KENT — Sequim booked passage on a trip to the Class 2A state baseball tournament, picking up two West Central District Tournament wins over the White River Hornets and the Sammamish Totems.
The Wolves (12-8) knocked off the Hornets (14-8) 3-1 in the team’s opener at Russell Road Park in Kent on Saturday.
That evening, Sequim clinched a state berth with a 9-2 win over the Totems (2-19).
The Wolves will face familiar Olympic League foe North Kitsap (18-3) in the district semifinals at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Sequim lost twice to the Vikings during the regular season.
Tanner Rhodefer tossed a complete-game, two-hitter to shut down White River.
Rhodefer struck out 12 batters and walked three.
He helped himself at the plate as well, going 2 for 4 with an RBI.
Evan Hurn tripled and scored and Daniel Harker and Dusty Bates singled and scored for Sequim.
Against Sammamish, Nigel Christian lasted six innings, allowing just two runs on eight hits and five walks to earn the win on the mound for the Wolves
Austin Hilliard had three singles and three RBIs to lead Sequim’s hitters.
Hurn reached base in all four at-bats for the Wolves, going 2 for 2, walking twice and bringing in an RBI.
James Grubb pitched a scoreless seventh inning recording two strikeouts for Sequim.
He also went 2 for 4 at the plate, scoring twice with an RBI.
Sequim 3, White River 1
Sequim 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 —3 7 0
White River 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 — 1 2 3
WP- Rhodefer; LP- Harris
Pitching Statistics
Sequim: Rhodefer 7 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 3 BB, 12 K.
White River: Harris 5 2/3 IP, 5 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 2 K; Swanson 1 2/3 IP, 2 H, 1 ER.
Hitting Statistics
Sequim: Rhodefer 2-4, RBI; Hurn 2-4, 3B, R; Harker 1-3, R; Bates 1-3, R.
White River: Buchanan 1-2, RBI; France 1-2, R.
Sequim 9, Sammamish 2
Sequim 3 0 4 0 2 0 0 — 9 10 0
Sammamish 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 — 2 9 1
WP- Christian; LP- Defiallier
Pitching Statistics
Sequim: Christian 6 IP, 8 H, 2 ER, 5 BB, 8 K; Grubb IP, H, 2 K.
Sammamish: Defiallier 3 IP, 6 H, 7 R, 5 ER, 4 BB, 2 K; Mackie 2 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, BB; Ho 2 IP, H, BB, 3 K.
Hitting Statistics
Sequim: Hilliard 3-3, 3 RBI; Rhodefer 2B, R; Hurn 2-2, 2 BB, 2 R, RBI; Christian 0-1, HBP, 2 RBI, Bates 1-3, RBI, R; Grubb 2-4, 2 R, RBI.
Sammamish: Friedman 3-3, 2 2 2B, RBI.
Port Angeles alive
TACOMA — The Roughriders stayed alive for a state berth after dropping Lindbergh 6-1 and falling to Fife 4-0 in the West Central District Tournament.
Saturday’s results at Franklin Pierce High School pushed the team into a loser-out district game against White River back at Franklin Pierce at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.
“I was real pleased with our kids for our first time going into a playoff situation,” Port Angeles coach Vic Reykdal said.
“We handled ourselves well, we hit the ball well and we played two pretty good ballgames.
“We are a young team, so the more and more experience we get it will help us.”
The Roughriders (10-9) belted out 16 hits in their district opener with Lindbergh (8-7) but couldn’t get clutch, run-scoring hits until late in the game.
“We left the bases loaded in the first, second and third innings,” Reykdal said.
“We let a team that we should have taken care of early hang around and that’s a dangerous thing to do in the playoffs.”
Port Angeles was helped by a strong pitching performance from Travis Paynter and good relief work from Curan Bradley.
Paynter went five innings, allowing one run on four hits and striking out eight.
“He was in command,” Reykdal said.
Bradley struck out three batters in his two innings and allowed no hits.
