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Results posted for final snowmachine drag races of season

Results posted for final snowmachine drag races of season

Freddie’s Roadhouse, located at Mile 16 Oilwell Road in the Caribou Hills near Ninilchik, ended the snowmachine drag racing season Saturday with what it called… Continue reading

Results posted for final snowmachine drag races of season
Anchorage’s Lars Arneson, a 2009 graduate of Cook Inlet Academy, passes Seward’s Erik Johnson to take seventh place at the Mount Marathon Race on July 4, 2018, in Seward. Johnson finished eighth.(Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

Runners with peninsula ties win Crazy Lazy V

The mountain running season kicked off Saturday with Crazy Lazy V in Palmer, a six-mile run that starts at the Lazy Mountain trail head, and… Continue reading

Anchorage’s Lars Arneson, a 2009 graduate of Cook Inlet Academy, passes Seward’s Erik Johnson to take seventh place at the Mount Marathon Race on July 4, 2018, in Seward. Johnson finished eighth.(Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)
Saturday: Ice Dogs beat Bears, clinch Ravn Cup

Saturday: Ice Dogs beat Bears, clinch Ravn Cup

The Fairbanks Ice Dogs defeated the Kenai River Brown Bears 5-1 on Saturday in North American Hockey League play at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex… Continue reading

Saturday: Ice Dogs beat Bears, clinch Ravn Cup
3A state hoops: Nikiski girls clinch finals showdown, Kenai finishes 3rd

3A state hoops: Nikiski girls clinch finals showdown, Kenai finishes 3rd

The Nikiski girls used a powerful fourth quarter to pick up a 62-54 tournament semifinal victory over Barrow Friday night at the Alaska Airlines Center,… Continue reading

3A state hoops: Nikiski girls clinch finals showdown, Kenai finishes 3rd
Nikiski falls in 3A hoops title game to ACS

Nikiski falls in 3A hoops title game to ACS

On the opening tip of Saturday’s Class 3A girls state title game, the Nikiski girls basketball team had a chance to snap a 13-year championship… Continue reading

Nikiski falls in 3A hoops title game to ACS
West Valley boys soccer topples Soldotna

West Valley boys soccer topples Soldotna

The West Valley boys soccer team defeated Soldotna 4-0 on Friday at The Dome in Anchorage. West Valley improved to 2-0 on the young season,… Continue reading

West Valley boys soccer topples Soldotna
4A state hoops: SoHi boys, girls finish 5th after semifinal losses

4A state hoops: SoHi boys, girls finish 5th after semifinal losses

In a tournament full of upsets, the Class 4A boys state basketball championships have been anything but predictable. That is why the crowd Friday at… Continue reading

4A state hoops: SoHi boys, girls finish 5th after semifinal losses
3A hoops: Kenai, Nikiski

3A hoops: Kenai, Nikiski

It wasn’t pretty, but the Nikiski girls are moving on in the Class 3A state championship tournament. The third-seeded Bulldogs staved off the sixth-seeded Valdez… Continue reading

3A hoops: Kenai, Nikiski
Ice Dogs defeat Brown Bears

Ice Dogs defeat Brown Bears

The Fairbanks Ice Dogs defeated the Kenai River Brown Bears 5-2 on Thursday in North American Hockey League play at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex.… Continue reading

Ice Dogs defeat Brown Bears
In this scene from Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1962 film ‘Ivan’s Childhood,’ two characters kiss over a ravine in a birch forest.

Tangled up in Blue: In the birch grove

I’m ready for the snow to melt. I don’t want my fellow winter recreation enthusiasts to hate me for saying this, but as Seward is… Continue reading

In this scene from Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1962 film ‘Ivan’s Childhood,’ two characters kiss over a ravine in a birch forest.
West Valley boys soccer topples Kenai

West Valley boys soccer topples Kenai

The Kenai Central boys soccer team opened up its season with a 7-1 loss to West Valley at The Dome in Anchorage on Thursday in… Continue reading

West Valley boys soccer topples Kenai
Refuge notebook: 2 refuges on the Pacific Flyway share similarities, differences

Refuge notebook: 2 refuges on the Pacific Flyway share similarities, differences

In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt established Pelican Island, off the coast of Florida, as the first federal refuge. This put migratory bird conservation as a… Continue reading

Refuge notebook: 2 refuges on the Pacific Flyway share similarities, differences
SoHi squads win 1st day of 4A state hoops

SoHi squads win 1st day of 4A state hoops

Survive and advance. It’s an old cliche that coaches use, but it never loses meaning for basketball teams each March Madness. The Soldotna girls and… Continue reading

SoHi squads win 1st day of 4A state hoops
SoHi teams ready for deep 4A state fields

SoHi teams ready for deep 4A state fields

The trajectories that have taken the Soldotna boys and girls basketball programs to the Class 4A state tournament have been markedly different, but with March… Continue reading

SoHi teams ready for deep 4A state fields
Nikiski’s Bethany Carstens drives in a nonconference game at Soldotna High School this season. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Carion)

Carstens repeats as Class 3A Player of the Year

Nikiski senior Bethany Carstens repeated as the Class 3A Player of the Year in Knight’s Taxidermy/Alaska Association of Basketball Coaches All-State balloting announced Thursday. The… Continue reading

Nikiski’s Bethany Carstens drives in a nonconference game at Soldotna High School this season. (Photo by Joey Klecka/Peninsula Carion)
Nikiski, Kenai girls off to 3A state tourney

Nikiski, Kenai girls off to 3A state tourney

Two peninsula programs travel to the Class 3A girls state championship tournament this weekend with dreams of cutting down the nets Saturday, but both enter… Continue reading

Nikiski, Kenai girls off to 3A state tourney
Kenai River Brown Bears forward Trey LaBarge jumps between Cole Thiessen and Shane Hathaway of the Topeka (Kansas) Pilots on Friday, Feb. 2, 2019, at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)

Brown Bears ready to host Ice Dogs in final 3 home games of season

Kenai River Brown Bears interim head coach Dan Bogdan has any number of motivational ploys at his disposal as his squad gets ready to host… Continue reading

Kenai River Brown Bears forward Trey LaBarge jumps between Cole Thiessen and Shane Hathaway of the Topeka (Kansas) Pilots on Friday, Feb. 2, 2019, at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)
Ice racing report: Time to honor the old-timers

Ice racing report: Time to honor the old-timers

Slipping and sliding, bumping and rubbing. That is what it’s all about on the track with the Kenai Peninsula Ice Racers Association. The racers gather… Continue reading

  • Mar 18, 2019
  • By FAITH LINK For the Clarion
Ice racing report: Time to honor the old-timers
Owner/driver JT Hawkins in his #13 car sporting the checkered flag. (Photo provided by Kenai Peninsula Ice Race Association)

Ice Racing report: Ice racing turns to water racing

It was an extremely wet day of ice racing for the Kenai Peninsula Ice Race Association on Sunday, but a lot of fun was had… Continue reading

  • Mar 18, 2019
  • By FAITH LINK For the Clarion
Owner/driver JT Hawkins in his #13 car sporting the checkered flag. (Photo provided by Kenai Peninsula Ice Race Association)
Ice Racing report: Season wraps up, ice fishing event planned

Ice Racing report: Season wraps up, ice fishing event planned

The Kenai Peninsula Ice Racing Association ended the season with the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Soldotna this weekend. Many of the drivers gathered in… Continue reading

  • Mar 18, 2019
  • By FAITH LINK For the Clarion
Ice Racing report: Season wraps up, ice fishing event planned