Thunder Mountain’s Josh Tupou dribbles up field past Sitka’s Hunter Ramp Saturday at Moller Field in Sitka. The Thunder Mountain boys soccer team stopped Sitka twice last weekend, defeating the Wolves 3-2 on Friday and 3-0 Saturday.

Ryan Hoover, Josh Tupou and Viliami Tupou scored on Friday. On Saturday Allen Shaw netted two goals and Saul Santana one. The Falcons improve to 3-9-1. The Falcons will play the Crimson Bears tonight at 5:15 p.m. in a cancer awareness game along with the JDHS and TMHS girls teams.

Don’t count these Falcons out anymore.

After coming back from a three goal deficit against the Ketchikan Kings on Saturday night, the Thunder Mountain girls soccer team showed more heart in just their third season of organized pitch play than can be found on the rosters of Manchester United or Man. City, well, if one could measure heart.

“It was a great feeling,” TMHS coach Kris Coffee said of the team’s second tie. “Our girls showed such determination and played hard. They did not give up.”

The Juneau-Douglas Crimson Bears boy’s soccer team swept Ketchikan over the weekend at Esther Shea Field, blanking the Kings twice by scores of 2-0 on Friday and 1-0 on Saturday.

“I heard one Ketchikan kid tell another that they made us earn it,” JDHS coach Gary Lehnhart said. “I think that is a good assessment. But having said that, I think our guys really controlled the run of play pretty well. Ketchikan had very few opportunities the entire weekend. I was pleased with our defense.”

For the first time in the 20 year history of the Kluane Chilkat International Bike Relay, the event has maxed out at the early registration deadline. The limit of 1200 participants was reached just as the early registration deadline closed on Friday night. A record 278 teams have registered.