Jace Bohman helped give Port Angeles some cushion in the sixth inning, with a two-out, two-run double.
“It was a 2-1 ballgame when he hit that one,” Reykdal said.
“That really helped us spread it open.”
iJanson Pederson went six innings in the Riders’ loss to Fife (20-2).
“Janson pitched a gem, he really did,” Reykdal said.
“We got a chance to scout them a little bit and knew a little about how we wanted to get after them.”
Pederson allowed four runs on six hits, giving up four walks and striking out three batters.
Reykdal was kicking himself in hindsight for not intentionally walking a Spartans slugger in the fifth inning.
“We could have put him on and loaded the bases to try to get the force again with two outs,” Reykdal said.
“Janson had gotten him a couple of times, so I kind of thought we could pitch around him, pitch him outside.
“The kid stayed back on one and hit a lined shot and scored the next two runs so I second guess myself a little bit there.”
Port Angeles managed five hits but couldn’t take advantages of getting two runners in two early innings.
“Their pitcher was wheeling and dealing pretty good,” Reykdal said.
“We left two on in the first inning and two on in the third, so we had some opportunities to help ourselves and we couldn’t score.”
Port Angeles 6, Lindbergh 1
Port Angeles 0 1 0 1 0 2 2 — 6 16 0
Lindbergh 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 — 1 4 2
WP- Paynter
Pitching Statistics
Port Angeles: Paynter 5 IP, 4 H, R, 8 K, BB; Bradley 2 IP, 3 K, 2 HBP, BB.
Hitting Statistics
Port Angeles: Bradley 2-4, 2 RBI; Hendry 3-5, R; Pederson 2-4, 2 R; Basden 2-4, R; Bohman 3-3, 2B, 3 RBI; Ciaciuch 1-4, 2 R; Paynter 1-3, Boyer 1-3, 2B; Crawford 1-3.
Fife 4, Port Angeles 0
Port Angeles 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 5 1
Fife 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 — 4 6 0
LP- Pederson
Pitching Statistics
Port Angeles: Pederson 6 IP, 6 H, 4 R, 3 K, 4 BB.
Hitting Statistics
Port Angeles: Bradley 2-3, Hendry 2-3, Ciaciuch 1-3.
Vashon 4, Chimacum 1
VASHON — The Cowboys threatened late but their season ended with a loss to the Nisqually League’s Pirates in a Class 1A West Central District Tournament game.
“They [Vashon] had one inning where they scored four runs and that was it,” Cowboys coach Andy Lingle said.
“The boys played solid.
“They never gave up, and had chances in the sixth and seventh innings.”
Lingle said Logan Shaw and Jonny Rogers opened the sixth with back-to-back doubles and a run scored after a good play during Henry Lovekamp’s at-bat.
Ari Pape-Uphoff opened the seventh with a single and Kaleb Collier walked, bringing the tying run to the plate.
“Then we hit into a double play to end the game,” Lingle said.
“This was a well played game. I am proud of the way this group finished.
Chimacum finished 3-15 in Lingle’s first season, with two other wins taken off the books for unknowingly playing an ineligible player.
“This is only a start of good things to come,” Lingle said.
Softball
Quilcene 9, Darrington 0
DARRINGTON — Sammy Rae threw a one-hitter, striking out 11, as the Rangers downed the Loggers in a nonleague contest.
“Sammy was lights out,” Quilcene coach Mark Thompson said.
“Her ball was moving all game.”
Erin Macedo led the 14- hit attack, going 3 for 4 with a double and a two-run home run in the fifth inning.
Rae was 3 for 4 with two doubles and two RBIs.
“Samantha and Erin in the 3-4 spot this year has worked out great for us,” Thompson said.
“Now when teams pitch around Sammy they get burned.”
Katie Bailey went 3 for 4 and Alexis Gray was 2 for 4 for the Rangers (15-1).
Quilcene hosts Chimacum (9-7) in a nonleague contest Wednesday.
