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Schools eye $154M bond vote Facilities plan could go to voters in April

major capital projects bond proposal, but delayed approving that proposal until Feb. 11.

Board members hope to have the scope of the bond — likely around

by MICHAEL DASHIELL $154 million, a figure board memSequim Gazette bers seemed to favor at the Jan. 28 Last week, the Sequim school meeting — and a date to bring the board took more steps toward a bond to voters soon.

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But board members put off a vote for the bond on Jan. 28, with conversation centering around who would run the bond campaign and BEDINGER whether to put the proposal to voters as early as April.

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“I don’t think there’s enough manpower,” school board member Sarah Bedinger said. “It’s a big undertaking.”

She noted that school levy campaigns often take a large group of citizens up to six months to run.

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Public construction: How much does it cost?

by MARK ST.J. COUHIG Sequim Gazette

How much does it cost to construct a new public building?

That depends on how you calculate the cost. Do you include the purchase of land? The demolishing of existing structures? Landscaping? All of the above?

If you do, the total price of the new Sequim Civic Center works out to a whopping $465 a square foot. ($15.8 million divided by 33,000 square feet.)

But that’s not a fair way to look at it, says Sequim City Engineer David Garlington. He notes that’s a “project cost,” not the building construction cost.

A breakdown of the estimated costs created by the city’s consultants, Optimum Building

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City, county fire ratings improve Insurance rates should drop, fire officials say Sequim Gazette staff Sequim’s 12th Man community photo on Saturday morning led into a big day for the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday. Seattle dominated the 48th Super Bowl with a 43-8 win against the Denver Broncos, thanks to an overpowering defense, a near-perfect offense and outstanding special-teams play. Sequim’s turnout was bigger than the Gazette anticipated, with about 200 people in attendance sporting jerseys, flags, wild hair and hats and more. On behalf of the Gazette staff we thank you! This community showed an immense pride in the Seahawks and this was a good way to highlight it. Thanks to supporters Purple Haze Lavender, A1 Auto Parts, Hurricane Coffee Company, Sunshine Cafe, The Good Book, Sequim Shoe Repair, Helen Haller Elementary School and Thomas Building Center. Sequim Gazette photo by Michael Dashiell

Working wonders from the wrestling mat Sequim High squad rallies around teammate with disability

by MICHAEL DASHIELL Sequim Gazette

Beginning early in life, his mom recalls, Nick Barrett’s been a wrestler — grabbing, hugging, holding on tight.

“Even in early intervention he liked to wrestle,” says Terry Barrett, who watches as her 16-yearold son Nick grapples with a fellow student at a late-season practice for the Sequim Wolves.

For Sequim High wrestlers, Nick isn’t the kid with Down syndrome.

Barrett grew up with his family just outside Portland, Ore. Diagnosed with Down syndrome — a birth defect in which a full or partial extra copy of a chromosome causes physical and mental development de lays — Nick and family were looking for chances for inclusion as he advanced to intermediate and high school ages. The school in Oregon he was at was just so big, Terry says, that it seemed Nick Barrett grapples with teammate Kevyn Ward (foreground). Looking on is teammate Kaylee Ditlefsen and assistant coach Anthony Gowdy. Sequim Gazette intimidating.

“It’s not that he’s excluded,” photo by Michael Dashiell Terry says. “It’s just, he’s not had He’s a teammate.

Drabek says. “I can tell they all the opportunities before.”

“I think everybody kind of em- genuinely care about him.”

See WONDERS, A-2 braced him,” SHS coach Charles The youngest of five, Nick

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Clallam District 3 Fire Chief Steve Vogel said he recently received word that Washington Survey and Rating has lowered the fire rating VOGEL for both Sequim and Clallam County. The city will drop from a “5” to a “4,” while the county will go from a “6” to a “5.”

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The forum is from 2-4 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 9, in the commissioners meeting room in the Clallam County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles. Following the presentations by panelists, there will be an opportunity to ask questions or make comments.

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Center’s program spotlights local military history

by Reneé Mizar Communications Director, Museum & Arts Center in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Military historical sites of Puget Sound are the focus of a history program featuring local author Nancy McDaniel at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 7, at the historical Dungeness Schoolhouse, 2781 Towne Road in Sequim.

McDaniel, a retired U.S. Air Force Medical Service Corps officer, is the author of “A

Sound Defense: Military Historical Sites of Puget Sound.”

Admission for the program, presented by the Museum & Arts Center in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley, is $5 for MAC members or $7 for non-members and payable at the door. Fees support continued MAC programming.

As part of the program, McDaniel will overview past and active military installations in the 12 counties that surround Puget Sound, including Clallam and Jefferson counties, spanning from the

late 1700s to the present. The Chimacum-based author also will discuss the role of Western Washington lighthouses in regional defense and the contributions that lighthouse keepers and their families made to local history.

“It also will be a bit of a travelogue of these locations, with the hope that attendees will use when they plan day

trips and explore the area,” McDaniel said of the presentation. “Each county has some sort of military historical site which has contributed to the local and national history of our state and the country.”

McDaniel will participate in a book signing following the presentation and copies of her 2013 book will be for sale. Copies also are available

At left, the New Dungeness Lighthouse and buildings, circa 1913.

Photo from Genevieve Schmuck Collection, Museum & Arts Center in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley. Above, soldiers and young girl at Fort Worden. Photo from Cliff Brehan Collection, Museum & Arts Center in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley

for purchase in advance at the MAC Exhibit Center, 175 W. Cedar St. in Sequim.

This presentation continues a winter series of local history programs presented by the MAC on Friday mornings through February at the Dungeness Schoolhouse, which is ADA accessible. Additional upcoming programs

Above, Nick Barrett listens to Sequim head coach Charles Drabek as Drabek preps the Wolves for a jamboree on Dec. 5 in Port Angeles. Above right, Barrett can’t help but grin during his exhibition match against Roughrider Juan Blevins. At near right, Barrett gets a high five from teammate Kevyn Ward after his first match. Sequim Gazette photos by Michael Dashiell

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Dra bek laug h s. “ He couldn’t handle not being on the mat.”

Instead, the Wolves took him into their pack as a fellow grappler.

Sophomore Kevyn Ward recalls the day Nick Barrett walked into practice.

“I was just stoked; I walked up and said, ‘I’m Kevin.

What’s up Nick?’” Ward recalls. “I taught him some moves as we got more into the season.”

Other teammates have stepped up to help Nick in

practice, Drabek says, including senior Adam Schaepher.

They help Nick get ready each practice, helping put on his uniform and shoes, talking with him in pre-drill running, showing him moves along with others.

“They accept him but they don’t leave it at that,” Terry says. “It’s not something you would ask to fall into place.

It’s an extraordinary situation.”

Dec. 6, Saint Nicholas Day, and named after the saint From page A-1 often called “the Wonderworker.”

