The Wrangell High School boys basketball team found their form in a 75-40 win over the Effie Kokrine Warriors during Friday’s consolation semifinal of the 2025 ASAA March Madness Alaska 2A State Basketball Championships at Anchorage’s Alaska Airlines Center.
The first nine shots of the game between the two teams all found the bottom of the net! five from past the arc! with the Warriors on top 11-10.
“Fun to watch from a fans standpoint! but as a coach you’re like! ‘why are we letting them shoot every time!’ but at least we hit a couple and stayed right there!” Wrangell coach Cody Angerman said. “It took us a while to get going.”
Wrangell’s Lucas Schneider and Daniel Harrison (34) defend Effie Kokrine ball handler Jaden Moses (1) in the Wolves 75-40 win over the Warriors on Friday in the 2025 ASAA March Madness Alaska 2A State Basketball Championships at Anchorage’s Alaska Airlines Center (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
The Wolves closed the quarter on a 6-2 run on two scores by Daniel Harrison and another by Kyan Stead for a 16-13 lead.
The Warriors tied the game on a free throw by Ryan Strom and a layup by Jonas Carroll. But the Wolves Jackson Powers found a space past the arc! Harrison put in a rebound score and Stead added a free throw for a 22-16 lead that Wrangell would not relinquish.
The Warriors tied the game at 24 with 34.9 seconds country wise email marketing list left in the first half! but the Wolves Stead hit a basket at the buzzer for the 26-24 advantage.
“I think! really! our first half wasn’t that great defensively!” Wrangell coach Angerman said. “But once we started jumping in lanes and getting some steals obviously our teams made of runs! and that’s the game of basketball so that’s what we do.”
Wrangell’s offensive in the first half was
stellar as the Wolves shot 47% from the field and 50% from past the arc
“It’s usually not that way! but I guess today was!” Coach Angerman said. “These kids have worked really hard. We’ve done a lot of shooting lately and just working on some different offensive schemes to get them open looks too. We have a few things up our sleeve to get the guys open looks and get them three observations to ponder the shots that we’ve been asking them to get. Today was a lot better than yesterday so.”
Wrangell came out of the halftime locker room on a mission and broke out an 11-2 run for a 37-26 lead halfway through the third quarter.
Harrison hit eight of those points
and Keaton Gillen-Gadd three points past the arc.
“It feels good!” Harrison said of his shooting stroke. “It’s hard to explain! you sort of forget about marketing list everything and and just focus on one thing. Yeah! it’s just the hoop and you and it’s fun.”