Prior to each of what eventually became the two biggest games of their season, members of the Chugiak softball squad joyfully enjoyed themselves a sing-along inside the dugout. Taylor Swift’s “Shake it Off” and a few other teenage girl faves echoed out for everyone at...
Anchorage’s Alapese Matautia capped her softball career at Southwestern Oregon Community College in style. The sophomore shortstop went 3-for-3, scored two runs and drove in a pair in Sunday’s 6-1 win over Clackamas in the title game of the NWAC Championship in...
Even when she’s not hitting home runs, Anchorage’s Alapese Matautia is still an RBI machine. The Southwestern Oregon Community College sophomore shortstop drove in 10 runs in a four-game sweep of Grays Harbor after batting 8-for-10 with a double and seven singles. In...
As the best hitter on the best team in the NWAC this year, Anchorage’s Alapese Matautia is making a strong case for MVP. The sophomore slugger for Southwestern Oregon Community College is crushing the ball and has emerged as a legit triple-crown threat as she ranks...
Anchorage’s Lillian Bullock came out swinging with the North Carolina A&T State University softball team. She crushed 17 home runs and knocked in 56 RBIs in 60 games as a freshman in 2007 to earn first team all-league honors in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference....
As the best player on the best high school softball team in the state, Emily McCutcheon was the best choice for Gatorade Alaska Softball Player of the Year honors. The South junior led the Wolverines to a second consecutive state title after batting 9-for-15 at the...
Emily McCutcheon is the Alaska Athlete of the Week after her hitting powered South Anchorage to the state high school softball title. McCutcheon, a shortstop, went 9-for-15 at the plate with three home runs, five doubles and seven RBIs in the state championship...
There are no weak links in the South softball lineup, so any player can be a star on any given day. In the state championship game, it was freshmen Milli Wurst and Ryan Hutchison along with junior Alexis Moore. Wurst pitched a five-inning 3-hitter while Hutchison and...
South High earned a pair of pool-play victories the day prior in its run to a bracket-play bye during Friday’s second day of the Division I State Softball Championships. The Wolverines followed up the opening performance with their 12th win in 14 games, this time in...
South’s ‘Bomb Squad’ lived up to its billing in the Cook Inlet Conference championship game. Emily McCutcheon, Alexis Keaveny and Ryan Hutchinson each homered and combined for eight RBIs to highlight South’s 11-10 victory over Dimond in the CIC title game at Albrecht...
Dimond pitcher Trinity Miller may hold the game in her hand, but it’s catcher Malia Ogee who really holds the power. Ogee sets the defense and calls the pitches, sometimes overriding Miller’s preference to throw a certain pitch and a certain time. “I will shake her...