SPORTS BRIEFS: Stevens boys hoops on roll to start season . . . Jessica Madison scores career high in win . . . U18 winter league soccer

Stevens boys hoopers on roll to start season

PORT ANGELES — The seventh and eighth grade boys basketball teams from Stevens Middle School continued their hot start to the season with recent wins against Blue Heron (Port Townsend) and Neah Bay.

The eighth grade team dropped Blue Heron 71-49.

Kyle Bennett had 15 points, Garrett Edwards 14 points and four rebounds and Liam Clark had 10 boards and four points in the win.

Edwards had 12 points and six rebounds in the team’s 59-17 win against Neah Bay. Bo Bradow added 10 points and eight rebounds.

The seventh grade squad dropped Blue Heron 54-15 behind the 16 points of Brendan Roloson-Hines.

Anton Kathol added nine.

Kathol put up a season-high 26 points in the team’s 63-17 win over Neah Bay.

Gary Johnson had eight and Derek Bowechop seven points

in the win.

Madison sets mark

SEATTLE — Port Angeles High School product Jessica Madison set her personal-best scoring mark for the second time this season as the ninth-ranked University of Alaska-Anchorage dominated No. 21 Seattle Pacific 85-58 last Saturday.

Madison was the game’s leading scorer with 22 points on 8 of 16 shooting with four 3-point baskets, three assists and three boards in 29 minutes of play.

She was one of four Seawolves in double figures.

Alaska-Anchorage is now 7-0 and also ranked #1 in the Western region of NCAA Division II.

U18 winter league

PORT ANGELES — Peninsula College Soccer and Storm King Soccer have collaborated to form a girls U18 winter league team.

This is part of the college’s ongoing Peninsula Soccer Academy program that utilizes college coaches and matches them with area youth soccer players.

The PSA team is made up of 24 Sequim and Port Angeles high school girls and is competing in the North Puget Sound League which geographically extends from Bothell to Tacoma to Port Angeles.

The team started its 12-game season with a 2-0 defeat to Bainbridge Island over the weekend.

Both goals came on corner kicks in the first half but the PSA girls rallied in the second half and maintained a scoreless half.

The team plays Sunday in Bothell.

Peninsula Daily News

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