After missing the last five weeks with an ankle injury, Eagle River’s Kelsey Griffin made a victorious return for the Canberra Capitals in Australia’s WNBL. The 6-foot-2 veteran produced a +24 plus/minus rating and filled the stat sheet in an 89-75 win over the Perth Lynx. Griffin came off the bench to deliver eight points,… Read more »
Eagle River’s Grace Harder went to work in the post and walked away with her fourth double-double of the NWAC season. The Olympic College freshman powered her way to a 14-point, 10-rebound performance in a 66-63 loss to Edmonds. Harder, of Eagle River High fame, recorded a season high in points and reached double figures… Read more »
Bull’s-eye 3-point specialist Trevor Osborne of Anchorage made Whitman College men’s basketball history and enjoyed a career scoring night against George Fox in Newberg, Oregon. The senior sharpshooter equaled the school record with seven 3-pointers on his way to scoring a career-high 25 points in a 105-77 NCAA D3 win. Osborne, of Grace Christian fame,… Read more »
Eastern Oregon University women’s wrestler Krystal Fabricante of Kodiak earned ultimate revenge at the Oregon Classic in Portland. After the 130-pound sophomore lost her first match to Dallas Gomez of Grays Harbor College, Fabricante worked her way through the loser’s bracket to earn a rematch in the third-place match. The Alaskan didn’t disappoint. Fabricante, of… Read more »
Akiak’s Agatha Andrews posted a 4-1 record with two forfeits for the Jamestown University women’s wrestling team at two different tournaments on back-to-back days in Nebraska. The sophomore 191-pounder finished second at the York College Open as an individual and helped Jamestown finish second at the York College Duals. Andrews, of Mt. Edgecumbe High fame,… Read more »
After securing a monster double-double and scoring the winning basket to help USC women’s basketball upset undefeated rival UCLA, Alissa Pili of Anchorage was named Pac-12 Conference Freshman of the Week. Pili piled up 19 points to go with a career-high 17 rebounds and converted an old-fashioned three-point play with 29 seconds left to push… Read more »
Jeremiah Bailey of Fairbanks poured in a season-high 13 points and hit a late 3-pointer for the University of the Pacific that made things interesting at the end of an 84-80 loss to Santa Clara in the West Coast Conference. Bailey pulled Pacific within 82-80 with five seconds to go in the game after drilling… Read more »
Soldotna’s Danica Schmidt scored a season-high 17 points on a night when the Lower Columbia College women’s basketball team had everything working in a 92-16 win over Grays Harbor in the NWAC. The 5-foot-10 freshman sank 8-of-12 field goals and added nine rebounds, three steals, an assist and a blocked shot. Schmidt, of Soldotna High… Read more »
Anchorage’s Jaron Williams drilled back-to-back jumpers inside the final two minutes of overtime to lift the Spokane men’s basketball team to a 74-69 win over Wenatchee Valley in the NWAC. The freshman guard finished with 13 of his 19 points after halftime, including the go-ahead jumper with 1:58 left in the extra session to put… Read more »
Christian Hausinger of Anchorage collected his second hat trick of the season to extend his points streak to four games for the University of Wisconsin-River Falls hockey team. The junior defenseman had three goals and an assist in a 6-2 victory over Wisconsin-Stout in NCAA D3. This was his first hat trick since the season… Read more »
