When an opening at head coach for North Pole was announced last year, Hollett felt he was ready to step back into high school football and take on a bigger role for the Patriots.
“We have a lot of great skill players this year who made a lot of great plays last year and I expect them to do the same this year — on the outside and in the backfield,” Davis said after Monday night’s practice.
“There’s a lot of camaraderie between the guys,” Stickel said. “They play competitively but they’re good sportsmen.”
“We did a pretty good job, for the most part, holding together and sticking with each other, and working through the problems,” the fourth-year Lathrop head coach said.
The Nanooks’ only home meet is its annual Blue and Gold 5K Race on Aug. 31 at the UAF Running and Ski Trails.
The Goldpanners finished the season with a 34-13 record after a rocky 8-6 start, including a loss in the Midnight Sun Game, which the home team has lost only 12 times in the game’s 114-year history.
The cost for each two-person team is $50. The entry fee increases to $60 after Aug. 20.
“We’ve gotten better with each of the three games, and I’m kind of anticipating us continuing this thing and keeping sharp as we go.” Miles Kizer said.
The Nanooks will kick off the season in Anchorage, facing San Francisco State University on Nov. 9, before taking on Chaminade University on Nov. 10 as part of a crossover series hosted by the University of Alaska Anchorage.
The Alaska Goldpanners made their debut at the National Baseball Congress College World Series in Wichita, Kansas, on Thursday and despite the Colorado Cyclones out-hitting the Goldpanners 10-9, Alaska came up with a 10-5 win.
Former Alaska Nanook Tim Sherry earned a gold medal at the 2019 Pan American Games in the men’s 50-meter shooting event on Tuesday in Lima, Peru, after beating out U.S. teammate Michael McPhail by 1.9 points in the finals.
Six University of Alaska Fairbanks Nanooks were among 66 Western Collegiate Hockey Association players named Tuesday as American Hockey Coaches Association/Krampade All-American Scholars.
After facing the Seals twice in the Grand Forks International tournament earlier this summer and taking a 17-10 victory in Wednesday night’s series opener, the teams now have a split 2-2 record.
The Nanooks made themselves eligible for the nomination by maintaining a 3.3 cumulative team GPA.
The seventeenth Run for Gold 1-mile race kicked off the Golden Days Parade on Saturday. The race is put on annually by Running Club North, and benefits the Literacy Council of Alaska.
The favored ears on Friday were those that could withstand the stress of the ear-pull, during which two athletes sit on the floor facing each other with a sinew loop about 3 feet in length — traditionally made of animal intestines — hooked around each other’s ears. When the officials say, “Pull,” the athletes pull their heads straight back, without twisting or jerking their heads. Whomever’s sinew loop slips off first, loses.
The Alaska Goldpanners continue to dominate the second half of the summer season, adding another win to their record with a 10-1 blowout over Bercovich on Thursday at Growden Memorial Park.
The one-hand reach is a test of balance and strength, as the competitor must balance their body on one hand, while simultaneously reaching for a suspended target with the other.
The Alaska Goldpanners rallied in their half of the eighth inning to defeat the Bercovich 35 on Wednesday at Growden Memorial Park.
Participants will learn biathlon basics as well as rifle safety through fun and games.
The Alaska Goldpanners series opener against the South Bay Saints, which was postponed from Wednesday to Thursday, was postponed again Thursday afternoon due to heavy smoke from wildfires throughout the Interior.
To be named a CSCAA Scholar All-America Honorable Mention, swimmers had to earn a GPA of 3.50 or higher while achieving at least one NCAA “B” cut standard time, or competing at an NCAA regional qualifier.
“Every time we’ve played with them they’ve pitched well, we’ve pitched well, they pick up the baseball really well and they can hit,” said Goldpanners head coach Miles Kizer.
Kelsey Leeson, was announced as the new Alaska Nanooks swimming assistant coach on Monday.
Head coach Trevor Stewart, during a phone interview Thursday, said 110 players are scheduled to participate in the four-day camp at the Dakotah! Sports Center at Mystic Lake Resort.
