Sports Roundup: Boys tennis takes win over Bulldogs

Girls soccer swarms Knights with 7-0 scoring frenzy

By Sequim Gazette staff • October 7, 2025 3:30 pm
Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash Josh Loucks, Sequim’s No. 2 tennis singles player, won his match against North Mason to help the Wolves win 6-1.
Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash Josh Loucks, Sequim’s No. 2 tennis singles player, won his match against North Mason to help the Wolves win 6-1.

Sequim hosted Homecoming and some hard-fought match-ups last week.

Tennis wins lone meet

Following two rainouts earlier in the week, Sequim won its lone match-up last week 6-1 at home against North Mason on Oct. 2.

The Wolves’ No. 2 singles player Josh Loucks won in two sets 6-0, 6-1 over Ben Giesa, while No. 3 singles player Wyatt Perez also won in two sets over William Hemlich 6-1, 6-2.

Sequim’s doubles’ teams all won with No. 1 duo Bjorn Henrikson and Mason Rapelje defeating Yasiel Barajas and Owen Oblizalo 6-3, 6-3.

No. 2 doubles team Sebastian Buhrer and Tegan Kurtze won 6-4, 7-5 over Matt Ford and Teige Stanley, and Zach Post and Ryan Stites defeated Anders Oldright and Cameron Williams 6-1, 6-3. Finn Braaten and Nico Musso won No. 4 doubles by forfeit.

The Bulldogs’ Jansen Biehl won the lone match-up 4-6, 6-2, 6-2 over Sequim’s No. 1 singles player Lincoln Bear.

This week, Sequim was set to travel to play Bainbridge on Monday, host Olympic on Tuesday and travel to play Olympic on Wednesday, and finish the week in Port Angeles on Thursday.

Sequim Gazette photo by Jacques Star Raimey Brewer advances the ball during a 7-0 win over Bremerton on Oct. 2. She had two assists in the game.

Sequim Gazette photo by Jacques Star Raimey Brewer advances the ball during a 7-0 win over Bremerton on Oct. 2. She had two assists in the game.

Soccer blasts Bremerton

Following a 2-0 loss to North Kitsap on Sept. 30 in Poulsbo, the Wolves came back with an offensive onslaught on Oct. 2 in a 7-0 home win over the Bremerton Knights.

In the game, Kiley Winter scored thrice, Ruby Horgan-Moxley twice, and Kaiya Robinson and Harper Moore each scored. Assists were made by Raimey Brewer (2), Winter (2), Olive Bridge (2), and Adalie Eastburn.

Sequim (3-4, 3-5 overall) is set to travel this week to Kingston on Tuesday, and North Mason on Thursday.

Sequim Gazette photo by Jacques Star Kiley Winter jets down the field against Bremerton players on Oct. 2 in a 7-0 win. She scored three goals and made two assists in the game.

Sequim Gazette photo by Jacques Star Kiley Winter jets down the field against Bremerton players on Oct. 2 in a 7-0 win. She scored three goals and made two assists in the game.

Football: Knights spoil Homecoming game

Bremerton’s rushing game spoiled Sequim’s Homecoming night on Oct. 3 with a 34-12 win over the Wolves.

Sequim’s Liam Wiker scored the Wolves’ two touchdowns with a 2-yard rush near the end of the first quarter, and another early in the fourth quarter.

The Knights opened with a 74-yard opening run by running back Kenneth Najera, and Sequim responded to tie it at six. They also recovered a Bremerton fumble less than a minute into the second quarter but couldn’t capitalize. Bremerton’s Marquise Allen then ran for a 12-yard touchdown and Najera rushed for a two-point conversion to go up 14-6. Allen then ran for a second touchdown for 42 yards to go up 21-6. The Wolves rallied and got down to the goal line with a combination of throws and rushes in tandem with face mask and offsides penalties on the Knights, but Sequim ran out of time before halftime.

In the second half, Allen caught a 12-yard touchdown pass from Buda Sorensen with 6:03 to go in the third to help the Knights go up by three touchdowns (28-6).

Sequim drove the ball the remainder of the third quarter and started the fourth with a Wiker touchdown run to narrow it 28-12 with the Wolves’ extra point blocked.

An unsuccessful onside kick led to the final score of the game where Allen ran for another touchdown from 35 yards out with 9:03 to play. Allen and Najera combined for more than 180 yards rushing in the game.

Sequim (0-2, 3-2) is set to host North Kitsap (2-1, 3-2) at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10.

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash Liam Wiker rushes against Bremerton at the Homecoming game on Oct. 3. He had two touchdown rushes in the 34-12 loss.

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash Liam Wiker rushes against Bremerton at the Homecoming game on Oct. 3. He had two touchdown rushes in the 34-12 loss.

Swim squad splashes Buccaneers

The Wolves followed up a home meet win over Klahowya to tie Kingston on Oct. 3 at the Sequim YMCA.

Coach Sarah Thorson said swimmers had some great events highlighted by Holland Sol taking first in the 500 freestyle and setting another personal record (7:17.78) dropping her time by 12 seconds from the week prior. Sequim’s Naomi Beglyakov, who came in second, also dropped 10 seconds from her PR (7:20.58).

