Tom Henshaw had a simple idea around the turn of the millennium: give Sitka's kids a place to wrestle. The Blatchley Middle School teacher started the Sitka Tsunamis as a club program, separate from school wrestling, focused on the fundamentals of...
Some 22 competitors faced off March 28 in the monthly pinball contest at Flipside Arcade, with Logan Bradford emerging as the winner. Also near the top were Ryan Barwick in second and Sara Tomczuk in third. "This tournament was probably one of...
Some 40 Mt. Edgecumbe High School students in Sitka on Friday and Saturday will show their skills in 11 different Native Youth Olympics events and vie to represent the Braves at the statewide NYO competition at the Alaska Airlines Center in...
City League volleyball players gathered for a game at the Blatchley Middle School gymnasium Tuesday. How I Set Your Mother defeated SEARHC Slammers 2-1. SEARHC came out with a commanding 25-20 in the first match, but fell hard to How I Set Your...
Mt. Edgecumbe High School will host a Native Youth Olympics state qualifying meet Friday and Saturday at the B.J. McGillis Gymnasium, with the community invited to attend and support the Braves team. Friday’s competition begins at 4 p.m. with the...
Balls are bouncing off the ceiling of the Blatchley Middle School gymnasium as City League volleyball action continues through March. In a game last Tuesday SEARHC Slammers beat How I Set Your Mother 2-0, winning the first set 25-21 and the...
Klukwan had too many Hall of Fame shooters on their roster for opponents to handle as they ended their Gold Medal masters run with a 74-52 win over defending champion Sitka during Saturday’s final day of the 77th annual Juneau Lions Club Gold...
Thursday’s 77th annual Juneau Lions Club Gold Medal Basketball Tournament action saw five teams earn semifinal wins and a day of rest before playing in their respective bracket championships on Saturday. The Klukwan masters were the first team of...
Senior Celebration In recognition of the effort it takes to participate in sports and activities in high school, the Sentinel invited Sitka and Mt. Edgecumbe seniors to fill out a short questionnaire about their careers in a sport or activity,...
Registration for the 33rd annual Alpine Adventure Run opens 7 a.m. April 22. The $50 registration fee includes a T-shirt. The race will be July 18 and is limited to 125 runners. The seven-mile run starts on Lincoln Street, proceeds up Gavan Hill...
After three winning seasons coaching the Sitka High boys basketball team, Steve Compagno said he's stepping down. “I really loved being in Sitka,” he said in an interview from his home in San Francisco. “As much as I love basketball, and made it...
Wednesday’s 77th annual Juneau Lions Club Gold Medal Basketball Tournament was an elimination day. That means if teams lost they didn't have to go home but they can’t play in the tournament anymore this year. Eight quality teams fell in the...
Bully ball, Cannery ball, Village ball, ‘Burg ball (homage to the 99833). Call it what you want, but that's the brand of Southeast basketball that excited tourney instigator Del Hanks in 1947. The Southeast Alaska Boy Scout organizer saw more...
Senior Celebration In recognition of the effort it takes to participate in sports and activities in high school, the Sentinel invited Sitka and Mt. Edgecumbe seniors to fill out a short questionnaire about their careers in a sport or activity,...
Thrilled shrieks sounded from fans around Alaska Saturday evening as Mt. Edgecumbe Braves senior Elden Andrew (from New Stuyahok) sank a three-pointer and pulled his team ahead 98-95 in the third overtime of the Braves’ 3A State Championship game...
One game does not define a season and for the Sitka Wolves it was an unceremonious 73-55 loss to the Nome Nanooks on Saturday, March 21, in the third/fifth-place game at the March Madness Alaska AA State Basketball Championships at Anchorage’s...
CHEER HONORS - Mt. Edgecumbe's Victoria Andrew and Sitka's Brandy Pepper were selected the Cheerleaders Of The Game after the Braves semifinal win over the Wolves on Thursday, March 19, in the March Madness Alaska 3A Boys Basketball State Championships at Anchorage's Alaska Airlines Center.
City League volleyball action continued last week. Silver Baybes beat Deez Netz 2-1. Deez Netz won the first set 25-17, but Silver Baybes came back to win the second set 25-11 and the third set 15-8. Sitka Dental won by forfeit over...
Mt. Edgecumbe Braves made history Saturday, winning their first-ever boys basketball state title by battling through three overtimes against the Barrow Whalers before the buzzer sounded with the Braves leading 98-97 in the 3A boys championship...
In a clash of the two most evenly matched programs in 3A boys basketball, the Mt. Edgecumbe Braves defeated the home town rival Sitka High Wolves 56-50 on Thursday, in a semifinal game at the March Madness Alaska 3A/4A Basketball State...