BMX RACING: Lincoln Park track hosting state championships this weekend

BMX RACING: Lincoln Park track hosting state championships this weekend

More than 500 BMX riders from around the state will pour into Port Angeles this weekend for the Washington state BMX championships,… Continue reading

BMX RACING: Lincoln Park track hosting state championships this weekend

OUTDOORS: No razor digs at Kalaloch this year, possibility exists in 2019

KALALOCH BEACH WASN’T included on a tentative schedule of fall razor clam digs announced by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife this week. The… Continue reading

PREP SPORTS ROUNDUP: Port Angeles drops Chimacum in season-opening match

PREP SPORTS ROUNDUP: Port Angeles drops Chimacum in season-opening match

The Port Angeles boys tennis team opened its season winning four matches against a shorthanded Chimacum squad that only had six eligible… Continue reading

PREP SPORTS ROUNDUP: Port Angeles drops Chimacum in season-opening match
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Tristen Pisani, Forks football

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Tristen Pisani, Forks football

Hard-charging senior running back and linebacker Tristen Pisani shook off the effects of an ankle injury in Forks’ 28-8 season opening triumph over… Continue reading

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Tristen Pisani, Forks football
Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News Quilcene’s Olin Reynolds breaks around Mary M Knight’s Austin Nelson for a first down during the Rangers’ 54-38 win Saturday.

PREP FOOTBALL: Quilcene wins season-opener 54-38

Quilcene got four touchdowns from Olin Reynolds and shut out a feisty Mary M. Knight school that had come roaring back from a… Continue reading

Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News Quilcene’s Olin Reynolds breaks around Mary M Knight’s Austin Nelson for a first down during the Rangers’ 54-38 win Saturday.
COLLEGE SOCCER: PC men win in shutout, women even record with win

COLLEGE SOCCER: PC men win in shutout, women even record with win

The Peninsula men picked up their first win of the year with a home shutout over North Idaho 1-0. The game was… Continue reading

COLLEGE SOCCER: PC men win in shutout, women even record with win
WOMEN’S SOCCER: Peninsula shuts out Spokane for first win of season

WOMEN’S SOCCER: Peninsula shuts out Spokane for first win of season

Peninsula broke through for two first-half goals and knocked off perennial NWAC Eastern Region power Spokane… Continue reading

WOMEN’S SOCCER: Peninsula shuts out Spokane for first win of season
AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association members come home with medals

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association members come home with medals

Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association members Sean Halberg and Ivana Bacanovic raced in the USRowing Masters National Championship… Continue reading

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association members come home with medals
PREP FOOTBALL: Forks holds Port Angeles in check

PREP FOOTBALL: Forks holds Port Angeles in check

It wasn’t perfect or even pretty, but Forks was fierce defensively in a season-opening 28-8 win over Port Angeles, limiting the Roughriders to… Continue reading

PREP FOOTBALL: Forks holds Port Angeles in check
PREP FOOTBALL ROUNDUP: Freshman QB plays well for Port Townsend; Sequim’s Cowan sets school passing record and other action

PREP FOOTBALL ROUNDUP: Freshman QB plays well for Port Townsend; Sequim’s Cowan sets school passing record and other action

Coupeville’s Sean Toomey-Stout hurt Port Townsend in all three aspects of the game, racking up yardage in the run game, nearly returning… Continue reading

PREP FOOTBALL ROUNDUP: Freshman QB plays well for Port Townsend; Sequim’s Cowan sets school passing record and other action
Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News                                Port Townsend’s Dylan Tracer tries to gain extra inches after being tackled by Coupville’s Sean Toomey-Stout during first half action of a game played in Memorial Field in Port Townsend on Friday.

PREP FOOTBALL UPDATE: Forks holds down Port Angeles; Cowan sets career passing yardage record for Sequim in big win; Port Townsend upended at home

Forks’ running game produced two 100-yard ball carriers as the Spartans ran over Port Angeles 28-8 Friday night at Spartan Stadium as the… Continue reading

Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News                                Port Townsend’s Dylan Tracer tries to gain extra inches after being tackled by Coupville’s Sean Toomey-Stout during first half action of a game played in Memorial Field in Port Townsend on Friday.