A few other highlights include Annie Ellefson winning the 100 butterfly (1:18.08) and 100 breaststroke (1:16.88), Sol the 100 freestyle (1:19.09), and Grace Bravo the 100 backstroke (1:45.85).

Wolves won all the relays with the 200 medley relay of Brooklyn Sorensen, Violet Phillips, Madelyn Bower, and Sol swimming to first place in 2:46.20.

The 200 freestyle relay of Beglyakov, Ellefson, Emma Rhodes, and Sol took first with 2:15.31, as did the 400 freestyle relay team of Madelyn Bower, Sol, Phillips, and Bravo (5:46.47).

This week, Sequim hosts North Kitsap today, Wednesday, Oct. 8.

Cross Country cruises at Chambers Creek Park

Sequim ran with hundreds of competitors from across the state on Oct. 4 at the 29th John Payne XC Invitational at Chambers Creek Park in University Place.

In the varsity silver race, freshman Emily Bair set a personal record in the 5,000 meters running 21:50.7 for a 49th finish to lead the Wolves. Junior Birdie Pyeatt finished 194th (24:19.6), and Kaylee Lawson, a freshman, set a PR at 28:25.3 (333rd place), and Shaylee Furbee (31:32.8) finished 355th.

Port Angeles’ Leia Larson finished 35th in 21:28.8 to lead the Roughriders.

In the boys’ varsity silver race, sophomore Jonathan Tipton set a PR (18:34.4) for a 196th place finish to lead the Wolves’ boys.

He was followed by Josh Wakefield setting a PR (18:43.0) for 215th place, Adrian Osborne (18:45.2) in 221st, Gavin Tupper 242nd (18:57.8), Jackson Hines in 315th (19:35, a PR), and Westley French in 347 (19:57.4).

Port Angeles’ Henry Wendel set a PR 18:20.1 to finish 158th.

This week, the Wolves are set to travel to the Nike Hole in the Wall XC Invitational in Lakewood on Saturday, Oct. 11.

Volleyball splits matches

Sequim had to battle against two opponents in an Olympic League volleyball match Tuesday night, rival North Kitsap and a referee unwilling to make calls against the Vikings in a 25-11, 18-25, 25-15, 25-27, 10-15 five-set loss.

“The biggest part was I feel really bad for my girls,” said Sequim coach Jennie Webber Heilman. “We’ve been working really hard in practice and putting together a gameplan for NK, and the refs did not make even one ball-handling call on them in five games, and there were some pretty blatant violations.”

Ball handling violations include double contact, when the ball is hit twice in succession or the ball contacts different parts of the body at separate times, or when the ball is caught, thrown or carried.

“There was one play where an NK girl caught it then hit,” Webber Heilman said. “It was so obvious the crowd was calling it out, but no call was made. It got to the point I asked our captain to talk to the up official and ask them to watch the net.”

Webber Heilman said the Wolves continued to play hard. Rose Gibson led Sequim at the service line, going 19-for-19 with four aces, five perfect passes, eight kills and 14 digs.

Ashton Reichner also went 100 percent at the line, 11-of-11 with three aces. Freshman Jordyn Julmist played well offensively and defensively, going 6-of-7 with an ace, 15 kills and 15 digs.

Sequim (5-2, 6-3) went on to sweep Bremerton 3-0 on Oct. 2. This week, the Wolves are set to travel to Kingston on Tuesday, North Mason on Thursday, Oct. 9, and to the Capitol City Invite on Saturday, Oct. 11.

Sequim Gazette photo by Jacques Star Sequim’s Ruby Moxley-Horgan takes a shot against Bremerton. She had two goals in the 7-0 win on Oct. 2.

Sequim Gazette photo by Jacques Star Sequim’s Ruby Moxley-Horgan takes a shot against Bremerton. She had two goals in the 7-0 win on Oct. 2.

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash Doubles team Sebastian Buhrer and Tegan Kurtze score a point against their North Mason opponents on Oct. 2. The duo won 6-4, 7-5.

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash Doubles team Sebastian Buhrer and Tegan Kurtze score a point against their North Mason opponents on Oct. 2. The duo won 6-4, 7-5.

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash Sequim quarterback Kaden Miller looks to pass during the Homecoming game on Oct. 3 for the Wolves.

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash Sequim quarterback Kaden Miller looks to pass during the Homecoming game on Oct. 3 for the Wolves.

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash/ Doubles team Bjorn Henrikson and Mason Rapelje return a ball against their North Mason opponents on Oct. 2. They won 6-3, 6-3.

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash/ Doubles team Bjorn Henrikson and Mason Rapelje return a ball against their North Mason opponents on Oct. 2. They won 6-3, 6-3.

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash Zach Post returns a ball as doubles teammate Ryan Stites looks on in an Oct. 2 match with North Mason. The No. 3 doubles team won 6-1, 6-3.

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash Zach Post returns a ball as doubles teammate Ryan Stites looks on in an Oct. 2 match with North Mason. The No. 3 doubles team won 6-1, 6-3.