“It felt good,” Klawock coach Trae Marvin said. “I just wanted to get the guys in here. We knew Hoonah was going to come out scrappy. Just wanted to get the guys in the right head space and get ready for the next game. And get some shots up on these rims, we haven’t played here before. We just need to stay in the right head space and compete until the end.”
Klawock was led by Bagby with 18 points, Smith added 16, sophomore Paul Lindley 12, Peel eight, sophomore Tristin Ryno six, senior Thomas Teal five and junior David Friday five.
The Chieftains hit 7-13 at the free throw line, the Braves 2-4
Hoonah was led by 19 points from Kelly, Contreras added eight, freshman James Erickson and junior Dashel Huskey two apiece.
“I think we have to get our groove going,” Hoonah coach Joseph Coronell said. “We have to get our offense going and we have to use the next game to push the pace and get back to the style of play that we are used to. I think we got away from that this game but I think we’ll bounce back.”
Along the waterfronts and mountain tops of upper Lynn Cana l the voice of lynn canal giving and into the households and cabins of Haines, Skagway and Klukwan a masterful voice of play-by-play basketball reports the action of their local teams.
“I have been doing KHNS pretty much throughout discount promo this time of year for three years now,” Skagway’s Mason Jennings, 13, said from his bleacher top seat at the Region V 1A basketball tournament in Juneau.
Jennings started his broadcasting career in the sixth grade at age 11
“It was kind of strange,” he said of his start. “I was at the games in Sitka two years ago and my dad (Nathan Jennings) was commentating, and I went up there to see what he was doing because I had no clue he was commentating. He said, ‘Do you want to do it with me?’ And I was, like, ‘Of course,’ and that’s how I got started.”
He hasn’t missed a season yet.
