Sean Rash, who ruled Anchorage's bowling alleys as a kid before making it big as a pro, was crowned king of the bowling world Monday. The 2000 Dimond High graduate earned $140,250 in prize money and posted an average of 228.13 to earn Player of the Year honors.
NBA PLAYOFFS
Heat's Chalmers is on hot seat vs. Celtics
Heat point guard Mario Chalmers of Anchorage will have his hands full going up against Celtics star Rajon Rondo as Miami takes on Boston in the Eastern Conference finals.
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Standout Kenyan runner rebuilds his life
For the first 28 years of his life, Marko Cheseto's feet carried him, from a small village in the mountains of western Kenya to America, where he won race after race, becoming one of the most accomplished runners in UAA history. Then came the suicide of a cousin -- really more like a brother -- from his village, someone Cheseto himself had recruited to UAA running.
Dimond boys crowned state soccer champs
Sometimes all it takes is one timely goal to win a soccer match and that's all the Dimond boys needed Saturday in the state high school championship at Dimond Alumni Field.
Hooe and Zanders lead South girls to championship victory
Myriad connections bind South High teammates Morgan Hooe and Katelynn Zanders. They live across the street from each other. They've been pals and teammates since elementary school. And in sports, Hooe constructs the build-up and Zanders furnishes the exclamation point.
UAA's Chelimo is national champion
The greatest team performance in UAA track and field history was capped Saturday night by one of the grandest individual performances in the program's history -- junior Micah Chelimo seized the men's 5,000 meters at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Pueblo, Colo.
Zach Ferntheil did a little bit of everything for an undefeated Service team during the Cook Inlet Conference baseball season, and was rewarded by being named the Don Rabung Most Valuable Player.
Sagan Osborne pitched a complete-game five-hitter and struck out nine Saturday afternoon, when the Dimond Post 21 beat West Post 1, 8-3 in seven innings at Mulcahy Stadium, in the opening game of the American Legion baseball season for both clubs.
Jenna App swept Stages 2 and 3 in the women's expert class and Daniel Folmar did the same in the men's expert division Saturday in the Arctic Bicycle Club's Spring Stage Race.
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Three Seawolves are All-Americans
UAA athletes went 3 for 3 in All-America finishes Friday, when steeplechasers Micah Chelimo and Susan Tanui racked runner-up finishes and heptathlete Kelsea Johnson rocketed up the standings at the Division II NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Pueblo, Colo.
South edges Dimond girls soccer team
For the second time in six days, 80 minutes of regulation did not separate the South and Dimond girls soccer teams.
Juneau boys soccer team grabs victory late
With roughly 30 seconds left in stoppage time, in a boys soccer match that seemed destined for overtime Friday, Juneau's Johnny Joyce scored on a free kick to seize a 2-1 semifinal win over West in the state high school soccer tournament.
James Stull and Jenna App won the men's and women's expert classes, respectively, in Friday night's first stage of the Arctic Bicycle Club's Spring Stage Race.
Quinn conquers Kal's Knoya Ridge run
Najeeby Quinn broke the women's course record Thursday night and captured her second mountain- and trail-running title of the spring with her victory in Kal's Knoya Ridge run.
Colony 6, Wasilla 1 in baseball
Jonathan Boyer scattered eight hits in a seven-inning complete-game performance Friday in Kenai to lift Colony to a 6-1 win over Kenai that earned the Knights the Southcentral Conference championship and a state tournament berth.
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PREP SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIPS
Wolfe sisters deliver for Soldotna
After 40 unproductive minutes Thursday morning in the opening round of the state high school soccer championships, the Soldotna High girls wiped the slate clean.
5 Seawolves reach championship finals
UAA's distance demons got off to a strong start at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships on Thursday, when juniors Susan Tanui and Micah Chelimo won their 3,000-meter preliminary steeplechase heats to lead five Seawolves who advanced to finals.
The Juneau boys began defense of their state soccer title on the right foot Thursday at Tom Huffer Sr. Stadium, thanks in large part to the feet of senior Johnny Joyce.
East wins softball conference crown
Bouncing back from a Wednesday loss to West that pierced its undefeated season, the East High softball team beat West twice on Thursday night to win the Cook Inlet Conference tournament title and seize the top seed in next week’s state tournament.
SOUTHCENTRAL FISHING REPORT
King salmon forecast promising despite cloudy, cold rivers
There's good and bad news for holiday-weekend fishing. First, the bad: It looks as though last winter's record snowfall has kept a few rivers colder than usual and off-color. The good news is that the first reports seem to forecast an average or better year for kings, and the halibut and trout fishing has been decent.
PDF: Kenai refuge renews bear-safety restrictions at Russian River ferry
Ian Moore blitzed through 7.7 kilometers and 17 control stations Wednesday night to win the title on the red course in Karen & Tom's Bicentennial Park-O orienteering meet.
UAA volleyball tourney gets sponsor in Marriott
The UAA volleyball team's invitational tournament, which has been played under several titles in school history and was absent from the schedule last season, will return this fall with a new sponsor and name.
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Racers competed in wet and muddy conditions during State Race #2 of Alaska Racing Lions State Motocross Series on Sunday, May 27, 2012, at Jodhpur Track in Kincaid Park.
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ULTRAMARATHONING
Caballo Blanco's last run: The Micah True story
Micah True was an almost mythical ultramarathoner. He was a lone wanderer of the High Sierras. To many, the 58-year-old who died while out on a run represented the road not taken, a purer path, away from career, away from capitalism, away from the clock.
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