It’s no surprise Ruthy Hebard of Fairbanks is playing at a high level for the University of Oregon women’s basketball team. But she’s probably pinched herself at least once this season to make sure it’s all real. It got real today when the 6-foot-4 forward was named to the all-league team in the Pac-12 Conference… Read more »
Whether he’s taking charges, making steals or forcing turnovers, Connor Looney of Palmer is all-in on defense. He can’t help it. That’s the culture at Hawaii Pacific. “We take pride in getting stops and making teams work for their points, then turning those stops into points on the other end,” Looney told me. The senior… Read more »
Damen Bell-Holter of Hydaburg picked a fine time to come up big-time for his Italian pro team Agrigento. The 6-foot-9 forward recorded his sixth double-double of the season but the first since Jan. 6 with a 16-point, 10-rebound effort to spark an 87-84 over Treviglio in a matchup between potential playoff teams. Both clubs are… Read more »
Juneau’s Jackson Lehnhart earned a huge honor recently when he was selected to the NCAA D3 All-America Team by D3soccer.com from a field of nearly 500 nominations. The Amherst College senior defender finished the season with five goals and three assists for 13 points in 19 games. He scored on his final shot of his… Read more »
As soon as Pauline Tufi of Anchorage got her swing right, the Louisiana Tech softball team got right. With the senior slugger leading the way, the Lady Techsters extended their five-game winning streak with back-to-back victories at the Louisiana Tech Classic over Northern Iowa and Grambling State. Tufi, of West High fame, has hit .400… Read more »
When it comes to ranking the best players in Bendigo Spirit women’s basketball history, Eagle River’s Kelsey Griffin will go down as one of the all-time greats. The fifth-year forward won her third consecutive team most valuable player award for the WNBL team in Australia. The 6-foot-2 captain had her typical solid season by averaging… Read more »
On the same day that Anchorage’s Zoe Hickel scored a pair of goals with the Connecticut Whale in the NWHL, her sister Tori Hickel notched an assist and sported a +4 rating for her pro team in Sweden. Just another day in this family’s pucks paradise. Zoe Hickel, of Service High fame, is a second-year… Read more »
Palmer’s Connor Looney made sure his last home game at Hawaii Pacific University ended on a high note. He nearly single-handedly led the nationally ranked Sharks to a 76-66 victory over a strong Dixie State team in a battle of Pac West powers on Senior Night in Honolulu, Hawaii. The 6-foot-2 guard registered a team-high… Read more »
He hasn’t pitched in a baseball game in two years, yet Dylan Baker of Juneau has remained on the 40-man roster for the Cleveland Indians because of his rocket right arm. The 24-year-old has a crazy-good fastball that touches 97 mph and crazy-bad luck with injuries that have kept him off the field. Upside trumps… Read more »
Who holds the Pac-12 record for field-goal percentage? The answer could be Ruthy Hebard of Fairbanks. The freshman with the University of Oregon women’s basketball team lifted her season percentage to .649, which is on pace to break the conference record of .645 set in 2007 by Judie Lomax of Oregon State. Hebard, of West… Read more »
