Sports briefs — Nov. 29, 2023

Glow run is Saturday

The Jamestown S’Klallam 5k/10k Glow Run — the fifth and final race of the 2023 Run the Peninsula series — is set for Saturday, Dec. 2.

Both races start at 4:30 p.m. and are out-and-back courses along the Olympic Discovery Trail. Participants need to bring their own headlamp as they will be running after the sun sets.

Cost for both races is $40. Fee includes a race medal and Run the Peninsula wireless headphones. Register at runsignup.com/Race/WA/Sequim/JamestownSKlallamTribe.

There is no parking at the start/finish area. Participants can be dropped off at the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe bus stop and shuttles will be running between the race area and the 7Cedars Casino upper lot.

For more information, visit runthepeninsula.com/jamestown-sklallam-tribe.

Glasser helps CWU in playoff push

Sequim High 2018 graduate Payton Glasser is a second-year starter and team captain for the Central Washington Wildcats, who earned two upsets in the NCAA Division II football playoffs in recent weeks.

The unseeded Wildcats (8-3) upended second-seeded Western Colorado 16-13 on the road on Nov. 18, and then topped Bemidji State 21-17 in Minnesota on Nov. 25.

Glasser, a 6-5 senior tight end, had one reception for five yards against Bemidji State, and had 20 receptions for 323 yards and two scores as a junior in 2022.

Central Washington, the only unseeded team to advance to a Regional final (ncaa.com/brackets/football/d2/2023), takes on top-seeded Colorado School of Mines (12-0) in Golden,Colo., on Dec. 2.

Oregon golfer gets ace

Robert Hughes of Beaverton, Ore., sank his first hole-in-one at The Cedars at Dungeness on Nov. 24.

Hughes used a 7-iron to drive the 155-yard hole No. 17 at The Cedars.

Russell Hughes and James Kong of Sequim witnessed the feat.