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Petersburg Vikings Cross Country teams, both the boys and girls, took second place at Saturday's Metlakatla Invitational. Ketchikan took first at the 1A/2A/3A meet. Other teams competing included Wrangell, Metlakatla, Thorne Bay, Klawock, Hydaburg and Craig. Thorne Bay's Taylee Nyquest was the first place girl with a time of 18:36; Chris Lanos, of Ketchikan, took first among the boys with a 17:13 race. Six Petersburg boys and six girls traveled to Metlakatla for the meet, and of those 12...
Vikings Swim and Dive team started the season with a home meet, hosting Thunder Mountain and Sitka over the weekend. "We had a really good meet. Our kids raced really well all the way around," said Vikings Head Coach Andy Carlisle. The Petersburg boys team took first place both Friday and Saturday night. Individually the girls did really well, but there aren't enough of them to pull off a team win, according to Carlisle. For a smaller meet there was some top notch competing in a number of...
Southeast Alaska's high school volleyball teams took to the court last weekend for the season opener at Ketchikan's Region V Jamboree. This year Petersburg has an especially large squad: 31 girls, including 11 freshmen. This has led to the creation of a second junior varsity team for some of the younger girls just getting into the mix. Talented and young is a good way to describe the PHS teams. “We've got no seniors on varsity, but we've got a lot of returners with varsity experience from last year and a couple of freshmen that surprised us a...
PHS Cross Country is off and running with a new head coach. Vikings Head Coach Tom Thompson has led practices for a full month and took the girls and boys teams to Juneau for the first meet of the season last weekend. This year's girls team has some very big running shoes to fill after last year's "Fab Five" seniors took the Region V title and finished third in State. Despite being a young team of six girls with a total of three years of cross country experience between them all, Coach Thompson...
The Petersburg High School girl's track team won the conference track meet division wide in Ketchikan last weekend-a feat the Petersburg girl's team hasn't accomplished in more than three decades. Head coach Brad Taylor has been coaching since 1987 and knew this season would be a special one for the program. "I've known for a couple years that this class, this freshman class coming in and with the seniors that we have, and the experience of those kids going to state for so many years, we knew... Full story
Petersburg's Ragnarøk Rollers hosted the Wrangell's Garnet Grit Betties and Ketchikan's Rainforest Rollergirls for a big roller derby weekend in Petersburg; consisting of skills workshops, referee training, and a two-hour scrimmage in front of a packed house of fans cheering for their favorite roller girls. The event was a milestone for the new derby squad, most of whom donned skates for the first time in October 2012 when they travelled to Wrangell for their first derby boot camp. Building... Full story
The Petersburg girls competed in the ACS Tournament, hosted by Anchorage Christian Schools, over the weekend. This year Bethel, Barrow, ACS, Valdez, Petersburg, Kotzebue, Eielson, and Point Hope attended. “A lot of the best 3A teams try to make it there because of the competition. It’s who you're going to see if you make it to state,” said Lady Vikings Head Coach Dino Brock. The tournament is a single elimination style, with a guarantee of playing three games. In their first game the Lady Vikings faced off against the ACS Lions, who took secon...
In keeping with recent tradition the Petersburg Lutheran Church opened its doors for a concert by and for the community of Petersburg on the night of the winter solstice. Among the varied performers were the Oxford Carolers, seen above....
Five swimmers represented Petersburg at the State Championship swim meet last weekend in Anchorage, and after getting mostly personal best times in preliminaries on Friday, and then even better times in the finals, the boys ended up placing 5th out of 19 schools with many individual achievements, including Abel Aulbach defending his state title in the 100-yard Freestyle event. Service's Ezra Corwin-Hogue came in 7 hundredths of a second faster than Aulbach in the prelims, but the next day, when... Full story
Swim and Dive's Region V Championship meet took place last weekend in Juneau, and the Petersburg Vikings performed outstandingly well. Individual Vikings won a number of events, and the Vikings boys took third as a team, finishing just 5 points out from first place. "If a couple things had gone differently we could have been second or even first," said Vikings head coach Andy Carlisle. "It was good. The kids did well." Petersburg's Abel Aulbach and Thunder Mountain's Kenny Fox were the top... Full story
The Vikings hosted swimmers from Juneau-Douglas and Sitka High Schools for a very competitive two day meet last weekend. “We had a great weekend of racing,” said Vikings Head Coach Andy Carlisle. “Friday night was especially good with many personal best performances and high energy.” Friday night had some great performances including Vince Kowalski’s first place finish in the boys 200-yard freestyle. Abel Aulbach had great wins in the 50-yard and the 100-yard freestyle races. In the girls 100-ya...
