Sequim Gazette staff
When the Wolves return to Port Angeles on March 28, they’ll be looking for a bit of a different outcome than what they saw a week previous.
The host Roughriders, playing on the artificial turf on Peninsula College’s Sigmar Field, got a pair of late-game scores to top Sequim 2-1 on Saturday, capping an odd set of non-league games for the Wolves.
Sequim, a 2A school, started its 2015 campaign with a 3-0 win against 1A Coupeville on March 17, getting a score from Thomas Winfield and a pair of goals from Cameron Chase. Keeper Austin Wagner and the Wolves’ defense earned the shutout.
Sequim was prepped to take on Klahowya in a non-league matchup on March 19 but a transformer controlling the stadium’s lights blew up during a junior varsity match, forcing the Wolves and Eagles into a one half (40-minute) game. It ended in a scoreless tie.
“They’re pretty good,” Sequim coach Dave Brasher said of Klahowya’s team, which boasts a 3-0-1 mark heading into this week’s play. “They controlled the ball for 20 minutes, we had it 20 minutes.”
On March 21, Sequim and Port Angeles played to a scoreless tie in the first half before Adrian Espinoza broke up the shutout with a score at 56 minutes.
It stayed that way until, with about four minutes remaining in regulation, Roughrider Tim Schneider put a shot on goal that Wagner dove to save. Port Angeles’ Miki Andrus picked up the rebound, netted a score and knotted the game at 1-1.
With nearly no time remaining, Port Angeles was the beneficiary of a Sequim penalty in the box and Schneider put the shot — and the game — away.
“I thought we played really well, actually,” Brasher said. “We tried a few different things. That shot (Schneider’s first) was the first shot on goal they had in the game. P.A. was pretty relentless.”
Sequim had switched up several players on defense during the second half and was without Winfield, its leading scorer from 2014, for the second half with an injury. Brasher said he expects a different result come March 28.
The Wolves were slated to host Kingston on March 24. Sequim is at North Kitsap today, March 25, and Port Angeles three days later before hosting North Mason’s Bulldogs on March 31.
