Alaska Sports Report

It was fitting to see the son of a mountain running legend put the Service baseball team back on top in the Cook Inlet Conference.

Braun Precosky stood tall at the dish and on the bump, reaching base twice and scoring a run while coming on to pitch the final inning to nail down a 4-2 victory over South Anchorage in the CIC Tournament title game at Mulcahy Stadium.

PLUS - Recaps and boxscores from the Railbelt, Southeast and Mid-Alaska Tournaments, as the D1 State Playoffs continue through Saturday.

by Van Williams | May 30, 2026
Photos by Goon Gallery

Service Baseball Palmer High School Baseball Juneau-Douglas High School North Pole High School Baseball American Legion Baseball In Alaska

Service secures CIC pennant; Palmer wins Railbelt title; Juneau outduels Calhoun; NP wins 2-day slugfest The Alaska Sports Report provides in-depth daily coverage of Alaska athletes.

The Dimond boys soccer team is making up for lost time. Although the Lynx are regular qualifiers for the ASAA Division I state tournament, they haven’t played for a title since 2018.

That changed on Friday after Dimond beat defending champion West Anchorage 3-1 in the state semifinals in the Valley, advancing to Saturday’s final against West Valley.

On the girls side, unbeaten South Anchorage will face upstart Wasilla for the state championship.

by Van Williams | May 30, 2026
Photos by Goon Gallery

ASAA Dimond High School South Anchorage Girls Soccer

Dimond boys net 3-1 win over defending champs to advance to final; Wasilla girls stun No. 2 Chugiak The Alaska Sports Report provides in-depth daily coverage of Alaska athletes.

It may have been the prelims, but Tri-Valley’s Taylor Eddington wasted no time rewriting the record books at the ASAA State Track & Field Championships in Anchorage.

The senior from Healy sped to the fastest time in Alaska prep history in the 300-meter hurdles, clocking 43.31 seconds to trim 0.18 off the 10-year-old state record.

by Arielle Himelbloom | May 30, 2026
Photo by Monica Whitt

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Eddington edges state record in 300-meter hurdle prelims The Alaska Sports Report provides in-depth daily coverage of Alaska athletes.

There is a distinctive sound when Service slugger Rilen Niclai squares up the ball, reminiscent of a firecracker. Or a cannon.

Alaska’s reigning Gatorade Player of the year showcased his immense power once again on Thursday, belting his seventh home run well over the left-field wall at Mulcahy Stadium. Niclai’s no-doubt dinger coupled with the pitching of Connor Monahan led the top-seeded Cougars to an 11-1 win over Dimond in the semifinals of the Cook Inlet Conference Tournament.

PLUS - Recaps and boxscores from the Railbelt and Southeast Tournaments, as the D1 State Playoffs continue through Saturday.

by Van Williams | May 29, 2026
Photos by Goon Gallery

Service Baseball American Legion Baseball In Alaska Gatorade Player of the Year

Niclai belts 7th home run to lead Service into CIC final; state playoffs get into full swing The Alaska Sports Report provides in-depth daily coverage of Alaska athletes.

Chugiak’s Mary Jo Landon was in her element on that wet and cold Juneau day.

Landon, the tough-minded senior midfielder known to train rain-snow-or-shine, had already scored once as the Mustangs and Juneau-Douglas Crimson Bears entered second half stoppage time tied 3-3. Such winning plays have become synonymous with Landon, who entered Thursday’s tournament with 33 goals — the most in the state.

by Nolin Ainsworth | May 29, 2026
Photos by Klas Stolpe

ASAA Chugiak High School Chugiak Lady Mustangs Soccer

Landon leads Mustang makeover, nets hat trick on Day 1 win at state The Alaska Sports Report provides in-depth daily coverage of Alaska athletes.

After storming back from a three-run seventh-inning deficit to tie the game on Wednesday, Dimond baseball head coach Matt Madden must have figured he was playing with house money because he went for broke.

Rolling the dice with the game on the line, Madden called for a two-strike su***de squeeze play and Dax O’Brien executed the bunt to perfection to provide the Lynx with a 10-9 walk-off win over West Anchorage at Mulcahy Stadium.

PLUS - Cooper Marks pitched 3.1 innings of scoreless relief and Sampson Young broke the game open with a two-run triple in the sixth inning as the Mustangs advanced to the final four in the CIC Tournament.

by Van Williams | May 28, 2026
Photos by Goon Gallery

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Dimond squeezes out 10-9 win over West at CIC Tournament; Marks on target for Chugiak The Alaska Sports Report provides in-depth daily coverage of Alaska athletes.

