SEQUIM — The Port Angeles boys tennis team beat Sequim Thursday twice, 5-2 and 4-3 to take sole possession of third place the Olympic League.
The two teams came in to Thursday’s matches locked in a near tie for third place.
The Roughriders are now 8-3 in the Olympic League play while Sequim is 6-6. The first match was the completion of a Sept. 18 meeting that was shortened due to rain.
Roughrider Kenny Soule beat Sequim’s Raymond Lam 6-2, 6-4. His teammate Hayden Woods won his 11th straight singles match, beating Liam Bratten 6-0, 6-0.
“He [Woods] is having an incredible year playing very tough tennis,” said coach Gil Stockton.
The Riders’ Jadon Seibel won his sixth straight match after taking over the number three singles position, beating Sequim’s Aaron Jackson 6-3, 6-1.
The Port Angeles duo of Hunter Dougherty and Bo Bradow played an epic match with Sequim’s Tim Porter and Damon Little, winning 2-6, 6-4, 10-7.
The Sequim doubles’ teams of Blake Wiker/Thomas Hughes and Kevin Meyer/Sam Frymyer won. Wiker and Hughes beat Port Angeles’ Kyler Tourbin and Brady Nickerson 6-1, 6-1, while Myer and Frymyer beat Roughriders Lucan Jarnigan and Milo Whitman 6-3, 0-6, 7-5.
The freshman team of Landon Seibel and Kameron Noard who, as freshmen, won their first varsity match as a doubles team, beating Jonathan Heintz and Brent Barnes 6-2, 6-2.
“They played with terrific intensity, made many great shots and were not going to be denied their victory,” Stockton said.
In the earlier match (some of these matches were played Sept. 18 and some on Thursday), Soule beat Lam 7-6, 6-3, while Woods beat Sequim’s Liam Payne 6-1, 6-3. Seibel beat Heintz 6-1, 6-3.
In the doubles’ matches, Wiker and Hughes teamed up to beat Tourbin and Nickerson 6-0, 6-1, while Little and Porter beat Dougherty and Brawon 7-5, 6-3.
Sequim’s Kevin Meyer and Sam Frymyer beat Port Angeles’ Wyatt Hall and Evan Cobb 0-6, 6-3, 6-2, while Jarnigan and Whitman won the Riders’ lone doubles match of that contest, beating Jackson and Barnes 6-0, 6-0.
Port Angeles (8-3, 9-3) next plays Chimacum at home at 4 p.m. Monday, while Sequim (6-6, 6-6) played at Olympic Friday.
Girls soccer
Port Angeles 9, Coupeville 3
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles girls’ soccer offense was clicking on all cylinders in a 9-3 win over Coupeville.
The Roughriders’ Kyrsten McGuffey had two goals and an assist, all in the first half as the Riders scored three goals in the first 16 minutes. Sierra Robinson also had two goals, while Summer Olsen and Delaney Wenzl also scored. Defender Saige Hefton also got her first-ever goal in varsity soccer.
Emily Boyd and Brooklyn Alton scored goals for the Riders in the second half.
“We really showed what we can do offensively in this game. We have speed and a nose for the goal. However, we have also given up an average of three goals a game over the last three games,” said Riders coach Scott Moseley. “That has to be cleaned up before we get into our final league games.”
Port Angeles (4-2, 6-4) sits in third place in the Olympic League, 2A Division, one-half game ahead of Sequim. The Riders host a Kingston team looking for its first win at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday.
Girls swimming
Port Angeles 139, Bremerton 41
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles swim girls beat Bremerton 139-41 and qualified seven new individual times for districts.
Sierra Hunter and Kenzie Johnson both won two individual events. Hunter won in the 200-meter individual medley in a time of 2 minutes, 27.16 seconds and the 500 freestyle in 5:54.41. She also helped two relay teams come in first. Johnson won in the 50 freestyle in 27.97 seconds and the 100 backstroke in 1:06.36 and was part of a first-place relay team.
Other first-place finishes include:
• 200 medley relay (Johnson, Nadia Cole, Emma Murray, and Erin Edwards), 2:00.41
• 1-meter diving, Cassii Middlestead, 202 points
• 200 freestyle relay (Ashlee Seelye, Felicia Che, Edwards, Murray), 1:52.73
• 400 freestyle relay (Cole, Taylor Beeve, Johnson, Hunter), 4:09.76.
• 200 freestyle, Che, 2:10.28
• 100 butterfly, Cole, 1:04.72
Che and Cole’s times were good enough to qualify for district. Also qualifying for district were:
• 200 freestyle — Maggie Martin, second, 2:18.72; Emma Weller, third, 2:23.19.
• 200 individual medley — Tana Hiigel, fourth, 2:42.14
• 500 freestyle — Beebe, second, 6:04.44
• 100 breaststroke — Felicia Che, second, 1:20.67
Port Angeles’ (4-1, 5-2) next meet is at home at 3:30 p.m. Thursday.
Volleyball
Coupeville 3, Port Angeles 0
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles volleyball girls are still looking for their first non-tournament win after falling to Coupeville.
While the Wolves won 3-0, the Thursday match was much closer than the score would indicate. The Roughriders made Coupeville work for as the final score was 25-17, 25-22, 25-23.
Riders coach Christine Halberg said Port Angeles had some problems handling Coupeville’s serving at times.
“They served very well. We played pretty well. We were able to get them on their heels at times,” she said.
Halberg said that while the Riders, who don’t have much varsity experience, can go on runs, they are struggling to finish games. “We weren’t able to capitalize. That’s kind of been our story this year,” she said.
Devin Edwards led the Riders with six kills, while Natalie Steinman had 11 assists and Aeverie Politika had three aces.
Port Angeles (0-8, 0-10) next hosts Kingston at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday.
Port Angeles’ Kenny Soule takes on Sequim’s Raymond Lam in No. 1 singles play in an Olympic League match Thursday. (Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
Sequim’s Raymond Lam looks to return a serve as he takes on Port Angeles’ Kenny Soule on Thursday. (Photo by Michael Dashiell/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
