Sports

With Day 1 of LKSD’s District Basketball Tournament wrapped up, we know which teams are advancing to the semi-finals. For the girls, the Newtok Lady Jaegers will face the Chefornak Lady Shamans, and the Kipnuk Lady Falcons will play the Toksook Bay Lady Islanders. For the boys, the Nunapitchuk Wolves will match up against the Chefornak Shamans, and the Toksook Bay Islanders will square off against the Napaskiak Hawks. Semi-final games start at 3:45 p.m. on March 6.

Current Iditarod Champion Pete Kaiser is gearing up for another bid at winning the 1,000 mile sled dog race. 

While Pete's busy schedule didn’t allow him to sit down for an interview before he headed off to Anchorage, he did give a hint of how training was going for him just before the start of the Kuskokwim 300 sled dog race in January.

This year the conditions on the Iditarod trail are reminding old-timers of what it used to be like back in the last century. Mark Nordman, the Race Marshal for the Iditarod, has been in charge for breaking the trail for 30 years, and he says this time, there is plenty of snow.

One of the region's biggest events of the year begins Thursday, March 5: LKSD’s District Basketball Tournament. It will decide which of the region’s small school teams will go on to compete at the state level later this month in Anchorage. 

This weekend is your final chance to watch the Lady Warriors play in Bethel this basketball season. Games will be happening at Bethel Regional High School on the evenings of Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, starting at 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31 is also Senior Night. Bethel's junior high boys and girls teams and the Bethel boys junior varsity team will be playing in town this weekend, as well as guest teams from Napaskiak and Barrow.