The 2021 Peninsula Conference Basketball Tournament, which features 1A schools from the Kenai Peninsula and Anchorage, opened at Soldotna High School on Thursday, March 18th and runs through Saturday’s championship games.
Lumen Christi School of Anchorage is the host school with all games scheduled for SoHi.
The Peninsula Conference tournament holds its championship games on Friday, allowing for a double-back round on Saturday to determine the 2nd Place teams.
Girls: Cook Inlet Academy, Lumen Christi, Ninilchik and Birchwood Academy
Boys: Cook Inlet Academy, Lumen Christi, Ninilchik, Nikolaevsk and Birchwood Academy
KSRM 920 AM will broadcast three games on Thursday, the championship games on Friday and the 2nd place games on Saturday. All broadcast games will be streamed live and free at radiokenai.com
Peninsula Conference Basketball Tournament @ SoHi
First Round Results: Thursday, March 18
Cook Inlet Boys 48 – Birchwood 38 Cole Moore scored 18 and Mason Ziegler added 14 for CIA.
Lumen Girls 61 – Ninilchik 19 Natalie Grubba scored 19 for Lumen.
Ninilchik Boys 73 – Nikolaevsk 46 Five players in double figures for the Wolverines lead by Landon Colburn with 17 and George Nelson with 15 points. The Wolverines made 13, 3-point baskets.
Cook Inlet Girls 35 – Birchwood 30 Tatum Rozak scored 18 for CIA.
Lumen Christi 82 – CIA 47
Friday, March 19
2:00 p.m. Girls Birchwod vs Ninilchik
3:45 p.m. Boys Birchwood vs Nikolaevsk
5:45 p.m. Girls Championship Game Lumen vs CIA on KSRM 920AM and radiokenai.com
7:30 p.m. Boys Championship Game Lumen vs Ninilchik on KSRM 920AM and radiokenai.com
Saturday, March 20
10:00 a.m. Boys Play-In Game
11:45 a.m. Girls 2nd Place Game on KSRM 920AM and radiokenai.com
1:45 p.m. Boys 2nd Place Game on KSRM 920AM and radiokenai.com
The tournament will crown a conference champion and award a 1A state tournament berth in both the girls and boys bracket. The Peninsula Conference, in an attempt to consolidate the 1A state tournament by ASAA, has been reduced to a single automatic berth to the state tournament and the second place teams will possibly be eligible for an at-large berth.