Dimond’s Nevaeh Watkins was a quadruple winner at the Region IV Track & Field Championships, garnering her our Alaska Athlete of the Week honors.

See link for story and list of others receiving votes.

Dimond track star Nevaeh Watkins named Alaska Athlete of the Week after regions sweep The Alaska Sports Report provides in-depth daily coverage of Alaska athletes.

The 6-foot-1 West Anchorage forward calls last year’s state semifinal victory “probably the best game of my life.”

It’s not hard to see why. Luca Driscoll, then a junior, buried a SportsCenter Top 10-like goal, a perfectly placed strike from over 30 yards away. After turning over the opposition, Driscoll dribbled once, pattered up to the rolling soccer ball and unloaded a perfectly placed shot into the top of the net.

by Nolin Ainsworth | May 25, 2026
Photos by Durrell Vaaia, Alex Menendez, Nolin Ainsworth

West Anchorage High School West Anchorage HS Men's Soccer

"Like a brother to me:" Driscoll elevates West teammates The Alaska Sports Report provides in-depth daily coverage of Alaska athletes.

On paper, West Valley pitcher Rochelle Phipps had a rough day in Saturday’s 15-0 loss to top-ranked Colony. But in reality, Phipps kinda killed it, doing something no other Alaska high school hurler has accomplished this season: hold slugger Taylor Passard hitless for an entire game.

The state’s top home run hitter went 0-for-3 against Phipps after two groundballs and a flyout to centerfielder Jordan Campbell, snapping Passard’s 25-game hitting streak.

PLUS - Chugiak’s Isabel Sjostrand had a game for the ages last week at the Loretta French Fields in Eagle River. Bartlett's Luisa and Saniyah Faumuina combined for several home runs and RBIs against Service.

by Van Williams | May 24, 2026
Photos by MatSuSports and Goon Gallery

West Valley High School Colony Softball Chugiak Mustangs Softball Bartlett High School - Home of the Golden Bears

Passard's hitting streak ends at 25; Sjostrand belts 3 HRs vs. Lynx; Faumuina fam on fire The Alaska Sports Report provides in-depth daily coverage of Alaska athletes.

UAA’s Anders Larsen is the definition of pure grit.

The sophomore from Chugiak delivered the performance of his life in the decathlon, scoring a personal-best 7,041 points to place seventh and earn All-American honors at the NCAA Division II Track & Field Championships in Emporia, Kan.

Teammates Jess Chisar, John Peckham, Vivien Liessfeld and Ryann Smith also concluded their season at the national meet, in addition to Eagle River's Emily Walsh, Fairbanks' Essence Slate and Layla Fields and Homer's Brightly Thoning (D3).

by Arielle Himelbloom | May 24, 2026
Photos by Will Huster, Ray Shadowens, Josh Kutcher

USA Track & Field Alaska Skinny Raven Sports Beaver Sports Alaska Anchorage Seawolves University of Alaska Anchorage Cross Country and Track & Field UAA: University of Alaska Anchorage Chugiak High School Eagle River High School Lathrop High School West Valley High School Homer High School

Buoyed by a blistering 400, Larsen claims All-American honors and surpasses 7K mark in decathlon The Alaska Sports Report provides in-depth daily coverage of Alaska athletes.

Adarra Hagelund and Dylan Dahlgren have been firing on all cylinders all season long. The teammates from Soldotna capped their illustrious track and field careers at Dickinson State as gold and silver medalists at the NAIA Outdoor Championships in Asheville, N.C.

Hagelund cleared 5 feet, 11.25 inches in the high jump to match her lifetime best and collect her third national title — two outdoors and one indoors — while helping the Blue Hawk women to a third-place team finish.

Dahlgren's final collegiate track and field competition was highlighted by a runner-up finish in the hammer throw and a seventh-place showing in the discus, garnering a pair of All-American honors.

by Arielle Himelbloom | May 24, 2026

USA Track & Field Alaska Skinny Raven Sports Soldotna Track and Field Soldotna High School Athletics Dickinson State University

Hagelund defends NAIA title, leads DSU to third-place finish; Dahlgren nets two All-American honors The Alaska Sports Report provides in-depth daily coverage of Alaska athletes.