{"id":55290,"date":"2019-11-08T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/jdhs-surprises-crosstown-foe-in-region-semis\/"},"modified":"2019-11-09T11:03:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T20:03:36","slug":"jdhs-surprises-crosstown-foe-in-region-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/jdhs-surprises-crosstown-foe-in-region-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"JDHS surprises crosstown foe in region semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thunder Mountain High School stole the show at last year&rsquo;s Region V Volleyball Tournament at Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaat.at Kal&#233;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/falcons-rally-for-first-ever-region-v-championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">winning its first title in school history<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>JDHS appears to be repaying the favor at this year&rsquo;s tournament, hosted across town at TMHS&rsquo; home gym. The Crimson Bears secured a spot in the championship game at 4:30 p.m. Saturday after consecutive wins over the Ketchikan and Thunder Mountain on Thursday and Friday, respectively.<\/p>\n<p><ins>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/photos-see-jdhs-and-tmhs-meet-at-volleyball-region-championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">See photos of the action here<\/a>]<\/ins><\/p>\n<p>Friday&rsquo;s 3-0 (25-22, 26-24, 25-20) win snapped a six-match losing streak to Thunder Mountain dating back to last season. The Falcons cruised past the Crimson Bears four times this season, winning 3-1 on Oct. 4, 5 and last Friday and 3-0 last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>JDHS and Thunder Mountain take the court Saturday afternoon with JDHS needing to win once and TMHS needing to win twice to hoist the region trophy.<\/p>\n<p>Ketchikan was eliminated Friday night in the loser-out semifinals, falling 3-0 (25-8, 25-14, 25-13) to Thunder Mountain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&rsquo;re winners of two in a row. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":55291,"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-55290","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\/55290","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=55290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55290"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=55290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}