Weekly sports highlights

Upcoming events:

Hockey: The Homer High School hockey team will face off against Dimond at 7 p.m. today, Thursday, at home. They’ll continue at 7 p.m. Friday against West Anchorage and at noon on Saturday against East Anchorage, also at home.

Cross-country skiing: Homer’s Nordic ski team will head to Kenai to compete at 2 p.m. Friday, Jan. 26. Then the team will head to Seward on Saturday, Jan. 27 to compete at a time to be announced.

Girls and Boys Basketball: The girls basketball team will compete at the Delta Tourney over the weekend today, Friday and Saturday. They will play Nikiski at home on Tuesday, Jan. 23.

In review:

Other sports

City basketball league — winter break is over and the league is back at it. Here are the Week 12 standings:

1. Best Western Riptide 11-3

2. Bay Welding Smooth Ops 10-4

3. Pathfinder Aviation Splash Bros 9-4

4. Alaska Bible Institute 7-7

5. Umanski Properties K-12 6-8

6. The Titans 4-9

7. L.F.S-Kachemak Gear Shed 1-13

High school sports

Cross-country skiing: From assistant coach Alison O’Hara:

“The ski team went to Government Peak in Hatcher Pass for a two-day race this past weekend. Day No. 1 featured a 5 Kilometer skate followed by a 5K classic race on Day No. 2. GPRA has an exciting new race course which heads straight uphill for about 1K with a few short flat spots to catch your breath. Toward the top there are some technical spots where skilled skiers can use some strategy to navigate the course in hope of shaving a few seconds off their time.

“Luckily hills are what the Mariner’s do best and it showed. Homer put four skiers on the podium which made the team and coaches very happy. Senior Denver Waclawski had a fantastic classic race which pulled him up from 13th place on (the first day) to a 6th place overall finish. Denver has been working very hard this ski season so we were thrilled to see him rewarded for that!

“Also noteworthy is the Mariner Girls Varsity Team won the entire team classic race on (the second day). There aren’t any seniors on the girls team this year. In another year they will surely be formidable.

“The race was a Region 3 Mat-Su Invite with nine schools in attendance.”

Here’s how Homer skiers placed in the various races over the weekend:

Friday five-kilometer boys freestyle: 6. Jacob Davis, 15:11; 13. Denver Waclawski, 15:52; 18. Caleb Rauch, 16:43; 29. Andy Super, 18:39; 32. Josh Wisner, 18:45; 35. Ben Kettle, 19:13

Saturday five-kilometer boys classic: 4. Jacob Davis, 16:06; 6. Denver Waclawski, 16:35; 29. Josh Wisner, 20:48; 30. Ben Kettle, 21:20; 34. Andy Super, 23:46.

Two-day cumulative times: 5. Jacob Davis, 31:17; 7. Denver Waclawski, 32:28; 29. Josh Wisner, 39:33; 31. Ben Kettle, 40:34; 34. Andy Super, 42:25.

Girls:

Friday five-kilometer girls freestyle: 6. Katia Holmes, 18:05; 7. Autumn Daigle, 18:09; 17. Katie Davis, 19:37; 35. Brita Restad, 22:35; 41. Ellie Syth, 27:25.

Saturday five-kilometer girls classic: 5. Katia Holmes, 19:44; 9. Autumn Daigle, 20:24; 13. Zoe Stonorov, 21:49; 16. Katie Davis, 22:06; 21. Brita Restad, 22:31; 40. Ellie Syth, 32:22.

Two-day cumulative times: 5. Katia Holmes, 37:49; 9. Autumn Daigle, 38:33; 28. Brita Restad, 45:06; 39. Ellie Syth, 59:47.

Bascketball: Both the boys and girls basketball teams had busy weekends

Friday boys:

Mariners 58, Hawks 33

Homer 15, 11, 17, 15 —58

Houston 7, 5, 4, 17 —33

3-point goals — Homer had 8 (J. Beachy with 4, Etzwiler with 2, and Davis with 2); Houston had 4 (Wyrick with 2, Mulhaney with 1, and Ritter with 1).

