Friday night gymnasium lights<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Crimson Bears jumped out to a 17-6 lead in the first quarter of Friday’s game, and the Falcons were never able to catch up.<\/p>\n
The J-D boys won 63-50 with a major lift from Carrillo’s 21 points. Those included 13 points in a bombastic first quarter.<\/p>\n
“They’ve been playing extremely hard the last few weeks,” said JDHS boys coach Robert Casperson following the Friday night win. “It’s just shots haven’t fallen, but tonight, maybe it was playing at home —essentially —being in our hometown, sleeping in our own beds that made a difference. The guys did a great job. I’m extremely proud.”<\/p>\n
Thunder Mountain chipped away at the JDHS lead throughout the game and came within 7 points late in the game, but the comeback effort fell short.<\/p>\n
“They established that 8-to-12-point lead that we never could get over the hurdle,” Blasco said. “It was physical, it was a battle, the guys were definitely feeling it afterwards, but that’s kind of what you expect it’s a physical conference game.”<\/p>\n
Late in the fourth quarter, JDHS was able to build on its lead as Kai Hargrave went 6-for-6 on free throws and the team placed an emphasis on running down the clock.<\/p>\n
Casperson said the Crimson Bears are showing signs of learning how to win and manage the clock.<\/p>\n
“It is a young group, and they’re gaining a ton of experience, and this game was very valuable for adding to our experience,” Casperson said.<\/p>\n
With a win and a loss each, TMHS’ record is now 6-8 overall and 1-3 in conference. JDHS’ record is now 4-12 overall and 1-1 in conference.<\/p>\n
Next, JDHS is set to host Wasilla High School on Thursday before a pair of home games on Friday and Saturday against Ketchikan. TMHS is scheduled to welcome Wasilla to the Thunder Dome for games Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n
• Contact Ben Hohenstatt at (907)308-4895 or bhohenstatt@juneauempire.com. Follow him on Twitter at @BenHohenstatt.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TMHS wins one, JDHS wins one. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":474,"featured_media":81556,"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":[670,240],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-81555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-sports","tag-boys-basketball","tag-high-school-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81555","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\/474"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81555"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=81555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}