Sports Roundup: Wolves face some of the best teams in state

The boys tennis team travels this weekend to Poulsbo for the Olympic League tournament, while the Wolves’ cross country squads host the Olympic League Meet at the Cedars at Dungeness on Thursday, Oct. 23. Here is a recap of sports from last week with more photos on the Gazette’s website, sequim gazette.com.

Volleyball: Wolves take on the best

The Sequim volleyball team played Bainbridge (11-0, 12-1) tough early last week, but the Spartans showed why they are undefeated and ranked No. 9 in the state, going on to win 3-0 (25-19, 25-17, 25-13) on Oct. 14.

“We wanted to at least take a game from them,” said coach Jennie Webber-Heilman.

“We played well in that first game, but we also missed four serves,” Webber-Heilman said. She said the team strives to serve 90 percent and served just 83 percent in this match. She also said the team needs to work on its passing.

“We weren’t getting the ball to our setter,” she said.

The Wolves stayed right with the Spartans early through all three games. The Spartans were effective in closing out Sequim each time. Sequim was down just 15-13 in game one as Bainbridge went 10-6 down the stretch to take a 1-0 lead. Sequim was down 18-13 in game two as Bainbridge closed out 7-4, and the third game was tied 7-7 early as Bainbridge went 18-6 down the stretch to close out the game and match.

Bainbridge, 12-0, has lost one game all year, to 4A South Kitsap.

Rose Gibson led the Wolves with seven kills and eight digs, while Sydney Clark served 4-for-4 with six digs.

Jordan Julmist had four kills and her first two stuff blocks of the year, while Teagan Neathery served 6-for-6 with an ace and a stuff block. Tiffany Lam had seven digs and Kassi Montero five kills, nine digs and a block.

Kenzie Berglund served 7-for-7 with an ace, 13 assists and eight digs, while Sophie Greenleaf had two aces.

The Wolves defeated Olympic three sets to one on Thursday, Oct. 16 in Bremerton. Sequim remains solidly in third place in the Olympic League with a record of 8-3 (9-4 overall). The Wolves were set to host Port Angeles on Tuesday, and North Kitsap on Thursday.

Sequim Gazette photo by Jacques Star/ Rose Gibson looks to tip the ball over the net against Bainbridge on Oct. 14.

Tennis: Wolves standouts angle for league tourney

The Wolves’ regular season play finished last week, and the Olympic League Boys Tennis Tournament takes place on Friday-Saturday, Oct. 24-25 in Poulsbo. Who will be competing for Sequim was not available by press time.

Sequim won a pair of singles matches against North Kitsap on Oct. 14, but the Vikings were able to win a couple of tiebreakers in the doubles matches to eke out a 5-2 win over the Wolves.

Lincoln Bear beat Drew Silott 6-4, 6-3, while Josh Loucks beat North Kitsap’s Edmond Sargusan 6-2, 7-5.

The match came down to a couple of tiebreakers. Sebastian Burher and Zach Post lost their match 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (10-7 tiebreaker), while Tegan Kurtze and Ryan Stites lost 6-2, 6-7, 7-6 (10-5).

Finn Baarten and Nico Musso had a close doubles loss at 6-2, 7-6, while Mason Rapelje and Bjorn Henrickson lost to NK’s No. 1 pair of Grady DeVries and Rocco Targett 6-2, 6-2. Wyatt Perez also lost a singles match 6-2, 6-1.

The Wolves hosted Kingston on Oct. 15 (score unavailable), and lost five matches to two against Bremerton on Oct. 16 (full results unavailable).

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash/ Wyatt Perez looks to make a strong hit against Kingston playing as the Wolves’ No. 3 singles player.

Football: Trojans’ Webster rushes for six TDs

The Wolves (0-3, 3-4) got overrun by Olympic’s senior running back Chace Webster on Friday night in Bremerton. Webster had five first half touchdowns and added a sixth early in the second half in the 59-14 Olympic (4-0. 6-1) win. His rushing touchdowns were from 46 yards, 25 yards, 2 yards, 48 yards, 70 yards, and 79 yards out.

