PORT ANGELES — Port Angeles came in second at its home gymnastics meet, fending off Kingston and North Kitsap in a very close four-way contest.
North Thurston won the meet with 153.90 points. The Roughriders were right behind at 148.45, while Kingston had 143.5 points and North Kitsap 135.
Port Angeles’ Cassandra Middlestead was second overall, with 33 total points, just behind Mikka Yamane of Kingston with 35.6 points.
Middlestead finished second in the bars with 7.30 points, fourth in the beam with 8.40 points, fourth in the floor with 9.00 points and fourth in the vault with 8.30 points.
Sequim’s Emma Sharp was fourth with 31.35 points. Sharp finished second in the beam with 8.70 points, second in the vault with 8.40 points and sixth in the floor with 8.95 points.
Other top overall finishers include Port Angeles’ Aiesha Latourette, ninth, with 29.35 points; Lesae Pfeffer of Sequim, 12th, 27.60 points; Elizabeth Sweet, Sequim, 13th, 27.40 points; and Maizie Tucker of Port Angeles, 14th, with 27.10 points.
In individual events, local gymnasts who placed well included Sweet, who was fifth in the floor with 9.00 points and Pfeffer, who was sixth in the beam with 7.80 points.
Latourette was ninth in the floor with a score of 8.50 and 10th in the vault at 8.00.
In the individual disciplines, Port Angeles was second as a team in the floor with 43.10 points to North Thurston’s 43.55 and the Roughriders were second as a team in the beam with a score of 38.10. North Thurston won that event with 38.90 points.
Sequim did not have a full team and so does not have team scores.
Sequim’s Emma Sharp competes in the beam at the Olympic-South Sound meet in Port Angeles on Monday. Sharp finished second in the beam and fourth overall. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
