Wilder shortstop Matt Hendry

BASEBALL: Wilder splits pair of games at Firecracker Classic

PORT ANGELES — Wilder Baseball Club is putting in the work, as evidenced by crafty pitching, solid hitting and nifty nabs on defense. It’s the… Continue reading

Wilder shortstop Matt Hendry

BASEBALL: Crosscutters fell Bremerton

SEQUIM — Quilcene’s Andy Johnston tossed a complete game two-hitter and the Olympic Crosscutters continued their undefeated start to the season with an 11-1 win… Continue reading

BASEBALL: Rough start for host Wilder at Firecracker Classic

PORT ANGELES — Wilder Baseball Club has some work to do if it wants to win its host tournament. Wilder opened the 18th annual Dick… Continue reading

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OUTDOORS: Fish on — salmon season underway

ANGLERS CAN REAP the rewards of a difficult salmon-season setting process today when fishing opens for hatchery chinook and sockeye off most of the North… Continue reading

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BASEBALL: Plenty of fireworks starting today at Wilder’s annual Fourth of July tournament

PORT ANGELES — Fireworks ban in the Port Angeles city limits? Sure, but don’t tell that to Wilder Baseball Club. The venerable Senior Babe Ruth… Continue reading

OUTDOORS: Pull in some prized crustaceans when Dungeness crab season starts in earnest Friday

THE PENINSULA PINCERS? Consider that a free suggestion for the West Coast League baseball team that’s expected to call Civic Field in Port Angeles home… Continue reading

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Learn to row class for adults . . . Coed softball league forming in Port Angeles

Learn to row class PORT ANGELES — The Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association will offer an adult learn to row program beginning Saturday, July 16. .… Continue reading

BASEBALL: Wilder plays best ball of the summer at big-time tournament

LACEY — Wilder Baseball Club manager Mike Politika said his team showed him something at the United States Specialty Sports Association/GSL State Tournament. “We played… Continue reading

GOLF: Celebrate independence with a round of golf

RED, WHITE AND blue. Golf has imprinted all three colors on myself at some point, both literally and figuratively. Too much time in the sun… Continue reading

BASEBALL: Olympic Crosscutters pick up four wins in Kitsap tournament

BREMERTON — The Olympic Crosscutters American Legion baseball team went 4-0 over the weekend at the 17U Bankers Invite Tournament at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds.… Continue reading

SOFTBALL: Port Angeles’ Nizhoni Wheeler selected as All-Peninsula MVP

PORT ANGELES — It's an often-repeated scene for batters facing Port Angeles' commanding junior pitcher Nizhoni Wheeler. Having just struck out at the plate, opposition… Continue reading

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Forks 4th of July fun run . . . Youth rowing camps in Port Angeles . . . Volleyball camp in Port Angeles

4th of July fun run set for Forks FORKS — A 4th of July Fun Run featuring 5-and 10-kilometer races will be held on the… Continue reading

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OUTDOORS: Bogachiel Pond teeming with trout

EVEN MORE RAINBOW trout, 2,326 this go-round, have been stocked in the Bogachiel Rearing Pond at the Bogachiel Fish Hatchery west of Forks. Those fish… Continue reading

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Port Townsend's Wanda Synnestvedt tees off during the Washington State Super Senior Women's Amateur at SunLand Golf & Country Club. Synnestvedt shot 88 Wednesday and finished sixth. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

GOLF: Atkinson holds slim one-shot lead entering final round of state women’s amateur

SEQUIM — Brigham Young University’s Lauren Atkinson has a chance to go wire-to-wire and win the Washington State Golf Association’s Women’s Amateur at SunLand Golf… Continue reading

Port Townsend's Wanda Synnestvedt tees off during the Washington State Super Senior Women's Amateur at SunLand Golf & Country Club. Synnestvedt shot 88 Wednesday and finished sixth. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
Sequim angler Robert Rohner brought this 85-pound halibut aboard last month off Sekiu. ()

OUTDOORS: Chinook seminar lined up for Tuesday in Sequim

A CHANCE TO learn technique, shape strategy and figure out where to go and what to do while chinook fishing will be offered Tuesday at… Continue reading

Sequim angler Robert Rohner brought this 85-pound halibut aboard last month off Sekiu. ()
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BASEBALL: Crosscutters cruise to doubleheader sweep of Central Kitsap

PORT ANGELES — The Olympic Crosscutters 18U baseball team made itself comfortable within the confines of Civic Field, taking both games of a doubleheader off… Continue reading

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Sequim's Alex McMenamin

GOLF: Brigham Young’s Atkinson leads state women’s amateur

SEQUIM — Brigham Young University's Lauren Atkinson shot a 1-over-par 73 and holds a two-shot lead after Tuesday's first day of the Washington State Golf… Continue reading

Sequim's Alex McMenamin
This painting of the seventh hole at Pebble Beach painted by Discovery Bay Golf Club's Gary Griswold will be given away Saturday during the course's-best ball tournament. ()

GOLF: No Masters tickets forthcoming, but plenty on North Olympic Peninsula golf horizon

I WON’T BE attending the 2017 Masters tournament as a patron. I’m not alone. The Masters’ credential committee sent out its “regret to inform you”… Continue reading

This painting of the seventh hole at Pebble Beach painted by Discovery Bay Golf Club's Gary Griswold will be given away Saturday during the course's-best ball tournament. ()

BASEBALL: Wilder takes two of three games

PORT ANGELES — Wilder Baseball picked up wins in two of three contests over the weekend at Civic Field. The North Olympic Peninsula Senior Babe… Continue reading

Alex McMenamin of Sequim looks toward the fairway during a match in May at the Cedars at Dungeness golf course. McMenamin is the All-Peninsula Girls Golf MVP for the third-straight season. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)

GIRLS GOLF: Sequim’s Alex McMenamin is All-Peninsula MVP for third straight season

SEQUIM — Former Sequim girls golf coach Garrett Smithson had it pegged. “We could be in store for something really special,” he said in 2014… Continue reading

Alex McMenamin of Sequim looks toward the fairway during a match in May at the Cedars at Dungeness golf course. McMenamin is the All-Peninsula Girls Golf MVP for the third-straight season. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)