PORT ANGELES — For the third year in a row, the Peninsula College men’s soccer team will be hunted by the rest of the Northwest Athletic Conference, but it makes no difference to a team that goes into every season expecting to win.

The Pirates will be defending their back-to-back NWAC championships with the nonconference season beginning at 2 p.m. Friday at Wally Sigmar Field against Rogue College.

It’s no surprise that the Pirates were named the No. 1 team in the NWAC in the coaches’ preseason poll, and by a huge margin. The Pirates got 150 points and 11 first-place votes. The second-most was by Highline with 91 points.

Coach Jake Hughes pointed out that Peninsula has won the NWAC title three out of the past five years. In fact, the Pirates have won an impressive seven NWAC titles sinc

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