Sports

JOUST—Nome-Beltz Nanooks junior Katherine Scott, left, and Barrow Whalers junior Crystalynn Tulai meet at the net during the Arctic Pinkies Volleyball Tournament in the Nome-Beltz gym on Friday night.
With the conclusion of Nome’s fourth annual Arctic Pinkies Volleyball Tournament last weekend, the Nanooks’ 2016 Western Conference volleyball introductions are complete. After a 3-0 loss to the...
HOME STRETCH— Cross country runner Jacob Hayworth of Stebbins passes the Fish River in White Mountain and heads for the finish line of the high school boys race at the BSSD Conference Championships on Saturday, September 24.
The heavy dose of rain that fell in the hours leading up to Saturday’s Bering Strait Conference Region 1 Cross Country Running Championships caused the event in White Mountain to resemble a triathlon...
GRATUITY— Nome-Beltz senior volleyball player Megan Contreras delivers a well-placed tip against Kotzebue on Saturday morning. The Nanooks opened their home schedule last weekend with a split in their pair of games against the Huskies.
If the Lady Nanooks 4-3 overall set record could have determined the victor of the volleyball matches last weekend in the Nome-Beltz gym, then the home team would have been declared the champs over...
TOP FIVE— The Nanooks girls cross country running team claimed the top five spots in the high school girls division of the Nome Classic Invitational Cross Country Running Meet on Saturday. The top runner was Starr Erikson, 51. She was followed by Mary Fiskeaux, 52, Mallory Conger, 53, Ava Earthman, 54 and Daynon Medlin, 55.
In a sport where teams do not try to outscore their opponents with high numbers, the Nome-Beltz girls cross country squad proved on Saturday that less is more. The Lady Nanooks received points for...
ANVIL MOUNTAIN CHALLENGE— Twenty-two runners took the Anvil Mountain 59-minute Challenge on Thursday, August 18.
Bartlett Quad meet Even though the Nome-Beltz school doors were not yet open for business, cross country running class was ready this weekend for a group of Nanook runners traveling south to attend a...
At least on paper, Oliver and Company shouldn’t have needed extra innings to beat Outsiders in the final game of the Nome Softball Association’s end-of-the-season tournament. After all, they earned...
A group of seventeen young runners were treated to a unique training experience last weekend when they attended the second annual Salmon Lake Running Camp. The camp is the creation of Nome-Beltz...
WYATT EARP DEXTER CHALLENGE— Jackie Hrabok-Leppäjärvi, right, highfives a runner crossing the finish line at last Saturday’s Dexter running, biking and walking race from Nome to Dexter.
When I looked out my living room window two and a half hours before the 2016 Wyatt Earp Dexter Challenge race on Saturday I was greeted by beautiful sunshine. It looked to be a great day for racing,...
MARATHON WINNER— Cole Talbot won the fifth Cape Nome marathon.
Anchorage visitor Cole Talbot came for a weekend trip to Nome to visit friends and do some birding. While he was at it, he also notched his first ever marathon finish and emerged victorious, too....
PASSING BY— Aaron Rose, right, overtakes Bryant Hammond on the second leg of the Stroke'n Croak triathlon, held last Sunday in Nome.
Bryant Hammond relied on his strong swimming and running backgrounds to establish a lead that no individual racer could overcome in Sunday’s annual Stroke-n-Croak Triathlon. He completed the 1-mile...

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