{"id":114365,"date":"2024-12-17T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/home\/crimson-bears-boys-fall-in-las-vegas-tournament-opener\/"},"modified":"2024-12-18T21:51:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T06:51:55","slug":"crimson-bears-boys-fall-in-las-vegas-tournament-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/crimson-bears-boys-fall-in-las-vegas-tournament-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Crimson Bears boys fall in Las Vegas tournament opener"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t

The Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé boys varsity basketball team played their first game of the season Wednesday in the Tarkanian Classic at Las Vegas.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Playing at Desert Pines High School, the Crimson Bears boys fell to the South Summit High School Wildcats of Kamas, Utah, 57-36.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

“Our defense wasn’t where it needed to be against a scrappy and physical opponent today,” JDHS head coach Robert Casperson. “We’ll try to make the adjustment through film study and get ready for tomorrow.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

JDHS trailed 16-10 after one quarter, with senior Pedrin Saceda-Hurt and junior Brandon Casperson notching shots past the arc and senior Ahmir Parker and junior Tyler Frisby adding a basket apiece.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Saceda-Hurt had another deep shot in the second quarter, and Casperson added two buckets and a free throw to stay within eight points at the half, 26-18.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

“We are going to have to be more disciplined offensively and make sure we have a better balance on our shot selection,” coach Casperson said. “Defensively, we were often late on rotations so we gave up open shots or fouled.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

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The Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé Crimson Bears boys basketball team pose at In-N-Out Burger upon their arrival in Las Vegas for the Tarkanian Classic Tournament. (Photo courtesy JDHS Crimson Bears)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

An 18-point third quarter by the Wildcats and just a basket apiece from JDHS juniors Elias Dybdahl and Damian Efergan and a free throw by Casperson put the game in Summit’s control 44-23.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

“We came out cold in the third quarter and that’s when we fell behind,” the coach said.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

JDHS’ Parker found some scoring punch in the fourth quarter and Saceda-Hurt hit from deep, and Casperson and Efergan found points at the charity stripe, but Summit added another 15 points for the 57-36 win.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

“Overall, though, I didn’t see anything fatal,” coach Casperson said. “Everything we identified in our notes and post-game discussion can be addressed with a few more practices. We will get better…I believe four guys got their first varsity start and seven got their first varsity experience. I’m sure that was pretty cool for them.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

All 11 Crimson Bears found court time.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Casperson led the Crimson Bears with 11 points, Saceda-Hurt and Parker nine apiece, Efergan three, and Dybdahl and Frisby two apiece.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

JDHS hit 5-10 at the charity stripe, Summit 8-10.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Logan Woolstenhulme led the Wildcats with 22 points, Blake Osguthorpe 11, Jack Johnson, Brooks Branca, Ryker Bowen and Joey Harris five each, and Maddox Welch and Billy Harris two apiece.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

JDHS next plays Thursday against Coral Academy (Nevada), a 79-45 loser to Capistrano Valley Christian (California). There are 12 teams in the Crimson Bears bracket and over 150 teams playing in 12 brackets. The tournament runs through Saturday.<\/p>\n\t\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JDHS playing among some of nation’s top high school teams. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":114366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[203,240],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-114365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-sports","tag-sportbasketball","tag-high-school-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114365"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=114365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}