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The season has just begun, and already it's a good year for Petersburg wrestling, coming in with four boys in the final bouts of a weekend invitational that brought teams from across the southeastern boot of the state and even a fly in visit from the northern reaches. All told, about 150 boys and girls were seen contorting themselves and, hopefully, their opponents over Friday evening and a grueling, day long extravaganza on Saturday. When all was said and done, blood and sweat cleaned from the... Full story
Petersburg wrestlers got a taste of what the coming season will have in store for them, coming off a Round Robin tournament hosted in Metlakatla last weekend. "Everybody wrestled everybody in their weight class," Coach Dan van Swearingen said. "My older guys, my seniors just killed it down there – for the freshman it was kind of an eye opener, this is what high school wrestling is all about." The wrestling Vikings carry a long legacy of regional championships and strong state performances, proud...
Petersburg continues to field talented musicians, with an even dozen set to depart for the Southeast Alaska Honors Music Festival in Juneau and half that beginning their preparations for the longer trip to the All-State performance in Anchorage. "This weekend they'll arrive at Thunder Mountain High School and spend an intense two and a half days rehearsing and finally performing the concert on Tuesday night, the 22nd," said Matt Lenhard, music instructor at Petersburg High School. Lenhard added...
When it comes to volleyball, the Vikings are learning that they can hold their own against the toughest teams in the region, coming closer to the tipping point from hard-fought games to well-earned wins. Recently, the team finished in the top bracket of the Juneau Invitational Volleyball Extravaganza (JIVE), losing out at the end to tournament winner Mt. Edgecumbe, who they will face again soon. "It's a very, very good tournament that brought teams from West Anchorage down – we got to see s...
Petersburg's Vikings continue to pull ahead of other schools at swim meets, leading in many of the events over Friday and Saturday in Ketchikan. “The kids swam great, we didn't have a whole lot of competition ― there was only one or two guys that could give us any race,” Coach Andy Carlisle said. “Thunder Mountain (High School) left many of their best kids at home.” Still, the Viking swimmers were vastly outnumbered at the meet, the weight of larger schools' aggregate points pushing the teams' handful of high scores down in the rankings,...
Petersburg's Cross Country Vikings have ended a stellar season that saw both teams, boys and girls, take second place in the region and push hard for a sixth place finish at the state meet in Anchorage for the girls and ninth for the boys. With runners abounding on the course, a total of 129 male and 113 female entrants, Coach Tommy Thompson couldn't be prouder of the performance. "As Kayleigh Eddy said as she came across the finish line, 'I just want to do it all over again,'" he said,...
The Lady Vikings wear their hearts on their sleeves as they play, flagging each conquest with a flash of their smiles. That energy buoyed them to the next spike or sliding defense, but it might also be burning too brightly – coming from a strong start against Sitka on their initial clash, the girls were notably less vigorous in Saturday's second match. The Lady Vikings took the first game without much trouble, riding about four points ahead the whole way. Scored at 11:8 by the first Sitka t...
For the first time in many years, both of Petersburg's running teams will be going to the state championship match after both teams finished second at the regional meet in Ketchikan on Sept. 27. "It's been a long time since the boys have gone and it's been much, much longer since both teams have gone,'' said Coach Tommy Thompson. "They ran just fantastic. They may have finished second but it was the best performance of the year from them, just in terms of being really gritty, sticking together a...
While Petersburg's varsity volleyball team didn't bring home a win from their Friday and Saturday matches last weekend, neither did they break against the rock of Thunder Mountain's larger 4A team. Friday saw the team pull up just shy of a fifth game victory, 15-9 in the final set, while Saturday beat the Viking girls back to the beaches in a trio of 25- 13, 17 and 19 losses against the larger school. While it was disheartening for the girls, especially the emotional down after Friday's furious...
Petersburg's Vikings returned triumphant from their watery battles over the Sept. 19 and 20 weekend in Juneau for the Swim and Dive invitational match ups, but the youth can't lean on their laurels just yet - regional matches, set to launch Oct. 31 and Nov. 1 here at home will be the definitive test for the teams, Coach Andy Carlisle said. "We did pretty well - not as well as the last meet, when we were at home," Carlisle said. "I'm real confident, they're working real hard right now, which...
Petersburg cross country runners will be pacing themselves this week as they prepare to run in Ketchikan this weekend for the regional competition, coming off a strong performance in the recent Sitka match. The Vikings girls finished within one minute of each other, from Kayleigh Eddy’s 22:07.85 (11th, three and one half minutes behind first) to Julia Murph’s 23:02.93 (25th), holding an intimidating block of six comparably speedy runners just ahead of the packs of Juneau, Ketchikan and Mt. Edgecumbe. “Early in the season there was a sprea...
