Snow ends weekend in sports

WASILLA — All outdoor high school sporting events planned for this weekend have been canceled due to snow.

“It’s all broken arrows around here,” Wasilla athletic director Paul Cosette said Friday afternoon.

This weekend was supposed to be a busy one for Mat-Su teams, with the Colony, Wasilla, Palmer and Houston soccer teams scheduled to host Kenai Peninsula squads both today and Saturday. Additionally, Mat-Su track and field teams had planned on heading south for the Skyview Invitational in Soldotna.

But a spring snowstorm that hit Southcentral Alaska early Friday morning has forced those events to be called off.

The unseasonable snow caused several teams to alter their travel plans at the last minute.

Kenai Central athletic director Tim Delaney said his school’s soccer teams had just boarded buses on their way north when word that the games were being canceled forced the buses to turn around and head back to school.

“We got about as far as Sterling,” Delaney said.

Most of the soccer games scheduled for this weekend pitted Northern Lights Conference north and south division teams against one another, so they weren’t as critical for conference play as games featuring in-division teams.

With just a month left in the regular season, Cosette said it’s unlikely any of this weekend’s soccer games will be able to be made up.

Here’s a list of games called off this weekend:

TODAY

Soccer (boys and girls)

Kenai Central at Colony

Grace Christian at Houston

Nikiski at Wasilla

Soldotna at Palmer

Track and field

Wasilla, Palmer, Colony, Houston and Su Valley at Skyview Invitational

SATURDAY

Soccer (boys and girls)

Kenai Central at Palmer

Nikiski at Houston

Track and Field

Wasilla, Palmer, Colony, Houston and Su Valley at Skyview Invitational

Contact Matt Tunseth at 352-2265 or matt.tunseth@frontiersman.com