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Around The Rinks: Anchorage’s Hannah Hogenson shines in season debut (plus junior hockey notes)
Coming off a strong sophomore season, goaltender Hannah Hogenson of Anchorage got her junior season with the Bemidji State (Minn.) women’s hockey team off to sterling start Friday. Hogenson stopped 25 of 27 shots (.926 save percentage) in a 3-2 overtime...
CIC Football: Colony responds to coach’s challenge, bounces back for 37-17 win over West
After watching his team get pushed around last week and seeing some guys give up, Colony coach Robbie Nash fired his captains. He started at the top and worked his way down the line, even clipping the wings of his junior son, Jack, who is the star of the team....
Kenai River’s Thrilling Thursday: Anchorage’s Bryce Monrean delivers OT dagger, Wasilla’s Bryant Marks commits to UAA
After enduring misery last season, the Kenai River Brown Bears are off to a promising start this go-round, which continued Thursday with an overtime road win and a goaltender pledging his commitment to UAA. Center and assistant captain Bryce Monrean of Anchorage,...
CIC Football: Despite obstacles and debacles, East coach Jeff Trotter optimistic T-birds can turn the corner
For as much that has gone wrong this season for the East T-birds, they can make it all good in the final two weeks of the high school football season. Even at 2-3 in the Cook Inlet Conference, East controls its own destiny when it comes to postseason positioning....
Alaskans Brian Cooper, Christian Hausinger, Tanner Sorenson and Casey Bailey crushed season hockey debuts abroad
Lest you forget that some of Alaska’s best active hockey players earn their paychecks abroad, we’re here to fill you in on some dynamite debuts across the pond. U.S. Olympic defenseman Brian Cooper of Anchorage – and that’s @CoopDaddy907 to you – marked his debut...
Equinox Marathon champ Meg Inokuma named Alaska Athlete of the Week
Meg Inokuma was named Alaska Athlete of the Week after claiming the 59th Equinox Marathon on Saturday in Fairbanks. It was the biggest win of her career for the 42-year-old from Palmer. Her time of 3 hours, 15 minutes, and 29 seconds, the sixth fastest time in race...
CIC Flag Football: Service QB Greta Helgeson surpasses 1,000-yard season benchmark
You don’t throw for 1,000 yards in a season without spreading the ball around and Greta Helgeson has become a master delegator. The Service quarterback has a bevy of playmakers in Zoe Witter, Lily Rygh and Nora Simmons to chose from and together they make up one of...
Eve Stephens breaks another record as No. 14 UAA on a tear entering Thursday’s showdown with No. 10 WWU
If you have a volleyball record at UAA or in the GNAC, Eve Stephens is coming for you. The senior spiker from Palmer broke her second record in as many weeks as she powered the 14th-ranked Seawolves to a league series sweep of Montana State Billings and Seattle...
The Nashville Predators are giving Anchorage’s Cam Hausinger a look
Second-year pro winger Cam Hausinger of Anchorage, one of three brothers who play professional hockey, on Monday wrapped rookie training camp with the NHL’s Nashville Predators, who have also listed the right winger on their roster for the main training camp that...
CFB Notebook: Henry scores TD; Cummings, Pili, Sio, Snell, Kingsland great on gridiron
After being oh-so-close in the second quarter, Jace Henry of Fairbanks hit pay dirt in the fourth. The Dartmouth College dual threat scored a 1-yard touchdown to cap his team's 35-13 victory over Valparaiso in Hanover, New Hampshire. This was the first TD in eight...
Ophoff rallies to win men’s title, Inokuma holds off Marvin in women’s race at Equinox Marathon in Fairbanks
For the first time in 59 years, a skier at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has won the Equinox Marathon. The iconic race was founded by the UAF ski team but none of its current athletes had won since Nat Goodhue and Gail Bakken claimed the inaugural event in...
Prep Cross Country: State leaders emerge as season kicks into another gear
With the early season in the rearview, state leaders have continued to emerge, setting the pace and going head-to-head with small and large school competition. Campbell Peterson has been on fire, storming to her fifth straight win and continuing her undefeated...
Anchorage poker pro Adam Hendrix pockets sixth career win, and $192,400
Anchorage poker pro Adam Hendrix is proving prolific and prosperous in 2022. Hendrix on Monday won his sixth career title when he seized the Poker Masters Event #4, a No-Limit Hold ‘em game, at the ARIA Resort and Casino in Las Vegas to earn $192,400. The victory...
National trail running champ Anna Dalton named Alaska Athlete of the Week
Anchorage runner Anna Dalton earned Alaska Athlete of the Week honors after seizing her first national title by winning the USA Track and Field Half-Marathon Trail Running Championship in Cable, Wisconsin. Her time of1 1 hour, 30 minutes, 17 seconds put her more...
Arneson and Cherok post victories at Kenai Marathon, Anchorage team wins 109-mile Klondike Road Relay
Lars Arneson returned to where he grew up and set a new record Sunday at the Kenai River Marathon. Arneson, now of Anchorage, completed the 26.2-mile road course that starts and ends in Kenai in 2 hours, 35 minutes and 35 seconds. Arneson eclipsed the previous...
CFB Notebook: Metcalf has 71-yard scoop-and-score, Cummings collects 26th TD, Heartwell picks, Rolston kicks
Soldotna’s Hudson Metcalf didn’t need any help to score his first college touchdown. The Colorado Mesa University sophomore linebacker hit the TD trifecta with the strip, scoop and score on a 71-yard fumble return in a 31-28 loss to Black Hills State in Spearfish,...
Tales From The Trails: Juneau’s Sophie Tuckwood is clutch for Gonzaga’s nationally-ranked women’s cross-country running team
Gonzaga University’s burgeoning cross-country program is getting big help from Juneau’s Sadie Tuckwood, a former state champion and Gatorade Alaska Runner of the Year. Tuckwood (Juneau-Douglas High), a sophomore, on Friday finished 19th in a loaded field at the...
