Senior Natalie Travis earned the Crimson

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Seven minutes later, Wheeler gave the lead back to JDHS on a play similar to her first tally. This time senior Milina Mazon found the ball wide and stretched the Lathrop defense out and played a nice ball into space for Wheeler to outrun a Lathrop centerback and tuck it in past the Malemutes keeper.

Bears’ Hard Hat Award for her defense, especially in the country wise email marketing list second half, when she marked numerous Lathrop attackers and cleared the possible game-tying goal as time expired.

“We have tomorrow to play, but we certainly have opportunities to control our own destiny rather than rely on other people,” Dusenberry said. “So we are pretty excited. It was a little bit of a nail-biter towards the end as we had tired legs. Juneau weather has been cold and wet for months and we just came to sunny and 60 degrees and a dryness…So we were a little tired towards the end and maybe hung legs when we should have just gone to the tackle. Instead of stepping into the tackle we hung our legs out, resulting in fouls. Unfortunately, our hanging legs caught them so there were a couple free kicks where their centerback (freshman Emmy Eddy), who can kick the ball half the field on a dead ball, hit balls we had to fight off and get cleared off the line…and on the last play of the game it looked like it was going to go in and Natalie got her head on it and cleared it out of the line and the referee called the game…We really played well today.”

Thursday’s games have not been factored in yet to the current Alaska School Activities Association (ASAA) soccer Division I girls RPI — or strength of schedule — rankings. The top 10 are Dimond (CIC), Wasilla (RBC), South Anchorage (CIC), Service (CIC), Colony (RBC), Chugiak (CIC), Lathrop (RBC), West Anchorage (CIC), West Valley (RBC) and JDHS. CIC’s Bartlett, Eagle River and East Anchorage are out of contention.