill.

After the Huskies (9-4-5, 5-3-3 Big Ten) the fourth-seeded Huskies will next face top-seeded Ohio State in the Big Ten semifinals on Sunday. The Buckeyes are also ranked No. 1 nationally.

Peninsula Daily News and The Seattle Times

Michigan and UCLA will face off in the other conference semifinal.

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