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Nikolaevsk senior Neil Gordeev shoots a basket over the head of defending Seldovia player senior Robert Waterbury during last weekend’s Peninsula Conference tournament played at Homer High School.-Photo by Anna Frost, Homer News

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Ninilchik girls, boys win conference title

Tired, disheveled, a bit banged up, but with joyous expressions on their faces, the Ninilchik girls basketball squad…

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Mariner girls pick up win against Kenai; boys falter

The Mariners girls basketball team scored a nonconference win over the Kenai Kardinals Tuesday evening, led by the…

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It will be a rebuilding year for Mariners

With such close parity in competition in the Class 3A Southcentral Conference, basketball teams on the Kenai Peninsula…

Homer junior Timmy Woo, right, attacks Wyatt Patten of Craig en route to winning the 152-pound championship at the Class 1-2-3A state wrestling tournament at Bartlett High last weekend. Woo helped lead the Homer Mariners to their first wrestling state title since 1986.-Photo by Joey Klecka, Morris News Service - Alaska

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Mariners win state wrestling title

Saturday night inside the packed Bartlett High gym, the Homer wrestling team celebrated an occasion almost 30 years…

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Homer earns 1st region wrestling title in 29 years

The Homer Mariners brought home the hardware Saturday at the Kachemak Conference wrestling championships, although they did not…

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Colony takes wins in wrestling duals; Mariners place 4th

Homer fought hard against Soldotna in the third-place duals at this weekend’s North-South Duals wrestling tournament, held Friday…

Hard work vaults Mariners into state title picture

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Hard work vaults Mariners into state title picture

This week, the Homer High wrestling team travels to what coach Chris Perk calls “the toughest meet in…

Homer junior Megan Pitzman (544) leads Anchorage Christian’s Elizabeth Balsan (408) and Seward’s Ruby Lindquist (703) in Saturday’s Class 123A girls state championship race at Bartlett High School in Anchorage. The Homer girls won their second straight cross-country team championship and the fifth in school history.-Photo by Joey Klecka, Morris News Service - Alaska

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Mariner girls run to state XC crown

Homer gave the Kenai Peninsula a sweep of the girls cross-country team titles by repeating last season’s Class…

Homer High School swimmer Griffin Downey swims in the Soldotna Pentathlon at Soldotna High School on Sept. 26. -Photo by Ben Boettger, Morris News Service - Alaska

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Kodiak claims Pentathlon crowns

Last Friday afternoon’s 34th Annual SoHi Pentathlon at Soldotna High School meet featured a little bit of new…

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Thunder Mountain inches past Homer in football

The small school Homer Mariners struggled to contain medium school Thunder Mountain High School Falcons running back Q’on…

Members of the 1967 Homer Nordic ski team pose in front of Homer High School. In front row, from left, are Milli Morawitz, Sally Calhoun, Gayle Gregory and Sally Barnett; in back row, from left, are Lynn Cason, Robbie Hoedel, Larry Martin and Dave Schroer, who was recently inducted into the Alaska High School Hall of Fame.-Photo provided by the Schroer family

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Homer’s Schroer inducted into Hall of Fame

When the state inducted a new class of luminaries into the Alaska High School Hall of Fame, the…

Mariner Crystal Crane takes a running leap during the Kenai Invitational last weekend.-Photo provided

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Kards clean up at home invite

It is hard to duplicate the kind of weekend that the Kenai Central track and field team enjoyed…

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CIA Classic settled by free throws

When the buzzer sounded Saturday night signaling the end of the final game of the CIA Classic tournament,…