High School

Soccer

Girls

Thursday

South 4, Chugiak 0

Monroe Catholic 5, Grace Christian 0

Soldotna 1, Ketchikan 0

Colony 2, Service 1

Dimond 5, West Valley 0

Kenai Central 7, Redington 0

Homer 4, Palmer 1

Wasilla 2, Lathrop 1

Friday

Grace Christian 6, Redington 2

Service 5, West Valley 1

Chugiak 4, Lathrop 1

Palmer 1, Ketchikan 0

Soldotna 3, Homer 1

Kenai Central 2, Monroe Catholic 1

Dimond 1, Colony 0

South 3, Wasilla 0

Saturday

Palmer 1, Grace Christian 0

Monroe Catholic 4, Homer 3

Kenai Central 2, Soldotna 0

Colony 1, Wasilla 0

Service 4, Chugiak 1

South 4, Dimond 0

Boys

Thursday

West 4, Wasilla 0

Kenai Central 3, Monroe Catholic 0

Palmer 5, Homer 0

Ketchikan 5, Houston 0

West Valley 2, Dimond 1

Soldotna 3, North Pole 0

Juneau-Douglas 2, Service 1

Colony 2, South 1

Friday

Wasilla 3, Service 1

North Pole 3, Monroe Catholic 0

South 3, Dimond 2

Homer 4, Houston 2

Palmer 4, Ketchikan 3

Soldotna 4, Kenai Central 0

West Anchorage 3, Juneau-Douglas 2

West Valley 2, Colony 0

Saturday

Kenai Central 2, Ketchikan 0

Homer 2, North Pole 0

Wasilla 2, South 1

Palmer 3, Soldotna 2

Colony 5, Juneau-Douglas 0

West v. West Valley (late)

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Softball

Tuesday

Monroe Catholic 7, North Pole 4

Monroe Catholic 11, North Pole 7

Wednesday

Delta 8, Monroe Catholic 2

Delta 7, Monroe Catholic 2

Dimond 15, Service 1

South 10, Bartlett 1

Chugiak 15, West 2

Service 14, Bartlett 13

Thursday

East 9, Dimond 6

South 7, Chugiak 1

Dimond 10, Service 2

Chugiak 12, West 0

Friday

Colony 11, Wasilla 0

Colony 10, Juneau-Douglas 2

East 1, South 0

Chugiak 11, Dimond 1

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Baseball

Tuesday

Dimond 13, East 3

West 12, Bartlett 1

Wednesday

South 9, West 1

Dimond 10, Chugiak 2

Thursday

Service 10, Dimond 1

Eagle River 6, South 1

Wasilla 11, Lathrop 1

Colony 9, West Valley 3

Juneau-Douglas 10, Ketchikan 5

Houston 7, Kenai Central 4

Palmer 13, Redington 7

Soldotna 12, Grace Christian 1

Kodiak 2, Homer 0

Palmer 8, Houston 1

Soldotna 13, Kodiak 4

Friday

Sitka 6, Juneau-Douglas 2

Juneau-Douglas 4, Ketchikan 3

Colony 5, Wasilla 2

West Valley 4, Lathrop 3

South 7, Dimond 4

Eagle River 4, Service 3 (10)

