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Students at Wrangell High School are lacing their trainers as the new wrestling and volleyball seasons started Monday. It's already looking to be a big season for the school's sports program, with the girls cross-country team heading to State after taking first at last weekend's Region V in Ketchikan, and Wrangell hosting this year's Region V wrestling tournament Dec. 5 and 6. "We're going to have a lot of people coming," said Jack Carney, Wrangell High School's new athletic coordinator. He...
Wrangell High School's girls cross-country team had a fine showing in Petersburg last weekend, coming in fifth overall with 87 points. Seventy-five girls and 127 boys from 15 different schools participated in Saturday's meet. "Petersburg was a great race for all," said Wrangell's head coach, Jenn Davies. Wrangell Public Schools reported the results for 1A, 2A and 3A. For the girls' team, Wrangell runner Amy Jenson took fourth place overall, at 21 minutes, 24 seconds. Kimberly Cooper took sixth...
Wrangell's Garnet Grit Betties roller derby team kicked off their new season Saturday, wheeling circles around the high school basketball court together for a preseason weekend bootcamp. The Betties had their first real season last year, skating in two bouts. Starting this month and lasting through May, this season will be the first where they have had a full, regulation roster of 14 skaters. "We've done some serious recruiting," said Shawna Buness, the team's head coach. Membership is open to...
Humble and competitive. That alone should be enough to justify a selection into any hall of fame. Mt. Edgecumbe High School basketball coach and teacher Archie Young carries those traits and passes them on to his students, players, coaches and opponents. He was acknowledged for these integrities by the Alaska School Activities Association recently and announced as one of the 11 members of the Class of 2014 to be inducted into the Alaska High School Hall of Fame. "When I first heard about my...
Let's be clear: the Lady Wolves softball team showed up in force this year. Unlike the high school baseball team, which didn't garner enough participants to field a full team (not enough relief pitching for a double-header has hamstrung the Wolves baseball team for this season), the softballers have 16 student athletes – almost enough players to stock two full teams without relief – raring to go. Unfortunately, they lack credible opposition, school activities officials have said. Officials hav...
The forecast for this spring: sunshine, followed by small children on pitchers' mounds. The Little League season unofficially opened this weekend with an open tryout session in the community gym. About 65 kids signed up for the perennial summer baseball league, which features travel to Petersburg. Practices will be held for the next three weeks. Opening ceremonies for the season will be held April 26. The league is structured into four categories, according to Brennan Eagle, who is among the...
A ten-man Wrangell basketball team grabbed second place at a competitive regional basketball tournament held every spring in Juneau. The Wrangell Thunderbirds fought their way to Saturday's B-Bracket (for ages 32 and under) Championship game at the Lions Club Gold Medal Basketball tournament undefeated, but succumbed to returning champions Angoon despite beating them in the semifinals, said Cody Angerman, a member of the team. The championship was close, Angerman said. "We went back and forth...
Two might just be the magic number for the Wrangell High School Cheer squad. The cheerleaders will head to the State competition in Anchorage this week for the second year in a row after having come in second place, also for the second time. After holding a community bake sale over the weekend to raise funds for traveling, the team left on an Anchorage-bound jet Monday with a performance slated for Tuesday evening. While basketball teams get 32 minutes of regulation (plus overtime) to craft a...
The Wrangell High School boys' varsity basketball team went out of the Region V 2A tournament on straight losses March 5 and 6. The Wolves dropped the opener to the Craig Panthers 49-26 March 5. Thursday's 53-49 loss to the Haines Glacier Bears was much closer, with the teams trading the lead late into the fourth quarter. Craig put on a relatively even effort, with no one player standing head and shoulders above the rest, said Coach Ray Stokes. "On their part, they just had a whole bunch of...
The Lady Wolves season ended with two losses March 5 and 6 in Juneau. They dropped their Region V opener to Craig 38-26, then lost their Friday match-up against Haines by two points. Craig's Marie Yates contributed to the March 5 loss. The Lady Wolves struggled to find a defensive solution to an athletic and competitive player, said head coach Edna Abella-Nore. "We literally just got out-rebounded by (Yates)," she said. "She's got some vertical leap. No matter how much my kids would box out, the...
