Down five points with less than two minutes to go, Palmer High School\u2019s Adrianna Busbey hit a wild floater from the left side to pull Wednesday\u2019s all-Alaska Capital City Classic match within the Moose\u2019s striking distance.<\/p>\n
The visitors then set a trap in the corner of the half court for Juneau-Douglas High School senior Meghna Bathija. The Moose fouled Bathija \u2014 a call Palmer coach Greg Fullmer disputed \u2014 sending her to the free throw line in the double bonus.<\/p>\n
Bathija hit both shots as Juneau-Douglas High School held off Palmer for a 45-38 win Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The game was physical free throw shooting contest, with both teams getting into the bonus and double bonus early.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were fortunate to come out on top,\u201d JDHS coach Lesslie Knight said. \u201cWe had 21 turnovers, and you\u2019re lucky to win a game with that many turnovers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Palmer put JDHS on the free throw line 32 times. The Crimson Bears hit 50 percent of those shots while allowing Palmer 19 attempts of their own from the charity stripe, of which the Moose hit an efficient 14.<\/p>\n
JDHS\u2019 penchant to foul may be a byproduct of their emphasis on defensive intensity, but they\u2019ll need to clean that up to make that intensity pay off, according to Knight.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe put Thunder Mountain on the line 29 times (in their first game). Both of those situations (fouls and turnovers) are not usually positive outcomes,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Freshman Kendyl Carson led the team again with 16 points in her second game. Junior Cassie Dzinich added nine and Bathija seven in the win.<\/p>\n
Palmer was led by Emma Uschmann with 11 and Busbey with 10.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were in foul trouble most of the game, probably from the middle of the second quarter on. Part of that, probably, is we\u2019ve got a young team,\u201d Palmer coach Greg Fullmer said.<\/p>\n
\u201cJuneau\u2019s good, they\u2019ve got a good team. They\u2019re well coached, I like their coach. No. 11 (Kendyl Carson) is a good ball player, but they\u2019re more than just her.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nCRIMSON BEARS 45, MOOSE 38<\/strong><\/p>\n Juneau-Douglas 10 14 7 14 \u2014 45<\/p>\n Palmer 10 11 10 7 \u2014 38<\/p>\n Juneau-Douglas (45) \u2014 Carson 16, Bohulano 3, Pusich 6, Dzinich 9, Robinson 2, Bathija 7, Balovich 2<\/p>\n Palmer (38) \u2014 Pettingill 3, Busbey 10, Bowman 4, Suaava 6, Uschmann 11, Dixon 4<\/p>\n Free throws \u2014 Juneau-Douglas 16-32, Palmer 14-19<\/p>\n 3-point goals \u2014 Juneau-Douglas 3, Palmer 2<\/p>\n Team fouls \u2014 Juneau-Douglas 16, Palmer 21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Down five points with less than two minutes to go, Palmer High School\u2019s Adrianna Busbey hit a wild floater from the left side to pull Wednesday\u2019s all-Alaska Capital City Classic match within the Moose\u2019s striking distance. The visitors then set a trap in the corner of the half court for Juneau-Douglas High School senior Meghna […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":22945,"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-22944","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\/22944","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=22944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22944"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}