Monroe Catholic 17, Delta 1

Kenai Central 7, Kodiak 3

Homer 8, Houston 3

Soldotna 10, Palmer 0

Saturday

Wasilla 2, West Valley 1

Sitka 14, Juneau-Douglas 12

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Track and field

ASAA State Track and Field Championships

Day 1

Friday

Division I

Girls

3200 Meters Finals

1. Hannah Shaha 11:19.93, Chugiak

2. Hailee Giacobbe 11:23.22, Wasilla

3. Rosie Conway 11:35.46, East

4. Ella Hopkins 11:46.73, Colony

Discus 1kg Finals

1. Mona Koko 119’01.00, West

2. Layla Hays 115’09.00, Wasilla

3. Ailafo Fautanu 106’09.00, Dimond

4. Alessa Scott, 106’03.00, Dimond

High Jump Finals

1. Nevaeh Watkins 5’6.00, Dimond

2. Autumn Larson 5’4.00, Chugiak

3. Avery Johnson 4’10.00, Palmer

4. Hallie Fischer 4’10.00, Soldotna

Triple Jump Finals

1. Izzy Kizer 37’00.25, North Pole

2. Izabela Sullivan 36’02.50, West

3. Amelia Dempsey 34’08.75, Chugiak

4. Maya Tirpack 34’00.00, South

Boys

3200 Meters Finals

1. Vebjorn Flagstad 9:59.04, South

2. Katahdin Staples 10:00.68, East

3. Owen Woodruff 10:00.85, Juneau-Douglas.

4. David Penfield 10:01.51, Chugiak

Shot Put – 12lb Finals

1. Deuce Alailefaleula 53’01.00, Bartlett

2. Luke Miller 51’09.50, Soldotna

3. George Lane 51’03.50, East

4. Benjamin Hiestand 48’05.50, Chugiak

High Jump Varsity – Finals

1. Trey Colbert 6’0.00, Ketchikan

2. Corbin Gerkin 6’0.00, Palmer

3. Cameron Anderson 5’8.00, Service

3. Deontae Cromer 5’8.00, West Valley

Triple Jump Varsity Finals

1. Isaiah Douyon 43’02.75, South

2. Kenneth Motton 42’09.50, Colony

3. Johnathyn Kestel 42’00.75, Juneau-Douglas

4. Corde Bates 41’02.50, Dimond

Division II

Girls

3200 Meters Finals

1. Clare Mullin 11:49.35, Sitka

2. Iris Haas 11:55.96, Delta Junction

3. Marina Dill 11:59.96, Sitka

4. Claira Booz 12:08.88, Homer

Discus 1kg Finals

1. Jieaya Siatini Williams 122’00.00, Mountain City Christian

2. Alexia Pik 108’00.00, Redington

3. Emma Dohrn 95’09.00, Haines

4. Madison Dill 93’08.00, Sitka

High Jump Finals

1. Jessie Wentworth 5’0.00, Su Valley

2. Abby Sampson 4’10.00, Hutchison

3. Emma Walsh 4’10.00, Monroe Catholic

4. Maura McDaniel 4’8.00, Su Valley

Triple Jump Finals

1. Mia Bukala 34’02.00, Redington

2. Caroline Klebs 34’01.50, Grace Christian

3. Reilly Sue Baker 32’01.50, Homer

4. Selah Coots 31’05.50, Kenai Central

Boys

3200 Meters Finals

1. Robbie Annett 9:47.95, Grace Christian

2. Connor Hitchcock 9:48.57, Sitka

3. Colton Merriner 9:49.39, Grace Christian

4. Johannes Bynagle 10:02.21, Homer

Shot Put – 12lb Finals

1. Zach Martel 43’05.50, Redington

2. Kyle Petersen 41’11.25, Valdez

3. Gage Hawes 41’04.75, Houston

4. Kaden Duke 41’03.75, Petersburg

High Jump Varsity – Finals

1. Olin Liljemark 5’10.00, Seward

