Juneau-Douglas sophomore Anna Dale slides safely into second base against Thunder Mountain on Saturday. (Klas Stolpe) Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Juneau-Douglas and Thunder Mountain girls softball teams met in a cross-town conference clash on Saturday at Melvin Park and the Crimson Bears swept the Falcons, winning 9-1 in the opener and 13-6 in the non-conference night cap.
“The girls played really well,” Juneau-Douglas coach Alexandra Razor said. “I felt like they looked very confident and comfortable. They didn’t really get rattled. In previous seasons we have seen our teams melt or fall apart if the other team gets an advance or starts hitting but our girls did a really good job just playing defense.”
Juneau-Douglas senior Brock McCormick connects on a pitch for a home run on Saturday agaisnt the Petersburg Vikings at Adair Kennedy Field. (Klas Stolpe) Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Juneau-Douglas High School Yadaa.at Kalé baseball team put up 36 runs in two games on Saturday at Adair Kennedy Field, topping the visiting Petersburg Vikings 13-2 and 23-1 in non-conference action.
“The players came out swinging and they didn’t stop,” Juneau-Douglas coach Chad Bentz said. “It was a really good weekend but I am honestly not surprised because they had a really good week of practice. I’ve always told them, if we prepare the right way the games will take care of themselves.”
Juneau-Douglas and Thunder Mountain High School softball players are shown in competition in this file photo. (Klas Stolpe) Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Juneau-Douglas and Thunder Mountain High School softball teams are ready for action, but their season opening tournament in Sitka was cancelled Thursday due to weather.
Neither team could fly out of Juneau, while Ketchikan had to overhead on to Anchorage and then back home.
The Sitka tournament, which was scheduled for Friday and Saturday, was to be “pool play” format. In a pool play tournament, each day would only count as one game towards a team’s 22-match game limit. That meant JDHS, TMHS, Ketchikan and Sitka each could have played three 65-minute time limit games a day.
Juneau-Douglas senior Kiana Potter is joined by father Steve and mother Lucy after signing a Letter Of Intent on Thursday to play for Whitman College. (Klas Stolpe) Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - Juneau-Douglas High School Yadaa.at Kalé Crimson Bears senior guard Kiana Potter has had her dream come true.
Potter, set to graduate this spring, signed a national letter of intent Thursday to play college basketball for the Whitman College Blues.
“Since I can remember, it has always been my goal to play college basketball,” Potter said. “It is kind of the perfect combination of athletic and academic. It is a really rigorous academic school and a super successful athletic school so it was the best of both worlds. I care a lot about my athletics and my academics, and I really liked the coaching staff when I met them.”
The Juneau-Douglas High School Yadaa.at Kalé cheer team won the state cheerleading championship. (Photo courtesy Carlene Nore) Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The state now knows what the Region V Southeast Conference has known this season, the Juneau-Douglas High School Yadaa.At Kalé Crimson Bears cheerleaders are champions.
The JDHS cheer squad was chosen the 2021 March Madness Alaska High School State Champions on Tuesday. The competition was held virtually. JDHS also won this year’s region title in a virtual competition.
JDHS cheer competed against 14 teams at the virtual state competition. Head coach Carlene Nore and assistant coach and choreographer Colby Sanders taped the team’s performances at the JDHS auxiliary gym.