JDHS boys soccer topples West Valley for weekend sweep

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The Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé Crimson Bears boys soccer team completed a sweep of Railbelt Conference opponent West Valley on Saturday, defeating the Wolfpack 4-1 on the Adair Kennedy Park pitch. JDHS had won 1-0 on Friday evening, and is now 2-0 in conference play and 4-0 overall.

“We were just more offensively efficient today,” JDHS coach Gary Lehnhart said. “I thought actually we played a better defensive game yesterday and midfield game. I thought defensively we were better yesterday overall, not just our four backs, but we didn’t come at the game quite with the same energy. And that’s probably not surprising given the quick turnaround in the game and the night game before we played. I think the guys were pretty amped up and so they were a little flat I thought at the country wise email marketing list beginning. But Eric made that save and we just kept…I mean Kai’s goals were, you know you don’t coach that.”

The game started with a strong save in the box by sophomore keeper Erik Thompson as West Vally hit a corner and it connected in the box but was stopped. The game ended the same way, with Thompson defending and stopping a one-on-one shot.

“A game like this to me is personal growth,” Thompson said. “I did get scored on and I was personally bummed out about that goal because I personally knew I could have been there to save that, but it’s about the mindset of just moving on from that goal to the next place and to the next thing, and just doing the best you can for that next task that’s required of you.”