Sports

PINKIES TOURNEY— Nanook Henrik Brandt shows flag at the Arctic Pinkies Volleyball Tournament held in Nome on Oct. 13-14.
The Nome-Beltz Nanooks hosted the Arctic Pinkies Volleyball Tournament last weekend. Five unusually equal teams contested the title and Kotzebue squeaked by Barrow in a cliffhanger to take it. With...
NANOOK COLORS—Coach Aaron Blankenship dyed his hair in the team bonding time the night before Saturday’s race. He poses with Katelyn Tocktoo and Daynon Medlin at Bartlett venue of the XC state championships.
STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS 2017 ASAA/First National Bank Alaska Cross Country Running State Championships Nome and BSSD Results: Boys Division II 43. Harrison Moore, Nome-Beltz 18:20; 44. Jamie Yi,...
CHAMPION— Edward Kokeok of Shishmaref won the boys 5-k race in a time of 21:18.
Six runners from the Bering Strait School District are headed to the Alaska cross country state championships in Anchorage on Saturday. The three boys and three girls ran to top three positions in...
VARSITY WINNERS— Nome girls swept the podium at last weekend’s Nome Invitational XC meet. Pictured are Ava Eartman, Mary Fiskeaux, Starr Erikson and Mallory Conger
The fleet of foot gathered in Nome Saturday, Sept. 16 for the annual Nome Invitational XC running meet. Elementary, middle school, and high school runners from Nome, White Mountain, Savoonga, Teller...
READY SET GO— The Nome Nanook XC team takes off behind the Nome-Beltz High School on a six-hour pledge run to raise funds for the traveling team, on Saturday, Aug. 26.
The Nome XC team has started practice on August 16 and besides running every day throughout the week, the team has been busy fundraising to fund upcoming travels to running meets. Two weeks ago, they...
NOME WINS— The Nome-Beltz Lady Nanooks volleyball team won two matches against the Juneau-Douglas Crimson Bears, last weekend, in Nome. Pictured is Juneau’s Abby Meiners hitting the ball as Nome’s Annalise Contreras, Emily Pomrenke stand ready at the net in defense.
The first volleyball games of the season for the Nome-Beltz Lady Nanook volleyball team took place in their home den, on Friday and Saturday and on both days the Nanooks remained victorious against...
DEXTER CHALLENGE— Wyatt Earp Dexter Challenge bikers Elsa Hobbs and her father Daniel Hobbs round the corner to the finish line at Dexter after a 12-mile ride from town, during the annual run, bike and walk competition, held last Saturday.
The annual Dexter Challenge run, bike and walk competition started last Saturday under gray skies and a light drizzle. At 10 a.m. four runners and six bikers took off at the same time to run and bike...
UNDEFEATED CHAMPIONS— The Howling Dawgs crew consisting of Frosty Hughes, Paula Davis, Ivory Okleasik and her dad Buddy Okleasik won the race in 1 hour and 53 minutes.
Over 30 brave participants took on the cold, wind and water balloon-throwing spectators to compete in the Bering Sea Lion’s Club Midnight Sun Raft Race last Sunday.  Six teams with race-legal rafts...
NYO— Unalakleet NYO athlete Summer Sagoonick shows remarkable flexibility as she makes an attempt in the Alaskan High Kick during last week’s regional NYO games held in Shaktoolik.
“Competition” and “Cooperation” aren’t words that are often found together in sporting events at any level. We more frequently see words like “fight”, “battle” and “tussle” to describe games and...
Lupe Callahan swimming in the Northern Area Championships
A large contingent of Nome Northstar Swim Team members traveled to Fairbanks to participate in the Northern Area Championships swim meet at the Hamme Pool from Friday, April 7 through 9. “This is the...

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