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The Peninsula Seahawk (4-5, 4-3 South Sound Conference) football team played the Timberline Blazers (5-4, 4-3) on Friday, Oct. 27, for a chance to claim the league’s third place playoff spot, but fell to the Blazers at home, 35-0. The Seahawks, Blazers and Capital Cougars all ended the regular season with 4-3 SSC records. Those
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Both local football teams are in action tonight (Friday, Oct. 27). The Gig Harbor Tides (7-1, 6-0 South Sound Conference) travel to Yelm (8-0, 6-0) to take on the Tornados for a conference title, while the Peninsula Seahawks look to clinch third place in the conference and a Class 3A playoff spot against the Timberline
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The Gig Harbor football team has compiled an impressive 7-1 record this season, including six straight wins against South Sound Conference opponents, en route to a No. 10 ranking in the WIAA Class 3A RPI standings. They have done it in impressive fashion, winning South Sound Conference games by an average of 24 points per
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A Peninsula School District investigation into events at the Sept. 15 Fish Bowl football game between Gig Harbor and Peninsula high schools found that “claims of inappropriate behavior beyond what the game officials addressed were unsubstantiated.” The district announced Monday, Oct. 23, that the investigation is complete. In announcing the completion, the district noted that
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Peninsula’s Elektra Higgins was electric at the South Sound Conference cross country championships on Thursday, Oct. 19, at Fort Steilacoom Park. Higgins faced a quality field that included last year’s Class 3A state runner-up, Claire Herring of Central Kitsap. The much-anticipated race turned into a blowout as Higgins ran away from Herring to win by
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The Gig Harbor girls swim and dive team (6-2, 6-0 South Sound Conference) hosted the Peninsula Seahawks for a dual meet on Oct. 10 and came away with a resounding 120-65 victory. Two days later, Gig Harbor defeated the North Thurston Rams 115-64 to win the South Sound Conference with a perfect league record. Against
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Both local cross country teams have passed the midway point of their seasons with impressive results. Gig Harbor and Peninsula are respected programs that are churning out runners in contention for the South Sound Conference championships at Fort Steilacoom Park on Oct. 19 and the Class 3A state championships in Pasco on Nov. 4. The
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The U.S. Center for SafeSport suspended a former coach at a Gig Harbor gymnastics facility for two years, citing inappropriate conduct, emotional misconduct and physical misconduct. The organizations suspended Andrew Michael Smith, listed as a resident of Dupont and a former coach at NASA Gymnastics in Gig Harbor, on Sept. 6. It will remain in
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The Peninsula Seahawk volleyball team (7-1, 6-1 South Sound Conference) got all they could handle from a Gig Harbor team (7-3, 5-2) that held late leads in the fourth and fifth sets. But the experienced Seahawks held on and closed out the Tides with an intense, 3-2 victory on Thursday, Oct. 5, at Gig Harbor
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Two of the region’s top soccer programs faced off Tuesday, Sept. 26, when Gig Harbor (6-1-1, 6-1 South Sound Conference) and Peninsula (5-2-1, 5-1-1) met at Roy Anderson Field. The Tides scored early and held on with a fine defensive effort to win 3-0 in a matchup with huge conference ramifications. Peninsula could have jumped
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