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Fifty-yard TD pass at crunch time provides South with 28-25 win over Wasilla
The Cook Inlet Conference’s top-ranked passer lived up to his billing Friday as Cole Yarrington threw for three touchdowns, including a 50-yard bomb near the final minute of play to lift the South High football team over Wasilla 28-25 in the Valley. Yarrington beat...
Golden Bears’ ground-and-pound rushing attack chews up Colony 36-0
Bartlett’s ground game overpowered visiting Colony early and often Friday night as the Golden Bears posted 130 of their 337 rushing yards in the opening four minutes and rolled to a 36-0 victory. The Golden Bears got an 80-yard touchdown gallop from Theo Meijia on...
Late field goal ices Juneau’s 17-6 victory over Bishop Union in California
A 17-6 victory wasn’t the only prize the Juneau football team claimed on their trip to Bishop, California. Someone in the traveling party also pocketed $197 after winning split the pot. The Huskies were money in more ways than one Friday night. Juneau controlled...
Bartlett’s Makisi Poleo threatens to run away with CIC rushing title (plus league leaders)
Bartlett High running back Makisi Poleo has lapped the Cook Inlet Conference three weeks into the high school football season and threatens to run away with the rushing title. The 220-pound bruiser is averaging 12.9 yards per carry and has piled up 620 yards on the...
Anchorage soccer star Mai Mateaki named Alaska Athlete of the Week after breakout collegiate performance
Anchorage's Mai Mateaki bagged the first two goal of her collegiate soccer career to power the D1 Air Force Academy to a 3-0 victory over Hawaii in Honolulu to earn Alaska Athlete of the Week honors. In just her third game, the freshman scored her first goal in...
SoHi football coach Galen Brantley Jr. looks to become Alaska’s all-time wins leader Friday
His football team uses a smashmouth style to run over opponents at a historic rate, but Soldotna High coach Galen Brantley Jr. walks with quiet confidence. Hungry yet humble, commanding but not cocky, Brantley has an easygoing excellence about him like he knows his...
Soccer Notebook: Vargas sisters get it done in different ways (plus player updates on other Alaskans)
Frida and Marisol Vargas are showing that the first family of Alaska soccer has more than just king Obed. While their little brother enjoys professional success in the MLS, the Vargas sisters have kicked off the college season with their own success as Frida ranks...
Anchorage’s Jayden Heartwell named North Star Athletic Association Defensive Player of the Week after 2-TD game
A game-changing performance by Anchorage’s Jayden Heartwell of the Dickinson State University football team on Saturday earned him North Star Athletic Association Defensive Player of the Week honors on Monday. The senior defensive back made four tackles and grabbed...
Nanooks setter Ainsley Smith of North Pole selected GNAC Defensive Player of the Week
Ainsley Smith's double-double average across three matches at the Hawaii-Alaska Challenge went along way with voters in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference who selected her Defensive Player of the Week. The UAF setter out of North Pole High averaged 10.3 digs...
Seawolf spiker Larssen Anderson of Anchorage named GNAC Offensive Player of the Week
UAA volleyball junior Larssen Anderson of Anchorage was named Great Northwest Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Week on Tuesday. A right-side hitter out of Dimond High averaged 2.17 kills and 2.92 points per set on .380 hitting in UAA's three matches at...
Football Notebook: O’Farrell records 80th tackle; Henry finds end zone; Zimmerman surpasses 400 yards; Chambers collects 20th TD
Anchorage’s Conner O'Farrell reached a major milestone, Fairbanks’ Jace Henry reached the end zone for the second straight week and Juneau's Noah Chambers reached back and threw deep for a touchdown Saturday to lead the contingent of college football players from...
UAF’s Kramer, Fordham lead Nanooks to victory over Seawolves in duel at Kincaid Park
Ten months after finishing 1-2 at the GNAC conference meet at Kincaid Park, UAF’s Kendall Kramer and Rosie Fordham were back in action on the same course, impressively with identical places and paces. Kramer covered the six-kilometer course in 20 minutes, 42...
UAA’s John Peckham wins season-opener, Nanooks edge Seawolves in historic showdown
For the first time in three years, a new winner was crowned in the Seawolf Throwdown at Kincaid Park. And for the first time in decades, the Nanook men edged the omnipresent Seawolves. UAA’s John Peckham stormed to victory, covering the eight-kilometer course in 25...
West fends off Lathrop 21-20 in wild game that comes down to final play
The difference between West winning and Lathrop losing Saturday came down to a game of inches. West hung on for a 21-20 victory in Fairbanks after Lathrop came up painfully short on a go-ahead two-point conversion with 9 seconds left after the wide receiver caught...
Pili Power: Dimond’s Cayden Pili leads Lynx to 40-39 win over Linfield in California
Given how well the offenses moved the football Friday night, chances were good whoever held possession last was going to win the game. That was the Dimond Lynx. Quarterback Cayden Pili threw for a touchdown and go-ahead two-point conversion with 9 seconds left to...