Shaun Conwell earned the win on the mound after a five-inning stint for the 49ers.
Blake Porter, hitting third for the Panners, was a difference-maker at the plate early in the game, going 3 for 5 with two runs and a two-run homer in the bottom of the second.
The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association named the Alaska Nanooks women’s swimming team on Tuesday to its Scholar All-America Team.
“It was one of the better baseball games I’ve been a part of with meaning, competing and how tight the game was the whole time,” said Goldpanners head coach Miles Kizer.
The Alaska Goldpanners couldn’t recover after allowing five runs in the fourth inning of Thursday night’s 6-3 loss to the Seattle Studs due to a solid pitching effort from Studs starter Mitch Viydo.
Hailey Williams of Delta Junction High School was named the 2018-19 Gatorade Alaska Girls Track and Field Athlete of the Year on Thursday. Williams is the first Gatorade Alaska Girls Track and Field Athlete of the Year to be chosen from Delta Junction High School.
The Goldpanners face the Seattle Studs in a four-day series beginning at 7 p.m. Thursday. The series is highlighted by the annual Midnight Sun Game at 10 p.m. Friday.
Xavier Mikol placed fourth in 27:32 and Christopher Benshoof finished fifth in 27:56.
Runners and walkers are welcome to participate in the race that starts at the Square Dance Hall inside the park.
Griffin McCormick launched a one-out triple and the Goldpanners loaded the bases after Grant DeLappe was issued a walk and Blake Porter was intentionally walked.
The Alaska Goldpanners generated a dozen hits and defeated the Fairbanks Adult League All-Stars 14-0 Tuesday night at Growden Memorial Park.
Terlynn Olds, a former athletics administrator at Grambling State University, was announced Monday as the associate athletics director of internal operations and senior woman administrator at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
This is the Goldpanners’ 60th anniversary, and manager Miles Kizer described this year’s version of the team as “a lot of fun to watch.”
West Valley High School runners past and present posted the top times Thursday night in the Jim Loftus Mile on the West Valley track.
University of Alaska Fairbanks Chancellor Daniel White is scheduled to host a Nanooks hockey stakeholders meeting from 5:30-6:30 p.m. June 18 in the multilevel lounge of UAF’s Wood Center.
Three incoming freshmen and a junior college transfer are the first recruits for the University of Alaska Fairbanks volleyball team for the upcoming season.
Level Up, which is operated by Justin Bourne, a former Lathrop High School and University of Alaska Fairbanks forward, is conducting a basketball camp and 3-on-3 basketball tournament in July in Fairbanks.
The two teams that played for the Mid Alaska Conference title are playing for survival today in the Alaska School Activities Association/First National Bank Alaska Baseball State Championship in Anchorage.
The Cartee Complex wasn’t kind Thursday to the three Interior high school softball teams playing there in the Alaska School Activities Association/First National Bank Alaska State Championships.
The Tanana Chiefs Conference is conducting the Khotr’elneyn 5-Kilometer Run and Walk at 10 a.m. Sunday at the Birch Hill Recreation Area.
The two high school baseball teams and three softball teams from the Interior learned Tuesday their matchups for this week’s state tournaments in Anchorage.
The Toghotthele Trail Run, the first event of this year’s Northern Trail Running Series, starts at 11 a.m. Saturday near Nenana.
Caden Wyman batted last for North Pole against the Lathrop Malemutes in Thursday afternoon’s first-round game of the Mid Alaska Conference Baseball Tournament.
The West Valley High School boys soccer team advanced while three other Interior teams suffered losses in Thursday’s first-round games of the Alaska School Activities Association/First National Bank Alaska State Championships in Anchorage and Eagle River.
The “complete game” Thursday night send the West Valley Wolfpack into today’s winner’s bracket final of the Railbelt Conference Softball Championships at the South Davis Complex.
“We have a lot of great skill players this year who made a lot of great plays last year and I expect them to do the same this year — on the outside and in the backfield,” Davis said after Monday night’s practice.
“There’s a lot of camaraderie between the guys,” Stickel said. “They play competitively but they’re good sportsmen.”
