Anchorage Daily News

Prepare for combat: Ready, aim, cast!

If you're one of those unfortunate anglers who had to miss last weekend's flood of red salmon that engulfed the lower section of the Kenai River, you should still be in luck to catch another storm of fish.

Sockeye rush into Peninsula rivers

Photos: Nice Catch

Final piece in place for Shootout

Seattle University, an NCAA Division II basketball program making the jump to Division I next season, is the seventh and final team to join this year's Great Alaska Shootout field.

INDOOR FOOTBALL

IFL to merge with UIFL next season

The Alaska Wild and Fairbanks Grizzlies will see a much different indoor football schedule next season as the Intense Football League announced Tuesday it will merge with the United Indoor Football League.

AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL

West 19, Dimond 18

First baseman Jon Harrison went 2 for 4 and had four RBIs, while West went through six pitchers in Tuesday's victory at Kosinski Fields. West shortstop Dylan Wisthoff finished 3 for 5 and scored four runs.

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

Alaskans earn a split in Memphis tourney

The traveling Alaska Youth Basketball Association team split a pair of games in Memphis, Tenn., at the River City Classic Tournament, where about 170 teams are playing.

Alaskans fare well in Texas karate tournament

Six Alaskans, including four Anchorage athletes from Tanaka's Martial Arts Academy, captured gold medals at the USA National Karate Team Trials in Houston last weekend.

In the area

What's happening in sports and recreation around Anchorage

ROWING

Kenai's Coon shines at nationals in N.J.

Audrey Coon of Kenai captured three medals this past weekend at the US Rowing Club National Championships, a five-day regatta on the Cooper River in Pennsauken, N.J.

ENDURANCE RUNNING

Alaskan finishes Vermont 100-miler

Laura McDonough of Anchorage finished 20th among women and 75th overall in the Vermont 100-Mile Endurance Run over the weekend.

TRAPSHOOTING

Davis, Farner prevail in trapshoot tourney

Juneau's Jay Davis claimed the all-around championship and Eagle River's John Farner took the overall title at the Alaska State Trapshoot Championships that concluded Sunday at Birchwood Recreation Shooting Park in Chugiak.

Time improvement goal leads to victory in Crow Pass

Eeva Latosuo's sixth-place finish in last year's Crow Pass Crossing proved promising, but her sole goal in Saturday's 25th edition of the marathon-length backcountry race was simply to improve her time.

Finishing kicks: The Crow Pass Crossing

ROWING

Anchorage rowers win

The Anchorage Rowing Association strutted its stuff Saturday at the Moose Nugget Regatta at Wasilla Lake by beating six other teams, including four from the Lower 48.

AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL

Service 5, East 4

Aaron Miller delivered a walk-off RBI single in the 10th inning Saturday to highlight the Service American Legion baseball team's 5-4 win over East at Kosinski Field.

YOUTH BASKETBALL

Alaska team goes 2-2 in Los Angeles event

The Bay Area Hoosiers of Alaska compiled a 2-2 record last week at the Double Pump Three Stripes Tournament in Los Angeles.

Alaska Baseball League

Anchorage Bucs throw no-hitter

A pair of unlikely pitchers teamed up to make history for the Anchorage Bucs early this morning.

TENNIS

Duvall outlasts Rohacek in marathon

Top-seeded Gardner Duvall from Brooklyn, N.Y., needed three hours to knock off unseeded Roman Rohacek of the Czech Republic on Thursday.

CYCLING

Folmar laps field

As a precursor to the upcoming Tour of Anchorage, the Arctic Bicycle Club hosted its annual Downtown Criterium on Thursday night.

Sequeira's game-winning hit pulls Oilers closer to first place

P.J. Sequeira lifted the Peninsula Oilers to victory Thursday night, and in the process made the pennant race in the Alaska Baseball League a whole lot more exciting.

ORIENTEERING

Spencer, Brown top rainy event at APU

Bill Spencer and Ellyn Brown collected overall victories in the Dela and Giselle's Nature-O Wednesday at APU.

GOLF

Playing 50 rounds in 50 states for charity

Atlanta golfers Craig Forney and Bill Evans are going to the extreme to raise money and awareness for melanoma, breast and prostate cancer.

TENNIS

City tourney rolls on

The top-seeded duo of Mallery Cox and Jake Tracy needed three sets to advance in the Mixed A/B Doubles division Wednesday in the Anchorage City Tennis Championships.

Today in the Alaska Baseball League

The Alaska Baseball League/Major League Baseball Scout Showcase kicks off today with three games at Mulcahy Stadium. The Showcase -- featuring all six ABL teams -- continues with three games Saturday and three more on Sunday.

COLLEGE RUNNING

UAA's Kiplagat named to all-academic team

UAA standout David Kiplagat added to his list of academic achievements recently when the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association named him to its 2008 Division II Men's All-Academic Track and Field team.

AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL

Service 9, South 5

Chase Barrus enjoyed a 3-for-4 evening, scoring twice and driving in a run, to power Service over South on Wednesday at Klatt Field.

LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL

Moore plays tee ball on White House lawn

Jackson Moore of Anchorage was among a group of tee ball players to play on the White House lawn Wednesday.

TENNIS

Rohacek scores upset

Unseeded Roman Rohacek upset No. 4 seed Paul Warning in straight sets in the men's A/B singles action at the Anchorage City Championships on the Delaney Park Strip.

CANOEING

Anchorage father-son duo enter marathon

An Anchorage father-son team is among the 75 teams entered in the Weyerhaeuser AuSable River Canoe Marathon, known in some quarters as the longest, richest and toughest canoe race in North America. Teams from across America and Canada have entered.

MOUNTAIN BIKING

Ross wins short track criterium

Sixteen mountain bikers battled Tuesday evening for the most laps in Arctic Bicycle Club's short track criterium and Will Ross came out as the winner at Kincaid Park.

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Alaska girls win basketball tournament finale

The Alaska Youth Basketball Association won its final game in the Nike Summer Showcase Invitational tournament in Chicago on Monday, beating Nova Scotia 46-43.

TENNIS

Czech player knocks off No. 2 seed

Czech Republic's Roman Rohacek upset No. 2 Leif Eliassen in men's singles quarterfinals Monday to highlight the Anchorage City Tennis Championships at Delaney Park Strip.

RUNNING

Strabel, Jurasek win Boondocks

Anchorage runners Eric Strabel and Esther Jurasek each raced to victory Sunday in the Boondocks Breakaway race at Kincaid Park.

AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL

East 11, South 7

Senior-to-be Danial Pohl wrapped up a sterling BP Exploration Tournament at Mulcahy Stadium on Sunday by going 2 for 3 with three RBIs as East rallied with seven-run third inning.

Today in the Alaska Baseball League

Results, standings, schedule, statistics

AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL

Service squeaks by Kenai in the ninth

Josh Gilbert pitched a complete game and added three hits as Service answered Kenai's tying run in the top of the ninth inning with one of its own in the bottom half of the frame. Chase Van Allen and Kevin Neally both had three hits for Service.

GIRLS BASKETBALL

Team Alaska grabs two Chicago victories

Team Alaska, a traveling squad of girls high school basketball players, got into the win column on Sunday at the Nike Summer Showcase Invitational tournament in Chicago.