The Juneau-Douglas Crimson Bears secured a home playoff game, but came in second as leaders of the Railbelt Football Conference in this weekend’s closing game of the regular season. The Bears beat the Lathrop Malemutes 53 to 8 Friday night in Fairbanks. It was the win they needed to clinch a quarterfinal contest in Juneau.…
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Falcons: SE conference champs. Bears: one more game to go
The Thunder Mountain Falcons are the Southeast Conference champs in high school football. The Falcons beat the Ketchikan Kings 30 to 12 on Saturday in Ketchikan. After a slow start to the season – and losing their first four games – the Falcons have won three contests in a row, putting them at the top…
Weekend wins for Falcons and Crimson Bears
Wins for both Juneau high school varsity football teams this weekend. The Thunder Mountain Falcons on Friday beat the Sitka Wolves on a score of 25 to 6, just the margin they needed for the drive to playoffs. A 27-yard field goal late in the game sealed it. If the Falcons beat Ketchikan next week, they…
Crimson Bears cruise, Falcons struggle
In high school football action over the weekend, the Juneau-Douglas Crimson Bears took down the Palmer Moose 29-13 on Friday, improving to 3-0 on the year, while the Thunder Mountain Falcons struggled against the Nikiski Bulldogs, losing 46-6 and dropping to 0-3. McLean Cannon has this recap.
JDHS runners top Capital City Invitational
Juneau runners took the top spots in the Capital City Invitational cross country meet this weekend (Saturday). Sidney Browning finished the 5 kilometer race in 21:16 to best the girls’ field, followed by Juneau-Douglas High School classmate Martina Miller at 22:10 – one second ahead of Ketchikan’s Courtney Galloway, who was third. Katie Jones was…
Crimson Bears trounce North Pole Patriots
The Juneau-Douglas Crimson Bears left another football team scoreless this weekend. In the first Railbelt Conference game of the season, the Crimson Bears varsity toppled the North Pole Patriots by a score of 57-0. The Juneau-Douglas junior varsity also beat the North Pole JV by 38-6. The games were played in North Pole and heard…