The day before his 16th Terry and Nick moved to birthday, Nick took to the mat Sequim in September. The for the first official wrestling change of scenery was just match of his life at a jambowhat he needed, Terry says. ree in Port Angeles. Across She met with SHS Life Skills the mat was Juan Blevins of teachers Bill Isenberg and Port Angeles. Despite some Jennifer Krumpe to figure similarities — Blevins has out if there was a way to similar development chalget Nick involved in somelenges — the two were not thing after school. Wrestling exactly a perfect match for a seemed like a good fit.

First time on the mat match: Blevins has about six The first thought? Perhaps inches and 30-plus pounds Nick Barrett was born on he’d be a team manager. on Nick.

Didn’t matter, apparently, judging by the grin across Nick Barrett’s face as he strode across the mat.

“I was nervous but I was excited for him,” Ward recalls.

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Terry Barrett works at Greywolf Elementary School as a paraeducator, working with second-grade teacher Renee Mullikin and learning support specialist Lara Hernandez. An ordained minister who’s looking to start some sort of community ministry in the area, Terry says her schedule and Nick’s align pretty well right now.

But wrestling season is ending soon, so she and Nick are looking for the next activity. Maybe track and field, Reach Michael Dashiell at Terry says. Nick is strong and editor@sequimgazette.com. could give the Wolves’ throw-

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In school, Nick is busy with his new passion: cooking.

He’s taking a class at Sequim High and now wants to have his own cooking show, Terry says.

“He wants to go to college now,” she says.

As a Sequim High wrestler, he’s been getting an education on the mat. Since that December match in Port Angeles, Barrett’s had nearly a dozen matches — including several rematches with Blevins. They are generally junior varsity matches against others in the 285-pound weight class; despite a workout routine that’s helped him shed several pounds, Nick is still in the heaviest weight class. “He’s always wrestling these bigger kids,” Terry says.

Sequim coaches will talk with the opposing wrestler’s coach, explaining Nick’s challenge, and though those matches usually end with a quick pin, Nick has stayed relatively injury-free and positive.

But Nick added a couple of firsts to his season recently that took coaches and teammates by surprise. On Dec. 19 in a junior varsity match with Olympic Trojan grappler Dominic Battaglia, Barrett grappled his way into the second round. In that round, Battaglia relented, allowing Barrett to pin him.

“We didn’t tell (the Olympic wrestler) to do that,” Drabek says. “How many high school kids would allow that to happen? Not many.”

“I was super excited,” Ward says. “I think I was more excited than he was.”

On Jan. 22, Nick went to the mat for his first varsity match. North Kitsap didn’t have a wrestler for the 285-pound weight class, so the referee raised Nick’s arm in victory. His official varsity record now stands at 1-0.

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the larger Blevins, grinning all the way.

Blevins won by technical fall in the second round, but Nick came off the mat looking like he’d won in a landslide. Bear hugs all around.

“He’s like any kid,” Drabek says, recalling a time that Nick faked being knocked out … until his coached called him out and Nick couldn’t hold back a smile.

“The nice thing is it helps the other kids, to grow and mature,” Drabek says.

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The long-tailed duck and other waterfowl species are topics for Arnold Schouten’s presentation to the Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society on June 19. Submitted photo

Not in my column!

Larry Hill gives instructions to Sequim High players at the 2007 class 2A state tournament. Hill will be inducted into the Washington Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association’s Hall of Fame in July.

Sequim Gazette file photos by Michael Dashiell

Hill gets a Hall pass SHS coach among state’s elite with induction into WIBCA Hall of Fame

by MICHAEL DASHIELL Sequim Gazette

A school year is drawing to a close and Sequim High School math teacher Larry Hill has a room half-full with students scrambling to finish test retakes.

He shrugs.

“That’s pretty typical. I’ll have 10 or 15 kids in here three nights per week,” Hill says. “That hour after school is pretty important.”

Hill is a numbers man, so it doesn’t take a long time for him to do the math: 36 years as an assistant or head basketball coach, nearly 10 league titles, eight state tourney appearances, all at

“I just don’t see myself in the same area code as those guys.”

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While his nomination to the Washington Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association’s Hall of Fame isn’t a total shock — “It’s more for longevity,” Hill says — it did put the SHS hoops fixture on the proverbial spot.

“I was a little embarrassed,” Hill says, a half-smile, halfgrimace. “I just don’t see myself in the same area code as those guys.”

Hill joins five other assistant coaches and three head coaches at the WIBCA’s induction ceremony at the Tacoma Elks Club on July 24 (for details or to RSVP, call Dave Dickson at 360-201-5218 or e-mail to: david.dickson@bellinghamschools.org).

Other assistant inductees include Tim Gilmore (Centralia), Larry Mollerstuen (Centralia), Mike Reid (North Thurston), Howard Thoemke (Joyce, Central Kitsap, North Kitsap, Olympic, North Mason) and Bob Petrosik (Stanwood, Pe Ell). Head coach inductees are Dennis Bower (Onalaska, WF West and Northport), Bill Hawk (Muckleshoot, Enumclaw, White River, Battle Ground) and Bill Ward (Yelm, Tumwater).

Hill has taught all 36 years in the Sequim School District — eight at the middle school and the rest at SHS — and began coaching with an assistant position under head coach Rick Kaps in 1977.

A bit of coaching advice Kaps had for his assistant stuck with the 58-year-old Hill to this day: “Coaching is 10 percent what you know and 90 percent getting along with kids.”

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Hill got to see the importance of that statement as he worked with Kaps in the Sequim Gym Rats youth program for a dozen years, ran it himself for another decade and has operated the Sequim Youth Basketball program since 2004.

Apparently, that work and dedication has made an impact. Hill says he’s heard from several players since his nomination was announced.

“It never really dawned on me all the connections you make with young men,” Hill says.

Art Green, who played for Hill in his senior season in 1991 and wound up working beside Hill for several seasons as an assistant, wrote a letter of recommendation to the Hall of Fame committee.

“If you were to ask me what I think is the most important aspect of coaching, I would not say the Xs and Os,” Green wrote in his recommendation letter.

“It’s about helping young boys become men and be a productive citizen for our society. Coach Hill did exactly this and helped me understand myself, set personal goals, and supported me well beyond my few years of playing for him.”

He stood in the doorway. Watching me trying to ignore him.

Then asked, “And what’s wrong with poetry?”

I said, “Nothing. It just doesn’t have a place in my column.”

He waited.

Defensively, I added, “It’s a technical column: it’s about IDs, records, sightings, movements — the methodological side of birding. It’s not about an old man’s words of flight and fancy!”

I was a field reporter, but I also had a weekly that was mine! He continued standing there.

I expected the “ … I’m Editorin-Chief and you’ll do as I say,” but he didn’t. He wouldn’t.

