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by Van Williams | Mar 26, 2022 | Basketball, Prep Spotlight
One week after losing on a buzzer beater to the East T-birds, the South Wolverines returned the favor. Zach Williamson scored on a fabulous fadeaway jumper at the buzzer to lift South to a 37-35 victory over East in the Class 4A boys championship game of the...
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by Matt Nevala | Mar 26, 2022 | Basketball
On the court, the Anchorage Christian girls shared numerous hugs yet seemed mildly subdued during the postgame celebration despite making Alaska sports history. The Lions waited a few minutes and then raised a ruckus in their Alaska Airlines Center dressing room. ACS...Read More
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by Alaska Sports Report | Mar 21, 2022 |
Anchorage hockey player Clair DeGeorge ended her stellar college hockey career with an NCAA national championship and Alaska Athlete of the Week honors. The 22-year-old center scored a goal and assisted on another to help Ohio State’s 3-2 win the women's D1 title game...
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by Van Williams | Mar 26, 2022 | Basketball
Dawson Schaeffer was in his own world in the Class 3A boys state championship game. The hard-to-guard playmaker pumped in a game-high 25 points and scored his team’s final five points, including a 15-foot runner with 18 seconds left, to lift Nome to a 49-47 victory...
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by Van Williams | Mar 26, 2022 | Basketball
The Class 3A girls state championship trophy is going back to Utqiagvik. The Barrow Whalers secured their fourth title – all since 2007 – with a 51-46 victory over a hard-charging Sitka team in the final of the ASAA/First National Bank Alaska state tournament at the...
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by Matias Saari | Mar 25, 2022 | Adventure
After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the White Mountains 100 is back with compelling storylines, a strong field and good trail conditions. “It feels good to finally get the race started again,” race director Stacy Fisk said. “It is good to get the endurance...Read More
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by Doyle Woody | Mar 22, 2022 | Poker
Anchorage’s Adam Hendrix enjoyed a springboard year in his poker career in 2021, when he won nearly $1 million in live events. This year is bringing more of the same. Hendrix over the weekend won a No-Limit Hold ‘em event at the U.S. Poker Open in Las Vegas to earn...Read More
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by Doyle Woody | Mar 27, 2022 | Hockey
Anchorage’s David Carle is headed back to the NCAA Frozen Four. Carle, the Denver head coach who won a Division I men’s hockey national championship as a Pioneers assistant coach on Jim Montgomery’s staff is 2017, guided Denver to the Frozen Four on Saturday, when it...Read More
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by Matt Nevala | Mar 25, 2022 | Basketball
In its first 17 games of the season versus in-state opponents, Anchorage Christian and its average 52-point margin of victory needn’t sweat too many details. At least for the first eight minutes of the 18th tilt Friday afternoon, Ketchikan made the Lions a tad...Read More
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by Van Williams | Mar 24, 2022 | Basketball
They say defense wins championships. Well, it can also get you to the title game. Just ask Nome-Beltz. The Nome High basketball team used a devastating defensive effort to smother No. 1 seed Houston in a 62-55 victory in the Class 3A boys semifinals of the ASAA/First...
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by Matt Nevala | Mar 22, 2022 | Hockey
Any moment the sound of Dave Grohl’s ferocious drumming pounds and pulsates through the people in packed arena is a stellar one. Even when the hockey club one's loved for a lifetime stinks it up in the third period and the music is basically played on a loop. The late...
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by Matias Saari | Mar 24, 2022 | Alpine Skiing
One day before a major freeride skiing competition in Girdwood was scheduled to start, Cameron Hoessle sat on the waitlist in racer limbo. Then, after another skier’s cancellation, the call finally came that he’d get to compete. Hoessle took full advantage, placing...Read More
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by Doyle Woody | Mar 21, 2022 | Hockey
All Isaiah Saville’s hard work has paid off – literally. The 21-year-old goaltender from Anchorage closed his college career last week after three solid seasons at Omaha and signed a contract with the NHL’s Vegas Golden Knights, who made him a fifth-round draft pick...
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by Van Williams | Mar 23, 2022 | Basketball
Jayce Underwood went into takeover mode in the fourth quarter, putting the Colony High basketball team on his back to carry the Knights to a 52-42 win over the previously undefeated West Valley Wolfpack on Day 1 of the ASAA/First National Bank Alaska state tournament....Read More
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by Doyle Woody | Mar 26, 2022 | Hockey
Nolan Walker gave his hockey team a chance, which he usually does this time of season. For Walker and his St. Cloud State crew, though, that wasn’t quite enough Friday when they fell 5-4 to Quinnipiac in the first round of the regional in Allentown, Pa. Walker, the...Read More
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by Matt Nevala | Mar 23, 2022 | Basketball
One thing seems abundantly clear about Alaska’s Class 4A girls high school basketball’s current season. Wasilla can offer a world of hurt as long as you're not the teams representing Sierra Canyon (Calif.) and Anchorage Christian. The Warriors – finely tuned as usual...
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by Doyle Woody | Mar 23, 2022 | Hockey
Alaska will be well represented Thursday when the biscuit bounces at the NCAA men’s Frozen Four. Of course, matching how well Clair DeGeorge of Anchorage represented Alaska at the women’s Frozen Four will be difficult to match. DeGeorge delivered a goal and an assist...Read More
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UP NEXT
Prep Track and Field: Service vs. Dimond, Chugiak vs. Eagle River
April 1 @ 3:00 pm - 9:00 pm
The Cook Inlet Conference kicks off their varsity season this weekend, with a slew of games held at The Dome. The Division I teams are poised to defend their state titles, with the Service Cougars (boys) and Dimond Lynx (girls) bringing home the trophies last spring.
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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