Olympic League standings

(as of Oct. 24)

Team Lg. Over.

North Kitsap 11-0 12-1

Sequim 8-2 10-2

Kingston 5-5 6-7

Port Angeles 5-5 6-6

Olympic 4-7 5-9

Bremerton 2-8 4-8

North Mason 1-9 2-10

North Kitsap locked up an Olympic League crown last week, but Sequim didn’t make it easy for them.

Sequim (8-2 in league play, 10-2 overall) took the Vikings to five games on Oct. 18 before falling by two points in the deciding set.

“The girls didn’t really feel like they lost,” Sequim coach Jennie Webber Heilman said.

North Kitsap won 25-11, 23-25, 25-10, 23-25 and 15-13.

That was in part because it looked as if NK was trying to give senior outside hitting star Bri Duchemin much of the night off. Instead, when Duchemin was out of the lineup, Sequim came back and won two sets — and nearly the third and decisive one. Tied a 13-13, the Vikings got the benefit of what Webber Heilman said was a “sketchy” call and won the next point to clinch the match.

Lillian Oden was a serving star for Sequim, going 18-for-18 with a nine-point stretch in the second game. She finished with 17 assists, 14 digs and two aces.

Sydney Balkan added 15 assists, 13 digs, five kills and a pair of aces.

Adrienne Haggerty and Ella Christiansen paced the Sequim offense. Haggerty had 15 kills and 14 digs while Christiansen added 11 kills and was 16-of-17 serving. Both had four blocks.

Tayler Breckenridge had 23 digs while Maddie Potts chipped in 14 digs.

The Wolves rebounded with a straight-set win against rival Port Angeles at home on Oct. 20, winning 25-13, 25-20 and 25-18.

Haggerty had 11 serves in a row — including six of her match-high seven aces — in the first game.

“I think it kind of set the tone for the whole match,” Webber Heilman said.

Port Angeles closed the gap in the second game after they started tipping shots past Sequim blockers.

“(Then) we started tipping too much; we need to swing,” Webber Heilman said.

“I was hoping we were not playing down to PA’s level, but they (the Roughriders) are playing better,” she said.

Christiansen had 10 kills and two block, Haggerty added seven kills and 11 digs, and Balkan had 15 assists. Isabelle Dennis had 12 digs and Jadyn Overby-Morgison added four digs an assist and a block.

Looking ahead

The Wolves were scheduled to finish the regular season with a pair of games early this week — Oct. 24 at home against Kingston and Oct. 25 at Bremerton. Results for this section were not available at press time.

Sequim, the league’s No. 2 seed, starts the Olympic League tourney set for Oct. 27 and Oct. 29 in Poulsbo.

The West Central District tournament is Nov. 4-5 at Franklin Pierce High School in Tacoma. The top six teams from that 12-team tourney advance to the class 2A state tourney, set for Nov. 11-12 at St. Martin’s University in Lacey.