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The Dimond hockey team, 2-0-0 in Cook Inlet Conference play this season, took a step out of conference on Friday night. The Lynx showed no signs of a let-up against Interior foe West Valley, defeating the Wolfpack 8-2. Tyler Thompson buried a pair of goals to lead Dimond. Shilo Vega also enjoyed a productive night, with a goal and two assists. West Valley, now 1-1 on its trip to Anchorage, takes on Service Saturday afternoon. Contact Kevin Wells at kwells@ktuu.com

Dimond's 9-0 Cook Inlet Conference victory over Service was highlighted by an unusual 5-on-3 shorthanded goal by Daniel Roberts.  The strike gave the Lynx a 3-0 lead that they would not relinquish.  Roberts ended the night with four goals.  Dimond also broke through five times on the man advantage. The win gives Dimond a 6-0-0 start to conference play, while Service drops to 5-2-0.

The South Wolverines edged rival Service, 1-0 in an exciting Cook Inlet Conference game on Tuesday night.  The victory gives the Wolverines a season sweep of the Cougars, and puts South 6-1-1 in league play.  Service drops to 6-3-0.   Zach Aregood's first period tally held up, thanks to 19 saves from Trevor Gutierrez. Also in CIC play, Dimond remained undefeated by shutting out Chugiak, 5-0.  Lucas Dubie scored a goal and added an assist for the Lynx.  Thomas Davis made 18 saves to collect the shutout .

The Dimond hockey team stayed undefeated and booked a trip to the Cook Inlet Conference championship game with a 2-1 victory over East on Thursday night at Ben Boeke Arena.  Kainoa Kitigawa scored early to give the T-Birds a 1-0 lead, but the Lynx rallied to tie the score by the end of the first period.  Lucas Dubie then buried the game-winner with 6:35 remaining in the third.  The Lynx will face rival South in the finals on Saturday night.  The Wolverines scored three goals within the opening five minutes of  the third period to down Service, 4-1 in the CIC's other semifinal.

The buildup to Friday's Dimond-West boys basketball game surrounded a father-son matchup of Eagles coach Brad Lauwers against the Lynx, and senior guard Dylan Lauwers.  The story became the fact that Dimond handed top-ranked West its first loss of the season against Alaska competition, 51-38.   The younger Lauwers wasn't any spectator, scoring 11 points against his dad's team.  Ryden Hines led  the Lynx with 17.  West was limited to 22 percent shooting from the field.

Service gave Dimond all it could handle, but the Lynx prevailed, 3-2 on Wednesday night at Ben Boeke Arena.  The result clinches the CIC hockey regular season title for the Lynx ( 13-0-0 in conference ). The Cougars took a 1-0 lead less than three minutes into regulation on a tally by Jeremy Smith, although the Lynx were able to tie it up by period's end.   Dimond took a lead it would not relinquish in the second, when Tyler Thompson scored with 4:51 left in the frame.  Austin Browning made it 3-1 early in the third and Dimond held on from there to collect the victory.

A clean slate, a new page, a change of culture, all clichés, but all three might apply to the Dimond Football Program. Last year, the Lynx were the only CIC school to finish 0-8, a rare fall from grace for the annual contender. Chris Borst, the first year Lynx coach, hopes to turn that around. To make that happen, Borst has nearly 100 players to work with, including two key players who will be returning. Dylan Afusia, senior running back, and Nathan Stephens, junior running back/line backer, have an idea of what it will take for the Lynx to forget about the rough 2009 season.

For only the second time in state baseball tournament history, two Anchorage schools will meet for the championship.  South defeated Lathrop in Friday's first semifinal, 6-5, while Dimond outlasted West Valley, 10-2 to set up a matchup for the title Saturday afternoon.  For the Wolverines, Kyle Frazier continues to swing a hot bat.  Frazier hit a home run for the second straight game and also came up with a diving catch to erase a...

The Dimond Lynx proved clutch in the late innings and took down rival South in two separate games on Friday to claim their second straight state American Legion Baseball title.  Dimond won the first game in 10 innings against previously unbeaten South, 8-4 and then took the evening winner-take-all final in the double elimination tournament, 5-4.  The two teams provided plenty of drama in what amounted to nearly seven hours of...

Ryden Hines, a first team all-state basketball player in the 2011-12 season for Dimond High School, has committed to play college basketball at Iona.  As a senior with the Lynx, Hines led the team to the state 4A championship.  After graduating high school, Hines, a 6 foot 9 forward, spent this past season playing for Impact Basketball Academy in Las Vegas.  Hines joins a program that has won the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference in...

