The Juneau-Douglas girls basketball team couldn’t duplicate their explosive 56-point Friday performance in their final regular season game against Ketchikan.<\/p>\n
In a 36-30 loss to the Lady Kings on Saturday, the Crimson Bears made just one 3-pointer, five fewer than the night <\/a>before<\/a>. Senior Alyxn Bohulano finished with 13 points in a game that featured long stretches without a basket. Caitlin Pusich scored just five points after going for 26 on Friday.<\/p>\n “We didn’t show very much discipline on our offensive end,” JDHS coach Steve Potter said. “We made some 3’s yesterday and we kind of fell in love with that. … We’ve struggled with patience all year and when we get 30 points in a game — which has happened a few times — it’s almost always because we’re impatient on the offensive end.”<\/p>\n [Photos: Juneau-Douglas girls basketball vs. Ketchikan<\/a>]<\/ins><\/p>\n Freshman Shaelynn Mendoza scored 11 points and Lianne Guevarra and Jenae Rhoads scored eight apiece for Ketchikan.<\/p>\n “I thought for the first time against these guys, we had a lot more poise than we’ve had,” Kayhi coach Kelly Smith said. “We<\/a> lost by 15 to them in Ketchikan<\/a> on a Friday night, and lost to them by two on Saturday<\/a> where we had a lead in the fourth quarter of that game. It was kind of just like this one and we blew it.”<\/p>\n JDHS trailed 20-16 at halftime and 25-24 after the third quarter, but showed some life in the fourth. Bohulano sped past Guevarra on a fastbreak for the right-handed layup and lead with about 7:30 left.<\/p>\n Pusich recorded a block and a steal on the ensuring Ketchikan possession, and raced 50 feet down the court for the open layup. Her attempt was too strong though, and Rhoads quickly regained the one-point lead for the Lady Kings. Guevarra and Mendoza scored five consecutive points as Ketchikan led the rest of the way.<\/p>\n “Shaelynn Mendoza hit a huge 3 in the corner, she’s our freshman, and then Jenae Rhoads made a couple beautiful dives to the basket, she’s another freshman for us,” Smith said.<\/p>\n The JDHS girls host Thunder Mountain this Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. The Crimson Bears must at least split the series in order to win the Southeast Conference. JDHS holds a conference record of 4-2, Kayhi is 5-3 and Thunder Mountain is 1-5.<\/p>\n In other action on Saturday night, the JDHS boys defeated Mt. Edgecumbe 71-53 at the B.J. McGillis Gym in Sitka and the TMHS boys lost to Ketchikan 61-46 at the Clark Clarke Cochrane Gym in Ketchikan.<\/p>\n The JDHS and TMHS boys play in the first round of the Region V 4A Tournament next Tuesday at 8:15 p.m. at Mt. Edgecumbe. The winner of that game will advance to play Ketchikan on Wednesday afternoon. The Kings received a first-round bye as the conference winners.<\/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 The Juneau-Douglas girls basketball team couldn’t duplicate their explosive 56-point Friday performance in their final regular season game against Ketchikan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":43818,"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-43817","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\/43817","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=43817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43817"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=43817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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