Area Sports

Runners take off at the Port Angeles waterfront in the annual Thanksgiving Day Turkey Trot. The men's 10K winner Michael Higuera (No. 372, in dark blue), is at the front of the pack. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

THANKSGIVING RUN: 340 come out to compete in annual Turkey Trot

A total of 340 runners worked up an appetite for Thanksgiving dinner by coming out to the Port Angeles waterfront for the… Continue reading

 

Jack Gladfelter of Port Angeles was named the Cascade Collegiate Conference male cross-country runner of the year. (CCC)

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: PA’s Gladfelter named CCC male runner of the year

Jack Gladfelter of Corban University was named the 2025 Cascade Collegiate Conference McDonald’s Men’s Cross Country Runner of the Year, announced Wednesday… Continue reading

 

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PIERRE LaBOSSIERE COLUMN: This Thanksgiving, I really have something to be thankful for

Every year at Thanksgiving dinner, we would be asked at the table what we were thankful for that year. I could never think of much… Continue reading

 

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Port Angeles’ Gladfelter 11th at NAIA cross-country nationals

For the second straight year, Port Angeles’ Jack Gladfelter is an NAIA All-American in cross country after finishing 11th at the NAIA… Continue reading

Port Angeles hosted the Fall Classic Basketball Tournament this weekend with 50 teams from as far away as Bainbridge and Everett. The tournament featured girls and boys from fourth through eighth grades playing games Saturday and Sunday at Port Angeles High School and Roosevelt and Stevens middle school gyms. Each division winner will have qualified for the state tournament in 2026. Here, Jack Jacobson, a Sequim Timberwolves seventh grader, drives around a player from Poulsbo. The Sequim Timberwolves won the game 50-25. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)

LOCAL SPORTS: Hooping it up for the holidays in Port Angeles

Port Angeles hosted the Fall Classic Basketball Tournament this weekend with 50 teams from as far away as Bainbridge and Everett. The tournament featured girls… Continue reading

Port Angeles hosted the Fall Classic Basketball Tournament this weekend with 50 teams from as far away as Bainbridge and Everett. The tournament featured girls and boys from fourth through eighth grades playing games Saturday and Sunday at Port Angeles High School and Roosevelt and Stevens middle school gyms. Each division winner will have qualified for the state tournament in 2026. Here, Jack Jacobson, a Sequim Timberwolves seventh grader, drives around a player from Poulsbo. The Sequim Timberwolves won the game 50-25. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
Jennifer Buchanan/The Seattle Times Washington guard Sayvia Sellers drives to the hoop while defended by Fresno State’s Ava Marr, center, and Millie Long on Wednesday in Seattle.

AREA SPORTS: PA’s Millie Long takes on No. 25 UW

Fresno State senior has Roughrider, Pirate roots

Jennifer Buchanan/The Seattle Times Washington guard Sayvia Sellers drives to the hoop while defended by Fresno State’s Ava Marr, center, and Millie Long on Wednesday in Seattle.
Matthew Strissel/Whitman County Gazette The Neah Bay volleyball team won a back-and-forth match with Wilbur-Creston-Keller 3-2 to earn fifth place at the Class 1B state tournament at the Yakima Valley SunDome. This is the Red Devils’ third state trophy in the last four years.

PREPS: Neah Bay volleyball fifth at state tournament

Port Angeles’ girls bowling team opened league play with a loss to Bremerton on the road… Continue reading

Matthew Strissel/Whitman County Gazette The Neah Bay volleyball team won a back-and-forth match with Wilbur-Creston-Keller 3-2 to earn fifth place at the Class 1B state tournament at the Yakima Valley SunDome. This is the Red Devils’ third state trophy in the last four years.
Keylee Tavoi celebrates a Neah Bay point during the Red Devils Class 1B state volleyball tournament victory over Valley Christian. Neah Bay (19-3) faced Wilbur-Creston-Keller for the 5th-6th-place trophy late Thursday at the Yakima Valley SunDome. Roger Harnack/Cheney Free Press

AREA SPORTS: Neah Bay places at Class 1B state volleyball tournament

Chipotle benefit Saturday 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. for Sequim Junior Soccer

Keylee Tavoi celebrates a Neah Bay point during the Red Devils Class 1B state volleyball tournament victory over Valley Christian. Neah Bay (19-3) faced Wilbur-Creston-Keller for the 5th-6th-place trophy late Thursday at the Yakima Valley SunDome. Roger Harnack/Cheney Free Press
Paige Mason, left, and Jack Gladfelter and Max Baeder, right.

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: PA’s Mason named NWAC defender of the week

Gladfelter, Baeder to NAIA nationals

Paige Mason, left, and Jack Gladfelter and Max Baeder, right.
The Port Angeles Future Riders edged Neah Bay 20-19 in the North Olympic Youth Football A Squad Championship last Saturday at Civic Field. The Future Riders A Squad finished the season unbeaten at 7-0. Team members are Mason Martinez, Jarrett McNeely, Ryan Somers, Nick Somers, Blake Botero, Oliver Mathis, Blake Petersen, Taco Armenta, Wiliam Paings, Gurvey Singh, Kellen Irvine, Trust Christenson, Iren Coffey, Colby Horejsi, Leroy Armentat, Jacob Potter, Everett Andreason, Axel Plute, Silas Cooper, Kaidence Brant, Thomas Possinger, Preston Smith and Colin Neese. The team was coached by head coach KC Spencer, Grey Olekas, Shane Martin, Adam Plute, Joe Coffey and Brandon Irvine.

