Ellie Scherffius is in the zone. The University of Montana volleyball player from Eagle River is crushing the ball at a blistering .415-percent clip that ranks No. 2 in the Big Sky Conference. Scherffius leads the Grizzlies with 91 kills, buoyed by the strongest stretch of her college career over the last week: 15 kills,… Read more »
No longer a situational player for the Western Colorado University football team, Josh Cummings of Fairbanks has developed into an every-down back. The Mountaineers gave Cummings the ball just about every down as the senior rusher racked up 31 carries on his way to a 154-yard, 2-touchdown performance against Adams State in the 74th annual… Read more »
A pair of Alaskans took over the fourth quarter of a NAIA football game when North Pole’s Marshal Chace of Presentation College and Soldotna’s Brenner Furlong of Dakota State both scored touchdowns in the span of just three plays. Chace scored on a 25-yard TD reception and 81 seconds later Furlong scored on a 50-yard… Read more »
Martin Jones of Wasilla made the biggest play of his college football career after hauling in an interception in the fourth quarter to preserve Valley City State University’s 14-7 win over Waldorf College in North Dakota. The sophomore defensive back picked off the opposing quarterback at the 14-yard-line to deny a red-zone scoring opportunity and… Read more »
Western Washington University senior Kaleb Korta of Galena earned a runner-up finish after winning a sprint finish at the Central Washington University Cross Country Invitational in Lacey, Washington. Korta clocked a 6-K time of 19:40.0 to beat Eastern Oregon’s Travis Running (19:40.9) by less than a second. Logan Hunt from the College of Idaho posted… Read more »
After throwing for a career-high 367 yards and four touchdowns, Qyntyn Pilcher-Colbert of Anchorage wasn’t exactly pounding his chest. His Sierra College football team fell 55-46 to Modesto and losing is the ultimate buzzkill. “There has been a lot of buzz around my personal performance, but we’re still 0-2,” he said. Pilcher-Colbert measures success by… Read more »
Anchorage’s Ashton Jessee has cemented herself among the greatest blockers in Pac West Conference history. The University of Hawaii Hilo senior has racked up 342 career total blocks to move into an eighth-place tie on the Pac West’s all-time list. Jessee has a great chance to reach the top 5, needing just 12 more blocks… Read more »
Brandon Joyner of Fairbanks made the longest house call of his college football career, hauling in an 80-yard touchdown reception for Elizabeth City State University. The senior wide receiver made the play on 3rd-and-15 in the third quarter when he got behind the defense after his quarterback was from flushed from the pocket. It was… Read more »
Anchorage’s Edefuan Ulofoshio is the most productive University of Washington Huskies defensive player from Alaska in 30 years. The All-Pac-12 linebacker has averaged 10.2 tackles over his last nine games after making 13 stops against Michigan in a 31-10 road loss. Ulofoshio has surpassed the century mark for his career with 114 tackles in 22… Read more »
Josh Cummings of Fairbanks went to the house the first time he touched the ball. And his day just kept getting better from there. By the end, the Western Colorado University running back had racked up a career-high 124 yards – which is believed to be the third-highest rushing total for an Alaskan at the… Read more »
