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Petersburg High School is examining the possibility of altering requirements for valedictorian status, among other potential changes for next year. Principal Rick Dormer presented a “very draft” version of grade and graduation proposals during the school board’s meeting Tuesday evening in assembly chambers. The process began last fall with former superintendent Lisa Stroh. Dormer said he’s received some parent feedback, but no student input yet. The goal is to have changes in place for the new school year. Right now, the school takes academi...
Petersburg High School (PHS) senior River Quitslund will be adding his talents to a young team of runners at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) this fall. Quitslund has been running competitively all four years of his high school career. "I've been running competitively since my freshman year when I started cross country, but I didn't really take it that seriously until January last year when I started doing pre-season," he said. His increased efforts were met with a setback as an injury kept...
The Petersburg High School baseball team opened its season at home versus the Sitka Wolves, defending state champs, in a three-game match up last weekend. Though the Vikings didn't come out on top in the games, Head Coach Jim Engell said he was happy with his team's performance. "For our first games of the year and starting a pretty young group of kids, I think we did quite well," he said. The Vikings fell to the Wolves 2-0 in Friday's game, which Engell described as the epitome of a pitcher's...
The Petersburg High School track and field team participated in the first official meet of the season in Ketchikan last weekend. The girls and boys team each finished in second place over all. PHS runners and jumpers faced off against those from Prince of Wales, Thorne Bay and Ketchikan. "It was just a real small triangular meet. We did not take a very big crew as far as high school kids," said Head Coach Brad Taylor, adding that a lot of middle school kids also participated in the meet....
Petersburg hosted and won the state's first co-ed vs. co-ed roller derby bout Saturday night, and "oh my gosh, it was so great," Devil's Club Co-Captain Rebecca Anderson said of the experience. The Southeast team, comprised of Petersburg and Wrangell skaters, defeated Fairbanks' Frozen Chosen 182-165 in the Petersburg High School gym. Devil's Co-Captain Shawna Buness, of Wrangell, said the co-ed bout "was really exciting for how new derby is in Southeast." The men who normally referee the game... Full story
Petersburg's adult co-ed soccer team took third place in the Southeast Alaska Shamrock Invitational tournament in Juneau. The three-day tournament was held March 20-22 and featured five teams from Petersburg, Whitehorse and Juneau. Brian Richards coached the Petersburg team this year, which had to overcome several hurdles in order to compete, including the loss of key players. Former coach Joe Viechnicki has been out since last year's tournament after sustaining a knee injury, while two-time...
The Petersburg High School cheerleaders came away from last week's Region V tourney as the 3A champs after being judged on their performance during game time as well as in a cheer showcase. The 16-member squad was on the sidelines cheering for all six games played by the Vikings and Lady Vikings at last week's tournament in Ketchikan. They were judged throughout Wednesday's girl's game versus Mt. Edgecumbe on all aspects of cheerleading. "Before the game they get judged on their sideline...
After winning their first two games against Sitka and Mt. Edgecumbe, the Lady Vikings ultimately fell to the Sitka Lady Wolves during the last two games of the Region V basketball tournament last week in Ketchikan. Each team matched the other in scoring during the first half of Friday's game, with Petersburg ending the first quarter up 10-9 and Sitka taking a narrow lead by the end of the second, 18-19. In the second half the Lady Wolves started to pull head, ending the third quarter up 30-34. When Petersburg sent Sitka players to the line in t...
The Petersburg Vikings placed third in the 3A division of the Region V Tournament in Ketchikan last week after falling to Sitka in overtime last Thursday morning. Head coach Rick Brock said despite the loss, the team came back from a disappointing performance in their opening game on Tuesday. “The boys were pretty upset on Tuesday just in the way that we performed. They knew that they hadn’t done their best,” Brock said. “We talked with the team about coming out on Thursday and playing with some energy, some emotion and, I guess it’s a cliche...
The Lady Vikings started off the Region V Tournament with back-to-back victories against the Sitka Lady Wolves on Tuesday and the Mt. Edgecumbe Lady Braves on Wednesday. In Tuesday's game, the well-matched Lady Vikings and Lady Wolves kept pace with scoring in the first three quarters and strong defensive play kept both teams from putting many points on the board. After three quarters, just one point separated the two teams with the Vikings up 30-29. The game was decided in the fourth quarter...
In their first game in the Region V Tournament in Ketchikan, the Vikings fell to the Mt. Edgecumbe Braves 49-65. About half of the Braves points came from baskets made at the free-throw line, with Mt. Edgecumbe making 30 of 42 baskets from the line. Two Vikings players, Alan McCay and Kayin McCay, fouled out as a result. "We just fouled too much and gave up too many lay-ups. And then we were having to work hard on our end to score," Brock said. The boys were back on the court after two and half...
