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The Lady Vikings were beaten by the buzzer again last weekend while hosting division leaders Metlakatla High School. Petersburg started Friday shorthanded, with only eight girls in uniform. "Twenty-five seconds into it we lost Emma Chase," said their coach, Dino Brock. Chase has been a strong scorer on the team this season, and her knee injury left the team a little on the defensive. The Miss Chiefs offense was able to outpace their hosts for points through the evening, finishing with a 41-24...
The Vikings boys had their first losses of the season last week, playing a string of games on the road against a pair of formidable teams. Following up from the interdivisional play hosting 4A school Ketchikan from the previous week, on Feb. 22 Petersburg headed there for the rematch. “We struggled in the first quarter,” recounted Coach Rick Brock. Several turnovers and a couple of missed shots had the Kings ahead 16-5 as the second quarter began. Petersburg fought back, however, closing the difference through the next two quarters to a 31-...
The Vikings played a high octane, non-conference game against Ketchikan last week, pulling up a win in the final seconds. "It went extremely well," Petersburg coach Rick Brock said afterward. The 4A Kings came to town February 16, and from the start the two teams were evenly matched. By the end of the first quarter, Ketchikan was just ahead 16-15, a one-point lead it still held at the half. "It took a little bit of time adjusting to their speed," said Brock. "K-High is extremely fast. They trans...
Petersburg’s high school boys basketball team won both games playing against the Panthers last week. At Craig, on February 9 the Vikings started with a lead, using their players’ height advantage against a fast team. “We had a good, strong start to the game,” explained Petersburg coach Rick Brock. The Vikings led 23-11 at the start of the second quarter, its defense holding Craig to only 15 at the half. Meanwhile, Petersburg’s boys racked up points by the handful. Senior Stewart Conn scored 26 points in the game and classmates Wolf Brooks an...
The Lady Vikings had a pair of close games last week playing against Craig High School, but the home team came away with the victories. “We lost two good games,” girls coach Dino Brock commented. Petersburg’s girls bussed straight to their first game right on arrival on February 9, and Craig opened on the offensive. The Lady Panthers led 28-10 at the half, but the momentum shifted over to the visitors from there. Chandler Strickland scored eight points in the third quarter, sinking four for four on free throws. Petersburg locked it up in the c...
Petersburg High School's girls added a pair of wins to their standings over the weekend, hosting Haines on Saturday and Sunday. "They went well," coach Dino Brock said of the games. In Saturday's game, Haines took an early lead over the hosts. The Lady Vikings struggled offensively at first, but as the game progressed their shooting improved. Their defense held Haines to a handful of points in the second quarter, and a scoreless fourth. "The girls played very well defensively," Brock noted. "It...
The Vikings hosted Haines over the weekend, adding two more wins to a lossless season so far. "It was a good team effort this weekend," said Petersburg coach Rick Brock. "I was real happy with our half-court defense," he explained. Players worked well together, completing passes and transitioning well. Defense played a factor in the weekend's games, with Petersburg holding the Glacier Bears scorers back in a hard-fought 69-45 win Saturday. Brock explained one of the team's strengths is its balan...
Petersburg's roller derby girls brought back a win in its double-header in Palmer over the weekend. In their first league bouts of the season since October, the Ragnarök Rollers went up first against the Fairbanks Roller Girls. Fairbanks ended up securing a lead, pressing Petersburg from there for a 173-104 win. "We fought really hard, and we learned a lot," commented Ragnarök coach Rebecca Anderson afterward. "Everybody worked really well together." The second bout was against the Denali D...
Heading to Wrangell last weekend for their homecoming weekend, the Lady Vikings varsity and junior varsity teams swept their hosts. Playing Friday, the girls began the game trailing the Lady Wolves after a closely-played first quarter. Wrangell led 16-13 after the first half, but Petersburg retook the momentum into the second. Though shooting at around 28 percent through the game, the girls were able to get more shots off as their offense picked up, and made 13 of 15 free throws overall. Tying...
The Vikings continued their winning streak over the weekend, playing at Wrangell High School for its homecoming weekend. The Petersburg boys started Friday's game with an early lead, racking up 25 points in the first quarter to the Wolves' 9. A chance at 13 free throws during the first half – six for eight made by senior Stewart Conn, and three for four thrown by classmate Alan McCay – and strong possession helped put the team up by 18 at the half. Wrangell's offense rebounded in the latter hal...
The Petersburg High School boys basketball team continued its winning streak over the weekend, adding two more while hosting Metlakatla. Going into the weekend, the Chiefs were standing just behind the Vikings for the season with five wins and only two losses. Petersburg had won its six games played so far, and Metlakatla stood a chance to move into first for the region if it could beat the front-runners at home. "I thought both nights were hard-fought," commented Vikings coach Rick Brock....
The Lady Vikings went up against region leaders Metlakatla in a pair of away games over the weekend. Both games were characterized by a lot of defensive play, with scores staying comparatively close but low. In Friday’s game, Petersburg trailed along throughout, finishing with a 22-34 score. Saturday’s game was almost a repeat, with the final score 23-34 in the Miss Chiefs’ favor. “I thought it was a good defensive game from both groups,” said Petersburg coach Dino Brock. He noted his team will be working on its positioning and offense....
