Bartlett made the game scrappy, but Juneau-Douglas High School harnessed some last-second heroics to pull a low-scoring, opening-round win at the state tournament.<\/p>\n
The JDHS boys basketball team beat Bartlett 58-57 at the March Madness Alaska state basketball championships in Anchorage on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The Crimson Bears trailed in all but the closing seconds of the match when sophomore Kolby Hoover \u2014 who played only a few minutes in relief for a fouled-out Treyson Ramos \u2014 hit a deep field goal with 1.7 seconds left.<\/p>\n
As the buzzer sounded on Bartlett\u2019s half-court desperation heave, Hoover, who doesn\u2019t start, walked around in a daze as his teammates exhorted him. It didn\u2019t seem to sink in that he just kept his team\u2019s hopes alive for the state championship.<\/p>\n
With 22 seconds to go, the Crimson Bears found themselves down 53-57. Kaleb Tompkins then dribbled down and hit a deep 3-pointer off the dribble to pull the game within a point. Bartlett missed their one-and-one free throw, and JDHS\u2019 Tompkins got the rebound and found Kolby Hoover with a long pass.<\/p>\n
Hoover hit a field goal from the left wing to give them their first and only \u2014 and winning \u2014 lead.<\/p>\n
\u201cKaleb (Tompkins) drew basically a triple team on that last rebound, and as he was driving up the floor, made a nice pivot move and got out of the pressure to find Kolby (Hoover) on the long diagonal pass, and he drained it,\u201d JDHS head coach Robert Casperson said.<\/p>\n
JDHS was down 0-7 at the beginning of the contest as both teams played sloppy basketball to start.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t shoot it very well in the first half at all,\u201d Casperson said. \u201c… We got good looks, we were attacking the basket (but) things weren\u2019t falling. Could have been nerves, first game jitters, any of that. … We definitely shot better in the second half and that made a huge difference for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
JDHS whittled the lead to two points in the second quarter only to drop back 20-30 before halftime. In the third, JDHS would go down by as many as 14 points before making a comeback off the good play of Erik Kelly, Bryce Swofford and Kaleb Tompkins.<\/p>\n
Down 10 most of the third quarter, Treyson Ramos hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer to bring the game within six going into the fourth.<\/p>\n
Bryce Swofford seemed to be the only player who played his usual game as the 6\u20197\u201d big man worked against a smaller Bartlett team. The junior used his size advantage to get to the line repeatedly, and keep his team within striking distance as the clock wound down.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe started going inside more in the second half, and that\u2019s one of the things we talked about early in the game, was that we had a size advantage and we needed to attack them inside,\u201d Casperson said.<\/p>\n
JDHS faces Ketchikan tomorrow in the semifinals at 3:30 p.m. The championship game will be held on Saturday at 8 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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