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Petersburg seventh-grade swimmer Tori Miller competed in the 2025 Northwest Age Group Championships from March 20-23, in Boise, Idaho. The meet consisted of over 600 swimmers, 68 teams across seven states, including Hawaii, Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. Miller competed in six events and exhibited a stellar performance throughout the meet. In Girl's 12 Age Group, Miller placed six out eight in the 50-yard freestyle, with a final time of 26 seconds; sixth in the 50-yard...
A year after they won nine games and finished fourth at state, The Petersburg High School baseball team looks to carry their momentum in 2025. "The guys are excited about playing. We've had more open gyms – pulling the batting cages out this year than before," head coach Jim Engell said. The team graduated two key players last season Hunter Conn and Kieran Cabral. Some teams would rely more on their seniors but this year's squad will look towards their juniors and sophomores. "My two seniors, L...
Over spring break, Petersburg junior Gabriele Whitacre got an opportunity to compete in her first powerlifting meet, the St. Patty's Power at Southside Strength and Fitness, in Anchorage. The meet was sponsored by USA Powerlifting Alaska and Petersburg's Athletic Director Jaime Cabral, who got Whitacre involved with the aforementioned competition. "I had been training for four weeks but I've been lifting for five years," Whitacre said. "For the four weeks leading up, it was more low reps and...
The Petersburg Cheer team headed to regionals, set on claiming their third consecutive regional title. After weeks of preparation, the cheer team unveiled its halftime routine. "It was all new material. The material for the dance part was all done by the athletes, with little things here and there that I changed," head coach Becky Turland said. "They got to choose the music at the beginning of the season – I gave them a list of 16 to 17 songs and we did a secret ballet casting for the song and i...
The #5 seed Petersburg Vikings faced off against the #4 seed Craig Panthers in their first game of the regional tournament. The Vikings faced a 19-12 deficit at halftime. In the third, the Vikings scored 12 points to take a 24-23 lead heading into the fourth. "At the beginning of the year, we were really struggling and not able to score unless we ran a set play. We hardly ever called a set play, though regions – it really shows our growth," head coach Rick Brock said. The Vikings would go on to...
The Petersburg Lady Vikings entered the regional tournament as the #5 seed, with their first game against the #4 seed, Wrangell Lady Wolves. The Lady Vikings got off to a slow start – facing a 14-6 deficit at the end of the first quarter. However, the Lady Vikings were able to go on an 11-4 run to pull within 18-17 at halftime. "I felt like Wrangell had the advantage in the first and then we had the advantage in the second quarter," head coach Matt Pawuk said. "I was pretty happy with where we w...
Petersburg AAU girls' basketball team – which is made up of players from fifth grade through eighth – recently went undefeated during a tournament in Wrangell, sweeping the A, B & C brackets. Petersburg went an impressive 11-0 throughout the tournament. "They're extremely talented," head coach Matt Nilsen said. "We've been working on fundamentals and ball handling, passing, defense and playing to the best of our abilities." The team was split into A, B & C brackets, with every player getting a t...
The Viking Swim Club continued their strong season, making waves at the 2025 Alaska Age Group Championships, in Anchorage. 22 teams from across Alaska participated in this meet. VSC finished fourth overall. The VSC Club has continued to improve throughout the season. "I've been impressed with the growth both as a team and individually. Across the board, all swimmers are showing improvement whether it be times, sportsmanship, competitiveness and technique," head coach Scott Burtt said. "We've...
The Petersburg Lady Vikings played their final regular season games of the season against their rival, the Wrangell Lady Wolves this past weekend, in Wrangell. In search of faster starts, Petersburg junior guard Rikka Miller provided a spark to the team, scoring 5 of the Lady Vikings' 9 first-quarter points and collecting two offensive rebounds. "She's starting to develop a confidence on the court that she hadn't had earlier in the season. When other teams try to put pressure on the ball – it d...
In their final regular-season games before the playoffs, the Petersburg Vikings battled their rival, at Wrangell's homecoming weekend. In the first quarter on Friday, the Wolves hit three threes to take a 14-9 lead. The Wolves added 14 more points in the second to take a 28-21 halftime lead. "We were in a little bit of foul trouble in that quarter and that's been one of the struggles we've had is if we do get in foul trouble, sometimes we're not completely in sync with the players that are on...
This past weekend, Stedman Elementary School's wrestling club hosted a round-robin tournament against Wrangell's wrestling club. "They did incredible. Last year's Petersburg tournament was basically a lot of the kids' first tournament. It caught them by surprise and they've just done exponentially better each time they compete," Eldon Walker said, head coach for the third, fourth and fifth-grade wrestlers. "This season, overall, was their best performance yet." Sam Caulum is the head coach of...
The Petersburg Lady Vikings headed out onto the road against another conference opponent the Haines Lady Glacier Bears. In what has been a theme for the majority of the season, the Lady Vikings got down early, facing an 18-7 deficit. "It seems like each game we have a different five that ends up kind of clicking with each other and it's taken us a little bit of time to figure out who those five are going to be," head coach Matt Pawuk said. "Maybe one thing I need to try is making substitutions...