Yes, it’s my column. I’d written every article for the past four years. I’d worked hard to get it to a weekly. It was a professional column. It wasn’t a place for …

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“You really want me to interview him and consider adding his thoughts and poetry to one of my columns?”

He looked at me, “No! I didn’t say that, I said I’d like you to find an artistic bent in your writing. And maybe he’ll help you see how. That’s what I said.”

I watched the raven come down off the limb on the dead alder there along the slough, wings spread in a long glide bouncing on feet hopping as it lit.

Two quick steps like a walking robot stiff legged a hop then a quick jab down with black rapier stabbing vole through back.

It couldn’t run.

Been maimed by the mower moving through the fields in late summer’s second mowing crippled it was easy prey for this black beauty seeking only to sustain itself through one more day.

Easy prey.

A winning tradition

Hill grew up on a hay-wheat farm in Goldendale and played prep basketball for Kaps.

After earning degrees at Washington State University, Hill joined Kaps in Sequim where for 12 years (1977-1978 to 1988-1989) the two took a successful Wolves program and made it even better. In that span, Sequim won five Olympic League titles and played in the state tourney four times. That run included a 20-0 regular season, No. 1 state

Dang! This old man was once a good birder, from what I’ve heard. But now he just walks the trails along the river with his dog, carves feathers and writes poetry! And I’m supposed to dialogue with him, listen to his ramblings on the good ole days — and his poetry? And do a column on him? No way!

I drove out to the old village along the strait, pulled up outside the shingled building, got out, locked the OPAS meeting door, walked up on the The Olympic Peninporch and knocked. sula Audubon Society An old Lab dog came general meeting, set to a window, looked for 6 p.m., Wednesout and barked. I could day, June 19, features see someone walking Arnold Schouten.

The slowly toward the door. topic: “Raising Sea He put a hand on the Ducks — A ‘Long-tail.’” dog’s head, and opened At Dungeness River the door.

Audubon Center, Railroad Bridge Park, 2151 Red tail W. Hendrickson Road, cottonwooded above Sequim. the creek doesn’t know dark is working against one more last light kill perched where she is.

Off the tree two strokes, glide, turn, pounce talons thrown out in weapons unleashed a blurring snow storm wings mantled,

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Bodystrong nabs medals at Region 1 tournament

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On May 18, Bodystrong Taekwon-do Academy students and officials travelled down to La Center, near Vancouver, Wash., for the Region 1 tournament.

Fifteen Bodystrong competitors swept the floor of medals and in most divisions the team had at least one person place in the medals. In several divisions, Bodystrong took first, second and third places.

Trenton Phipps, Holly Gauthun, Linda Allen, Kyle Morton and Troy Phipps, all red belts, competed against black belts to gain their medals. White belts Larry Mockley, Marshall Phipps and Adrian Torve-Golbeck competed for the Bodystrong Taekwon-do Academy athletes celebrate a strong finish at first time and both gained medals.

The Phipps family totaled nine the Region 1 tournament in Vancouver, Wash. Submitted photo

June 19 8 a.m. — Dungeness Men’s Club: Senior Men’s Championship, stroke play.

At The Cedars at Dungeness, 1965 Woodcock Road.

June 20 6:45 p.m. — Puget Sound Anglers, North Olympic Chapter meeting.

At Trinity United Methodist Church, 100 Blake Ave. Call 582-0836.

June 21 8 a.m. — Dungeness Men’s Club: Senior Men’s Championship, stroke play.

At The Cedars at Dungeness, 1965 Woodcock Road.

June 23 9 a.m. — Jefferson Trails Coalition 10k run, Larry Scott Trail (Port Townsend). Register at longestdayoftrailspt.wordpress.com.

June 26 8 a.m. — Dungeness Men’s Club: Scramble. At The Cedars at Dungeness, 1965 Woodcock Road.

July 3 8 a.m. — Dungeness Men’s Club: Ace Day. At The Cedars at Dungeness, 1965 Woodcock Road.

July 10 8 a.m. — Dungeness Men’s Club: Two-man best ball. At The Cedars at Dungeness, 1965 Woodcock Road.

5 p.m. — Sequim Aquatic Recreation Center board meeting. At The Fifth Avenue, 500 W. Hendrickson Road.

7-9 p.m. — Greywolf Fly-fishing Club. At Gardiner Community Center, 980 Old Gardiner Road.

medals among Troy and his three sons, Trenton, Logan and Marshall.

Medal winners included: Trenton Phipps — gold, silver Holly Gauthun — gold, gold Linda Allen — silver, silver Troy Phipps — gold, bronze Kyle Morton — silver, bronze Logan Phipps — gold, bronze, bronze Jaden Rego — gold, gold, gold Alan Ulin — gold, bronze Iain Thill — gold, silver Marshall Phipps — gold, silver Seth Torgerson — gold, silver Ozzie Kramer — bronze Deven Biehler — silver, silver Larry Mockley — silver Adrian Torve-Golbeck — silver, silver, bronze

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The meeting begins at 6:45 p.m. Members provide demonstrations of equipment, advice on fishing areas and methods of saltwater salmon fishing. Call 582-0836.

Gayle Doyle of Sequim sank her fourth hole-in-one on June 10 at The Cedars at Dungeness golf course. Doyle used a 6-iron to drive the 140-yard hole No. 4. Leonard Hirschfeld, Larry St. John and Larry Batson witnessed the feat.

This summer, Sequim Junior Soccer Club again teams up with UK Elite Soccer to provide players and coaches for a UK Elite Soccer Camp and School, Aug. 12-16.

The camp for players ages 5-14 is scheduled for 9 a.m.-noon.

Cost is $140.

The camp for ages 3-5 is scheduled for 10:30-11:45 a.m. and 12:15-1:30 p.m. daily, with the cost $100.

UK Elite Global’s camp uses curriculum to help develop players’ technical and tactical ability. The curriculum introduces players to soccer games and activities from Brazil, England, Spain, Holland and USA. Every player will receive professional instruction from the UK Elite coaches, a UK Elite T-Shirt and individual player evaluation. Go to www.sequimjuniorsoccer. com (click on “camps”) for more information.

1999-2000 season, after a string of five losing seasons.

“It (being a head coach) was hard on my family,” Hill recalls.

“October through March, they didn’t know who I was.”

Hill stayed on to help new coach Brian Roper take the Wolves to the state tourney and earn an eighth-place finish in

Roper’s second season (20002001). In Roper’s six seasons, the Wolves went 81-41. It was Roper who suggested Hill for the WIBCA Hall of Fame bid.

Hill took over after SHS head coach Matt Thacker resigned partway through the 20062007 campaign and led the Wolves to a state 2A tourney

Doyle gets fourth hole-in-one

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From page B-5 ranking and second-place finish at state in 1987-1988.

