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1 week ago | 
ketchikandailynews.com | Richard Larson
Sophomore striker Richard Evison scored three goals in a 14-minute span in the first half, then set up a pair of goals by Joseph Larson in the second half as the Kayhi boys soccer team rolled to a 5-0 victory over Houston in the first round of the Division II ASAA/First National Bank Alaska State Soccer Championships on Thursday in Wasilla.
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1 week ago | 
ketchikandailynews.com | Richard Larson
The past couple of years the Kayhi boys soccer team has entered the state tournament with high hopes, but still with an underdog mindset. This year, as the No. 2 seed, the Kings enter the Division II ASAA/First National Bank Alaska State Championships thinking that they are as good as any team in the field and have a strong chance at bringing home the school’s first soccer championship.
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1 week ago | 
ketchikandailynews.com | Richard Larson
Behind the pitching of Jonathan Scoblic and six RBIs from Jesse Albecker, the Kayhi baseball team finished off a dominating sweep of the Petersburg Vikings with a 7-1 win on Saturday in Petersburg. Scoblic threw five innings of one-hit ball, walking four and striking out four in his strongest outing of the season. Ace Asper threw two scoreless innings of relief, striking out five of the eight batters he faced. The Kings took a 1-0 lead in the first inning when Gage Massin led off with a single.
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1 week ago | 
ketchikandailynews.com | Richard Larson
Kayhi’s Carol Frey ran on a pair of winning relay teams Saturday, completing a perfect 4 for 4 weekend in the Region V Championships in Juneau and propelling the senior, who won the 400 and 800 meter finals on Friday, to the Division I Girls Outstanding Competitor Award at the championships. “That is a huge deal,” Kayhi coach Alex Pennino said.
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3 weeks ago | 
ketchikandailynews.com | Richard Larson
The Kayhi Track and Field team will have the spotlight to itself this weekend as the Ketchikan Invitational is the only Kayhi sporting event in town. The Kayhi baseball team is playing a Southeast Conference road series at Juneau-Douglas Yadda.at Kale, the Kayhi soccer teams are in Juneau for a couple of non-varsity contests, and the Lady Kings softball team has the weekend off.
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3 weeks ago | 
ketchikandailynews.com | Richard Larson
The runs came in bunches when the Kayhi and Sitka varsity and junior varsity softball teams squared off on Friday and Saturday in Sitka. Games that were close suddenly turned into games decided by the mercy rule. Seemingly commanding leads disappeared in a half inning. Both the Lady Kings and Wolves looked unbeatable at times, and downright dreadful moments later. The Kayhi JV won two of three games, including a 17-16 contest that was halted due to time after two innings.
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3 weeks ago | 
ketchikandailynews.com | Richard Larson
A year ago, the Kayhi girls soccer team wasn’t especially competitive against the Soldotna Stars, losing 5-1 in the regular season and 4-1 in the first round of the state championships. So losing a pair of closely played, one-goal games — 2-1 on Friday and 3-2 on Saturday at Esther Shea Field — showed a vast improvement for the Lady Kings against a Soldotna team that has looked like the second-best Division II team in the state this year, behind just Kenai Central.
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3 weeks ago | 
ketchikandailynews.com | Richard Larson
On Senior Day at Esther Shea Field, the seniors stood tall for the Kayhi boys soccer team in a contentious 3-2 victory over visiting Soldotna on Saturday afternoon. Senior Soren Evison scored the first goal of his high school career, and senior Kelvin Jiang added a pair of tallies, including the game winner in the final minutes of play after Soldotna had rallied from a 2-0 deficit to tie the game.
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1 month ago | 
ketchikandailynews.com | Richard Larson
In games next Friday and Saturday, the Kayhi boys and girls soccer teams will host Soldotna in their final contests against varsity teams before the state tournament, and the Kings’ baseball team hosts Sitka in a Southeast Conference series in its final home games before the Region V Championships. Meanwhile the Kayhi softball and track and field teams are in action in Sitka this weekend.
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1 month ago | 
ketchikandailynews.com | Richard Larson
It wasn’t the Hills from Hell, but it was still a hell of a lot of hills that runners had to negotiate over this year’s provisional 13.1-mile Totem to Totem course that rolled along the Tongass Highway and through neighborhoods around Point Higgins on Sunday.
