PORT ANGELES — It will be the last weekend of the 2023 high school sports season. The Port Angeles Roughriders will be well represented at the state track meet.

For the Roughrider girls, Samara Holshouser will compete in the 400 meter. In the 3200 meter, it will be Leia Larson. Faerin Tait will run in the 300-meter hurdles. In the 4×400 relay it will be Samara Holshouser, Zoe Ernest, Leia Larson and Faerin Tait.

For the Roughrider boys, Tymur Lytvak will run in the 800 meters. Jack Gladfelter will run in the 1600 and 3200 meters. Parker Nickerson will compete in the 300 hurdles, the long jump and the triple jump. Dallas Dunning will compete in the high jump. In the 4×400 relay it, will be Tymur Lytvak, Jason Hawes, Parker Nickerson and Easton Dempsey.

Roughrider Jack Gladfelter is heading to Corbain College after competing at state this weekend

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The Peninsula Pirates men’s soccer team are kicking their grads out of the nest to their new 4-year schools. Dylan Pauw is heading to Thompson River University. Shu Kato and Yusaku Shimakura are heading to Southern Nazarene University. Tom Deser is heading to Fort Hayes State. Alfonso Santos de Cruz is going to play semi pro in Sweden and Gabriel Kickenbeck is heading to Briar Cliff University.

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The state’s 6th ranked Port Angeles Roughrider fast pitch team is ready for their traditional trip to Selah for the State Tournament. The Roughriders take on the #11 seed Cedarcrest Red Wolves of the rugged 2A-3A WESCO League. In the other bracket, there are two familiar foes, one is the #3-seed Ridgefield Spudders. The Roughriders beat the Spudders in the first game at state last year when Roughrider 2nd basemen Peyton Rudd hit a dramatic walk off homer in the 8th inning to win it.

The Spudders have been ranked in the top 3 in the state for most of the season. They returned their entire team, and all 4 of their losses were against Class 3A teams. Ridgefield plays #14-seed East Valley of Yakima at 9 am. The Roughriders beat East Valley early in the season 12-10 in Bellevue.

In other games involving Olympic League teams:  at 11 am #12 seed Olympic plays #5 seed Othello and #1 seed North Kitsap plays #16 seed R.A. Long.

KONP Newsradio will broadcast all the Roughrider games.

PA’s Lily Halberg and Kennedy Rognlien on the KONP post game show after they each hit tww home runs against #2-seed Orting in the Roughriders 15-3 district tournament win