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Soldotna and Sullivan venues sustain Anchorage summer leagues

The Soldotna Regional Sports Complex and Sullivan Arena hosted North American Hockey League games between the Anchorage Wolverines and Kenai River Brown Bears across separate weekends.

By Anchorage Sport Desk · Published July 24, 2026

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Soldotna and Sullivan venues sustain Anchorage summer leagues — Photo by Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson / Flickr (Public Domain Mark)

The Anchorage Wolverines split a North American Hockey League weekend with the Kenai River Brown Bears, winning 4-1 on Friday before losing 3-1 on Saturday at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. In a separate NAHL weekend the same teams met at Sullivan Arena, where the Wolverines completed a sweep with a 5-4 shootout victory on Friday and a 6-2 win on Saturday.

Venues anchor league schedules

These two facilities handled back-to-back series between the same clubs without reported scheduling conflicts. The Soldotna Regional Sports Complex sits on the Kenai Peninsula and regularly accommodates NAHL travel, while Sullivan Arena in Anchorage serves as the Wolverines' primary home site. Both locations operated during the same stretch of summer dates that also featured Alaska Baseball League games ending July 4, 2026.

The Anchorage Bucs recorded a 10-7 win over the Peninsula Oilers and a 6-4 win over the Mat-Su Miners during that July 4 weekend. The Anchorage Glacier Pilots dropped a pair of 3-2 decisions, one to the Mat-Su Miners and one to the Chugiak-Eagle River Chinooks. Coed slowpitch teams finished the Anchorage Sports City Tourney with Classic Coffee on top in Coed A, Team TNT in Coed B and Superior/HDL in Coed C.

Local infrastructure supports multiple codes

The concentration of games at these named sites shows how existing rinks and fields absorb overlapping league calendars. No additional construction or new facilities appear in the reported results. Organizers relied on the same Soldotna, Sullivan and Anchorage Sports City locations to stage NAHL, Alaska Baseball League and slowpitch events within days of one another.

Teams and spectators can check the Peninsula Clarion and Anchorage Daily News sports sections for updated schedules at these venues. The next reported series will again route through the same established sites rather than new locations.

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