Despite being ranked No. 1 in Class 4A at 145 pounds, Chugiak wrestler Grant Sullivan knew he wasn't going to have an easy time against South's Luke Shelley in Saturday's finals of the Glenn Vandergaw Dimond Classic.
HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY
West High's hockey team snapped a 1-1 tie with three consecutive goals and went on to beat Lathrop 5-2 Saturday at the Big Dipper in Fairbanks, a nonconference victory that gave the Eagles a sweep of their three-game trip north.
BOYS HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY
Sperry's late-game heroics net Eagle River win
Connor Sperry scored two goals in the final minute of play as the Eagle River boys hockey team rallied for a dramatic 6-5 win over Juneau at the End of The Road Shootout in Homer.
GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY
Service-East 5, Chugiak-Eagle River 0
Jordann Russell scored a pair of goals and Dani Shelton earned the shutout in net, lifting Service-East past Chugiak-Eagle River on Friday.
HIGH SCHOOL RIFLERY
When students carry guns to school, it usually gets people's attention. Not for the members of Anchorage's high school riflery teams, whose sport flies so far below the radar that many of their classmates don't even know it exists.
HIGH SCHOOL BOYS HOCKEY
Ben Russell scored a power-play goal with 3:39 left in the third period to lift Eagle River into a 5-5 tie against Hutchison in the End of the Road Shootout in Homer.
HIGH SCHOOL BOWLING
Chugiak girls rally to tie Eagle River
After losing the first two games against Eagle River, the Chugiak girls came storming back with a huge win in Game 3 to earn a 6-6 tie at Jewel Lake Bowl.
HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING
Seven wrestlers competed in matches for South on Thursday and six pinned Bartlett wrestlers.
HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY
Dimond took a key early-season win Wednesday by getting out quick against its biggest rival. The Lynx scored twice in the first four minutes and got 16 saves from goalie Marcus Holzschuh.
GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY
Bartlett-South tops Dimond-West in OT
Bartlett-South remained undefeated Wednesday with a wild 4-3 overtime win at Ben Boeke in girl's hockey action.
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
Colony head football coach Jamie Mayo, who led the Knights to a 30-17 record during five seasons, announced his resignation Tuesday. In a press release issued by the school, Mayo cited work responsibilities as the major factor in his decision.
HIGH SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY
Alaskans run strong in Northwest Regional
Grace Christian junior Jacob Kirk, the reigning Class 1-2-3A boys state cross-country champion, finished 22nd in the boys 5-K championship race at the Nike Cross Country Nationals Northwest Region Championships in Boise, Idaho on Saturday
HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING
Service won six matches by fall and picked up six more forfeit victories in rolling past Bartlett on Wednesday.
BOYS HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY
Mustangs win while Wolves assistant Wild gets a fiancee
Love and hate went hand in hand Tuesday as the Chugiak Mustangs took a tense 2-1 win over Eagle River in front of a packed house at the McDonald Center in Eagle River.
GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY
Mat-Su Ravens head coach Dudley Boehm doesn't measure his team's success in wins and losses, but he might want to start.
Homer wrestlers manage to knock off Soldotna
Homer's Travis Catron won by technical fall, defeating his opponent 15-0, to lead the Mariners wrestlers past the Stars 41-34. Catron's 145-pound match against Soldotna's Dallin Carlson was the final match of the meet. The Mariners held a 36-34 lead entering the match.
HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING
Dillingham takes tournament team title
Dillingham placed six wrestlers into the championship finals and three of them won titles Saturday, powering the Wolverines to the team title at the ACS Invitational.
HIGH SCHOOL VOLLEYBALL
In like Lions: ACS beats Monroe
Friendships forged during a four-year run to the top of the Alaska high school volleyball world were cemented Saturday night as a senior-heavy Anchorage Christian squad capped an undefeated season with a three-game sweep of Monroe Catholic.
Dimond dominates in straight sets
After every practice this season, the Dimond Lynx volleyball team gathered together and repeated the one word that would become the team's mantra: "Repeat."
HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY
West's Alec Butcher scored midway through the third period to forge a tie with visiting West Valley at a nonconference hockey game at the McDonald Center.
GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY
Brittany Stahle scored a pair of goals Saturday to lead the South-Bartlett girls hockey team past Mat-Su at the McDonald Center.
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Washington Redskins kick returner Rock Cartwright remembers his brain "shaking like a bell" when he was walloped in a game against the New York Giants a few years ago. What Cartwright never did when the hit happened? He never told Washington's medical staff his head ached.
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The Bartlett Golden Bears beat the Service Cougars 9-0 Aug. 26 to remain undefeated.
PHOTOS
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.
Chugiak's tight group posts riflery record
Dillingham flies into Anchorage, wins at state
Wiles leads Cougars over Wolves
Snow postpones two boys hockey games
South-Bartlett 2, Service-East 1
Lone Simmers leads ACS into state volleyball tournament
Eagles top Service in overtime
Dimond-West girls hockey clobbers Mat-Su
Early jump gives Dimond boys crown
Dimond punches its ticket to state
Colony wrestlers claim tourney title
Service-East 2, Chugiak-Eagle River 2
East's Wicks nabs state mark in 100 backstroke
South and Chugiak are in final
South-Bartlett 7, Dimond-West 3
Service girls eye 10th state title
Mustangs and Lynx tie in their hockey opener
Pool isn't always kind to state champ with asthma
West's Mendenhall holds East to one goal in hockey opener
CIC volleyball tourney is 3-team showcase
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