The high school baseball season has just arrived, but Rilen Niclai is already going, going, gone. The reigning Gatorade Alaska Player of the Year homered in his second at-bat in Tuesday's season opener for the Service Cougars, who won 14-2 in five innings over Eagle...
Keelie Kronberger's progression in high school has been steady as she goes for the Mountain City girls basketball standout, but this season she sailed through the competition to win player-of-the-year honors in a boat race. The 6-foot scoring machine swept all three...
Before many Alaskans likely woke up Sunday morning, the Anchorage North Stars’ title dream ended in hockey heartbreak. New Hampshire Avalanche skater Elijah Bledsoe scored 13 minutes, 5 seconds into overtime of the USA Hockey Tier II 14U boys 2A division national...
Blake Kullberg and his Anchorage North Stars buddies continued to make themselves right at home in the Lone Star State. After winning a pair of games Saturday, the youth team is one victory away from bringing a USA Hockey national championship back to Alaska. The...
To make school history Saturday night, the Mt. Edgecumbe boys basketball team had to overcame Barrow manchild Alex Fruean's 46 points, four lane violations at the free-throw line and three overtimes. The Braves escaped the Whalers by a whisker, winning 98-97 in an...
Jeannie Hebert-Truax sat down over breakfast Tuesday morning and thought about what she would tell her younger self about coaching high school basketball. “Make sure you have time, so you can do it right,” said Hebert-Truax, 55. “Fortunately, I’ve been blessed to have...
When your best player is also your hardest worker, you've got a chance to be special. When the entire basketball team follows his lead, you've got a state champion. Welcome to Ninilchik's world. The team's lone senior, Kade McCorison on Saturday wrapped up his storied...
Mountain City Christian Academy backup guard Madalynn Morris on Saturday found a way to get noticed on a 25-win girls basketball team with two college signees. Morris buried a corner 3-pointer in front of a small but fired-up MCCA fan base to squash a Wasilla rally,...
If the Cougars aren't giving team-of-destiny vibes, somebody might want to tell the basketball gods. For the third time in six games, the Service boys basketball team scored the winning basket in the final seconds, with two of them being buzzers. It happened again...
Sloan King got the Chugiak girls basketball team back in the game and Natalie Horn put it over the top, helping the Mustangs extend their season with a 42-36 come-from-behind victory over Dimond in a win-or-bust contest at the Cook Inlet Conference Championships on...
Playing in his first Cook Inlet Conference playoff basketball game, it would have been understandable if the moment had gotten the better of freshman Scotty McGee. Instead, he got the better of the Bartlett Golden Bears. McGee pumped in two of his game-high six...