<\/a>Mount Edgecumbe HIgh School’s Charity Mila (25), a sophomore from Barrow, shoots against strong defense from Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé junior Cambry Lockhart (3) Saturday at the B.J. McGillis Gym. (James Poulson \/ Daily Sitka Sentinel)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
Mt. Edgecumbe outscored JDHS 35-30 in the second half, but the Crimson Bears led 53-34 to start the final eight minutes and coasted to the win.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
K. Baxter had 28, G. Nizich and C. Baxter 14 apiece, Tokuoka six, senior Mary Johnson three, Lockhart and Erickson two apiece.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
JDHS hit 8-15 at the charity stripe, MEHS 8-12.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
Junior Tahira Akaran led the Braves with 20 points, sophomore Gracelynn Friske 12, senior Brooke Markoff seven, senior Lauren Cedars, Zenaida Andrew and Charity Mila four apiece.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
“The games were very fast paced, and we really had to communicate on defense and offensively,” JDHS senior Addison Wilson said. “We learned that we always need to come out with intensity and keep the energy up.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
Friday’s 71-54 win had started the road trip on the right path.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
“I thought we did a better job putting some pressure on them and keeping our hands up on defense causing them to turn the ball over,” JDHS coach Nizich said. “We really looked to push the ball and made some very nice passes to our teammates.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
C. Baxter led JDHS with 23 points, Tokuoka 12, G. Nizich 10, K. Baxter 7, freshman Athena Warr six, Lockhart five, senior Addison Wilson three, Erickson three, senior Mary Johnson two.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
“I think it was a really good experience and I learned a lot,” JDHS’ Warr said. “Some things like being aggressive on both offense and defense and how playing good defense can lead to more offensive opportunities. Also always boxing out and getting on the floor to get the ball.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
The Crimson Bears hit 4-10 at the charity stripe, The Braves 8-12.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
Akaran led MEHS with 17, senior Reagan David 12, Cedars nine, Markoff nine, Friske five, senior Camille Johnson two.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
JDHS will host defending state champion Wasilla this coming weekend, Feb. 6-7.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
• Contact Klas Stolpe at klas.stolpe@juneauempire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Crimson Bears show road strength at Braves’ gym. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":115527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[203,240],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-115526","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\/115526","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=115526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115526"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=115526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}