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Around The Rinks (Junior Edition): Anchorage’s Mac Swanson riding career-high heater in USHL; Wolverines continue piling up points in NAHL
Anchorage’s Mac Swanson keeps cementing his status as the most productive pucks prospect among Alaska teenagers. The second-year forward for the Fargo Force of the U.S. Hockey League, the country’s top junior circuit, racked five more points in three games over the...
Nordic skiing: A historic season ends for American cross country skiing, and Alaskans were a big part of it
Call it a wrap for the U.S. Ski Team’s blockbuster cross-country season, one in which some of the marquee performers were Alaskans. The World Cup season ended Sunday in Falun, Sweden, with a thrilling win by superstar Jessie Diggins of Minnesota. She eked out a...
Prep Hoops: Petersburg gets defensive, knocks off top-seeded Hooper Bay in 2A boys state final
A little pain at the beginning of the season paved the way for the Petersburg boys basketball team to experience ecstasy at the end. Early losses served as growing pains that later helped the Vikings sprout from pretenders to contenders, a journey that culminated...
Prep Hoops: Lexi Cook pumps in 27 points to lift Metlakatla over Tikigaq for 2A girls state crown
There was a changing of the guard Saturday night in Class 2A girls basketball. Metlakatla wiped away years of frustration after erasing a third-quarter deficit to beat perennial powerhouse Tikigaq 51-42 in the state tournament championship game in front of 3,500...
Prep Hoops: King Cove snaps Kake’s 60-game winning streak, claims Class 1A boys state title
Defense is king in King Cove and now the T-Jacks are kings of Class 1A boys basketball. Led by an active defense and late-game poise, King Cove held off defending state champion Kake 39-31 in the ASAA March Madness Alaska state title in front of 3,000 fans Saturday...
Prep Hoops: Fort Yukon Eagles earn first 1A girls championship with gritty win over Newhalen
The ASAA girls 1A state basketball title has a new home in Fort Yukon. The Eagles won their first girls championship in a gritty 62-51 matchup against the Newhalen Malamutes in front of a crowd of supporters donning signs that read “EAGLE POWER” and “GO FORT...
Nordic Skiing: Relay races result in one medal for Team Alaska on final day of Junior National Championships
After a day with no medals on Friday, Team Alaska avoided the same fate Saturday by claiming silver in the U20 mixed relay race at the U.S. Junior National cross-country ski championships in Lake Placid, New York. The team of Rosie Whittington-Evans, Derek...
Junior Hockey: Postseason-bound Wolverines hold on for 4-3 win over Minnesota, run winning streak to even dozen
Whether or not by design, the dude wearing No. 12 on his back and sleeves helped deliver the Anchorage Wolverines a 12th consecutive win Friday night. Kade Shea, a 6-foot-2, 195-pounds native of Duluth, Minn., scored a pair of goals 2 minutes, 21 seconds apart late...
College Hoops: Nationally ranked San Bernardino ekes out 52-49 win over Seawolves in NCAA Tournament opener
In a thrilling NCAA Tournament game that could have gone either way, CSU San Bernardino executed one, maybe two, more plays down the stretch to hold off the Seawolves. UAA stood toe-to-toe with the country’s 20th-ranked team before falling 52-49 in a first-round...
College Hoops: Late-season push has Seawolves in NCAA Tournament for first time in 12 years; UAA opens against No. 20 San Bernardino Friday
Lots of teams overplay the respect card, but the Seawolves have a legit case. They were picked seventh in the GNAC preseason poll and written off with a month left in the regular season, and yet they are in the NCAA Tournament. A late season push by the UAA men’s...
College Swimming: John Heaphy and Tavner Wisdom’s rivalry in Alaska stretches to Pac-12 Championships
For Arizona State University’s John Heaphy of Eagle River and University of Arizona’s Tavner Wisdom of Anchorage, the 100-yard breaststroke B final at the Pac-12 Championships was personal. The rivalry between Alaska swimmers in the event dates back several years,...
Nordic Skiing: Murphy Kimball is golden on a day when Alaska skiers claim six medals at Junior National championships
Anchorage’s Murphy Kimball cruised to a gold medal and five other members of Team Alaska picked up medals — three silvers and two bronzes — Wednesday at the U.S. Junior Nationals in Lake Placid, New York. Earlier this winter Kimball became the youngest American man...
Nordic Skiing: With a bronze medal in a World Cup classic sprint race, Anchorage’s Rosie Brennan meets a couple of goals
From skiing in front of a raucous crowd in Oslo to checking off a pair of bucket-list goals in Drammen, it’s been a memorable couple of days in Norway for Anchorage skier Rosie Brennan. Brennan claimed her first World Cup medal since early January and her fifth...
Around The Rinks (Pro Edition): Nolan Walker, Drake Glover crash the 30-Goal Club; Alec Butcher close to 20-Goal Club (plus notes)
Former UAA forward Drake Glover of Anchorage delivered a five-goal barrage in the Southern Professional Hockey League last weekend, including a four-goal strafing of a former college teammate. Glover, who earns his paychecks for the Birmingham Bulls, generated the...
Prep Hoops: Wasilla girls new No. 1 in ASR/Class 4A Coaches Poll; Monroe boys climb to No. 3, East holds top spot
The Wasilla girls basketball team will be the No. 2 seed at next week’s state tournament, but they are No. 1 in this week's Alaska Sports Report/Class 4A Coaches Poll. Fresh off winning the Northern Lights Conference Tournament title, Wasilla took the top spot...
