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Prep Hoops: Ella Boerger and Sophie Lentfer lead Grace Christian girls to 3A state crown
After riding shotgun to the Gatorade Alaska Player of the Year for much of the season, Ella Boerger took the wheel and drove the Grace Christian girls basketball team to a championship Saturday. Boerger had 14 of her team’s first 20 points in the first half and...
Prep Hoops: Muhammed Sabally leads East back to title game after top-ranked T-birds fend off No. 3 Monroe Catholic
Virtually invisible well into the third quarter, East boys basketball star Muhammed Sabally revealed his true colors when it mattered most Friday night. The Cook Inlet Conference Player of the Year took over during a late-game run that propelled the No. 1-ranked...
Prep Hoops: Thunder Mountain upsets second-ranked Service to advance to first 4A boys state final in school’s last dance
The storybook state tournament run by the Thunder Mountain boys basketball team scripted a new chapter Friday night, thanks to Thomas Baxter. In this version of March Madness, Cinderella stands 6-foot-3 with a shaved head, scruffy beard and tattoos. Baxter, an...
Prep Hoops: Mylee Anderson’s all-star turn lifts top-ranked Wasilla girls over Mountain City in 4A semifinal
In a starring role on the state’s grandest stage, Mylee Anderson turned in a performance reminiscent of the command performer that handed her and Wasilla so much basketball misery these last few years. Anderson finished with 27 points Friday night and simply owned...
Prep Hoops: Colony girls cruise past Thunder Mountain, reaches 4A finale for the first time in a decade
In the early moments of Friday’s fourth quarter, Tonya Karpow moved away from the interior of the offensive end and nailed her only three-pointer of the afternoon from the deep, left corner. Nearby along the sidelines by the Colony High bench, coach Chandice Cronk...
Prep Hoops: Nome rallies to beat Grace while undefeated Mt. Edgecumbe mauls Valdez in 3A boys state semifinals
Finn Gregg put the Nome-Beltz boys basketball team on his back in the second half Thursday night and carried the Nanooks to the Class 3A state title game. The junior guard poured in 18 of his 24 points after halftime as Nome rallied for a 48-41 victory over Grace...
Prep Hoops: Top seeds Barrow and Grace girls win 3A semifinals, advance to state title game
When she was a senior in high school, 2011 Barrow grad Nicole Smith was part of a defense-minded Whalers’ girls basketball team that won the state title. Now that she’s the coach, Smith’s team plays a more wide-open offensive game, but the results are similar. The...
College Wrestling: Three Alaskans qualify for NCAAs, two of them face off as Evan Bockman outlasts Levi Hopkins in 2OT
Two titans of Alaska wrestling on Thursday squared off in Kansas City, where 197-pounders Evan Bockman of Anchorage and Levi Hopkins of Palmer put on a show and made state history. In the first head-to-head meeting between Alaskans at the NCAA Championships,...
Prep Hoops: Falcons upset fourth-ranked West Valley in 4A boys state opener, will join East, Service, Monroe in Final 4
Wednesday was not the last dance for the Thunder Mountain boys basketball team. With the Juneau high school scheduled to be consolidated with the capital city's other high school, this is the final season for the Falcons and their last chance to win a Class 4A...
Prep Hoops: Thunder Mountain claims school’s first 4A girls state win; Colony, Wasilla, MCCA advance
As Andrew Lee sat in the passenger seat of a vehicle driving away from the Alaska Airlines Center on Wednesday night, he tried his best to articulate the reaction to history being made by the Thunder Mountain girls basketball team. “Well, in a word, we’re elated,”...
Prep Hoops: Tino Tucker stands tall for Valdez, Mt. Edgecumbe moves to 25-0 at 3A boys state (Nome, Grace both roll)
Tino Tucker made some big plays in the second half to help the Valdez boys basketball team do just enough to hold off Barrow 34-31 Wednesday’s quarterfinals of the Class 3A state tournament. Wednesday’s game at Alaska Airlines Center was a one-possession contest...
Prep Hoops: Barrow hits on all cylinders in 3A girls quarterfinals (Monroe, Edgecumbe & Grace also win)
The Barrow girls basketball team was hitting on all cylinders Wednesday, zooming all over the court and steamrolling Sitka 74-48 in the Class 3A state tournament quarterfinals. The top-seeded Whalers assisted on one-third of the team’s field goals, drilled seven...
Iditarod Trail Invitational features tie finishes, a remarkable skier and some luck of the Irish
For more than two weeks, Tyson Flaharty and Miron Golfman endured cold temperatures, high winds, plenty of bike pushing and a scary sea ice crossing while biking the Iditarod Trail Invitational. Their intentional tie after 16 days, 5 hours and 10 minutes was a...
Around The Rinks (Random Edition): Anchorage’s Cam Hausinger enjoys a breakout game with his new ECHL club (plus, Braxton Whitehead’s breakout WHL season and NCAA/Junior A notes)
This hockey season has been a slog for third-year pro Cam Hausinger of Anchorage. Through 45 games with the ECHL’s Florida Everblades, the 25-year-old forward delivered just 5-6—11 scoring totals, well below the standard he set in his first two pro seasons....
Prep Hoops: Bartlett girls relish opportunity against No. 1-ranked Wasilla in 4A state tournament
Facing the state’s No. 1-ranked team in the first round of the state tournament would have some people calling foul, but Bartlett girls basketball coach Darian Lawson is calling his shot. The third-year coach wouldn’t be surprised if his eighth seeded Golden Bears...