The Wrangell High boys' varsity basketball team lost twice in Haines this weekend. Friday's 48-60 loss and Saturday's 47-53 brought the Wolves' record against Haines to 2-2 on the season. The Wolves own a conference record of 4-8 and third-place seed headed into the Region V tournament in Juneau March 5, in between second place (and first round opponents) Craig and last-place Haines. Perennial power Metlakatla holds the first place seed in this year's four-team double-elimination tournament....
The Lady Wolves split games this weekend in Haines. They won the opener 35-26 and lost the Saturday sequel, 34-43. Senior Erica Smith led the Wrangell offense Friday with 11 points on four field goals and two-for-three from the line. Sophomore Taylor Bean and Amy Jenson followed with eight points each. Bean sank two field goals and shot four-for-seven from the line. Jenson scored four field goals. The Haines offense was unable to muster a major response Friday. Sophomore Kayley Swinton led the...
The Wolves downed Region V power Metlakatla Friday night but were unable to repeat on the Chiefs Saturday. The Wrangell High School boys' varsity basketball team put double digits on the board for three quarters Friday night, and won the opener handily, 31-49. They were outscored every quarter but the first and lost the closer 54-37. "It was nice to get a win, especially against the king of the conference, I guess," said head coach Ray Stokes. "We did it pretty handily, but then we...
The Wrangell girls’ varsity basketball team lost twice in Metlakatla this weekend. Friday’s 22-55 loss was typical of scores for Wrangell teams visiting the fiercely competitive Metlakatla teams. Saturday’s 25-31 loss was closer, and from the perspective of Head Coach Edna Abella-Nore, counts as a win. “Personally, from what I’ve heard around town, you never really win a game in Met,” she said. The Lady Wolves faced foul trouble early Friday. Junior Darian Meissner eventually fouled out. Amy Jenson recorded four fouls. Sophomore Taylor Bean...
The Lady Panthers outshot the Lady Wolves twice this weekend. Wrangell lost both games to Craig by double digit margins, dropping the opener 58-39 and Saturday's game 58-40. The losses bring their season conference record to 2-6. "Our defense is there," said head coach Edna Abella-Nore. "This is a shooting team, and they all can shoot. They all shot from the outside." "If you look at the score sheet, a lot of them shot three-pointers," Abella-Nore added. "We are playing against last year's...
The varsity boys’ basketball team won one game against conference rivals Craig this week. They lost Thursday’s game 56-58, but won the Friday sequel 50-49. The split result brings the Wolves’ conference record to 3-5 on the season. The Wolves paced the Panthers through three quarters Thursday leading by two at the half, then poured it on in the fourth. They outscored Craig 19-11, coming up just shy of another win in the last minutes. The finish was so close, it might as well be a win, said head coach Ray Stokes. “We really could have won the...
It's possible to have your heart broken twice in one weekend, judging by the scores from this weekend's homecoming boys basketball games. The Wolves lost Friday night's game to the rival Vikings by two points after leading by two after the first quarter, trailing by two at the half and at the end of the third quarter by four, and pouring on a 17-point offensive barrage in the final act. In the end, it wasn't to be. The Wolves fell 47-45 in the opening to the latest chapter of the Battle of the W...
More aggressive moves toward the hoop couldn't make up the difference, and the Lady Wolves lost twice on homecoming weekend. The Wrangell girls basketball team shot 61 percent from the line as a team, and scored 20 of their points on fouls, indicative of a more aggressive offensive press. The Lady Vikings answered from the field Friday – making only three trips to the free-throw line in 32 minutes – and claimed the win 42-28. The Lady Wolves would pull within three points near the end of the...
A popular Evergreen Elementary School archery program has expanded to include a dedicated Middle School program this year, the elementary school chapter has run for longer than five years. The after-school program turns the Elementary School's multipurpose room into an improvised archery range, complete with safety lines, locked doors preventing others from wandering on to the range, and the odd arrow that infrequently sails past a target and strikes the padding of a mobile basketball hoop....
The Garnett Grit Betties traveled to Petersburg for a melding of roller derby minds the weekend of Jan. 18. The bout wasn't a competition. Teams from Ketchikan and Petersburg joined with the Wrangell team, then separated into two different randomly selected teams for the bout as a learning exercise, said team coach Shawna "BabyCakes" Buness. "The goal of this weekend wasn't to compete," she said. "It was just to learn because the three of us teams have never bouted before." In all, seven...
