POULSBO — Cameron Braithwaite of Port Angeles was a double winner and earned field athlete of the meet honors at the Olympic League track and field championships at North Kitsap High School on Thursday and Saturday.
In addition, the Roughriders had two other boys and two girls win league titles while Class 1A athlete Laura Caballero of Port Townsend captured the girls high jump championship in mostly a 2A meet.
Braithwaite, who won the long jump Thursday and claimed the triple jump title Saturday, sparked the boys team to fifth place with 71 points.
The Rider girls also took fifth with 70 points.
Host North Kitsap captured both the boys and girls league titles.
Best field athlete
Braithwaite, a senior, earned one of the top honors of the competition as he was voted field athlete of the meet by the league’s head track coaches.
“Not only did Braithwaite win the triple jump, long jump and placed fourth in the javelin, he demonstrated outstanding sportsmanship along the way,” North Kitsap boys head coach Dave Snyder said.
“He was helping other athletes with encouragement, coaching them up in finding the board in their jumps, and applauding others’ efforts.
“He exemplifies the spirit of competition and sportsmanship we look for in high school athletics. He’s not even my athlete, but he’s a great kid.”
Braithwaite claimed first in the long jump with a 21-7.25 effort. On Saturday, Braithwaite captured first in the triple jump with a personal best jump of the year at 43-7.
Places in javelin
He ended his day with a fourth place in the javelin, throwing the stick 156-0.
Two other boys took first for the Riders.
Jordan Norberg was first in javelin with a mighty throw of 169-10.
Norberg also set a personal record for himself in the pole vault, clearing 11-6 for fourth place.
On Thursday, he cleared 5-2 for eighth place in the high jump.
Nick Shindler captured first place in the 3200 on Thursday in 9:57
He followed up that performance on Saturday with a second place in the 1600 in 4:33. He had fun clearing 9-0 in the pole vault for 10th place.
Junior Kyle Tupper, meanwhile, made the scoring stand with a seventh place in the 1600 at 4:40 and eighth place in the 3200 at 10:17.
On the girls side for the Riders, Katelyn Noard took first place in the javelin with a throw of 98-11.
She also claimed third place in the discus with a 84-4 effort.
Tarah Erickson captured first place in the pole vault at 9-0. Erickson also took seventh in the triple jump at 30-9.75.
Port Angeles sprinter Jolene Millsap took second in the 200 at 26.71 and fourth place in the 100 with a 13.25 effort.
Freshman Elyse Lovgren took fifth place in the 200 at 28.36 and sixth place in the 100 at 13.75.
Freshman Zoe Owens finished fifth in the 400 in 1:03.36 while fellow freshman Cami Raber continued her great season with a fourth place in shot put at 29-1.5.
One of the most impressive performances was a tie for first place in high jump by Port Townsend’s Caballero with a height of 4-10.
North Kitsap’s Havilah Criss and Kingston’s Sarah Wahl had the same height for a three-way tie.
The Redskins had some strong performances on the girls side with Marie Karlsen earning second in the 400 in 1:01.41 and third in long jump at 15-03.25, Jewel Johnson taking third in the 200 in 27.32 and Brittany Grant claiming third in the 1600 in 5:26.13.
The Sequim girls also had some top-three finishes as Sarah Hutchison claimed two second-place finishes, including in pole vault on Thursday with a height of 8.0 and in the 300 hurdles on Saturday with a time of 48.44.
Hutchison also captured third place in the 100-meter hurdles in 17.47.
On the boys side, Sequim received strong performances from Jayson Brocklesby and Emanuel Herrera.
Brocklesby won a league title Thursday in high jump with a leap of 6-2 and he also was third in the 100 in 11.57 and the 200 in 22.74 on Saturday.
Herrera, meanwhile, took second in the 110 hurdles in 16.32 and second in the 300 hurdles in 40.68.
In addition, the Sequim boys 4×100 relay team claimed second in 44.39 with Brocklesby, Hamish Peers, Dylan Chatters and Herrera.
The Port Angeles boys 4×400 relay captured third in 3:41.35 with Shindler, Tupper, Brendon Dennis and Tony Dalgardno.
Also, Port Townsend’s Chad Smith was second in long jump with a mark of 19-4 on Thursday.
Next up is the Olympic League 2A sub-district track meet this coming Saturday at the Port Angeles High School track.
Field events start at 11 a.m. with track events following.
The top eight athletes in Olympic League 2A compete for five allocations to the district championships set for Sumner High School on May 19-20.
Baseball
Sequim earns
sixth seed
ENUMCLAW — The Wolves captured the sixth seed for the district playoffs after beating Fife 8-5 but losing a heartbreaking 7-6 eight-inning game to Interlake in sub-district seeding games.
