Last week against Marysville High School\u2019s full court press, Juneau-Douglas High School girls basketball turned the ball over 29 times.<\/p>\n
The girls have emphasized taking care of possessions since, and in Wednesday\u2019s 51-38 win over West Valley, the young team may have found their footing, turning the ball over just 11 times.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe talked and rebounded, worked together as a team,\u201d guard Alyxn Bohulano said. \u201cWe were pretty patient (moving the ball) and calmed down.\u201d<\/p>\n
Freshman Kendyl Carson and junior Cassie Dzinich led the team with 14 points each.<\/p>\n
Carson hit four threes in the game, three of which came in the first quarter, which JDHS closed 17-10. Dzinich prefers to work in the paint, tallying up six field goals and two free throws on two attempts.<\/p>\n
Bohulano backed JDHS\u2019 top scorers with six steals and four assists on her way to seven points of her own.<\/p>\n
Coach Lesslie Knight, who emphasizes defense, said Bohulano \u2014 just a sophomore \u2014 contributed just as much to the game as Dzinich and Carson.<\/p>\n
\u201cCassie and Kendyl were the high scorers, but to complement, Alyxn (Bohulano) was really smart with her defensive pressure,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
West Valley was led by Gillian Winkleman with 10, Jozey Martellaro with seven and Erica Yarde with six.<\/p>\n
Like Knight, Wolfpack coach Jessie Craig has been trying to build her young team.<\/p>\n
\u201cJuneau has some serious size inside, and they pretty much destroyed us on the boards,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been working hard and we have a young team. I had some good young players step up and do some good things. \u2026 We\u2019re looking good, we\u2019re building.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coverage of the JDHS girls second game against West Valley, played Thursday night, didn\u2019t make Friday\u2019s print deadline. Look for a game story at the Empire online at juneauempire.com.<\/p>\n
\nCRIMSON BEARS 51, WOLFPACK 38<\/strong><\/p>\n Juneau-Douglas 17 15 10 9 \u201451<\/p>\n West Valley 10 10 9 9 \u201438<\/p>\n Juneau-Douglas (51) \u2014 Carson 14, Dzinich 14, Bohulano<\/p>\n 7, Pusich 6, Hickok 4, Tuckwood 2, Robinson 2, Bathija 2<\/p>\n West Valley (38) \u2014 Winkleman 10, Martellaro 7, Yarde<\/p>\n 6, Weckwerth 5, Silva 4, Wing 2, Tate 2, Dick 2<\/p>\n Free throws \u2014 Juneau-Douglas 3-5, West Valley 1-8<\/p>\n 3-point goals \u2014 Juneau-Douglas 4, West Valley 3<\/p>\n Team fouls \u2014 Juneau-Douglas 14, West Valley 8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week against Marysville High School\u2019s full court press, Juneau-Douglas High School girls basketball turned the ball over 29 times. The girls have emphasized taking care of possessions since, and in Wednesday\u2019s 51-38 win over West Valley, the young team may have found their footing, turning the ball over just 11 times. \u201cWe talked and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":11586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-11585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11585"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}