Adam Klie was nearly perfect on 10 of 11 shooting from the field while Marques Robinson added 18 points as the Service boys basketball team avenged a regular season loss to East at the buzzer by defeating the T-Birds, 70-45 in Saturday's title game of the Cook Inlet Conference.  Both schools will head to the state tournament. Klie scored 25 points in all as Service pulled away from East with a 27-9 edge in the third quarter.  The Cougars shot 71% in the second half.  Austin Huss was the only East player to reach double figures with 12. In the girls tournament, Dimond repeated as Cook Inlet Conference champion by hammering West in the finals, 76-49.  Tara Thompson led five players in double figures with 20 points, while Thompson and Rohyn Huss combined to make nine of nine shots from three point range.  The Lynx led from the opening tap, and pushed their advantage to 47-14 by halftime.  Both the Lynx and Eagles advance to the state tournament in two weeks.

The South high school hockey team rallied from a 2-0 deficit after one period to knock off previously unbeaten and defending state 4A champion Dimond, 4-3 on Wednesday night in at a packed Ben Boeke Arena.  Trailing 3-2 into the third period, Steven Orizotti scored the tying goal with 2:25 left in regulation and then Tyler Onstott buried the game-winner on the next shift with 1:48 left. The victory snaps Dimond's 39-game winning streak.  The Lynx, who ran the table en route to last season's championship, had won every game this year as well.  Dimond's last loss came in the semifinals of the 2011 state semifinals to Service.  Tyler Andrews had a goal and two assists for the Lynx.

Mt. Edgecumbe claimed its second straight state 3A volleyball championship with a four game win over Grace Christian 25-21, 13-25, 25-17, 25-22.  The Braves also defeated the Grizzlies in the 2011 finals. The 4A tournament took a dramatic turn as Dimond gave South its first loss of the tournament in the championship round, 25-16, 25-20, 25-22 to force a decisive tie-breaker game to 30 points.  The Lynx also won that final game, 30-27 to earn their fourth state championship in the last five years.  Dimond repeated the path it took to claim the Cook Inlet Conference title a week ago.  In that tournament, the Lynx also lost to the Wolverines in the finals of the winners bracket, only to claim the title in the championship round.

On Saturday night, The Dimond Lynx boys soccer team ended the two year reign of the Juneau Douglas Crimson Bears by beating the capital city club 1-0 in the  2012 Alaska State Championship.  A hard fought contest the Lynx earned their loan goal on a Travis Merritt penalty kick late in the first half.  After the game Merritt, a senior, said "I can't even describe the feeling that I'm feeling right now, amazing the best feeling I've ever had...

The Juneau boys and South Anchorage girls soccer teams will look to defend their state championships on Saturday after both teams slipped past their semifinal opponents. Juneau's Johnny Joyce scored in extra time to lift the Crimson Bears by West, 2-1 in one state semifinal.  Juneau will play for its third consecutive state crown Saturday against Dimond, which hasn't won the championship since 2002.  The Lynx defeated rival South, 3-0 in the semis, scoring all three goals in the final seven minutes on strikes by Travis Merritt, Michael Sedor, and Austin Portch.

The Dimond Lynx proved clutch in the late innings and took down rival South in two separate games on Friday to claim their second straight state American Legion Baseball title.  Dimond won the first game in 10 innings against previously unbeaten South, 8-4 and then took the evening winner-take-all final in the double elimination tournament, 5-4.  The two teams provided plenty of drama in what amounted to nearly seven hours of...

The Dimond Lynx broke open a tie game with four runs in the top of the eighth inning to pull away from the Fairbanks 49ers for a 6-2 win, sending the defending state champions back to the Alaska State American Legion Baseball Championship Game.  Mitchell McCoy delivered the tie-breaking RBI double for the Lynx, while Sagan Osborne capped the rally with a two-run double.  Dimond will take on South in the finals, but the...

The matchup of the reigning state high school champion and the defending American Legion champion went the way of South on Monday.  The Wolverines pounded out 12 hits to defeat the Dimond Lynx, 12-5 and stay undefeated in the double elimination state legion tournament. South advances to face Fairbanks in the winner's bracket finals, while Dimond falls into the loser's bracket. Bryan Baker had the big blow for South, a three-run triple that broke a 2-2 tie in the Wolverines' five-run fourth inning.  Pat Enslow and Kyle Frazier each had two hits, while recent junior varsity call-up Andrew Martin belted a home run.         

The Dimond Lynx racked up 8 runs on 9 hits in their 8-4 victory over the Service Cougars Saturday.  The victory securing a spot in the BP Exploration Invitational Tournament semifinals Sunday against South, a rematch of the High School State Championship which the Wolverines won. The Lynx played from behind early, in the bottom of the second inning Service's Johnny Meszaros made his aluminum bat ping in a way that immediatly let the fans know, that...