SPORTS: Port Angeles track team excels at two meets; Quilcene softball wins doubleheader

TACOMA — The Port Angeles track and field team had several top-10 performances at the prestigious 35-team Tacoma Invitational.

The Roughriders also had a triple winner and two double winners at a three-way Olympic League meet earlier in the week.

The Port Angeles girls claimed 19th place in Tacoma with 13 points.

Elyse Lovgren led the way with two top-10 finishes while Jolene Millsap, Elizabeth Stevenson and the distance medley team also finished in the top 10.

Lovgren had the top finish with fourth place in the triple jump with a leap of 34 feet, 10.5 inches.

She also took eighth in long jump with a 15-01.5 distance.

Millsap was eighth in the 100 meters with a time of 13.07 and she also captured 12th in the 200 sprint in 27.55.

Stevenson, meanwhile, took eighth in the 3,200 in 11:59.14.

The distance medley team of Lily Morlan, Willow Suess, Bailey Reader and Stevenson took fourth place with a time of 14:14.91.

In boys competition, Kyle Tupper claimed 15th place in the 1,600-meter run in 4:45.87.

Earlier in the week, the Roughrider girls avenged a one-point loss to Kingston last year by winning a three-way meet at Kingston.

The Riders took first with 89 points while the Buccaneers were close behind with 82 and Klahowya was way back at 18.

Kingston easily won the boys meet, though, with 97 while the Eagles were second at 49.5 and the Riders in third at 34.5.

Millsap was a triple winner while Lovgren earned two wins on the girls side and Tupper was a boys double winner.

Millsap blew the field away with three dominant wins, taking the 100 in 12.88, the 200 in 26.65 and the 400 in 1:05.38.

The next best times were 13.17 in the 100, 27.32 in the 200 and 1:07.14 in the 400.

Lovgren was third in both the 100 and 200.

Lovgren, meanwhile, was first in the triple jump at 33-09.0 and in the long jump at 14-08.5.

Other individual girls titles went to Morlan in the 300-meter hurdles (55.34), Cami Raber in the shot put (30-0.25) and Brittany Norberg in the javelin (94-04).

Suess had two second-place finishes as she was runner-up in the 800 and the 1,600.

On the boys side, Tupper earned two wins as he won the 1,600 in 4:38.74 and the 3,200 in 10:26.89.

Tupper had time for a quick lunch between his finish in the 3,200 and the time of the runner-up.

The Port Angeles senior won by nearly 22 seconds.

Other Roughrider winners for the boys were Matt Robbins in the shot put (40-08.25) and Austin Polly in discus (113-01).

The Riders next compete in a league dual meet at rival Sequim on Wednesday.

Area 1B teams Crescent, Neah Bay and Clallam Bay also will be at the meet.

Softball

Quilcene 11, 12, Lake Quinault 0, 3

QUILCENE — Sammy Rae threw a complete-game no-hitter, and then turned around and belted a three-run homer in the second game as Quilcene took a doubleheader from Lake Quinault.

Rae struck out 12 as the Rangers blasted the Elks 11-0 in the five-inning first game, and then Quilcene won 12-3 in the five-inning second game.

Rae also went 2 for 3 at the plate in the firt game with three RBI while freshman Megan Weller blasted a double and had two RBI and sophomore Janelle Johnson was 1 of 2 with two RBI and two runs scored.

Eighth-grader Ruby Murray went 2 for 2 with an RBI.

Bailey Kieffer, also an eighth-grader, started the second game on the mound, going three innings and picking up the win.

“Bailey is starting to pitch with a little confidence out there,” Quilcene coach Mark Thompson said.

Rae threw the final two innings, striking out the side in both stanzas for six Ks.

“Megan Weller played great at shortstop,” Thompson said.

First Game

Quilcene 11, Lake Quinault 0,

5 innings

Lake Quinault 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 0 4

Quilcene 3 0 5 3 x — 11 9 0

WP- Rae

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