It’s time for the Sports Beat, a capsule of this week’s best performances from local prep athletes and teams. We begin on the diamond, where the red-hot Peninsula fastpitch team won the district championship on May 21 with a 5-2 win over Bonney Lake. In three district tournament games, they outscored their opponents 25-2. Coach
It’s time for the Sports Beat, a capsule of this weeks best performances from local prep athletes and teams. At the South Sound Conference track and field championships at North Thurston High School in Lacey, the Gig Harbor Tides earned a rare double as both boys and girls teams won championships. The boys won in
Editor’s note: Today, Gig Harbor Now launches its Prep Outlook, an occasional feature on standout high school athletes from the area. To say that pitcher Alli Kimball has had a phenomenal season is still somehow an understatement. The junior from Peninsula High (17-1) compiled a 13-1 record with three no-hitters, two perfect games and a
It’s time for the Sports Beat, our weekly capsule of local athletic events. There’s a lot to cover in this busy spring report, with more than 20 teams and hundreds of local athletes in action. We begin with the game of the week on the fastpitch diamond, where the South Sound Conference-leading Peninsula Seahawks (17-1,
The Peninsula baseball team opened the district playoffs with an impressive 11-0 win over Auburn Mountainview on Saturday, May 7, at a blustery Sehmel Park. The umpires invoked the 10-rule run rule on Auburn Mountainview in a game in which Seahawks senior pitcher Hunter Bennett looked sharp. The 10-run rule stops the game after five
It’s time for this week’s edition of the Sports Beat, a capsule of recent high school athletic events. We start on the fastpitch diamond, where Peninsula pitcher Alli Kimball cemented her legacy with back-to-back perfect games against the Central Kitsap Cougars. Kimball and the fifth-ranked Seahawks didn’t allow a hit, walk or commit an error
The Peninsula boys soccer team just finished the South Sound Conference regular season in a dominant fashion, with a 11-1-2 record while outscoring their conference foes 55-14. The Seahawks earned the school’s first soccer league title since 2007 with an intense, passionate style that mimics their first-year coach, Ozer Kocdemir. Kocdemir, a native of Sweden,
It’s time for the Sports Beat, a capsule of this week’s prep athletic events. We start with the game of the week on the baseball diamond as the Peninsula Seahawks and Gig Harbor Tides played a crucial two-game series Tuesday and Wednesday at Sehmel Park to decide the South Sound Conference championship. Gig Harbor had
Matt Robles, the head boys basketball coach at Peninsula High School since 2016, resigned the position on Friday. Robles was a head coach from California who was hired to build on the success of former Peninsula coach Jake Jackson. Jackson departed to take the coaching job at his alma mater, Sumner High, in 2016. Jackson
It’s time for this week’s edition of the Sports Beat, a weekly capsule of the area’s prep athletic events. We will start with the matchup of the week on the links as the Tides and Seahawk teams, both boys and girls, were at the lush grounds of the Canterwood Golf and Country Club on Thursday,
