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...
Every sports season is a journey in some form or fashion. On a picturesque Friday evening in Anchorage, Eagle River added more mileage to its travels by closing strong. In comparison, its opponent has barely moved at this point. The trio of Emily Larson, Emma Lento...
They say it’s better to be lucky than good, but Daisy Page of Anchorage had the best of both worlds in today's walk-off win. The Mississippi Valley State University senior pitcher looked to be headed toward a hard-luck loss against Alabama State before her team scored...
North Carolina A&T State University is leaving the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference after 50 years. Anchorage’s Lillian Bullock was recognized among the school’s greatest MEAC all-stars for a golden anniversary team. Bullock was a two-sport standout at North Carolina...
Former Colony High softball teammates Danyel Finley and Alyssa Oswald of Wasilla faced off in college for the first time. The two freshmen were right in the middle of the action when Columbia Basin and Yakima Valley squared off for a four-game NWAC series. Finley got...