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Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Juneau-Douglas High School Yadaa.at Kalé girls softball team will be heading to the state tournament in Anchorage for the first time in five years. ....
Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Thunder Mountain High School softball team won its second run-shortened game in three days against Sitka on Saturday at Dimond Park Fields, completing a two-game sweep of the visiting Wolves. The Falcons earned a 9-1 five-inning win Saturday after beating the Wolves 10-0 on Thursday. ....
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 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. ....