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The Petersburg Viking runners traveled to Ketchikan for the first track meet of the season and the girls came home with third place and the boys placed fourth in Saturday's competition. For the boys, senior Viking Mizani Rawhani came in first place in the 110 meter hurdles, seventh in the 100 meter dash and third in the 300 meter hurdles; Kaleb Simbahon placed 18th in the shot put and eighth in the triple jump; Nels Evens placed 11th in the 3,200 meter run and 18th in the 800 meter run; Ben...
The Petersburg Lady Vikings traveled to Sitka to compete in the Region V Tournament and came home with a positive attitude for next year. "We played Sitka for the first game of the tournament," Head Coach Dino Brock said. "We started out very well and were very competitive. We were actually ahead at the end of the first quarter." The Lady Vikings kept the lead and were up by five at half time and up by three at the end of the third quarter. "Sitka came out and had a really big fourth quarter and we just couldn't maintain the lead," Brock...
The Petersburg Lady Vikings played host to the Wrangell Lady Wolves for Homecoming weekend and dominated the play on the court for the series. “Homecoming games are always exciting mainly because of the crowd and the people that come out to watch,” Head Coach Dino Brock said. “It was a great weekend for us.” The Lady Vikings won Friday night with a score of 48 to 27. “Friday I was kind of nervous with it being senior appreciation night,” Brock stated. “You never know how things will go with...
Between the varsity Vikings and Lady Viking’s games Friday evening, time was made to appreciate the senior students. Seniors who were honored for the Pep Band were Daniel Cardenas, Eva Kowalski, Mizani Rawhani, Bud Bergen and Krissa Davis. Students honored for girl’s basketball were Becca Madsen, Samantha Turcott and Jael Swanson and boy’s basketball seniors were Dan Loucks and Clayton Franklin. A lone senior cheerleader was recognized as well, Kortnie Goodwin. “We congratulate these seniors...
Homecoming festivities were observed between the Lady Vikings’ and Vikings games Saturday evening. For the class of 2016 the Prince was Kjell Wittstock and Princess was Loveena Ortiz. Wittstock returned to basketball warm-ups immediately following the royalty presentation. For the class of 2015, the Prince was Skipper Erickson and Princess was Makayla Newman. Prince Bret Martinsen and Princess Abi Taylor represented the class of 2014. For the class of 2013, the Prince was Kris Thorsteinson w...
The Petersburg Lady Vikings traveled to Valdez to take part in the Valdez Elks Invitational and came home with a sixth place win out of eight teams. “We did a great job,” Head Coach Dino Brock said. “We started out facing the number one team in the state, Anchorage Christian, who hasn't lost a game all season.” The Lady Vikings were down five to 20 at the end of the quarter and 39 to 15 at the half. “They ended up beating us 70 to 38,” Brock stated. “But it was a good game, we continued to battle throughout and we kept our composure. I...
The Petersburg Lady Vikings played host to Mt. Edgecumbe for the weekend and ended up winning one game and losing the other, but not by much. “We had a really good weekend,” Head Coach Dino Brock said. “I especially think that Friday night was a really good game. We struggled in the first half and were down seven to 13 at the end of the first half but kept ourselves in the game because of our defense.” Brock explained that the team has been talking about that a lot and they did during halftim...
The Lady Vikings hosted the Sitka Lady Wolves over the weekend and won Friday with a score of 60 to 51. “We did a very nice job of passing the basketball and taking care of it,” Head Coach Dino Brock stated. “This was overall one of our better efforts and we shot the ball well.” According to Brock the Lady Vikings had a great night for rebounds and had eight shots for three points each. Leading the team in scoring was Grace Weller with 16 points followed by Ruby Brock with 13 points, Kylie W...
The Petersburg Lady Vikings traveled to Ketchikan and came home two games down for the season. “The first night started out really well,” Head Coach Dino Brock said. “We did a nice job defensively and offensively we were moving the ball a lot.” The girls were down 10 to eight at the end of the first quarter and 24 to 22 at half-time. “We came out in the third quarter and didn't start as strong,” Brock stated. “That became the whole separation of the game.” At the end of the third quarter the Lady Vikings were down 38 to 25 and ended up with a...
Two sentences can sum up the Homecoming basketball weekend between the Lady Wolves and Petersburg’s Lady Vikings, which began last Friday night. Friday was a night of high drama. Saturday was a game of strenuous play. After tipoff, and for the first quarter of action on Friday, the Wrangell squad played decisively and with speed – racking up a 23-13 halftime lead off a show stopping performance by the duo of Kayla Rooney and Alyssa Allen. The pair put up a combined 13 points and shot better tha...
