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Vikings baseball hosted a season opening series against Thunder Mountain, Craig and Wrangell over the weekend. Taylor Pullar started on the mound in Thursday’s opener against Juneau’s Thunder Mountain High School. “It was a good game. Taylor battled hard, and pitched over a hundred pitches,” said Vikings Head Coach Jim Engell. Despite a home run from Pullar in the first inning, the Vikings dropped down 2-1 and spent the whole game battling from behind. The Thunder Mountain Falcons capital...
Track and field kicked off their season in Ketchikan with an unusual meet last weekend. Most track meets are invitationals and are attended by many nearby schools, but the season opener scheduled in Sitka was canceled, so Ketchikan invited Petersburg to come down for a rare two-school dual meet. “It was the first dual that I’ve ever been a part of, and I’ve been coaching here for thirty years,” said Petersburg Head Coach Brad Taylor. To make things even more unusual, Mary Hagemann, the Ketchik...
Petersburg Middle School girl's basketball team had an opportunity to participate in the Mike Jackson HoopTime Tournament March 23 to 26 in Juneau.Thirty-two teams played 98 games during the tournament. Petersburg's girl's B team played seven games and won one. The A team played four games, sweeping their division. Afterwards, the girls had the opportunity to meet Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell. “It's great to see the girls’ progress. It's great for them to play at game speed,” said coach Jerry Dahl....
Petersburg’s swim program consistently produces some of the most competitive young swimmers in the state. The following is a recap of the three major swim events the Viking Swim Club (VSC) has competed in so far this season. Southeast Champs In December, the VSC traveled to compete in Juneau’s new pool against the top swimmers in the region at Southeast Champs, a tournament style swim meet. Sixteen Viking swimmers had fast enough qualifying times to compete, which was a rather small team com...
The San Francisco Bay Area has long fostered singers and musicians and last week Petersburg High School music students had a chance to experience the good vibes – and bring home two awards. Music director Matt Lenhard, and five other adults escorted 46 Concert Choir, Concert Band and Jazz Band performers on a three-day, four-night journey to the Heritage Music Festival. There the students had an opportunity to perform and compete against about 800 students from seven other schools. There were no...
Five students from Petersburg High Schools participated in the National Ocean Sciences Bowl (NOSB), coming in fourth overall against 20 other teams in the region. The Petersbug team included Tyler Lantiegne, who served as team captain, as well as Kyla Compton, Diane Murph, Nicole Peterson and Kyle Hagerman. The team competed as the Cexy Cnidarians. Coaches Joni Johnson and Sunny Rice, the Marine Advisory Agent with the Alaska Sea Grant Marine Advisory Program, also assisted. The team delivered...
The Region V 3A/4A Tournament started off tough for the Vikings on Wednesday with a game against Mt. Edgecumbe. Edgecumbe was seeded 3rd going into the tourney and had been one of the better teams in the league all season. The Vikings started off with a strong first quarter. “We were behind 15-11, but I felt that we were playing well. Our offense was very balanced. One of the things I look for is that we have multiple people scoring, and we had six different people scoring,” said Viking Hea...
The Lady Vikings ended their season in Ketchikan last week at the Region V 3A/4A Tournament. Petersburg’s girls started tournament play on Wednesday with a game against Craig. The girls started out the game a little slow according to Lady Viking Head Coach Dino Brock. They were down 5-9 at the end of the first and 12-19 at halftime. “It was a very good defensive first half…we didn’t give up many open looks,” said Brock. The pace picked up in the second half as both teams turned up the offensive...
Last weekend Petersburg hosted their annual spring wrestling tournament with six visiting teams and over 150 wrestlers. Visiting teams included Craig, Wrangell, Ketchikan, Sitka, Juneau, Douglas, and Kake. There were over 750 matches, and these young grapplers gained some valuable wrestling experience. Two Wrangell referees, Harry Churchill and Jeffry Davidson, worked for two long days and refused to be paid. They said it was their way of “giving back” to our Southeast wrestling family. The...
The Vikings played their final home series of the season against the Metlakatla Chiefs last weekend. The Vikings pillaged the court during Friday night’s first quarter, outscoring the Chiefs 17-8. In the second period the Metlakatala boys cranked up their defensive pressure, effectively stopping Viking scoring for a solid four minutes. The Chiefs knocked down two crucial threes right before the half withering the Viking lead to one point. The two teams were evenly matched through the third q...
Petersburg took 5th place at the Southeast Middle School Wrestling Championship that took place Feb. 17 – 18 in Juneau, according to coaches Rob Schwartz and Ed May. Champions - Buddy Stelmach-75 lbs. Buddy had an outstanding tournament and found a way to win against tough competition. He’s a smart, determined wrestler. Ethan Bryner-210 lbs. Ethan has worked hard improving his strength and wrestling skills. He is a smart competitor and that helped him win in the semi-finals and finals. Runner-up - Isaiah May-127 lbs. Isaiah wrestled a great tou...
The Lady Panthers of Craig came to town to face the Lady Vikings last weekend in the girls’ last home series of the season. On Friday the Craig ladies jumped out to an early lead and managed to maintain the lead throughout the game. The Panthers outshot the Petersburg squad throughout the game and ended up winning 54-37. “They shot the ball well all weekend, and I didn’t think that defensively we played with the intensity that we’re capable of,” said Lady Vikings Head Coach Dino Brock. Ca...
