SEQUIM — The Sequim Wolves soccer team had its highest-scoring game in years, pounding a flurry of goals past Bremerton in a 13-1 victory to cap off its regular season on an especially high note.
“It was a wonderful team game. They played hard, and it was evident they were playing for each other.
Coach Haley Hunsaker-Freeman said all the Wolves’ seniors scored in the game, including Izzy Turrey, a senior on the junior varsity team.
“I’m so proud of them for working together so efficiently and as a team. We have come a long ways since our first game in September. I’m stoked to see where the postseason takes us,” she said.
Sasha Yada led the way with a hat trick while Raimey Brewer also had a huge game with two goals and three assists.
Libby Turella and Ruby Moxley-Horgan also scored a pair of goals, with Ruby adding an assist.
Sequim senior soccer players, from left, Libby Turella, Amara Gonzalez, Ivy Barrett and Kalli Grove, are honored during the Wolves’ final home game Thursday night in Sequim.
The Wolves had a total of 31 shots and 20 shots on goal.
Also scoring was Kalli Grove, who normally plays keeper, but came up to play some offense in her last home game. She added an assist.
Ivy Barrett had a goal and an assist, while Amara Gonzalez and Lily Sparks each had a goal. Kiley Winter tallied a pair of assists while Kaiya Robinson had an assist.
Sequim has shown it is definitely capable of scoring this season with two other games of six goals and two games with five goals. In 13 games, the Wolves have 41 goals, third best in the Olympic League. The Wolves had a pair of nine-goal games last season.
Sequim (5-8 overall and in league), which finished fifth in the Olympic League, now waits to see who it will play in the District 3 tournament. That game will likely be on the road at 7 p.m. Saturday. A scheduled Friday game between the Wolves and North Mason was canceled.
Kingston 3, Port Angeles 0
PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles girls soccer team hung with a tough, skilled Kingston team until midway through the second half, but the Roughriders couldn’t quite break through for a score in a 3-0 loss.
The loss doesn’t affect the Riders (8-6 in Olympic League, 8-7 overall) moving on to postseason. If they had won, they would have finished tied for third with Kingston.
Now the team sits back and waits until late today to see who and where they play in a district play-in game Saturday. If the Riders win that game, then they get to play at least two more games in the double-elimination phase of the District 3 Tournament (The Tri-District tournament went away as the KingCo League moved into another district).
“They [Kingston] are definitely the most improved team in the league. And they’re doing it the right way,” said Port Angeles coach Dan Horton. “They played better than us. They kept getting to the ball first.”
“I told the girls that we’ve done enough to earn one postseason game,” Horton said. “We haven’t done enough every game to earn two more games. We have to keep improving,” Horton said.
Still, it was a remarkable season to make the postseason with just two seniors and nine to 10 sophomores and freshmen on the roster.
The game was even early with both sides getting good chances. Port Angeles goalkeeper Kennedy Rognilien, busy all match with Kingston’s two speedy forwards, Kate Collins and Catherine Prescott, putting pressure on all night.
Kennedy came way out of the goal to make a good stop in the eighth minute and in the 17th minute, she made a fantastic diving save on a close hard shot, but the rebound went right to Prescott, who was able to kick it in for a score.
Port Angeles had a golden chance in the 35th minute. On a Riders’ free kick, Teanna Clark found herself briefly all alone in the penalty area after she spun around a Kingston defender. However, the Kingston goalkeeper came out of the goal to gobble up the ball before Clark could get a shot off. Less than a minute later Ava-Anne Sheahan made a spectacular run to get through several Kingston defenders, getting off a good shot that went just wide of the near post.
The game remained 1-0 until the 51st minute. Prescott scored her second goal of the game when she got behind the Port Angeles defense on a long pass and booted it in.
The Bucs got their final goal in the 75th minute when a penalty was called against Port Angeles in the box on a corner kick. Kingston converted the penalty kick for the insurance goal.
It’s possible that Port Angeles will get to host a game at Wally Sigmar Field, which is not being used by Peninsula College for games Saturday because both the Peninsula men and women’s teams received a first-round bye.
Horton said the Riders’ Ratings Percentage Index could come into play. The Riders’ RPI is No. 32, the eighth-highest among the teams in District 3.
Coach Dan Horton talks to his players before they take on Kingston for third place in the Olympic League on Tuesday night. Kingston won 3-0 but the Roughriders will still move on to postseason. (Pierre LaBossiere/Peninsula Daily News)
