PORT ANGELES — Franklin Pierce’s speed was too much for Port Angeles in a Class 2A boys basketball sub-district seeding playoff game Thursday night.
Franklin Pierce nipped the Roughriders 49-43 after trailing 19-17 at halftime.
“Their quickness caused us problems and we weren’t aggressive but we will be OK,” Port Angeles coach Wes Armstrong said.
The Riders now go into a seeding game for seventh-eighth seeds into the West Central District championships with Olympic of Silverdale at North Kitsap High School in Poulsbo on Saturday at 4 p.m.
Ian Ward led everybody with 15 points while Hayden McCartney sank 10.
Anthony Bowden had a team-high 14 points for Franklin Pierce while Jamar Murray added 10.
Ward also had eight rebounds for Port Angeles.
“Ian Ward played really well,” Armstrong said.
Franklin Pierce 49, Port Angeles 43
Franklin Pierce 8 9 15 17 — 49
Port Angeles 9 10 12 13 — 43
Individual Scoring
Franklin Pierce (49)
Murray 10, Bowden 14, Hogan 6, Mims 2, Dupress 3, Benton 8, Woodring 6.
Port Angeles (43)
Phair 1, Morgan 3, Braithwaite 2, Walker 2, Antioquia 3, Ward 15, Wheeler 5, McCartney 10, Smith 2.
Sequim 61, Evergreen 60
SEQUIM — Kenny Meier scored with five seconds left to lift the Wolves to a sub-district Class 2A loser-out game Thursday night.
The Wolves now play White River in the sub-district playoffs at North Kitsap High School in Poulsbo at 2 p.m.
Jason Brocklesby led the Wolves with 17 points. Dave Corbin Webb added 16 while Dave Carter dropped in 15.
Girls Basketball Quilcene 30, Clallam Bay 27
QUILCENE — The Rangers held off the Bruins in a well-matched game in a tri-district loser-out pigtail game Thursday night.
Youthful Clallam Bay, with just one senior, played with senior-dominated Quilcene the whole way and ended the season with a 10-8 overall record.
“We wanted to finish with a winning record and get into the playoffs, and that’s what we did,” Clallam Bay coach Kelly Gregory said.
“We just came up short. We almost caught them at the end. Quilcene played tough in their environment and on their court.”
The Bruins led 6-4 in the first but the Rangers took the lead 13-12 at halftime.
Quilcene kept the lead in the third quarter, 22-16, and held off a rally by the Bruins in the fourth.
Sarah Bacchus of Quilcene led everybody with 13 points while Jazzmin Randall had a team-high 10 for Clallam Bay.
Bacchus sank three 3-pointers in the game.
The Bruins were strong on the boards with Melissa Willis leading with 11 rebounds while Randall and Kirstin Erickson had 10 each.
Erickson is the lone senior for the Bruins. They had one eighth grader starting on the varsity team and two were coming off the bench.
“It will take us a couple of years to get to where we want to be,” Gregory said.
Quilcene 30, Clallam Bay 27
Clallam Bay 6 6 4 11 — 27
Quilcene 4 9 9 8 — 30
Individual Scoring
Clallam Bay (27)
Willis 5, Randall 10, K. Erickson 3, Parker 8, Welever 1.
Quilcene (30)
Kaiser 7, Perez 2, Bacchus 13, Weed 6, Turley 2.
Sumner 52, Port Angeles 41
TUKWILA — The Roughriders lost a Class 2A sub-district seeding game to Sumner on Thursday night.
Kia Jones led the Riders with 13 points while shooting superstar Jessica Madison was held to nine points after being double-teamed all night.
Port Angeles advances to play Foster on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. in Tukwila.
Boys Swimming PA at districts
RENTON — The Roughriders are advancing 12 individuals and three relay teams to the West Central District finals Saturday at Hazen High School.
The top 12 individuals advanced to the finals from Thursdays preliminaries.
A diver and two swimmers finished in the top three for the Riders including diver Austin Fahrenholtz, who captured first place in the preliminaries.
Other divers moving on are Sam Beasley, who took sixth, and Philip Scott in ninth place.
Charlie Parks had the second-best time in the 200-yard individual medley in 2:14.50 while Tyler Burke claimed third in the 100 backstroke in 58.06 seconds.
Other individuals qualifying for the finals were C.J. Urnes, sixth in the 200 freestyle and seventh in 500 free, Avery Koehler, eighth in 200 IM, Burke, eighth in 50 free, Tarren Grimsley, 11th in 100 back, Parks, fourth in 100 breaststroke (1:10.79) and Matt Watkins, ninth in 100 breast.
Relay teams advancing were the 200 medley relay, fifth with Burke, Parks, Koehler and Watkins; the 200 free relay, 11th with Kris Wannquist, Watkins, Connor Reid and Beasley; and the 400 free relay, fifth with Koehler, Urnes, Parks and Burke.