Over 200 runners, teams from 15 communities across Southeast, stampeded into Petersburg for last weekend's cross country invitational. They raced in the warm sun before a crowd of enthusiastic supporters. "It was more than just parents and teachers out there. The students were out there with the pep club and all these community members where out supporting," said Vikings Head Coach Tom Thompson. "Donnie Hayes with Parks and Rec. and Jaime Cabral did such great things to put the whole meet... Full story
Vikings volleyball faced some serious competition last week when the very experienced Mt. Egecumbe Braves came to town. Mt. Edgecumbe was 3A state champion in 2011 and 2012, and runner up last year. "They're returning everyone from last year's squad that made the state championship matchup, and four of their six starters were on the championship team prior to that," said Vikings Head Coach Jaime Cabral. It was an opportunity for the young Viking squad, who have no seniors on varsity, to see...
Petersburg Vikings Cross Country teams, both the boys and girls, took second place at Saturday's Metlakatla Invitational. Ketchikan took first at the 1A/2A/3A meet. Other teams competing included Wrangell, Metlakatla, Thorne Bay, Klawock, Hydaburg and Craig. Thorne Bay's Taylee Nyquest was the first place girl with a time of 18:36; Chris Lanos, of Ketchikan, took first among the boys with a 17:13 race. Six Petersburg boys and six girls traveled to Metlakatla for the meet, and of those 12...
Petersburg High School's volleyball girls continued to hone their skills against 4A Juneau-Douglas at home last Friday and Saturday. After losing two star varsity players from last year, Kylie Wallace and Kyla Willis, and graduating two seniors, the Vikings have been working to fill those roles through vigorous practice. The varsity team lost in three games to Juneau-Douglas on Friday night, though two of those games ended with the Vikings within three points, 22-25. The other game finished at...
Vikings Swim and Dive team started the season with a home meet, hosting Thunder Mountain and Sitka over the weekend. "We had a really good meet. Our kids raced really well all the way around," said Vikings Head Coach Andy Carlisle. The Petersburg boys team took first place both Friday and Saturday night. Individually the girls did really well, but there aren't enough of them to pull off a team win, according to Carlisle. For a smaller meet there was some top notch competing in a number of...
PHS Cross Country is off and running with a new head coach. Vikings Head Coach Tom Thompson has led practices for a full month and took the girls and boys teams to Juneau for the first meet of the season last weekend. This year's girls team has some very big running shoes to fill after last year's "Fab Five" seniors took the Region V title and finished third in State. Despite being a young team of six girls with a total of three years of cross country experience between them all, Coach Thompson...
The Petersburg Vikings baseball team finished third in the region tournament last weekend after defeating Sitka's Thunder Mountain High School twice. "We knew going in that if we could get runs to support Colby Bell that we could beat them," Head Coach Jim Engell said. "When we got into it, Colby was pitching the same way he's been pitching all year, just completely lights out. He had complete command of the strike zone. His velocity was great." During the first game against Thunder Mountain...
The Petersburg girls track team placed higher than any other Petersburg team in history during last weekend's state meet in Anchorage. They took fifth out of 29 teams from across Alaska. Ith placed first in the 100 Meter Hurdles and Triple Jump. "She won the first time in the first two state events that she had ever entered," head coach Brad Taylor said. "She was the highest 3A point getter at state. She's been phenomenal." Ith will run in the Brian Young Invitational this weekend in Kodiak-an... Full story
Fifteen Petersburg Vikings track athletes qualified for state at the regional meet in Sitka last weekend. The girl's track team also won first place at the regional meet by more than 80 points. "81 points would be basically eight first places ahead of the next team," head coach Brad Taylor said. The boy's team placed second but only lost first by 3.5 points, a tiny margin compared to what was expected. "When we did the math on Friday our boys looked like they were going to be 40 points down at... Full story
The Petersburg Vikings baseball team lost two home games against Sitka during last Friday’s double-header. Junior Colby Bell pitched the first game and struck out the first three batters in the first inning. In the bottom of the first inning, Petersburg had runners at second and third with one out but couldn’t bring them home. Sitka scored a run in the second inning and held the score to 1-0 until the sixth inning where two more runners scored. Petersburg and Sitka both had four hits. Vince Kowalski, Ethan Bryner, Jesse Lantiegne and Bell eac...
