The Juneau-Douglas High School girls squad established dominance over their crosstown rivals Thunder Mountain in their Tuesday season opener at the Capital City Classic.<\/p>\n
JDHS bested the Falcons 60-30 by overwhelming the younger team early with a full court press while keeping the game out of reach late with the healthy scoring from their top offensive players.<\/p>\n
Junior Cassie Dzinich \u2014 who put up 13 on the night \u2014 said she\u2019s happy with the team\u2019s ability to score in transition and push the tempo. While the team won\u2019t \u201cforce\u201d fastbreak opportunities if they aren\u2019t there, they were there Tuesday night and the Crimson Bears capitalized.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t set up in our half court offense much, but we didn\u2019t force the run and gun,\u201d Dzinich said. \u201cI\u2019m really pleased with our first performance. We really worked well together and had fun.\u201d<\/p>\n
Freshman Kendyl Carson led the team with 18 points, followed by Dzinich\u2019s 13 and sophomore Caitlin Pusich\u2019s 12.<\/p>\n
Sophomore Nina Fenumiai led the Falcons with 12 points, followed by Charlee Lewis with nine and Tasi Fenumiai with four.<\/p>\n
Falcons coach Chandler Christenson said her team started slow and didn\u2019t bring the defensive intensity they needed to compete. Next time the two teams meet she expects a different game.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur defensive intensity wasn\u2019t what we expected it to be,\u201d Christenson said. \u201cWe started slow and if we played the whole game like we did in the second half, maybe things would be different. \u2026 I saw some good things just with their passion and will to get better.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Crimson Bears started with man coverage and their trademark full court press, allowing them to rush to a 25-3, second-quarter lead and hold Fenumiai \u2014 who handled backcourt duties for the Falcons in Cyrene Uddipa\u2019s absence \u2014 to just two points in the first quarter.<\/p>\n
JDHS transitioned to a less-familiar zone defense late in the game, a scheme the Crimson Bears would like to improve \u2014 and one that allowed TMHS a little more breathing room in the second half.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m a defensive minded coach, that\u2019s 100 percent of my focus,\u201d JDHS head coach Lesslie Knight said. \u201cI want to contain teams and I felt like we allowed them to penetrate our zone defense and I wasn\u2019t happy about that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other game notes: Dzinich played her first game without a knee brace since suffering an ACL tear more than a year ago, looking agile on both sides of the post and using her increased mobility to score in transition. The Crimson Bears scored four three pointers in the game, including two from Pusich in the first-quarter.<\/p>\n
CRIMSON BEARS 60, <\/strong><\/p>\n FALCONS 30<\/strong><\/p>\n Juneau-Douglas 19 15 15 11 \u2014 60<\/p>\n Thunder Mountain 3 10 7 10 \u2014 30<\/p>\n Juneau-Douglas (60) \u2014 Tuckwood 2, Carson 18, Bohulano<\/p>\n 5, Pusich 12, Dzinich 13, Robinson 2, Bathija 2, Balovich 2, Hickok 2, McAdams 2.Thunder Mountain (30) \u2014 Lewis 9, Kish 2, Luna 1, T. Fenumiai 4, N. Fenumiai 12, Jenkins-Hayes 2.<\/p>\n 3-point goals \u2014 Juneau-Douglas 4 (Pusich 2, Carson 2), Thunder Mountain 0<\/p>\n Team fouls \u2014 Juneau-Douglas 20, Thunder Mountain 13<\/p>\n Other Tuesday Capital City Classic play<\/strong><\/p>\n Boys<\/strong><\/p>\n LYNX 89, KNIGHTS (CO) 14<\/strong><\/p>\n Dimond 35 27 12 15 \u2014 89<\/p>\n Valor Christian 3 1 10 0 \u2014 14 <\/p>\n Dimond (89) \u2014 Heim 6, Gates-Magnuson 8, Osborne 14, Parker 6, Boese 10, Moore 10, Horning 7, Jenkins 8, Ainuu 10, White 10.<\/p>\n Valor Christian (14) \u2014 Botsford 8, Taylor 1, Littlejohn 3, Darling 2.3-point goals \u2014 Dimond 10 (Heim 2, Gates-Magnuson 2, Osborne 2, Boese 2, Moore, Horning), Valor Christian 3 (Botsford 2, Littlejohn 1)<\/p>\n Team fouls \u2014 Dimond 7, Valor Christian 2<\/p>\n Girls<\/strong><\/p>\n MOOSE 40, CHARGERS (WA) 63<\/strong><\/p>\n Palmer 10 6 12 12 \u2014 40<\/p>\n Marysville 15 14 14 20 \u2014 63 <\/p>\n Palmer (40) \u2014 Pettingill 2, Busbey 7, Bowman 5, Suaava 14, Ushmann 5, Alley 4, Dixon 3.Marysville (63) \u2014 Noriega 8, Norton 8, Wika 10, G. Grandbois 15, Green 2, Palm 4, M. Grandbois 10, Hammer 3, Taylor 3.<\/p>\n 3-point goals \u2014 Palmer 2 (Busbey, Bowman), Marysville 3 (Noriega, G. Grandbois, M. Grandbois)<\/p>\n Team fouls \u2014 Palmer 17, Marysville 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Juneau-Douglas High School girls squad established dominance over their crosstown rivals Thunder Mountain in their Tuesday season opener at the Capital City Classic. JDHS bested the Falcons 60-30 by overwhelming the younger team early with a full court press while keeping the game out of reach late with the healthy scoring from their top […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":12273,"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-12272","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\/12272","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=12272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12272"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}