Anchorage’s Jake Heun will return to the World Series of Fighting promotion when he takes on fellow light heavyweight Teddy Holder of Tennessee on March 28 in Arizona. It’ll be the third mixed martial arts fight for the 27-year-old Alaskan in the last eight months; he won the previous two. Heun [7-3] won his WSOF… Read more »
Boise State University swimmer Samantha Wicks of Anchorage twice broke her own school record and won a silver medal in the 200 IM on Day 2 of the Mountain West Swimming & Diving Championships in Texas. She swam a 1:58.44 to post the fastest time in qualifying in the morning then dropped the record to… Read more »
Florida State University basketball player Devon Bookert of Anchorage shot the ball beautifully in a 69-60 win over visiting Boston College in a key ACC win. The 6-foot-3 guard made 6-of-7 field goals for a season-high .857 shooting percentage on his way to scoring 18 points. That’s his third-highest point total in 21 games this… Read more »
Hannah Souders of Anchorage is rewriting the record book for the University of Portland women’s track and field team. The junior sprinter earned a share of her third relay school record over the weekend at the Husky Classic in Seattle as Portland won the distance medley relay in 11:36.66 for an indoor school record. Souders,… Read more »
It seems like these days all Tyler Thompson of Anchorage does is win games with base hits. The Pacific Lutheran University baseball player doubled in the game-winning runs to beat Corban University in each of the last two days in Oregon. “In big situations it’s been nice to come through,” he told me. “I’ve been… Read more »
George Attla, the “Huslia Hustler” whose mushing achievements made him an Alaska rock star during the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s, died Sunday at the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage. He was 81, and beloved across the state. “May my Dad rest in peace,” Amanda Attla wrote on her Facebook page Sunday evening. “He’s at… Read more »
Anchorage’s Jalil Abdul-Bassit used a smoking hot first-half shooting effort to carry him to a career-high 24 points for the University of Oregon. The 6-foot-4 guard started the game and wasted no time finding his rhythm, sinking six 3-pointers in the first half. He finished with seven 3s as UCLA locked him down in the… Read more »
Three Anchorage cross-country skiers were among the fastest at the annual Middlebury College Winter Carnival in Vermont. Silas Talbot of Dartmouth College nearly won the men’s 10-K classic race, finishing second among 68 finishers with a time of 26:13. The senior standout turned in another top-10 finish with a ninth-place showing in the 10-K skate… Read more »
Anchorage’s Colter Lasher recorded 16 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists for Houston Baptist in an effort every bit as good as the numbers. The 6-foot-7 forward was especially productive in the later stages of the game when his team needed a lift during a 77-66 victory over A&M Corpus Christi during NCAA D1 men’s… Read more »
University of Portland sophomore Hannah Mattson of Fairbanks put on a free-throw shooting clinic against Pepperdine. She sank a career-high seven free throws on her way to scoring a season-high 9 points in a 76-72 loss during West Coast Conference women’s basketball action in California. Mattson, of West Valley High fame, helped Portland nearly rally… Read more »
