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The Petersburg High School cross country team had their final meet of the season in Anchorage on Saturday. The girls team came in fifth place over all, and the boys team came in ninth. "Getting up there and having that experience with some really good runners is just going to make them stronger," said assistant coach Debby Eddy. "I was really proud how they accomplished what they did this weekend." Kendra Coonrad and Maia Cowan came in 10th and 11th place respectively, at 20:42 and 20:50. At...
The Mitkof Middle School cross country team ran their second and last meet this past weekend in Ketchikan at Ward Lake, which is where the high school teams run their meets. Both the boys and girls teams came in second place over all. "I was proud of them," said Coach Joe Viechnicki. "They did a great job running." Kinley Lister came in second place at 14:13, followed by Bryana Ratliff in third place at 14:22. Ratliff barely beat Bree Johnson of Schoenbar Middle School. Johnson had stopped...
At a meet in Juneau over the weekend, the Petersburg High School girls swim team came in fourth place overall and the boys team came in fifth place in Saturday’s events. The team had a combined score of 128, coming in fourth place overall behind Thunder Mountain High School, Juneau Douglas High School and Sitka High School. In the girls 200 yard medley relay, Allie Morgan, Clarisa Bashoff, Jaden Perry and Kate Bisset came in 10th with a time of 2:29.39. Maria Pfundt came in fifth place and Lister came in ninth place in the girls 200 yard freest...
At their first match of the season, the Petersburg High School volleyball team played against Juneau-Douglas High School, winning three out of eight matches. “All good things that we saw,” said head coach Jamie Cabral. “It showed us what we need to work on and focus on in the next couple weeks. Your flaws can be really ignited when you play a team of that caliber.” On Friday, Petersburg C team lost 3-0. One of Petersburg’s junior varsity teams won 3-1 with the second JV team losing 3-1. The varsity team lost 3-0. At Saturday’s games, the...
The Petersburg High School girls cross country team came in first place at Regionals in Juneau on Saturday, with the boys team coming in third. Both teams will be heading to the state cross country meet in Anchorage this weekend. "I think we inherited some good talent," said assistant coach Debby Eddy. "They're just willing to work hard, which makes them faster runners. That comes from inside of them." The girls cross country team came in first place overall with a combined score of 32. This...
This Saturday, the Petersburg High School cross country team will be competing in Juneau at the Regional championships. “It’s just been a great group to work with all year and now we’ll see if the training has paid off,” said head coach Tommy Thompson. Only seven boys and seven girls who were selected for their times, eligibility and involvement in the program this season will be competing at Regionals this weekend, said Thompson. On the boys team, Tolin Eddy, Brennan Skeek, Chase Lister, Kole Sperl, Koren Sperl, Uriah Lucas and Julian Cumps w...
The Petersburg High School swim team had their second meet of the season in Sitka on Friday and Saturday. “Our fitness levels were good because the end of our races were good, but the speed wasn’t quite there. So we’re going to work on that,” said head coach Andy Carlisle. On Friday, in the boys 200 yard medley relay, Sean Spigelmyre, Chase Lockhart, Rylan Wallace and Peter Kowalski came in fourth place. Wallace, Caleb Pfundt, Spieglemyer and Kowalski came in third place in the boys 200 yard freestyle relay. Kowalski came in fourth in the boy...
In their first meet of the season, the Mitkof Middle School cross country team saw their girls team come in first place and boys team in second behind Schoenbar Middle School on Saturday. "Both teams did great," said Coach Joe Viechnicki. "I'm really proud of them. They did an awesome job." Seventh graders Kinley Lister and Bryana Ratliff were the top girls runners for Petersburg coming in at second and third place respectively. Lister set a new record for the Petersburg team at their home meet...
On Friday, the Petersburg girls cross country team came in second place with a combined score of 65 points and the boys team came in 4th place with 107 points at a home meet. "I really appreciate the amount of support that the community and school gave us," said head coach Tommy Thompson. "It means a lot to the kids to have people out there cheering for them." Maia Cowan came in first place for the second week in a row at 19:51.71. She is ranked third in state in the girls 1a, 2a and 3a...
