The Kachemak Swim Club brought home 22 first-place, 14 second-place and eight third-place ribbons last weekend at the Valentines Invitational meet in Kenai. Nearly 80 percent of the swimmers earned best times and Jennifer Bitterman, Samantha Keeley, Anthony Augusto, Marie Schmidt, Hallie Hudson, and McKenzie Mahan all earn new qualifying times for the Junior Olympics meet to be held in April. The next meet for KCS will be in Homer on March 5 and 6. The long distance 1,000 and 1,650 yard freestyle will be on Friday night with the shorter distances Saturday.
HMS skied strong in Kenai
Patrick Schneider, Teal Laukitis and Thorey Munro each grabbed first place at the Kenai Middle School Invitational Ski Meet last weekend. Jill Temple earned second for the seventh-grade girls as did Gus Beck for the eighth-grade boys. The Middle School is hosting the Homer Invitational Saturday at the McNeil Canyon trails. The 3K race starts at noon with a sixth- grade/community race to follow.
Squirts take second
The Homer Squirt hockey team won two games en -route to a second-place finish in the Anchorage Presidents' Day Tournament last weekend. The Glacier Kings lost the championship game 6-3 to the Healy Coal Kings. Robert Lewis scored a hat trick in the opening game against the Ice Rangers of Anchorage and Kai Simmons added a goal for the 4-1 victory.
Lewis continued his hot hand scoring a double hat trick (6 goals) to lead the Mariners to a 7-5 win against Delta Junction and then adding two against Healy in the loss.
Men's league basketball
Grog Shop over Green Team: 71-40
Otter Room over Duggan's: 69-40
Coal Point over FNBA: 68-59
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