With the clock ticking down Friday at Adair-Kennedy Field, Juneau-Douglas High School needed just one more defensive stop in a game full of them. The Crimson Bears were poised to even their record at 1-1 with a 20-18 lead and visiting Kodiak High School mired in their own territory. That is, until Kodiak quarterback Andreas Carros decided to run the ball.<\/p>\n
Carros led his team down the field in a last-minute drive, scoring a game winning TD on second and goal with less than a minute left to push the game to 20-26 for Kodiak, leaving the Crimson Bears crushed after leading the entire game.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just had to ground and pound it,\u201d Carros said. \u201cI believe they were giving us a three man front and three, four yards on every run so we just said, \u2018You know what, we\u2019re just going to run the ball until we score.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Carros followed up his three-yard touchdown run with a successful two-point conversion. JDHS got the ball back with less than a minute to go and JDHS QB Bubba Stults nearly outdid Carros\u2019 heroics.<\/p>\n
With 37 seconds left, Stults hit receiver Donavin McCurley with a pass to Kodiak\u2019s 25 yard line to set up a last shot at the end zone. Stults then lobbed a shot to Liam Van Sickle at the corner of the end zone. Kodiak\u2019s Scott Larionoff then intercepted Stults\u2019 last-ditch effort to end the game.<\/p>\n
McCurley was the star for JDHS in the losing effort, scoring the Crimson Bears\u2019 first touchdown on a fumble recovery and adding their second on a 70-yard punt return. He also recorded a third quarter interception.<\/p>\n
The speedy junior running back, receiver and defensive back leads the team in swagger — you\u2019ll often see him dancing on the sidelines — but McCurley enjoyed no glory after Kodiak stole the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe defense was awesome tonight, we just need to pick it up on offense,\u201d McCurley said. \u201cWe can\u2019t be messing around in practice anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
JDHS\u2019 defense looked much improved after giving up 50 points to Thunder Mountain High School in their first game. They held Kodiak out of the red zone for the first two quarters, ceding their only first half points on a pick six from Kodiak\u2019s Derek Rastopsoff. JDHS recorded two interceptions on the night.<\/p>\n
Kodiak coach Bill McGuire knew he faced a shorthanded JDHS who fielded only 19 players. McGuire said his team needed to stick to the run until they wore down the Crimson Bears\u2019 defense.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt looked to me that the linebackers might not have been coming as hard and maybe we were in a bit better shape,\u201d McGuire said of the game-winning drive. \u201cI know that Juneau is pretty thin and I think they wore down a little bit and we kept after it. We want that to be a power run game, we want to be able to run the ball like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
McGuire called JDHS QB Bubba Stults \u201cone of the best in the state.\u201d Carros was likewise complimentary of his opponent.<\/p>\n
\u201cJuneau is high class,\u201d Carros said. \u201cThey never stuck their head down and are always trying to say, \u2018Good job.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Scoring summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n JDHS 20, Kodiak 26<\/p>\n JDHS – 6, 7, 0, 7; 20<\/p>\n Kodiak – 0, 6, 6, 14; 26<\/p>\n 1st quarter<\/p>\n JDHS – McCurley, fumble recovery, 6-0<\/p>\n 2nd quarter<\/p>\n KHS – Rastopsoff TD, interception, 6-6<\/p>\n JDHS – McCurley TD, punt return, 13-6<\/p>\n 3rd quarter:<\/p>\n KHS – Galindez TD, pass, 13-12<\/p>\n 4th quarter<\/p>\n JDHS – Shultz TD, pass, 20-12<\/p>\n KHS – Carros TD, run, 20-18. Carros TD, run, 20-24.<\/p>\n Carros, two-point conversion, run, 20-26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With the clock ticking down Friday at Adair-Kennedy Field, Juneau-Douglas High School needed just one more defensive stop in a game full of them. The Crimson Bears were poised to even their record at 1-1 with a 20-18 lead and visiting Kodiak High School mired in their own territory. That is, until Kodiak quarterback Andreas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":1968,"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-1967","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\/1967","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=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}