2. Austin Barnard 5’10.00, Su Valley

3. Royce Borst 5’8.00, Skagway

4. Luke Elhard 5’8.00, Seward

Triple Jump Varsity Finals

1. Gage Ivy 41’00.25, Kenai Central

2. Joshua Woko 40’02.00, Mountain City Christian

3. Jaidhen Oyao 39’07.25, Mountain City Christian

4. Cole McLaughlin 39’02.75, Sitka

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2025 Twilight 12k/6k

12K Male Overall

1: Riley Howard, Anchorage, AK 37:21; 2: William McGovern, Anchorage, AK 37:28; 3: Noah Laughlin-Hall, Anchorage, AK 39:46; 4: Scott Patterson, Anchorage, AK 40:22; 5: Conor Deal, Anchorage, AK 41:30; 6: Andy Peters, Anchorage, AK 42:17; 7: Brian Sweeney, Anchorage, AK 42:26; 8: Connor Marth, Anchorage, AK 42:42; 9: Allan Spangler, Anchorage, AK 42:49; 10: Michael Rabe, Anchorage, AK 42:56; 11: Chad Trammell, Anchorage, AK 43:57; 12: Ryan Beckett, Anchorage, AK 44:11; 13: Dash Dicang, Anchorage, AK 44:18; 14: Eric Mortensen, Anchorage, AK 44:28; 15: Isaac Landecker, Anchorage, AK 44:39; 16: Nick Mendolia, Anchorage, AK 44:44; 17: Andrew Pounds, Anchorage, AK 44:52; 18: Trygve Solomonson, Eagle River, AK 44:58; 19: Mike Garvey, Anchorage, AK 45:08; 20: John Cosgrave, Anchorage, AK 45:25

12k Female Overall

1: Anna Dalton, Anchorage, AK 43:57; 2: Julianne Dickerson, Anchorage, AK 47:24; 3: Molly Walli, Anchorage, AK 47:38; 4: Breanna Day, Eagle River, AK 48:21; 5: Sam Longacre, Anchorage, AK 49:32; 6: Hannah Souders, Anchorage, AK 50:33; 7: Sarah Cosgrave, Anchorage, AK 51:00; 8: Kyra Walter, Eagle River, AK 53:10; 9: Carolyn Stwertka, Anchorage, AK 53:11; 10: Rylee Ruggles, Eagle River, AK 53:11; 11: Allison Macy, Chugiak, AK 53:25; 12: Trophe Brandt, Anchorage, AK 53:47; 13: Anna Smith, Anchorage, AK 54:00; 14: Jillian Gavalya, Chugiak, AK 54:09; 15: Haley Gilman, Anchorage, AK 54:11; 16: Brooke Gottmeier, Anchorage, AK 54:26; 17: Iris Samuels, Anchorage, AK 54:54; 18: Annika Dollick, Levelock, AK 55:06; 19: Sofija Spaic, Palmer, AK 55:07; 20: Lia Slemons, Anchorage, AK 55:31

6K Male Overall

1: Eduardo Orozco, Anchorage, AK 19:31; 2: Hoka Ben, Kent, WA 20:15; 3: Amadeus Semo, Anchorage, AK 21:36; 4: Pedro Ochoa, Homer, AK 21:48; 5: Malachi Stamoolis, Wasilla, AK 22:49; 6: Will Graham, Anchorage, AK 22:57; 7: Mark Fineman, Anchorage, AK 23:48; 8: Cyrus Rader, Wasilla, AK 23:58; 9: Emerson Michaud, WasillaWasilla, AK 24:00; 10: Miles King, Anchorage, AK 24:07; 11: Tyler Berliner, Anchorage, AK 24:37; 12: Reyce Lee, Anchorage, AK 24:45; 13: Kaden Brown, Anchorage, AK 25:00; 14: Joel Stamoolis, Wasilla, AK 25:02; 15: Dylan Chalifour, Anchorage, AK 25:16; 16: Parker Hadley, Eagle River, AK 25:56; 17: Ashley Schultze, Chugiak, AK 26:11; 18: Ed Leonetti, Anchorage, AK 26:12; 19: Zane Hopewell, Anchorage, AK 26:13; 20: Jonathan Moran, Anchorage, AK 26:45