AREA SPORTS: Future Riders A Squad wraps undefeated season with championship victory

Indoor soccer registration in Sequim

The Port Angeles Future Riders edged Neah Bay 20-19 in the North Olympic Youth Football A Squad Championship last Saturday at Civic Field. The Future Riders A Squad finished the season unbeaten at 7-0. Team members are Mason Martinez, Jarrett McNeely, Ryan Somers, Nick Somers, Blake Botero, Oliver Mathis, Blake Petersen, Taco Armenta, Wiliam Paings, Gurvey Singh, Kellen Irvine, Trust Christenson, Iren Coffey, Colby Horejsi, Leroy Armentat, Jacob Potter, Everett Andreason, Axel Plute, Silas Cooper, Kaidence Brant, Thomas Possinger, Preston Smith and Colin Neese. The team was coached by head coach KC Spencer, Grey Olekas, Shane Martin, Adam Plute, Joe Coffey and Brandon Irvine.
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CARD COLLECTING: Trading card show set Saturday in Sequim

Sports cards, Pokemon and more

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Fresno State Athletics Fresno State point guard Millie Long.

AREA SPORT: PA’s Millie Long now starring for Fresno State women’s basketball team

The Cedars at Dungeness hosting holiday food bank benefit Dec. 13

Fresno State Athletics Fresno State point guard Millie Long.
Bud Denney Neah Bay’s senior class was celebrated before the Red Devils’ final home football game of the season. Neah Bay’s football seniors are, from left, Azariah Greene, Joe Smith, Tyler Swan, LeAnthony Jimmicum, Lelan Greene, Elijha Malinowski and Kane Greene.

AREA SPORTS: YMCA and Sequim Youth Basketball registration, Youth wrestling in PA

Youth wrestling registration will be available in the Forks Elementary School lobby from 5 p.m. to 6:30… Continue reading

Bud Denney Neah Bay’s senior class was celebrated before the Red Devils’ final home football game of the season. Neah Bay’s football seniors are, from left, Azariah Greene, Joe Smith, Tyler Swan, LeAnthony Jimmicum, Lelan Greene, Elijha Malinowski and Kane Greene.

AREA SPORTS: Momentum One Volleyball Academy hosts travel team tryouts Saturday for U12-U14

U15-U18 tryouts set Nov. 23

Nicholas Lyne of Victoria, B.C., competes in the Last Man Standing competition at the Salt Creek 24 this weekend. (Jesse Major Photography/Peninsula Adventure Sports)

SALT CREEK 24: Records fall despite high winds

The winds howled but records still fell at this year’s Salt Creek 24 endurance race at the Salt Creek Recreation Area. The… Continue reading

Nicholas Lyne of Victoria, B.C., competes in the Last Man Standing competition at the Salt Creek 24 this weekend. (Jesse Major Photography/Peninsula Adventure Sports)
Hannah Wagner, Vancouver Island University soccer

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Sequim’s Wagner named athlete of the week at VIU

Former Sequim High School and Peninsula College soccer star Hannah Wagner was named the Pacific Western Athletic Association women’s soccer athlete of the… Continue reading

Hannah Wagner, Vancouver Island University soccer

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Salt Creek 24 seeks volunteers

There is still time to sign up for the Salt Creek 24 race to be held Oct. 25-26 at the Salt Creek… Continue reading

Corban College's Jack Gladfelter, left and The Evergreen State College's Max Baeder, right, after competing in the Charles Bowles Cross-Country Invitational in Salem, Ore., last week. (Joe Gladfelter)

AREA SPORTS BRIEFS: Gladfelter sixth at Charles Bowles Invite

Port Angeles graduate Jack Gladfelter improved on his time in the 50th running of the Charles Bowles Willamette Cross-Country Invitational at Willamette… Continue reading

Corban College's Jack Gladfelter, left and The Evergreen State College's Max Baeder, right, after competing in the Charles Bowles Cross-Country Invitational in Salem, Ore., last week. (Joe Gladfelter)
Runners begin heading up the hill between the starting line and the McFee Tunnell at the Spruce Railroad Trail run Saturday. (Pierre LaBossiere/Peninsula Daily News).

RUN THE PENINSULA: It was a family affair at Spruce Railroad Run

The second Spruce Railroad Trail Run went off without a hitch and it was a family affair among the winners. Last year’s… Continue reading

Runners begin heading up the hill between the starting line and the McFee Tunnell at the Spruce Railroad Trail run Saturday. (Pierre LaBossiere/Peninsula Daily News).
Kids compete on rowing machines at the Peninsula College campus as part of the Little Hurt on Sunday. The Little Hurt encourages youths from first through eighth grades to try different disciplines of running, cycling and rowing in conjunction with Peninsula Adventure Sport's Big Hurt on the same weekend. Full names of winner are not available for kids under 13, but the seventh- eighth-grade winner was Levi Simoneau of Port Angeles. A total of 84 kids participated in the event. (Rick Ross/Peninsula College)

PENINSULA ADVENTURE SPORTs: 84 kids participate in Little Hurt

Kids compete on rowing machines at the Peninsula College campus as part of the Little Hurt on Sunday. The Little Hurt encourages youths from first… Continue reading

Kids compete on rowing machines at the Peninsula College campus as part of the Little Hurt on Sunday. The Little Hurt encourages youths from first through eighth grades to try different disciplines of running, cycling and rowing in conjunction with Peninsula Adventure Sport's Big Hurt on the same weekend. Full names of winner are not available for kids under 13, but the seventh- eighth-grade winner was Levi Simoneau of Port Angeles. A total of 84 kids participated in the event. (Rick Ross/Peninsula College)