PORT TOWNSEND — Irina Lyons scored the game’s lone goal to spark Port Townsend to a 1-0 victory over Port Angeles in Olympic League girls soccer action Tuesday night.
Lyons scored her goal midway through the second half while goalkeeper Caroline Dowdle recorded her sixth shutout of the season for the Redskins, who are 1-0 in league and 6-2-0 overall.
The Redskins hit the post three times and missed a penalty kick before Lyons muscled the ball into the goal in the 62nd minute.
“We have matured to the level where we now match our opponents physically and we display a passing game that at times is breathtaking,” Port Townsend coach Colin Foden said.
“It’s difficult to pick out individual players in such a strong overall team performance but Megan Gambill had an outstanding game.
“Another shutout speaks to the solid defensive play of Elena Akins and Jennifer Grauberger.
“Mostly, though, it was a very strong team performance.”
Port Townsend has scored 21 goals on the year and only given up eight.
Port Angeles beat Port Townsend 4-3 in the JV game.
The Redskins next play at Silverdale Stadium against Olympic on Thursday in league action.
Volleyball Port Angeles 3, Port Townsend 0
PORT TOWNSEND — The Riders put away an out-gunned Redskins squad in three games to claim both teams’ first Olympic League match Tuesday.
Port Angeles won 25-8, 25-7, 25-7, taking little pity on a Port Townsend team that’s low in numbers.
Kiah Jones led the Riders with nine kills, two blocks and two digs while Laney Wood had eight aces on 27-for-27 serving.
Emily Drake added five aces and 13 assists and Danielle Rutherford chipped in with six aces, four kills and two digs.
Britta Janssen had seven assists for the Redskins while Ellie Forbes added seven digs and Ashely Goodrich two kills.
Port Angeles (1-0 in league, 3-3 overall) heads to Shelton on Thursday for a nonleague match.
Port Townsend (0-1, 0-6) travels to Olympic for another Olympic League match.
Neah Bay 3, Lake Quinault 1
LAKE QUINAULT — The Redskins moved to 2-1 on the season with a 25-23, 25-9, 12-25, 25-22 nonleague win over the Elks on Tuesday night.
Rebecca Thompson had seven aces and four kills to lead Neah Bay, which opens North Olympic League play on Thursday at Crescent.
“We’ve had a great preseason,” Red Devils coach Sharon Kanichy said.
“The things we needed to work on to go into league are working. I think we’re going to have a strong showing during league play.”
Cherish Moss added one ace and two kills for the Red Devils, while teammate Brandy Swan had two kills.
Crysandra Sones had two aces.
Sequim 3, Bremerton 0
SEQIUM — The Wolves cruised past the Knights for their first Olympic League win of the season, 25-18, 25-11, 25-9, on Tuesday.
Sequim (1-0, 4-2) made short work of Bremerton in the teams’ opening league game of the year.
Wolves setter Taylor Balkan had nine assists and four aces while hitter Maddy Zbaraschuk had seven kills, five perfect service passes and 10 digs.
Haleigh Harrison added three kills and seven digs, while serving 17-for-18 with four aces. Rylleigh Zbaraschuk had nine digs, two kills and four perfect passes.
Sequim will travel to Belfair to take on the North Mason Bulldogs in another league match Thursday.
Forks 3, Rainier 0
RAINIER — The Spartans took care of business on Tuesday against the Mountaineers, winning in Southwest Washington League acgtion by the scores of 25-13, 29-27, 25-4.
“We need to work on hitting the ball harder,” Forks coach Jennifer Daman said.
Casey Williams led the Spartans with 10 kills and two stuffs while Raven McCann helped out with five kills and seven stuffs.
“We were really happy about the way we played,” Daman said. “It felt really good.”
Jillian Raben came up big with 19 assists on the night to for the Spartans.
Girls Swimming Bainbridge 127, Port Angeles 59
BAINBRIDGE ISLAND — The Roughriders won only one event but picked up two state qualifying times against one of the powerhouse swimming programs in the state Tuesday in nonleague competition.
“Bainbridge is a high-caliber team; it is good to swim against them,” Port Angeles coach Rich Butler said.
“Overall, the level of competition brought our kids up. It was fun to watch.”
Tracie Macias earned the Riders’ lone victory and she had a state qualifying time of 1:03.84 in the 100-yard butterfly.
Also capturing a state qualifying time was the 200 medley relay team of Ashlee Reid, Jenna Moore, Macias and Tarah Erickson.
The foursome claimed second in 2:01.94.
The Riders, 3-0 in the Olympic League and 3-1 overall, next hosts Olympic in a league meet Thursday at William Shore Memorial Pool.
