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    Articles by Jeff Helminiak
    Soldotna sophomore Tania Boonstra runs to victory in the freshman-sophomore girls race at the Class Races on Monday, Aug. 14, 2023, at Nikiski High School in Nikiski, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)
    Class Races, run by Kenai cross-country, return to...
    By Jeff Helminiak • August 16, 2023 2:30 am

    The Class Races returned to Nikiski High School on Monday after not being held last season.

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    Homer hoists the Division III state championship trophy Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022, at Service High School in Anchorage, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)
    Football preview 2023: Conference shakeup alters landscape
    By Jeff Helminiak • August 10, 2023 2:30 am

    The high school football season kicks off this weekend with each of the five Kenai Peninsula schools affected by the…

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    Harrison Metz of the Peninsula Oilers delivers to the Anchorage Glacier Pilots on Saturday, July 22, 2023, at Coral Seymour Memorial Park in Kenai, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)
    From Little League to the Oilers
    By Jeff Helminiak • July 26, 2023 2:30 am

    Homer’s Hayes, Metz are on the same team again

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    Photos by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion
Ruairi Tuite of the Kenai River Wolfpack tries to break the tackles of Edgar Luna (top) and Keith McDaniel of the Fairbanks SunDawgs on Saturday at the Between the Tides Rugby Tourney at Millennium Square Field in Kenai.
    ‘A close kinship’
    By Jeff Helminiak • July 19, 2023 2:30 am

    Homer Irish Lords honored at Between the Tides Rugby Tourney

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Kenai’s Hayden Kumfer.
    Area wrestlers compete at national events
    By Jeff Helminiak • July 12, 2023 2:30 am

    A number of local wrestlers competed at the USA Wrestling Western States Championships and USA Wrestling Kids Nationals Tournaments recently.

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    The start of the junior Mount Marathon Race on Tuesday, July 4, 2023, in Seward, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)
    Norris wins 4th title, Marvin captures 3rd at...
    By Jeff Helminiak • July 12, 2023 2:30 am

    Palmer’s Christy Marvin, 42 and a mother of boys 16, 14 and 11, overcame a muddy lower mountain and a…

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    Skyline Trail, June 25, 2023. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)
    Out of the Office: Mind game
    By Jeff Helminiak • July 5, 2023 2:30 am

    Sunday at the Skyline Trail, a lost jacket gave me a chance for an endurance experiment.

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    Runners participating in the Homer Spit Run 10K to the Bay race begin the course at Homer High School on Saturday, June 24, 2023 in Homer, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)
    A perfect day to run
    By Jeff Helminiak • June 29, 2023 1:30 am

    Historic Homer races to the ‘end of the road’ had 160 participants

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    A racer flies through the air at the Alaska State Motocross Race 3 on Saturday, June 17, 2023, at Twin City Raceway in Kenai, Alaska. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)
    State motocross sees increased numbers
    By Jeff Helminiak • June 21, 2023 2:30 am

    State races were held last weekend in Kenai

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    State endurance events roundup
    By Jeff Helminiak • June 21, 2023 1:05 am

    Aldridge wins North Pole Tri, Arneson wins Bird Ridge, Atkinson leads area at Mayor’s Marathon

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    Anchorage's Carrie Setian leads Soldotna's Jenny Neyman in the Tsalteshi Backyard Ultra on Friday, June 9, 2023, along the Kenai River in Soldotna, Alaska. Setian won the event. (Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion)
    Setian captures Tsalteshi Backyard Ultra
    By Jeff Helminiak • June 14, 2023 2:30 am

    Anchorage’s Carrie Setian outlasted Girdwood’s Zach Behney and 13 other runners to win the second Tsalteshi Backyard Ultra on Friday…

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    Photo by Jeff Helminiak/Peninsula Clarion
The Soldotna baseball team won in the Division II state championship game Saturday, June 4, 2023, at Wasilla High School in Wasilla, Alaska.
    SoHi tops Kenai to repeat as Division II...
    By Jeff Helminiak • June 7, 2023 2:30 am

    The Soldotna baseball team retained the Division II state title with a 14-3 victory in five innings over Kenai Central…

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    Kenai Central ends run at state softball tournament
    By Jeff Helminiak • June 7, 2023 2:30 am

    The Kenai Central softball team ended its season with two losses Friday at the Division II state softball tournament at…

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