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SPORTS: Mountain bike downhill national championships coming to Port Angeles this week

PORT ANGELES — The party starts today, gets serious Thursday and ends Sunday as the biggest non-World Cup mountain bike racing event in the country… Continue reading

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SPORTS: Sequim and Port Angeles track teams soar in major invitationals

SNOQUALMIE — Sequim hurdler Emanuel Herrera and high jumper Jayson Brocklesby had state-caliber times and distances at the Mount Si Invitational track and field meet… Continue reading

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SPORTS: Forks girls and Crescent boys win the Forks Lions Invitational track meet

FORKS — Neah Bay state-class sprinter Titus Pascua captured three events while the Forks girls and the Crescent boys won the team titles at the… Continue reading

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SPORTS: Port Angeles dominates Chimacum/Port Townsend in girls tennis with deep singles group; other prep reports

PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles girls tennis team did not drop a game in singles matches to overwhelm Chimacum/Port Townsend 7-0 in Olympic League… Continue reading

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SPORTS: Sequim girls golf team plays at high level at Duke Streeter Invitational; other golf reports

PORT ANGELES — The Sequim girls golf team showed well at the 21st annual Duke Streeter Invitational at Peninsula Golf Club in Port Angeles on… Continue reading

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LEE HORTON’S OUTDOORS COLUMN: Anglers start countdown to halibut season

ANGLERS THROUGHOUT THE North Olympic Peninsula are constantly looking at the clock, marking black X’s on their calendars, or setting alerts on their mobile phones.… Continue reading

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SPORTS: Sequim nips Port Angeles by two strokes in boys golf showdown; other prep reports

SEQUIM — Ryan O’Mera and Sequim’s superior depth were a little too much for archrival Port Angeles in the showdown for the possible Olympic League… Continue reading

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OUTDOORS: A good time to visit Olympic National Park; clam dig this weekend is a go

Peninsula Daily News and news sources NOW’S THE TIME to visit Olympic National Park if you’re looking for ways to save some money, and maybe… Continue reading

  • Apr 19, 2012
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SPORTS: Brandon’s two goals spark Port Angeles to 3-0 shutout of Sequim in boys soccer; other prep reports

PORT ANGELES — Anthony Brandon scored two early goals to spark Port Angeles to a 3-0 blanking of archrival Sequim in Olympic League boys soccer… Continue reading

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SPORTS: Pickleball marathon set for this weekend in Port Angeles

PORT ANGELES — This will be a pickleball weekend. Hundreds of pickleball enthusiasts will descend upon Vern Burton Community Center on Saturday and Sunday for… Continue reading

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MICHAEL CARMAN’S GOLF COLUMN: North Olympic Peninsula courses to host two junior tourneys

THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST Golf Association will hold its boys and girls junior amateur events on the North Olympic Peninsula this year. Boys will play the… Continue reading

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SPORTS: Port Angeles belts Port Townsend in baseball; both Sequim baseball and softball teams lose to North Kitsap

PORT ANGELES — Wesley Giddings pitched a two-hitter through five innings to spark Port Angeles to a 7-2 Olympic League baseball victory over Port Townsend… Continue reading

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SPORTS: Crescent boys win own invitational; Port Angeles varsity performs well at elite meet in Tacoma

JOYCE — The small-school Class 1B Crescent boys track and field team won its own seven-team invitational of mostly bigger schools Saturday. The Loggers won… Continue reading

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SPORTS: Forks splits with Rainier in league softball doubleheader

FORKS — The youthful Forks softball team split a SWL-Evergreen Division doubleheader with Rainier recently. Rainier won the first game 11-1 in five innings, but… Continue reading

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SPORTS: Peninsula College men’s basketball team signs all-state guard from Alaska

PORT ANGELES — Alaska’s Bartlett High School standout Treshawn King-Dunbar has signed a letter of intent to play basketball at Peninsula College. The 6-foot-1, 170-pound… Continue reading

SPORTS: Chimacum continues hold on Sequim in baseball; Port Angeles nips league-leading North Kitsap; other prep reports

CHIMACUM — Quinn Eldridge and the Chimacum baseball team remained perfect on the year after beating Sequim 9-4 in nonleague action Friday. The Class 2A… Continue reading

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SPORTS: Port Angeles girls, Olympic boys dominate three-way track meet with Sequim

PORT ANGELES — Cameron Braithwaite of Port Angeles and Sequim’s Jayson Brocklesby were both double winners at a three-way Olympic League track and field meet… Continue reading

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SPORTS: Port Angeles softball team bounces back by pounding North Kitsap; other prep reports

PORT ANGELES — So much for that sour taste of the Port Angeles softball team letting Sequim come back to score seven runs in the… Continue reading

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OUTDOORS: That was a big one that got away in the Hoh River

Peninsula Daily News and news sources WINTER BLACKMOUTH SEASON is done, which can only mean that the saltwater big boys are right around the corner,… Continue reading

  • Apr 13, 2012
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SPORTS: Grand slam in sixth inning propels Sequim past Port Angeles in softball; other prep reports

SEQUIM — It took only one swing, well — one mighty swing — for Sequim’s defending state champion softball team to remain perfect going on… Continue reading