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ALASKA ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
JESSICA YEATON
Jessica won the American Birkebeiner in dominating fashion after breaking away from the lead pack and skiing the final 20 kilometers solo. The APU Nordic Ski Team member and 2018 Olympian finished in 2 hours, 13 minutes, 20 seconds, to beat Finland's Riitta-Liisa Roponen, a five-time Olympian, by 41 seconds. Jessica topped a field of 766 women in the 50-kilometer freestyle event regarded as the biggest cross-country ski race in North America. The South Anchorage High School graduate became the 6th Alaskan to win the "Birkie".
The winner is selected by a panel each Friday and announced Saturday at 11 a.m. on the Sports Guys on CBS Sports Radio 590AM and 96.7FM. View past winners here.
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March 1, 2020
 Tony Tomsich Tony Tomsich and Anna Dalton had Alaska's top performances at Saturday's U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in Atlanta.
Tomsich, from Fairbanks and now living in Vancouver, Canada, placed 102nd out of 175 male finishers in 2 hours, 25 minutes and 16 seconds. He completed the second half just a minutes slower than the first half on an undulating course made even tougher by windy conditions.
Dalton, an Anchorage native, placed 212th among 390 female finishers in 2:49:24, averaging a pace of 6:28 per mil
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February 29, 2020
 Tanner Ealum It doesn't matter which conference Tanner Ealum of Anchorage competes in for Liberty University, chances are she's going to break the meet record in the 800-meter run.
Two years after she set the meet record at the Big South Conference outdoor championships, the Alaska track star broke the meet record at the Atlantic Sun Conference indoor championships.
Ealum broke the ASUN meet record in the 800 with a time of 2:06.64; her Big South meet record time was 2:06.89.
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 Ally Hull An Anchorage-to-Wasilla connection helped the Concordia University-Wisconsin women's hockey team take flight for a 3-2 win over Lake Forest in Illinois.
Anchorage's Maddy Millar earned assists on both goals scored by Wasilla's Ally Hull as Concordia upset the No. 2 seed Foresters in Game 1 of the quarterfinal series in the Slaats Cup.
Millar earned the primary assist on Hull's game-winner late in the second period.
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February 28, 2020
Five Alaskans are primed for the biggest race of their lives on Saturday - the U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in Atlanta, Georgia.
They've run countless miles on ice and snow in the heart of winter as well as around indoor tracks and on monotonous treadmills.
Some have trained mostly solo and squeezed in 100-mile weeks while holding full-time jobs and raising a family, while others have thrived in the camaraderie of running communities in Alaska and Canada. One is breaking ground as the first transgender runner at the Trials.
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February 27, 2020
 Christine Hemry Anchorage's Christine Hemry posted her first wins for Westmont College tennis in singles and doubles.
She also suffered her first heartbreaking loss.
Hemry dropped a topsy-turvy three-set decision at women's No. 5 singles to Alice Marques of Fresno Pacific by a 6-0, 2-6, 6-2 count.
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February 26, 2020
 Mario Chalmers Anchorage's Mario Chalmers turned on the jets while turning back the clock with a 26-point outburst in Greece, his highest scoring game since 2016.
The former NBA guard now with AEK Athens sparked his team's second-half comeback in an 84-83 win over the Cretan Kings in the Greek Basketball League.
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February 25, 2020
 Balas Buckmaster Anchorage's Balas Buckmaster has tapped into his power source to start the baseball season for Pierce College in Lakewood, Washington.
The leadoff hitter smacked his first college home run in the season opener and then drove in a career-high four RBIs in the second game of the NWAC season.
The 5-foot-9 sophomore outfielder already has six RBIs in the first four games. That's more RBIs than he had all of last season.
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 Jessica Yeaton Anchorage nordic skier Jessica Yeaton turned in an extraordinary performance to win the 46th American Birkebeiner, the biggest cross-country ski race in North America.
There were 766 women in the 50-kilometer freestyle race, and for about 20 kilometers or so, Yeaton didn't see a single one of them.
Yeaton, a APU skier and 2018 Olympian, is the sixth Alaskan to win the American Birkebeiner.
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The Alaska Sports Blog is hosted by the Alaska Sports Hall of Fame and written by Van Williams, formerAnchorage Daily News sports editor. The goal of the blog is to bring positive attention to Alaskans making good in sports on the international, national and local levels and to provide a forum for public discussion.
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Harlow Robinson
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Alaska Sports Hall of Fame
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