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HIGH SCHOOL SWIMMING
Cody Brunette sat with his feet dangling in the Bartlett High pool Saturday, his face blank as he stared across the shallow warm-up pool into nothingness.
Dimond punches its ticket to state
After a disheartening loss in the Cook Inlet Conference semifinals, the Dimond volleyball team didn't have long to regroup.
HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING
Colony wrestlers claim tourney title
Three-time defending ASAA state champion Colony added a third consecutive unofficial title to its impressive resume by crushing Service 57-14 in the finals of the Alaska Dual Meet Championships at South High on Saturday.
HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY
Service defeated Lathrop 2-1 Saturday to win the Peninsula Ice Challenge in Kenai.
GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY
Service-East 2, Chugiak-Eagle River 2
Kelsey Watson scored with 17 seconds left in the second period for Chugiak-Eagle River to forge a 2-2 tie with Service-East.
HIGH SCHOOL SWIMMING
East's Wicks nabs state mark in 100 backstroke
For many at the state swimming and diving championships, reaching the finals is good enough to make a meet.
HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL
South and Chugiak are in final
South High's youngest player was its biggest leader Friday night as the Wolverines pulled off a deceptively lopsided sweep of defending state champion Dimond in the semifinals of the Cook Inlet Conference volleyball tournament at Service High.
HIGH SCHOOL RIFLERY
Matt Martin continued his stellar shooting with a 291 to lead the Chugiak A team to a 1,141 to 1,119 win over West in Cook Inlet Conference riflery competition Friday.
HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY
Service peppered a pair of Soldotna goalies with 47 shots - five of which found the net - to cruise to a 5-0 nonconference win Friday in Soldotna.
BOYS HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY
Kyle Head and Tayler Wells scored goals less than a minute apart in the second period to lift South to a 3-2 win over Wasilla.
GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY
South-Bartlett 7, Dimond-West 3
Jamie Rall scored four goals and added an assist to lead South-Bartlett to a 7-3 win over Dimond-West.
HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL
Dimond's route to a Cook Inlet Conference volleyball title defense began with a rout.
HIGH SCHOOL SWIMMING
Service girls eye 10th state title
It's not easy to waltz in a pool, but the Service girls will be looking to do just that this weekend at the state swimming and diving championships at Bartlett's 50 meter pool.
HIGH SCHOOL BOWLING
Bartlett's Lauren Eggleton started the high school bowling season in impressive fashion Thursday at Lucky Strike Lanes, rolling a 279 in her first game and finishing with a 705 series.
Mustangs and Lynx tie in their hockey opener
Everyone went home happy Wednesday after the Dimond and Chugiak hockey teams skated to a 3-3 tie that left Ben Boeke buzzing.
HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL
Chugiak and South made quick work of their opponents Wednesday to score sweeps on the first day of the Cook Inlet Conference volleyball tournament at Service High.
HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING
Six South High wrestlers pinned their opponents, including two who needed less than a minute to prevail, to carry the Wolverines to a 65-16 win over Eagle River in Cook Inlet Conference wrestling Wednesday.
GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY
Jamie Rall tallied a hat trick to lead South-Bartlett to an 8-1 victory over Chugiak-Eagle River.
HIGH SCHOOL SWIMMING
Pool isn't always kind to state champ with asthma
A pool full of competitors will try to take away Anne Goering's 200-yard freestyle title at the state swimming and diving championships this week at Bartlett High, but Goering's biggest threat might come from the pool itself. The Fairbanks senior suffers from chlorine-induced asthma.
HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY
West's Mendenhall holds East to one goal in hockey opener
Wearing No. 1 on his back, West goalie Blake Mendenhall was the No. 1 star in the Eagles' first game of the 2009-10 campaign.
CIC volleyball tourney is 3-team showcase
This weekend's Cook Inlet Conference volleyball tournament at Service High appears to be a three-team race.
VIDEO
Take a look at some of the extreme skiing that earned Doug Coombs a place in the U.S. Ski Hall of Fame.
VIDEO
Women's soccer match turns violent
A BYU and New Mexico women's soccer match gets ugly when a New Mexico player begins taking out her frustration on her opponents.
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
Four downs: A case against punting
Virtually every time the Pulaski Academy Bruins face fourth down, the prep school team from Little Rock, Ark., goes for it. No matter the distance. And here's the thing — the strategy works.
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Dimond and West square off annually in the dual meet for the coveted steel bucket prizes for the year.
PHOTOS
South High beat Fairbanks 13-3 to claim the crown, avenging a 15-5 loss to them a day earlier in the double-elimination tourney.
PHOTOS
The seven-day, eight-stage handcycle and wheelchair race was a full of long roads, harsh weather and bears.
Redick's four goals power Dimond-West girls
Service girls, Lynx boys swim to titles
Four North Pole wrestlers claim firsts
Consistency vaults South gymnasts to top
No shortage of action at the CIC swim meet
Colony, Dillingham tops in wrestling rankings
Wicks is the jack-of-all trades for the East swim team
Albright, Watzke and Eicher key sweep for the Mustangs
Wrestler has 3 state titles, sights set on a 4th
Leitch leads South to win in gymnastics tri meet
Lynx stop Mustangs in tournament championship
Knights wrestlers throw their weight around
South crushes North 54-12 in Shrine game
Football debuts today in The Dome
Colony wrestlers are up big in Palmer tourney
First rankings of the season released
Alaska's best? Kauffman and Tufuga
Alaska team goes 3-1-1 in Arizona showcase tourney
Bartlett rules the big schools
East's Wicks sets school mark in 50 free