OUTDOORS: Silvers running off Sekiu, in Hood Canal

SILVERS ARE RUNNING in the Strait of Juan de Fuca and on down to Hood Canal, so it’s time to rig the Coho Killers and… Continue reading

SPORTS BRIEFS: Super Cup soccer derby Saturday; Troll run delayed; Sequim Pickleball tourney in September

SPORTS BRIEFS: Super Cup soccer derby Saturday; Troll run delayed; Sequim Pickleball tourney in September

Though some of the smoke from British Columbia’s wildfires that once blanketed the Olympic Peninsula in… Continue reading

SPORTS BRIEFS: Super Cup soccer derby Saturday; Troll run delayed; Sequim Pickleball tourney in September
PREP FOOTBALL PICKS: Port Angeles-Forks matchup highlights first edition of Friday night lights

PREP FOOTBALL PICKS: Port Angeles-Forks matchup highlights first edition of Friday night lights

A town, a team, a dream. The season kicks off tonight for prep football teams on the North Olympic Peninsula all of them… Continue reading

PREP FOOTBALL PICKS: Port Angeles-Forks matchup highlights first edition of Friday night lights
Sequim celebrates winning the Super Cup with a victory over Port Angeles last year.

SOCCER: Bragging rights on the line at Saturday’s Sequim-Port Angeles Super Cup

The North Olympic Peninsula soccer community is back in action and geared up to bring the Fourth annual Super… Continue reading

Sequim celebrates winning the Super Cup with a victory over Port Angeles last year.

OUTDOORS: License fee increase a virtual lock

STATE FISH AND Wildlife Commission members are now putting forth a proposed 15 percent increase in fishing and hunting license fees while attempting to rein… Continue reading

PREP GIRLS SOCCER PREVIEW: Riders, Wolves aim for playoffs

PREP GIRLS SOCCER PREVIEW: Riders, Wolves aim for playoffs

What can the Port Angeles Roughriders girls soccer team do as an encore to last season’s march to a school-record tying 13… Continue reading

PREP GIRLS SOCCER PREVIEW: Riders, Wolves aim for playoffs
The Storm King U11 soccer team won its division at the Bainbridge Island Cup last weekend. The team is from left, back row, coach Kyle Kautzman, goalkeeper Kaiden Tosland, Ian Smithson, Brennin Tuff, Colin Feik, Colton Wagner, Bjorn Henrikson and coach Kris Henrikson. From left, front row, are Collin Welch, Carston Seibel, Ben Greatwood, Aaiden Galvin, Myles Taylor and Rene Martin.

SPORTS SHOTS: Storm King U11 team; young BMX rider Brian Belbin

(Above) The Storm King U11 soccer team won its division at the Bainbridge Island Cup last weekend. The team is from left, back row, coach… Continue reading

The Storm King U11 soccer team won its division at the Bainbridge Island Cup last weekend. The team is from left, back row, coach Kyle Kautzman, goalkeeper Kaiden Tosland, Ian Smithson, Brennin Tuff, Colin Feik, Colton Wagner, Bjorn Henrikson and coach Kris Henrikson. From left, front row, are Collin Welch, Carston Seibel, Ben Greatwood, Aaiden Galvin, Myles Taylor and Rene Martin.
Ezra Northern of Port Angeles rides in the seventh downhill mountain-biking race of the Northwest Cup held in Whitefish, Mont., this weekend. Northern finished eighth in the men’s Cat 1 0-18 division. (Olivia Smith Racing)

MOUNTAIN BIKING: NW CUP — Port Angeles riders place at Whitefish

Port Angeles’ Matt Mangano finished second at the latest Northwest Cup downhill mountain bike races held in Whitefish, Mont.,… Continue reading

Ezra Northern of Port Angeles rides in the seventh downhill mountain-biking race of the Northwest Cup held in Whitefish, Mont., this weekend. Northern finished eighth in the men’s Cat 1 0-18 division. (Olivia Smith Racing)