The Thunder Mountain High School boys basketball team dropped back-to-back games at the Mt. McKinley Bank Holiday Classic basketball tournament in Fairbanks.<\/p>\n
TMHS lost to tournament-host Monroe Catholic High School, 50-39, in its first game on Thursday night, before falling to No. 1-ranked Colony High School, 57-36, the following day at Monroe Catholic’s Boileau Hall.<\/p>\n
“Both Colony and Monroe are very disciplined teams that execute their game plan quite efficiently,” TMHS coach John Blasco said. “When you make mistakes, they capitalize on them.”<\/p>\n
“Colony is a very solid team,” he added. “They’ve got good height, athleticism, shooters and they run really good sets to get a variety of guys open.”<\/p>\n
Junior Brady Carandang scored 18 points for the Falcons on Friday and has been the team’s most consistent long-distance shooter.<\/p>\n
“We did a decent job of getting him open today and he was feeling good and knocked down six threes,” Blasco said.<\/p>\n
Colony’s Patrick McMahon had 16 points while Colton Spencer, Wyatt Baker and Sullivan Menard each had eight.<\/p>\n
The two teams will meet up for a second and third time in Thunder Mountain’s first home games next Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. at TMHS.<\/p>\n
Thunder Mountain plays in its final game of the tournament against Lathrop on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Contact sports reporter Nolin Ainsworth at 523-2272 or nainsworth@juneauempire.com. Follow Empire Sports on Twitter at @akempiresports.<\/b><\/p>\n
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