Both games were held Saturday at Enumclaw High School after the first game with Fife was rained out Friday.
In the first game against Fife, the Wolves exploded for seven runs in the top of the fourth inning to blow it open.
Fife had a 2-0 lead at the time but never recovered.
Nick Johnston and Jake Hudson combined to pitch a seven-hitter while Tyler Campbell had the big hit, a three-RBI home run in that fateful fourth inning.
Karsten Wake went 3 for 4 with two RBIs while Hudson was 2 for 3 and he was issued a walk.
Sequim 8, Fife 5
Sequim 0 0 0 7 0 1 0 — 8 13 1
Fife 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 — 5 7 0
WP- Johnston; LP- Harkness
Pitching Statistics
Sequim: Johnston 4 IP; Hudson 3 IP.
Fife: Harkness 7 IP.
Hitting Statistics
Sequim: Wake 3-4, 2 RBIs; Campbell 1-4, HR, 3 RBIs; Hudson 2-3, BB.
Fife: Sagundes 2-3, 2 RBIs.
PA captures
fourth seed
BREMERTON — The Roughriders claimed the fourth seed for the district playoffs after losing two close seeding games at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds.
Port Angeles lost 4-2 to White River on Friday and then lost 3-2 to Olympic League champion North Kitsap in the second game Saturday.
The Vikings (14-7) won in the bottom of the seventh inning on a one-out RBI-double by Andrew Urquhart.
The Riders (12-8) received six strong innings of pitching from Wesley Giddings, who allowed two runs on five hits in six innings.
Easton Napiontek went 2 for 3 in the game while Cole Uvila was 2 for 4.
The Riders next will play Wednesday at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds.
North Kitsap 3, Port Angeles 2
Port Angeles 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 — 2 7 4
North Kitsap 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 — 3 5 3
WP- LP- Reandeau
Pitching Statistics
Port Angeles: Giddings 6 IP, 2 R, 5 H, K, B; Reandeau 1/3 IP, R, 2 H, K.
Hitting Statistics
Port Angeles: Napiontek 2-3, R, SB, BB; Uvila 2-4.
Softball
Port Townsend 16, Quilcene 15
PORT TOWNSEND — The 1B Rangers gave the 1A Redskins all they could handle in the nonleague game Saturday.
It took Port Townsend nine innings to beat their Jefferson County rivals.
The teams were knotted 7-7 after two innings and 11-all after five innings before the Rangers took a 15-11 lead at the top of the seventh.
The Redskins scored four runs of their own in the bottom of the seventh to keep the game going.
Defensive mistakes ended up being too costly for the Rangers to hang on.
Freshman pitchers Megan Lee of Port Townsend and Sammy Rae of Quilcene went toe-to-toe most of the game.
Gen Polizzi started on the mound for the Redskins but went to shortstop in the second after twisting an ankle on a play.
Rae struck out 13 and walked five in nine innings while Lee had six strikeouts and five walks in eight innings.
Baili Shaw led the Redskins at the plate with two hits, including a triple, and had three RBIs.
Natalee Taylor earned five hits in nine innings for the Redskins while Polizzi had three hits, including a double, with an RBI and Lee had three hits and two RBIs.
For Quilcene, Megan Weller went 1 for 2 with a double, four runs scored, three stolen bases and four walks while Kelsy Hughes went 3 for 6 with two runs and Rae was 3 for 4 with a double, a stolen base and two walks.
Also, Patrice Beringer was 4 for 5 with a double, two stolen bases and a run and Andrea Perez scored three runs while stealing a base.
The Rangers, now 6-3 overall and 5-0 in the Sea-Tac League, next play a doubleheader at Muckleshoot today, host Chief Leschi on Tuesday and play at Tacoma Baptist on Thursday.
Port Townsend 16, Quilcene 15
Quilcene 1 6 0 2 2 4 0 0 0— 15 15
Port Townsend 2 5 1 1 2 0 4 0 1— 16 18
WP- Lee; LP- Rae
Pitching Statistics
Quilcene: Rae 9 IP, 13 K, 5 BB.
Port Townsend: Polizzi 1 IP, K, 3 BB; Lee 8 IP, 6 K, 5 BB.
Hitting Statistics
Quilcene: Weller 1-2, 2B, 4 R, 3 SB, 4 BB; Perez 1-4, 3 R, SB, 2 BB; Hughes 3-6, 2 R; Rae 3-4, 2B, SB, 2 BB; Beringer 4-5, 2B, R, 2 SB, BB; Sitthisin 1-4, R, SB; Drew 2-5, R.
Port Townsend: Shaw 2 H, 3B, 3 RBIs; Taylor 5 H; Polizzi, 3 H, 2B, RBI; Lee 3 H, 2 RBIs; Whipple 2 H.