Michael Carman

BOYS BASKETBALL: Port Angeles rally from deep hole falls just short

BOYS BASKETBALL: Port Angeles rally from deep hole falls just short

Port Angeles found itself tested early in its season opener and showed flashes of potential on both ends of the floor in… Continue reading

BOYS BASKETBALL: Port Angeles rally from deep hole falls just short
Port Angeles’ Gary Johnson passes off during the Port Angeles High School Jamboree Monday night. Pressuring on defense is Forks’ Cort Prose (13). Port Angeles won this game 24-16 as the jaboree also featured teams from Port Townsend and Chimacum. Prep basketball season is now underway as the Port Angeles boys played their first game of the year Tuesday against Bainbridge, while the Roughrider girls open up their season at 7 p.m. Wednesday with a home game against Bainbridge. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

CARMAN: What to watch for this prep hoops season

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL season tips off in earnest this week with nonleague action for most but not all of the 18 boys and girls basketball… Continue reading

Port Angeles’ Gary Johnson passes off during the Port Angeles High School Jamboree Monday night. Pressuring on defense is Forks’ Cort Prose (13). Port Angeles won this game 24-16 as the jaboree also featured teams from Port Townsend and Chimacum. Prep basketball season is now underway as the Port Angeles boys played their first game of the year Tuesday against Bainbridge, while the Roughrider girls open up their season at 7 p.m. Wednesday with a home game against Bainbridge. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Indoor soccer in Sequim; Peninsula men win

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Indoor soccer in Sequim; Peninsula men win

Registration is open for the fifth annual Sequim FC Indoor Soccer League. Due to limited space, registration… Continue reading

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Indoor soccer in Sequim; Peninsula men win
WRESTLING PREVIEW: Port Angeles grapplers have a new head coach

WRESTLING PREVIEW: Port Angeles grapplers have a new head coach

New Port Angeles wrestling head coach Rob Gale has hit the mat running in an effort to reach goals ranging from the… Continue reading

WRESTLING PREVIEW: Port Angeles grapplers have a new head coach

OUTDOORS: Halibut season nearly set

THE PACIFIC FISHERY Management Council met earlier this month in Costa Mesa, Calif., and Sequim’s Dave Croonquist, an avid fisherman and member of multiple angling-related… Continue reading

BASEBALL: Lefties 2018 schedule released

BASEBALL: Lefties 2018 schedule released

While the rains hammer home, visualize Civic Field on a warm July evening. That’s possible with the recent release of the West… Continue reading

BASEBALL: Lefties 2018 schedule released

OUTDOORS: Next round of razor clam digs set; state fishing records fall

WITH RISING RIVERS looking more like hot cocoa than fishable, only the hardiest or foolhardiest of anglers will be casting lines this holiday weekend. Alternative… Continue reading

GOLF: Apple Cup tourney Saturday at Peninsula Golf Club

COUGARS, HUSKIES AND golf combine Saturday morning at Peninsula Golf Club in Port Angeles for the club’s 26th annual Apple Cup Tournament. The two-person scramble… Continue reading

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Clallam Bay’s Wonderly heads up North Olympic League all-league volleyball team

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Clallam Bay’s Wonderly heads up North Olympic League all-league volleyball team

Clallam Bay junior Miriam Wonderly was voted Class 1B North Olympic League Volleyball MVP in… Continue reading

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Clallam Bay’s Wonderly heads up North Olympic League all-league volleyball team

PREP SPORTS: All-league football, soccer teams announced

Port Townsend senior offensive and defensive lineman Jackson Foster was selected to the Nisqually-Olympic League All-League Football Team’s first team in voting… Continue reading

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Spartans scrimmage/dinner tonight in Forks

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Spartans scrimmage/dinner tonight in Forks

The annual Forks High School Blue & Gold Spartan basketball scrimmage will occur today at the… Continue reading

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Spartans scrimmage/dinner tonight in Forks

OUTDOORS: Senator now chairs important natural resources committee

ONE OF OUR legislators now chairs the committee that oversees state Department of Fish and Wildlife-related affairs. Sen. Kevin Van De Wege, D-Sequim, was named… Continue reading

Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association rowers participating in the first-ever John Halberg Memorial Scrimmage. Back row, from left, coach Debby Swinford, Jake McGovern, Tyler Turner, Daniel Weaver Nathan Mishler, Emily Sirguy, Lisa Martin, coach Calum Swinford, Ella Ventura, Lica Kennedy and Adain Feingold. Front row, Sophia Groves, Harrison Fulton, Will Roening, Shannon Callahan, Veronica Kennedy and Jack Feingold.

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Green and White Day for Roughrider basketball

Port Angeles boys basketball will hold a Green and White Day season tipoff event at… Continue reading

Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association rowers participating in the first-ever John Halberg Memorial Scrimmage. Back row, from left, coach Debby Swinford, Jake McGovern, Tyler Turner, Daniel Weaver Nathan Mishler, Emily Sirguy, Lisa Martin, coach Calum Swinford, Ella Ventura, Lica Kennedy and Adain Feingold. Front row, Sophia Groves, Harrison Fulton, Will Roening, Shannon Callahan, Veronica Kennedy and Jack Feingold.

OUTDOORS: Credit card test for Hoko steelhead

EXPECT MORE UNCLIPPED steelhead to return to the Hoko River than normal this season and in coming seasons. Beginning today, the definition of hatchery steelhead… Continue reading

COLLEGE SOCCER: Peninsula women’s championship bid ends in overtime

COLLEGE SOCCER: Peninsula women’s championship bid ends in overtime

That’s the way the ball bounces. Peninsula’s bid for an undefeated season and a repeat Northwest Athletic Conference women’s soccer title ended abruptly… Continue reading

COLLEGE SOCCER: Peninsula women’s championship bid ends in overtime
1B FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS: Second half gets away from Quilcene in loss to Tacoma Baptist

1B FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS: Second half gets away from Quilcene in loss to Tacoma Baptist

Red-eyed from holding back tears in the wake of previously unbeaten Quilcene’s 54-38 loss to Tacoma Baptist in the Class 1B Quad-District Playoffs,… Continue reading

1B FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS: Second half gets away from Quilcene in loss to Tacoma Baptist
COLLEGE SOCCER: Peninsula women fall 1-0 in OT in NWAC championship

COLLEGE SOCCER: Peninsula women fall 1-0 in OT in NWAC championship

Peninsula’s bid at a repeat NWAC women’s soccer title ended abruptly in the second minute of overtime as the Pirates fell 1-0 in… Continue reading

COLLEGE SOCCER: Peninsula women fall 1-0 in OT in NWAC championship

ALL OLYMPIC-LEAGUE 2A FOOTBALL: Sequim’s Cowan, Velarde make first team

Sequim senior wide receiver/defensive back/kick returner Gavin Velarde and junior quarterback Riley Cowan headline the area… Continue reading

PREP FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS: Quilcene in a rematch, Neah Bay heading south

PREP FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS: Quilcene in a rematch, Neah Bay heading south

And then there were two. No. 4 Quilcene (8-0) and Neah Bay (5-5) are the lone remaining North Olympic Peninsula high school football… Continue reading

PREP FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS: Quilcene in a rematch, Neah Bay heading south