In its 10th year, the Alaska Airlines Center not also housing hockey is well known regardless of your personal sports fandom. Yet, on the facility’s basketball court Saturday night, Savannah Kroon gloriously withstood the kind of body check puck heads adore. No harm....
Already the best wide receiver in the state, West High’s Aaron Hampton proved he’s also quite the running back after rushing for 140 yards in the state title game. With playmaker written all over him, the 6-foot-2, 220-pounder was also a lethal linebacker and usually...
It had to be the hair. Sporting freshly dyed bleach blond hair, the boys of the South High wrestling team stood out in more ways than one at the ASAA Division I state wrestling tournament. They could be nicknamed The Bleach Boys, but they prefer you call them state...
With its second lopsided victory in as many nights, the Dimond High hockey team on Friday reached the halfway point of its Cook Inlet Conference regular season. The Lynx now get several days away from the ice before meeting up against rival South on Tuesday at Ben...
You could say South/Bartlett forwards Elayna Tunney and Isabel Dupree were on the same page during Friday’s 11-4 win over Service/East. Barely 15 seconds into the first period, Dupree assisted Tunney’s first goal of the night – and at least one member of the duo...
As one of the key returners to the Chugiak High hockey team, Fischer Sims made certain to not get too caught up in what the Mustangs achieved a season ago. Although, doing so proved difficult. “It was very special,” Sims said Thursday night after Chugiak’s 13-0...
The South Wolverines claimed a dramatic victory late in the championship round to pull away from Soldotna and capture the tea title at the Grace Grizzly Shakedown, their third big tournament win of the season. South won two of the final four matches, including a...
Wrestlemania, Alaska style, brought more than a thousand wrestlers from across the state to Wasilla for the annual Lancer Smith Memorial tournament. The Lancer Smith is the biggest and maybe the baddest regular-season tournament on the high school calendar, and it...
Saturday night's Class 4A volleyball championship match ended just as it began – with a powerful front-row kill smashed by Wasilla senior middle Rylee Pitney. Pitney’s spikes marked the first and last points for the Warriors, and many in between, as they swept the...
Under most circumstances during her lengthy coaching career, Kim Lauwers would gleefully welcome a regular-season match on a September Friday night. Having spent most of her life on or around a volleyball court, where else might she want to be? “Oh, I was completely...
For the first time since 2006, the East Thunderbirds are Cook Inlet Conference volleyball champions. The evenly matched conference didn’t disappoint during Saturday’s tournament championship match at Service High School, as it came down to the wire for the eventual...