Physically and emotionally spent the Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé Crimson Bears boys soccer season came to an end at the 2025 ASAA/First National Bank Soccer State Championships consolation game for third or fifth place on Saturday at Colony High School in a 5-0 loss to the pre-tournament favorite Knights.
“We had nothing left,” JDHS coach Gary Lehnhart said. “I knew in the morning when we went through the walk-through that Kai (Ciambor) was finished, his body wasn’t going to react and he took a lot of punishment. He took a lot of punishment, he was a marked man.”
“And I think with Amir (Parker) being hurt and not posing his usual dangerousness, teams pulled off him and gave Kai even more attention. And I also think that was the strategy from teams, he was in trouble, Reed Maier country wise email marketing list was in trouble. He had dislocated his shoulder in the first game and had played the second game in a lot of pain and he ended up playing Saturday but he was a shadow of himself. And I finally just said that’s not worth it. Troy (Edgar) got injured, played through it to finish the game Friday, but he couldn’t go Saturday. And then early on in the game we lost Emmett (Mesdag) and Eric (Thompson) to injuries.”
In the end the Crimson Bears played until their bodies by holding parent meetings gave out and those still on the pitch played until the final whistle’s echo was overshadowed by opponent’s cheers.
So it was very apparent that they had played to exhaustion,
” Lehnhart said. “Two overtime games back-to-back and then they have to come back and play a morning game. The only place they’ll do that is in Alaska. And they have to because of the expense b2b phone list of traveling and of staying in hotels, there’s no way around it…there’s really nothing to do to change it, but it’s not healthy. And if we had played in the final, if we have been fortunate to come out with a win on Friday night, and we had to answer the bell Saturday night, the extra hours would have helped, but I don’t know. I think we still would have been in huge trouble.”