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The Wrangell Wolves Cross Country squad began its season Aug. 24 in Sitka with a top-15 finish for at least one member of the boys and girls teams, respectively. Under awesome weather at Totem Park, Jacob Marshall finished the 5K run in 13th place with a time of 18:24.44, while Kayla Rooney nabbed the 15th place in her race with a time of 23:25.98. Following the leaders, Asia Prus came in at the No. 20 spot with a time of 24:17.13, with Sasha Ashton, Andrea Gillen and Molly Prysunka coming in...
The Wrangell Wolves wrestling season gets underway next month, as the team will travel north on Oct. 12-13 to face off against, among others, their archrival Petersburg Vikings team. Head coach Jeff Rooney said he’s looking forward to the season and his strong talent pool. “It’s going to be good year,” Rooney said. “We have a lot of guys coming back and a few new up-and-comers. By this week we’ll have a meeting as a team and start pre-season workouts. I think we’ll have a good shot for some titles and victories because we tentatively h...
Top: Senior Mike Simpson hits a line drive to shortstop picking up the third out of the inning on Tuesday. The students and staff of the High School took advantage of the break in the rain to have their annual end of year softball game and picnic lunch. Right: Senior Alyssa Southland got an easy single during Tuesday’s end of school softball game. The annual event pits class against class and students against teachers....
Third, fourth and fifth grade-girls participated in the third annual Wrangell event “Girls on the Run” Tuesday — a 5k run/walk from City Park to Shoemaker Bay. Girls on the Run is an international non-profit prevention program that encourages pre-teen girls to learn self-respect and a healthy lifestyle through running....
The Wrangell High School softball team hosted Craig over the weekend, and won its last game of the season Saturday. The Lady Wolves first faced the Lady Panthers Friday in Wrangell and lost 26-38. Saturday, Wrangell won 20-7. Wrangell coach Kathleen Harding said her team was ahead of Craig during Friday’s game. However, she switched up the pitchers to give players more game time and the Lady Wolves lost the lead. Yet, the Lady Wolves were hitting well Friday night, Harding said, with s...
The Wrangell Wolves traveled to Petersburg last weekend to play two different teams, the Vikings and the Thunder Mountain Falcons. The Wolves lost both games April 14. Against Thunder Mountain, Wrangell scored one run to the opponent’s 15. The game later in the day against Petersburg was a closer score, but Wrangell lost 4-6. “That’s a pretty close ball game,” said Wrangell head coach Scott McAuliffe, who added Petersburg was the tougher of the two teams the Wolves faced over the weekend...
The Wrangell High School baseball team kicked off its 2012 season Saturday, hosting three games against the Craig Panthers. The Wolves won its first game Friday 5-4, but lost both games on Saturday 4-15 and 7-18. Wrangell Coach Scott McAuliffe said despite the losses, the weekend games were a good series to start the season as it gave the team an idea of how they need to improve. The Wolves began practicing in early March. McAuliffe said he would have liked to begin practicing earlier in the...
Wrangell fourth-grader Kaylyn Easterly traveled to Washington state earlier this month to participate in the Hoop Shoot regional competition. The Hoop Shoot is an annual contest put on by the National Elks Foundation. Participants - boys and girls ages 8 to 13 - have to shoot 25 free throws. Those who sink the most baskets win and move on from a local contest, to regionals and onto the national competition. Easterly won Wrangell’s Hoop Shoot late last year among the eight-and nine-year-old g...
Six members of the Wrangell High School Debate Drama Forensics team traveled to the State Championships in Anchorage Feb. 16-18: Haley Reed, Victoria Ingram, Erin Ellis, Anne Prysunka, Molly Prysunka and Kristen Galla. Reed and Ellis competed in Extemporaneous Commentary, Ingram participated in Humorous Interpretation and both Anne and Molly Prysunka and Galla competed in Reader’s Theater, according to DDF team coach Mike Symons. It was the first time in several years the DDF took six members t...
The Wrangell Lady Wolves basketball team traveled to Ketchikan last week for the regional tournament, and lost both its games to teams from Haines and Metlakatla. The Lady Wolves first faced the Lady Glacier Bears of Haines Wednesday, Feb. 29. Wrangell was defeated 32-48. The loss led them to play the Metlakatla Lady Chiefs on Friday - a game that ended in another loss for the Lady Wolves. The final score was 27-44. Wrangell head coach Dave Silva said his players did well defensively at...
The Wrangell Wolves ended its season last week at the regional tournament in Ketchikan, losing two of its three games. The Wolves first faced off against the Glacier Bears of Haines High School on Wednesday, Feb. 19. Wrangell lost the game 50-75 and went on to play the Petersburg Vikings the following day. Wrangell won that game, 46-37. Wrangell head coach Ray Stokes noted strong performances by sophomore Jake Murphy, junior Ryan Reeves and senior Clayton Stokes during the game against...
After losing two games on home court last week to Sitka High School, the Wrangell boys varsity basketball team won two games over the weekend to Juneau. Friday night, the Wolves scored 67 points to the Crimson Bears’ 41. The following night, Wrangell scored 70 points while Juneau scored 37. Wrangell coach Ray Stokes said he thought his team played well both nights against Juneau and added it was a good weekend for the players to prepare for next week’s regional tournament in Ketchikan. Sto...
