Sports briefs — July 12, 2023

Wolves named to All-Peninsula team

A quartet of Sequim High fastpitch stars were named to the All-Peninsula Softball Team, as selected by the sports staff of the Peninsula Daily News last week.

Picked for the team were SHS seniors Taylee Rome (second base), Hannah Bates (shortstop), Mia Pozernick (outfield) and Lainy Vig (pitcher).

Honorable mentions from the Wolves included Michaela Green and Lexi King.

Sequim went 11-10 overall and 2-1 at the West Central District tourney, falling short of a state 2A tournament berth by one win. Rome, Bates, Pozernick, Vig and King were each named all-Olympic League first teamers, and Green to the second team.

Port Angeles shortstop Natalie Robinson was named the All-Peninsula Softball Team’s Most Valuable Player, and Forks’ Traci Kratzer was selected Coach of the Year.

McLinn gets ace No. 5 at The Cedars

Jerry McLinn of Sequim sank his fifth lifetime hole-in-one at The Cedars at Dungeness on June 16. McLinn used a 7-iron to drive the 140-yard hole No. 11.

Allen Balla, Ray Ballantyne and Mike Buckland, all from Sequim witnessed the feat.

Local athletes compete at USTF national event

A quartet of athletes from Sequim’s Bodystrong Taekwon-do Academy competed at the USTF National Championship in Broomfield, Colo., in late June, with 15-year-old Aron Golbeck earning National Junior Grand Champion for 2023. He took first in patterns and sparring.

Bodystrong’s Linda Allen earned first place in sparring, second in breaking and third in patterns. Jessica Golbeck took third in sparring and third in breaking, and Adrian Golbeck took third in patterns.

Also competing were four competitors from Next Level Taekwondo club, who each vied for — and earned — medals at the national meet.

Jobe Kirner took first place in colored belt sparring, while Mia Kirner earned a third place in colored belt patterns. Gunner Muckley placed second in colored belt sparring and third in patterns, and Maverick Muckley took third place in colored belt sparring.

Photo courtesy of Bodystrong Taekwon-do Academy Members of Bodystrong Taekwon-do Academy take a break from competing at the USTF Taekwon-do National Championships in Colorado in June. Pictured, from left, are Jessica Golbeck, Aron Golbeck, Linda Allen and Adrian Golbeck.