The Mitkof Middle School wrestlers are the 3A champs and they placed second overall in the Region V Tournament held Feb. 20-21 in Ketchikan. Five wrestlers earned champion titles: Brekin Davis in the 90-pound weight class, Israel Collison in the 95, Kole Sperl in the 85, Alex Worhatch in the 100 and Matthew Espeseth in the 210. Head Coach Rob Schwartz said it was both those top placements and the overall performance of all of the 23 wrestlers on the team this year that contributed to the... Full story
The Lady Vikings ended their regular season with two victories over the Lady Wolves at home on Monday and Tuesday night. Strong defensive play on both sides kept the score to 9-7 at the end of the first quarter of Monday night's game. A scoring run in the second quarter put the Lady Vikings up 22-12 at half time while the Lady Wolves tried to play catch up in the third, narrowing the gap slightly to 34-27. Head coach Dino Brock said Sitka's full-court press made his team work hard all night....
The Vikings split games on the road last week against the Mt. Edgecumbe Braves and Sitka Wolves. Wednesday and Thursday's games pitted the Vikings against the Braves for the second time in a week. The opponents' familiarity with one another led to a defensive battle between the two teams. A low scoring first quarter by both teams was followed by a strong offensive run by the Vikings in the second quarter of Wednesday's match up. "We were actually able to hold them to one point in the second...
The varsity boys won two hard-fought games against the Mt. Edgecumbe Braves this weekend at home. In Friday night's game, the Vikings stayed out in front of the Braves for the first three quarters, despite a high number of turnovers. "I was concerned with our unforced turnovers," Coach Rick Brock said. "We had too many in the first half." Going into the second half the Vikings tightened up their passing game, but the Braves also came out playing a stronger game and took the lead as the fourth...
During last weekend's homecoming match up, the Varsity boys basketball team won two games against the Wrangell Wolves. Head coach Rick Brock said the team made strides in two areas they've been focusing on. "I think we made some positive progress from last weekend to this weekend. I felt our half-court defense was very good this weekend," he said, adding that the boys also improved on their offensive rebounding. The Vikings came out strong Friday night, putting points up early and holding the...
The Lady Vikings varsity basketball team won two games against the Wrangell Wolves at last weekend's homecoming match up. "I thought it was a great weekend for us. I thought the kids played well," said Head Coach Dino Brock. "I thought they played hard all weekend long, both JV and varsity." The varsity team won Friday's game 57-36, led in scoring by the team's lone senior Shalie Dahl who put up 18 points. Kylie Wallace scored 11 for the Vikings. Emma Chase put up 8 points and Ruby Brock and Cat...
Petersburg lost its first game to Mt. Edgecumbe Wednesday night. The Lady Vikings started off slow as Mt. Edgecumbe jumped off to an early lead in the first half, Petersburg down 21-29 at the half. "We started out slow again in the third," Head Coach Dino Brock said. "At one point they had an 18 point lead." But Petersburg rallied as Brock had his team beef up the defensive pressure. "We started pressing them. We had the game down to a couple possessions at one point and made a nice run getting...
The Vikings faced off against Fairbank’s Lathrop High School Thursday night where they jumped out to an early 12-8 lead in the first quarter. “Lathrop is really athletic and fast,” Head Coach Rick Brock said. “The game was close throughout. Our half court defense confused them for a little while.” Lathrop fought back in the second quarter and led the game 22-19 at the half. The Vikings held the momentum in the third, scoring 20 points. “It was a one or two possession game until the end,” Brock said. “We made a couple of key free throws dow...
The Petersburg Vikings fell to the Sitka Wolves last weekend after two tough games that both went into overtime. The Vikings started out with a solid lead during Friday night's competition, ahead 14-7 at the end of the first quarter and extended its lead to 27-17 at the half. Things took a turn for Petersburg midway through the third quarter however as Sitka took advantage of Viking turnovers. By the end of the third quarter Sitka fought back to within six points. "In the fourth we had two many...
The Petersburg Ragnarok Rollers won a hard fought battle against the Ketchikan Rainforest Rollergirls last Saturday night. Head Coach Rebecca Anderson said most of the girls, who have competed in several bouts since the team formed last year, faced off against a motivated group of Ketchikan women. "They (Ketchikan) came right out of the box, full on strong," Anderson said. "They threw everything they had. The first three or four jams we were behind. It looked bad for a while and I think we all... Full story
Petersburg took home two wins from the Wolves last weekend during Wrangell's homecoming games. Petersburg and Wrangell went back and forth Friday night with the point spread not widening more than one or two points for most of the game. "The game was pretty intense," Head Coach Dino Brock said. "It was pretty physical. We'd lead then they'd come back." The Lady Vikings were up 25-22 at the end of the first half. Petersburg gained momentum during the second half though and took control of the gam...
The Vikings beat the Wrangell Wolves last weekend during Wrangell's homecoming games. Petersburg had a slow start Friday night, with players setting up different defenses. "We were a little confused on our half court defense," head coach Rick Brock said. "That doesn't usually work well and it was kind of a slow start for us. I called a timeout and we got ourselves together." Wrangell was up 7-1 before the timeout but once the Vikings readjusted they found their rhythm and took control of the...
The Lady Vikings took third place at the Clarke Cochran Christmas Classic Tournament in Ketchikan last week. After defeating a California team early in the tournament the Lady Vikings went on to face a tough game against Ketchikan where Petersburg lost 35-45. “It was a good physical game, especially defensively,” Head Coach Dino Brock said. “We struggled to shoot the basketball.” The Lady Vikings missed many scoring opportunities after shooting 13 for 29 from the free throw line. Petersb...