Due to weather and road conditions on POW, the Craig teams will be unable to make it to Petersburg this weekend, according an email received from Activities Director Jaime Cabral. Here is a look at the upcoming schedule for winter PHS activities: January 19-22 - Girls Basketball @ METLAKATLA January 20-21 - Boys Home With Metlakatla, FRI Games - Boys JV @ 6pm & Boys V @ 745pm, SAT Games - Boys JV @ 9:30am & Boys V @ 11:00am (MET LEAVES AFTERNOON JET) January 23 - Boys & Girls Basketball Vs. CRG **THIS IS A MONDAY** January 24 - Boys & Girls... Full story
The Lady Vikings basketball team traveled to Haines last weekend and ended up playing postponed games on Monday and Tuesday due to bad weather. Head coach Dino Brock said the girls are so used to traveling that the delay didn't negatively impact his squad. Teams playing in Southeast have to be prepared for anything, Brock said. "They handled it very well," he said. "They are pretty used to weird things happening." Brock said the girls started the game on Monday with more energy than Tuesday's...
The PHS boys' basketball team opened up conference play in Haines this week with two victories. The team spent multiple days in Juneau due to bad weather so the games were rescheduled for Monday night and Tuesday afternoon. "With the weather changing daily and the kids needing to continually make adjustments, I thought they handled it very well," head coach Rick Brock said. "Monday, we knew, would be a long day going in and we just tried to prepare for it." Brock believed the postponed games had...
The Lady Vikings’ basketball team traveled to Anchorage for the Rally of The Regions Tourney and ended up going 3-1. Head coach Dino Brock said the team performed well all weekend and he had no complaints about dropping a game. “I was very happy with the first games of the year,” Brock said. “I thought we got exactly what we wanted. We saw improvement from every player, from the first game to the last game.” The team also impressed coach Brock with its improvement on offense and defense as the weekend progressed. The junior varsity team show...
Head coach Rick Brock liked playing four games against unfamiliar teams with different styles last weekend in Anchorage, and the Vikings won all their games by double digits. The non-conference games gave the Vikings a warm up for Haines this weekend, where the boys will continue to contribute as a team and show their depth. “One of our strengths this year will be the fact, that most times, we can have five guys on the floor that have the capability of scoring,” he said. “That makes it difficult for other teams to guard us.” The play of juni...
Buddy Stelmach, Ethan File and Nathaniel Lenhard represented PHS wrestling for the final time last weekend at the state tournament in Anchorage. Stelmach earned a second place finish, and File and Lenhard both fought their way to fifth. The three seniors also helped bring home the 2016 State 2A team title and the Sportsmanship Award. For Stelmach, it may not have been the ideal outcome. But after battling a knee injury all season the standout, 4-time Region Champ, showed why he's been such a fie...
The Petersburg High School junior varsity girls' team had two victories in home games last weekend during the JV Little Norway tournament in town. The team lost to Juneau-Douglas the first night, but came back to win the final two of the tournament against Thorne Bay and then Sitka on Saturday night. Head coach Dino Brock's been dealing with participation numbers so far this season, because of a lower than normal turnout of players. The varsity will have seniors returning from last year's state...
The PHS boys basketball team had enough players last weekend to have two squads participate in the JV Little Norway tournament held in Petersburg. Assistant coach Jeb Phillips has been helping coach locally for three years because he enjoys working with different groups of kids. And this year's group of freshmen is impressing their coach so far with their play and presence. "Most of these kids are little dribblers throughout their careers so, it's pretty fun," he said. "And we have more freshmen...
The Lady Vikings took second place at the 2A state volleyball tournament last weekend in Anchorage, losing the title match against the Craig Lady Panthers. Craig has proven the only constant nemesis for Petersburg since coming down from 3A. In the championship game, the Lady Panthers took down the Lady Vikings in four games, with Petersburg winning the first. However, Craig won the remaining games in order 26-24, 25-19 and 25-21. Cabral says it would have been great to win the championship but the team finished the season playing with maximum e...
PHS wrestlers were successful at the regional tournament in Sitka last weekend however they came up short in their goal to win the 2A team title. Petersburg came in second place to the Wrangell Wolves by less than six team points. "Fortunately, we wrestled well and gained a lot of respect from opposing wrestlers and coaches," says head coach Robert Schwartz. "Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to beat Wrangell for the title." Buddy Stelmach and Teagan Schwartz won individual region five...
The PHS wrestling team took the short trip to Wrangell last weekend to participate in the Tom Sims Invitational. According to coach Dan van Swearingen, the Vikings left a couple wrestlers home and some teams failed to show. "It was a small tournament because the weather was terrible," he said. "We didn't have half the teams, but it was still a good weekend." Seven teams participated in a round robin on Friday and bracket tournament the following day. On Saturday, Nathaniel Lenhard was seeded...
The Lady Vikings earned a return trip to the state tournament with a second place finish at the region five 2A tournament last weekend in Craig. The team went 10-2 in conference this season and held a 14-2 record overall, heading into regions. The girls quickly advanced on day one, beating Klawock and Skagway in three games apiece setting the stage for a big game with the Craig Lady Panthers on Friday. The contest meant a ticket to the region championship match and an automatic berth at state. The Lady Vikings won the first game somewhat easily...