Kaps retired in 1989 and Hill took over, earning six West Central District tourney appearances in his first seven seasons before being let go following the

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Race on tap in Port Townsend

The Jefferson Trails Coalition hosts a 10K run on the Larry Scott Trail on June 23, followed by a 15 mile non-competitive bike ride that afternoon.

For details and to register for the run, go to longestdayoftrailspt. wordpress.com.

Cost for entry to the 10K run is $20 for online preregistration or $25 on the day of the race.

Runners may preregister up until Thursday, June 20. Day of race registration begins at 7:30 a.m. and the race begins at 9 a.m. The first 200 runners registered receive a brightly colored pair of running socks.

There is no fee for the bike tour of the entire length of the Larry Scott Memorial Trail.

Gather at the trail entrance in the boatyard by the restrooms at 4 p.m.; helmet required.

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appearance. “The way it worked out, I felt really good about the way it ended,” Hill says.

There was conversation, Hill says, about keeping him on as a head coach after that. But he didn’t want to be in charge with his son, Evan, joining the squad.

“I’m sure I would have stepped on toes. I didn’t want it to come back to him,” Hill says.

Back in his assistant role, Hill has helped current coach Greg Glasser to 81 victories, five district tourney berths and two state berths, including sixth

place in 2012-2013. “I’ve had really great people to work with (and) I’ve been a part of really great coaching staffs,” Hill says.

Still, it mildly surprised Hill when someone called Sequim a “power” in the Olympic League.

“I never thought of it that way,” he says. “Our teams were always competitive (and) I think we’ve had a good reputation.”

The key to Sequim’s basketball success, he says, is establishing that youth program.

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Perhaps that’s what helped Hill be a part of more than 450 Sequim High victories in the past three-plus decades.

“Watching him through the years in the youth program … he was there beyond coaching,” Green says. “He’s a positive coach. He believes in the players and lets them play.

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No ordinary Joe

Fate took the late Joe Rantz from heartache to glory and from the small town of Sequim to the medal stand in Berlin. A new book tells the tale of Rantz and his gold-medal-winning teammates on the 1936 eight-man U.W. crew team.

by MICHAEL DASHIELL

last week to the delight of University of Washington alumni and Northwest rowing fans alike.

The inspiration and spotlight falls predomiOn a team of unlikely sports heroes, Joe Rantz nantly on Rantz, who overcame a rough start in was the epitome of an unlife to help that U.W. squad derdog. to gold, then went on to a Abandoned by his family successful professional cato fend for himself while reer as a chemical engineer just a boy, Rantz left the at Boeing. small town of Sequim in The Huskies’ victory in his teens and in just a few Berlin was hardly expected; years found himself upon without the pedigree of Ivy the world stage — rowing League schools, Washingfor glory, gold and the pride ton earned an improbable of a nation. win in the collegiate national Sound like perfect ingrechampionships to earn a spot dients for a novel? A movie, at the Olympic Games. perhaps? Yes, and yes.

In the following days, Such is the fodder for the team had to literally Daniel James Brown’s “The pass hats throughout SeatBoys in the Boat: Nine In 2006, Joe Rantz holds his 1936 tle to collect enough money Americans and Their Epic Olympic Games gold medal and for travel and expenses to Quest for Gold at the 1936 recounts stories from his experiences as a youth in Sequim. Sequim Berlin Olympics,” released Gazette file photo by Michael Dashiell See RANTZ, B-10 Sequim Gazette

Sequim’s Joe Rantz, second from left, and fellow U.W. eight-man crew teammates (from left) Don Hume, George Hunt, Jim McMillin, John White, Gordon Adam, Charles Day, Roger Morris and (kneeling) Bob Moch won gold at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.

“The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

(Viking Press, 432 pp., $28.95) Author: Daniel James Brown Features: The nine members of the University of Washington crew team — including Joe Rantz of Sequim — who defied the odds to win the gold medal at the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany Get a copy: Pacific Mist Books, 121 W. Washington St.; Port Book & News, 104 E. Front St., Port Angeles; danieljamesbrown.com, amazon.com

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A craftsman shines bright Portner arts, crafts his work into community

by MATTHEW NASH Sequim Gazette

Jars of jelly may be the reason Steve Portner is the woodworker he is today.

Years ago his wife was looking to buy a jelly cupboard until Portner felt he could do better for cheaper.

He set out to build his fi rst jelly cupboard to save about $45. But he was bitten by the building bug.

“I get a dose of humility every morning when I wake up and

see it,” Portner said.

Since 2006, he’s taken his passion for woodworking to the next level through All in Wood, a business that rarely makes the same thing twice. He makes fireplace mantels, entertainment centers, light switch plates, mailboxes, doors, picture frames and furniture, along with doing repairs and plenty more.

“I’m a form follows function guy,” he said. “I don’t do anything strictly art. You can utilize it but it’s arts and crafts.”

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From page B-1 Germany’s Games.

Then came a come-frombehind win in the 1936 eightman crew finals as the Americans edged Italy by six-tenths of a second, 6:25.4 to 6:26. It was a performance legendary sportswriter Grantland Rice called the “high spot” of those Games.

Rantz died in September of 2007 at the age of 93, but not before a serendipitous meeting with a neighbor that led to “The Boys in the Boat.”

‘It mesmerized me’ Joe Rantz’s daughter, Judy Willman, had a special source for a book she was reading to her father in his final weeks in hospice care six years ago: Brown, a neighbor, had penned “Under a Flaming Sky,” about a firestorm in Hinckley, Minn., in 1894.

Willman asked Rantz if he’d like to meet the book’s author.

“All I knew about Joe,” Brown recalled last week at a book signing in Seattle, “was that he rowed in an Olympic race. Over the next hour Joe began to spin a tale … it mesmerized me.”

As Rantz filled in the details of the screenplay-worthy twists

The American entry in the eight-man crew (top) edges Italy and German for the gold in the 1936 Olympic Games. Photos courtesy of Judy Willman

the 1936 Olympic Games.

Above, author Daniel James Brown and Judy WIllman, Joe Rantz’s daughter, answer questions about the University of Washington’s 1936 eight-man crew team. At right, Willman listens as Brown reads from the newly-released “Boys in the Boat.” Sequim Gazette photos by Michael Dashiell

and turns of plot — U.W.’s world record-setting preliminary race, the Americans’ poor lane placement in the finals designed to give Germany and Italy an advantage, the Americans’ last-place standing halfway through that final, the furious charge that gave Rantz and company gold — Brown knew he had something more than an anecdote to pass along in conversation. Others needed to know this story.

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It wasn’t so much the championship race that entranced Brown, but rather the humble beginnings of Rantz and the eight others on the team — oarsmen Don Hume, George Hunt, Jim McMillan, Johnny White, Gordon Adam, Charles Day, Roger Morris and coxswain Bob Moch — and the generation they represent.