Wrangell’s varsity girls basketball team beat Juneau twice on home court over the weekend. The final home game of the season, and the last games of the regular season, gave the Lady Wolves the opportunity to try out new plays and defensive strategies that could be used during the regional tournament in Ketchikan next week, said head coach Dave Silva. The Lady Wolves beat the Lady Crimson Bears 52-20 Friday and 40-32 Saturday. “We came up pretty hard Friday night,” Silva said. “I just think w...
Wrangell High School girls’ varsity basketball team had a tough weekend traveling to Sitka for two games while half the players fought off a head cold. The Lady Wolves lost the games against the Sitka Lady Wolves. Friday night’s game ended 46-24 and Saturday night’s game ended 59-19. Sitka is a very good basketball team, said Wrangell Coach Dave Silva, who also has been battling a cold since last week. Sitka plays tough defense and matches the Lady Wolves speed on the court, he went on to say....
The Wrangell Wolves lost by one point Friday night on home court to the Petersburg Vikings. The following night, however, Petersburg gained a larger lead and took the game 70-52. The games on Wrangell court were the team’s first home games in over a month. Saturday night was also the Wolves Homecoming game. Though the games were fast-paced and the teams kept the level of intensity high, the Wolves could not keep up with the Vikings. Coach Dave Stokes said though his team fought hard over the wee...
The Lady Wolves won its two Homecoming games this weekend against Petersburg. The games were close, with Wrangell winning by one point Friday night. On Saturday, the Lady Wolves took the game by a six-point lead. Coach Dave Silva said his players kept the intensity up and the pressure on their Petersburg opponents, which helped lead the Lady Wolves to victory. Silva also said he felt his guards were stronger than Petersburg’s, and that helped the Lady Wolves defensively. Petersburg senior C...
The Wrangell High School boys basketball team has spent the last month traveling to games out of town, and coach Ray Stokes thinks it may have negatively affected his players’ performance in recent match ups. Last week, the Wolves faced Haines and lost the two games. After losing the first game against Haines by one point (47-48), the Wolves got into foul trouble the following night and the Glacier Bears won by 18 points. The game score was 69-46. This past weekend, Wrangell lost another set of games on Mt. Edgecumbe’s court. Stokes said his te...
While the Wrangell girls varsity basketball suffered two losses this past weekend to Mt. Edgecumbe High School, Lady Wolves Coach Dave Silva said his players stayed positive, kept good attitudes and “kept their heads up.” “I have nothing but praise for how the girls handled things,” he said. The Lady Wolves lost Friday night on home court 39-67. The following night, Wrangell was beaten 37-52. However, the Lady Wolves persevered, Silva said, and tried their best. “I got to give it our girls, no...
The Lady Wolves came away with a win over the weekend after facing the Lady Glacier Bears of Haines on home court. Haines defeated Wrangell Friday 61-44, but the following night the Lady Wolves beat the Lady Glacier Bears by ten points. The game score was 48-38. The Lady Wolves looked like they were off to a good start at the beginning of the game Friday, with junior MiKayla Stokes sinking two, three-pointers in the first quarter. However, Wrangell committed nearly 30 personal fouls total as a...
The Wolves were originally set to face Haines over the weekend. However, due to weather, flights out of the island were canceled and the team’s games were rescheduled to Monday and Tuesday night of this week. The Wrangell Wolves lost to the Glacier Bears Monday night by one point. The game score was 47-48, according to the scorebooks. At halftime, Wrangell was trailing by one point with the Wolves scoring 20 points in the first two quarters of the game to Haines’ 21 points. By the end of the third quarter, Wrangell was still behind one point wi...
The Wrangell boys’ varsity basketball team won and lost away games over the weekend against the Craig High School Panthers. Coach Ray Stokes said a team effort helped the Wolves defeat the Panthers Friday 60-56, but an injury and high number of fouls contributed to the 47-78 loss Saturday. Friday’s game was what Stokes called the “best game we played all season.” The Wolves rebounded well, played good defense and looked good offensively, he said. Every one of the players contributed to the win. Clayton Stokes scored 26 points for the Wolves...
The Lady Wolves varsity basketball team fell to the Lady Panthers of Craig High School this weekend in two games. Friday’s game ended in score of 32-52. The following day, Wrangell was defeated 32-62. “In the short scheme of things, they (Craig) put the ball through the hoop more times than we did,” said Wrangell coach Dave Silva. The Lady Wolves were trailing by ten points throughout the first three quarters of the game. During the fourth quarter Craig managed to add 18 points to the scoreboard, widening the gap between the two teams. “Craig i...
The Lady Wolves varsity team went down to the wire against the Metlakatla Lady Chiefs last Wednesday night as they fell 35-34 in a game Wrangell owned for more than 25 minutes on the boards. The Jan. 4 matchup, which was led by Wrangell for the first three periods, ended in a fourth period showdown where Metlakatla outscored, out-rebounded and out-played the Lady Wolves in a show of aggression rarely seen on the court. Wrangell head coach Dave Silva said it came down to his team failing to play...
Ryan Reeves (21) and Travis Bangs (34) do their best to defend against a player from Anchorage’s Service High School in Ketchikan. Wrangell fell 87-25 in the game....
Wrangell alumnus Lizzy Romane stretches for the ball against the Lady Wolves on Wednesday night as former WHS players took on current players. The Alumni team won the match 38-32....
