Trailing by four points with under 30 seconds remaining, Kake had three chances to cut into Hoonah’s lead before Charles Carteeti stole the ball away, icing a hotly-contested game.<\/p>\n
After the game, Carteeti said couldn’t take all the credit for the play.<\/p>\n
“I was gassed the last six minutes of the game, but just hearing that crowd kept me in it,” he said.<\/p>\n
After an insurance free throw by Brain Koenig, the final buzzer sounded, giving Hoonah a 61-56 victory. With its second win in as many days, Hoonah now advances in the winner’s bracket to play Haines at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. Kake will play the winner of Tuesday’s Angoon-Yakutat game. <\/ins><\/p>\n “I just knew I had to play hard defense,” Carteeti said. “There was no way I was just going to let them keep running around.”<\/p>\n It was the type of scrappy steal both teams delivered throughout the back-and-forth clash in second round of the B Bracket.<\/p>\n “We just had a lot of turnovers and missed shots,” said Kake’s Lance Doake, who scored eight points.<\/p>\n Tracy Jackson had the most made shots for Kake, scoring 18 points.<\/p>\n Koenig led all Hoonah scorers with 20 points. Jonathan Torres and Jaylin Prince combined for 28.<\/p>\n Tied at halftime, Hoonah opened the second half on an 11-2 run, going up 38-29 on a Torres baby hook shot.<\/p>\n With its fans riled up, belting “Hooonaaaah! Hooonaaah!” from the bleachers, the 2009 B Bracket champions went cold from the field over the next four minutes.<\/p>\n Tracy Jackson showcased his soft touch with seven minutes remaining in the game, beating his defender on back-to-back possessions for finger-roll layups. Xavier Friday made a layup of his own as Kake went up 47-46 with six minutes to go.<\/p>\n After three lead changes, Hoonah forged a four-point advantage before Carleeti’s crucial steal.<\/p>\n “All we can do from here on out is hustle, just keep fighting. Win or lose, we do it together,” Doake said.<\/p>\n Correction: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated Thursday’s game against Hoonah is at 6:30 p.m. The game is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. This article has been updated to reflect the change.<\/em><\/p>\n •Contact sports reporter Nolin Ainsworth at 523-2272 or nolin.ainsworth@juneauempire.com.<\/b><\/p>\n Trailing by four points with under 30 seconds remaining, Kake had three chances to cut into Hoonah’s lead before Charles Carteeti stole the ball away, icing a hotly-contested game. After the game, Carteeti said couldn’t take all the credit for the play. “I was gassed the last six minutes of the game, but just hearing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":0,"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-31385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31385","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=31385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31385"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=31385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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