Mt. Edgecumbe’s Didrickson Jr. would notch a basket between a Barrow free throw blitz that cut the Braves lead to 77-67 with 2:16 left to play. Then teammates Herrmann and Stephan-Standifer hit back-to-back scores! the last assisted by Didrickson Jr.! for an 81-67 lead and the Braves stayed strong for the 81-73 win.
Said MEHS coach Friske! “I feel really happy for our seniors in that they finished on a high and can tell their kids they were one of the best teams in the state when they played back in the day.”
Mt. Edgecumbe cheerleaders provide some spirit during the Braves
’ 81-73 win over the Whalers in the 3A boys 3rd/5th-place game Saturday at 2025 ASAA March Madness Alaska 3A/4A Basketball State Championships in Anchorage’s Alaska Airlines Center. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
Herrmann led Mt. Edgecumbe with 23 points! Gundersen country wise email marketing list added 21! Stephan-Standifer 20! Didrickson Jr. 14 and Royce Alstrom three.
The Braves hit 32-39 from the field (9-25 from the arc)! 8-8 from the free throw line! had 10 assists! 25 rebounds! 16 fouls and 12 turnovers. Stephan-Standifer led with eight rebounds and three
blocked shots! Didrickson Jr. with three assists! and Gundersen with two steals.
The Whalers hit 28-61 from the field (10-21 from the arc)! 7-9 from the line! had 12 assists! 22 rebounds! 13 fouls and 10 turnovers.
Goodwin and Fruean led Barrow with 18 points apiece! Unutoa 13! Tivao 12! D. Adams six! Hunter Wilhelm three! J. Adams two and Eric Librado one.
The 3A tournament awards were presented following the championship game between Sitka and Nome.
Nome earned the boys championship trophy and Sitka the runner-up. The Grace Christian Grizzlies girls defeated the Barrow Whalers for the girls 3A championship 62-41.
The 3A Boys Sportsmanship Award went to the Valdez tour across the united states she had a kitchen Buccaneers. The 3A Girls Sportsmanship Award went to the Mt Edgecumbe Braves.
The 3A Boys Academic Award went to the Kenai Central Kardinals
with a GPA of 3.67. The 3A Girls Academic Award went to the Grace Christian Grizzlies with a GPA of 4.0.
the team that has the most assists through their first two
state tournament games. The 3A boys winner went to the Nome-Beltz Nanooks with 23 and the 3A girls winner went to the Barrow Whalers with 27.
Mt. Edgecumbe’s Kaden Herrmann (13) scores b2b fax lead over Barrow’s Ethan Goodwin (2) as Whalers coach Wyman Ipalook instructs his team during the Braves’ 81-73 win over the Whalers in the 3A boys 3rd/5th-place game Saturday at 2025 ASAA March Madness Alaska 3A/4A Basketball State Championships in Anchorage’s Alaska Airlines Center. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
The 3A Boys State All-Tournament team were Sitka senior Trey
Demmert and junior Trey Johnson; Mt. Edgecumbe senior Richard Didrickson Jr. and sophomore Kaden Herrmann; Nome-Beltz seniors Finn Gregg and Orson Hoogendorn; Barrow junior Jaziah Tivao and sophomore Alex Fruean; Kenai Central sophomore Miles Metteer; and Valdez senior Tino Tucker.
The 3A Girls State All-Tournament team were Mt.
Edgecumbe senior Lauren Cedars and junior Tahira Akaran.