“One of my motives for writing this book is to honor all of them,” Brown said.

“As Joe finished,” Brown recalled, “I asked if I could write a book about it.”

Rantz agreed, but only if the book were about the whole crew. Brown agreed to the request. Now, Willman said, the story has taken on a life of its own, with a full-length feature film in the works. The Weinstein Company (“The King’s Speech,” “Inglourious Basterds,” “The Artist”) bought the rights in March 2011.

“We didn’t know where this was going (at the start),” Willman said. On June 4, she joined Brown at the University of Washington Bookstore as he kicked off a book tour for “Boys in the Boat.”

“Being on the crew changed how he viewed life,” Willman told a rapt audience in the bookstore last week. “It wasn’t

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A troubled start Born March 31, 1914, in Spokane, Joe Rantz lost his mother at the age of 3. His father, Fred, was a jack-ofall-trades, the son recalled, and followed jobs where he could. Often Joe was left with his older brother while Fred looked for work.

Rantz’s father remarried and, in 1925, while his stepmother and new siblings settled in West Seattle, Joe and his father opened a tire and mechanic shop in a small settlement in Sequim.

Joe’s stepmother Thula demanded that Fred return to West Seattle and Fred complied. Joe, still a high-schooler, was left to fend for himself.

Joe Rantz was 15.

It wouldn’t have turned out so well, Rantz recalled in a 2006 interview, without the help of the McDonald family, who lived on adjacent land and kindly took him in for meals and get-togethers.

Rantz did what he could to make ends meet: cutting down cottonwoods along the Dungeness to sell at the Port Angeles pulp mill, pulling salmon out of the same river to supplement what food he could get at friends’ houses and playing various musical instruments to entertain and make a buck.

By his senior year, Rantz was hoping to attend college. His brother, a teacher at Seattle’s Roosevelt High School, said no university would look at Rantz if he had a diploma from Sequim — there was a question, Willman said, of whether Sequim High would be accredited the following year — so the big brother convinced Rantz to move in with him.

One day, University of Washington crew coach Al Ulbrickson wandered through Roosevelt High looking for strong young recruits for the University of Washington’s freshman team. He spotted the 6-foot 3-inch Rantz on the school’s gymnasium high bar, then went to the nearest classroom and asked the teacher if he knew the young gymnast.

“Yes, I do,” said the teacher.

“That’s my brother.”

Needing money to get his university career started, Rantz took 15 months off after high school graduation in 1933 to work Sequim’s hay fields. While he was there, Rantz took a job paving the then gravel-only highway between Sequim and Port Angeles. It was backbreaking work, but it paid off later on.

In 1934, UW’s eight-man freshman crew was so good that Ulbrickson promoted the whole team in 1935. In races, Rantz’s teams had one clear characteristic: They were a come-from-behind team. In the collegiate four-mile races, they simply got stronger as the race wore on while others didn’t. Rantz and company never lost a collegiate race.

At the USA Olympic trials, UW’s Huskies pulled away from runner-up University of Pennsylvania, earning the right to represent the United States at

Unbreakable bonds Most people, Brown said last week, remember the 1936 Games for Jesse Owens’ spectacular four-gold-medal performance. “That’s a great story; it re-establishes our fundamental beliefs of equality and fair play,” Brown said.

But the feat of the boys in the boat — actually, a red cedar “shell” designed and crafted by legend George Pocock — was the best story of the games, Brown said. And not just the competition, he said, but the relationships they formed over the year. The nine crew members agreed to meet once each year for decades — and did so nearly each year — until they started passing away. H. Roger Morris, the last surviving member of the U.W.’s legendary 1936 men’s crew, died July 22, 2009, at his home in Maple Valley at age 94.

The relationship Rantz formed with his teammates, Willman said, showed her father truly changed over the years.

“That sport requires the ultimate in team participation,” she said. “(But) he didn’t trust anyone. He’d been kicked around.”

Brown noted that Rantz would tear up at times in that interview six years ago.

“It was not sadness,” Brown noted, “but the beauty of it all.”

Joe Rantz is decked out in his crew uniform in U.W.’s 1936 eight-man crew’s final reunion.

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A desperation shot Friends look to help Chad Jacobs, a former Sequim High School basketball standout recently diagnosed with brain cancer

by MICHAEL DASHIELL Sequim Gazette

Eventually, the cheering stops and the music fades, the lights dim and the gymnasium, once sweltering with humanity even on a cold winter’s night, slowly grows cold.

And yet, years later, the friendship and the camaraderie and the love remain.

Long retired from the full-time head coaching gig, Larry Hill said he had seen Chad Jacobs maybe once since the former Sequim High basketball star graduated in 1998.

So it came as a shock when he read the news on Facebook: Jacobs, 33, was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor.

“I felt so close to him (and his family) even though I haven’t talked to him in ages,” Hill says.

Now residing in Kalamazoo, Mich., Jacobs and his family — wife Danielle, 4-year-old daughter Kylah and Chad’s two stepdaughters, one 16 and one 20 — are contemplating his future, and theirs.

Rallying around the former prep star turned airline pilot, Jacobs’ friends and family are raising funds both in Michigan and in Sequim, where Hill is looking to set up fundraisers. A golf tournament or an auction is in the works, Hill says, and there is a bank account, The Chad

Jacobs Family Fund, at First Federal branches on the peninsula.

Money raised helps pay for all but $3,500 of each chemotherapy treatment, the first of which Jacobs recently completed.

The fact of the matter is, however, the Wolf alum’s prognosis is terminal.

“All they’re doing is buying time,” Hill says.

‘A competitive kid’

When he first set eyes on the freshman, Hill noticed an atypical body type: short legs, long arms and torso.

It was a physical makeup that would help Jacobs succeed as a catcher on the baseball diamond.

But it turned out Jacobs could play a little roundball, too. Despite playing for teams that varied in talent and success on the court — 4-18 in his freshman year, 9-14 as a sophomore, 3-17 as a junior and 9-11 in his 19971998 senior campaign — Jacobs excelled in all facets of the game.

“The kid understood how to play,” Hill says. “He had a good mind for the game, a competitive kid. He was a very good teammate, saw the floor well.”

Jacobs refined his game over the years, earning a first-team allOlympic League selection — no easy feat, for Sequim was for years the only 2A school in a league of 3A

Chad Jacobs reaches for a rebound as Sequim takes on Port Angeles on the hardwood in 1997.

Sequim High School graduate Chad Jacobs shares a moment with his daughter Kylah, age 4. Jacobs was diagnosed with a malignant brian tumor earlier this year. Photo courtesy of the Jacobs family

and 4A schools, some three times Sequim’s size.

Jacobs graduated as one of the most prolific players in Sequim High’s history, finishing No. 1 in steals and three-pointers made, second in scoring (only to Ryan Kaps) and third in rebounds.

