WRESTLING: Forks opens Evergreen League season with two mat victories

ABERDEEN — Forks opened defense of its Evergreen League title by topping Montesano 46-27 and edging Aberdeen 39-36. Forks has not lost a league dual… Continue reading

Sequim's Jordan Miller

GIRLS BASKETBALL: Port Angeles clamps down defensively in win over rival Sequim

PORT ANGELES — A combination of defenses helped the Port Angeles girls clamp down on Sequim in a 36-19 rivalry game victory. Tight man-to-man defensive… Continue reading

Sequim's Jordan Miller
Port Angels' Lambros Rogers aims for the hoop while being surrounded by Sequim's Jack Shea

BOYS BASKETBALL: Port Angeles ends nearly five-year losing streak against Sequim with 37-31

PORT ANGELES — When the final buzzer buzzed, Grayson Peet felt goose bumps and Lambros Rogers felt relief. The Port Angeles boys basketball team ended… Continue reading

Port Angels' Lambros Rogers aims for the hoop while being surrounded by Sequim's Jack Shea

OUTDOORS: Low tides will delay spot shrimp opener one week

THE STATE DEPARTMENT of Fish and Wildlife is looking out for you. State shellfish managers are pushing back the popular spot shrimp fishery in Puget… Continue reading

Sequim's Adrienne Haggerty

PREP BASKETBALL: Sequim girls fend off a different pack of Wolves; other area reports

SEQUIM — The Sequim girls basketball team posted its second victory in as many nights, this one a 38-34 nonleague nailbiter against Class 1A Coupeville.… Continue reading

Sequim's Adrienne Haggerty

SPORTS BRIEFS: Port Townsend youth wrestling starts Monday . . . Jefferson County soccer registration underway . . . Soccer club seeks board members

PT wrestling sign-ups, start set Monday PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend youth wrestling program will register participants and begin practices at the Port Townsend… Continue reading

Port Angeles' Haley Baxley

GIRLS BASKETBALL: Port Angeles gets defensive to knock off North Kitsap

PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles won a defensive donnybrook against North Kitsap 37-30 to continue its unbeaten start to league play. Tuesday’s game was, Port… Continue reading

Port Angeles' Haley Baxley

OUTDOORS: Peninsula Trails Coalition travel series kicks off Friday

THE TIMING COULDN’T be much better for Friday’s premiere presentation of the Peninsula Trails Coalition’s 2016 Adventure Series, even if the reason makes many uneasy.… Continue reading

PREP SPORTS: Sequim boys basketball lifted at the free-throw line; other area reports

SEQUIM — Solid free throw shooting helped Sequim earn its first Olympic League 2A victory of the season 69-65 over North Mason. The Wolves hit… Continue reading

Peninsula's Deonte Dixon

COLLEGE BASKETBALL NOTEBOOK: Peninsula women still in good shape; men have final nonleague game today

PORT ANGELES — Team A is 6-4. They've lost to Wenatchee Valley, Big Bend and twice to Lane. Team B is 9-4 with losses to… Continue reading

Peninsula's Deonte Dixon
Stevens' Alex Lamb

SPORTS BRIEFS: Stevens hoops on a roll . . . Chimacum earns rare win . . . Port Angeles hoops tournament

Stevens Middle School hoops on a roll PORT ANGELES — Stevens Middle School's basketball teams swept Chimacum on Monday. The Stampeders won the eighth-grade game… Continue reading

Stevens' Alex Lamb

MEN’S BASKETBALL: Slow-starting Peninsula falls to Grays Harbor

ABERDEEN — The Peninsula Pirates were still settled down for a long winter's nap in the first half of their nonleague men's basketball game against… Continue reading

Port Angeles' Morgan Mower

PREP SPORTS ROUNDUP: Port Angeles wrestling wins sixth straight Battle for the Axe

PORT ANGELES — The axe will stay in Port Angeles. For the sixth straight year, the Roughriders placed first at their own wrestling tournament, the… Continue reading

Port Angeles' Morgan Mower
Port Angeles' Lambros Rogers

BOYS BASKETBALL ROUNDUP: Port Angeles and Forks win big

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles boys basketball team finished its nonleague schedule by forcing 28 turnovers in a 56-39 victory over Rochester. “Our defensive… Continue reading

Port Angeles' Lambros Rogers

OUTDOORS: Olympic Peninsula Salmon Derby sticking with changes made last year

GARDINER — The Olympic Peninsula Salmon Derby will be held for the weekend after Presidents Day for the second straight year. The three-day derby will… Continue reading

Elise Beuke walks through a tunnel of oars at Log Cabin Resort soon after she returned from the Junior World Championships in Brazil. (Jim Heckman)

SPORTS YEAR IN REVIEW: Beuke was North Olympic Peninsula’s top story of 2015

A UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON coach sees an athlete who spent most of their teenage years in Sequim and sees someone with the potential to be… Continue reading

Elise Beuke walks through a tunnel of oars at Log Cabin Resort soon after she returned from the Junior World Championships in Brazil. (Jim Heckman)
Port Townsend's Kaiden Parcher (55) is surrounded by the defense of Seattle Christian's Zac VanderLay

BOYS BASKETBALL: Port Townsend closes Crush in the Slush with second straight close loss

PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend boys basketball team went back to work Wednesday morning. After practicing through Christmas and then playing two games in… Continue reading

Port Townsend's Kaiden Parcher (55) is surrounded by the defense of Seattle Christian's Zac VanderLay
Port Townsend's Reilly Berkshire maneuvers in the post against Bainbridge's Malia Peato. Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News

GIRLS BASKETBALL: Meek has plenty of help in Port Townsend’s blowout of Bainbridge JV

PORT TOWNSEND — A game against a larger school's JV team can go either way. For Port Townsend, a Class 1A school, it went quite… Continue reading

Port Townsend's Reilly Berkshire maneuvers in the post against Bainbridge's Malia Peato. Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News

OUTDOORS: Better weather should bring better fishing this weekend

THE YEAR 2015 has apparently used up its quota of wet weather, because it’s coming to a dry conclusion. And that is great news for… Continue reading

PREP SPORTS ROUNDUP: Forks places second at The Rock without best effort

VASHON — Jack Dahlgren remained undefeated and was one of three individual champions for Forks at The Rock wrestling tournament. The Spartans placed second as… Continue reading