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by Van Williams | Mar 17, 2024 | Basketball, Cover Story
There was a changing of the guard Saturday night in Class 2A girls basketball. Metlakatla wiped away years of frustration after erasing a third-quarter deficit to beat perennial powerhouse Tikigaq 51-42 in the state tournament championship game in front of 3,500 fans...
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by Beth Bragg | Mar 18, 2024 | Cover Story, Nordic Skiing
Call it a wrap for the U.S. Ski Team’s blockbuster cross-country season, one in which some of the marquee performers were Alaskans. The World Cup season ended Sunday in Falun, Sweden, with a thrilling win by superstar Jessie Diggins of Minnesota. She eked out a...Read More
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by Alaska Sports Report | Mar 12, 2024 | Athlete of the Week, Basketball
Aryanna Watson was named our Alaska Athlete of the Week after a turning in a sparkling performance in the Cook Inlet Conference basketball tournament that was capped off by a dramatic game-winning shot. The Service freshman phenom, who has been touted all season as...Read More
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by Van Williams | Mar 17, 2024 | Basketball, Cover Story
Defense is king in King Cove and now the T-Jacks are kings of Class 1A boys basketball. Led by an active defense and late-game poise, King Cove held off defending state champion Kake 39-31 in the ASAA March Madness Alaska state title in front of 3,000 fans Saturday at...Read More
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by Matt Nevala | Mar 16, 2024 | Cover Story, Hockey
Whether or not by design, the dude wearing No. 12 on his back and sleeves helped deliver the Anchorage Wolverines a 12th consecutive win Friday night. Kade Shea, a 6-foot-2, 195-pounds native of Duluth, Minn., scored a pair of goals 2 minutes, 21 seconds apart late in... Read More
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by Beth Bragg | Mar 13, 2024 | Cover Story, Nordic Skiing
Anchorage’s Murphy Kimball cruised to a gold medal and five other members of Team Alaska picked up medals — three silvers and two bronzes — Wednesday at the U.S. Junior Nationals in Lake Placid, New York. Earlier this winter Kimball became the youngest American man to...Read More
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by Chanda File | Mar 17, 2024 | Basketball, Cover Story
The ASAA girls 1A state basketball title has a new home in Fort Yukon. The Eagles won their first girls championship in a gritty 62-51 matchup against the Newhalen Malamutes in front of a crowd of supporters donning signs that read “EAGLE POWER” and “GO FORT YUKON”....Read More
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by Beth Bragg | Mar 11, 2024 | Cover Story, Nordic Skiing
A wind-whipped day ended with three Team Alaska skiers on the podium Monday on the first day of competition at the U.S. Junior National cross-country championships in Lake Placid, N.Y. Two others with Alaska ties — one who skis for UAF, another who skis for APU — also...Read More
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by Van Williams | Mar 15, 2024 | Basketball, Cover Story
In a thrilling NCAA Tournament game that could have gone either way, CSU San Bernardino executed one, maybe two, more plays down the stretch to hold off the Seawolves. UAA stood toe-to-toe with the country’s 20th-ranked team before falling 52-49 in a first-round West...Read More
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by Van Williams | Mar 13, 2024 | Cover Story, Swimming and Diving
For Arizona State University’s John Heaphy of Eagle River and University of Arizona’s Tavner Wisdom of Anchorage, the 100-yard breaststroke B final at the Pac-12 Championships was personal. The rivalry between Alaska swimmers in the event dates back several years,...Read More
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by Van Williams | Mar 17, 2024 | Basketball, Cover Story
A little pain at the beginning of the season paved the way for the Petersburg boys basketball team to experience ecstasy at the end. Early losses served as growing pains that later helped the Vikings sprout from pretenders to contenders, a journey that culminated on...
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by Doyle Woody | Mar 18, 2024 | Cover Story, Hockey
Anchorage’s Mac Swanson keeps cementing his status as the most productive pucks prospect among Alaska teenagers. The second-year forward for the Fargo Force of the U.S. Hockey League, the country’s top junior circuit, racked five more points in three games over the...Read More
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by Arielle Himelbloom | Mar 11, 2024 | Cover Story, Prep Spotlight, Track and Field
Salcha’s Teslin Brannan was born to pole vault. The high school senior and third-generation pole vaulter elevated her Alaska all-time mark in the event, clearing 11 feet, 0.25 inches at the IceBreaker #4 meet at The Dome. Brannan, who represents the Alaska Pole Vault...
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by Doyle Woody | Mar 11, 2024 | Cover Story, Hockey
Victory in the season finale would have been sweet – UAA fell 5-2 to No. 20-ranked Arizona State in Saturday’s capper – but the Seawolves did pull off a dramatic 4-3 win Friday on home ice and finished the season with the program’s most wins since 2013-14. Granted,...Read More
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by Van Williams | Mar 12, 2024 | Basketball, Cover Story
The Wasilla girls basketball team will be the No. 2 seed at next week’s state tournament, but they are No. 1 in this week's Alaska Sports Report/Class 4A Coaches Poll. Fresh off winning the Northern Lights Conference Tournament title, Wasilla took the top spot after...
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by Beth Bragg | Mar 12, 2024 | Cover Story, Nordic Skiing
From skiing in front of a raucous crowd in Oslo to checking off a pair of bucket-list goals in Drammen, it’s been a memorable couple of days in Norway for Anchorage skier Rosie Brennan. Brennan claimed her first World Cup medal since early January and her fifth...
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by Doyle Woody | Mar 12, 2024 | Cover Story, Hockey
Former UAA forward Drake Glover of Anchorage delivered a five-goal barrage in the Southern Professional Hockey League last weekend, including a four-goal strafing of a former college teammate. Glover, who earns his paychecks for the Birmingham Bulls, generated the...Read More
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by Van Williams | Mar 14, 2024 | Basketball, Cover Story
Lots of teams overplay the respect card, but the Seawolves have a legit case. They were picked seventh in the GNAC preseason poll and written off with a month left in the regular season, and yet they are in the NCAA Tournament. A late season push by the UAA men’s...Read More
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