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DOWN TO THE WIRE— With 2.8 seconds left in the last game of the Subway Showdown tournament on Saturday, January 11, and the teams neck and neck, Nome Nanook Levi Pederson shoots a penalty shot.

Nome boys, Unalakleet girls win Subway Showdown

Bleachers were packed at the Subway Showdown in the den of the Nome Nanooks last weekend. The walls were covered in homemade posters welcoming the other teams, and one which recreated the Subway logo...

ELL DONE— Wyatt Ahmasuk is the 2024 ASAA/First National Bank state champion in the 189 lbs division.

Wyatt Ahmasuk wins at state wrestling championships

When Wyatt Ahmasuk was in elementary school, he watched his brother Oliver Hoogendorn wrestle for a championship win at states. His brother came second that year, but Ahmasuk was enthralled. He...

CHAMPIONS— Brant Bradley, Nome, and Dane Johnson, Unalakleet, wrestle for first place in their weight class, during the Dudley Homelvig Scramble, held last weekend in Nome.

Nome hosts 18 teams for Dudley Homelvig Scramble

Last week, 18 wrestling teams descended on Nome for the Dudley Homelvig Scramble wrestling tournament. The teams mostly came from the Nome Census Region and the Northwest Arctic Borough, but there...

SHOOT IN— Izabella Martin of Savoonga “shoots in” on Layton James of Gambell in the Junior High “otter” division during their semifinal match on Friday night. James went on to win the division and Martin earned second.

Miscalculation puts damper on BSSD Annual Wrestling and Cheerleading tournament outcome for cheerleaders

By Anna Lionas A counting error during last week’s Bering Strait School District Wrestling and Cheerleading Competition left Gambell Cheerleaders in tears when their first-place trophy was rescinded...

LEADING THE PACK— Unalakleet’s Ourea Busk leads the pack at the start of the cross country state championship race in Anchorage, with teammate Isabella Eller at her shoulder. Busk went on to win her second consecutive state title in the Division III

Ourea Busk wins Division III at XC championships

This past weekend cross country state championships were held in Anchorage at Bartlett High School and Western Alaska showed up and showed out, with four students placing in the top ten for their...

WINNER — Nome-Golovin snowmachine race champion Wilson Hoogendorn celebrates his win with Cherish Engebretsen.

Rookie Wilson Hoogendorn wins Nome-Golovin race

Going into the Nome-Golovin snowmachine race on Sunday, Wilson Hoogendorn said he was just hoping to finish because he hadn’t practiced the trail in a while. He not only completed the race for the...

READY TO RACE — Nome snowmachine racer Mike Morgan, right, and his new Iron Dog teammate Bradley Kishbaugh are getting ready for the 2,500-mile trek that begins later this month.

Mike Morgan and new team mate to race in Iron Dog

Snowmachine racer Mike Morgan was in a garage in Nome last Thursday afternoon prepping for a training run up to Kotzebue and down to Unalakleet. “We got stiffer springs up front, we redesigned the...

CLOSING IN — Nils Hahn, the first-place finisher, nears the end the of the race.

Nome Kennel Club hosts first race of season

Three sled dog teams braved the cold temperatures this weekend to compete in the Nome Kennel Club’s first race of the season. The first two scheduled races were canceled due to the storms that hit...

COMING AT YOU—Nome Nanook Jocelyn Nichols-Takak and Seward Seahawk Ava Jagielski race to grab a ball that’s flying out of bounds, during the Ruckus at the Rec tournament on Saturday, January 20.

Nanooks make a Ruckus at the Rec

Last weekend the Nanooks took to the court in a different venue, hosting Teller JV boys and Seward boys’ and girls’ varsity teams at the Nome Rec Center for the “Ruckus at the Rec” tournament....

Nanook Cohen Booth and Buccaneer Owen Watson jump for the ball to start the Thursday night game of the Subway Showdown

Nanooks dominate at Subway Showdown

For the first time since 2013 both Nome-Beltz teams — girls and boys — won the Subway Showdown tournament hosted in Nome last weekend. Visiting teams from Kotzebue, Unalakleet and Valdez joined Nome...