Upcoming events
Volleyball: The Lady Mariners will play against Grace Christian School on Friday and Anchorage Christian School on Saturday. Both are away games.
Cross-country: The cross-country team will host the Homer Invite at 4 p.m. Friday on the Homer Spit.
Football: The Homer Mariners football team will play against Eielson High School in an away game at 1 p.m. Saturday.
Swim and Dive: Members of the Swim and Dive team will host the Homer Invitational starting at 5 p.m. Friday with diving only and continuing at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Kate Kuhns Aquatic Center
In review
Volleyball
The Lady Mariners traveled last weekend to compete in the North-South tournament in Houston, where Nikiski High School took first place. Homer took third along with Houston High School, while Seward took second after losing to Nikiski in the finals.
Below is a shakeout of the Homer team’s games on the second day of the tournament. The first day was pool play:
Homer v Nome: 25-18 (win)
Statistics — Brianna Hetrick: 15 assists, 1 block, 4 digs, 6 aces; Kelli Bishop: 8 kills, 3 digs; Marina Carroll: 5 kills, 1 block, 5 digs, 3 aces; Kitri Classen: 7 digs, 2 aces, 1 kill, 1 assist
Homer v Nikiski: 13-25 (loss)
Statistics — Brianna Hetrick: 5 assists, 1 kill, 2 digs, 1 ace; Mariona Carroll: 2 kills, 2 aces; Kitri Classen: 5 digs
Football
The Mariners took a tough loss against Houston last weekend in an away game that ended 59-0. Below is a breakdown of the results:
Hawks 59, Mariners 0
Houston: 21, 13, 19, and 6 — for a total of 58
First quarter:
Houston TD — Fono, 27 run (run failed) at 11:45
Houston TD — Sasiu, 45 interception return (Sasiu from Mulhaney) at 3:52
Houston TD — O. Mulhaney, 59 pass from G. Mulhaney (Whitted kick) at 0:41.
Second quarter:
Houston TD — O. Mulhaney, 5 run (Whitted kick) at 2:42
Houston TD — G. Mulhaney, 1 run (kick failed) at 1:58
Third quarter:
Houston TD — O. Mulhaney, 79 kickoff return (kick failed) at 11:45.
Houston TD — Sasiu, 49 interception return (kick blocked) at 5:55.
Houston TD — Croghan, 57 interception return (Whitted kick) at 7:22
Fourth quarter:
Houston TD — Croghan, 15 run (kick failed) at 11:52.
Individual statistics:
Rushing — Homer: Kalugin with 4-15, Fisk with 4-10, Golick with 6-8, No. 99 with 3-7, Hicks with 2-4, Bradshaw with 2-(-3), and Hrencher with 3-(-14). Houston: Fono with 7-58, O. Mulhaney with 6-33, G. Mulhaney with 3-4, O’Connor with 3-3, with Sasiu 2-13, with Croghan 2-12, with Bay 2-5, with Ratcliffe 1-1, and Bolduc with 1-(-5).
Passing — Homer: Kalugin 2-10-4—12, Bradshaw 3-7-0—18; Houston: G. Mulhaney 4-7-0—93.
Receiving — Homer: Hrencher 1-8, Goana 1-7, No. 16 1-6, Golick 1-6, Wood 1-3; Houston: O. Mulhaney 3-77, Faloniko 1-16.
Cross-country
The boys and girls cross-country teams from Homer competed in the Frank Dieckgraeff Invite last Friday in Seward. Both teams placed fourth overall.
Boys
Team scores: 1. Anchorage Christian, 70; 2. Colony, 72; 3. Soldotna, 80; 4. Homer, 94; 5. Wasilla, 120; 6. Palmer, 130; 7. Kenai, 151; 8. Seward, 171.
Individual 5-kilometer results
1. Tristian Merchant, ACS, 16 minutes, 47 seconds; 2. Gavin Block, Col, 17:29; 3. Luciano Fasulo, Hom, 17:30; 4. Mekbeb Denbrock, Sol, 17:32; 5. Eyoab Knapp, Hom, 17:34; 6. Lane Meier, Col, 17:38; 7. William Parks, ACS, 17:43; 8. Bill Rich, Hom, 17:47; 9. Neil Lindquist, Sew, 17:48; 10. Kaleb Smith, ACS, 17:51; 11. Landon Hayes, Was, 17:53; 12. Maison Dunham, Ken, 17:55; 13. Joshua Davis, ACS, 17:56; 14. Connor Owens, Pal, 18:02; 15. Lance Chilton, Sol, 18:12; 16. Amiqaq Maclean, Pal, 18:16; 17. Bradley Walters, Sol, 18:25; 18. Sullivan Menard, Col, 18:27; 19. Max Pfeiffenberger, Sew, 18:30; 20. Jack Harris, Sol, 18:31; 21. Norse Iverson, Col, 18:32; 22. McKinley Larson, Was, 18:34; 23. Kolten Greathouse, Was, 18:37; 24. Anchor Musgrave, Sol, 18:38; 25. Nathaniel Good, Col, 18:39.
