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It’s time for the Sports Beat, a weekly capsule of the local prep sports scene. We start out on the track, as the state championships were held at Mount Tahoma High School May 26-28. The Gig Harbor boys team, winners of five previous state championships, placed ninth this year. The following is a list of
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Longtime Gig Harbor High School athletic director Bob Werner has decided to step aside from his duties to spend more time helping those who helped him. Werner decided that he needs to spend more time helping his parents as they age. He also would like more time to spend with his four adult children, all
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The 2022 spring sports season saw some fantastic results for teams from Gig Harbor and Peninsula high schools. Both were at or near the top of the South Sound Conference standings in most spring sports. There were also many notable individual performances. Area schools boasted three conference MVPs; the fastpitch pitcher of the year; the
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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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