Anchorage’s Mai Mateaki scores twice to power Air Force’s 3-0 win at Hawaii
When she was in high school, former Dimond soccer star Mai Mateaki carved out a reputation for being a great scorer. In her third college game Thursday for the Air Force Academy, she carved up the Hawaii defense. Some things never change. The freshman from...
Fifty-yard TD pass at crunch time provides South with 28-25 win over Wasilla
The Cook Inlet Conference’s top-ranked passer lived up to his billing Friday as Cole Yarrington threw for three touchdowns, including a 50-yard bomb near the final minute of play to lift the South High football team over Wasilla 28-25 in the Valley. Yarrington beat...
Golden Bears’ ground-and-pound rushing attack chews up Colony 36-0
Bartlett’s ground game overpowered visiting Colony early and often Friday night as the Golden Bears posted 130 of their 337 rushing yards in the opening four minutes and rolled to a 36-0 victory. The Golden Bears got an 80-yard touchdown gallop from Theo Meijia on...
Late field goal ices Juneau’s 17-6 victory over Bishop Union in California
A 17-6 victory wasn’t the only prize the Juneau football team claimed on their trip to Bishop, California. Someone in the traveling party also pocketed $197 after winning split the pot. The Huskies were money in more ways than one Friday night. Juneau controlled...
Bartlett’s Makisi Poleo threatens to run away with CIC rushing title (plus league leaders)
Bartlett High running back Makisi Poleo has lapped the Cook Inlet Conference three weeks into the high school football season and threatens to run away with the rushing title. The 220-pound bruiser is averaging 12.9 yards per carry and has piled up 620 yards on the...
Anchorage soccer star Mai Mateaki named Alaska Athlete of the Week after breakout collegiate performance
Anchorage's Mai Mateaki bagged the first two goal of her collegiate soccer career to power the D1 Air Force Academy to a 3-0 victory over Hawaii in Honolulu to earn Alaska Athlete of the Week honors. In just her third game, the freshman scored her first goal in...
SoHi football coach Galen Brantley Jr. looks to become Alaska’s all-time wins leader Friday
His football team uses a smashmouth style to run over opponents at a historic rate, but Soldotna High coach Galen Brantley Jr. walks with quiet confidence. Hungry yet humble, commanding but not cocky, Brantley has an easygoing excellence about him like he knows his...
Soccer Notebook: Vargas sisters get it done in different ways (plus player updates on other Alaskans)
Frida and Marisol Vargas are showing that the first family of Alaska soccer has more than just king Obed. While their little brother enjoys professional success in the MLS, the Vargas sisters have kicked off the college season with their own success as Frida ranks...
Anchorage’s Jayden Heartwell named North Star Athletic Association Defensive Player of the Week after 2-TD game
A game-changing performance by Anchorage’s Jayden Heartwell of the Dickinson State University football team on Saturday earned him North Star Athletic Association Defensive Player of the Week honors on Monday. The senior defensive back made four tackles and grabbed...
Nanooks setter Ainsley Smith of North Pole selected GNAC Defensive Player of the Week
Ainsley Smith's double-double average across three matches at the Hawaii-Alaska Challenge went along way with voters in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference who selected her Defensive Player of the Week. The UAF setter out of North Pole High averaged 10.3 digs...
Seawolf spiker Larssen Anderson of Anchorage named GNAC Offensive Player of the Week
UAA volleyball junior Larssen Anderson of Anchorage was named Great Northwest Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Week on Tuesday. A right-side hitter out of Dimond High averaged 2.17 kills and 2.92 points per set on .380 hitting in UAA's three matches at...
Football Notebook: O’Farrell records 80th tackle; Henry finds end zone; Zimmerman surpasses 400 yards; Chambers collects 20th TD
Anchorage’s Conner O'Farrell reached a major milestone, Fairbanks’ Jace Henry reached the end zone for the second straight week and Juneau's Noah Chambers reached back and threw deep for a touchdown Saturday to lead the contingent of college football players from...
UAF’s Kramer, Fordham lead Nanooks to victory over Seawolves in duel at Kincaid Park
Ten months after finishing 1-2 at the GNAC conference meet at Kincaid Park, UAF’s Kendall Kramer and Rosie Fordham were back in action on the same course, impressively with identical places and paces. Kramer covered the six-kilometer course in 20 minutes, 42...
UAA’s John Peckham wins season-opener, Nanooks edge Seawolves in historic showdown
For the first time in three years, a new winner was crowned in the Seawolf Throwdown at Kincaid Park. And for the first time in decades, the Nanook men edged the omnipresent Seawolves. UAA’s John Peckham stormed to victory, covering the eight-kilometer course in 25...
West fends off Lathrop 21-20 in wild game that comes down to final play
The difference between West winning and Lathrop losing Saturday came down to a game of inches. West hung on for a 21-20 victory in Fairbanks after Lathrop came up painfully short on a go-ahead two-point conversion with 9 seconds left after the wide receiver caught...
Pili Power: Dimond’s Cayden Pili leads Lynx to 40-39 win over Linfield in California
Given how well the offenses moved the football Friday night, chances were good whoever held possession last was going to win the game. That was the Dimond Lynx. Quarterback Cayden Pili threw for a touchdown and go-ahead two-point conversion with 9 seconds left to...