Thunder Mountain High School girls basketball secured their second win of the season Saturday, defeating West Valley to complete a two-game series sweep of the visiting Wolfpack.<\/p>\n
The girls defended their way to the 43-40 win.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been working better as a team and playing as one unit, more team defense rather than personal defense,\u201d sophomore Charlee Lewis said.<\/p>\n
The two wins this weekend came down to fundamentals, something first-year coach Chandler Christensen has been trying to establish. The girls cut down on their fouls, organized their help defense and hit more free throws in their first two wins.<\/p>\n
Junior Cyrene Uddipa, the oldest player on the young Falcons squad, led the team with 15 points. Nina Fenumiai and Kyra Jenkins-Hayes followed with eight points each.<\/p>\n
The Falcons led in scoring in the first three quarters. Uddipa opened strong, hitting two threes and a field goal in the first.<\/p>\n
Physical play from Jenkins-Hayes, who got to the line for six free throws in the second and third, netted the Falcons four free throws and a field goal for a 39-28 lead heading into the final frame.<\/p>\n
West Valley buckled down on defense in the fourth, outscoring the Falcons 13-4 in the final period in an unsuccessful rally.<\/p>\n
The Falcons play next at Sitka on Jan. 13 and 14.<\/p>\n
\nFALCONS 43, <\/strong><\/p>\n WOLFPACK 40<\/strong><\/p>\n Thunder Mountain 14 11 14 4 \u2014 43<\/p>\n West Valley 7 9 11 13 \u2014 40<\/p>\n Thunder Mountain (43) \u2014 Uddipa 15, N. Fenumiai 8, Jenkins-Hayes 8, Lewis 6, T. Fenumiai 5, Hauck 1<\/p>\n West Valley (40) \u2014 Silva 14, Dick 8, Yarde 4, Winkleman 3, Wing 3, Reid 3, Weckworth 2, Martellaro 2, Pendergrass 1<\/p>\n Free throws \u2014 Thunder Mountain 13-28, West Valley 9-18<\/p>\n 3-point goals \u2014 Thunder Mountain 2, West Valley 1<\/p>\n Team fouls \u2014 Thunder Mountain 17, West Valley 23<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thunder Mountain High School girls basketball secured their second win of the season Saturday, defeating West Valley to complete a two-game series sweep of the visiting Wolfpack. The girls defended their way to the 43-40 win. \u201cWe\u2019ve been working better as a team and playing as one unit, more team defense rather than personal defense,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":30242,"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-30241","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\/30241","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=30241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30241"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=30241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}