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Heading to State for the first time in over a decade, the Wrangell Lady Wolves finished their season fourth among Alaska's 2A schools last weekend. After fighting for second place the previous weekend during Region V, the high school girls joined Alaska's best at the 1A/2A Basketball State Championships, held jointly at Anchorage's Alaska Airlines and Wells Fargo Sports centers. "It was a really good weekend," said Wrangell coach Laurie Brown. Her team had had a rough start at the season's begin...
Homecoming weekend went well for the students at Wrangell High School, with girls basketball winning both their games against visiting Petersburg, and the boys getting a split after two hard-fought games. For their last regular season games the Lady Wolves started the weekend with a real nail biter, taking things into overtime. Friday's game started off well enough with the team taking an early lead, which the Lady Vikings shaved down to three points by the half. Petersburg propelled itself ahea...
The Wrangell Wolves chalked up a pair of losses last weekend hosting the Metlakatla Chiefs, though it easily could have been a split between the two teams. Friday's evening game was a blowout for the Chiefs, which controlled the court for much of the game. Though the final score ended up in a 52-42 win for them, Wrangell coach Cody Angerman acknowledged some last-minute catching up had helped close a larger gap between the two teams. By now in the second half of the season, the teams' meeting...
Playing at home over the weekend, the Lady Wolves had a pair of close games against Metlakatla High School. “They were really good games for the girls,” said Wrangell basketball coach Laurie BrownThe Miss Chiefs held a double-digit lead through most of the first half, ahead 37-20 by the break. Metlakatla player Marissa Yliniemi posed a particular obstacle to Wrangell, netting six of 10 attempted three-pointers during the game. Wrangell pressed back, however, focusing on their defense and putting the visiting team on its guard. “They press...
The Wolves won two games over Craig High School during a pair of home games last week. Hosting the Panthers during the middle of the week, on February 7 Wrangell started off with a close first period, Craig trailing their 14 points by two. The home team stepped up its defense in the lead-up to the half, holding Craig to another 12 points as its offense picked up 25. Leading 39-24, Wrangell kept its edge during a closely-scored second half, holding an 18-point lead by the final buzzer for a...
Anna Allen goes for the jump ball at the start of Thursday's home game against Craig. The Lady Wolves lost both Wednesday and Thursday's games to their visitors, following losses the previous week against Metlakatla. Hosting the Miss Chiefs this weekend, Wrangell has the opportunity to rebound as the season approaches its end. There are just three more weekends before Region V in Ketchikan, with the homecoming games against Petersburg set for March 2 and 3....
The Stikine Middle School Wolves hosted its first wrestling tournament in three years over the weekend, with students from Ketchikan and Petersburg making the trip. While around 60 students in all participated, the tournament was intended to be even bigger. Due to icy roads on Prince of Wales Island and rough water conditions, the middle schools at Craig and Klawock had to cancel plans to attend. The tournament made up for their absence with additional competition, spanning from Thursday...
The Lady Wolves won a pair of games last week against Haines, during Wrangell's first home games of the 2017/18 season. The two wins put Wrangell at 4-2 so far during its regular basketball season, which had been preceded by an eighth-place showing at an interregional tournament at the Clarke Cochrane Christmas Classic in Ketchikan late last month. During January 17's midweek game the Glacier Bears had started out with a 14-9 lead after the first quarter. Wrangell's girls fought back, outscoring...
Wrangell High School's boys basketball team split another weekend with its regional rivals during last week's games. Hosting Haines, it was the Wolves' first home games after several weeks on the road. "It went pretty well I think," head coach Cody Angerman commented. Playing on Wednesday and Thursday due to travel considerations, both games ended up being close ones for the two teams. "They actually match up with us pretty well," said Angerman. Haines senior Dylan Swinton was a leader on the...
The Wrangell Wolves had a winning weekend over the Panthers last weekend during their games at Craig High School. “It was a long trip, but we came out with two JV wins and two varsity wins, so you can’t be too disappointed about that,” Wrangell coach Cody Angerman said afterward. On January 12 Wrangell’s varsity players played hard against the home team, racking up 72 points to Craig’s 61 in a high-scoring game. Trevor Miller made a difference during the game’s second half, dropping half a dozen three-pointers and going two for two on free thr...
You win some and sometimes lose some, the Lady Wolves showed during the weekend’s basketball matches in Craig. The high school girls’ performance was their second split so far of the regular season, following a similar showing at Petersburg the week before. At Craig the shortened weekend was only between the two schools’ varsity teams, as the Lady Panthers lack a junior varsity squad. During Friday’s game Wrangell had begun the game with an early lead at the half, ahead 27-12. Kaylyn Easterly led her team for points, sinking four extra attempt...
The Wolves split a two-game tournament in Petersburg over the weekend during its regular season opener. They weren't the team's first games of the year, however, with the Wolves taking part in the Clarke Cochrane Christmas Classic the week prior in Ketchikan. A bit closer to home last weekend, the players were not alone in making the jaunt over to Mitkof Island as dozens of local fans and supporters joined them in the stands when play began January 5. "We had a lot of support," Wrangell coach...
