Sports Roundup: Wolves continue to improve in the pool, courts

The Wolves’ fall season presses on with postseason just on the horizon for some players and teams.

Swim: Wolves set PRs

Three Sequim swimmers achieved personal best times in an Olympic League home meet on Oct. 8, and the Wolves made strides in technical areas in a 103-58 loss to North Kitsap, according to coaches Cherise Feser and Sarah Thorson.

“Our team made great improvements with important details such as turns and starts,” Feser said.

Tilly Woods cut 24 seconds from her 100-yard breaststroke in one minute, 57.28 seconds.

Ashlyn Sol trimmed 11 seconds from her 200 freestyle for a time of 3:06:24.

Naomi Beglyakov cut two seconds from her 500 freestyle to finish in 7:18.10.

Emma Rhodes also improved her time in the 100 free by 3 seconds, and Violet Phillips improved her 50 free by 3 seconds as well.

“We have had some challenges with sickness, but the team is on the mend,” Feser said.

The Wolves traveled to Port Angeles on Oct. 10, and lost 111-63, but Thorson said the Wolves had more great swims and set more personal records.

Ava Shinkle finished first in both the 50 free (27.37), and 100 back (1:08.31), which was a new personal best. Annie Ellefson also shined in her win in the 100 breaststroke with a season best of 1:15.14. Ellefson, Shinkle, Emma Rhodes and Holland Sol also won the 200 medley relay (2:19.95).

Sequim hosts East Jefferson on Wednesday, Oct. 15 in the Sequim YMCA.

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash/ Sequim’s Holland Sol competes in the 500-yard freestyle during an Olympic League swim & dive meet against North Kitsap on Oct. 8.

Tennis team wins in PA

Sequim’s boys tennis varsity squad opened a busy week on Oct. 6 losing all of its matches at Bainbridge High School, however No. 3 doubles team Zach Post and Ryan Stites were the lone varsity players to go three sets in their loss (3-6, 6-4, 7-6) to Taylor Whitlock and Emmett Berg.

In back-to-back matches against Olympic, at home Oct. 7, and away Oct. 8, the Trojans won both head-to-head match-ups 4-3.

On Oct. 7, Post, as Sequim’s No. 2 singles player, defeated Roger Gasow 3-6, 6-3, 6-3.

For doubles play, Josh Loucks and Tegan Kurtze, No. 3 doubles for Sequim, won 6-0 in two sets over Grayson Foutch and William Wolfgruber, while Sequim’s No. 4 team Finn Braaten and Nico Musso defeated William Gibbs-Ayers and Toby Hall 6-1, 6-2.

The next day in Bremerton, Loucks defeated Gasow 4-6, 7-6, 6-2.

For No. 3 doubles, Post and Stites defeated William Wolfgruber and Grayson Foutch 6-2, 6-3, and Braaten and Musso won again over Gibbs-Ayers and Hall 6-1, 6-0.

Against rival Port Angeles, the Roughriders pulled out a 4-3 win on their home courts Oct. 9.

For Sequim, three doubles teams pulled off wins.

No. 1 duo Mason Rapelje and Bjorn Henrikson defeated Jensen Wolfe and Abe Brenkman 6-4, 7-5.

No. 2 team Loucks and Tegan Kurtze overcame Brett Manson and Gagnan Seera in three sets 6-2, 4-6, 7-6, while Sebastian Buhrer and Stites, as Sequim’s No. 3 team, defeated Jacob Oberly and Kyler Thompson-Fowler 3-6, 6-4, 7-5.

Post, Sequim’s No. 2 singles player, went three deep into a three-set loss with Owen Leitz 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (10-5).

This week, the Wolves travel to North Kitsap on Tuesday, Oct. 14, host Kingston on Wednesday, Oct. 15, and Bremerton on Thursday, Oct. 16. The Olympic League Tournament will be held for qualifiers Oct. 24-25 at North Kitsap High School.

Sequim Gazette file photo by Matthew Nash Zach Post, pictured in a match Oct. 2, won two match-ups last week, including Oct. 7 against Olympic’s No. 2 singles player Roger Gasow 3-6, 6-3, 6-3, and on Oct. 8 with Ryan Stites as Sequim’s No. 3 doubles team 6-2, 6-3 over William Wolfgruber and Grayson Foutch 6-2, 6-3.

Cross country runs at Nike meet

Sequim’s cross country team ran with thousands of runners from across the state on Oct. 11 at the Nike Hole in the Wall Invitational in Lakewood.

In the 5,000 meters men’s varsity silver race, Reid Randall finished fastest for the Wolves in 17:37.5 for 66th place. He was followed by Gavin Tupper in 78th (17:47.0) and Adrian Osborne in 84th (17:50.7).

