SPORTS: Port Angeles volleyball team to play for perfect regular season and Olympic League crown; other prep reports

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles volleyball team is one win away from a perfect regular season and duplicating the last Roughrider team to win league and go undefeated in 1988.

The Riders (7-0, 13-0), after beating Kingston 3-0 on senior night Thursday, will travel to defending Olympic League champion North Kitsap (7-0, 11-1) for the league title Tuesday in the final regular-season match.

“That will be for all the tips,” Port Angeles coach Christine Halberg said.

The Riders tuned up for the showdown by beating the Buccaneers 25-10, 25-10, 25-18.

Kiah Jones sparked the Riders with 13 kills, five blocks and seven digs while setter Emily Drake dished out 30 assists and had nine digs and two aces.

Lauren Norton led the Riders with a match-high 11 digs. Danielle Rutherford had a team-best 27 of 28 serving with three aces and six kills.

Autumn Ruddick had six kills.

Forks 3, Rainier 1

RAINIER — The Spartans, tied for fourth and the final playoff spot in the SWL-Evergreen Division, remained in fourth with the 26-24, 25-14, 21-25, 25-19 victory Thursday.

Casey Williams was dominating with a season-beat 27 kills and eight blocks while Jillian Raben gave out 33 assists with four serving aces.

Forks has two matches left and next will host Hoquiam for senior night Tuesday. The two teams are tied for fourth.

Crescent 3,

Clallam Bay 0

CLALLAM BAY — The Loggers continue their quest of an undefeated North Olympic League season with the shutout of the Bruins on Thursday.

Crescent won 25-22, 25-19, 25-8 to improve to 5-0 in league and 11-1 overall.

“The Bruins played a good match,” Crescent coach Alex Baker said.

“We are picking up the pace each game, and that is good to see.”

All 11 Loggers got on the court, with many of them trying out different positions than they normally play.

“That is good experience for us, especially with districts and state coming up,” Baker said.

Five Loggers served 100 percent.

“Five out of nine served 100 percent, which is a good thing,” Baker said.

Senior outside hitter Sara Moore of Crescent was perfect serving at 16 of 16 and she had four aces. She also added seven kills at the net.

Jandi Frantz also had seven kills, and she contributed two blocks and a tip as well as going 5 for 5 serving with two aces.

Bonny Hazelett recorded six kills, and she was 10 of 11 serving with two aces.

Senior Jessica Criss was 4 of 4 serving with two kills.

The Loggers next host their own eight-team tournament Saturday and then host Neah Bay for senior night next Thursday after a bye Tuesday.

Olympic 3,

Sequim 1

SILVERDALE — The Wolves may have to advance through its 2A sub-district tournament the hard way after falling to the Trojans on Thursday night.

The loss puts Sequim into a tie for third place with Olympic in the Olympic League standings with one match left.

If everything stays as it is following Tuesday’s slate of matches, that would put the Wolves (5-3, 9-4) into a loser-out situation at sub-districts.

“We fell apart,” Sequim coach Jennie Webber-Heilman said.

“It was kind of at the net where everything seemed to be going wrong.”

Setter Taylor Balkan led the Wolves with 19-for-19 serving with three aces, 19 assists and six digs.

Libero Hannah Hudson added 16 perfect passes and 24 digs, while Haleigh Harrison had eight kills and four blocks and Kyla Martin seven perfect passes, two aces, four kills and two blocks.

Sequim hosts Klahowya next Tuesday in its senior night.

Girls Soccer

Napavine 6,

Forks 0

NAPAVINE — The youthful Spartans played their best game of the year Thursday against the team that was 1A state runner-up the past two years.

“We played extremely well,” coach Andrew Peterson said.

Winless Forks has six freshmen starting on its varsity team.

“We knew it would be a learning curve,” Peterson said. “We try to build on week by week.”

The Spartans next host Hoquiam in SWL-Evergreen Division action on Tuesday.

Port Angeles 2, Kingston 2

PORT ANGELES — The Roughriders solidified their 2A third place in the Olympic League with the tie Thursday on senior night.

“This was a great way for the seniors to end their careers at Civic Field,” coach Scott Moseley said.

Both Port Angeles goals were own goals on hard shots by Paxton Rodocker and Kaitlin Boston that reflected off Kingston players.

The last goal tied the game in the 70th minute on a Boston corner kick.

Goalkeeper Tiffany Tate and Rodocker were named co-defensive players of the game while Brittany McBride took offensive honors and Kathryn Moseley was picked as transition player.

The Riders, already in the postseason, concludes regular-season play at North Kitsap on Tuesday night.

North Kitsap 2, Port Townsend 1

PORT TOWNSEND — The Redskins couldn’t quite survive two early Delanee Niles goals in a narrow loss in their Olympic League finals Thursday night.

The defeat assures the Redskins (2-6-0, 5-9-0) of no better than a seventh-place finish in the league standings.

North Kitsap 2, Port Townsend 1

North Kitsap 2 0 — 2

Port Townsend 1 0 — 1

Scoring Summary

First half: 1, NK, Niles (Fisk) 6th min; 2, NK, Niles (Fisk) 25th; PT, McHugh 31st.

Second Half: No scoring.

Olympic 8,

Sequim 0

SEQUIM — The Trojans ended the Wolves’ playoff hopes with a first half offensive barrage Thursday.

Sequim (1-6-0, 2-11-0) ends its season with a home match against Klahowya on Tuesday.

Olympic 8, Sequim 0

Sequim 0 0 — 0

Olympic 7 1 — 8

Scoring Summary

First half: 1, Oly, Halstead (Tyner), 5th; 2, Oly, G. Tyner, 11th; 3, Oly, Halstead (Gentile), 14th; 4, Oly, Tyner (Halstead), 16th; 5, Oly, Morgan (Googe), 26th; 6, Oly, O’Leary, 33rd; 7, Oly, Morgan (O’Leary), 36th.

Second Half: 8, Oly, Tyner (Halstead), 54th.

Girls Swimming

PT 115,

Bremerton 55

PORT TOWNSEND — The Redskins went undefeated for the regular season and won the Olympic League for the first time since starting the sport up against 10 years ago after winning their final league meet Thursday.

Port Townsend finished 7-0 in league.

“The girls are over the moon,” coach Anji Scalf said.

“This was our team goal from the beginning of the season. I was a bit nervous to tell them that I thought we could beat Port Angeles since [the Riders] are such a huge, dominant team.

“But they believed me and worked their tails off for 10 weeks and it paid off.

“Now we look for success in the postseason as well.”

Details of the meet were not available.

Port Angeles 128, North Kitsap 56

POULSBO — The Roughriders qualified for four new district events in the easy Olympic League romp Thursday.

Port Angeles finished the regular season 6-1 in league, taking second to Port Townsend, and 7-2 overall.

Junior Tracie Macias qualified for districts in the 100-yard backstroke as she qualified in all eight individual events for the second year in a row.

Her time was 1:07.73 as she took second place.

Teammate Kelly Winn also qualified in 100 back as she took third.

Other district qualifiers were Brooke Sires in the 500 freestyle (first) and Kelsey Macias in the 100 breaststroke (second).

Tarah Erickson was a double winner for the Riders as she took the 50 free and 100 free sprints.

Allison Hodgin finished undefeated in league in diving after taking first with 196.89 points.

Other winners were Kelsey Macias in 200 free, Kaitlin Fairchild in 100 butterfly and Ashlee Reid in 100 back.

The Riders won 10 of 12 events and now will host the league divisional meet Tuesday.

The divisional is the final time swimmers can qualify for districts. Divers also will be trying for district berths.

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