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by Van Williams | Mar 12, 2022 | Basketball
Why not the Nooks? Somebody has to win the West Region. Why not the eighth-seeded UAF Nanooks men’s basketball team? The monster hunters bagged a sixth straight upset in postseason play, this time taking down Azusa Pacific 72-71 in overtime in the Round of 32 of the...Read More
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by Matias Saari | Mar 11, 2022 | Nordic Skiing, Paralympics, Snowboarding
Grace Miller of Palmer has one arm and Katy Maddry of Wasilla has one leg — but that hasn't stopped them from reaching the pinnacle of their sports. Miller and Maddry are thrilled to be competing at the Winter Paralympics in Beijing along with Andrew Kurka of Palmer....
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by Alaska Sports Report | Mar 7, 2022 | Athlete of the Week, Basketball
The UAF men's basketball team was named our Alaska Athletes of the Week after their stunning performance at the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Tournament in Lacey, Washington. Led by tournament MVP and All Conference senior guard Shadeed Shabbaz, the No....
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by Doyle Woody | Mar 13, 2022 | Hockey
We’re getting to the point where calling Jeremy Swayman sizzling is redundant. Like saying water is wet. OK, that’s hockey hyperbole, but not ridiculously so. Swayman, the Boston Bruins rookie goaltender from Anchorage, on Saturday night extended his winning streak to... Read More
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by Van Williams | Mar 13, 2022 | Basketball
Long before she got married and changed her name, Whitney Leman was the most feared Class 2A girls basketball player in Alaska. If you played Ninilchik between 2000 and 2003, you most likely lost. With Dan Leman as head coach and his daughter Whitney as his star...
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by Van Williams | Mar 10, 2022 | Baseball
Anchorage’s Dylan Maltby was a doubles machine when he played at South High. He's been in the same gear at Hesston College in Kansas. The freshman infielder leads the NJCAA team with nine doubles in 19 games and ranks second on the Larks with a .377 batting average on...Read More
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by Matt Nevala | Mar 8, 2022 | Basketball, Prep Spotlight
As Bella Hays prepared for the final stretch of regular-season games as a high school basketball player last week, she and her Wasilla teammates faced a different kind of unnerving obstacle. “We have a lip sync (performance) at an assembly we have done every year as a...Read More
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by Doyle Woody | Mar 12, 2022 | Track and Field
Ruby Lindquist of Moose Pass ran close to her fastest mile but did not advance at NCAA Division II nationals Representing Black Hills State University of South Dakota for the second straight year at the NCAA Division II Track and Field Indoor National Championship,... Read More
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by Matias Saari | Mar 9, 2022 | Adventure, Cycling, Mountain Biking
The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race is now hogging the headlines — but a hardy band of bikers, skiers and runners have been traversing the trail for more than a week. Fairbanksan Tyson Flaharty and Canadian Ryan Atkins led the way in the 306-mile trek from Knik to...Read More
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by Van Williams | Mar 11, 2022 | Friday Flashback, Tennis
Anchorage tennis player Emma Lewis made her name in doubles at Bowdoin College, but her claim to fame came in singles. In 2012, she rallied for a thrilling three-set victory in the decisive match to lift Bowdoin to a 5-4 win over Middlebury in the NCAA D3 national...
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by Matias Saari | Mar 10, 2022 | Sled Dog Racing
The gamble for Brent Sass wasn’t forging on Wednesday to the abandoned mining outpost of Cripple for his 24-hour break in the 50th Iditarod. The gamble was doing so in a single 77-mile push from Ophir instead of taking extra rest like Dallas Seavey and others. It...
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by Doyle Woody | Mar 13, 2022 | Hockey
Of the 10 game-winning goals Clair DeGeorge has authored in her college hockey career, none was more memorable than the dagger she delivered Saturday. The graduate center from Anchorage scored her second goal of the game 2 minutes, 5 seconds into double overtime to....Read More
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by Van Williams | Mar 12, 2022 | Basketball
Olivia Davies of Wasilla came up big in the Big West Conference Tournament championship game. The redshirt freshman ignited a third-quarter rally that sparked the top-seeded University of Hawaii women’s basketball team to a 59-48 win over No. 2 UC Irvine. Davies...Read More
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by Doyle Woody | Mar 12, 2022 | Hockey
Michael Bullion’s resilience delivered his rink reward Friday night – and that much-deserved milestone was a long time coming. The rookie goaltender from Anchorage pocketed his first pro victory, stopping 32 shots for the ECHL’s Norfolk Admirals in a 4-3 victory at...
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by Van Williams | Mar 8, 2022 | Wrestling
Sitka’s Sydnee Kimber was untouchable at the National Collegiate Women’s Wrestling Championships. Again. For the second consecutive year opponents were unable to score a point against the Alaskan, who posted a 4-0 record en route to winning the 191-pound championship....Read More
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by Doyle Woody | Mar 10, 2022 | Hockey
The sensational college hockey season of the Marvelous Matsons came to a close Wednesday night when the sisters from Wasilla and their Aurora University mates were eliminated from the NCAA Division III women’s national tournament. Aurora fell 7-0 to host and No.... Read More
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by Van Williams | Mar 11, 2022 | Basketball
The UAF men’s basketball team is still dancing. Just days after shocking the NCAA Division II basketball world by winning the GNAC Championships as a 10 seed, the Nanooks kept it rolling with a 70-63 victory over Cal State San Marcos in the first round of the NCAA...
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by Doyle Woody | Mar 11, 2022 | Hockey
A couple of Alaska cats are on a tear. Boston Bruins rookie goaltender Jeremy Swayman of Anchorage became sole owner of the second-longest NHL winning streak by an Alaska goaltender on Thursday night when he backstopped a last-minute 4-3 win over the Chicago...
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UP NEXT
Sled Dog Racing: Open North American Championships
March 18 @ 1:00 pm - March 20 @ 11:00 pm
The Open North American Championships for dog mushing is slated for this weekend, from March 18th-20th, in Fairbanks. The event is the longest continuously run sled dog race in the world, celebrating its 76th anniversary this year. The three-day race series kicks off at 1pm on the 18th, with each day hosting a 20+ mile race. Listen on the radio on KFAR 97.5 FM or 660 AM and Voice of Denali KRFF 89.1 FM, live stream via FB Alaska Dog Mushers Association page.
Visit Up Next for a preview of some of the big sport tickets happening around the state over the next week. Contact Up Next manager Arielle Himelbloom with event info.
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