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 »
Anna Dalton is the new Equinox Marathon women’s record holder. On a postcard-perfect fall Saturday in Fairbanks, the Anchorage runner was one of four women to run faster than the previous women’s record in one of Alaska’s oldest and most storied footraces. Dalton’s time of 3:07:22 knocked nearly eight minutes Christy Marvin’s mark of 3:15:06,… 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 »
By Matias Saari Alaska Sports Blog Contributor With the strongest women’s field in the 58-year history of the Equinox Marathon, the iconic Fairbanks event is primed for a speedy race. That because a trio of women who competed at the 2020 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials — Anna Dalton of Anchorage, Megan Youngren of Soldotna and… 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 »
Juneau’s Sadie Tuckwood was named the Alaska Athlete of the Week after winning in her first collegiate race for the Gonzaga University cross country team in impressive fashion. The Juneau-Douglas High School grad won outright the Clash of the Inland Northwest in Cheney, Washington. Her winning time of 14:15was fifth-fastest four-kilometer time in women’s program… Read more »
