Alaska High School Football Scores - Playoffs/1st Round

by Jeff Fisher
Alaska High School Football Huddle

While Soldotna and Kenai have become arch-rivals battling for Small School championships during the past decade, no one saw what happened Saturday coming.

Kenai upset the defending state champion Stars 28-12 Saturday in the semifinal round of the newly created Medium School division.  The Kardinals entered the postseason with a .500 record at 4-4, the Stars were riding a 19-game win streak.  Between the two schools, they had won the last nine Small School titles.

Kenai will play Homer (8-1) next week for the state championship.

Click here read the game story.

Alaska High School Football Scores
Saturday, October 8, 2011

Big School Quarterfinals
Anchorage South  38, West Valley  0
Anchorage West  59, Wasilla  36
Juneau-Douglas  7, Anchorage  6
Service  34, Palmer  32

Medium School Semifinals
Kenai  28, Soldotna  12

Small School Semifinals
Barrow  28, Monroe Catholic  14
Nikiski  55, Eielson  31

Alaska High School Football Scores
Friday, October 7, 2011

Medium School Semifinals
Homer  46, Thunder Mountain  7

Alaska High School Football Scores - Week 2

by Jeff Fisher
Alaska High School Football Huddle

For the second week in a row, Soldotna, the state's top-ranked team among medium and small schools, beat a large school.

The Stars beat Palmer 29-28.  The Moose had a chance to tie the game after Luke Heun scored with 2:04 to go in the game, but instead of kicking the extra point, Palmer went for two and was denied by Soldotna's defense.

Elsewhere, the Cook Inlet Conference saw something Saturday that it hadn't in three years.

Anchorage East beat defending Large Schools' Champ Anchorage West 28-9.  It was West's first conference loss since September 2008.

The East win was surprising because the Thunderbirds had only won two games over the last two seasons.


Alaska High School Football Scores
Saturday, August 20, 2011

Anchorage East  28  Anchorage West  9
Barrow  21 Eielson  20
Juneau-Douglas  57  North Pole  0
Kenai  48  Skyview  7
Monroe Catholic  45  Ketchikan  24
Service  42  Dimond  7
Soldotna  29  Palmer  28
Valdez  26  Seward  6

Soldotna Runs to Alaska Small Schools High School Championship

by Jeff Fisher
Alaska High School Football Huddle

Soldotna captured its fourth Alaska Small Schools state championship in the last five years beating Kenai 77-42 on Saturday.

The Stars (11-0) finished a perfect season by rushing for a state championship game record 641 yards rushing.  The Anchorage Daily News reports that Soldotna had 11 running plays of 30 yards or longer.

Soldotna and Kenai have combined to win the last nine Small Schools' championships

Top 10 Alaska High School Football Highlights

by Jeff Fisher
Alaska High School Football Huddle
Quite a start to the high school football season as the two top teams in the Alaska Sports Broadcasting Network Pre-Season Poll tumbled. #1 North Pole now has to go back to work in the Big Schools classification after a 17-7 loss to Colony. In Small Schools, pre-season #1 and three-time champ Soldotna took a double hit as the Stars lose their season-opener, plus see their 29-game win streak go down the tubes in a 34-21 loss to West.

Soldotna now goes into the record books tied with East for the longest win streak in Alaska high school football history.

Below check-out the Top 10 plays of this past weekend from KTUU-TV in Anchorage.

31 Teams Dreaming of Alaskan Gold Rush

by Jeff Fisher
Alaska High School Football Huddle
31 teams begin their drive for the golden First National Bowl high school football championship trophy this weekend. Three games kick-off the 2009 Alaska high school football season tonight with twelve games on tomorrow's schedule.

History may be made tomorrow when three-time defending Small Schools champ Soldotna faces Anchorage West. The Stars will be looking for their 30th straight win, which will set a new record for consecutive wins.

Service is the defending Big Schools champ.

The Anchorage Daily News has a nice preview of all of the Anchorage-area teams. Click here to read the opening night story.

Here are some other team previews:

Delta Junction
Lathrop
Monroe Catholic
Thunder Mountain

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Friday Games
Lathrop at Kenai, 6:30 p.m.
Nikiski at Homer, 6:30 p.m.
Chugiak at East, 7 p.m., Anchorage Football Stadium

Saturday's Games
Bartlett at Wasilla
Thunder Mountain at Sitka
Delta at Monroe
Valdez at Skyview
Eielson at Seward
Houston at Eagle River
Service at South
Soldotna vs. West
North Pole at Colony
Dimond at Palmer
Kodiak at Barrow
West Valley at Juneau

Practice Underway in Alaska

by Jeff Fisher
The High School Football Huddle

High school football practice officially began in Alaska and Tennessee this morning and there certainly was a contrast in temperatures for two-a-days...Knoxville was in the mid 80's; Anchorage in the mid 60's.