Team fouls — Homer with 14; Houston with 10. No one was fouled out.

Friday girls:

Mariners 40, Huskies 25

Homer 10, 8, 12, 10 — 40

Redington 8, 2, 7, 8 — 25

3-point goals — none. Team fouls — Redington had 16, Homer had 14. Aparezuk was fouled out.

Saturday boys:

Mariners 74, Huskies 42

Homer 13 21 18 22 —74

Redington 10 7 12 10 —42

Homer (74) — 26 12-21 74.

Redington (42) — 16 5-7 42.

Birchwood boys 43, Nikolaevsk 37

Hockey: The Mariner hockey team had a tough weekend Jan. 11-13 in the Mat-Su Valley, where the players lost two out of three games.

Thursday, Jan. 11: Warriors 1, Mariners 0

First period — no scoring. Penalties — Homer had 1 for 2 minutes; Wasilla had 1 for 2 minutes.

Second period — no scoring. Penalties — Homer had 2 for 4 minutes.

Third period — 1. Wasilla, Holler (Carney, Larson), 5:03. Penalties — Homer had 1 for 2 minutes; Wasilla 1 for 2 minutes.

Shots on goal — Homer 7-8-3—18; Wasilla 14-7-6—27.

Goalies — Homer, H. Warren (27 shots, 26 saves); Wasilla, Campbell (18 shots, 18 saves).

Friday, Jan. 12: Knights 5, Mariners 2

First period — no scoring.

Second period — 1. Colony- Diltz (Reid, Evans) 13:35; 2. Homer- Kuzmin (Pitzman, Weston) 0:13.

Third period — 3. Homer- S. Warren (unassisted) 12:47; 4. Colony- Smith (Ketchum) 11:48; 5. Colony- Riekena (Diltz, Smith) 5:48; 6. Colony- Smith (Hessinger) pp 2:49; 7. Colony- Diltz (Smith) en 0:06.

Shots on goal: Homer 4-3-8—15, Colony 12-14-12—39; Saves: Homer- H. Warren 13-13-8—34; Colony- Doss 4-2-7—13.

Saturday, Jan. 13: Homer 4, Palmer 0

First period — no scoring.

Second period — 1. Homer- Kuzmin (S. Warren, Pitzman) 10:25; 2. Homer- S. Warren (Kuzmin) 1:22.

Third period — 3. Homer- Pitzman (unassisted) 14:39; 4. Homer- Pitzman (unassisted) 10:05.

Shots on goal: Homer 7-15-7—29, Palmer 2-3-5—10; Saves: Homer- H. Warren 2-3-5—10; Palmer- O’Rourke 7-13-5—25.

Tuesday: Mariners 10, Stars 1

Soldotna 0 1 0 — 1

Homer 1 3 6 — 10

First period — 1. Homer, Ross (Kuzmin), 7:32. Penalties — Soldotna had 1 for 2 minutes.

Second period — 2. Homer, Blakely (Weston), 2:28; 3. Homer, Nevak (Dean, Carey), 4:43; 4. Soldotna, B. Urban (un.), 8:56; 5. Homer, Gilliland (Sholz), 14:02. Penalties — Soldotna had 2 for 4 minutes; Homer had 1 for 2 minutes.

Third period — 6. Homer, Weston (Ross, Dean), 0:53; 7. Homer, Blakely (Gilliland), 4:14; 8. Homer, Weston (un.), 5:12; 9. Homer, McCarron (Gilliland), 6:58; 10. Homer, Blakely (Stafford, Gilliland); 11. Homer, Williamson (Weston, Gilliland), 12:19. Penalties — Soldotna had 2 for 4 minutes; Homer had 2 for 4 minutes.

Shots on goal — Soldotna 1-4-2—7; Homer 15-13-12—40.

Goalies — Soldotna, Wirz (40 shots, 30 saves); Homer, Polushkin (7 shots, 6 saves).