Rowers holding car wash in PA
on Saturday
PORT ANGELES — Nine Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association rowers will compete at the U.S. Rowing Northwest Regional Championships in Vancouver, Wash., next weekend.
To raise funds, Olympic Peninsula Rowing will hold a car wash Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Bob Lovell’s Chevron Station at 601 E. 1st St.
Rowing at regionals will be Gabe Wegener, Emily Sirguy, Veronica Kennedy, Daniel Weaver, Nathan Mishler, Jessica Arnold, Sophie Marchant, Olivia Bay and Jake McGovern.
For more information about the Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association, visit www.oprarowing.org.
Four winners
LAKE STEVENS — Eight Olympic Peninsula Rowing Association athletes competed in the Lake Stevens Spring Sprints Invitational Regatta last month.
The regatta attracted 293 entries from 21 rowing clubs from Washington and British Columbia.
Sean Halberg won the Men’s Open Single, finishing the 2,000-meter course in 8 minutes, 31.69 seconds, and the 1,000-meter Men’s Masters Single, which he rowed in 4:00.94.
Two other Olympic Peninsula Rowing members had first-place showings: Jessica Arnold in Flight A of the Women’s Youth Novice Single (9:37.57), and Olivia Bay in Flight B of the Women’s Youth Novice Single (9:31.05).
Dan Weaver finished second in the Men’s Youth Novice Single (9:18.96).
Other rowers competing at the Spring Sprints were Gabe Wegener, Cal Swinford, Bella Money and Jake McGovern.
Barry at GNACs
MONMOUTH, Ore. — Former Sequim High School standout Alex Barry will be competing at this weekend’s Great Northwest Athletic Conference Championships at Western Oregon University.
Barry, a 2015 Sequim graduate, earned his first meet title for Western Washington at the Emilie Mondor Invitational at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia on April 9. He threw the javelin 195 feet, 1 inch.
In windy conditions at Central Washington University’s Spike Arlt Invitational, Barry was the highest placing college athlete with a distance of 188-06.
He beat Cole Sunkel of Olympic College at that meet, but lost to him by 2 inches at the Ralph Vernacchia Track and Field Meet at Western Washington University. Barry threw a personal-record 201-08, while Sunkel finished at 201-10.
Barry is currently ranked 19th in NCAA Division II.
