This previous week noticed a number of surging groups at each the prep and collegiate stage keep scorching throughout the Alaska sports activities panorama. In Week 6 of the highschool soccer season, Bartlett outmuscled Colony in a press release win, top-ranked Juneau recovered from a gradual begin to stay undefeated and Service gained a thriller over Dimond. The College of Alaska Anchorage volleyball staff continued its sturdy begin to the season by successful each matches over Nice Northwest Athletic Convention opponents throughout a two-game street stint.
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This previous weekend’s soccer motion kicked off with a extremely anticipated Division I matchup between a pair of top-ranked groups within the ASBN polls but it surely did not reside as much as the hype as Bartlett bullied Colony for 4 quarters Friday. The Golden Bears had 5 gamers attain the top zone with a pair of gamers doing so twice. The Knights’ solely rating got here within the first half.
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The next afternoon, the top-ranked Juneau Huskies prevented a first-half scare of their Prepare dinner Inlet Convention matchup with a South Excessive staff that had but to win a sport this yr. After being tied 13-13 at halftime, the Huskies scored 22 unanswered factors to shut it out and have been powered by a five-touchdown efficiency from senior quarterback Jarrell Williams.
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Probably the most thrilling prep soccer sport on the Division I stage of the weekend didn’t even function a staff with a successful document as Service and Dimond went right down to the wire beneath Friday evening lights on the Hillside. The Cougars went again and fourth with the Lynx for many of the contest on the Service homecoming evening. After taking a late lead on RJ Superb’s second speeding landing, it was the Service protection that closed the sport. Dimond drove right down to the Service 19-yard line and on fourth-and-9, senior Mason Crosby got here up with an interception to ice the 30-25 win.
“They have been making an attempt to get (Malachi Casey) the ball all sport. I noticed him minimize throughout my face. I adopted him. I bought beneath and the ball was simply there,” Crosby stated. “There have been a variety of ups and downs, scores forwards and backwards however we’re simply glad to come back out on prime.”
Lathrop stays on prime of the most recent ASBN ballot for Divisions II and III in soccer for the sixth straight week with Soldotna nonetheless scorching on the path. At 6-0, the Malemutes are one in all three unbeaten groups within the ballot, together with the 6-0 Stars and Houston, which stayed undefeated at 5-0 regardless of permitting its first factors of the season this previous weekend. Homer and North Pole spherical out the highest 5 with an identical 5-1 information.
The Dimond flag soccer staff blew the doorways off of Bartlett final Tuesday in a 40-0 shutout. The Lynx had 5 gamers attain the top zone, together with one on protection. Mai Mateaki powered the offense together with her 168 speeding yards on 15 carries and one rating. Ellie Cunningham caught three passes and two went for touchdowns, and Kaylani Ugalino returned an interception 2 yards for a defensive rating.
Camryn Stevens and Paige Miller helped carry the Service volleyball staff over Bettye Davis East final Tuesday in three units to win 3-0. Miller practically recorded a double-double by main the Cougars in kills with 10 and logging 9 digs as effectively. Stevens recorded double-digit assists with a team-leading 22. Heida Younger simply missed out on a double-double as effectively after she completed second on the staff in kills with 9 and logged 12 digs as effectively.
On the school volleyball scene, UAA improved its general document to 14-1 and nonetheless holds an ideal document towards convention competitors at 4-0 after beating a pair of GNAC opponents on the street within the the final week. Thursday they swept Montana State Billings 3-0 and two days later they edged out Seattle Pacific in 5 units 3-2. The Seawolves have been led to victory in each matches by senior outdoors hitter Eve Stephens and senior setter Ellen Floyd. Stephens was named GNAC Offensive Participant of the Week for a document tying tenth time in her profession after she led the staff with double-digit kills in each matches for a mixed 35. Floyd recorded over 20 assists in each matches, together with 41 towards SPU for a mixed 67.
The UAA ski staff introduced its schedule for the 2022-23 season Thursday. The Seawolves open with the annual Alaska Nordic Cup hosted by in-state rival UAF from Nov. 25-26 and are highlighted by the UAA Invite and the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Snowboarding Affiliation Championships, each of which they’ll host at Alyeska Resort and Kincaid Park from Feb. 20-25.