Petersburg High School hosted a swim and dive meet on Friday and Saturday that saw the girls team finish in the top three in several of the relay events. "I was really happy with the girls relay," said Coach Andy Carlise. "We hadn't had girls relays that could compete for a long time." On Friday, the boys and girls team had a combined score of 443.5 and came in 5th place overall. The girls team came in 4th place with 291 points. The boys team came in 5th place with 152.5 points. The boys and...
At the cross country meet in Metlakatla on Saturday, the Petersburg girls team came in 1st place with 31 points and the boys team came in 2nd with 32 points after Ketchikan. "We did really well," said assistant coach Debby Eddy. "We had a boy and a girl come in first place." The top three places in the girls 5k race were all claimed by the Petersburg team. Maia Cowan came in 1st place at 20:01, Kendra Coonrad came in 2nd place at 21:00 and Melanie Chase came in 3rd at 22:10. The Petersburg and K...
At a meet in Sitka, the Petersburg High School cross country team had two girls come in the top five and one boy come in 9th over all. Maia Cowan came in 2nd in the girls 5k run at 19:31:43, and Kendra Coonrad came in 5th at 20:59:96. In the boys 5k, Tolin Billy Eddy came in 9th at 17:37:24. "It's pretty impressive to be all ranked so high up there right now, so they're doing a good job," said cross country head coach Tom Thompson. The girls team came in 2nd with a combined score of 74 points....
Petersburg High School's track and field team set some personal records at State in Palmer over the weekend, with one of the Lady Vikings' squads bringing home a championship. "The kids did great," Coach Brad Taylor recounted. "It was a lot of fun. The majority of the kids were freshmen, their very first state meet. They had a blast." The team took off last Wednesday, getting in some practice time before their preliminaries. The women's 800m relay team brought home gold medals in their event,...
Petersburg's track and field teams each placed second at regionals for their divisions, with most of the team heading next to State this weekend. Competing at Thunder Mountain High School in Juneau, 21 of the team's 28 athletes qualified for the state-level meet in Anchorage, with a number of personal records set across the board. "It went great. We had 23 PRs on the first day, and I didn't even count the ones on the second day," remarked Brad Taylor, the Vikings coach. For the girls, freshman...
Petersburg’s track and field team had a productive weekend, competing at Ketchikan’s May Invite against the hosting high school and Thorne Bay. The Lady Vikings had the run of the board at Esther Shea Field, with its athletes taking first in most events. The team’s younger runners saw success on the track, with sophomore Elizabeth Gregoire placing first in the 100- and 200-meter events. She had company, with classmate Kianna Kivisto placing just behind in second in both events. In the 100m, freshmen Allison Davis and Ruby Massin placed third...
A track and field star from Petersburg High School's graduating class of 2017, Izabelle Ith has continued to make her mark at the collegiate level. This month Ith was honored by the New England Small College Athletic Conference for her achievements on the track, following the conference's championship meet on April 28. Currently attending Williams College in Massachusetts, Ith was named a NESCAC Rookie Most Outstanding Performer. During last month's championship meet – her first – Ith won the...
The high school’s track and field team headed to Thunder Mountain over the weekend to take part in the annual Capital Invitational. “It was a good meet for us,” said Brad Taylor, Petersburg’s track coach. “We had some outstanding performances.” One of the stand-out showings was from freshman Maia Cowan, whose 3200-meter run at 11:53.32 set a personal best and beat the school’s standing record by 14 seconds. “It was super good,” said Taylor. “It was a significant record for us.” Sophomore Isaac Taylor also had a good performance in the tr...
Thomas Durkin skirts a pitch to catcher Louden Sandhofer during last weekend's games hosting Ketchikan. The Kings handily won their three games with the Vikings, finishing Friday's game 13-0, Saturday's first game 11-1, and then the afternoon game 17-6. After that start to the season, the Vikings head next to Juneau-Douglas for another three games this weekend, then host Sitka the following week....
