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The Wolves of Wrangell High School hosted the Craig Panthers on Dec. 16-17 in the home opener for WHS. Things got off to a bumpy start for the Wrangell Wolves varsity team on Friday night as they came within one point of winning their first game in front of the home crowd. Although it was close throughout the game, Craig was able to pull out the 58-57 win in the 4th quarter. Exceptional offense in the Friday game came courtesy of Clayton Stokes with 28 points. Clayton Rhodes added 9 points,...
The Lady Wolves weekend outing fared no better than the boys’ efforts as they fell to the Lady Panthers 73-44 on Friday, Dec. 16. Senior Loni Buness and junior MiKayla Stokes were both in double digits for the squad with 16 and 11 points, respectively. Erica Smith put up 6 points, with Alyssa Allen bringing in 5 points of her own. Shayna Schultz put a pair of deuces in for 4 points, with a solitary bucket for 2 points. Faring only slightly better on Saturday night, the Lady Wolves fell 51-40 a...
The Wrangell Wolves wrestling team took their show on the road to the Alaska 1A-3A tournament at Nikiski over the Dec. 9-10 weekend – and came away with a 5th place win for two of the squad’s wrestlers. Of the 12 wrestlers on the Wolves squad, five of them – Kurt Dingwall, Tanner Thomassen, Jeff Rooney, Jr., Devon Miller and Lorenzo Silva – earned their right to attend the state tournament. According to head coach Jeff Rooney, the team battled hard through the tournament that saw 16-man bracket...
The Wolves boys and girls basketball teams demolished their competition in Petersburg over the weekend as Wrangell took wins in four games out of the seven played against the Vikings – and saw the Lady Wolves varsity and JV teams go undefeated (2-0, 1-0) on the road. The games, which were homecoming matches for Petersburg, saw a split for the boys’ JV team with a 43-37 win and a 44-35 loss over the weekend. On the Lady Wolves’ side, the varsity team took both Friday and Saturday nights with...
Great athletes may be born, but champions are coached and bred into reality. Nothing truer than those words can be said of Tanner Thomassen and Kurt Dingwall, two members of the Wrangell High School wrestling team who took home a region championship at Mt. Edgecumbe High School in Sitka last weekend. The pair of juniors has wrestled hard all season, with Thomassen (145-pound) amassing a 29-6 record, and Dingwall (138-pound) tendering a season win-loss ratio of 17-3. Head coach Jeff Rooney said...
The Wrangell Elks Lodge will be holding their 2011 Hoop Shoot competition this Saturday, Dec. 3 at the community gym beginning at 9 a.m. The event, which is organized by Elks member Jeff Jabusch, is for all young men and women who want to take part. “The Hoop Shoot is a national program by the Elks that starts at the local level,” Jabusch said. “It’s a free throw contest and we encourage everybody that is eligible to come out because you don’t have to be a basketball player to take part.” Th...
Preparation and desire can be said to be the key to winning in wrestling. That said, hard work pays off in spades when you find yourself atop the dais after the finals – with a gold medal around your neck and the title “champion.” Becoming a champion is exactly what two Wolves wrestlers did last week in Juneau during the 2011 Pilot Invitational tournament at Thunder Mountain High School. Keeping true to form, juniors Kurt Dingwall and Tanner Thomassen returned to the top spot at the tourn...
Drama, Debate and Forensics made a grand return to Wrangell High Scool last weekend as the home of the Wolves hosted their first DDF tournament in nearly a decade – and saw an amazing turnout with participants from 7 Southeast Alaska high schools acting, orating and arguing the benefits of the electoral college. Aside from Wrangell, competitors from Juneau-Douglas, Kayhi, Sitka, Thunder Mountain, Haines and Mt. Edgecumbe took part in the two-day event. Wrangell’s head coach, Mike Symons, sai...