Other runners in that race included Westley French in 96th (17:57.3), Josh Wakefiled in 121st (18:11.7), Jonathan Tipton in 217th (18:58.4), and Jackson Hines 219th (19:02.2).

In the men’s junior varsity gold race, Brandon Bair ran 5,000 meters in 19:39.3 for 208th place with Silas Barni 225th (19:49.5), Billy Struve 354th (20:45.9), Jonathan Solovey 414th (21:14.8), and Tim Vergnet 438th (21:27.9).

In the 5,000 women’s varsity silver race, Emily Bair ran 20:22.9 to finish 42nd.

Soccer: Wolves take win over Bulldogs

Following a narrow 2-1 loss on the road to Kingston on Oct. 7, the Wolves flipped the score in their favor in a 2-1 overtime win in Belfair against North Mason on Oct. 9.

Senior Kiley Winter scored a golden goal assisted by Ruby Horgan-Moxley and the Wolves escaped with an overtime victory against the Bulldogs.

Sequim went up 1-0 in the 17th minute when Horgan-Moxley scored off an assist from Raimey Brewer.

North Mason equalized in the 67th minute and the two teams chased for the winning score for the remainder of the match.

Sequim (3-4, 4-5) is set to host Bainbridge (9-0, 9-1) on Tuesday, Oct. 14 and travel to Olympic (1-8, 2-9) on Oct. 16.

Volleyball wins last week’s matches

The Sequim volleyball team kept pace with Olympic League leaders Bainbridge and North Kitsap with an efficient 3-0 (25-19, 25-20, 25-19) win over Kingston on Oct. 8 at home and a 3-1 (25-20, 18-25, 25-20, 25-19) over North Mason two days later in Belfair.

Against the Buccaneers, Kassi Montero led the team serving 22-for-24 with six aces. She also had a nine-point scoring streak and made 12 digs.

“They hit at her side a lot,” coach Jennie Webber-Heilman said.

Rose Gibson also had a solid match serving, going 16-for-16 with three aces with a seven-point run. She added five kills, three blocks and nine kills.

“She did a little bit of everything,” Webber-Heilman said.

“We didn’t quite meet our goal of 90 percent serving. We served 88 percent, but we did have 15 aces. So we served pretty well,” she said.

Lexie Greenleaf added seven assists, libero Tiffany Lam had 11 digs and Sydney Clark had five kills and a block.

Versus the Bulldogs, the Wolves struggled with their service game but still had enough to beat the Bulldogs

“We kind of settled down a little bit in the later games,” Webber Heilman said. “We ended up missing 18 serves, that’s not good. We still had 10 aces to their seven.”

Gibson led Sequim with 10 kills, recorded three aces and had 13 digs defensively.

Jordyn Julmist added nine kills, an ace, two assists and 13 digs. Montero served 17-of-20 with three aces, eight kills and 13 digs.

Kenzi Berglund also served 17-for -20 with two aces, two kills, 29 assists and nine digs.

Results for the Capital City Invite on Oct. 11 were unavailable by press time.

This week, the Wolves were set to host Bainbridge on Oct. 14 and play Olympic in Bremerton on Oct. 16.

Sequim Gazette photo by Jacques Star Receiver Malachi Hampton powers forwards after a catch against North Kitsap on Oct. 10.

Football: Vikings down Wolves at home

For the second straight week, North Kitsap beat a North Olympic Peninsula team with a commanding defensive performance in a 24-7 victory over the Sequim Wolves on Oct. 10.

While Sequim for the m0st part played a great game defensively, the Wolves struggled to move the ball against North Kitsap’s defense, which held Port Angeles to just seven points the week before.

The Wolves forced three turnovers and gave up just 284 yards to the Vikings, but they only generated 152 yards of offense themselves. Of Sequim’s 91 yards passing, 46 came on one play.

The Wolves were hurt by a couple of long punt returns. The first one early in the first quarter set up the Vikings with first and goal. They quickly scored a touchdown to take a 7-0 lead just a couple of minutes into the game.

The Wolves’ Sam Shinkle made a great play on special teams, stripping the ball from the Vikings’ return man, then recovering the ball to give Sequim the ball in North Kitsap’s territory. Sequim also had an interception from Malachi Hampton and recovered another fumble but couldn’t take advantage of the Vikings’ mistakes.

Sequim scored their touchdown in the fourth quarter after a spectacular 46-yard pass from from quarterback Kaden Miller to Hampton. That set up the Wolves at the 4-yard line and they scored on a short touchdown on the next play.

The Wolves are set to travel on Friday, Oct. 17 to play league leader Olympic (3-0, 5-1).