6K Female Overall

1: Emily Moore, Eagle River, AK 23:22; 2: Karina Packer, Anchorage, AK 24:13; 3: Liv Kullberg, Anchorage, AK 25:00; 4: Holly Martinson, Anchorage, AK 25:58; 5: Gigi Leonetti, Anchorage, AK 26:06; 6: Jennifer McGrath, Anchorage, AK 26:31; 7: Nicole Kimball, Anchorage, AK 26:37; 8: Heather Poe, Anchorage, AK 26:41; 9: Meghan Saramak, Anchorage, AK 27:34; 10: Hailee Stepetin, Eagle River, AK 27:37; 11: Estelle Johnson, Eagle River, AK 28:07; 12: Ashley Shaw, Eagle River, AK 28:10; 13: Jane Jackson, Provo, UT 28:39; 14: Alexandra Miller, Anchorage, AK 28:56; 15: Elsa Sternicki, Anchorage, AK 29:05; 16: Cameron Otte, Eagle River, AK 29:33; 17: Amanda Peters, Anchorage, AK 29:35; 18: Akari Kawamura, Komaki, AK 29:50; 19: Brittany Cross, Palmer, AK 30:31; 20: Suzanne Ward, Anchorage, AK 30:44

In the past week, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials have detained two men in Alaska. At least one will be deported back to Peru, according to his wife, who is an Anchorage resident and U.S. citizen.

The recent ICE arrests in Alaska — totaling at least 11 since January 2025, according to state Department of Corrections statistics — paint a picture of what local immigration attorneys are calling a “shocking” uptick under a presidential administration that’s working toward its quota of deporting 1 million immigrants. Not yet halfway through the year, ICE has detained almost the same number of people — and placed them in Alaska jails before sending them to detention centers out of state — as it did in all of 2024, according to state data.

But that number doesn’t account for all ICE arrests, said Alaska immigration attorney Margaret Stock. Some detainees are flown directly out of state, and thus are not counted by the Department of Corrections, which contracts with ICE to temporarily house detainees. A spokesperson from ICE said they could not answer specific questions about total arrests in Alaska this year.

The wife of one of the detained men says in the wake of the arrest, she’s spent hours on the phone fighting for information about her loved one from both state and federal officials.

In an interview Thursday, Paola Jimenez, 30, said she was just settling into her work at an Anchorage dermatology office last Friday morning when her husband, 32-year-old Cristian Ibanez Velasquez, called her. He’d just dropped her off 30 minutes beforehand.

She picked up like normal. “He said: ‘I got detained. It’s with ICE,’” Jimenez said in an interview nearly a week later. “‘I’m in handcuffs. They want to talk to you.’” Ibanez Velasquez, from Peru, only speaks Spanish, and the ICE officer arresting him didn’t have an interpreter when they handcuffed him in the couple’s driveway.

An ICE officer told Jimenez the news: Her husband was being detained — or effectively arrested — and would be held at the Anchorage Correctional Complex. He would be taken to the nearest ICE detention facility in Tacoma, Washington, she was told, where he’d be deported by plane to his home country of Peru.

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Ibanez Velasquez entered the United States through Arizona illegally in 2022, but was in regular contact with immigration officials about his whereabouts ever since, his wife said. He reported changes in address — first to Chicago, and then Anchorage — and uploaded weekly photos of himself through a federal application that monitored his whereabouts, according to Jimenez. He doesn’t appear to have a state or federal criminal record, based on a search of publicly available data.

In Peru, Jimenez said her husband was a motorcycle mechanic. He came to the United States to seek better opportunities, she said.

But a missed a court appearance in New York in 2023 ultimately led to an order for removal that year, which Jimenez said her husband was unaware of. Local immigration attorney Nicolas Olano, who Jimenez contacted for help, broke the news when he looked up Ibanez Velasquez‘s immigration case using the Peruvian’s Alien Registration Number assigned by the Department of Homeland Security. At that point, with a deportation order and a missed court appearance, Olano said there wasn’t much he could do.

The couple’s situation was first reported by Alaska Public Media.

Jimenez questions why ICE officials didn’t notify her husband of his deportation order sooner.

“That same (ICE) officer that was doing his check-ins, was the same officer that detained him,” Jimenez said. “So if there was an order for removal back then, why did no one ever say anything to him?”

The couple met in 2023, and married in fall 2024. Jimenez, who is a dual citizen of the United States and Mexico, said that financial constraints kept them from getting a lawyer to help get her husband the proper paperwork.

