<\/a>Ben Hohenstatt \/ Juneau Empire File \n JDHS Skylar Tuckwood takes the ball up for 2-points against TMHS during this year’s Region V tournament. The Crimson Bears won their Friday game against Lathrop High School and will now play TMHS on Saturday.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
At times, Lathrop nipped at JDHS’ heels, but there was always a Skylar Tuckwood bucket, Mila Hargrave putback or Miller 3-pointer to reassert a double-digit advantage.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
Tuckwood said the consistency is what made the difference on both ends of the court.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
“I thought our team did a really good job all around (defense and offense) and played hard the whole game,” Tuckwood said.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
Miller added: “I think the key to winning today was our high intensity starting off the game and our rebounding.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
Still, Lathrop refused to go quietly, and continued to play hard, defend tenaciously and hoist shots late in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
However, a clutch steal from Tuckwood and dagger free throws from Izzy Waters and Miller cemented the 51-42 win for JDHS in the game’s waning seconds.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
Hargrave was named player of the game for JDHS while Tuckwood led in scoring with 20 points.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
Waters, a senior, said she was proud of her team as well as herself for capitalizing on more scoring opportunities and being overall more aggressive throughout.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
“While our shooting from the outside was on, it was truly our rebounds today that got us going and helped tremendously on not only offensively, but defensively as well,” Waters said.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
TMHS’ victory against eighth-seeded Dimond High School was more dramatic and fueled by a second half surge. The Lady Falcons had entered the second half trailing 28-23, but started the third quarter with a 9-0 run that vaulted them past eight-seeded Dimond High School on the scoreboard and ultimately to a 53-47 win.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
The Lady Falcons were led in scoring by sophomore Cailynn Baxter’s 17 points. Sophomore Kerra Baxter added 13 and senior Kiara Endicott added 9 points, including a 3-pointer near the end of the third that gave TMHS a 5-point advantage entering the final period of play. Lee said strong bench play from reserves Jenna Dobson and Addison Wilson allowed TMHS to keep the Baxters and junior Ashlyn Gates, whose interior presence was pivotal in the win, relatively rested down the stretch to seal the win.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
“I thought we got tremendous minutes from players nine and 10,” Lee said.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
Cailynn Baxter was named player of the game for TMHS.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
The bounce-back wins come after respective tough losses in games that were up for grabs until their final seconds. On Wednesday, TMHS fell 54-50 thanks to a late rally from West Anchorage High School.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
“Every step forward for the program, even the loss the other night as disappointing as it was, was a step forward for us,” Lee said pointing out the team at one point held a 14-point advantage on one of the state’s biggest stages against a good basketball team. “It’s a resilience test.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
That same day, JDHS was unable to complete a comeback bid against Colony High School in a 53-46 loss.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
Saturday’s all-Juneau game will be played at the University of Alaska Anchorage Sports Complex, and will decide who places fourth and who places sixth in the 4A girls tournament.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
ASAA March Madness games are available to stream at: https:\/\/www.nfhsnetwork.com\/. Coverage of the game will appear online at juneauempire.com and in print in the Tuesday edition of the Empire.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t
• Contact reporter Jonson Kuhn at jonson.kuhn@juneauempire.com. Ben Hohenstatt contributed reporting to this article.<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" JDHS vs. TMHS at state on Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":474,"featured_media":97077,"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":[203,240],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-97076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-sports","tag-sportbasketball","tag-high-school-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97076","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=97076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97076"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=97076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}