{"id":24758,"date":"2017-04-09T00:27:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T07:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/a-season-in-review-juneau-douglas-girls-basketball\/"},"modified":"2017-04-09T00:27:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T07:27:08","slug":"a-season-in-review-juneau-douglas-girls-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/a-season-in-review-juneau-douglas-girls-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"A Season in Review: Juneau-Douglas girls basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"

To mark the end of basketball season, the Empire is highlighting all four high school basketball teams. Read the TMHS boys’ season review here<\/a>; the TMHS<\/a> <\/a>girls’ season review here<\/a>; and the JDHS boys’ season review here<\/a>. You can also find the season summaries in the print newspaper in the following editions: April 5 (JDHS girls), April 6 (JDHS boys), April 7 (TMHS girls) and April 9 (TMHS boys).<\/em><\/p>\n

This was the season of the super-underclassmen. This was the season when a freshman and two sophomores offered a promising foretaste of the Juneau-Douglas High School girls basketball team in the years to come.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to put pressure on every team, and then be able to run and gun,\u201d Coach Lesslie Knight said at the beginning of the season.<\/p>\n

The team did just that, averaging over 50 points through their first six games of the season \u2014 all wins. After a pair of losses to Chugiak and Palmer in mid-January, the squad went on another six-game winning streak.<\/p>\n

When provided quick outlet passes and breathing space from 3-point range, freshman Kendyl Carson could put up points in hurry. Sophomore Caitlin Pusich was also a threat from 3-point range. Who could forget the two 3\u2019s she made in the final minute in Region V tournament that almost knocked off Ketchikan for good?<\/p>\n

For her part, sophomore Alyxn Bohulano made regular trips to the hardwood \u2014 diving for loose balls or bouncing off the last line of defense under the basket.<\/p>\n

The upperclassmen weren\u2019t too shabby, either. Cassie Dzinich was always a good option in the post, and with plenty of \u201cgunners\u201d on the team, she was always fighting for a rebound. Towards the end of the season, Meghna Bathija and Morgan Balovich played extra minutes with added responsibilities.<\/p>\n

The team may not have made waves at the state tournament this year with double-digit losses to both Dimond and Lathrop, but don\u2019t think this team isn\u2019t hungry to improve on that mark next season with a more experienced \u201cBig 3.\u201d<\/p>\n

ROSTER: <\/strong>Sadie Tuckwood, Kendyl Carson, Alyxn Bohulano, Caitlin Pusich, Cassie Dzinich, Georgia Robinson, Meghna Bathija, Morgan Balovich, Shaylin Cesar, Skylar Hickok, Choloe McAdams<\/p>\n

Q&A with Coach Lesslie Knight<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

What were the biggest challenges your team faced this season?<\/span><\/p>\n

Making team to believe they could play harder than they thought they could.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s one interesting or surprising thing about your team that most people don\u2019t know about?<\/span><\/p>\n

We had a C- team consisting of several girls with zero basketball (or team sport) experience. Really fun to follow their improvement. Lots of fun \u2014 no stress.<\/p>\n

What was the most fun game to coach in this season?<\/span><\/p>\n

First half of Dimond Game \u2014 We stepped up and played incredible defense, achieved all of our goals. (Bench was not deep enough to carry into second half).<\/p>\n

What do you expect next season to hold given the young talent on the team?<\/span><\/p>\n

Expect to compete for Southeast title in what should be a much improved conference next year. Three teams doing battle!<\/p>\n

All-Conference Selections<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cassie Dzinich<\/p>\n

Caitlin Pusich<\/p>\n

Alyxn Bohulano<\/p>\n

Team leaders<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meghna Bathija<\/p>\n

Georgia Robinson<\/p>\n

Cassie Dzinich<\/p>\n

Morgan Balovich<\/p>\n

Season Record: 20-9<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To mark the end of basketball season, the Empire is highlighting all four high school basketball teams. Read the TMHS boys’ season review<\/a> here; the TMHS girls’ season review here; and the JDHS boys’ season review here. You can also find the season summaries in the print newspaper in the following editions: April 5 (JDHS girls), April 6 (JDHS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":24759,"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-24758","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\/24758","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\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24758"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=24758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}