The Juneau-Douglas High School boys basketball team netted its second win in as many nights Friday with a 44-37 takedown of the Soldotna Stars at a Fairbanks-based tournament.<\/p>\n
The Crimson Bears held every Stars player to single figures in the defense-minded affair.<\/p>\n
Erik Kelly led the effort with a game-high 12 points, followed closely by Bryce Swofford with 10. Junior Kolby Hoover chipped in with six points in only his second game back after suffering a broken leg in the offseason.<\/p>\n
Soldotna\u2019s Caleb Spence led his team in defeat with nine points on a field goal, a 3-pointer and a 4-for-4 performance from the free-throw line.<\/p>\n
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CRIMSON BEARS 60, EIELSON 54<\/strong><\/p>\n Before this season, Juneau-Douglas High School senior guard Kasey Watts hadn\u2019t played a minute of organized basketball since eighth grade. The court rust apparently never took hold as the hockey transplant has been a key component of the Crimson Bears\u2019 early-season successes.<\/p>\n Watts put up his biggest point total of the season (20 points) Thursday as JDHS took Eielson down 60-54 in the first game of an eight-game road schedule the Crimson Bears opened last week.<\/p>\n Watts, who also plays baseball, had the most points on the court Thursday in Juneau-Douglas High School\u2019s first game at the Joe T. Classic tournament in Fairbanks. Watts was perfect from the field and the free-throw line, going 7-for-7 on six field goals and a 3-pointer. He topped that with a 5-for-5 performance from the line.<\/p>\n JDHS big men Bryce Swofford (16 points, 67 percent shooting) and Erik Kelly (13 points, 75 percent) followed Watts\u2019 lead in the scoring column.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Juneau-Douglas High School boys basketball team netted its second win in as many nights Friday with a 44-37 takedown of the Soldotna Stars at a Fairbanks-based tournament. The Crimson Bears held every Stars player to single figures in the defense-minded affair. Erik Kelly led the effort with a game-high 12 points, followed closely by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[256],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-jdhs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4500"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}