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The Jeepers Creepers boat driven by Dillon Cummings of Sequim with navigator Mike McAneny makes its way through the course at the Extreme Sports Park in Port Angeles on Saturday. The finals of the sprint boat racing took place Sunday. (Jeff Halstead/for Peninsula Daily News)

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SPRINT BOATS: Loud and fast boats back this weekend

The Jeepers Creepers boat driven by Dillon Cummings of Sequim, with navigator Mike McAneny, makes its way through…

Lincoln Park BMX Track riders earned 44 state plates at the Washington State BMX Finals held last weekend at Spokane BMX.

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AREA SPORTS: Lincoln Park BMXers earn 44 state plates at BMX State Championships

Lincoln Park BMX racers earn 44 state plates

Kaiden Silva of Bellingham rides in the boys U7 category in the second running of the NW Cup at Dry Hill in May. The championship of the seven-race NW Cup series will be held Sunday at Dry Hill, one of three major sporting/outdoor events on the Peninsula this weekend. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Mountain bikes, sprint boats and runners to hit Peninsula

Separate events expected to bring hundreds of athletes, spectators to town

Nearly two dozen Port Townsend High School and Blue Heron Middle School students wrapped a summer of five-times-a-week weight training and beach conditioning sessions with five-time national bench press champion Brooks Kubik. From left, Kaleb Kruse, Asher Little, Silas Morford, Luke O'hara, Layton Lopeman, Django Lynge, Bryce Harbin, Grady White, Rylen Kruse, Levi Donahue, Manaseh Lanphear Ramirez. Front row from left to right: Victor Paz, Carlos Diaz, Grace Ayer, Maddie Vanags, Mi Amada Lanphear Ramirez, Ursula Schmidt, Zinnia Blatchley, Natalie Hollow-Bist, Finn Evans and Robin Evans. Not pictured: Simon Klontz and Jonah Temple.

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PREPS: Port Townsend student-athletes complete summer weight training program

PORT TOWNSEND — The accomplishments of a committed crop of Port Townsend youth athletes were recently celebrated at…

The Bad Influence 156 boat out of oregon competes at the Extreme Sports Park on July 27. The sprint boats are returning for another weekend of racing beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday. It's part of a very busy weekend of sports with prep football beginning Friday, the NW Cup Downhill bike races all weekend at Dry Hill and the GOAT endurance run. (Jeff Halstead/for Peninsula Daily News)

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Busy weekend for sports approaches

The Bad Influence 156 boat out of Oregon competes at the Extreme Sports Park on July 27. The…

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AREA SPORTS: PAHS boys basketball raffling firewood cords

PC offering fall soccer, volleyball

Calvin Colander of Bellingham-based Team Improbability Drive heads for the handoff after finishing the mountain bike leg of the 2023 Big Hurt in Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

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PENINSULA ADVENTURE SPORTS: Big Hurt registration open; prices increase Sept. 1

PORT ANGELES — Athletes must register by Monday if they want to take advantage of lower prices for…

Master Alan Lindwall (in black, rear), head instructor for Seibu Ryu sword school of Iai-battojitsu of Seattle, spent Saturday at White Crane Martial Arts in downtown Port Angeles, teaching a seminar of the Japanese sword arts to the Gumdo class that practices the Korean sword arts with Grandmaster Robert Nicholls (black and gold trim, rear). The class is held at 5 p.m. Tuesdays at the dojang. (Courtesy photo)

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Japanese sword arts seminar at White Crane

Master Alan Lindwall (in black, rear), head instructor for Seibu Ryu sword school of Iai-battojitsu of Seattle, spent…

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Emma Gulley, 14, of Roy takes her turn in the senior girls breakaway during Saturday's Port Angeles Junior Rodeo at the Clallam County Fairgrounds. The event brought youth competitors from across Western Washington for two days of rodeo competition.