The Petersburg cross country team ended the season with an outstanding performance at the state championship meet at Anchorage's Bartlett High School last weekend. The girls squad, comprised of Grace Weller, Diane Murph, Robyn Schwartz, Fran Abbott, Hannah Pfundt, Nicole Peterson, and Kayleigh Eddy, have been a powerhouse all season long — undefeated among 1A/2A/3A schools, Region V Champions and, ultimately, third place finishers at State. The Anchorage course was hilly and slippery but that d...
Petersburg Swim and Dive team went north for the Juneau-Douglas Invitational last weekend and swam some great races with several best time performances. “Our boys team continues to look strong and we should be in the running for region champs,” said Vikings Head Coach Andy Carlisle. Friday's results placed the Petersburg boys in third place behind first place Sitka and second place Thunder Mountain. Saturday the Petersburg boys finished the meet as a team in second place behind Sitka. “The lady vikings also swam well but our lack of numbe...
Sitka hosted the Region V Cross-Country Championship meet last weekend and the Vikings girls team took first over all other small schools in the 1A/2A/3A divisions, with Mt. Edgecumbe as runner up. Ten years have passed since Petersburg cross country last brought home a Regional Championship. This big win follows an impressive, undefeated season for the girls squad. The Vikings all went into the meet determined to run their best race, according to Petersburg Head Coach Jo Ann Day. “They deserve... Full story
Vikings cross country runners were in Juneau for the season's last regular meet over the weekend. They ran against teams from throughout Southeast, with 76 girls and 92 boys competing in rainy, windy conditions. Juneau's course is reputed as the toughest around mostly due to its numerous hills, but conditions were even more extreme on Saturday. According to Petersburg Head Coach Jo Ann Day, the course was wet, muddy and a bit slippery. There was a log to get over and two inches of mud at the...
The Petersburg High School Vikings volleyball team opened the regular season last weekend by hosting the Juneau-Douglas Crimson Bears for two days of games. Petersburg’s team is particularly young this season, after graduating nine volleyball seniors last year; leaving one senior, 12 sophomores, and seven freshmen. “We could be the youngest varsity team in the state,” said PHS head coach Jaime Cabral. With such youth comes inexperience, but Coach Cabral describes the group as very athle...
Throughout this sunny summer, and thanks in large part to the continued success of The Market, locally grown produce was more available in Petersburg than any time in recent memory. But it begs the question, why hasn’t local produce been more available in town, and what stops people around here from growing their own food? To examine these questions we visit the gardens of some of this season’s most abundant food growers to talk about techniques they’ve used to overcome the commonly perce...
Roxie Dinstel (right) of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension Service came to town over the weekend. At the Market, on Friday night, she provided equipment and instruction for testing the safety of home pressure cookers and the following day at the Holy Cross House, in partnership with The Garden, she led classes in canning meat and veggies, yogurt and cheese making, and more....
Soccer players in Petersburg began an exciting new tradition earlier this month. For the first time ever, a group, many of whom have been playing soccer together for over ten years at the Community Gym, formed a co-ed Petersburg team and travelled to Juneau to compete in the Shamrock Invitational Indoor Soccer Tournament. Two teams from Whitehorse, Canada also made the trip. Three Juneau squads competed, for a total of six teams. Sitka and Ketchikan teams were invited but didn't attend. Dale...