Ironically, Jacobs’ senior season ended before the final whistle. Hill got a call from a local paramedic who told him: “Your star player is in the hospital with a compound fracture of his leg.” Well, not quite. What doctors found after a motorcycle mishap was a tree limb that looked like bone sticking out of Jacobs’ calf. The SHS senior missed the final two games of that season, with teammates rallying to knock off a high-ranked North Kitsap squad by 23 points.

Flying high, then grounded The 1997-1998 Sequim High team, from left: John Monson, Cody Manzer, Sam Watson, Levi Lepping, Kevin Moormann, John Fryer, Chad Jacobs, Matt O’Brien, Marc Monson, Ben Scott and Paul Gramenz. Sequim Gazette file photo

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The Friday before Easter, however, Jacobs woke up with a headache and vomited, prompting a trip to the emergency room. A CT scan showed three masses in his brain and an MRI that followed ruled out an infectious mass. On Easter morning, Jacobs had surgery that revealed daunting news: a multifocal glioblastoma multiforme brain tumor, rare (two to three cases per 100,000 in Europe and North America) and aggressively malignant.

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Emily Wallner, left, and Kate Harker reach for a block on North Kitsap’s Mareena Clotfelter. Sequim Gazette photo by Michael Dashiell. Sequim Gazette photo by Michael Dashiell

Sequim looks to rebound with key match at Olympic Sequim Gazette staff

In a battle of purple power, the visiting Vikings had the last answer.

North Kitsap survived a fivegame thriller on Oct. 10 in Sequim to stay perfect in Olympic League play and grab the Olympic League postandings (as of Oct. 14) pole sition North Kitsap 3-0 for t he Port Angeles 3-0 l e a g u e Sequim 3-1 title.

Kingston 3-1 SHS’s Klahowya 2-2 W o l v e s Olympic 1-3 dropped Port Townsend 1-3 the first Bremerton 0-3 two sets North Mason 0-3 (2 5 -1 2 , 2 5 -19) but battled back to take game three, 25-23, and game four, 25-21, forcing the tie-breaking fifth frame.

In the end, the Vikings’ big hitters were simply too much, keeping the Wolves off-balance at the right time. North Kitsap turned a 3-1 Sequim advantage into an 8-3 Viking lead. The Wolves, on the strength of two key Emily Wallner kills and a stuff block, trimmed NK’s lead to 9-7, but the Vikings rebounded to take the final six points of the match and game five, 15-7.

“They had better serving,” Sequim coach Jennie Webber Heilman said.

“We kind of shanked a few balls … (and) sometimes we get into a bad rotation.”

North Kitsap lost their libero,

Jennifer Gell, midway through the Coming up match, Webber Heilman said, and The Wolves are at Olympic that helped fuel Sequim’s rally.

(Silverdale) on Thursday, Oct. 17.

The Wolves were again without Sequim hosts Port Townsend on veteran outside hitter Alexas BeOct. 22 and play at Bremerton on sand, out with a muscle strain.

Oct. 24. Sequim closes the regular

season with a key league match at home against rival Port Angeles on Oct. 28.

The Roughriders (3-0 in league) are tied with North Kitsap for the Olympic League lead.

FOOTBALL PREP ROUNDUP

Bucs bury Wolves with big first half Sequim looks for season’s first win at Klahowya Sequim Gazette staff

Call it a reversal of fortune.

It was a mere five seasons ago (2008) that Sequim went onto Kingston’s field and clobbered the second-year Buccaneers 60-0 — in the first half alone. The Wolves walked away with a 74-0 win that night.

On Friday night, the Bucs turned the tables.

A blocked punt and four interceptions helped Kingston stay atop of the Olympic League standings in a 52-7 rout of the Wolves.

It was Sequim’s biggest margin of defeat since 2005, when they dropped a 51-0 decision to Bainbridge.

The Buccaneers (4-0 in Olympic League play, 5-1 overall) led 45-0 at halftime, triggering the mercy rule that allows a continuous running game clock.

Tucker Burns recovered a punt block in the end zone to put the Bucs ahead 7-0 early on and Nick Tabanera added a 55-yard scoring run to put Kingston up 14-0 after one quarter.

Kingston added a 31-point second quarter, highlighted by

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NK soccer avoids upset in Sequim SHS cross country earns clean sweep vs. Bulldogs, Knights Sequim Gazette staff

A moral victory, perhaps.

Down several starters with injuries, Sequim held league powerhouse North Kitsap to three scores on Oct. 10, falling 3-1. Gretchen Happe scored Sequim’s goal.

On Sept. 12, North Kitsap beat Sequim 7-0 in the season-opener.

Sequim co-coach Victor Lancheros said he was pleased with his team’s effort, particularly being so short-handed.

“They gave it their all and didn’t give up,” he said. “It’s been tough.”

Briann George opened the scoring in the game’s first five minutes, then added a score at the 24-minute mark. Happe halved the Viking’s lead with a penalty kick score early in the second half, but Abbie Wright added an insurance goal for NK midway through the half.

“That’s a good team — there’s nothing to be ashamed of in this game,” Lancheros said.

Sequim is at Olympic on Oct. 17 and hosts Port Townsend’s Redskins on Oct. 22.

Cross country The Wolves went south last week, but their collective running prowess didn’t. Sequim’s boys (6-0) and girls (3-3) both swept aside Olympic League foes last week in Belfair, knocking off both North Mason and Bremerton.

In the boys’ race, Sequim’s Mikey Cobb, Peter Ohnstad, Brendon Despain and Chris Jeffko led a strong contingent of Wolves by finishing

EDITOR’S CORNER Michael Dashiell Like a lot of things in life — Beta videos, World League football, “Ghostbusters II” and socialism — it sounded like a good idea at the time.

And then things went quickly, horribly wrong.

Forgive my hyperbole. I just finished 26.2 miles of running … without being chased or being paid for it. In fact I paid to torture myself thusly.

The idea just kind of floated out there one day, on a leisurely run with my running buddy, Dave. We’d been loping along in a half-hearted jog one day when he wondered aloud, “What if we did a marathon?”

“Yeah, we could do that.”

Oh, Doc Brown, if you could only lend me your DeLorean and 1.21 gigawatts and help me shut my own mouth …

What ensued was three months of varying degrees of pain and suffering, otherwise known as training. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The sheet Dave dispersed to what would become a running trio — ourselves and pal Stu, a much faster version of ourselves — came with the disclaimer: “A foolproof guide to marathons.”

