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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.

Photos: 2012 State Soccer

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.

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.

State soccer results, matchs

Friday's results and game schedule for Saturday

State soccer results, matches

2012 ASAA/First National Bank Alaska State High School Soccer Championships

Juneau boys open with win

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.

Photos: State Soccer

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.

PREP SOCCER

Top-seed Dimond ready for state

Spend a few minutes with players on the Dimond boys soccer team and it's easy to see the Lynx are enjoying themselves, ribbing one another good-naturedly and brimming with confidence.

Dimond sweeps soccer honors

Dimond High owns the top seeds in the state high school soccer tournament this week after sweeping last week's Cook Inlet Conference tournaments, and the Lynx have also swept the Gatorade Alaska Player of the Year awards.

STATE SOCCER TOURNAMENT

Dimond girls will open against Service

Dimond High's reward for winning the Cook Inlet Conference girls tournament last week: A brutal bracket in this week's state championships.

ALASKA SPORTS ROUNDUP (5/21/12)

Moser will be an assistant at Colorado State

Former UAA women's basketball coach Tim Moser, who resigned from his position with the Seawolves earlier this month, has accepted a job as an assistant coach with the Colorado State women's basketball team.

Dimond outlasts South 4-3 in tight match

At times when the Cook Inlet Conference girls championship soccer game stretched to penalty kicks Saturday, Dimond High goalkeeper Katelyn Sweeney stood on her line and stretched her arms horizontally, trying to make herself look big and imposing.

Photos: Boys and girls Cook Inlet Conference soccer finals

Dimond goalie makes right move in 2-1 win

As dominant as the Dimond Lynx have been during the Cook Inlet Conference boys soccer season, it isn't often goalie Arturo Oberto is called upon to make clutch saves in the closing minutes of a match.

Soldotna girls, Wasilla boys champs

The Region III soccer titles were decided in two close matches at Skyview High on Saturday.

Girls CIC showdown will feature South and Dimond.

The opening 30 minutes of South's 3-0 semifinal victory Friday over Eagle River in the girls Cook Inlet Conference tournament wasn't as much a soccer match for Eagle River as a battle of attrition.

Photos: South 3 Eagle River 0 CIC soccer

Service boys turn up intensity

The Lynx have long held to a tradition of giving themselves terrifically bad haircuts for the conference and state tournaments as a sort of team-bonding deal. Usually, the seniors wield the clippers on freshmen or newcomers, though upperclassmen often join in and likewise end up with haircuts that will no doubt haunt them one day when their children find the family photo album.

Photos: Dimond 4 Service 1 CIC soccer

Cougars top Eagles by whisker 4-3 in OT

Shelby Namen did not know precisely how much time remained in regulation -- only the referee, who mans his watch, knows for certain in soccer's stoppage time -- but she knew the clock was running out on her freshman season.

Service boys soccer team turns up intensity

After splitting matches with East in the Cook Inlet Conference regular season, Service opened the league tournament by cruising to a four-goal lead by halftime and eliminating the Thunderbirds 6-0.

Photos: Dimond v. Bartlett boys soccer

HIGH SCHOOL SOCCER

Dimond leads seeds

The Dimond Lynx are the favorites at this week's Cook Inlet Conference soccer championships.