Early January proves to be a great time to travel North for area basketball teams as the Soldotna Stars and Kenai Kardinals will board planes and travel for invitational basketball tournaments to open January high school basketball.
Kenai @ Nome Invitational Basketball Tournament
The Kenai girls and boys basketball team will test themselves against Western Alaska basketball programs at the Nome Invitational with games against 3A powers Kotzebue and Nome and 2A Unalakleet, which qualified both girls and boys to the 2022 2A state championships.
Thursday, January 5
Basketball: Kenai G & B @ Nome Basketball Tournament
…2 p.m. Kenai G vs Kotzebue
…3:30 p.m. Kenai B vs Kotzebue
Friday, January 6
Basketball: Kenai G & B @ Nome Basketball Tournament
…2 p.m. Kenai G vs Unalakleet
…3:30 p.m. Kenai B vs Unalakleet
Saturday, January 7
Basketball: Kenai G & B @ Nome Basketball Tournament
…5 p.m. Kenai G vs Nome
…6:30 p.m. Kenai B vs Nome
Soldotna @ Mt. McKinley Bank Basketball Tournament
The Stars girls and boys will face both 4A and 3A competition at the 2023 Mt. McKinley Bank Basketball Tournament hosted at Lathrop High School in Fairbanks.
The SoHi girls open against 4A Lathrop High School and the SoHi boys play 4A Ketchikan in the tournaments opening round in the round-robin format. Anchorage 3A power Grace Christian and Fairbanks 3A state qualifier Monroe fill out the tournament bracket.
Thursday, January 5
Basketball: SoHi G & B @ Mt. McKinley Bank Basketball Tournament @ Lathrop High School
…3 p.m. SoHi Girls vs Lathrop
…4:40 p.m. SoHi Boys vs Ketchikan
Friday, January 6
Basketball: SoHi G & B @ Mt. McKinley Bank Basketball Tournament @ Lathrop High School
…6:20 p.m. SoHi Girls vs Monroe
…8:00 p.m. SoHi Boys vs Monroe
Saturday, January 7
Basketball: SoHi G & B @ Mt. McKinley Bank Basketball Tournament @ Lathrop High School
…Noon SoHi Girls vs Grace
…1:40 p.m. SoHi Boys vs Grace
Nikiski vs Seward: Friday, January 6th
The Bulldogs play their first home basketball game with Peninsula Conference Seward traveling to Nikiski.
Friday’s game times are scheduled for 6 & 7:30 p.m. for the varsity games.
Follow the Bulldogs on KSRM 920AM and streaming live at radiokenai.com