Foolproof. Ha. To preface, I’d run a marathon before. Well, I’d run most of a marathon before. Back in 2005, my wife-to-be and I trained modestly (i.e. sparingly) and then lumbered through about 18 miles of the Portland Marathon … until we hit what is commonly referred to as the “Runner’s Wall.” We likened it to more of a “Runner’s Medieval Torture Device” or a “Runner’s Place Where You Leave Your Will to Live and Simply Exist as Some Sort of Non-Cogent Entity, Walking the Earth in Human Form But As a Soulless, Shell of One’s Former Self.” (That’d look nice on a T-shirt, wouldn’t it?)

By Portland’s mile 19, we were both pretty much maxed out and miserable. Irritable. The pain was palpable. The only “able” not in our lexicon was exactly that: able to finish well. We limped through the final eight miles or so before sprinting at the end to say, “Yeah, we ran across the finish line! Of course we did! We loved it! Medic!”

So we finished, but it wasn’t pretty. Nor was the month of recuperation.

Since then, I’ve tried to put my thoughts of doing another 26.2 miles in a single shot far, far away in my mind. But it crept back in, and Dave’s suggestion hit me at a weak moment. Hey, I was hungry and my blood sugar level was low.

Good thing he didn’t ask me for money.

Mileage and misery

Sequim’s Chloie Sparks looks to trap a ball as North Kitsap’s Abbie Wright looks on. Sequim Gazette photo by Michael Dashiell

1-4 and Sequim’s varsity seven all finished in the top eight. Only Bremerton’s Josh Burton (fifth) cracked the top five.

Cobb took top honors with an 18:53 mark, one second ahead of Ohnstad. Despain and Jeffko were not far behind.

On the girls’ side, freshman Erin Vig proved once again to be Sequim’s top runner with a 23:52 finish, second behind North Mason’s Caitlyn Mead. But solid finishes by Elizabeth

Rosales (fourth), Alexis Cromer (fifth), Isabel Dalm (sixth), Siana Turner (seventh) and Heidi Powell (eighth) helped Sequim edge North Mason by 12 team points (24 to 36).

The Wolves and Olympic travel to Poulsbo today, Oct. 16, to take on the North Kitsap Vikings.

Sequim hosts the Olympic League championships, slated for Oct. 24.

See ROUNDUP, B-12

The training plan, liberally borrowed from Runners World, sets would-be marathoners on a four-month training course, with mileage ramping up from a 12-, 13- and 14-mile initial weeks up to as many as 44 miles, three weeks prior to race day.

It sounded daunting at first, but Dave reassured me all things would be fine. After all, it read “Foolproof” on the top, right?

Weeks one through four were a breeze. Using the nearby Olympic Discovery Trail, Dave and I already were close to the prescribed mileage and in good health before we started the program — a good baseline for any would-be marathoners. Weeks saw three- or four-mile runs four or five days per week.

At the end of week five, however, I wound up getting a medical procedure done that kept me from any running for three

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B-12 • October 16, 2013

SPORTS CALENDAR School sports schedule Oct. 16 4 p.m. — Sequim High School boys tennis vs. Port Angeles. At high school tennis courts, Fir Street.

Oct. 17 3:30 a.m. — Sequim High School girls soccer at Olympic (Silverdale). JV starts start at 3:30 p.m.

3:30 p.m. — Sequim High School girls swim/ dive vs. Bremerton. At Sequim Aquatic Recreation Center, 610 N. Fifth Ave. 6:15 p.m. — Sequim High School volleyball at Olympic (Silverdale). JV starts at 5 p.m.

Oct. 18 7 p.m. — Sequim High School football at Klahowya.

Oct. 19 Noon — Peninsula College soccer vs. Tacoma. Men start at 2:15 p.m. At college soccer field, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd., Port Angeles.

Oct. 21 5 p.m. — Sequim High School junior varsity football vs. Klahowya. At football stadium, Fir Street.

Oct. 22 6:15 p.m. — Sequim High School volleyball vs.

Port Townsend. At high school gym, 601 N. Sequim Ave. JV starts at 5 p.m.

6:45 p.m. — Sequim High School girls soccer vs. Port Townsend. At soccer stadium, Fir Street. JV starts start at 5 p.m.

Area sports/rec Oct. 16 8:30 a.m. — Dungeness Men’s Club: Stableford. At The Cedars at Dungeness, 1965 Woodcock Road.

8:45 a.m. — Over the Hill Hikers hike: Greywolf Trail. Call 681-0359.

Oct. 17 6:45 p.m. — Puget Sound Anglers, North Olympic Chapter meeting.

At Trinity United Methodist Church, 100 S. Blake Ave. Call 582-0836.

Oct. 18 8:45 a.m. — Over the Hill Hikers hike: Washington State Resource Road.

Call 681-0359.

Oct. 19 TBA — Family Scramble golf tournament (two-person scramble). At SkyRidge Golf Course, 7015 Old Olympic Highway. Call 683-3673.

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Group organizer Dami Rodriguez is looking for other Seahawks fans to join the club. Members get a 15-percent discount at The Seattle Team Store across the street from CenturyLink stadium — the business carries all Seattle sports

teams (Seahawks, Sounders, Mariners, Huskies, Cougars, Storm, Sonics, T-Birds, Redhawks, etc.) and access to exclusive offers at the instadium Seahawks.

Other Sea Hawkers membership goodies include access to Sea Hawkers “tailgate zone” prior to all home games, a Blue and Green Membership card, an opportunity to attend the annual Sea Hawker Banquet, Draft

Roundup

From page B-11 Girls swim/dive Sequim’s swim squad dropped a pair of away league meets last week, falling 12658 to league co-leader Port Townsend and 125-51 to North Kitsap.

Against Port Townsend, Dani Barrow had Sequim’s lone event victory, taking top honors in the 500 free with a 6:22 finish. She also placed second in the 200 free. Cassandra Calderon was second in the 100 backstroke and Emily Van Dyken was runner-up in diving.

The Wolves Sequim host Bremerton on Oct. 17.

Boys tennis

A repeat Olympic League ch a mpion ship m ay be out of the picture for the Wolves’ boys tennis team but thanks to its doubles players, Sequim remains competitive.

With a little more than a week to go in the season, Sequim (3-2 in league, and 4-4 overall) narrowly lost

Sequim’s Gretchen Happe, left, and North Kitsap’s Shelbie Blevins battle for the ball on Oct. 10. Happe scored the Wolves’ lone goal in a 3-1 home loss. Sequim Gazette photo by Michael Dashiell

4-3 in Bremerton on Oct. 11, after a convincing 5-2 win earlier in the season.

Sequim’s No. 1 doubles team Brandon Payne and Mathew Richards continued to win strong with 6-1 and 6-2 sets over the Knights’ Beau West and Casey Winderl.

Third- and fourth-ranked doubles teams Wesley Gilchrist and Dillan Miller, and

Football

a 61-yard Bobby Reece punt return touchdown, a Reece TD pass to Nathan Carleton, a three-yard scoring plunge from Tabanera and a 21-yard jaunt to the end zone by Aaron Dickson.

