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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...
Lop the Loop 2014 Race Results A total of 67 runners participated in this year’s race. Overall Winners and Top Males Overall 26: 01 Jesse Agner 26:50 Jonathon Kriess Thompkins 30:20 David Galaktionoff Top Females Overall 31:03 Anna Chormyak 32:44 Amy Hall 34:28 Carin Christensen Top Males 1-14 Age Division 44:16 Christian Holten 44:19 Chase Lockhart 44:45 Toland Eddy Top Females 1-14 Age Division 46:12 Lisa Murph 50:17 McKenzie Hayes Top Males 15-29 Age Division 32:51 Carl Brodersen 34:10 Kevin Lammert 34:14 Ben Higgins Top Females 15-29 Age D...
Petersburg High School track team athletes performed well in a meet last weekend and several are on the right track to qualify for state. Petersburg athletes competed against Ketchikan and Thorn Bay in Ketchikan. Andrew Mathisen ranked first place in the long and triple jump events and he also performed well in the 400-meter dash and 200-meter dash finals. Alan Jensen threw the discus 130 feet for first place and Ben Zarlengo threw 121 feet, finishing in second. Zarlengo also finished second in...
The Petersburg Vikings baseball team won its first varsity game since the team’s creation eight years ago. The Vikings have played at the junior varsity level until last year. Head Coach Jim Engell said Saturday’s victory over Ketchikan was unprecedented. “It was the best all around game we've played, not only this year, but maybe in our team’s history,” Engell said. The Vikings jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first inning and held that lead into the fifth when they added four more points to the score. Ketchikan fought back and scored fo...
The Petersburg Vikings baseball team lost three bouts late in the game to Juneau last week. Head Coach Jim Engell said he was pleased with his players batting game but they need to dial in their defense. "I felt there were a lot of things we did well," Engell said. "The scores were lopsided but they don't necessarily reflect what the game was like. A lot of those (points) were either tacked on very late in the game or because we had too many walks." The Vikings played a double-header Thursday...
The Viking Swim Club competed last month in the Alaska Swimming Junior Olympics in Anchorage. Twenty-four teams composed of 496 athletes competed in the statewide contest. Petersburg's team was one of the smallest with only 6 swimmers, however each athlete placed in the Top 10 in each event. Swimmers had to meet qualifying times to attend and The Viking Swim Club placed 12th in overall team scoring. Top 10 Finishers: Age 10 and under: John Bissett 2nd 100 Freestyle 3rd 200 Freestyle and 50...
The Petersburg High School girl's track team won the conference track meet division wide in Ketchikan last weekend-a feat the Petersburg girl's team hasn't accomplished in more than three decades. Head coach Brad Taylor has been coaching since 1987 and knew this season would be a special one for the program. "I've known for a couple years that this class, this freshman class coming in and with the seniors that we have, and the experience of those kids going to state for so many years, we knew... Full story
The Petersburg Vikings baseball team kicked off its season with two wins against the Junior Varsity Sitka Wolves last week. Head Coach Jim Engle said the Vikings are a small but balanced team this year with several veteran players and other new but strong athletes added to the ten-player squad. “We have some deep pitching ability,” Engle said. We have a couple guys that can chew up a lot of innings that can give us 100 plus pitches in complete games if we need to.” The number one starter is junior Colby Bell. Engel said Bell has a solid fastbal...
Petersburg soccer players took home championship trophies from the Shamrock Soccer Tournament held in Juneau last weekend. This is the second year Petersburg athletes have competed in the coed tournament and Team Captain Joe Viechnicki was one of 12 soccer players who played. The Petersburg team lost its first game but won the following five matches and got battered in the process. Viechnicki hyperextended his knee. Brian Richards played on a badly sprained ankle and Shane Lohr played with an...
The local hockey club The Petersburg Whalers won the Rainforest Classic's B Division tournament in Juneau earlier this month. The "Old Timer's Tournament" consisted of hockey players more than 35 years old. The Whalers competed against teams from across Alaska including Anchorage, Juneau and Palmer. "Petersburg has been represented in almost every single tournament," said Whaler Greg Kowolski. "This year was the second time in ten years that we've won the tournament." The Whalers lost its first...
After beating the Sitka Wolves in Juneau last Wednesday, the Lady Vikings fell to Sitka and Mt. Edgecumbe in the double elimination tournament. Head Coach Dino Brock said Thursday's contest against Mt. Edgecumbe started out sluggishly on the offensive side. The Lady Vikings were down 6-13 at the end of the half. Brock said his team picked up the pace, though, during the second half. "Offenses were flowing and people were running down the court," Brock said. "There was a lot more action." The... Full story
The Petersburg Vikings lost twice to Mt. Edgecumbe at the regional tournament games last week. Vikings Head Coach Rick Brock said his team needed to regroup after it lost to Mt. Edgecumbe on Wednesday morning. "Mt. Edgecumbe played with a sense of urgency and it was tournament time so I felt we needed to match their intensity level," Brock said. The Vikings started off strong in the first quarter as the two teams went back and forth. The Petersburg squad led by a point at the start of the...
The Lady Vikings beat the Sitka Wolves during the first game of the Regional Tournament in Sitka yesterday. Head Coach Dino Brock said his squad fell behind for a short time in the beginning of the game but maintained the lead throughout the bulk of the contest. “It was a really physical game,” Brock said. “We battled inside and did a nice job with defensive rebounds.” Kyla Willis pulled down nine defensive rebounds. The Lady Vikings led 20-10 at the half, maintained the momentum and led 30-15 at the end of the third. The Wolves snapped...
The Vikings lost its first game of the regional tournament in Sitka Wednesday morning against Mt. Edgecumbe. Head Coach Rick Brock said his team played a good first quarter but, in the end, struggled to score. The Vikings went into the half 25-18 and had a chance to turn the tide in the third. “In the beginning of the third quarter we forced two turnovers and had a chance to score in both cases but missed,” Brock said. The Vikings lost its momentum afterwards and Mt. Edgecumbe dominated throughout the rest of the half. The Vikings lost 51-...
