Sports

Kenai, SoHi grab big gridiron victories

Kenai Central football put itself into the winning column this year with a 46-18 Northern Lights Conference victory over the Kodiak Bears, Saturday morning in… Continue reading

  • Aug 29, 2015
  • By Staff Report
Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Soldotna High School volleyball player  hits the ball over the net during a game on Saturday, August 29 at Nikiski High School.

Wasilla tops SoHi to defend Shayna Pritchard tourney win

The Wasilla Warriors defended their crown at the Shayna Pritchard Memorial volleyball tournament Friday and Saturday at Nikiski High School with a 2-1 victory over… Continue reading

  • Aug 29, 2015
  • By Staff Report
Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Soldotna High School volleyball player  hits the ball over the net during a game on Saturday, August 29 at Nikiski High School.

Nikiski drops Homer, Seward boots Voz on turf

Meeting for the first time as conference opponents, the Nikiski football team pulled out a 50-18 victory over the Homer Mariners Saturday afternoon in Homer.… Continue reading

  • Aug 29, 2015
  • By Staff Report

Friday: Mariners sweep Stars at home XC Invite

The host team Homer Mariners picked up a sweep of the team titles against Soldotna in Friday’s Homer Invitational cross-country meet.Megan Pitzman led a pack… Continue reading

  • Aug 29, 2015
  • By Staff Report

Kenai girls take 4th at Bartlett XC meet

The West Anchorage boys and the Chugiak girls charged to comfortable team victories Saturday at the Bartlett state preview meet in Anchorage, held at the… Continue reading

  • Aug 29, 2015
  • By Staff Report

Volleyball season preview: Area squads look to replace lost experience quickly

Volleyball is a sport heavily reliant on chemistry and cohesion, so experience counts. Each season, teams with tons of returning seniors take the lead early,… Continue reading

Week 3 football preview: Teams delve deeper into action

As fast and frantic as the early-season action has been on the Alaskan prep football scene, it may only intensify from here. Week 3 dawns… Continue reading

Birch Ridge golf report: Kenai Peninsula Open on the docket

Kenai Peninsula Open registration closed yesterday. We’ll have 30 amateurs and nine Alaska Club Professionals participating in this year’s championship. The KPO is the only… Continue reading

  • Aug 27, 2015
  • By Nolan Rose

Twin City Raceway to host season finales under the lights

Twin City to host night racingThe 3-8 mile dirt bullring in Kenai known as Twin City Raceway is hosting its season-ending weekend of races under… Continue reading

  • Aug 28, 2015

Bird Homestead golf report: Nearly 40 show up for Men’s Night

Bird Homestead Golf course is looking better and better every day. Tom Walsh, Larry Hamilton and the Bird Homestead crew have been working hard this… Continue reading

  • Aug 26, 2015
  • By Kelsey Slough

Kenai Golf Report: Atigun Cup Playoffs set for weekend

Kirk Hyman saved his best round ever at the Kenai Golf Course for the final day of the Kenai Open. His gross score of 78… Continue reading

  • Aug 25, 2015
  • By Gordon Griffin

Holy Rosary defeats CIA in soccer

Holy Rosary Academy notched a 1-0 coed soccer victory over Cook Inlet Academy on Saturday in Kenai, with the lone goal of the game coming… Continue reading

  • Aug 24, 2015
  • By Staff Report

Nikiski football defeats Barrow

The Nikiski football team pulled away from host Barrow for a 42-12 victory in small-schools action Saturday.Barrow got on the board first with a return… Continue reading

  • Aug 23, 2015
  • By Staff Report

Homer’s Morin captures Kenai Open

Homer’s Michael Houghton can still remember the first hole fellow Homer resident Chris Morin played at the Kenai Golf Course about 10 years ago.Morin’s initial… Continue reading

Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Service High School varsity runner Bryn Waite (right) attempts to pass a pack from West Valley High School during the Tsalteshi Invitational Cross Country race at Skyview High School on Saturday, August 22.

Gerlach, Jordan reign at Tsalteshi Invitational

Glennallen junior Briahna Gerlach and Chugiak senior Ty Jordan were the first to step into the void left by the graduation of Kenai Central’s Allie… Continue reading

Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion Service High School varsity runner Bryn Waite (right) attempts to pass a pack from West Valley High School during the Tsalteshi Invitational Cross Country race at Skyview High School on Saturday, August 22.

Kincaid, Brennan top Tsalteshi Cycle Series

Nathan Kincaid and Angie Brennan were the top riders Thursday in the seventh rendition of this year’s Tsalteshi Cycle Series at Tsalteshi Trails. Kincaid finished… Continue reading

  • Aug 22, 2015
  • By Staff Report

Prep football roundup

The Nikiski football team improved to 1-1 overall with a 42-12 victory in Barrow on Saturday.Both the Bulldogs and the Whalers (0-2 overall) play in… Continue reading

  • Aug 22, 2015
  • By Staff Report

Reimer leads Peninsula runners at Lost Lake

Adam Reimer led central Kenai Peninsula runners by placing 19th on Saturday in Seward.Matthew Shryock, running the second-fastest time in race history, won the race… Continue reading

  • Aug 22, 2015
  • By Staff Report

SoHi football holds off Colony

By JEREMIAH BARTZ Frontiersman.com PALMER — The Soldotna Stars haven’t made the trip to Colony High School since 2009. But one member of the 2015… Continue reading

  • Aug 22, 2015
  • By Jeremiah Bartz
Soldotna's Molly Erickson leads teammates Emily Werner, left, and Daisy Nelson down a decline in the trail during the Colony Invitational Aug. 15 at Colony High School in Palmer. Soldotna finished second in the girls team standings.

Cross-country preview 2015: A chance to fill 3-time champs’ void

The odd concurrence of Alaska having a top girls runner and one of the top boys runners in the nation has passed. Let the racing… Continue reading

Soldotna's Molly Erickson leads teammates Emily Werner, left, and Daisy Nelson down a decline in the trail during the Colony Invitational Aug. 15 at Colony High School in Palmer. Soldotna finished second in the girls team standings.