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Sports briefs — Dec. 8, 2021

Published 1:30 am Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Eleanor Jones of Sequim races through a muddy bog at the Extreme Sports Park in Port Angeles on Nov. 28, as she competes in the the inaugural Extreme CX Port Angeles cyclocross event. Cyclocross, a popular sport in Europe, requires competitors to ride through mud, up steep hills and over obstacles and stairs. Riders often have to pick up their bikes and carry them through “portage” areas where the obstacles are too steep or the mud too slick to ride through. Riders from as young as 10 to as old as 65-plus competed in the late November event, with 94 riders on Nov. 27 and 104 riders the following day. Photo by Keith Thorpe/Olympic Peninsula News Group

Eleanor Jones of Sequim races through a muddy bog at the Extreme Sports Park in Port Angeles on Nov. 28, as she competes in the the inaugural Extreme CX Port Angeles cyclocross event. Cyclocross, a popular sport in Europe, requires competitors to ride through mud, up steep hills and over obstacles and stairs. Riders often have to pick up their bikes and carry them through “portage” areas where the obstacles are too steep or the mud too slick to ride through. Riders from as young as 10 to as old as 65-plus competed in the late November event, with 94 riders on Nov. 27 and 104 riders the following day. Photo by Keith Thorpe/Olympic Peninsula News Group

Run the Peninsula registration is open

Registration for the 2022 Run the Peninsula series opened Dec. 7. Participants can get a 5-percent discount on the race bundle if they register for other races.

The series is made up of five races spanning sections of the Olympic Discovery Trail from Port Townsend to Port Angeles. Each race offers a 5k or 10k distance, with longer distance options for North Olympic Discovery Marathon and Larry Scott Trail. Each race also has a virtual option.

Events include: Elwha River Bridge in Port Angeles, Feb. 5; Railroad Bridge Park in Sequim (5k, 10k), April 23; North Olympic Discovery Marathon in Sequim and Port Angeles (5k, 10k, half, full), June 5; Larry Scott Trail in Port Townsend (5k, 10k, half); and, Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe in Blyn (5k, 10k).

Finishers of each race will receive a unique medal that combines with the others.

Get more information and/or register at nodm.com.

Bowling: Wolves improve to 4-1

Sequim High’s bowling squad earned a 7-0 sweep at Olympic on Nov. 30 and added a 7-0 sweep of North Mason on Dec. 2.

Against Olympic, the Wolves (4-1) took the regular games 586-555 and 639-565, and Baker-format games 117-108 and 129-110. Madison McKeown and Gabby Mattern-Hall paced the Wolves, with McKeown scoring a match-high 300-pin series (145-155) and Mattern-Hall a match-high single game effort of 156 pins in game two. Nikoline Updike added a 248=-pin series (111-137).

Against North Mason, Mattern-Hall led the way with a 285-pin series (134-151), backed by McKeown (241 pin series) and Updike (232). Sequim won games one and two, 550-465 and 599-518, and edged the Bulldogs in Baker-format games, 96-93 and 92-84.

Sequim is back on the lanes at home on Dec. 9 against Klahowya. The Wolves are at North Mason Dec. 14 and Klahowya Dec. 16 before a three-week holiday break.

Smart Choices scholarship available

The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association is seeking applicants for its annual Smart Choices College Scholarship, which will recognize three high school students for their achievements in athletics or activities, the community and the classroom with $5,000 college scholarships.

Class of 2021 Sequim High School grad Kalli Wiker was a Smart Choices Scholarship winner earlier this year.

In addition to the three $5,000 scholarship winners, 12 other finalists receive $1,000 scholarships.

Applicants are required to fill out an online application and write a short essay. Judging criteria is based on 30 percent athletic/activity excellence, 30 percent academic achievement, 20 percent leadership, 10 percent citizenship/community service, 5 percent on financial need and 5 percent on originality/creativity of the student’s essay or video.

The deadline to apply is April 1. To apply, visit wiaa.com/smartchoices.

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