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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
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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,
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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
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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
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The Gig Harbor Paddlers Cup returned Saturday after missing the past two years due to Covid-19. The event continues Sunday, April 24, with the Dragon Boat races. Sunday’s racing starts at noon with the Awaken the Dragon ceremony. Racing starts at 1:30 p.m.,with the championship heats at 3 p.m. Nine Dragon Boat teams are expected
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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,
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The Peninsula baseball team faced the Capital Cougars on Tuesday, April 19, in an important game at picturesque Sehmel Park in Gig Harbor. The contest was the first of a two-game series between the top teams in the South Sound Conference. Peninsula started the day with a two-game lead on Capital, but their margin was
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After a two-year hiatus, the Gig Harbor Paddlers Cup returns this weekend, April 23-24, to Skansie Brothers Park. The races draw hundreds of participants and spectators to the downtown waterfront, or they did before the 2020 and 2021 versions were canceled due to Covid-19. The event is a fundraiser for the Gig Harbor Canoe and
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It’s time for this week’s edition of the Sports Beat, a weekly capsule of the area’s high school sports highlights. We start with the game of the week, a pivotal boys soccer matchup between crosstown rivals. Gig Harbor vaulted to the top of the South Sound Conference soccer standings on Tuesday with an impressive 4-0
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It’s time for the Sports Beat, a weekly capsule of the high school sports scene in Gig Harbor. We will begin with the game of the week: a fastpitch showdown between the Peninsula Seahawks and the Gig Harbor Tides on Wednesday on the Seahawks’ home diamond. Kimball, Seahawks shut out Tides Peninsula (8-1, 4-0 South
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