The forecast may be for a scorching hot week, but fall is right around the corner.
That is evident because it’s almost time for the start of Friday night lights.
High school football practice starts on the North Olympic Peninsula and the rest of the state Wednesday.
Some schools, such as Port Angeles and Port Townsend, are having team meetings and distributing gear today to be ready to hit the ground running Wednesday.
The Roughriders, who are 16-6 the past two seasons, start two-a-day drills right off the bat, going from 7 a.m. to noon each day Wednesday through Friday, Aug. 24.
Players will have a break midmorning each day and then finish the practice.
Sequim, a perennial Olympic League power under veteran coach Erik Wiker, will meet to turn in paperwork at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, and then practice from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, and noon until
6 p.m. Friday.
Port Townsend, under new head coach Nick Snyder, will pick up gear from 2 to 4 p.m. today, and then start practice at 2 p.m. Wednesday.
Games 2 weeks away
The first prep football games of the year will be during Labor Day weekend, which starts Friday, Aug. 31.
Port Angeles opens the season at W.F. West in Chehalis on Aug. 31 at 7 p.m. while the Sequim Wolves will start the season at Idaho’s Rocky Mountain Rumble.
The Wolves will play at Shelley, Idaho, on Sept. 1 at
1 p.m.
Port Townsend, playing in the Nisqually League this year for football, will start the season in nonleague action against old Olympic League foe Klahowya at Olympic High School in Silverdale on Aug. 31 at 7 p.m.
There will four teams opening against fellow North Olympic Peninsula teams to start the season as Chimacum travels to Forks for a 7 p.m. game Aug. 31, and Crescent of Joyce plays at Quilcene at 1 p.m. on Sept. 1.
Neah Bay opens the season at Taholah on Aug. 31 at
7 p.m.
Clallam Bay, meanwhile, will use an extra week of practice as it opens on Sept. 7 at Muckleshoot in Auburn at
7 p.m.
