Sequim Gazette staff

A championship-winning team, a peninsula media icon, a Northwest baseball legend and two key figures in founding collegiate sports on the Olympic Peninsula.

Peninsula College inducts five new members into its Pirate Athletics Hall of Fame on Saturday, June 4, at the Peninsula Golf Course Clubhouse.

The evening celebrates PC’s NWAC title-winning 2010 men’s soccer team, Howard “Scooter” Chapman, Jim Clem, Rosemary Moorhead and the late Jim Lunt, beginning with a social hour at 6 p.m. and induction ceremony following at 7 p.m.

2014 Hall of Fame Inductees in attendance, including members of the 1970 Pirate men’s basketball team, the late Art Feiro, the late Dr. Wally Sigmar, Kathy Murphy-Carey and Jerry Allen, also will be recognized.

Pirate fans, friends and family members of the inductees are invited to attend. Admission is free and no pre-registration is required. There will be snack food and a no-host bar.

Peninsula College established the Pirate Athletics Hall of Fame in 2014.

Plaques commemorating the five newest members will join the others on display in the gym foyer following the induction ceremony, an event sponsored by Windermere Realty.

“It promises to be a very special evening,” Rick Ross, associate dean for Athletics and Student Life at Peninsula College, said. “I’m looking forward to reuniting with all of these former Pirates, and Pirate supporters, and hearing their stories.”

For more information, contact Ross at rross@pencol.edu.

The 2015 honorees

The 2010 Pirate soccer team became the second team in the college’s history to win a championship but the first to win a Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges title. The 1970 men’s basketball team won the crown when it was the Washington Athletic Conference. Years later the WAC expanded to include Oregon colleges and the NWAACC was formed.

That Pirate soccer team went 13-3-4 overall and 8-3-2 in West Division play, claiming the West championship by one point over Bellevue. The PC men outscored opponents 36-18, then edged Highline in the championship game in a shootout following a scoreless regulation.

Miguel Gonzalez, who now plays professionally for the Colorado Springs Switchbacks in the United Soccer League, led the Pirates in scoring with 15 goals and four assists in 2010. Andrew Chapman was named NWAC Coach of the Year and was assisted that year by Kanyon Anderson and Tim Tucker.

Well known across the region as an icon in newspaper and radio, Howard “Scooter” Chapman has reported on Peninsula College athletics since its beginning in the 1962. Chapman served as sports editor of the Port Angeles Evening News (now Peninsula Daily News) and sports director for Radio KONP throughout most of Peninsula Colleges’ history, including a live radio broadcast of the 1970 men’s basketball championship at Lower Columbia College in Longview. He also wrote a regular column for the Sequim Gazette for several years.

Chapman, 81, still is a regular at the scorer’s table at home Pirate basketball and soccer games. His reports are heard daily on Radio KONP.

Jim Clem, pitching coach and recruiting coordinator for the Bellingham Bells, a West Coast League baseball team, got his start back at Peninsula College in 1971. He played baseball and basketball for two years at PC and also served as student body president. As a pitcher and outfielder for the Pirates, he was named team captain and Most Valuable Player. He went on to pitch for Central Washington University.

Clem coached two seasons at Dayton High School and then 28 seasons at Burlington-Edison High School, where his teams won 12 conference championships and appeared in 15 state tournaments. Clem is a member of several statewide baseball Halls of Fame.

Rosemary Moorhead played volleyball, basketball, softball and badminton competitively as a student at the University of Arizona where she was named the Outstanding Sports Woman in 1961. Soon after arriving at Peninsula, Moorhead established a Women’s Recreation Association program and worked with the late Art Feiro to start women’s volleyball and women’s basketball at Peninsula.

Moorhead left Peninsula, where she taught as many as 14 different activity PE courses, in 1973, but remained an advocate and a pioneer of local women’s sports. She helped start the Port Angeles Women’s Tennis Club and also helped establish the Senior Games in Port Angeles. Her effort to establish women’s sports at Peninsula laid the groundwork for Feiro to hire Kathy Murphy-Carey in 1975 as volleyball coach, launching the first intercollegiate Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges sports program at the college.

The late Jim Lunt is among the key figures in Peninsula College’s sports history. He was the college’s first student body president in 1961, the year the college was founded, and the year he and other students selected the school colors and the Pirate as its mascot.

Lunt returned to Peninsula in the late 1960s, where he was involved in athletics, student life and drama from the mid-1960s through 1981.

After PC dropped its athletic program in 1981, Lunt led a team of college staff and community boosters to explore resurrecting Pirate athletics in 1996. He was named athletic director, in addition to his role as financial aid director. Peninsula launched men’s and women’s basketball in the fall of 1997 and then added men’s soccer and women’s softball in 2000.