Quilcene 9, Darrington 0
Quilcene 0 1 1 0 2 5 0 — 9 14 2
Darrington 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 1 2
WP- Rae
Pitching Statistics
Quilcene: Rae 7 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 11 K.
Hitting Statistics
Quilcene: Rae 3-4, 2 2B, 2 RBI; Macedo 3-4, 2B, HR, 2 RBI; Bailey 3-4, Gray 2-4.
Boys Golf
Shea 14th at Egbers Memorial
BURLINGTON — Sequim’s Jack Shea had the North Olympic Peninsula’s best showing at the Bill Egbers Memorial, finishing tied for 14th at the prestigious event held at Skagit Golf & Country Club.
Shea, a junior, finished Friday with a 36-hole score of 9-over-par 153, which tied with two other golfers.
Shea shot a 78 in the morning round.
“He had two tough holes, in the first round,” Shea’s coach, father and caddie for the tournament Bill Shea said.
“He hit one wedge fat and ended up in the water and ended up with a triple. The other hole he hit out of bounds and had a triple.
“But he played the other 16 holes basically even-par.”
The younger Shea carded a four-over-par 75 in the afternoon round.
“While the kids are eating lunch the greens crew goes out and changes every tee box and every pin location and print out a new hole location for the kids,” Bill Shea said.
“It’s really impressive.”
Jack Shea made only one mistake in his second round, mistakenly playing the wrong ball and incurring a two-shot penalty.
“He just battled back parred the next and birdied the hole after that,” Bill Shea said.
Teammate Travis Priest missed the cut after shooting an 89.
Chimacum’s Jack Hilt also missed the cut with a round of 85.
Track and Field
Olympic League Championships
POULSBO — The Sequim boys track and field team put together the best North Olympic Peninsula performance at the Olympic League Championships.
The Wolves totaled 121.5 points, second only to host North Kitsap.
Port Angeles claimed fifth, Port Townsend sixth and Chimacum was 11th.
Alex Barry won the javelin after setting a personal record of 186 feet, 4 inches.
Barry’s throw is the longest in Class 2A this season by 8 feet.
Oscar Herrera won both hurdles events, claiming the 110-meter race in 15.15 seconds and the 300 in 39.08.
Herrera teamed with Miguel Moroles, Jason Springer and Logan Habner to win the 4×400 relay with a time of 3:27.40.
Josh Cibene was the Wolves other event winner, taking the pole vault after clearing 13 feet.
Peter Butler picked up the Roughriders lone boys event victory, taking the 3,200 in 10:09.91.
Matt Robbins finished second in the shot put for Port Angeles after a throw of 43-06.25.
Ryan Clarke helped the Redhawks to their sole event win, picking up first in the 1,600 in 4:23.53.
Brennan LaBrie was second for Port Townsend in the 800 after a time of 2:02.42.
Trevon Noel led the Cowboys with a second-place finish in the discus. He also placed fourth in the shot put.
Girls results
Sequim’s girls team finished third with 111.5 points, trailing first-place North Kitsap’s 160.5 and second-place Olympic’s 126.5.
Port Angeles came in fourth with 76 points, Chimacum was ninth with 14 edging Port Townsend with 12.
Waverly Shreffler turned in the best individual performance for the Wolves, winning the 800 in 2:25.84 and finishing second in the 400 in 1:01.19.
Shreffler teamed with Gretchen Happe, Mercedes Woods and Heidi Vereide to claim the 4×200 relay with a time of 1:48.26 and with Woods, Vereide and Megan Breckenridge to win the 4×400 relay in 4:14.55.
Alyse Armstrong had a pair of runner-up finishes in the high jump and pole vault to help Sequim.
Gracie Long won two long-distance events for the Riders, the 1,600 in 5:24.36 and the 3,200 with a time of 12:29.49.
Bailey Castillo won the javelin for the Cowboys after a season-best throw of 104-3.
Hannah Trailer was the highest-finishing Redhawk, ending up fourth in the 1,600.
Up next for each team: the Olympic League’s Class 1A and 2A Sub-District meet Saturday at Bremerton High School.