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JUNIOR RODEO: Rope ‘em, Cowgirls

Above: Emma Gulley, 14, of Roy takes her turn in the senior girls breakaway during Saturday’s Port Angeles…

Matt Dryke, 1984 Olympic Games gold medal winner (skeet shooting), joins his wife Yvonne and daughter Ellen at the opening of the new Sequim Museum & Arts building in July 2019. A section of the museum details Dryke's storied career in the sport. Sequim Gazette file photo by Michael Dashiell

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SHOOTING SPORTS: Sequim Olympic Gold Medalist Matt Dryke gets his day Sept. 13

Celebrated by Sequim Museum & Arts

The Cedars at Dungeness Men’s Club champions are four-time defending Gross champ Jeff Jones, left, and Rick Towery (Net).

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AREA SPORTS: Jeff Jones wins 4th straight Cedars at Dungeness Men’s Club title

Sequim’s Linda Hash wins Super Senior Amateur

Courtesy of OPRA Noah Oberly and Cooper Disque eye the turn buoy in Port Angeles Harbor as they get ready to head back to shore.

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ROWING: OPRA members shine at home beach sprint regatta

PORT ANGELES — The Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association hosted its second annual beach sprint regatta on Hollywood Beach…

Ryan Petty, No. 95, crashes into Brandon Rutherford during the 2024 Demo Derby at the Clallam County Fair this weekend. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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CLALLAM COUNTY FAIR: Demolition derby gets airborne

Ryan Petty, No. 95, crashes into Brandon Rutherford, lifting his car off the ground during the 2024 Demo…

Left, Robin Mather, a member of the Port Angeles cross-country teams between 1982-1985 and Burdette Greeny, a baseball player for the Roughriders who graduated in 1993, were among the 2024 inductees at the annual Port Angeles Roughrider Hall of Fame ceremony. Mather went in as a team member while Greeny as an individual. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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PORT ANGELES HALL OF FAME: Special place creates special athletes

Inductees talk about community and humility

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Patrick Mahoney of Raymond takes aim at his wooden target during the springboard chop competition during Saturday's logging show in the grandstands arena of the Clallam County Fair in Port Angeles. Mahoney went on to win the event against two other competetors.

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CLALLAM COUNTY FAIR: Hack attack at logging show

KEITH THORPE/PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Patrick Mahoney of Raymond takes aim at his wooden target during the springboard chop…

Pierre LaBossiere on the summit of The Whistlers in Jasper National Park in 2023. (PIerre LaBossiere/Peninsula Daily News)

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PIERRE LaBOSSIERE COLUMN: Mountain town of Jasper is near and dear to my heart

PORT ANGELES — This was a depressing past couple of weeks for me.

Clallam County Orca athletes from Sequim and Port Angeles competed against athletes from Anacortes, Bremerton, North Sound and Whidbey Island in the Bocce tournament on Whidbey Island last week, as the Clallam County athletes came home with gold and silver medals. The Orcas extend a special thank-you to Whidbey Island Special Olympics for its hospitality in hosting the Tournament. (Courtesy photo)

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AREA SPORTS PHOTO: Clallam Special Olympics team wins medals

Clallam County Orca athletes from Sequim and Port Angeles competed against athletes from Anacortes, Bremerton, North Sound and…

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Area pickleball athletes win medals at senior games

LACEY — Several Olympic Peninsula senior athletes won silver and gold medals in pickleball at the Washington State…

Barry Wilcox winning his bronze medal at the para-cycling world championships in Glasgow, Scotland in 2023. (Casey Gibson/USOPC)

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PORT ANGELES ROUGHRIDER HALL OF FAME: Riders’ Barry Wilcox back in the saddle

Suffered major spinal cord injury in traffic accident, now races in para-cycling

Sequim’s Riley Pyeatt with her high school coach Brad Moore at Sequim’s new track surface earlier this month. Pyeatt just signed a scholarship to run track and field for Washington State as both her and Moore are now proud Cougars. (Tracie Pyeatt)

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COLLEGE ATHLETICS: Sequim’s Riley Pyeatt returns to the Pacific Northwest

Track star for the Wolves will now run for Washington State