Photo Courtesy Jay Cline
PORT ANGELES — The Peninsula Pirates women’s basketball team dominated a very good Everett Trojan team 72-49 Saturday night. The entire Pirate team participated one way or another in the impressive win. Ituau Tuisaula lead the Pirates with fourteen points and seven rebounds. Kelli-Jade Smith and Ariyanna Camacho-Vil each hit for eleven points. Former Roughrider Millie Long had a great Stat line of eleven points, six rebounds, six assists and three steals. The Pirates 4-1 in conference play and 13-3 overall travel to Bellevue this Wednesday.
The Pirate men shot an ice cold 29% from the field while Everett had the hot hand from the 3-point stripe as they surprisingly knocked off the Pirates 74-54. Jaylin Reed lead the Pirates with fourteen points and Isaiah Sampson hit for ten. The Pirates are 3-2 in conference play and 11-6 overall.
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Two of the top ten class AA boys basketball teams Port Angeles and Sehome battled in a classic battle Friday night at Roughrider Gym and basketball fans loved what they saw. Port Angeles down thirteen with 4 minutes left in the first half fought back for a rewarding 68-64 win over a super talented well coached team. Port Angeles outscored Sehome 13 – 4 in the last 3 minutes of the half to make it a 34-32 lead for Sehome. Then, in a 5-minute span in the third quarter, Sophomore Parker Nickerson put on a shooting clinic. The Sehome defense made the mistake of leaving Nickerson wide open on the right baseline where he drilled 3, 3 balls and another field goal to give the Roughriders some breathing room with an 8-point lead at the end of 3, 54-46. Sehome pulled within 2, 59-57 with 1:10 left. Roughrider Sr point guard Xander Maestas hit a 3-point money ball with a minute left to give the Roughriders a 5-point lead. Maestas had eighteen points on the night and might have played the best game of his career! Roughrider top gun Wyatt Dunning went four for four from the line down the stretch to give the Roughriders a big time 68-64 win. Wyatt Dunning lead the way with twenty points and John Vaara added fourteen.
Saturday afternoon the Roughriders played their third game in 3 days knocking off Sequim 55-33 in Roughrider Gym. Wyatt Dunning lead the way with twenty points and John Vaara hit for sixteen. Wolves Jr. Cole Smith was outstanding inside leading the Wolves with fifteen points. The Roughriders will host Bremerton Tuesday night Sequim will host Klahowya tonight at 7 pm. In girls play tonight Sequim will be at North Kitsap for a 7 pm tipoff and Port Angeles will travel tomorrow night to Bremerton with a 7 pm tip off.