PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles girls golf team placed fourth at the Duke Streeter Invitational at Peninsula Golf Club.
Capital won the two-person best ball scramble with a gross score of 83. Shelton was second with an 87 and Kingston was third with a 91.
Port Angeles finished its yearly event with a score of 97.
The Roughriders were led Wednesday by the round of 44 carded by the duo of Kate Haworth and Maddie Boe.
Hannah Almaden and Monica Gasper teamed to shoot a 53 for Port Angeles, and Gillian Elofson and Haylie Goudie had a 61.
“We had several players unable to compete due to injury, but Kate and Maddie played some great golf,” Riders coach Jacob Lippold said
“Bigger schools are tough to beat.”
Port Angeles also took an Olympic League loss Wednesday, as its Stableford score of 47 was lower than Kingston’s 57.
Next up for the Riders (4-4, 4-5) is the Olympic League championship tournament at Cedars at Dungeness on Tuesday.
Boys Golf
Chimacum 170, Port Angeles 182
PORT LUDLOW — The Cowboys defeated the previously unbeaten Roughriders at Port Ludlow Golf Club.
James Porter won the match medalist with a nine-hole score of 41 to lead Chimacum.
Colton Shaw shot a 42, Marcus Bufford had a 43 and Chris Bainbridge carded a 44 to close out the scoring for the Cowboys.
Alex Atwell led Port Angeles with a 43, while Austin Peterson and Alex Brown shot 46s and Mason Jackson finished with a 47.
Port Angeles next competes at the Bill Egbers Invitational at Skagit Golf and Country Club in Burlington.
Sequim 155, Klahowya 176
SEQUIM — Jack Shea won the showdown of the Olympic League’s top two golfers and the Wolves locked down third place by beating the Eagles at Cedars and Dungeness.
Shea shot a 2-under-par 34, which was two strokes better than defending league champion and current league leader Aaron Holiday (36).
Klahowya’s Andrew Nelson had the third best round, a 1-over-par 37.
Sequim’s advantage came from its other three scorers: Travis Priest fired a 39, Alex McCracken had a 40 and Jade Arnold shot a 42.
The Wolves end the regular season with a 7-2 record. They host the Olympic League tournament Tuesday, with tee times starting at 11:30 a.m.
Before that, Shea and Priest will head to Burlington today for the prestigious Bill Egbers Invitational at Skagit Golf and Country Club
Baseball
Aberdeen 4, Forks 3, 8 innings
BEAVER — It took an extra frame to decide a winner after the Spartans scrapped back from an early 3-0 deficit against the Class 2A Bobcats.
Ultimately, though, Aberdeen prevailed Thursday in eight innings.
Senior night festivities preceded the contest, and Forks senior do-it-all dynamo Javier Contreras seemed dead-set on willing the hard-luck Spartans to victory.
Instead, though, Contreras was stuck with another tough loss, despite tossing an eight-inning complete game.
His final pitching line included zero earned runs and eight strikeouts that from came a mix of knee-buckling curveballs and “by-you, Cajun-style” heaters.
Contreras also cleanly fielded five limp comebackers on the mound and corralled two foul ball pop-ups that seemed destined to drop safely into no-man’s land.
Aberdeen took an early lead in the contest by plating two runs in the second inning and another in the third, but Forks did not go away quietly.
The Spartans chipped away at the lead by plating two runners in the bottom half of the third inning on hits from Contreras and Billy Palmer.
A clutch at-bat by Palmer in the bottom of the fifth inning plated Contreras for the tying run.
Contreras finished the game with one hit, three stolen bases and an RBI.
Palmer collected two hits and two RBIs, while Parker Browning and Chance Wilson each added a hit and a stolen base to the Spartans’ offensive tally.
The extra frame was unkind to Forks in a stingingly familiar way.
After retiring the first hitter of the inning, Contreras coaxed a routine ground ball to the right side of the infield.
However, due to a series of bobbles and an errant throw, Jake Metke, the eventual winning run, was soon standing safely at first base.
When Metke took off for second base, Forks catcher Gavin Palmer hosed a perfect throw to the corner of second base, but the tag was high and the Metke was called safe.
A soft line drive off the handle of the Bobcats’ next hitter, Sean Dunn, found a safe landing spot in shallow left field, and Aberdeen plated what turned out to be the winning run.
“We didn’t wind up with the result that we wanted today, but that was a real baseball game right there,” Spartans coach Wayne Daman said.
“I will take that every time. That’s just baseball.”
Daman was full of praise for the valiant effort that Contreras put forth in not just this game, but all season long.
“He’s just a competitor and a great teammate,” said Daman. “I wish we could have gotten him that win. He deserves it.”
Daman also lauded his team’s only other senior, Fastino Farias, for his four years of commitment to the program and his vast improvement on the field.
“He came out here this year and earned himself a starting center field spot and never lost it,” Daman said.
“Fasty is a testament to what can happen when you dedicate yourself to your sport for four years.”
Aberdeen 4, Forks 3, 8 innings
Aberdeen 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 — 4 6 2
Forks 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 — 3 4 6
WP- Silva; LP- Contreras
Track and Field
Forks wins four events at league meet
TENINO — The Forks boys placed third and the girls finished fourth in the five-school Evergreen League meet hosted by Tenino.
The Spartans had four first-place showings at Tuesday’s meet.
Miguel Morales won the boys discus with a distance of 128 feet, 5 inches. He also placed fourth in the shot put.
Austin Pegram won the boys 800-meter run with a time of 2 minutes, 13.49 seconds. He also earned a runner-up finish in the 1,600.
Kari Larson claimed two wins for the Forks girls, placing first in the 800 (2:36.31) and the 1,600 (5:45).
Next up for the Spartans is the league championship meet a week from today at Montesano High School.
