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Juneau-Douglas High School

Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 5:16 am
by mouakter13
JDHS had a bright moment at the start of the second half with Ciambor earning a penalty kick to trail 3-1 and then placing a nice cross that just missed connecting. But West would continue to push forward and find goals from Driscoll, senior Noah Robinson, Marrah and sophomore Griffin Cain.

“We will turn this into a good learning exercise,” coach Lehnhart said. “We set ourselves up nice record-wise so it doesn’t really do us much harm, doesn’t do us any harm in conference. So really it is more about the mental makeup of the team and, you know, some things got exposed. It’s my job to help try to figure that out and their job to hopefully respond to what’s broken because there were some things broken today. But mostly I’m just concerned with guys staying together and learning country wise email marketing list from this. We are, in a lot of ways, a really inexperienced team and it showed today.”

: Yadaa.at Kalé sophomore Sam Mazon (4) puts a free kick against the West Anchorage defense during the Crimson Bears’ 7-1 loss to the Eagles on Saturday at Adair Kennedy Memorial Park. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé sophomore Sam Mazon (4) puts a free kick against the West Anchorage defense during the Crimson Bears’ 7-1 loss to the Eagles on Saturday at Adair Kennedy Memorial Park. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)

West left Anchorage Tuesday night after losing to South 2-1, defeated Ketchikan Wednesday 3-1 and Thursday 3-0 — and playing two JV games as well — and tied with JDHS 1-1 Friday.

“This has been quite the journey for the boys,” West coach Kaleb Kuehn said. “A lot of minutes traveling and taking care of the body…It has been a process and a journey for these guys in building all the things to come together and the pieces are finally fell into place today and that showed with the score line, result, effort and the hard work that they put on the field…I totally respect Juneau. When we came in here, honestly, I was a little on my heels unsure on how it was going to go.”

The top four teams in the CIC go to state and the top three in the Rail Belt Conference. One at-large bid is awarded to state as well, so games against opposite conferences are crucial for strength of schedule rankings.

“What I always tell my players is you have to control your own destiny,” Kuehn said. “That’s one of the most important pieces to me…you are not letting other people or teams dictate your destiny.”