RENTON — The Port Angeles girls swimming and diving team is the West Central District champion for the second year in a row.
The Roughriders won the district meet at Hazen High School with 289 points.
Port Townsend placed third out of 17 teams with 159 points, while Sequim was 13th with 26 points.
Port Angeles will take 16 athletes to compete in three relays and 15 individual events at the 2A state championships at Federal Way Pool on Friday and Saturday.
At last weekend’s district championships, the Riders took first in five of the 12 events.
Senior Ashlee Reid won two individual district titles for Port Angeles, the 100-yard backstroke and the 100 freestyle, and sophomore Carter Juskevich won the title in the 100 breast stroke.
In addition to their individual titles, Reid and Juskevich swam with the district champion 200 medley and 400 freestyle relay teams.
Joining them on the 200 medley team were Jaine Macias and Audra Perrizo, while Perrizo and Brooke Sires were on the 400 freestyle relay team.
Juskevich also qualified for state in the 200 freestyle, as did Macias. Macias, a freshman, also qualified in the 100 backstroke.
Perrizo and Kylee Reid made state in the 200 individual medley. Those two swimmers also qualified in the 500 freestyle.
Sires earned individual state berths by placing second in the 50 freestyle and third in the 100 freestyle. Freshman Haily Scott also qualified in the 100 freestyle, which gives Port Angeles three of the district’s state berths in the event.
Scott, Sires, Kylee Reid and Megan McKenna qualified for state by taking third in the 200 freestyle relay.
The North Olympic Peninsula will be represented by four divers at state: Port Angeles’ Izi Livesay placed third at districts and teammate Haili Farnam was fourth, Port Townsend senior Rachel Ramsey took fifth and Sequim’s Emily Van Dyken was sixth.
Port Townsend also will send eight swimmers to state.
Chloe Rogers and Rose Ridder qualified in the 50 freestyle. Ridder also will swim in the 100 free.
Along with their individual events, Rogers and Ridder will swim in the 200 and 400 freestyle relay. Joining them will be Jayde Richardson and Ismay Gale in the 200, and Richardson and Keira Matkins in the 400.
Richardson also qualified individually in the 200 freestyle.
The Redskins’ other state qualifier is 200 medley relay team of Madison Braden, Hana McAdam, Sarah Allen and Rogers.
1B Volleyball
Quilcene makes state tournament
MOUNT VERNON — The Rangers will compete at state for the first time since 1992 after beating Grace Academy in five sets 18-25, 25-12, 25-20, 23-25, 16-14.
Quilcene earned the 1A Tri-District’s fifth state berth, and will open against Pateros on Friday afternoon at the Yakima Valley SunDome.
With the scored tied 14-14 in the fifth set, freshman Bailey Kieffer served the Rangers to state. Her first serve developed into a tough that Quilcene won, and her second was an ace that gave the Rangers the match.
“We are a very young team and our whole community is very proud of how hard these girls work in everything that they do,” Quilcene coach Joni Crowell said.
“They are an exceptional group of young ladies.”
Cross Country
Forks girls at state meet
PASCO — Forks runner Kari Larson placed 38th at the 1A state meet at Sun Willows Golf Course on Saturday.
Larson’s time of 20:49.89 was the second best for an area girl at the state meet, trailing only Port Angeles’ Elizabeth Stevenson’s 20:36.70. Stevenson placed 65th in the 2A state race.
Larson’s teammate Brooke Peterson placed 97th at the meet, finishing in 22:15.91.
