The Soldotna Star girls and Kenai Kardinal boys continued their winning ways as peninsula teams started their second round of intra-peninsula contests on Tuesday. Both the Lady Stars and the Kardinal boys stand at 5-0 on the basketball season.
SoHi Girls 54 – Kenai 35
The SoHi girls defense and the shooting of senior Morgan Bouschor pushed the Stars past the Kenai Kardinals on Tuesday at SoHi.
The Star girls opened a 17-4 lead in the first quarter and extended to 31-13 at the half. Morgan Bouschor lead SoHi girls with 21 points: Kenai’s Emma Beck lead all scorers with 24 points.
Kenai Boys 43 – SoHi 38
The importance of making freethrows was spotlighted on Tuesday at Soldotna High with the SoHi boys falling to the Kenai Kardinals 43-38. The Stars made only 3 or 19 freethrows for the game and shot 0 for 10 from the line in the fourth quarter. Kenai, in the fourth quarter made 7 of 14 from the line. Bridger Beck, off the bench, lead Kenai with 8 points: Ethan Sewell topped the Stars with 15 points.
Homer girls 55- Nikiski 25
The Homer girls held a narrow 19-16 lead at the half; then rolled over the Bulldogs in the second half with a 36-point effort.
Delilah Harris had 14 points for Homer: Lillian Carstens had 12 points for the Bulldogs.
Homer boys 50 – Nikiski 29
The Homer Mariner boys improved to 4-1 downing Nikiski 50-29. A low-scoring first half, Homer led 16-13 and pulled-away in the second half.
Clayton Beachy had 20 points for the Mariners: Drew Handley had 12 points to lead the Bulldogs.
Thursday, February 4: Basketball Schedule
B-Ball: Kenai @ Nikiski 6 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. KSRM 920AM and radiokenai.com
B-Ball: SoHi vs Seward @ SoHi 6 p.m. & 7:30 p.m. ESPN 1140AM and radiokenai.com
