{"id":97098,"date":"2023-03-23T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/hydaburg-advances-to-saturday-championship-to-face-juneau\/"},"modified":"2023-03-27T13:09:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T21:09:46","slug":"hydaburg-advances-to-saturday-championship-to-face-juneau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/hydaburg-advances-to-saturday-championship-to-face-juneau\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydaburg heroics eliminate Angoon 94-89 in 2-OT thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t

The Juneau Empire’s expanded coverage of the Juneau Lions Club 74th Gold Medal Basketball Tournament is made possible by Sealaska Corp. Thanks to this sponsorship, this article —and all of this year’s Gold Medal coverage — is available online without a subscription to the Empire.<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

There were too many heroes in Hydaburg’s 94-89 Friday night double-overtime elimination game win over Angoon at the 74th Gold Medal Basketball Tournament in the Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé gymnasium.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Let’s just start with 0.3 seconds remaining in the first overtime and Hydaburg trailing by two points, 79-77, and Hydaburg’s – and half the countries – star guard Vinny Edenshaw on the line with two free throws.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

Edenshaw would miss the first… and have to miss the second.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

“I usually never miss free throws,” Edenshaw said. “I don’t know what was going on… I think the crowd was getting to me, because I was talking to the crowd the whole game, I think it was that…”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

There would only be time to tip the ball in if missed and Hydaburg’s George Peratrovich kept Hydaburg’s title chase alive among a gaggle of players, tying the score at 79-79 for a second overtime.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

“Oh man that was crazy,” Peratrovich said. “I never imagined that with Vinny on the line. After he missed the first one I was like, ‘if you get the right bounce I’m going to get it and I’m going to put it up.’ Man, that was crazy man. It was a good game. We put up a heck of a battle… hopefully we can get it done tomorrow.”<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t

In the second OT Hydaburg’s Peratrovich had a free throw to start but Angoon’s JJ Nixon and Aquino Brinson scored for an 83-80 lead.<\/p>\n