In the early 2000s, they had to petition the school board to let them join the team. Then, they were wrestling against boys. But girls’ wrestling kept growing in Bristol Bay despite those barriers. Dillingham’s team and Alaska wrestling has come a long way since then.
Newhalen puts on a show to win Class 1A girls crown April 8th 11:30 am |
By Josh Reed, For the Anchorage Daily News
PALMER - The Newhalen Malamutes outshined the Northern Lights on Saturday.
They dominated all aspects of the game to claim a 63-33 victory over the Shishmaref Northern Lights in the Class 1A girls state championship game Saturday at Palmer High School.
Led by junior Johnna Nanalook, who accounted for nearly half of her team s points with a game-high 31 points, Newhalen captured its fourth girls title in school history and its first since 2014. The past few years we haven t had a team that has been able to come this far so I bet the community is pretty proud, Nanalook said. It s a huge basketball village, everybody plays basketball.
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