The Fire had a six-hit, seven-run third inning, and in the second, Colby Everett hit a two-run bomb. Later, in the eighth, Aaron Parnell hit a solo homer.
The Fire finished with 15 hits in 37 at bats. Everett led the squad with a 2-for-4 game. He scored two runs and batted in four.
Fire pitcher David Hawes’ record advanced to 2-4 with the win, and Kirk Jewasko picked up the loss for the Miners (2-3).
The Fire are 12-28 ABL (15-28 overall). The Miners fall to 26-14 ABL (28-14 overall). The Fire play the Anchorage Bucs Wednesday at Growden Memorial Park at 7 p.m.
The Alaska Goldpanners beat the Anchorage Bucs 6-5 Monday night, advancing their first-place record to 28-10 ABL, 31-10 overall. The loss bumps the Bucs down to 14-23 ABL (18-27 overall).
Fairbanks TaeKwon-Do
well-represented
The United States brought home 52 medals from the 2010 International TaeKwon-Do Federation World Championships held in Cheongju, South Korea July 4-8. The Alaskan representatives of Team USA, from the Midnight Sun Martial Arts Academy in Fairbanks, were responsible for 24 of those medals.
Brianna Hernandez and Amanda Hurben in the junior female division won a total of seven medals. Hernandez finished with bronze in power breaking and gold in team power breaking. Hurben won silver medals in patterns, sparring and power breaking. She also brought home the bronze medal in specialty breaking and the gold power breaking medal.
Three members of the junior male division, Nicholas Woolf, Johnnie Norton and Brandon Fears also placed in competition. Woolf won bronze in patterns, team sparring and power breaking; silver in sparring and team patterns; and gold in team specialty breaking. Norton won a medal of every kind, gold in team specialty breaking, silver in team patterns and bronze in team power breaking.
Fears brought home the most gold medals for the group from Fairbanks. He received gold in patterns, specialty breaking and team specialty breaking. He also brought home the silver team patterns medal and a bronze in team power breaking. In addition, Fears was named the Overall Junior Male Competitor of the championships.
Bianca Zuckerman and Tim Hasbrouck were amongst the adult female and male competitors. Zuckerman brought home the silver medal in patterns, and Hasbrouck received gold in men’s team power breaking and gold in men’s team specialty breaking.
Heidi Hurben, Jo Zuckerman and Jeff Hurben competed in the senior female and senior male categories. HeidHurben brought home bronze in patterns and power breaking and gold in women’s team power breaking. Jo Zuckerman finished with a bronze medal in patterns. Jeff Hurben won silver in sparring and bronze in patterns.
Master Larry Wick of the Fairbanks World Tang Soo Do Karate School took 13 of his students to Greensborough, N.C. July 15-17 for The World Tang Soo Do Association Bi-annual World Championships.
Over 1,600 athletes attended this year’s competition in three different divisions: forms, sparring and weapons.
Amongst the adult women second and third-degree black belts, Kelcie Meeks brought home two bronze medals, one in forms and one in sparring. Danielle Meeks finished with a bronze medal in weapons.
In the teen male second and third-degree black belts, Quinn Evenson and Jacob Williams brought home bronze and gold medals in forms, respectively. Williams also received the bronze in weapons.
Sunnie Gebhardt and Dolma Ombadykow won medals in the teen female second and third-degree black belt division. Gebhardt brought home a medal of every kind: gold in sparring, silver in forms, bronze in weapons. Ombadykow received the bronze medal in forms.
Ashland Williams, a first-degree black belt in the teen female division, won bronze in forms.
Jaren Beckley and Ceili Brown placed in the youth male and female green belts divisions. Beckley won bronze in forms, as did Brown.
In the Tiny Tigers division, Jacob Beckley got a competition medal for forms, and he won his sparring match.
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