The Vikings popped down to Craig last weekend to challenge the Panthers on their home court. “The weather was good, but the basketball wasn’t,” said Vikings Head Coach Rick Brock. Friday’s game got off to a slow start and ran into early foul trouble. The Vikings were down 18-12 at the end of the first quarter. Craig maintained that lead for much of the second quarter, until Anthony Curtiss and Kayin McCay came off the bench and had a huge quarter, Curtiss scoring 8 and McCay adding 4. “Both did...
The Vikings had an outstanding weekend of boys basketball in Wrangell. Friday’s varsity game started with a first half where neither team really controlled the tempo of the game. Petersburg was ahead 11-8 at the end of the first period. The second quarter was dead even, so Petersburg kept a one possession lead of 21-18 going into the half. “We came out a little flat in the third and Wrangell outscored us 17-10,” said Vikings Head Coach Rick Brock. Wrangell’s leader Clayton Stokes scored 11 poin... Full story
Last weekend all the Vikings stormed into Wrangell for some fiercely competitive homecoming basketball. Friday night’s girls varsity game was a wild one. The Wrangell Lady Wolves are an aggressive, physical team and they came out hungry, jumping out to an eighteen-point lead early in the game. Going into the half, Petersburg was down by 13 points, but they came charging into the third quarter ready to fight back. “Once we adjusted to Wrangell’s physical play we had a really strong second half,...
The boys of the Petersburg Vikings basketball program know the meaning of hard work, as the past week attests. They just played five games in six days all against top teams in the region. Their odyssey began with two fierce games at home against Sitka, which you read about in the last edition of the Pilot. The next day the Vikings boarded their blue longboat for a trip to Juneau and Sitka. They arrived in Juneau on Monday and charged out to meet the 4A powerhouse Falcons of Thunder Mountain...
The actors of Petersburg High School took to the stage, over the weekend, performing the play ‘Straight from the Horse’s Mouth.’ It was performed Thursday through Saturday, with big crowds turning out for the weekend shows. Tiffany Christensen, who works at Stedman Elementary School, took up the reins as director for the very first time. Christensen has a degree in theater and has been involved in occasional summer productions since graduation in 2001, but had never directed a high school produ...
The Sitka Wolves prowled into Petersburg last weekend to challenge the Vikings boys basketball team. Sitka left with a handful of wins but the story is more interesting than the scores show. The Vikings have struggled this season with starting ballgames well, but Friday’s varsity game showed improvement in that respect. Vikings Head Coach Rick Brock described the first quarter as passionate and competitive with a momentum that carried into the next quarter, until halfway through the second quart...
The Petersburg Lady Vikings rode the big blue boat to Sitka last weekend to challenge the Lady Wolves to a few games of basketball. The Wolves are known to have one of the strongest teams in the region and their performance over the weekend showed it. On Friday Sitka came out on top with a final score of 52-27. Lady Vikings Head Coach Dino Brock described the Lady Vikings as doing a nice job defensively, but having too many turnovers. Emily Luczak led the Petersburg girls with 9 points on...
Mt Edgecumbe’s Lady Braves came to town last weekend to face off with the Lady Vikings. Friday’s game was a triumph for the Petersburg girls. “It was our best game of the year,” said Vikings girls coach Dino Brock. “We played with a lot of confidence and focus.” After doing what Brock described as a better job of taking care of the basketball, getting into the offense and rebounding, the Lady Vikings finished the game 51-44. Scoring was nicely balanced across the team. Carolyn Kvernvik wi...
Ketchikan hosted a basketball jamboree this weekend and the Petersburg Vikings gladly accepted their invitation to participate along with teams from Hydaburg and Prince Rupert. Vikings Head Coach Rick Brock made the trip south with 14 of his players. The first game on Friday was a matchup between Ketchikan and Petersburg’s JV squads. The Vikings JV were down double figures during the 3rd and 4th quarters, but managed to battle back. They had a chance at the game’s end to sink a shot that would t...
The Haines Glacier Bears travelled to town to wage war with the Vikings last weekend with games Friday and Saturday nights. On Friday the Vikings got off to a slow start and it cost them. The Glacier Bears are an experienced team, with their entire starting lineup returning from last year, and they snapped up the opportunity to take an early lead. Right away the Bears were up 12-2, the Vikings caught some momentum and closed the gap to 14-21 going into the half. In the third quarter Petersburg...
The Lady Vikings took a long boat ride up to Haines to face the Glacier Bears on the basketball court. In the varsity’s first game on Friday night, Petersburg’s girls had a final score of 39-59. According to Lady Vikings Head Coach Dino Brock, Haines kept their lead at around 13 points for most of the game and made a run at the end to raise it to twenty. “We played really hard, battled with them,” said Brock. “There were just a couple of little stretches where we weren’t taking care of the bask...
The PHS Tsunami Bowl team heads to Juneau this weekend to scrimmage against the powerhouse Juneau-Douglas and Thunder Mountain teams. They’ll compete in head-to-head matches against the two teams, as well as meet with NOAA Fisheries staff and tour the DIPAC hatchery. “Our team learned a lot from our scrimmage against Juneau last year. For most of our kids, it will be their first glimpse of the kind of competition they’ll be facing in Seward,” said coach Joni Johnson. The actual statewi...
In keeping with a holiday sports tradition, last weekend the Vikings traveled to Ketchikan to participate in the Clarke Cochran Christmas Classic tournament. Games started on Tuesday the 27th of December when the Vikings played the team from Eatonville, Wash., a school of around 500 kids. The Eatonville team started the game with a hard press and the Vikings weren’t quite ready for it. At the close of the first half the Petersburg boys were down by around 20. “We did a nice job of regaining our...
