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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

James Baker of Longview stalls out his nitrous oxide charged ‘76 Blazer in a race against Ethan Newman of Quilcene in his Chevy 350-powered 1980 Toyota pickup during the mud drags at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds on Sunday. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)

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MUD DRAGS: Jefferson County Fair wraps with muddy mayhem

James Baker of Longview stalls out his nitrous oxide charged ‘76 Blazer in a race against Ethan Newman…

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AREA SPORTS: Deer Run 5K on Naval Magazine Indian Island set Saturday

Chance to run or walk on closed Naval base

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AREA SPORTS: Registration open for fall adult soccer, volleyball leagues offered by Peninsula College

Pickup basketball also set for noon at PC this fall

Western Washington Athletics Sequim’s Claire Henninger was recently named the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Defender of the Year and a first-team all-conference selection for her performance as Western Washington’s goalkeeper in voting held by league coaches.

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WOMEN’S SOCCER: Sequim’s Claire Henninger signs to play for Portuguese pro team

BELLINGHAM — After an All-League career for the Sequim Wolves followed by an NCAA national championship with Western…

Airstream, a tiny snail named for the home on her back, bursts across the finish in a record run of less than four minutes in one of the early heats of the annual Joyce Daze slug races. (Sam Nugent)

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JOYCE DAZE: Gary shows his fury at annual slug races

JOYCE — It doesn’t get more exciting than this.

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Cedars at Dungeness golf women compete

SEQUIM — A total of 11 women from the Cedars at Dungeness Women’s Golf Association competed in the…

A cyclist takes a photo of his friend during the Ride the Hurricane up Hurricane Ridge Road on Sunday morning. More than 800 cyclists from Canada and the U.S. participated in this year's 17-mile-long ride. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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RIDE THE HURRICANE: More than 800 cycle to Hurricane Ridge

A cyclist takes a photo of his friend during the Ride the Hurricane up Hurricane Ridge Road on…

The Port Angeles Youth Baseball team's Liam "Frosty" Grice comes home to score on a groundout during the 25th annual Dick Brown tournament at the Lincoln Park ballfields Saturday. A total of 12 teams attended the tournament for 18 games over two days. (Pierre LaBossiere/Peninsula Daily News)

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STANDALONE PHOTO: Dick Brown tournament’s silver anniversary

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Photo courtesy of Turella family / Sequim's Clare Turella celebrates a 17th place finish in the high jump at the USA Track & Field National Junior Olympic Championships in Texas on July 25.

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AREA SPORTS: Sequim’s Turella competes at Texas A&M in Junior Olympics

Turella competes at Texas A&M in Junior Olympics

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COLLEGE & OLYMPICS: Sequim grad Ruby Coulson starts journey as Stanford Tree mascot at Paris Olympics

Will perform at Cardinal football and basketball games starting Aug. 30

Courtesy Eastern Washington Athletics Forks' Luke Dahlgren, second from right, shown during a pregame coin flip during the 2023 season, has been selected as a captain for the second straight season for the Eastern Washington football team.

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL: Forks’ Luke Dahlgren an Eastern Washington captain for second straight season

Grad student also a four-time All-Big Sky Conference Academic Team pick

Port Angeles Roughriders football players were treated to an evening on the water at the Lake Sutherland home of Bruce and Kathy Skinner on Tuesday. Watersports equipment was donated by Lake Sutherland Watersports' Nick Lenicka. Prep football practices begin Aug. 21 statewide with the remainder of fall sports starting Aug. 26.

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AREA SPORTS: Rivals youth football registration Aug. 8 and 10 in Chimacum

Rivals football registration set Aug. 8 &10

Wilder Senior's Braydan White slides underneath the West Plains Cannons catcher at Civic Field on Monday night, tagging up and trying to score on a fly ball. White was called out at home. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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AMERICAN LEGION STATE TOURNEY: Wilder Senior racks up hits, but falls to Cannons

PORT ANGELES — Wilder Senior had its chances, stranding five runners on base in the fifth and sixth…

The North Olympic Cap Ripken team won the state 12 and under championship this summer in Wenatchee then finished third at regionals. From left, front row, are Julian Dominguez, Noah Kiser, Coleman Keate and Kade Johnstad. From left, second row, are Jay Lieberman, Kyler Williams, Brycen Allen, Cooper Merritt, Gavin Doyle, Jacob Kinzey, Drake Spence, Liam Shea and Carson Greenstreet. From left, back row, are coaches Brian Greenstreet, Evan Kiser, Tyril Spence, Riley Shea and manager Rob Merritt. (Courtesy of Rob Merritt)

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CAL RIPKEN BASEBALL: North Olympic 12U team third at regionals

MERIDIAN, Idaho — Going up against squads from big communities in four states, the North Olympic 12U Cal…

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Olympic Peninsula seniors win gold, silver medals

TUMWATER — Three Olympic Peninsula seniors won 16 medals at the state Seniors Track and Field championships last…

An umpire gives an emphatic out sign as Wilder Senior shortstop Alex Angevine applies a tag to a Twin-Cities Titans player at second base in Sunday night’s AAA state tournament game at Civic Field. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

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AMERICAN LEGION: Wilder overwhelmed by Twin-Cities late

Seniors still alive in state tournament

Dan Morrison and Sami Gustafson of Port Angeles-based Wicked Racing dominated the ASBR Stihl unlimited class at Extreme Sports Park this weekend. (Jeff Halstead/for Peninsula Daily News)

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SPRINT BOATS: Wicked Racing cooks at home

PORT ANGELES — The racing was loud and the spills spectacular at this weekend’s American Sprint Boat Racing…