Paddlers to meet

The Olympic Peninsula Paddlers will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8, at the Vern Burton Community Center, 308 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles. The featured program is a recent trip to Vancouver Island and Barkley Sound “Paddling in the Broken Islands.”

The public is invited to attend.

Funds available for swim lessons

The Making Waves swim scholarship fund at the Sequim Aquatic Recreation Center has grown recently, thanks to the Friends of SARC and its recent bake sales. The Making Waves fund provides scholarships for children to be enrolled in swim lessons, based on financial qualifications.

An application form and program guidelines may be found online at www.sarcfitness.com or by contacting the aquatics manager at sarcaquatics@olypen.com or 683-3344 ext. 16.

The next session of Monday/Wednesday lessons starts on Oct. 6, with registration closing Oct. 3. The next Saturday session begins Oct. 4.

Finifrock, Gellert win ‘Whine, Roses’ tourney

The Dungeness Women’s Golf Association hosted its annual golf invitational, The Days of Whine & Roses, on Sept. 15-16, with more than 100 competitors taking to The Cedars at Dungeness golf course.

Janie Finifrock and Deenie Gellert took top First Division gross score honors with a combined 71, followed by Linda Beatty and Judy Flanders (75) and Missy Anderson and Marlene Erickson (76). Barb Chiado and Barb Evans won top First Division net honors with a score of 56.

Participants took on a putting course made up of wine glass-shaped sand traps and wine bottle obstacles. Following the putting contest, the ladies headed out for nine holes of a two-person scramble.

The second day’s format of play was a two-person best ball via a shotgun start.

BMX nixes Saturday races

Port Angeles BMX is canceling its regularly scheduled day of racing on Saturday, Oct. 4. The tracks’ final race of the 2014 season is Sunday, Oct. 5, with signups from noon-1 p.m. The group’s yearly potluck and “Olympic Games” follow.

Sequim’s Storm King remains unbeaten

In a battle between the last two undefeated teams in the North Puget Sound League, the Storm King Lightning Boys U-11 soccer team improved to 4-0 with a 2-1 win against NSC Nitro 2-1 on Sept. 27.

The Nitro went up 1-0 just two minutes into the game, but Storm King knotted the score as Israel Gonzalez scored off of an assist from Kristian Mingoy. With just 10 minutes remaining, Gonzalez returned the favor to Mingoy for the game-winner.

The Lightning travels to Redmond for a game at 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 4.