The Juneau-Douglas High School hockey team showed no signs of rust from three weeks of no play on a three-game road trip in the Interior.<\/p>\n
The Crimson Bears, who have set high goals since the start of the season<\/a>, roughed up North Pole and Tri-Valley in three lopsided wins beginning Thursday at the Polar Ice Center in North Pole.<\/p>\n Senior Bill Bosse scored three of the Crimson Bears’ first four goals in a 9-3 win Thursday. Three other seniors (Ronan Lynch, Finn Yerkes, Owen Squires) also scored in the game, which included power play strikes by freshman Sam Bovitz and junior Ethan Welch.<\/p>\n We did just a really good job of just staying in front of the net and getting sticks on pucks,” JDHS assistant coach Matt Boline said. “I also thought we were really fast … and were able to maintain a lot of consistent pressure in the (offensive zone).”<\/p>\n JDHS swept a rare hockey doubleheader the next day, putting away North Pole, 9-1, at the Polar Ice Center, and Tri Valley, 7-1, at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Patty Center.<\/p>\n “It was a good way for warming us back up after about three weeks of no hockey,” JDHS senior Cameron Smith said.<\/p>\n In the first game of the doubleheader, senior Logan Ginter deflected a shot from the blue line for a goal. The Crimson Bears were already in control of the game by that point, leading 5-1, but Boline said it was awesome to see everyone contribute to the win. Ginter was “grinning ear-to-ear for about 10 minutes,” the coach said.<\/p>\n “He might’ve been on his belly when he shoveled it in even, so it was a very hard-working goal,” Boline added.<\/p>\n It was JDHS’ only trip of the season to Fairbanks and North Pole, two communities with strong ties to the 14-year program. JDHS belonged to the Interior-based Mid-Alaska Conference up until this season, when they and five other teams (Soldotna, Homer, Palmer, Kenai, Houston) joined the Southcentral-based Railbelt Conference.<\/p>\n