Now, her greatest wish is for her husband’s safe and swift delivery to his country, where she plans to eventually meet him.

“The only thing that we want right now is for him to go back home to Peru,” she said. “I would love it if he could stay here, but it’s not going to happen.”

Over the last week, Jimenez has visited her husband at the Anchorage Correctional Complex several times. She said he was wearing a yellow jumpsuit, and they spoke through a glass panel. He complained about a lack of interpretation service at the jail, she said, which prevented him from getting medication. “He said, ‘Nobody tells me anything here.’”

Asked about legal obligations for language interpretations and medication access, Alaska Department of Law spokeswoman Patty Sullivan said, “DOC provides the same level of care for federal inmates and detainees that it does for state inmates. This includes medical care and translation services, as needed.”

On Thursday morning, an online detainee locator showed Ibanez Velasquez was in Anchorage, his wife said.

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A spokesperson for the Department of Corrections confirmed that both detainees were out of their custody as of Thursday evening. The other man, identified as Leobardo Cardona-Rivas, a Mexican citizen, was detained May 25, according to department spokesperson Betsy Holley.

By Friday afternoon, Jimenez said her husband’s online detainee locator showed he arrived in Tacoma. She hadn’t heard from him yet that day.

“It’s heartbreaking,” Jimenez said, choking up.

In Anchorage, the couple loved to go to La Michoacana for treats, take drives to Wasilla, go on dates to Texas Roadhouse, stay home and watch TV with their two cats, and fulfill InstaCart delivery orders together.

Now, Jimenez said, she comes home from work to an empty house, and doesn’t know when she’ll next see — or hear from — her husband.

“When he gets sent to Peru, then I am going to go right behind him,” she said. “Because, well, he’s my husband.”

A hiker in Alaska miraculously survived after he was trapped facedown in a frigid creek for three hours under a massive boulder.

Kell Morris was hiking with his wife below a glacier outside the city of Anchorage when a rock slide sent him plunging into the creek. A 700lb (318kg) stone came to rest on top of his leg, pinning him in place.

His wife positioned his head out of the water and called for help from rescuers, giving them the exact coordinates of their location.

After a few days in hospital, he walked away nearly completely unscathed.

The accident occurred on Saturday near Godwin Glacier. Mr Morris says that the rock that pinned him in place landed in a “trough” of other rocks, protecting him from being crushed but preventing him from being able to move.

A rescue crew arrived by helicopter and had to use tools to lift the boulder.

They were also working against the clock: the glacier-fed creek was rising as the heat of the day caused ice and snow melt to occur more quickly.

“I thought, I’m not going to last long in this water,” Mr Morris recalled in an interview on Wednesday with the Anchorage Daily News.

“The water had gotten up to my chin,” Mr Morris said. “I was going in and out of consciousness. I’d been shivering, but I stopped shivering every once in a while.”

His wife Jo Roop, who works as a police officer for the city of Seward, made sure he was able to hold himself out of the water in a press up position so she could hike to find enough mobile phone service to call for help.

She still retained her sense of humour during the ordeal, he told Alaska Public Media (APM), recalling: “She graciously tells me, ‘don’t go anywhere. I’ll be right back.’”

Ms Roop was able to provide exact GPS coordinates for their location, according to rescue officials.

In a stroke of luck, a volunteer firefighter overheard the radio call for rescue while working for a sled dog tour company. He was able to divert a helicopter used for shuttling tourists to pick up rescuers and take them to the accident site.

But the helicopter was not able to land, due to the rough terrain.

“The patient was in a boulder field and the helicopter could only hover while firefighters had to jump from the helicopter to the ground as the helicopter could not land safely,” the Seward Fire Department said in a statement posted to Facebook.

Rescuers used inflatable airbags to lift the rock, and a National Guard helicopter brought Mr Morris to hospital where he was treated for hypothermia.

Now recovered, Mr Morris says he suffered little more than bruises, and is already back on his feet.

“I’m walking and, you know, if there was a band nearby, I’d go dancing tonight,” he told APM.