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AREA SPORTS: Momentum One Volleyball Academy hosts travel team tryouts Saturday for U12-U14

U15-U18 tryouts set Nov. 23

Nicholas Lyne of Victoria, B.C., competes in the Last Man Standing competition at the Salt Creek 24 this weekend. (Jesse Major Photography/Peninsula Adventure Sports)

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SALT CREEK 24: Records fall despite high winds

PORT ANGELES — The winds howled but records still fell at this year’s Salt Creek 24 endurance race…

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Sequim’s Wagner named athlete of the week at VIU

NANAIMO — Former Sequim High School and Peninsula College soccer star Hannah Wagner was named the Pacific Western…

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Salt Creek 24 seeks volunteers

PORT ANGELES — There is still time to sign up for the Salt Creek 24 race to be…

Corban College's Jack Gladfelter, left and The Evergreen State College's Max Baeder, right, after competing in the Charles Bowles Cross-Country Invitational in Salem, Ore., last week. (Joe Gladfelter)

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Gladfelter sixth at Charles Bowles Invite

SALEM, Ore. — Port Angeles graduate Jack Gladfelter improved on his time in the 50th running of the…

Runners begin heading up the hill between the starting line and the McFee Tunnell at the Spruce Railroad Trail run Saturday. (Pierre LaBossiere/Peninsula Daily News).

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RUN THE PENINSULA: It was a family affair at Spruce Railroad Run

LAKE CRESCENT — The second Spruce Railroad Trail Run went off without a hitch and it was a…

Competitors in the first Spruce Railroad Trail 5K/10K in 2024 run down a leaf-covered path along Lake Crescent. (Matt Sagen/Cascadia Films)

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RUN THE PENINSULA: Spruce Railroad 5K/10K coming up Saturday

PORT ANGELES — There is still space available for entrants in the second annual Spruce Railroad 5K and…

Kids compete on rowing machines at the Peninsula College campus as part of the Little Hurt on Sunday. The Little Hurt encourages youths from first through eighth grades to try different disciplines of running, cycling and rowing in conjunction with Peninsula Adventure Sport's Big Hurt on the same weekend. Full names of winner are not available for kids under 13, but the seventh- eighth-grade winner was Levi Simoneau of Port Angeles. A total of 84 kids participated in the event. (Rick Ross/Peninsula College)

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PENINSULA ADVENTURE SPORTs: 84 kids participate in Little Hurt

Kids compete on rowing machines at the Peninsula College campus as part of the Little Hurt on Sunday.…

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Big Hurt iron man competitor Joey Gish of Sequim races through the transfer zone on the way to his kayak after finishing the mountain bike leg of the race in first place on Saturday at Pebble Beach Park in Port Angeles. Gish finished second in the iron division in the 2024 Big Hurt

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BIG HURT: Team and individual races come down to tight duels

PORT ANGELES — In a very close finish for such a long endurance race, the team of Senior…

For the first time in Washington prep history, the Port-Angeles/Mount Baker game Sept. 5 was offiiciated by an all-woman crew. The officials were referee Kaila Olin, umpire Molly Mahan, back judge Shailah Wood, line judge Maggie Wright and head linesperson Rainee Signor. (Courtesy photo)

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: All-woman officiating crew made history at Civic Field

PORT ANGELES — For people attending the Port Angeles game against Mount Baker on Sept. 5, you quietly…

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Bridge closure prompts changes to prep schedules

PORT ANGELES — Because of today’s closure of the Hood Canal Bridge, four games in Sequim and Port…

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Camas Prairie Open to be held this weekend

PORT TOWNSEND — The Camas Prairie Open Championship will be held Saturday and Sunday with awards for gross…

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: JeffCo ski, snowboard program opens registration

PORT TOWNSEND — Salish Snow Sports, a new ski and snowboard program for Jefferson County youths, is bringing…

Port Townsend’s “Wonderquad,” sculling in a quad, took the top prize in the 5K rowing and paddling race at Sequim Bay Yacht Club’s annual Reach and Row for Hospice benefit this weekend. Team members are Kathleen Wood-Smith, David Winters, Ron Moller and Amy Grace.

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Reach and Row for Hospice races raise $2,835

SEQUIM — Saturday’s rowing and paddling race that kicks off Sequim Bay Yacht Club’s annual Reach and Row…

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Wrestling documentary to be shown in Port Townsend

PORT TOWNSEND — A documentary on the East Jefferson wrestling program will be shown at Port Townsend High…

Roman Kirkov of Chehalis, here running in 2024, won his wave of the half-marathon at this weekends Great Olympic Adventure Trail run for the third straight year. He took first overall in the half-marathon by 18 minutes. (Matt Sagen/Cascadia Films)

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PENINSULA ADVENTURE SPORTS: 270 runners conquer the GOAT

PORT ANGELES — Nearly 270 hardy athletes took on the forests and mountains surrounding Lake Crescent this weekend…

The Jolly Rogers 180 boat driven by Eric Werner and navigated by Jen Farmer, here racing in Port Angeles in July, won the 400 class at the American Sprint Boat Race event held this weekend at the Extreme Sports Park. It was the fifth race that the Jolly Rogers 180 boat won this summer. (Jeff Halstead/for Peninsula Daily News)

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EXTREME SPORTS PARK: Pair of five-time champions crowned

PORT ANGELES — There were five-time winners in two classes at the American Sprint Boat Racing Series which…

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The Port Angeles-based Wicked Racing team of driver Dan Morrison and navigator Cody Catract make a qualifying run on Saturday on their home course of Extreme Sports Park.

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SPRINT BOATS: Wicked Racing driver Dan Morrison calls it a career, last laps this weekend

Sprint boat races will continue at ESP

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AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Marine Area 3 to close to all salmon fishing Tuesday

OLYMPIA — The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has closed Marine Area 3 (La Push) to salmon…

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AREA SPORTS: Cedars Women’s group gets selective, YMCA Youth Hoops registration

Cedars ladies get Selective as part of weekly game