7-26-12 Pilots at Chinooks Game Report and Photos

It was a beautiful afternoon in Chugiak: sun, 70 degrees and a ball game in which the home town Chinooks hosted the league-champion Pilots. Thats right, I said champion! For those of you who are as ignorant as I was about the ABL rules, the league tiebreaker goes to the winner of the season series. [...]

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Pilots Fly into First

With the season at its approximate half-way point, the Anchorage Glacier Pilots find themselves in a position they’ve got to like: sole possession of first place in the league standings. It’s taken them a few hard weeks to get there, but the team is firing on all cylinders and looking back at the rest of [...]

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6/27/12 Pilots at Miners Game Report and Photos

It was Military Appreciation night at Hermon Brothers field, with the home team Miners donning their camo jerseys for a game against the Glacier Pilots of Anchorage. But few fans appreciated the weather, with temperatures dipping into the 40s and wind gusting hard from right to left on a dreary day. The few who managed [...]

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2012 Glacier Pilots Roster Preview

Well, it may not be much of a preview for you die-hards who made it out to the Pilots’ doubleheader against the Bucs yesterday, but since that was an exhibition game and the team has yet to log an official ABL inning, it’s still technically their pre-season. I do realize, though, that we’re cutting right [...]

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