Dick Iverson, Larry Clendenen and Inez ('lendenen and Joe Uran
don (background) of the Anchor River Sled Dog Racing Associa
tion are shown at the 1962 banquet that followed last year’s State
Championship Sled Dog Race. The Anchor River Association will
again officiate at this year’s championship race. Their first job
will be to oversee tho drawing for position that will be held on
Channel 8 TV Friday evening at 6:30 p.m.
Battling Kardinal Team
Wins Conference Trophy
Review
by Michaelene S. Pendleton
Friday, Feb. 15, the Kenai Kar
riinals beat the Kodiak Bears in
one of the hottest frames of the
season. After a hot battle, the
Bears went down by a score of
61 to 54. By winning this game
the Kenai Kardinals became the
Southcentral Conference cham
pions. The trophy was awarded
after the game by Kenai princi
pal. Von Phillips.
It was a close game all the
way with quarter scores in favor
of the Kardinals at 10 to 6, 25 to
15, 43 to 35.
Scorers for the Bears were
Stan Sargeant with 16, Richard
Mize with 12, Wayne Kozak with
BvRon Franklin with 7-, Rick Low
ry With 6, and Tom McCormick
wtih 4.
To'View. Pictures
Of Moose’;Range
Films and slides of the Kenai
National Moose Range will be
shown at the Soldotna Communi
ty Hall at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday,
Feb. 26. There is no charge for
admission and the public is in
vited to attend.
John R. Hakala, refuge manag
et of the Moose Range, will speak
and will answer questions put to
him concerning operation of the
Moose Range, its wildlife occu
pants and the current $200,000
recreation-conservation program
program now under way on the
vast wildlife refuge. Hakala s
topic will be “The Kenai Moose
Range, its Management; Past,
Present and Future Improvement
Projects.”
The meeting is being sponsored
by a community concern group
1 from the Methodist Church.
Wins Kart Race
Jimmy Gibbs, 19-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Gibbs of Sol
dotna, won first place Tuesday in
the A-Standard light weight com
petition in the kart races held at
Anchorage this week in connec
tion with Fur Rendezvous events.
(Mrs. Gibbs was notified of her
son’s victory by a telephone call
following the race. She left Wed
nesday morning to join her hus
band and son at Anchorage where
other members of the local kart
clulvthe Soldotna Moose Goosers,
planned to participate in other
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Kardinal scorers were Gary
Davis with 17, Thor Evenson with
16, Mike Tauriainen with 12, Gary
Martin with 8, Jim Hall with 4,
Larry Jordan with 2, and Guy
Hayes with 2.
Saturday another frame was
played between the Bears and
Kardinals which the Kardinals al
so won 04 to 51. This also was a
tijarht same though Kenai led all
the way. The quarter scores were
21 to 10, 25 to 29, and 45 to 29.
Kodiak scorers were Richard
Mize with 19, Ron Franklin with
18, Stan Sargeant with 12, Rick
Lowry with 8, Wayne Kozak with
2, and Tom McCormick with 2.
Scorers for Kenai were Mike
Tauriainen with 2Q points, Thor
Evenson with 16, Gary Davis
with 14, Larry Jordan with 9,
Gary Martin with 4, and Guy
Hayes with 1.
Gary Davis was one of the
highest scorers in the conference
and Thor Evenson was one of the
top rehounders; Mike Tauriainen
led the conference with the high
est pel1 cent of successful shots.
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Kardinals Defending Position
In Challenge Games with Wasilla
Cagers on Kenai Court This Weekend
' baiienge basketball ^ames,
with Wasilla as challenger and
Kenai as defender, began Thurs
day night on the Kenai High
School courts and will continue
h riday and Saturday nights in
a three-game playoff for a spot
in the Western Alaska High
School Athletic Association tour
nament in Anchorage next week,
(lames begin at 7:00 p.m.
The Kenai Kardinal team has
been selected by member teams
in the Association for fifth place
rating among the Association’s
24-member teams. The Kardinals
in their 61-54 defeat of the Ko
ak Hears last Friday night also
became the first champion team
in the South Central Basketball
Conference in which four high
schools participated in series play.
Only the top eight teams among
the 24 teams in the WAHSAA
will be entered in the tournament.
Playoff games are underway this
week with teams placing ninth,
First Soccer
Tournaments
Begin Mar. 9
The First Annual Kenai Pen
insula Soccer Tournaments will
be held at Sterling School on Sat
urday. March 9, beginning at 10
a.m.
Elementary schools invited to
participate are the Alaskan Chris
tian School at Homer and schools
at Anchor Point, Cooper Landing,
•ienai, Homer, Ninilchik, North
\ enai, Moose Pass, Soldotna.
Sterling, and Tustumena.
Inauguration of the tourna
ments is a part of the new poli
cies adopted at the recent meeting
of the Kenai Peninsula Teachers’
Assoc., whereby schools of var
ious areas will be permanent
sponsors of a specific activity
each year. Sterling School was
selected as the permanent spon
sor of the annual soccer tourna
ments.
“Soccer is an excellent activi
ty for Alaskan boys and girls,”
says Joe G. Widman, Sterling
School principal. “It helps take
the place of football and outdoor
winter basketball.”
The March 9 competition will
include two tournaments, one for
boys and one for girls. The tour
naments will be round robin com
petition, in which every school
will play every other school.
Length of the games will depend
upon the number of teams enter
ed.
Winners of the two tourna
ments will be determined by the
highest total score.
tenth, eleventh and twelfth in the
Association challenging the teams
previously chosen as the top eight.
If a challenging team is winner
in the playoff, that team assumes
the placing of the team it defeats
and thus enters the tournament.
The 12 teams placing highest
in the Association, in older of
their placing, are: (1) Fairbanks;
(2) East Anchorage; (3) West
Anchorage; (4) Eielson Air Force
Base; (5) Kenai; (6) Kodiak; (7)
Palmer; (8) Seward; (9) Homer;
(10) Cordova; (11) Nome, and
(12) Wasilla.
Should Wasilla, placing 12th,
defeat Kenai in the three-day
playoff, Wasilla will assume Ke
nai’s 5th-spot placing.
Other challenge games are
those between Seward (8) chal
lenged by Homer (9); Palmer
(7) challenged by Cordova (10)
and West Anchorage (3) chal
lenged by Nome (11).
The tournament to determine
the Western Alaska champion
team will be held at West Anch
orage High School on Feb. 28,
March 1 and 2.
Kenai Mat Men
Have Good Night
by Michaelene S. Pendleton
The Kenai Wrestling- team had
a very successful night at East
High of Anchorage on Saturday,
Feb. 16. Though East won the
meet, Kenai won a greater
amount of individual bouts than
ever before.
Larry Hobbs won his bout by
a decision; Kick O’Regan battled
it out to a 11 to 11 draw. Gary
Bonin won by a decision while
Darrel Leach lost by a decision.
Jerry Harvey won by a 15-2 de
cision but Frank Rivers lost by a
decision. J. C'. Vollentine won an
8-3 decision. Denny Van Sky lost
by a pin and Bob Lite won by a
3-1 decision. In the final bout of
the meet Dave Gagnon lost by a
pin.
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