The Wrangell Wolves wrestling team continued their winning ways last weekend in Ketchikan as two of Wrangell’s finest battled their way to the top of their brackets at the Bill Weiss Invitational tournament at Kayhi. The two wrestlers, juniors Kurt Dingwall and Tanner Thomassen, started high in their respective 138- and 145-pounder classes and were able to overcome four opponents each to take a 1st place finish for Wrangell. Wrangell’s head wrestling coach, Jeff Rooney, said each of his win...
The Lady Wolves volleyball team ended their 2011 season on an up note with a win at the Region V tournament in Juneau last weekend. Though they would come back later to log a victory, the team began their jaunt with a tough loss 25-22, 25-18, 25-13 to Craig in the first round of the double-elimination format competition. During the game against Craig, junior Tori Gulla went out with a pulled outer ligament in her knee. “She was in a lot of pain,” said head coach Jessica Whitaker. “She has had p...
Wrangell’s Tanner Thomassen knows how to win on the wrestling mat – and proved it at the Craig Invitational Tournament last weekend. After being split into the two brackets of the 145-pounder group, Thomassen was able to achieve 5 pins and a single technical pin against his opponents. With the wins under his belt, the junior ended up earning the top points in the bracket to advance to the championship against Dalton Touhy of Haines. “Tanner’s performance this week was nothing short of we’ve b...
The Wrangell Wolves wrestling team traveled to Anchorage this past weekend to take part in the Anchorage Christian School tournament – and two members of the team walked away with a place in the finals. Teams from 44 schools and more than 400 wrestlers attended the tournament at ACS – a meet which is highly beneficial to the Wolves team according to head coach Jeff Rooney. “The competition at ACS allows us to seed our wrestlers more efficiently at the regional and state meets,” Rooney said. ...
For the first time in nearly a decade Wrangell High School will host a Drama, Debate and Forensics tournament featuring schools from across Southeast Alaska on Nov. 11-12. Teams from Ketchikan, Petersburg, Sitka, Mt. Edgecumbe, Juneau-Douglas, Thunder Mountain and Haines high schools are scheduled to attend. DDF head coach Mike Symons said the tournament is a chance for the Wolves to shine in a number of competitive categories – and to show Southeast Alaska what Wrangell has to offer in the w...
Led by two of the heartiest wrestlers in Southeast Alaska, the Wrangell Wolves wrestling team traveled north last weekend to take part in the 2011 Haines Invitational tournament. Junior Tanner Thomassen and Sophomore Devon Miller held more than their own during the event – and walked away with a pair of championships in the 145- and 170-pounder classifications, respectively. Thomassen came out on fire as he defeated four competitors from Craig, Pelican, Haines and fellow Wolves wrestler J...
The Lady Wolves hosted the Mt. Edgecumbe Lady Braves last Saturday – but only after a quick rescheduling of the games to accommodate a late airplane from Sitka. The matches, which had originally been scheduled for both Friday and Saturday, were moved to Saturday only after the plane was unable arrive from Baranof Island due to inclement weather. “Volleyball is one of those sports where we can reschedule and have a double header, so that is what we did on Saturday,” said Wrangell activ...
The 2011 Tom Sims Invitational wrestling tournament returned to Wrangell High School last week as teams from 10 high schools across Southeast Alaska fought for glory and a spot on the podium as champions. Aside from the Wolves squad, teams from Petersburg, Hydaburg, Haines, Kake, Sitka, Craig, Mt. Edgecumbe, Klawock, Metlakatla and Thorne Bay competed beginning on Thursday, Oct 13 for a seeding in the championship rounds on Saturday, Oct. 15. “We started earlier than we expected, on Thursday, be...
The Lady Wolves varsity volleyball team traveled to Sitka last weekend to face Baranof Island’s own version of the Lady Wolves while the JV team from Wrangell took part in the Sitka’s invitational tournament. Sitka dominated both nights as they won easily in a 25-11, 25-17, 25-12 game on Friday, and again of Saturday with set scores of 25-15, 25-16, 25-18. Wrangell was hobbled out of the gate as starters Sasha Ashton and McKenna Harding did not travel with the team. On top of the holes cre...
