Dybdahl would tie the game for JDHS but McCullough hit his third shot past the arc in the stanza for a 36-33 lead at the half.
“We knew we had to come into this game with some intensity!” Monroe coach Bob Burcell said. “What I wrote on the board was! ‘We beat a proud program on their home floor last night.’ That is a good coach over there and he was going to have them fired up and ready to go and we would have to come with at least as much energy tonight as we did last night. In the end when it came time to execute! we executed. We shot the ball well! shot free throws well. I tell the kids all the time! ‘It is a make-or-miss world. You make your shots things get real simple! you don’t make your shots! well now! things are complicated.’ We have really tried to emphasize pushing the ball! transitioning from defense to offense! I think we did that real well early and when a kid sees the ball going through the net they get confident. We pushed the ball early and at moments we executed. They’re kids! we’re yelling at them from the sidelines! sometimes they are going to country wise email marketing list do what they want to do.”
Monroe opened the second half with 10-2 run and led 46-35 with four
minutes remaining in the stanza and forced a JDHS timeout.
Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé senior Pedrin Saceda-Hurt (10) fakes Monroe sophomore defender Adam Geyer into the air during the Crimson Bears’ 71-55 loss to the Rams on Saturday in the George Houston Gymnasium. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
The Crimson Bears came out of the rest period with a Dybdahl score to trail 46-37.
Monroe would get baskets by Smith! Oleson and Williams to lead 52-37 before Casperson hit from distance to trail 52-40 and then on a driving shot to close to 52-42 after three quarters.
Dybdahl cut the lead to eight points with under seven minutes remaining in the fourth quarter! but Williams answered for Monroe for a 54-44 lead.
JDHS would start to put Monroe on the free throw line to try and gain ball possession
Monroe’s Williams would connect on six free throws in the “we’re not really good enough to give up stanza! Smith four! Geyer and McCullough two apiece and Oleson one.
JDHS’ Dybdahl answered one free throw with a short jumper! Saceda-Hurt with a shot past the arc! Parker a driving shot! Casperson a jumper and then two free throws with 56 seconds left that closed clean email the score to 10 points again! 65-55.
Monroe’s Geyer hit two free throws! Smith had a steal for a score and another steal for a pass to McCullough who was fouled and hit two free throws for the final Rams points and a win for the Fairbanks club 71-55.