The Sitka Wolves bent but refused to break in a game that was closer than the final score would indicate.<\/p>\n
The Juneau-Douglas High School boys basketball team scored 20 points or more in every quarter on Tuesday during day two of the Capital City Classic to best Sitka 81-63 at home.<\/p>\n
JDHS senior guard Guy Bean scored 11 of the Crimson Bears\u2019 first 13 points on his way to a game-high 24 points on the night.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just hot, I don\u2019t really know how to describe it,\u201d Bean said. \u201cI was just confident of my shot. Coach told us to take higher-percentage shots, so that was part of it, and then we started trapping and we got a lot of steals and fast-break opportunities that led to layups.\u201d<\/p>\n
JDHS senior guard Treyson Ramos scored 13 of his 18 points in the second half to energize the Crimson Bears. Senior Kaleb Tompkins had 13 points on the night and sophomore forward Erik Kelly added 12 off the bench.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese guys are pretty dynamic,\u201d JDHS coach Robert Casperson said. \u201cTreyson brought a lot of life to the team today, a lot of energy and he had a really great game for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Said Bean: \u201cMost of the time it is Kaleb, he\u2019s our leading scorer for sure, but when he\u2019s not doing it somebody else can do it. We have a full team of scorers.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Crimson Bears had no solution for stopping Sitka\u2019s 6-foot-7 junior Jesse Lantiegne down low. Lantiegne had 20 points, about half coming from offensive rebounds, and senior Tevin Bayne caught a hot-hand in the second half, scoring 16 of his team-high 22 points. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re a very good team. They\u2019re a quality team and a good opponent for us to get early in the season,\u201d Casperson said. \u201cThey tested us in different ways. Bayne did a real nice job for them tonight and (Lantiegne) was difficult inside. We\u2019ll see them three more times this season.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sitka coach Andy Lee said Tuesday\u2019s game was a \u201cmeasuring stick\u201d for his team, which plays in the 3A division. JDHS is 4A. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe never quit,\u201d Lee said. \u201cNow we have a measuring stick, and we hope to build on this. At the end of the day, we did things today to prepare for our competition. We went out and got great competition and played to the end. I saw good things from our team from a competitive standpoint.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lee also said he was pleased with what he saw from Lantiegne, who was the dominant big man on the night. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s growing leaps and bounds and teams are having to focus on him, and he has to learn to respond to being doubled and trippled,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got a horse to ride, and we just have to figure out we can\u2019t ride him to death and you have to be selective. In the second half we didn\u2019t do as good a job as we could have giving him the ball.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Crimson Bears took an early 20-15 lead after the first quarter, and extended it to 40-29 at halftime. But the Wolves refused to let the game get out of hand until the final minutes of the contest, trading baskets with JDHS for most of the next two quarters. Sitka cut the lead to 68-58 with five minutes remaining, but that was the closest they would get.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat experience is shining through,\u201d Casperson said. \u201cYou can\u2019t fake confidence. For a high school team to get up into the 80s in a competitive game, that doesn\u2019t happen often.\u201d<\/p>\n
JDHS shot 7-of-12 from the free throw line, with Sitka making 4-of-18. <\/p>\n
\nKENTLAKE 82, HYDABURG 27<\/strong><\/p>\n Kentlake High School scored more points in the first quarter than out-matched Hydaburg scored the entire game.<\/p>\n Led by Austin McBryde\u2019s game-high 18 points, Kentlake, of Washington, had little trouble besting Hydaburg, 82-27.<\/p>\n Kentlake took a 48-23 lead into the half, and extended it to 76-27 after three. Hydaburg was held scoreless in the fourth.<\/p>\n Trey Helgseson had 14 for Kentlake, followed by 13 from Kevin Baker and nine from Justin Olson. Sidney Warren-Edenshaw and Nick Nix led Hydaburg with six points each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Sitka Wolves bent but refused to break in a game that was closer than the final score would indicate. The Juneau-Douglas High School boys basketball team scored 20 points or more in every quarter on Tuesday during day two of the Capital City Classic to best Sitka 81-63 at home. JDHS senior guard Guy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":7929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-7928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7928","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7928"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}