Petersburg played host to Wrangell, Craig, Klawock, Haines and Angoon for the tenth Little Norway Tournament over the weekend. The girls finished second behind Klawock. “It was a great tournament,” Head Coach Dino Brock stated. “The school and everyone involved had done a wonderful job putting this tournament on.” Brock explained that the girls started out playing Haines on the first night. “We came out from the start playing really hard and we shot the ball really well,” Brock said. “We ended u...
Vikings girls basketball started out the competition season with a weekend on the road against a perennial powerhouse, the Lady Braves of Mt. Edgecumbe. The Petersburg girls have a lot of fresh faces with eight out of the 13 girls traveling to Sitka being freshmen. The Lady Braves, on the other hand, are an experienced team with many girls coming back who played a lot of minutes last year, according to Vikings girls coach Dino Brock. But what this years Vikings squad lacks in experience they make up for with energy and effort. “We went in e...
Viking girls continue to show improvement on the road in Ketchikan. “Overall the weekend went very well,” Head Coach and Petersburg Athletic Director Jaime Cabral said. “Our junior varsity team played against both the C and junior varsity teams in Ketchikan and performed great. They competed well and it is visible that they are grasping more volleyball knowledge as the season goes on.” Junior varsity player, Ruby Brock had 12 aces over the weekend and Adanna Kvernvik made seven kills. The Friday...
The Lady Vikings ended their season in Ketchikan last week at the Region V 3A/4A Tournament. Petersburg’s girls started tournament play on Wednesday with a game against Craig. The girls started out the game a little slow according to Lady Viking Head Coach Dino Brock. They were down 5-9 at the end of the first and 12-19 at halftime. “It was a very good defensive first half…we didn’t give up many open looks,” said Brock. The pace picked up in the second half as both teams turned up the offensive...
The Lady Panthers of Craig came to town to face the Lady Vikings last weekend in the girls’ last home series of the season. On Friday the Craig ladies jumped out to an early lead and managed to maintain the lead throughout the game. The Panthers outshot the Petersburg squad throughout the game and ended up winning 54-37. “They shot the ball well all weekend, and I didn’t think that defensively we played with the intensity that we’re capable of,” said Lady Vikings Head Coach Dino Brock. Ca...
Last weekend all the Vikings stormed into Wrangell for some fiercely competitive homecoming basketball. Friday night’s girls varsity game was a wild one. The Wrangell Lady Wolves are an aggressive, physical team and they came out hungry, jumping out to an eighteen-point lead early in the game. Going into the half, Petersburg was down by 13 points, but they came charging into the third quarter ready to fight back. “Once we adjusted to Wrangell’s physical play we had a really strong second half,...
The Petersburg Lady Vikings rode the big blue boat to Sitka last weekend to challenge the Lady Wolves to a few games of basketball. The Wolves are known to have one of the strongest teams in the region and their performance over the weekend showed it. On Friday Sitka came out on top with a final score of 52-27. Lady Vikings Head Coach Dino Brock described the Lady Vikings as doing a nice job defensively, but having too many turnovers. Emily Luczak led the Petersburg girls with 9 points on...
Mt Edgecumbe’s Lady Braves came to town last weekend to face off with the Lady Vikings. Friday’s game was a triumph for the Petersburg girls. “It was our best game of the year,” said Vikings girls coach Dino Brock. “We played with a lot of confidence and focus.” After doing what Brock described as a better job of taking care of the basketball, getting into the offense and rebounding, the Lady Vikings finished the game 51-44. Scoring was nicely balanced across the team. Carolyn Kvernvik wi...
The Lady Vikings took a long boat ride up to Haines to face the Glacier Bears on the basketball court. In the varsity’s first game on Friday night, Petersburg’s girls had a final score of 39-59. According to Lady Vikings Head Coach Dino Brock, Haines kept their lead at around 13 points for most of the game and made a run at the end to raise it to twenty. “We played really hard, battled with them,” said Brock. “There were just a couple of little stretches where we weren’t taking care of the bask...
The Lady Vikings lost three to some tough teams at the Clarke Cochran Christmas Classic in Ketchikan last weekend. The first matchup was against Cascade High School from Ore., a loss of 31 to 68. “I thought we came out ready to play. We hustled. They’re just a very good team,” said Lady Vikings Head Coach Dino Brock. “They’re big. They’re aggressive and fast.” Cascade eventually made it to the finals where they narrowly lost to Anchorage’s Dimond. Carolyn Kvernvik had 9 points in the game. Si...