The Lady Wolves finished the weekend with a win and a loss, starting its regular season on an even footing. Playing in Petersburg during that high school’s homecoming weekend, the Wrangell girls started things out with a close loss Friday evening. Coach Laurie Brown said players showed difficulty making shots, and that free throws through the game had been inconsistent. Still, the two teams kept close together throughout the game. “It was back and forth,” she said. Heading into the fourth quarter Wrangell held a slight lead, but a late-...
Another year begins this week, and 2018 both holds promise and poses challenges to Wrangell residents. Economic trials will perhaps be of the greatest concern as state coffers seem set to dry up and fishing forecasts continue to disappoint. Limits to funding sources will be of particular bother as the borough continues to address an aging infrastructure, though securing state funding for the Shoemaker Bay Harbor refurbishment and an expected start to the belated Evergreen Road repaving should...
The girls and boys basketball teams brought back no awards but learned some lessons in a preseason tournament in Ketchikan last week. The Clarke Cochrane Christmas Classic is a longstanding Ketchikan tournament, typically held between the holidays. As with previous years, Alaska teams paired off with schools from as far afield as New Mexico ahead of their regular season openers. The Wrangell High School boys opened the tournament on December 28, matched up with Washington’s Anacortes High School. A well-regarded team in its own division at h...
Wrangell’s high school wrestling team finished up its season at the state championships in Anchorage last weekend, securing 11th overall with 58.5 points. Competing at the Alaska Airlines Center Friday through Sunday, students from 56 different schools took part in the 1-3A tournament. Wrangell’s inclusion comes after its third-place finish at Region V in Ketchikan the week prior. “It went very well,” said Wolves coach Jeff Rooney. “We didn’t have any champions, but we had some great wrestling. It was a good time.” Wrestling in the 106-pound we...
Wrangell’s wrestlers took third at Region V in Ketchikan over the weekend, and will be sending all seven of its students to state-level competition in Anchorage this weekend. The team brought six boys and one girl for the tournament, and between them took third place overall. Four wrestlers took championship titles for the region and the other three were runners-up. “Extremely good tournament for all our wrestlers,” Wrangell coach Jeff Rooney said afterward. “They were all standouts. They wrestled hard, and they wrestled smart.” JD Barratt s...
With a stellar conclusion to its 2017 season, the Wrangell High School volleyball team finished second at the State 2A Championships on Saturday. The team headed up early last Tuesday, practicing the next morning at Dimond High School. It was a crowded tournament, between the 2A and the mix-six. Teams were practicing two at a time on court throughout the day. Beginning play November 30 against King Cove, the Lady Wolves had already been preparing for their first meet. Whitaker said her girls...
A final decision on the Wrangell Island timber sale is expected out next week, wrapping up years of deliberation and planning. Citing objections to the economics and ecological impacts of its preferred plan, the United States Forest Service has indicated it will be reducing total harvest for the proposed sale on Wrangell Island to around 428 acres, or 5- to 7-million board feet (mmbf) of timber. These would be sold piecemeal over the course of several years. Of five alternatives put forward, Alternative 2 had proposed around 55.8 mmbf...
A group of Wrangell’s wrestlers were able to make it over to Sitka over the weekend, finishing with several high placements and an injury. “It went well,” said Jeff Rooney, the team’s coach. After taking a weekend off to recuperate from some injuries and catch up on schoolwork, Wrangell started wrestling at Mount Edgecumbe High School on December 1 with a round-robin tournament. The next day weight groups went into competitive bracket play. “We had a few really good matches and some really good wrestling,” said Rooney. In the 113-weight...
After a rollicking three days in Petersburg for Region V, the Lady Wolves volleyball team will be headed to State next weekend. Twelve Wrangell students headed to the tournament, seeded third among their division's teams after a hard-fought season. "Everybody got to step onto the court over the weekend," said Jessica Whitaker, Wrangell's head coach. Her girls began their tournament against Haines on November 16, starting off with a strong 25-9 win. The second match came out more closely at 25-18...
Wrangell's volleyball program had some close games over the weekend during its one home meet of the season. The high school team hosted neighboring rivals Petersburg last Friday and Saturday. The girls followed up from Metlakatla the previous weekend, where it maintained its third-place seeding after a closely-contested round-robin. Wrangell won its games versus the hosts, Haines, and Skagway by default. Craig won after a drawn out five-match game and Klawock pulled a third win in a four-match...
Wrangell’s wrestlers headed up to Anchorage over the weekend to participate in Anchorage Christian School’s 2017 Lime Solar Invitational. Taking place beyond the usual regional play, the ACS invitational is often touted as a midseason preview into the state finals, with schools from around the state sending teams. This year’s tournament was also the first featuring an all-girls bracket, which had 27 teams participate. In the boys varsity 106-pound weight bracket, Wrangell senior JD Barratt finished in fourth place overall. After a first-round b...
Wrangell High School's volleyball team is poised to be in contention with the region's leaders, following a busy game schedule two weekends ago. Leaving on the ferry October 12, the Lady Wolves took part in the Juneau Invitational Volleyball Extravaganza over the following two days. The tournament gave the team an early opportunity to play against an array of schools in quick succession. First up were the girls at Thunder Mountain High School, who won 25 to Wrangell's 13. The Lady Wolves...
