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Travis said, “To be honest, I only heard Matt explain a little bit of it but basically…being a captain is both on and off the field. So off the field I try to make it so we have a lot of fun. So something we started last year, if someone has a birthday, I’ll buy a card and bring it here and have everyone sign it and give it to them with candy…I also text in our group chat a lot, and one of our freshmen, Zoe, reacts with like a thousand emojis…So basically I think it was for all the work I’ve done on and off the field this season so I think that is why I got it. But I was too busy crying to really listen.”

dashed early in the week as JDHS needed the Colony Knights to defeat Wasilla and then the Crimson Bears would hold their own destiny in the two final home games at ADMP.

When Colony tied Wasilla 1-1, JDHS needed to sweep the country wise email marketing list Warriors and hope for an at-large bid. Instead, the Crimson Bears played their hearts out in two tough losses, falling Friday 3-2 and Saturday 3-0.

“We all got really close and we all turned into a big family,” Lam said. “The season didn’t end well for us, but we made good memories and we really fought for it.”


Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé senior Natalie Travis (10) subs out of her final home game during the Crimson Bears senior appreciation game Saturday at Adair-Kennedy Memorial Park. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé senior Natalie Travis (10) subs out of her final home game during the Crimson Bears senior appreciation game Saturday at Adair-Kennedy Memorial Park. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)

Canapary said, “I think that obviously it was going to be new because we were combining and making an adjustment, but I think everyone would agree that we all had a lot of fun together. It’s been hard for us being our senior season and it didn’t turn out like we wanted, but this is my favorite team I have ever played with.”

On Friday, JDHS junior Peyton Wheeler played a fantastic ball into space for sophomore Riley Schultz to run on and finish under a diving Wasilla keeper in the 25th minute for a 1-0 lead

In the 58th minute, freshman Ayla Erickson played a ball to Mazon, who attacked the wing and Erickson ran into space in the center and received the ball back from Mazon and struck a shot from 30 yards out that nestled into the top corner of Wasilla’s net for a 2-0 lead.

“The game was back and forth for most of the match,” Dusenberry said. “But for 70 minutes we kept them out of the net. Several goal line scrambles almost saw our lead increase.”

In the 69th minute, Wasilla was awarded a penalty kick due to a hand ball that occurred on a corner kick and cut the lead to 2-1.

“They had a corner, we cleared the first kick, but not far enough and Wasilla immediately shot on frame and unfortunately our player on the post meant to help cover corners was found by the ref to have handled the ball when they stopped the second shot,” Dusenberry said.