The Homer and Kenai girls played to a 1-all tie, while the Mariners boys topped the Kardinals 1-0 on Tuesday night, April 16, in Peninsula Conference soccer action at Ed Hollier Field at Kenai Central High School. The Kenai girls are 1-0-1 in the league and 1-0-1 overall, while the Mariners are 0-0-1 and 0-0-1. […]
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The Soldotna girls and boys track and field teams swept the Soldotna Invitational on Friday and Saturday at an event where a surprising number of roads led to 2015 Kenai Central graduate Jonah Theisen. The Stars boys scored 214 points to top the 164 of runner-up and defending Division I state champion Colony. From the […]
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It’s not common to have an 18-game losing streak in a season, yet be 20-18-2-2 in the rest of the season, including 8-4-0-2 after the skid ended. It’s also not easy to finish a season in last place in a division, yet have plenty of reasons for optimism for the next season. The Brown Bears […]
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A number of Kenai Peninsula athletes nabbed top-eight finishes at the Russ Edwards Big C Relays at The Dome in Anchorage on Friday and Saturday. The meet had more than 950 athletes from 34 teams. The 4,000-meter distance medley relay for the Soldotna girls picked up the lone peninsula title on the day. The team […]
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The Peninsula Piranhas won the South Central Area Championships in Homer on Friday and Saturday. The Piranhas finished with 880 points, while Kachemak Swim Club had 427.5, the Soldotna Silver Salmon had 188.5 and the Seward Tsunami Swim Club had 151. The top three point earners in each gender and age group earn a trophy. […]
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This weekend Homer’s Rope Tow will host two days of events at the annual Homer RopeTowPalooza. Saturday is scheduled for the banked slalom competition and Sunday is the Rowan Springer Memorial Slush Cup. Registration for the events begins at 11 a.m. each day and the events start at noon. The registration fee is $20. The […]
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Quinoa. Vegetables. A warmup intended to get Kenai River Brown Bears players to smile. Periodization, whatever that means. Regular texts asking the skaters how they are feeling. Old-school hockey, it is not. And for that, blame Candace Nakagawa and John Bryan, co-directors of sports science, strength and conditioning for the Brown Bears. Over the past […]
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The Homer girls basketball team was eliminated from the Class 3A state tournament with a 60-32 loss at the Alaska Airlines Center in Anchorage last Thursday. The No. 5-seeded Mariners (18-11) were playing the No. 8 Wolves to make it to the fourth-place game. Sitka faced No. 6 Bethel for fourth place. As was the […]
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