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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....
After a chilly start, Petersburg High School’s track and field team was well on its way into the new season with its meet in Ketchikan over the weekend. Scoring 140 points, the school’s girls finished the invitational in second place, with 28 personal records set over the course of two days. Junior Gillian Wittstock took first place in the high jump, while sophomore Kianna Kivisto led the board in the varsity long jump. Kivisto also took first in the triple jump competition, setting a personal best in the process. Seniors Erin Pfundt and Shy...
A Petersburg High School alumnus was selected to this year's Alaska School Activities Association Hall of Fame for his excellence in basketball. Cam Severson, who graduated in 2008, will be the first high school athlete from Petersburg to be inducted into the ASAA Hall of Fame. "I was kind of surprised," Severson said, adding that the honor was made possible by the support from his family, community, teammates and coach. "I was taken aback." Severson was a varsity basketball player in all four y...
Baseball is back, despite a thick layer of ice covering the diamonds in Petersburg. The Viking high school tteam has practiced in the gym for about a month and is scheduled to host Ketchikan in less time. “That’s the toughest part,” Coach Jim Engell said practicing inside. “I hate the fact that it’s out of my control.” This year’s group is young, much like last year’s winless team, and could see leadership from one junior and a few sophomores, Engell said. Some dozen kids are out right now, practicing indoors on pitching, hitting, fieldi...
The boys' basketball team finished its season fourth in the state after the 2018 ASAA March Madness Alaska 2A Tournament this past weekend. Slow starts and hurried comebacks, which often burn the players out, plagued the Vikings for most of the regular season. In the state tourney it seemed comparable. In the first round last Thursday, Petersburg fell behind Tok 22-10 at the end of the first half. Coach Rick Brock called a press and Petersburg came out firing in the second half, surging on a...
The cheer team in Petersburg placed first last weekend at the regional tournament in Ketchikan, securing its fourth straight title and prompting area coaches to say the Vikings should compete against bigger schools. In the Petersburg boys basketball game against Metlakatla last Thursday, two people weren't watching the game. They were judges, tasked with observing the Petersburg cheer team. For about 20 minutes during warmups, through the second quarter and then a two-and-a-half-minute halftime...
The Petersburg boys basketball team got a bid to the state tournament after it took second place at the 2A region championship last week. After a 5-13 regular season, Petersburg, which leaned heavily on its underclassmen and dealt with off-the-court issues all year, is going to the state tournament. "Especially with all the tough losses that we had, which could have been disappointments," said head coach Rick Brock, "and a revolving door in a sense of who was playing on what weekend, shows a...
A Petersburg teen was named most outstanding female wrestler at a Fairbanks middle school tournament earlier this month that hosted about 500 athletes. Amanda Worhatch, a Mitkof Middle School seventh grader, was the only Petersburg wrestler to compete in the Tanana Invitational on Feb. 2. After she went undefeated in her weight class, without allowing a single offensive point, she was named the most outstanding female wrestler among the 500 athletes there. Timber Patten, another southeast...
The PHS girls basketball team finished its season at Regionals last week in Ketchikan, winning just one game of its three-game road trip. Seeded fourth, Petersburg, with a 7-11 regular season record, beat Haines, 33-23, in the first round of the Region V 2A Basketball Tournament. The Lady Vikings then lost to Metlakatla (20-2) in the second round, 49-20, and then again to Craig, 62-32. Metlakatla would go on to win the tournament and grab the number one seed in the state tournament. Wrangell...
The Petersburg Swim Club competed in Juneau recently, where two members had multiple top-five finishes in their age group. Hosted by the Glacier Swim Club, six Petersburg members raced in the 2018 Alaska Swimming Age Group Championships for three days, starting Feb. 16. The swimmers were Natalie Bertagnoli, 9, Brooklyn Whitethorn, 9, Lexi Tow, 8, Logan Tow, 10, Abby Worhatch, 9, and Allie Morgan, 13. Morgan was top-10 in every event she raced, including a second place finish in the 200 meter...
The PHS boys basketball team was at full health for the first time this year last weekend in Wrangell, where it split its series and ended its regular season with a 5-13 record. "Friday was the first game all season that we had our whole roster together," said Rick Brock, coach of the Vikings. Petersburg beat Wrangell on Friday, 46-27. Early on it was shaping up to be a one possession contest throughout. Wrangell jumped ahead to just a 4-2 lead at the end of the first quarter. "But then that...
PHS girls basketball lost two games to Wrangell over the weekend but later won its first round matchup of the region tournament on Wednesday. Petersburg traveled to Wrangell to play the Wolves during their homecoming weekend. The Vikings lost 73-66 in overtime on Friday. "Both teams just shot lights out," said Dino Brock, the Vikings head coach. Petersburg senior Rikki Lewis finished with a season high 23 points on Friday. Senior Maddy Parker had 15 and seniors Courtney Fredricksen and Katie...
WRANGELL — Wrangell Medical Center Foundation last month issued a letter to supporters informing them it would forgo its annual fundraiser weekend this year. For the past ten years the Brian Gilbert Memorial Golf Tournament and fundraiser dinner is hosted in Wrangell each May in order to raise money for the Foundation. The Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to support the community’s medical needs. The funds it handles fills a few roles, primarily supporting WMC’s bid for a new facility but also procuring new equipment, funding its cance...
