Sports Briefs – May 2
Lady M’s getting their feet under them The Homer Lady Mariner soccer team is struggling early in the season, recently dropping a 0-4 shutout on the road against Palmer on Saturday. Homer defense stayed strong in the first half, holding the Moose scoreless. However, Palmer’s four second-half goals powered them to the win over the [...]
Track team tough enough to take the hard knocks
• M’s just getting warmed up as season heads into Borough meet By Sean Pearson Homer Tribune The Homer springtime scenario isn’t a new one: hordes of high school athletes don hoodies and masks amid a nebula of dust as they sweep up inordinate amounts of sand from area parking lots. The tidy transactions are [...]
Top Popeyes make short work of opponents
Popeye Wrestling Club sent 22 wrestlers to the Alaska Battle Cats Wrestling Tournament at Service High School over the weekend. More than 600 athletes from around the state journeyed to Anchorage to participate in the folk/freestyle competition.
Popeye wrestlers did their part to step up and represent the south Kenai Peninsula, bringing home a total of 12 medals amid a number of decisive wins. Popeyes Joshua Bradshaw, Austin Shafford and Teddy Croft each took first in their weight division.
Both Bradshaw and Shafford, who wrestle at 65 and 70 pounds, respectively, dominated all of their matches, winning each by fall — and in less than a minute. Bradshaw dropped his final opponent, Korbin Luecken of Mid-Valley in 21 seconds.
Sports Briefs – April 18
Fair offers free fishing fun Homer’s 23rd-Annual Youth Fishing Fair will be held on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Homer Middle School. The fair is free, with a 2 p.m. casting contest with prizes. For more information, call 235-7427. Sponsored by South Peninsula Sportsmen’s Association and the Alaska Department of Fish [...]
Down East dusts away broomball competition
• Family friendly sport is sweeping across Alaska, building lasting friendships By Sean Pearson Homer Tribune The Homer Broomball League, a division of the Homer Hockey Association, hosted its fifth-annual End of the Road Alaska Broomball Tournament last weekend at Kevin Bell Arena, welcoming five teams from Homer, Anchorage and Bethel. The ongoing tourney is [...]
Popeyes plunder Wasilla for wrestling wins
Fourteen Popeye wrestlers traveled to Wasilla over the weekend to compete in the Arctic Warrior Tournament. The Homer club brought back six medals, including two championships from Teddy Croft and Austin Shafford.
Shafford, who wrestles at 72-73 pounds, picked up four wins at the tourney. He grabbed the top spot after Wasilla’s Isaac Sironen was forced to default due to injury. Last weekend, Sironen edged Shafford to take first in the weight class. Future match-ups between the two talented wrestlers should prove interesting over the years.
Croft continued his winning ways with five victories in five matches in Wasilla. He extends his current undefeated streak to more than 20 matches.
Popeye Coach Chris Perk said Cole Bernier had a solid win over James Lamont of Tri-Valley. Lamont had previously beaten Bernier twice this year.
‘Tighty Whities’ jockey city title from Team T&J
Homer’s Tighty Whities wedged their way into local co-ed hockey history books with their 3-2 victory over Team T&J on Saturday at Kevin Bell Arena. The Spring Co-ed Hockey League Tournament pitted four city teams against each other for a chance to wield the coveted Golden Puck Bucket.
In early round-robin play, Team T&J scrambled Green Eggs and Slam 5-2, while Tighty Whities wiped out the Black Holes 3-2. High scorers in regulation play were Matt and Andrea Stineff, Steve and Jen Nevak and Dean Kildaw.
The battle for the bucket between Tighty Whities and Team T&J opened with a goalie showdown in the first period. Goalkeeper Michelle Hatton kept a tight lid on the Tighty Whitie net, turning away 12 T&J shots on goal.
Homer boys kick their game up a notch
Following a scoreless tie against the Moose on Saturday in Palmer, Mariner Soccer Coach Warren Waldorf is cautiously optimistic about his teams’ chances this year.
While the Homer varsity team is heavy with upperclassmen and strong on size, talent and speed, Waldorf can’t help but wonder how much better the team would be if they could actually practice on a field somewhere.
“We just came out of the gym, so this was our first game this season on an actual field,” Waldorf said of the Palmer contest. “The snow is finally starting to melt here on the upper field, but our season comes to a close pretty quickly.”
Waldorf said he looks for leadership this season from three seniors who have been with him and the Mariner soccer program for the last four years.
“Andre Lovett, Robin Glosser and Kyle Wisner are the backbones of our program,” he explained. “The team is kinda built around those three players.”
Sports Briefs – April 11
Down East sweeps up broomball win Down East Saloon Broomball team took first place in tournament play last weekend at Kevin Bell Arena. Teams traveled from Anchorage and Bethel to participate in the tourney, but Homer broomballers dominated play, taking the top two spots. The Beluga Bombers fought hard for their second-place title, and were [...]
Area athletes test their mettle at Sea to Ski
Ironman Michael Mumm didn’t stop with simply winning the 2012 Sea to Ski competition on Sunday. He pulled off a virtual triathlon “hat trick.”
Mumm bested 40 challengers in the grueling run, bike and ski race, finishing with an overall time of one hour, one minute and 52 seconds.
He also turned in the fastest times for each of the three events — just in case there was any doubt who would be this year’s Ironman.
Overcast skies, warmer temperatures and an abundance of muddy ice greeted this year’s participants in the Kachemak Nordic Ski Club fundraiser. Mumm and crew hit the pavement a little after 1 p.m. Sunday from their starting point at Mariner Beach.
It was all uphill from there.