The Mitkof Middle School wrestling team recently wrapped up their season at regions in Juneau with strong results. "Gunner Cisney, he's been wrestling for a long time and he's been in the finals all three years of middle school, or he would've been but he had an injury default," head coach Mike Corl said. "He was feeling some real good promise for some excellent wrestling this past weekend." Eight-grader Cisney was dealing with a back injury that he suffered during a Wrangell tournament in...
The Petersburg Vikings continued conference play against the Haines Glacier Bears this past weekend. At the end of the first quarter, the score was deadlocked at two. "We played defense for over six minutes. On the positive side, we defended every out-of-bounds play that they had. We defended their half-court sets well," head coach Rick Brock said. On the negative side, the Vikings were playing so much defense due to giving up nine offensive rebounds in the first. "We were not jumping, we were...
After losing to the Metlakatla Chiefs during the 2A Conference Clash, the Petersburg Vikings looked to change their fortunes on their home court. The Chiefs started Friday's game by hitting four threes and leading 19-6 at the end of the first. By halftime, the Vikings were down 38-22. "We were making life a little bit too easy for them to score, we weren't challenging them at the rim – we just kind of let them score," head coach Rick Brock said. In the third, the Chiefs offense continued to r...
The Petersburg Lady Vikings faced off against the Metlakatla Miss Chiefs in their final home games of the season. In game one, the Miss Chiefs ran a 2-3 zone that allowed them to get out to a 12-5 lead at the end of the first. "I think playing more in practice and using this last month of the season to get up and down the floor and play against a zone to where it becomes more habitual rather than us having to put so much thought into each step of the process will help," head coach Matt Pawuk...
Looking to continue to build confidence, the Petersburg Vikings did exactly that against the Lumen Christi Archangels, at the 2A Conference Clash, in Anchorage. The Vikings held a 10-2 lead after the first, limiting the Archangels to only two points. "Our help defense was very good – we've been trying to work on our one-on-one defense and not letting the guy that you're guarding penetrate [and] get into the key," head coach Rick Brock said. While the Vikings dominated the majority of the g...
Returning to games after a small break in the action, the Peterburg Lady Vikings sought to start faster with their first attempt against the Hooper Bay Warriors, during the 2A Conference Clash in Anchorage. Unfortunately, turnovers plagued the Lady Vikings as they got down 17-2 midway through the second quarter. In the first half, the Lady Warriors hit three threes. “It’s been a common theme for us this year unfortunately is getting off to a slow start. Offensively, we’ve struggled a little bit playing against zone defenses this year, so I thin...
When Ashley Corl moved to Petersburg, she found herself running alone a lot. "I've been a runner for most of my life, and I've always run with friends or with groups that I was training with for races, mountain runs, marathons. I always had people to run with, and when I moved here, I ran alone a lot, and I saw a lot of people running alone, and I think I just started to really crave more community around running," Corl told the Pilot. "I knew that there were other runners out there. I just...
Looking to end their four-game losing streak, the Petersburg Vikings had their first shot against the Juneau-Douglas Crimson Bears JV squad who were stepping up to participate in the varsity tournament hosted in Petersburg last weekend. The Vikings jumped out to a 13-5 lead at the end of the first and went on a 9-4 run in the second, holding a 22-12 advantage at halftime. "Some of the things that we've been talking about, we were finding success and as we found success, we started to believe in...
The Lady Vikings looked for improvement on offense and defense heading into the 3rd annual PSG Varsity Tournament. Unfortunately in the Lady Vikings' first game against the Skagway Lady Panthers, the Vikings were down 11-1 at the end of the first, and then 24-3 heading into halftime. "We just weren't ready to play. I was pretty blunt with the kids at halftime of that game – it just looked like we didn't have a whole lot of interest being on the court," head coach Matt Pawuk said. "That's been k...
The Petersburg cheer squad had their first big performance this past homecoming weekend, as they hyped up the home crowd throughout the boys and girls basketball games against rival Wrangell. "I think it was a big eye-opener for some that have never cheered ... they did well," head coach Becky Turland said. "They also had to set up for the homecoming dance in the morning and Sunday morning had to meet to clean up because cheer is in charge of the homecoming dance, so they had a very long...
The Petersburg Vikings were host to their rival the Wrangell Wolves during homecoming weekend. The Vikings started faster in game one, feeding off the home crowd's energy. With 2:10 left in the first, the Vikings had an early 10-7 lead. Then, the Wolves ended the quarter on a 5-1 run to take a 12-11 lead. The game would continue to go back and forth in the second until multiple Vikings turnovers turned into a 7-0 Wolves run to take a 21-15 lead with 3:53 left until halftime. The Vikings were...
The Petersburg Lady Vikings looked for improvement against their rival the Wrangell Lady Wolves. However, game one didn't start the way they wanted to. At the end of the first, the Lady Vikings were down 15-6. "We had started in our 1-3-1 and [the Lady Wolves] were having quite a bit of success against it so that's something as a coach, I'll need to go figure out," head coach Matt Pawuk said. During the second quarter, the Lady Vikings switched to a box-and-one defense, focusing on Wrangell...
Heading into their first road and conference games this past weekend against Craig, the Vikings looked to carry their momentum after their win against Sitka. Much like their first matchup against Sitka, the Vikings were plagued by a slow start, falling 11-4 in the first quarter. "I think our confidence in ourselves is not as high as it should be. When you play somebody who believes in themselves – both scenarios we got down right away in double figures and that kinda held throughout the rest of...