Service High freshman phenom Aryanna Watson named Alaska Athlete of the Week after dazzling at CIC hoops tournament
Aryanna Watson was named our Alaska Athlete of the Week after a turning in a sparkling performance in the Cook Inlet Conference basketball tournament that was capped off by a dramatic game-winning shot. The Service freshman phenom, who has been touted all season as...
Around The Rinks (Junior Edition): Anchorage’s Mac Swanson riding career-high heater in USHL; Wolverines continue piling up points in NAHL
Anchorage’s Mac Swanson keeps cementing his status as the most productive pucks prospect among Alaska teenagers. The second-year forward for the Fargo Force of the U.S. Hockey League, the country’s top junior circuit, racked five more points in three games over the...
Nordic skiing: A historic season ends for American cross country skiing, and Alaskans were a big part of it
Call it a wrap for the U.S. Ski Team’s blockbuster cross-country season, one in which some of the marquee performers were Alaskans. The World Cup season ended Sunday in Falun, Sweden, with a thrilling win by superstar Jessie Diggins of Minnesota. She eked out a...
Prep Hoops: Petersburg gets defensive, knocks off top-seeded Hooper Bay in 2A boys state final
A little pain at the beginning of the season paved the way for the Petersburg boys basketball team to experience ecstasy at the end. Early losses served as growing pains that later helped the Vikings sprout from pretenders to contenders, a journey that culminated...
Prep Hoops: Lexi Cook pumps in 27 points to lift Metlakatla over Tikigaq for 2A girls state crown
There was a changing of the guard Saturday night in Class 2A girls basketball. Metlakatla wiped away years of frustration after erasing a third-quarter deficit to beat perennial powerhouse Tikigaq 51-42 in the state tournament championship game in front of 3,500...
Prep Hoops: King Cove snaps Kake’s 60-game winning streak, claims Class 1A boys state title
Defense is king in King Cove and now the T-Jacks are kings of Class 1A boys basketball. Led by an active defense and late-game poise, King Cove held off defending state champion Kake 39-31 in the ASAA March Madness Alaska state title in front of 3,000 fans Saturday...
Prep Hoops: Fort Yukon Eagles earn first 1A girls championship with gritty win over Newhalen
The ASAA girls 1A state basketball title has a new home in Fort Yukon. The Eagles won their first girls championship in a gritty 62-51 matchup against the Newhalen Malamutes in front of a crowd of supporters donning signs that read “EAGLE POWER” and “GO FORT...
Nordic Skiing: Relay races result in one medal for Team Alaska on final day of Junior National Championships
After a day with no medals on Friday, Team Alaska avoided the same fate Saturday by claiming silver in the U20 mixed relay race at the U.S. Junior National cross-country ski championships in Lake Placid, New York. The team of Rosie Whittington-Evans, Derek...
Junior Hockey: Postseason-bound Wolverines hold on for 4-3 win over Minnesota, run winning streak to even dozen
Whether or not by design, the dude wearing No. 12 on his back and sleeves helped deliver the Anchorage Wolverines a 12th consecutive win Friday night. Kade Shea, a 6-foot-2, 195-pounds native of Duluth, Minn., scored a pair of goals 2 minutes, 21 seconds apart late...
College Hoops: Nationally ranked San Bernardino ekes out 52-49 win over Seawolves in NCAA Tournament opener
In a thrilling NCAA Tournament game that could have gone either way, CSU San Bernardino executed one, maybe two, more plays down the stretch to hold off the Seawolves. UAA stood toe-to-toe with the country’s 20th-ranked team before falling 52-49 in a first-round...
College Hoops: Late-season push has Seawolves in NCAA Tournament for first time in 12 years; UAA opens against No. 20 San Bernardino Friday
Lots of teams overplay the respect card, but the Seawolves have a legit case. They were picked seventh in the GNAC preseason poll and written off with a month left in the regular season, and yet they are in the NCAA Tournament. A late season push by the UAA men’s...
College Swimming: John Heaphy and Tavner Wisdom’s rivalry in Alaska stretches to Pac-12 Championships
For Arizona State University’s John Heaphy of Eagle River and University of Arizona’s Tavner Wisdom of Anchorage, the 100-yard breaststroke B final at the Pac-12 Championships was personal. The rivalry between Alaska swimmers in the event dates back several years,...
Nordic Skiing: Murphy Kimball is golden on a day when Alaska skiers claim six medals at Junior National championships
Anchorage’s Murphy Kimball cruised to a gold medal and five other members of Team Alaska picked up medals — three silvers and two bronzes — Wednesday at the U.S. Junior Nationals in Lake Placid, New York. Earlier this winter Kimball became the youngest American man...
Nordic Skiing: With a bronze medal in a World Cup classic sprint race, Anchorage’s Rosie Brennan meets a couple of goals
From skiing in front of a raucous crowd in Oslo to checking off a pair of bucket-list goals in Drammen, it’s been a memorable couple of days in Norway for Anchorage skier Rosie Brennan. Brennan claimed her first World Cup medal since early January and her fifth...
Around The Rinks (Pro Edition): Nolan Walker, Drake Glover crash the 30-Goal Club; Alec Butcher close to 20-Goal Club (plus notes)
Former UAA forward Drake Glover of Anchorage delivered a five-goal barrage in the Southern Professional Hockey League last weekend, including a four-goal strafing of a former college teammate. Glover, who earns his paychecks for the Birmingham Bulls, generated the...
Prep Hoops: Wasilla girls new No. 1 in ASR/Class 4A Coaches Poll; Monroe boys climb to No. 3, East holds top spot
The Wasilla girls basketball team will be the No. 2 seed at next week’s state tournament, but they are No. 1 in this week's Alaska Sports Report/Class 4A Coaches Poll. Fresh off winning the Northern Lights Conference Tournament title, Wasilla took the top spot...