Soldotna will be looking for its fourth straight Alaska Small Schools championship. The Stars can also set a new state record for consecutive victories with a win in the season opener. Soldotna has won 29 straight.

Service is the Big Schools defending champ.

Soldotna Gets the Three-Peat

By Jeff Fisher
The High School Football Huddle

The third time wasn't the charm for Kodiak, but it was for Soldotna as for the third straight year they met for Alaska's Small Schools state championship. Soldotna won its third straight title with a 28-6 win, which also tied the Alaska record for consecutive wins at 29 straight.

Click here to read about the Stars championship.

Alaska High School Football Championship Game Webcasts

If you want to watch Saturday's Alaska high school football championship games, click here to watch a webcast of the Big Schools title game between Juneau-Douglas and Service or the Small Schools championship between Soldotna and Kodiak.

Big Schools Championship
Juneau-Douglas vs. Service 4PM EST

Small Schools Championship
Soldotna vs. Kodiak 8:30PM EST

Juneau-Douglas and Soldotna Ready to Defending State Titles

By Jeff Fisher
The High School Football Huddle

Alaska's Big Schools high school football championship game will feature two teams that weren't expected to make it to the title game. With seven losses between them, defending state champ Juneau-Douglas (6-4) will face Service(7-3) for the title on Saturday.

Juneau made it back to the championship game with a 28-27 come-from-behind win Saturday against unbeaten Anchorage South in the semifinals. Click here to read a recap of that game.

Service will play for its first title since 1999 after beating Alaska's other unbeaten big school North Pole 27-12 on Friday. Click here for a Service/North Pole recap.

In the Smalls School semis, Barrow's season of first ended with a 19-13 loss to Kodiak. Kodiak will play two-time defending state champ Soldotna, a 69-33 winner over Eielson on Saturday. Soldotna is now within one win of tying Alaska's consecutive win streak of 29 set by Anchorage East between 1985 and 1987.

Click here for a Kodiak/Barrow recap. Click here for the Soldotna/Eielson recap.

2008 High School Football Season Kicks-Off in Alaska

By Jeff Fisher
The High School Football Huddle

While the Lower 48 and Hawaii will have to wait a little bit for the regular season games to start, they're strapping on the helmets for real tonight and Saturday in Alaska.

How does footbal in Alaska differ? While most schools are sweating out two-a-days, there's already been snow at the Barrow Whalers practices. Of course, Barrow is the only school above the Arctic Circle, and is the northernmost city in the country. The team's blue astroturf field sits only 100 yards from the Arctic Ocean. Click here for a story on the Whalers entering their third season of football.

Barrow and 27 other schools from around the state open their eight week regular season this week, and Alaska High School Football Huddle is here to keep you up-to-date with news and scores from around the state.



Juneau, which was a perfect 11-0 last year, will be going after its third Big Schools' title in four years. The Soldotna Stars will be going for the three-peat in Small Schools. Click here for a story on the Crimson Bears and Soldotna trying to defend their titles.

Click here to read about Chugiak unveiling its new artificial turf in its opener against Wasilla.

Tonight's Games

Kenai at Lathrop, 7PM
Palmer at Anchorage East, 7PM
Wasilla at Chugiak 7PM
Soldotna at Nikiski 6PM

Saturday Games

Barlett at Anchorage West, 7PM
Colony at North Pole, 6PM
Delta Junction at Houston, 1PM
Eagle River at Dimond, 1PM
Juneau at West Valley, 1PM
Monroe Catholic at Homer, 2PM
Service at Anchorage East, 4PM
Seward at Kodiak, 2PM
Skyview at Barrow, 2PM
Valdez at Eielson 1PM

Soldotna Claims Second Straight Small Schools' High School Football Championship

Behind a powerful running attack, Soldotna (10-0) claimed the country's first high school football championship Saturday beating Kenai (7-3) 47-27 for the Alaska Small Schools' Championship.

The Stars' Wing-T offense was working to perfection at Anchorage Football Stadium amassing 570 rushing, which averaged out to 11 yards per carry. Three Soldotna players rushed for over 100-yards led by quarterback Anthony Griglione, who picked up 271 yards and ran for four scores. Running back Bryce Gardner tallied 156 yards and one score, and Marvin Tate picked-up 128. Griglione and Gardner both surpassed the 1,000 yard mark for the season in the game, while Tate finished the year with more than 900 yards.

It was the second straight state championship for Soldotna, which averaged 55 points and game and beat opponents by an average margin of 43 points coming into the contest. The title game was also closer than the match-up between the two in Week 6 when Soldotna crushed Kenai 70-14.

To read a complete game wrap-up, please click here.