HOQUIAM — Fighting against the flu and a long road trip, Forks got off to a 14-2 start on the road against Hoquiam to help the Spartans cruise to a 55-42 Evergreen 1A League win.
“We started off hot,” said coach Rich Gooding. He said Hoquaim got in a deep hole and played hard, forcing the Spartans to work for the win.
Forks got 18 points from Seth Johnson and 12 from Braton Armas. Cort Prose didn’t start the game because he had the flu, but he still contributed three 3-pointers and nine points.
“Cort was under the weather. Kids were sick after the game,” Gooding said. He said Jake Jacoby played good defense and overall it was a good league, road win.
“At times we did a lot of good things,” he said.
Tuesday’s victory puts Forks all alone in first in league play pending the results of the Montesano-Elma game (late Wednesday).
Forks (2-0, 10-2) has a monster game coming up next. The Spartans play another 10-2 team, Montesano, at home at 5:45 p.m. Friday.
Forks 55, Hoquiam 42
Forks 18 16 9 12 — 55
Hoquiam 5 15 12 10 — 42
Forks (55) — Johnson 18, Prose 9, Jacoby 6, Archibald 4, Reaume 3, Baysinger 3.
Hoquiam (42) — James 17, Brown 15, Dayton 5, Larsen 3, Smith 2.
Port Angeles 84, North Mason 32
PORT ANGELES — The Roughriders ran away from the Bulldogs in an Olympic League 2A Division home victory.
“It was a complete team effort on both sides of the ball,” Port Angeles coach Kasey Ulin said. “We were focused, we had energy. We had 26 assists on offense and moved the ball and hit the open man all night. I love the unselfishness of our team.”
Ulin said the Riders’ defense forced 23 turnovers and converted those giveaways into 35 points.
“Our effort and intensity was there the whole game and we had some good zone traps and some man-to-man pressure,” Ulin said.
“We held them to 20 percent shooting and they are a good shooting team [North Mason].”
Port Angeles also limited its mistakes, giving the ball away 11 times.
“We got down to 11 turnovers and one of our goals for the game was to have 12 or under, so I was happy to see us taking better care of the ball,” Ulin said.
Garrett Edwards led the Riders with 23 points, Colton McGuffey added 13, Kyle Benedict and Payton Schmidt added 12 apiece and Liam Clark tallied 11.
“It’s really fun to see lights come on for teams,” Ulin said. “I just hope we continue to get better and that we’ve crossed bridges as far as execution and focus. We are in a good spot at second in league, but we are just halfway through league play, so we have to continue to get better and push each other.”
Port Angeles (5-1, 9-5) visits rival Sequim (3-3, 6-7) on Friday.
Port Angeles 84, North Mason 32
NM 5 13 2 12— 32
PA 26 25 23 10— 84
Port Angeles (84) — Edwards 23, McGuffey 13, Schmidt 12, Benedict 12, Clark 11, Long 6, Joslin 2, Wood 2, Kathol 2, Borde, Flodstrom.
Sequim 62, Bremerton 32
SEQUIM — The Wolves got plenty of scoring from multiple players and rolled to an easy Olympic League win over the Knights.
The win gets Sequim back to .500 in the Olympic League 2A Division, in fourth place.
The Wolves got 16 points from Riley Cowan and 14 from Nate Despain. Payton Glasser, the team’s leading scorer, chipped in 11 and Hayden Eaton scored eight as the Wolves had lots of balance.
Glasser led the team with seven rebounds while Cody Bell had five. Despain had five assists and six steals while Cowan had four steals.
The game actually started off close as Sequim took just a 9-7 lead into the second quarter. The Wolves blew the contest open in the second with a 17-5 quarter, then opened it up more with a 21-7 third quarter as Sequim took a 47-19 lead into the fourth.
Sequim (3-3, 6-7) plays rival Port Angeles (5-1, 9-5) at home at 7:15 p.m. Friday.
Sequim 62, Bremerton 32
Bremerton 7 5 7 13 — 32
Sequim 9 17 21 15 — 62
Bremerton (32) — Jackmon 9, Reed 5, Washington 5, M. Retome 4, K. Retome 4, Irving 2, King 2, Logova 1.
Sequim (62) — Cowan 16, Despain 14, Glasser 11, Eaton 8, Rollness 6, Young 3, Oliver 2, Langston 2.
Port Townsend 55, Coupeville 27
PORT TOWNSEND — Trailing 12-11 after one quarter, the Redhawks changed their defensive looks and clamped down on the Wolves to roll to an Olympic League 1A Division win.
“We switched up defenses and got after them pretty good in the second quarter,” Port Townsend coach Tom Webster said. “Then we had a really good third quarter and defended the crap out of them in the fourth.
“We don’t roll a doughnut [hold a team to zero points in a quarter] too often.”
Kaiden Parcher led the Redhawks with 16 points and also added nine rebounds and three assists.
“Another really good all-around game from Kaiden,” Webster said.
Jackson Foster added a double-double with 12 points and 17 rebounds.
Port Townsend dominated on the glass, outrebounding Coupeville 40-12.
Jacob Boucher had six of the Redhawks’ 20 assists.
Port Townsend (4-1, 7-5) hosts Kingston on Friday.
Port Townsend 55, Coupeville 27
Coupe 12 4 11 0— 27
PT 11 15 19 10— 55
Coupeville (27) — Smith 13, Lippo 7, Spark 5, Downes 2.
Port Townsend (55) — Parcher 16, Foster 12, Montoya 10, Hammett 6, Watkins 4, Spencer 3, Lake 2, Crawford 2.
Girls Basketball
Port Angeles 59, North Mason 29
BELFAIR — The Roughriders took advantage of the Bulldogs’ zone defense and overcame a physical style of play to win a road Olympic League 2A Division game.
