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Neah Bay’s Angel Halttunen digs the ball against Mossyrock in the state semifinals Thursday in Yakima. (Roger Harnack/Cheney Free Press)

STATE 1B VOLLEYBALL: Neah Bay falls in title game, finishes second in state

Champion Oakesdale has won seven out of the last eight championships

Neah Bay’s Angel Halttunen digs the ball against Mossyrock in the state semifinals Thursday in Yakima. (Roger Harnack/Cheney Free Press)
Port Angeles’ Kason Albaugh (12) runs the ball with Trevor Martin (58) blocking in a state playoff game Friday night against No. 1-ranked Tumwater. (Josh Kirshenbaum/The Chronicle)

STATE FOOTBALL: Roughriders’ run ends against No. 1 Tumwater

State powerhouse too strong for Port Angeles

Port Angeles’ Kason Albaugh (12) runs the ball with Trevor Martin (58) blocking in a state playoff game Friday night against No. 1-ranked Tumwater. (Josh Kirshenbaum/The Chronicle)
Port Angeles football team seniors include, clockwise from upper left, Jason Hawes, Parker Nickerson, Landyn Jones, Ezra Townsend, Kason Albaugh and Tanner Flores. (Pierre LaBossiere/Peninsula Daily News)

Port Angeles seniors have climbed a big hill

COVID, injuries, heartbreak, but now a state berth

Port Angeles football team seniors include, clockwise from upper left, Jason Hawes, Parker Nickerson, Landyn Jones, Ezra Townsend, Kason Albaugh and Tanner Flores. (Pierre LaBossiere/Peninsula Daily News)
Neah Bay Red Devils.

STATE VOLLEYBALL: Neah Bay in championship match

No. 2 Red Devils will face No. 1 Oakesdale for title

Neah Bay Red Devils.
Sequim Wolves.

STATE GIRLS SOCCER: Sequim’s season ends against Ridgefield

Team loses Johnson, Gomez, but returns a lot of freshmen

Sequim Wolves.

STATE VOLLEYBALL: Neah Bay wins opener at state tourney

The Neah Bay girls volleyball team won its opening match Wednesday at the state 1B volleyball championships, moving into the quarterfinals. The Red… Continue reading

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Port Angeles Roughriders
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Peninsula's Nil Grau gives a high kick to keep the ball out of reach of Edmond's Enzo Buenaventura during a match at Wally Sigmar Field in October.

COLLEGE SOCCER: Peninsula College puts 10 on North Region first teams

The Peninsula College soccer teams got five women and five men named to the North Region All-Star teams, as the Pirates’ Nil Grau… Continue reading

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Peninsula's Nil Grau gives a high kick to keep the ball out of reach of Edmond's Enzo Buenaventura during a match at Wally Sigmar Field in October.
Port Angeles’ Kennedy Rognlien, left, and Sequim’s Kalli Grove, right.

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK: Kennedy Rognlien, Port Angeles soccer; Kalli Grove, Sequim soccer

The Port Angeles and Sequim girls soccer teams are both playing in the 2A state tournament this week. And they both got there in an… Continue reading

Port Angeles’ Kennedy Rognlien, left, and Sequim’s Kalli Grove, right.
The Port Angeles girls swim team finished third at this weekend’s bidistrict championships. Top row, from left, Danika Asgeirsson, Amayah Nelson, Yau Fu, Harper McGuire, Lynzee Reid, Emerson DuBois, Olivia Mesen. Bottom row, from left, Brooke St. Luise, Lizzy Shaw, head coach Sally Cole, assistant coach Lisa Walls, Chloe Kay-Sanders, Erin DeMarco. (Courtesy photo)

POSTSEASON SWIMMING: Port Angeles girls third at bidistrict

The Port Angeles girls swim team finished third at the bidistrict swim and dive meet, sending multiple competitors to state. Port Angeles… Continue reading

The Port Angeles girls swim team finished third at this weekend’s bidistrict championships. Top row, from left, Danika Asgeirsson, Amayah Nelson, Yau Fu, Harper McGuire, Lynzee Reid, Emerson DuBois, Olivia Mesen. Bottom row, from left, Brooke St. Luise, Lizzy Shaw, head coach Sally Cole, assistant coach Lisa Walls, Chloe Kay-Sanders, Erin DeMarco. (Courtesy photo)

PREP FOOTBALL: State playoff schedule set

The Port Angeles football team will play Tumwater at 7 p.m. Friday at Tumwater District Stadium in the Roughriders’ state playoff opener. Meanwhile,… Continue reading

Sequim goalkeeper Kalli Grove, here stopping a goal against Port Angeles in October, stopped two penalty kicks in a bidistrict playoff win Tuesday over Enumclaw to help send the Wolves to the state 2A tournament. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Sequim goalkeeper Kalli Grove, here stopping a goal against Port Angeles in October, stopped two penalty kicks in a bidistrict playoff win Tuesday over Enumclaw to help send the Wolves to the state 2A tournament. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
The Port Angeles girls soccer team celebrates beating Enumclaw in penalty kicks and qualifying for the state 2A tournament. (Kevin Hanson)
The Port Angeles girls soccer team celebrates beating Enumclaw in penalty kicks and qualifying for the state 2A tournament. (Kevin Hanson)

STATE CROSS COUNTRY: East Jefferson’s Yearian second, Fraser third at state meet

With two runners in the top three, the East Jefferson girls cross country team finished in the top 10 for the second straight… Continue reading

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Port Angeles Roughriders
Bubba Hernandez catches a punt during the first half of Forks' 20-7 loss to Onalaska in a district crossover on Nov. 3. (Josh Kirshenbaum/The Chronicle)
Bubba Hernandez catches a punt during the first half of Forks' 20-7 loss to Onalaska in a district crossover on Nov. 3. (Josh Kirshenbaum/The Chronicle)
Forks' Kaidence Rigby tips the ball over a Napavine defender during the Spartans' loss against Napavine in the 2B District 4 Tournament on Saturday in Adna. (Dylan Wilhelm/The Chronicle)

VOLLEYBALL ROUNDUP: Forks, Sequim denied chance to make state

Heartbreak Saturday for the Forks Spartans in their quest to clinch a Class 2B state volleyball tournament berth and for the Sequim Wolves… Continue reading

Forks' Kaidence Rigby tips the ball over a Napavine defender during the Spartans' loss against Napavine in the 2B District 4 Tournament on Saturday in Adna. (Dylan Wilhelm/The Chronicle)

PREPS: Teanna Clark curls in corner kick to lift Port Angeles girls soccer to winner-to-state game

Teanna Clark curled a corner kick into goal in the 63rd minute and Port Angeles held on against Highline 2-1 in a Class… Continue reading

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Forks' Chloe Gaydeski eyes the ball as she prepares to send a spike over the net during the Spartans' 3-1 win over Toledo on Wednesday during the Class 2B District 4 Tournament.

AREA SPORTS: Forks netters stay alive in bid for state volleyball berth

Forks stayed alive in the Class 2B Southwest District 4 volleyball tournament on Wednesday, winning loser-out contests against Pacific League foe Ocosta 3-1… Continue reading

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Forks' Chloe Gaydeski eyes the ball as she prepares to send a spike over the net during the Spartans' 3-1 win over Toledo on Wednesday during the Class 2B District 4 Tournament.