Prep Hoops: Mt. Edgecumbe boys enter 3A state tournament riding 24-game heater; Grace’s Sophie Lentfer named Gatorade girls winner
Just because the Mt. Edgecumbe boys basketball team has a 24-0 record doesn’t mean the Braves had it easy this season. They had an 11-point fourth-quarter comeback against Sitka, blew an 11-point fourth-quarter lead at Barrow and rallied late to win against...
Prep Hoops: Sabally/Sulaiman syndicate powers top-ranked East in 4A boys final to secure T-birds’ 19th state title
There were lots of games this season when the East boys basketball team was carried by Muhammed Sabally and plenty more when Akeem Sulaiman did the heavy lifting. Saturday night, they shared the workload and helped the T-birds hoist another trophy. Sabally produced...
Prep Hoops: Wasilla takes a hit or two before earning first 4A title since 2017 and eighth overall
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...
Prep Hoops: Orson Hoogendorn’s 3-pointer with 2.3 seconds left lifts Nome boys to 3A title over Mt. Edgecumbe
Don’t think, just shoot. And keep shooting. That was the advice Nome-Beltz boys basketball player Orson Hoogendorn heard before Saturday’s Class 3A boys state title game and again at crunch time. That constant support pumped confidence back into him before he...
Prep Hoops: Ella Boerger and Sophie Lentfer lead Grace Christian girls to 3A state crown
After riding shotgun to the Gatorade Alaska Player of the Year for much of the season, Ella Boerger took the wheel and drove the Grace Christian girls basketball team to a championship Saturday. Boerger had 14 of her team’s first 20 points in the first half and...
Prep Hoops: Muhammed Sabally leads East back to title game after top-ranked T-birds fend off No. 3 Monroe Catholic
Virtually invisible well into the third quarter, East boys basketball star Muhammed Sabally revealed his true colors when it mattered most Friday night. The Cook Inlet Conference Player of the Year took over during a late-game run that propelled the No. 1-ranked...
Prep Hoops: Thunder Mountain upsets second-ranked Service to advance to first 4A boys state final in school’s last dance
The storybook state tournament run by the Thunder Mountain boys basketball team scripted a new chapter Friday night, thanks to Thomas Baxter. In this version of March Madness, Cinderella stands 6-foot-3 with a shaved head, scruffy beard and tattoos. Baxter, an...
Prep Hoops: Mylee Anderson’s all-star turn lifts top-ranked Wasilla girls over Mountain City in 4A semifinal
In a starring role on the state’s grandest stage, Mylee Anderson turned in a performance reminiscent of the command performer that handed her and Wasilla so much basketball misery these last few years. Anderson finished with 27 points Friday night and simply owned...
Prep Hoops: Colony girls cruise past Thunder Mountain, reaches 4A finale for the first time in a decade
In the early moments of Friday’s fourth quarter, Tonya Karpow moved away from the interior of the offensive end and nailed her only three-pointer of the afternoon from the deep, left corner. Nearby along the sidelines by the Colony High bench, coach Chandice Cronk...
Prep Hoops: Nome rallies to beat Grace while undefeated Mt. Edgecumbe mauls Valdez in 3A boys state semifinals
Finn Gregg put the Nome-Beltz boys basketball team on his back in the second half Thursday night and carried the Nanooks to the Class 3A state title game. The junior guard poured in 18 of his 24 points after halftime as Nome rallied for a 48-41 victory over Grace...
Prep Hoops: Top seeds Barrow and Grace girls win 3A semifinals, advance to state title game
When she was a senior in high school, 2011 Barrow grad Nicole Smith was part of a defense-minded Whalers’ girls basketball team that won the state title. Now that she’s the coach, Smith’s team plays a more wide-open offensive game, but the results are similar. The...
College Wrestling: Three Alaskans qualify for NCAAs, two of them face off as Evan Bockman outlasts Levi Hopkins in 2OT
Two titans of Alaska wrestling on Thursday squared off in Kansas City, where 197-pounders Evan Bockman of Anchorage and Levi Hopkins of Palmer put on a show and made state history. In the first head-to-head meeting between Alaskans at the NCAA Championships,...
Prep Hoops: Falcons upset fourth-ranked West Valley in 4A boys state opener, will join East, Service, Monroe in Final 4
Wednesday was not the last dance for the Thunder Mountain boys basketball team. With the Juneau high school scheduled to be consolidated with the capital city's other high school, this is the final season for the Falcons and their last chance to win a Class 4A...
Prep Hoops: Thunder Mountain claims school’s first 4A girls state win; Colony, Wasilla, MCCA advance
As Andrew Lee sat in the passenger seat of a vehicle driving away from the Alaska Airlines Center on Wednesday night, he tried his best to articulate the reaction to history being made by the Thunder Mountain girls basketball team. “Well, in a word, we’re elated,”...
Prep Hoops: Tino Tucker stands tall for Valdez, Mt. Edgecumbe moves to 25-0 at 3A boys state (Nome, Grace both roll)
Tino Tucker made some big plays in the second half to help the Valdez boys basketball team do just enough to hold off Barrow 34-31 Wednesday’s quarterfinals of the Class 3A state tournament. Wednesday’s game at Alaska Airlines Center was a one-possession contest...
Prep Hoops: Barrow hits on all cylinders in 3A girls quarterfinals (Monroe, Edgecumbe & Grace also win)
The Barrow girls basketball team was hitting on all cylinders Wednesday, zooming all over the court and steamrolling Sitka 74-48 in the Class 3A state tournament quarterfinals. The top-seeded Whalers assisted on one-third of the team’s field goals, drilled seven...
