Juneau held a 43-37 lead at the half.

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“Just communication and defense,” Juneau’s Mahina Toutaiolepo said. “I think our defense played a big role in this game. They were good players, but we hung in there. You’ve just got to be tough in there. When you see bigger guys you have got to play bigger.”


Tompkins put on a highlight reel to start the second half with a shot past the arc, a blocked shot on the other end, a rebound of a missed shot and a steal.

“Just playing hard and playing as a team,” Tompkins said. country wise email marketing list “I think if we do what we’re supposed to do we had a pretty good chance of winning. So that was our plan.”

Mt. Edgecumbe’s Herrmann, Kline, Anderson and Herrmann again countered scores by Juneau’s Brady Carandang and Saviers to close to 51-49 with four minutes remaining in the third period. But Saviers drove inside, Kendrick Payton screened Hoover’s defender, and Saviers found Hoover for an open shot and a 53-49 lead.

“I just want to win,” Hoover said. “I’m really not worried about what I do individually. I would like our team to win and I think I made a lot of plays that helped the team win…on defense, passing the ball, rebounding the ball…I think we had a lot of guys with that same mindset and that’s why we were successful.”

Herrmann answered from past the arc for Mt. Edgecumbe to close to 53-52. But Juneau’s Tompkins, Grussendorf, Carandang and Grussendorf hit to offset another shot past the arc by Herrmann and Prince for a 61-57 lead with 42 seconds left in the stanza.

Juneau’s Saviers drove again and passed to Tompkins who drove and kicked the ball back to Saviers, who hit Carandang, who passed it back to Saviers and he scored for a 63-57 lead as the buzzer ended the stanza.