The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-01-19
SUPPORT DEFEATS
 JUNEAU HIGH;; pAA
 LOSES TO DOUGLAS

oAAANA10SS0 ehtAAAS, sAa eAA0 %ANy sSeeo- ketball League, Support defeated the. Crimson Bears 35 to 28 last night in the most brilliantly played game of the season. Douglas Fire men won out with hard-fought 35 to 27 winning score over Pan Am erican Airways' Clipper team. In the Subport-Junea High game, the Army men held the lead from the first quarter The running score was: IS to in the first quarter, 23 to IT in the second, and 29 to 26 in the third. Although Supporters tired visibly in the third and fourth quarters, there was no slack in their playing. The team functioned smoothly, strategically, and with great professional polish throughout the game.
 Krogman who has scored 90 points during the six games in which ha has played this season, making an aver age of Is points game, was high man with 18 points. Besides his ex- cellent shooting. Krogman gave a brilliant display of passing, guarding, and all-around basketball playing, before he was injured and with drawn from the floor two minutes before the end of the game.
 Although undoubtedly the star of the game, Krogman was not the only Supporter who won unreserved ac- claim of the fans last night. Kess- nick, Mcclure, Stewart and Dompke also played an excellent game. Kess- nick with I score of 13 points was the only Supporter besides Krogman with high shooting record, but the teamwork and general proficiency of every player on the floor was the deciding factor that won the game.
 Bears Put Up Fight
 Juneau High played it's usual high ly competent game. Tight guarding tactics from Support cut down the shooting scores of such excellent for wards as Mead, Merritt and Aase, and the team seemed unable to block Supports shooting with any strong counter defense action of its own.
 Behind in the scoring from the be- ginning of the game, Juneau's Bears put up strong fight. Unable to wrest substantial lead at any point in the game, the team changed from man to man, to zone defense, to what appeared to be combination of the two during the game. Particularly notable in their effort to effect a break-through by fast movement around Support guards were Aase and Merritt. Aass and O'Connor were high scorers for the Crimson Bears with points each, and Mead, second with T points.
 Surprise Game
 The PAA-Douglas Bremen game was another surprise package for last nights fans. Douglas Firemsn, admittedly one of the strongest teams in the league, had hard struggle to win by points over PAA, one of the weaker teams. Although fans were used to seeing the Clipper team pull off sudden spurts of ex- cellent playing, they were not pre- pared to see the team play an entire game of fast. effective basketball. There was nothing gremlin- like about PAA's playing last night. The team operated well as a unit and individual playing was good. Moscrip was high man with g points and Will son second with T. A newcomer Doepke scored three points and by the end of the game had achieved a first night reputation of above average basketball playing.
 Douglas Bremen continued to play Al basketball in their fourth game of the season. McDaniels starred as top-scorer GA points and as play CT in general. Hickey was second high-scorer with 13 points. Brown with only one field goal to his credit was obviously off his usual game, but contributed in large measure to the machinery of the all-over team work
 In the first two quarters, PAA had a slight lead margin on the Fire