<\/a>Klawock’s Lea Armour (23) cuts down the net after the Chieftains defeated the Hoonah Braves 34-33 during the 2025 Region V 1A Girls Basketball Tournament Championship game Friday at Thunder Mountain Middle School. (Klas Stolpe \/ Juneau Empire)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
Hoonah fouled Klawock eighth grader Jayla Edenshaw and rebounded her missed free throw, called timeout and set up a last-second heave that Klawock senior Lea Armour tipped away and the buzzer sounded.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
“I am so proud of my teammates,” Armour said. “You know, we have three eighth graders. A lot of them are super young. So I am just so proud of them for just playing through it and just doing an amazing job.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
When Hoonah Braves junior Paige Woitte hit a shot past the arc with 13 seconds left to play for a 33-32 lead the chance for a five-peat for Klawock’s Armour and Marvin looked in jeopardy.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
Hoonah had been playing a stifling full-court defense so getting the ball upcourt quickly fell into Armour’s hands, and she drove through traffic for a shot that Sanderson gathered and lifted into the basket.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
“I am so over-stimulated right now,” Marvin said after the game. She played with a cold through the tournament, but was still a force inside. “I feel great and I’m so happy we pulled through and did it. This feels so much better than any of the others because we came into the season very equal with everybody. So it feels so good that we pulled it off.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
The win seemed improbable in the first half as Armour was whistled for her third foul with just over four minutes of action in the first quarter and she picked up her fourth foul with 2:41 left in the second quarter.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
To further complicate Klawock’s six-player rotation Marvin picked up her third foul with 5:56 left in the second quarter and freshman AnaRose Peratrovich was whistled for her fourth foul with 58 seconds left in the first half. Marvin would earn her fourth foul at the start of the third quarter so all three would be playing the final minutes in danger of being expelled from the game for good.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
The game was deadlocked at 10-10 at the half.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
<\/a>Hoonah’s Easton Ross (11) and Klawock’s Lea Armour (23) go for a rebound during the Braves’ 56-40 loss to the Chieftains on Friday during the 2025 Region V 1A Girls Basketball Tournament Championship game at Thunder Mountain Middle School. (Klas Stolpe \/ Juneau Empire)<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
Klawock held an 8-5 first quarter lead and Hoonah outscored Klawock 5-2 in the second.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
Hoonah sophomores Jora Savland and Easton Ross put the Braves on top 14-10 in the opening minutes of the second half and after Klawock’s Marvin hit to close to 14-12, Ross put Hoonah up 16-12.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
When the Chieftains’ Marvin went to the bench with four fouls Hoonah’s Woitte would score three times in a row, with just one answer from Klawock’s Amour, and the Braves led 22-14.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
Marvin hit a free throw to trail 22-15 and Hoonah freshman Jenna Jack pushed the advantage back to 24-15.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
Edenshaw hit a tough drive to pull to 24-17 and Armour found space past the arc to close Klawock to 24-20 as the third quarter ended. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
Marvin said they taught this year’s class of eighth graders, “To hold their heads up high and let them know that it is just a game and it’s okay to mess up sometimes.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
Klawock’s Armour opened the fourth quarter with a shot past the arc to close to 24-23 and Marvin gave the Chieftains a 25-24 advantage with a score inside, and then hit a free throw to lead 26-24.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
Hoonah’s Woitte hit from past the arc to get the Braves back on top 27-26.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
After Klawock’s Marvin hit inside to regain the lead 28-27, Hoonah’s Savland notched a shot from the arc for a 30-28 lead with two minutes remaining in the game.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t