{"id":40901,"date":"2019-01-05T16:34:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T01:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/thunder-mountain-triumphs-against-lathrop\/"},"modified":"2019-01-05T17:50:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T02:50:02","slug":"thunder-mountain-triumphs-against-lathrop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/home\/thunder-mountain-triumphs-against-lathrop\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder Mountain triumphs against Lathrop"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Thunder Mountain High School boys basketball team ended the Mt. McKinley Bank Holiday Classic with a win on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The Falcons exceeded their point total from their prior game partway through the third quarter, cruising to a 71-59 win over Lathrop at Monroe Catholic High School’s Boileau Hall in Fairbanks.<\/p>\n

Junior Bryson Echiverri scored 23 points, the most of the eight Falcons’ scorers, to help the team rebound from 21-point loss to Colony the day before<\/a>. Junior Brady Carandang and senior Hansel Hinckle chipped in 11 respective points and Puna Toutaiolepo had eight points.<\/p>\n

Lathrop got 12 points from Kyler Hall and nine from Jayce Johnson in the loss.<\/p>\n

Thunder Mountain slowly built on a nine-point first quarter lead, going into halftime up 36-25 and the fourth quarter 52-38.<\/p>\n

Monroe Catholic and Colony squared off in the tournament’s championship game on Saturday night. The Rams and Knights both entered Saturday 2-0, with shared wins over Lathrop and Thunder Mountain. Colony was the more dominant team of the two in those wins, waxing Lathrop, 57-25, and TMHS, 57-36.<\/p>\n

The Falcons get two more stabs at Colony, the No. 1 boys team in the latest Alaska Association of Basketball Coaches poll, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. at TMHS. The TMHS and Colony girls play just before both games at 6:15 p.m. Downtown, the Juneau-Douglas boys take on conference rival Ketchikan on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

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\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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