{"id":42075,"date":"2019-01-25T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/crosstown-rivals-clash-for-first-time-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2019-01-25T12:47:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T21:47:26","slug":"crosstown-rivals-clash-for-first-time-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/crosstown-rivals-clash-for-first-time-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Crosstown rivals clash for first time of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&rsquo;s a look at all three home basketball series this weekend at Juneau-Douglas and Thunder Mountain high schools.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Juneau-Douglas boys (7-6) vs. Thunder Mountain boys (7-7), Friday and Saturday 8 p.m., JDHS gym<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JDHS and TMHS each walked away with three wins in six head-to-head matches last season. Their last matchup of the season was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/kelly-makes-late-second-shot-to-lift-jdhs-past-tmhs\/\" target=\"_blank\">dramatic one<\/a>, with JDHS scoring the go-ahead points with 0.7 second left in regulation to eliminate the Falcons from the Region V Basketball Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>JDHS finished fourth the South O&rsquo;Brady&rsquo;s Invitational last week in Anchorage. TMHS went 1-3 in four road contests in Anchorage, Wasilla and Utqiagvik.<\/p>\n<p>JDHS will have four more conference games after this weekend. TMHS will have six more conference games after this weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Juneau-Douglas girls (8-2) vs. Sitka, Friday and Saturday, 6:15 p.m., JDHS gym<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JDHS sports a Southeast Conference-leading 2-0 record after sweeping Ketchikan last weekend. JDHS has strung together four wins in a row. Their only two losses of the season have come against Anchorage&rsquo;s East and Bartlett.<\/p>\n<p>These two teams squared off in the Princess Cruises Capital City Classic on Dec. 27. The Crimson Bears won handily 52-25.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tonight\u2019s Games: <\/p>\n<p>JDHS girls vs. Sitka, 6:15 p.m. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CrimsonBball?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CrimsonBball<\/a> vs. TMHS, 8 p.m.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TMGirlsBball_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TMGirlsBball_<\/a> vs. Ketchikan, 8 p.m. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5VS73sZDpO\">pic.twitter.com\/5VS73sZDpO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Empire Sports (@akempiresports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/akempiresports\/status\/1088903749374889984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thunder Mountain girls (7-8) vs. Ketchikan (4-6), Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m., Thunderdome<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thunder Mountain lost to Ketchikan in four games last season by an average of 24 points. This season, the Falcons have already exceeded last year&rsquo;s win total with seven victories.<\/p>\n<p>TMHS lost to Ketchikan 43-33 in Ketchikan last month.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u2022 Contact sports reporter Nolin Ainsworth at 523-2272 or nainsworth@juneauempire.com. Follow Empire Sports on Twitter at @akempiresports.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juneau-Douglas entertains Thunder Mountain for homecoming <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":42079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-42075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42075","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=42075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42075"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}