The Trojans went up 39-0 at halftime on a 19-yard pass to Donovan Weaver and an extra point with one second left in the half. On Olympic’s opening drive of the second half, Webster scored on a 79-yard touchdown run.

Sequim got on the board with 5:51 minutes left in the third quarter with a five yard touchdown run by Liam Wiker and an extra point by Freddy Wilhelm.

The Wolves scored again with 6:22 to play in the fourth on a five-yard touchdown run by Brayden Wopperer. To set up the run, quarterback Kaden Miller had a 22 yard pass to Malachi Hampton.

Sequim is set to travel to Bainbridge (1-4, 1-6) on Oct. 24 before finishing the season at home on Thursday, Oct. 30 against North Mason (3-1, 6-1).

Cross Country goes to Battle Point

Leading up to the Olympic League meet this Thursday at the Cedars at Dungeness, Sequim took to the Battle at Battle Point Park league meet on Bainbridge Island on Oct. 15.

Sequim’s boys took sixth of seven teams while the girls placed eighth of eight squads.

In the boys race, Sequim junior Adrian Osborne led all area runners with a ninth place finish, in 17:32, a personal record.

Westley French placed 20th (17:49.5; a PR), while teammate Gavin Tupper was just behind him in 21st (17:51.9).

Sophomore Josh Wakefield ran to a 31st place finish (18:16.4) and Jonathan Tipton 36th (18:27.8; PR). Senior Jackson Hines finished in 19:01.5 (45th; PR).

Other top 100 finishers for Sequim included Brandon Bair (63rd, 19:47.3), Silas Barni (65th, 19:48.2; PR), Billy Struve (67th, 19:51.9), and Tim Vergnet (73rd, 20:01.1; PR). Wolves who set personal records included Westen Thomas (128; 22:29.4), Zach Sterrett (130; 22:31.0), Max Brouillard (25.46.4), and Cooper Farley (159; 26:21.9).

For the girls’ race, Sequim freshman Emily Bair was sixth in 20:57.1, and Birdie Pyeatt was 24th in 23:09.8, a season record.

Other runners included Shaylee Furbee placing 50th (26:51.8, a PR), Kaylee Lawson 52nd (26:54.8; PR), and Kylie Peters 56th (27:12.7; PR).

Sequim swims past East Jefferson

The Wolves won nine of 12 events in a 95-64 home win over East Jefferson in the YMCA.

Two relay teams won, including the 200 yard medley team of Naomi Beglyakov, Annie Ellefson, Ava Shinkle, and Holland Sol in 2:16.45, and the 200 freestyle squad of Ellefson, Holland Sol, Ashlyn Sol and Shinkle in 2:05.33.

Ellefson won the 100 freestyle (1:02.89) by more than four seconds, and the 100 breaststroke race (1:19.20). Ashlyn Sol took second in the 200 freestyle (2:59.60) to set a personal best.

Shinkle won the 200 IM (2:34.40) and 100 butterfly (1:17.74) while Holland Sol won the 500 freestyle in 7:14.39 to set a personal best.

Coach Sarah Thorson said with several new swimmers on the team, they’ve seen a tremendous amount of growth and look forward to the remainder of their season with their final league dual meet set for 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22 in the Sequim YMCA against Bremerton.

Soccer takes one against Olympic

The first-place Bainbridge Spartans (11-0, 11-1) proved to be too much for the Wolves’ attack in a 7-1 loss at home on Oct. 14. Sequim rebounded to win 5-1 two days later in Bremerton over Olympic.

The Wolves (5-6, 5-7), sitting in fifth place in the Olympic League, look to move up the standings against some of the league’s best at home this week hosting Port Angeles (8-3, 10-3) on Tuesday, and North Kitsap (9-2, 10-3) on Thursday.

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash Josh Loucks returns a hit on Oct. 15 playing against Kingston.

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash/ Zach Post, playing as No. 2 singles on Oct. 15, returns a hit against a Kingston player.

Sequim Gazette photo by Jacques Star The Wolves’ Jordyn Julmist and Teagan Neathery look to make a block against a Bainbridge tip on Oct. 14.

Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash/ Bjorn Henrickson returns a hit in a match with partner Mason Rapelje, not pictured, Oct. 15 against Kingston’s No. 1 doubles team.