Sequim’s Ty Jones broke up the shutout with a 42-yard scoring run in the third quarter.

Wolves quarterback Miguel Moroles 9-of24 passing for 64 yards. Kingston held Sequim to 55 yards rushing and 119 total yards.

Looking ahead Sequim travels to Silverdale on Friday to take on the Klahowya Eagles, seeking to avoid its first 0-7 season start since 2000.

Klahowya (1-3 in league, 3-3 overall) is coming off a 27-0 road defeat at Silverdale to neighboring rival Olympic. The Eagles’ lone league win was an 18-14 decision at home

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The Cedars At Dungeness • Men’s Club, Two-Man Best Ball, Oct. 9 First flight — Gross: 1. John Magee and Grant Ritter, 69.

Net: 1. Robert Mares and Kevin McCormack, 63; 2. (tie) Jerry Allen and Glenn Smithson; Cary Richardson and Paul Ryan, 65 Second flight — Gross: 1.

David McArthur and Verl Nelson, 72. Net: 1. Blaine Pugsley and Joe Tomita, 58; 2. Bill Rucker and George Switzer, 59 Third flight — Gross: 1. Richard Hansen and Jay Howard, 80.

Net: 1. Frank Lagambina and Robert Purser, 57; 2. Net Ted Johnson and Nicolaas Holt, 58 KPs: Hansen, McCormack,

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• Lady Niners, Twenty Five, Oct. 10 Firstdivision—1.LiliGomes, 23; 2. Jan Boyungs, 22; 3. Lisa Ballantyne, 21. Putts: Olympic Brehm and Jo Hendrickson, 16.

Chip-in: Hendrickson Second division — 1. Terri Green, 14; 2. (tie) Pat Charters, Carol Inglesby and Ruth Wade, 12. Putts: Green, 14. Chip-in: Green. Birdie: Green.

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critical weeks, when the mileage ramps up from 19 to 28 From page B-11 total miles. I had to play a bit of catch-up.

I ramped up the miles from 14 to 18 to 29 by the 11th week, hitting three standard runs (four to six miles) and a long one on Saturday or Sunday. My legs felt tired but not unbearably so and I hadn’t had any injuries. Good so far.

By week 13, I was ready for my first decently long run, i.e.

16 miles, decently beyond half marathon distance of 13.1 miles. Ugh. It felt like someone slugged my in the stomach, ripped out my appetite and replaced it with cod liver oil and spiked my water with amoebic dysentery.

The next weekend, it was 18 miles. It felt a little better.

The next, it was 20 miles, a Sequim-to-Port Angeles run. Not so bad. I’m getting the hang of this! Eight-milers became short jaunts, five-milers became laughably easy.

In week 16, the program then briefly ramps mileage down and that’s when I hit the first of three miserable weekends. First it was running through a rainstorm. Remember all that rain and lightning in early September? I do. Seven miles from home, I couldn’t decided whether to call for a ride home or simply swim home. The next weekend, my knees began to ache, shortening another long run.

And then, an ugly run turn for the worse …

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Two weeks before race day, Dave suggests we try out the brand-spankin’ new Quilcene Half Marathon in lieu of our normal training run. That didn’t sound so crazy, in that the distance (13.1 miles) was shorter than what we had on the schedule, our last “long” run of 14 miles.

Again, my decision-making skills must have been compromised. Low blood sugar level? Maybe.

What we ran through could only be modestly described as “poor” running conditions, with temps racing into the 40s to go along with wind and a rain that I bitterly described as “Noah-esque.” For three miles we chugged uphill on semibusy backroads, got a four-mile reprieve through forest and, then back to steep uphills and downhills on Quilcene’s less picturesque spots. Don’t get me wrong — the folks running Quil’s first half/10k/5k were wonderful, engaging and helpful — but this was about as miserable as it gets in standard road race form.

About a quarter-mile from the finish, my lower calf locked up tighter than a mime’s lips. I was in agony, not just from the pain but the fact I was so close to finish. I stumbled, staggered and crawled across the finish line with a 2:04 (or so) finish, four minutes off my goal … and proceeded to the first aid tent.

For the two weeks following, my leg ached and ached, so I kept off the running trails in the hope that it would be ready for race day and that my previous training was enough to get me through the 26.2. With fingers crossed …

Race Day A couple of thousand of the more sadistic individuals on the planet lined up near Victoria’s Parliament Building Sunday morning and began the long, long trek toward pain and suffering.

The course itself is quite charming, actually, particularly compared to Portland. Instead of a long stretch through industrial properties, the Victoria course meanders through friendly residential neighborhoods, through the lush, green Beacon Hill Park and eye-catching scenery along the waterfront with views of Ross Bay, McNeill Bay and Oak Bay. The leg I was worried about started hurting from the get-go, and my anxiety built with each passing kilometer.

By mile two both of my calf muscles were aching. I figured if that’s the worst it got, I’d be OK, since I figured my aerobic endurance was up to the task.

By kilometer No. 10, I was seriously considering calling it quits. I was still running at my target 10-minute/per mile pace, but the aching had ramped up several notches and I feared the worst over the next 18 miles.

By kilometer No. 20, just before the halfway mark, I started looking for aid tents. My calf muscles were starting to scream, so I stopped at a water station and slipped on compression socks; according to several studies, they enhance blood circulation and oxygen flow to increase athletic performance, though the scientists have failed to quantify how ugly they look. I didn’t care at that point — I just wanted relief.

For another five kilometers, I did feel relieved as the pain in my calf muscles eased. It was then my hamstrings started to ache badly. After another five kilometers, my quads started to cramp. I stopped to give my quads a stretch, but my hammies would cramp at the same time. So I went on. I still had 12.2 kilometers, or about seven-and-a-half miles, to go.

With the sun bearing down on a motley lot of runners, we trudged — and I mean, trudged — through the dregs of the race course, with folks cheering and waving signs like “Don’t hurl” and “This probably seemed like a good idea a week ago.”

I stumbled across the finish line in 4:49, more than an hour better than my Portland time but well off my goal of about 4:30. I vowed then and there to never, ever run any farther than I need to.

The lesson Heed Chris Knight, the character Val Kilmer played in the seminal 1985 film, “Real Genius”: Professor Hathaway: “You still run?”

Knight: “Only when chased.”

Michael Dashiell hopes to never, ever run more than necessary ever again — but probably will. Reach him at editor@sequimgazette.com.

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Who:

Henry He and Stephen Prorok won, too, both 6-3, 6-4.

The teams played again on Oct. 14 and this time Sequim plays away.

The Wolves also get a double dose of Port Angeles (3-1, 7-1) today, Wednesday, Oct. 16, at home and in Port Angeles on Friday, Oct. 18.

They also play Monday, Oct. 21, at Olympic (1-4, 2-5).

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