PORT TOWNSEND —Northern Peninsula FC plays for a spot in Cascadia Premier League’s Hummel Cup semifinals on Sunday at Memorial Field.
Playing its second season of competitive adult soccer, Northern Peninsula FC’s men’s team is playing Seattle’s Nido Aguila 2 at noon.
Tickets are $5 and available in advance at https://northpeninsulafc.yapsody.com.
The team advanced to Sunday’s Hummel Cup quarterfinal with a 5-2 win over Union FC of Centralia on May 15.
Northern Peninsula FC’s leading scorer, Luis Galvan, a former Port Angeles Roughrider, scored the opening two goals in the win over Union FC. Galvan’s Former Riders teammate Ben Schneider scored after a long run upfield, Port Townsend’s Joost Besijn converted a penalty kick and Forks’ Abisai Garcia rounded out the scoring.
In Sunday’s quarterfinal matchup, Northern Peninsula FC faces a Nido Aguila 2 squad that currently sits at the top of the Cascadia Premier League’s Division 2 standings.
The Cascadia Premier League is a men’s and women’s adult amateur soccer league based in Washington and Oregon with an instituted promotion and relegation system in which the first-place team is promoted to Division 1, while the last-place finisher is relegated to Division 3.
Cascadia was built on the foundation of the Western Washington Premier League, which debuted in 2018.
The team is coached by second-year head man Juan Carlos Cisneros-Lopez and assisted by Dave Breckenridge.
Competing since 2021, NPFC represents the entire northwestern Olympic Peninsula from the Hood Canal Bridge to Forks and everywhere in between.
Partnering with Jefferson County Youth Soccer Club, Storm King primer, East Jefferson and Sequim high schools and Peninsula College men’s soccer, NPFC seeks to provide continued development of soccer across the northern Olympic Peninsula.
