Girls recap<\/strong><\/p>\nOn Friday night, TMHS beat JDHS 52-45, cementing the Falcons’ first win against the Crimson Bears at JDHS.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, JDHS earned a 54-35 victory against TMHS.<\/p>\n
“It was a tale of two nights. Friday’s win was our best overall performance of the year. It was an emotional win for the team,” said TMHS coach Andy Lee in a phone interview on Monday. “We were a little emotionally flat on Saturday, and JDHS did a good job taking advantage of that,” he added.<\/p>\n
Lee credits a good week of practice leading up to Friday’s win as positive for the team.<\/p>\n
“We’re playing really good basketball,” Lee said. He added that the team had won six of their last seven games for an overall record of seven wins and six losses.<\/p>\n
“We have eight seniors, and they are really focused on ending the season on a winning note,” Lee said.<\/p>\n
On Friday night, the JDHS team celebrated senior night at their home game and welcomed more fans than they’d seen all season.<\/p>\n
“On Friday, there were lots of emotions for the girls,” said JDHS coach Steve Potter. “The team was disappointed Friday but felt much better on Saturday,” Potter said.<\/p>\n
The Crimson Bears’ record stands at 8-8. Potter agreed that a whole week of practice leading up to the games made a difference in the quality of the games last weekend.<\/p>\n
“Everything has been so condensed,” Potter said. “ We started in January and have already played 16 games in a short amount of time. It was nice to have a full week of practice. We forgot how that felt.”<\/p>\n
Gratitude for the season<\/strong><\/p>\nAll four coaches expressed gratitude that the season had gone smoothly in light of COVID-19 mitigation measures and a delayed start.<\/p>\n
“When we saw volleyball not take off, the girls were worried, especially when our first trip got canceled. But, it’s worked out,” Potter said.<\/p>\n
Despite mask-wearing requirements and fewer fans in the stands, the teams were still eager to hit the court.<\/p>\n
“Our guys were willing to do whatever it took to get out on court If we had to play hermetically sealed bubbles, we would have,” Casperson said. “The kids just wanted to play.”<\/p>\n
Blasco said: “I’m thankful these kids have had the opportunity to play the season we’ve had. If you had asked me in November how the season would go, I would not have guessed it this way.”<\/p>\n
He added that the team’s schedule had only included other Southeast Alaska teams this year, as they did not travel to Anchorage or Fairbanks.<\/p>\n
“We’ve had some games postponed and rescheduled because of COVID. However, I am very thankful for what these kids have done and that we’ve been able to travel,” Blasco said.<\/p>\n
• Contact reporter Dana Zigmund at dana.zigmund@juneauempire.com or 907-308-4891.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JDHS win clinches team No. 1 seed in the Region V tournament. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":716,"featured_media":68496,"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":[203],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-68495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-sports","tag-sportbasketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68495","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\/716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68495"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=68495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}