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“Every first game that you play you go through jitters,” Klukwan’s Ben Hotch said. “And you saw that yesterday with Hydaburg playing Hoonah (Hydaburg won 75-69) and they were able to pull it off. But today they were nonstop, they couldn’t miss. That’s kind of what we are looking forward to in our next game, hopefully we get rid of the jitters and come back a little more confident and get used to running up and down the court. Six of our eight guys haven’t played in a while. For us we look at it as a good first game, we take the beating, we learn from it and get a lot of understanding of where we need to improve. Hopefully we come back strong next game.”

B – ANGOON 77, HAINES 72

Another Angoon, Haines battle for the ages unfolded in just the second day of action with the Admiralty Island boys holding off the lads from the northern part of the Alaska Panhandle 77-72.

al Aquino Brinson said. “They are trees, they are big. So we really have to work the ball around, play as a team and just have confidence in each other.”

Brinson would score 12 of his 14 game points in the second half, devoting the first half to defense and distributing the ball to sharpshooters Dominic Brinson, Clayton Edwin or JJ Nixon. Haines relied on pressure defense and a more patient offense to stay within 16-16 after 10 minutes and 40-32 at the half, with Angoon’s lead riding with A. Brinson’s running of the offense.

“I appreciate my team for having confidence in me,” A. Brinson said. “I work on my game a lot to where I can study what’s given to me to where I can distribute to the three-point line…we like to incorporate country wise email marketing list our big men too, to where we can dump it down low. That takes a lot of stress off us. Credit to Kendrick (Payton).”

Floor generals Kyle Fossman of Haines and Aquino Brinson of Angoon went head-to-head in Angoon’s 77-72 B Bracket win Monday at the 76th Annual Juneau Lions Club Gold Medal Basketball Tournament in Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé’s George Houston Gymnasium. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
Floor generals Kyle Fossman of Haines and Aquino Brinson of Angoon went head-to-head in Angoon’s 77-72 B Bracket win Monday at the 76th Annual Juneau Lions Club Gold Medal Basketball Tournament in Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé’s George Houston Gymnasium. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)

The fourth quarter started with Angoon leading by seven, 59-52, and Kyle Rush cut that to five, 59-54, but Angoon’s Isiah Nelson hit from deep for a 62-54 advantage.

Haines Kyle Fossman would hit a pair of shots to close to 62-58, but Angoon’s Aquino Brinson would be fouled on a shot past the arc and hit all three free throws and add a driving basket on the next possession for a 67-58 lead, and Clayton Edwin made that 69-58.