26. Jake Waterhorse, Col, 18:45; 27. Joe Hamilton, Ken, 18:45; 28. Samuel Logsdon, Was, 18:49; 29. Tucker Mueller, Ken, 18:52; 30. Garrett Streit, Col, 18:53; 31. Corbin Mattingly, Hom, 18:55; 32. Levi Miller, Pal, 19:00; 33. Mike Reem, Pal, 19:00; 34. Michael Pereat, Un, 19:00; 35. Blaine Henning, Un, 19:06; 36. Nathanael Johnson, Sol, 19:07; 37. Noble Gurney, Pal, 19:09; 38. Trevor Wilson, Un, 19:13; 39. Alexander Logsdon, Was, 19:16; 40. Ethan Copp, Pal, 19:22; 41. Travis Rooney, Was, 19:24; 42. Tobias Robinson, ACS, 19:31; 43. Hudson Horwath, Was, 19:32; 44. Samuel Roberts, Ken, 19:33; 45. Luke Cross, Ken, 19:35; 46. Caleb O’Hara, ACS, 19:45; 47. Evan Stockton, Ken, 19:45; 48. Wyatt White, Ken, 19:48; 49. Bjorn Nilson, Sew, 19:53; 50. Austin Cline, Hom, 19:55.
51. Samuel Koster, Sew, 20:09; 52. Levi Deboard, Sew, 20:15; 53. Tyler Chingliak, Ak, 20:20; 54. Clayton Beachy, Hom, 20:24; 55. Brendan McMurray, Sew, 20:32; 56. David Weisser, Hom, 20:32; 57. Don Wendall, Sol, 21:04; 58. Henry Simmonds, Un, 21:46; 59. Nick Hanks, Hou, 21:50; 60. Daniel Szepanski, ACS, 23:12; 61. Nicholas Charles, Ak, 23:37; 62. Macrae Brotzman, Hou, 24:25; 63. Josh Smoldon, Hou, 25:52; 64. Nico Wilkinson, Hou, 25:52; 65. Tyson Ivanoff Sample, Ak, 26:04.
Girls
Team scores: 1. Kenai, 47; 2. Palmer, 62; 3. Soldotna, 80; 4. Homer, 95; 5. Colony, 99; 6. Wasilla, 129; 7. ACS, 176.
Individual 5-kilometer results
1. Katey Houser, Pal, 19:19; 2. Allison VanPelt, Was, 19:21; 3. Jaycie Calvert, Ken, 20:06; 4. Autumn Daigle, Hom, 20:25; 5. Brooke Miller, Hom, 20:49; 6. Jordan Strausbaugh, Sol, 20:59; 7. Brooke Satathite, Ken, 21:07; 8. Leah Fallon, Ken, 21:08; 9. Sophia Nowers, Pal, 21:17; 10. Erika Arthur, Sol, 21:23; 11. Logan Satathite, Ken, 21:28; 12. Tanis Lorring, Sol, 21:41; 13. Lydia Ortiz, Pal, 21:50; 14. Lydia Bushey, Col, 21:53; 15. Nina Kalytiak, Pal, 21:57; 16. Katia Holmes, Hom, 21:59; 17. Abbi Boucher, Was, 22:09; 18. Summer Foster, Ken, 22:16; 19. Sofija Spaic, Col, 22:21; 20. Katie Stockton, Ken, 22:32; 21. Monica Bustillos, Col, 22:34; 22. Abby Novak, Col, 22:38; 23. Claire Smith, Col, 22:39; 24. Zoe Copp, Pal, 22:41; 25. Cameron Blackwell, Sol, 22:49.
26. Kylee Deering, Col, 22:50; 27. Ellie Burns, Sol, 22:59; 28. Alyssa Miles, Col, 23:07; 29. Jordan Ruffner, Sol, 23:13; 30. Emily Tedrick, ACS, 23:22; 31. Victoria Denison, Sol, 23:23; 32. Caroline Bohlman, ACS, 23:43; 33. Destiny Reimers, ACS, 23:57; 34. Kara Super, Hom, 23:58; 35. Giselle Rachels, Was, 24:00; 36. Mariah McGuire, Hom, 24:18; 37. Shandelle Breshears, Was, 24:23; 38. Brynn Steiner, Was, 24:30; 39. Andrea Apthorp, Was, 24:36; 40. Acacia Chingliak, Ak, 24:53; 41. Kelsey Smallwood, ACS, 24:57; 42. Hailey Wilson, Un, 26:02; 43. Kyla Smith, ACS, 26:03; 44. Haylee Overson, Hom, 26:58; 45. Kathryn Difuntorum, Un, 28:28.