The twenty seventh annual Alaska Males’s Run passed off this previous Saturday at Kincaid Park and Anchorage’s Ryan McLaughlin comfortably completed in first place with a time of half-hour, 32 seconds. The 29-year-old’s mark within the five-mile race was practically six minutes quicker than second-place finisher Joseph Bredar of Anchorage, who clocked in at 36 minutes, 10 seconds.
The ASD XC Class Race was held Saturday at Russian Jack Park, that includes 3,000-meter races from every grade from ninth by way of twelfth. The senior class winners have been Ethan Howe of East, who completed in 9 minutes, 35.9 seconds and South’s Robyn Miller (11:34.6). The junior class was paced by Blaise Boyer (9:53.6) of South and Eagle River’s Ava Trembath (11:59.4). Sophomore winners included Dimond’s Jarrett Jackson (9:55.5) and South’s Ava Murphy (11:45.7). South’s Vebjorn Flagstad gained the freshman boys race in a time of 9:59.6, whereas East’s Rose Conway gained the ladies freshman race. Conway, who gained the Mount Marathon women race over the summer season, was the second-fastest amongst all women, trailing solely Miller with a time of 11:39.9.
Final Week’s Outcomes
Prep Soccer
Friday
North Pole 47, West Valley 19
Service 30, Dimond 25
Kenai 27, Redington 14
Homer 58, Barrow 20
Soldotna 49, Palmer 7
Bartlett 46, Colony 7
Saturday
Juneau 35, South 13
West 21, East 6
Lathrop 73, Kodiak 6
Seward 28, Eielson 7
Houston 20, Chugiak 9
Eagle River 24, Wasilla 21
Flag Soccer
Tuesday
Dimond 40, Bartlett 0
Service 14, West 6
South 35, Chugiak 12
East 18, Eagle River 12
Thursday
Service 20, West Valley 0
West 20, South 13
Friday
Bartlett 20, Eagle River 0
Dimond 32, Service 7
Prep tennis
Monday
Dimond 8, Chugiak 1
Tuesday
Dimond 8, South 1
Wednesday
South 5, Bartlett 3
West 9, Bartlett 0
Dimond 5, Service 4
Service 8, Bartlett 0
Saturday
South 5, Bartlett 2
Prep Volleyball
Tuesday
Service 3, East 0 (25-20, 25-16, 25-20)
South 3, Bartlett 0 (25-18, 25-12, 25-12)
West 3, Eagle River 2 (22-25, 18-25, 25-13, 25-19, 15-9)
Dimond 3, Chugiak 0 (28-26, 25-23, 25-18)
School
Volleyball
Thursday
UAA 3, Montana Billings State 0 (25-16, 25-17, 25-17)
Saturday
UAA 3, Seattle Pacific 2 (25-21, 25-17, 16-25, 24-26, 15-12)
Three issues to look at for this week
Prep soccer
West at Colony, 7 p.m. Friday
A showdown between a pair of groups ranked within the prime 5 of the most recent ASBN polls will happen within the valley when the No. 3 ranked Eagles head out to Palmer to play the No. 4 ranked Knights beneath Friday evening lights. Within the penultimate week of the 2022 highschool soccer common season, West is coming in using a three-game successful streak and shall be trying to preserve rolling whereas Colony will need to bounce again after a humbling loss.
Chugiak at Eagle River, 3 p.m. Saturday
The annual ‘Battle of the Bridge’ goes down this weekend and the Mustangs shall be trying to declare their first victory over their rivals for the reason that 2019 season. Eagle River produced shutouts on protection in every of the final two conferences and outscored Chugiak on offense by a mixed 78-0 throughout that span.
School hockey
Simon Frasier at UAA, 7:07 p.m. Friday
After a two-year hiatus, the College of Alaska Anchorage hockey staff is not going to solely play however host a sport for the primary time since being reinstated. The Seawolves will welcome Simon Frasier College to city for an exhibition sport on the Seawolf Sports activities Advanced on campus. The Seawolves spent the final yr compiling their complete roster from scratch and are keen to ascertain a successful tradition for this system that was resurrected by the ‘Save the Seawolves’ marketing campaign.
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