Jaida Wood scored 19, Cheyenne Wheeler 10 and Mikkiah Brady eight for Port Angeles.
“North Mason played a zone against us all night, and we were able to score half our points with the two players who roam the baseline in our zone offense, Wood and Wheeler. Jaida hit from a variety of spots: threes from the corner, mid-range shots from the short corner, and driving lay-ins. Cheyenne got open underneath and scored with the help of some good passing, especially by Madi Cooke,” said coach Michael Poindexter.
Poindexter said the Riders had a great game rebounding. Cooke led the team with 13 rebounds, while Devin Edwards contributed with 12 rebounds and five steals.
Port Angeles retained its hold on second place in the Olympic League 2A Division with the girls’ only league loss coming against leader North Kitsap.
The Riders (5-1, 9-3), ranked No. 11 in the state in the RPI, next plays a rivalry game against Sequim at 5:45 p.m. Friday.
Port Angeles 59, North Mason 29
PA 13 14 15 17 — 59
NM 5 6 11 7 — 29
Port Angeles (59) — Wood 19, Wheeler 10, Brady 8, E. Long 5, Cooke 5, Steinman 4, Politika 4, Olson 3, G. Long, Edwards
North Mason (29) — Green 11, Simosnen 6, Carstensen 5, Johnson 2, Griffey 2, Abad 1.
Coupeville 40, Port Townsend 39
COUPEVILLE — A poor shooting night from the floor and the free throw line hampered the Redhawks in an Olympic League 1A Division loss.
Port Townsend’s Jaz Apker-Montoya drilled a 3-point basket with four seconds left, but the Redhawks couldn’t get the ball back for a shot at a game-winning basket.
“That was a tough one,” Port Townsend coach Scott Wilson said. “I haven’t done the shooting percentage but we missed six or seven layins and a good number of free throws.
“We were taking good shots, we just kind of clanged it off the rim or the backboard.”
The Redhawks (3-2, 5-7) led 18-14 at halftime, but Coupeville took control with a 15-6 third quarter.
“I’ve always felt like Coupeville is a really well-coached, good basketball team,” Wilson said. “They seem to be coming into their own now, so [the season series] will come down to the third game.”
Wilson said his team did a better job of rebounding in this contest compared to Port Townsend’s 38-32 win last month.
“We did a much better job of boxing out,” Wilson said. “I give credit to Izzy Hammett our sophomore post, but everybody did a much better job of controlling rebounds.”
“I was impressed with our defense but you have to give credit to Coupeville’s defense as well. We’ve been averaging 50-plus our last few games and they held us down.”
The Redhawks visit Kingston on Friday, the first of a four game stretch that also sees Port Townsend play North Kitsap and Port Angeles, the top three Olympic League 2A teams.
Coupeville 40, Port Townsend 39
PT 9 9 6 13— 39
Coupe 8 6 15 11— 40
Port Townsend (39) — Meek 14, Apker-Montoya 11, Hammett 4, Kellogg 4, Nielsen 2, King 2, Lake 2.
Coupeville (40) — Roberts 10, Briscoe 8, E. Smith 7, S. Smith 6, Wright 4,Prescott 3, Davidson 2.
Sequim 49, Bremerton 35
BREMERTON — The Wolves overcame what coach Larry Brown described as a slow start, playing with intensity on the defensive end in an Olympic League 2A Division road win.
“We started out really slow and finally started to find the basket,” Brown said. “Defensively, we played a very strong and aggressive game. We were able to force a lot of turnovers and capitalize on those.”
Brown said Kalli Wiker earned the game ball with a nine-point game offensively and Hope Glasser lead all players with 13 rebounds and seven takeaways.
Sequim (2-3, 4-6) hosts rival Port Angeles on Friday.
Sequim 49, Bremerton 35
Sequim 10 20 14 7— 49
Bremerton 4 11 8 12— 35
Sequim (49) — Wiker 9, Aliseda 8, Dietzman 7, Sparks 7, Glasser 6, Grasser 5, Porter, Dominguez, Armstrong.
Hoquiam 51, Forks 41
HOQUIAM — The Spartans rallied from an 11-point halftime deficit to first tie the Grizzlies after three quarters and then take a one-point lead in the fourth.
But Hoquiam couldn’t miss in the final frame and ran away with the Evergreen League win.
“We were down 11 at halftime,” Forks coach David Hurn said. “We played a really poor first half, but we picked it up after halftime and I had the feeling at the end of the third that we were going to pull away from them but we didn’t get it done.
“We missed some shots and it felt like Hoquiam didn’t miss anything in the fourth quarter. It didn’t seem like they missed anything, anyway. It was a game we would have liked to get.”
Hurn said getting the ball inside to Chloe Leverington and Rian Peters helped spark the Spartans. Leverington netted 16 points and Peters added 10.
“We were cold from the outside, we knew we had some mismatches down low with Chloe and Rian and when we focused on getting the ball to them we did well playing inside-out,” Hurn said.
“But Hoquiam played well, they shot better than we expected, especially in that fourth quarter.”
Forks (0-2, 8-5) hosts league-leading Montesano (2-0, 9-4) on Friday. The Bulldogs handed Elma (2-1, 14-1) its first loss of the season on Tuesday.
Hoquiam 51, Forks 41
Forks 10 8 15 8— 41
Hoquiam 16 13 4 18— 51
Forks (41) — Leverington 16, Peters 10, Kratzer 9, Olson 5, Rowley 1, Barr, Johnson, Rondeau.
Hoquiam (51) — Krohn 16, Vonhof 11, Jump 10, Cox 10, Bagwell 4.
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