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Bailey Johnson, Forks basketball.

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Bailey Johnson, Forks basketball

Forks’ Bailey Johnson is getting red-hot at the perfect time of the year for the Spartans. Johnson showed the kind of explosive scoring she is… Continue reading

 

Left, the Port Angeles boys 200 freestyle relay team came in second at the West Central District III championships this weekend. Clockwise from top left are Finn Thompson, Patrick Ross, Miles Van Denburg and Thomas Jones. At right, Port Angeles’ Grant Butterworth won the West Central District III diving championship this weekend. (Port Angeles Swim Team)

PREP DISTRICT SWIMMING: Port Angeles boys finish third

Grant Butterworth wins district diving title

 

The East Jefferson girls basketball team celebrates their district playoff win over Cascade Christian on Saturday in a game that the Rivals trailed by nine points in the fourth quarter. The win also assures the Rivals a winning season. (East Jefferson girls basketball)

PREP BASKETBALL RECAP: Peninsula teams prevail in must-win games

The Port Angeles boys, Forks boys and girls and East Jefferson girls basketball teams all came out on top in must-win playoff games… Continue reading

The East Jefferson girls basketball team celebrates their district playoff win over Cascade Christian on Saturday in a game that the Rivals trailed by nine points in the fourth quarter. The win also assures the Rivals a winning season. (East Jefferson girls basketball)
The Port Angeles and Sequim gymnastics teams competed at the District 3 meet this weekend. From left are head coach Elizabeth DeFrang, Lillian Sutherland, Lexi Possinger, Denise Galvan, Amelie Martin (Sequim), Lucy Spelker (Sequim), Shavari Epps, Ryah Deleon, Mya Callie and assistant coach Laura Rooney.

GYMNASTICS: Port Angeles and Sequim will send two gymnasts to state

Two members of the Port Angeles/Sequim gymnastics team qualified to move on to the state championships thanks to their performances at the District… Continue reading

The Port Angeles and Sequim gymnastics teams competed at the District 3 meet this weekend. From left are head coach Elizabeth DeFrang, Lillian Sutherland, Lexi Possinger, Denise Galvan, Amelie Martin (Sequim), Lucy Spelker (Sequim), Shavari Epps, Ryah Deleon, Mya Callie and assistant coach Laura Rooney.
Forks, East Jefferson

GIRLS BASKETBALL: Forks, East Jefferson win postseason games

Spartans’ Bailey Johnson scores 37

Forks, East Jefferson

DISTRICT WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIPS: Forks girls second, Sequim boys third at district

The Forks girls wrestling team finished a close second to 1A Montesano in the District 4 1B/2B/1A wrestling tournament. The Spartans finished with… Continue reading

Port Angeles Roughriders
Port Angeles Roughriders
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Sequim’s Solomon Sheppard is surrounded in the paint by three Bremerton basketball players during a contest Monday at Rick Kaps Gymnasium.

PREP BASKETBALL: Sequim boys fall to Bremerton, will take No. 3 seed into district tourney

Bremerton and Sequim produced another thrilling boys basketball contest, the second in three days, with the Knights taking down the Wolves 77-67 in… Continue reading

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Sequim’s Solomon Sheppard is surrounded in the paint by three Bremerton basketball players during a contest Monday at Rick Kaps Gymnasium.
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Peninsula College's Carliese O'Brien drives the lane during the Pirates' 63-41 NWAC North Division victory over the Bellevue Bulldogs. Teammate Makena Patrick is at left.
Jay Cline/Peninsula College Athletics 
Peninsula College's Carliese O'Brien drives the lane during the Pirates' 63-41 NWAC North Division victory over the Bellevue Bulldogs. Teammate Makena Patrick is at left.
East Jefferson

PREP BASKETBALL ROUNDUP: East Jefferson girls win to lock up .500 season

Forks girls lose playoff opener; play again tonight

East Jefferson
Sequim's Jericho Julmist drives to the basket against Bremerton in Sequim on Monday night. In on the play is Sequim's Zeke Schmadeke. Sequim won 66-61 to earn a share of the Olympic League title. (Emily Mathiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

BOYS PREP BASKETBALL: Big night for Sequim and Port Angeles

Wolves earn share of league title; Riders punch postseason ticket with win

Sequim's Jericho Julmist drives to the basket against Bremerton in Sequim on Monday night. In on the play is Sequim's Zeke Schmadeke. Sequim won 66-61 to earn a share of the Olympic League title. (Emily Mathiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
Port angeles roughriders
Port angeles roughriders
Sequim Wolves

PREP BASKETBALL: Sequim boys earn share of Olympic League title

The Sequim boys basketball team overcame a hot-shooting Bremerton squad with a furious comeback in the final 3 minutes, 18 seconds of a… Continue reading

Sequim Wolves
Sequim’s Gracie Chartraw dribbles against North Kitsap on Friday in the Wolves’ final home game of the year. (Emily Mathiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)

PREP BASKETBALL RECAP: Sequim boys, PA girls victories set up huge games

Snow and icy roads disrupted the basketball schedules of most of the teams on the Olympic Peninsula, but the teams got some… Continue reading

Sequim’s Gracie Chartraw dribbles against North Kitsap on Friday in the Wolves’ final home game of the year. (Emily Mathiessen/Olympic Peninsula News Group)
The Port Scandalous Roller Derby League begins Feb. 22 at the Sequim Boys & Girls Club.

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Roller derby season opener set for Feb. 22

The Port Scandalous Roller Derby League will begin with Port Scandalous taking on the Bellingham Roller Betties Feb. 22 at the Sequim… Continue reading

The Port Scandalous Roller Derby League begins Feb. 22 at the Sequim Boys & Girls Club.
Ethan Melnick, Sequim basketball.

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Ethan Melnick, Sequim basketball

Sequim has been getting big contributions all year from Solomon Sheppard and Jericho Julmist, but in the past month, the Wolves’ Ethan Melnick has been… Continue reading

Ethan Melnick, Sequim basketball.
The Forks boys wrestling team won its fifth straight District 4 championship this weekend. (Forks wrestling)

PREP WRESTLING: Forks boys, East Jefferson girls district champs

The Forks boys and East Jefferson girls both walked away this weekend with district wrestling championships. The Spartans were district champs for the… Continue reading

The Forks boys wrestling team won its fifth straight District 4 championship this weekend. (Forks wrestling)
Port Angeles Roughriders

STATE BOWLING CHAMPIONSHIPS: Port Angeles girls come in sixth in the state

In the Port Angeles girls bowling team’s first trip to state, the squad came in sixth among 12 schools. The Roughriders finished with… Continue reading

Port Angeles Roughriders
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Port Angeles' Cayleith Alward, top, passes over the head of Bremerton's Tiana Barber on Friday night on the Port Angeles home court.

GIRLS PREP BASKETBALL: Port Angeles in position for second with win

After a slow start that kept an outmatched Bremerton team in the game well into the third quarter, the Port Angeles girls… Continue reading

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Port Angeles' Cayleith Alward, top, passes over the head of Bremerton's Tiana Barber on Friday night on the Port Angeles home court.