The Daily Alaska empire., 1947-01-08
JUNEAU HIGH L0SES TO MIKES, E 10 20; HARD FOUGHT GAME
ImperiaIs Beat Out PAA Last Night by Score
 of 40 to 30
SCORES LAST NIGHT Mikes, 25; Juneau High 20 Imperials 40; PAA 30

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 In a wild and wooly fracas that lad the stands in a frenzy, Mikes . Night Owls last night copped the lead in the City Basketball League from Juneau High School by a score of 25 to 20.
 The second game almest turned into another upset as the PAA led the favored Imperials into the final quarter, only to be beaten 40 to 30.
 Juneau Highs Crimson Bears tcck the lead in the early minutes of the first game, but the Mikes made it obvious from the start that they were going to play hard ball Trey did, and held Juneau to six points during the first quarter, snagging one field goal and one free throw themselves for three points.
 In the second, with Juneau's center Herb Mead smothered by two men but still in under the basket on every play the Night Owls kept the High School from making more than points. It seemed that the hoy's couldn't get through the Mikes defense very well. and when they did the shoot- ing was inaccurate. Merritt made the only field goal in the second oanto. Aase made four fouls, and was relieved by Sanford, to return to tle game in the second half. Mikas began working to close the gap, and tte first half ended with the score at nine to eight, favor Of Juneau.
 Third Quarter
 Beginning the third qGarter, the Mikes and Juneau High started a see-saw fight for the lead that lasted into the closing minutes of the game. First Merritt of Juneau made a point on free throw, then Jim Devon of the Night Owls tied the score at 10 all with shot from the right side of the court about 20 feet out.
 Devon followed it up few min utes later with a free throw, and the Mikes made two more field goals in the third quarter to raise their score to 15. Juneau sank one to take the short end of 12.
 In the fourth canto, Juneau High caught up with two quick sinkers, and tcok one point lead. They couldn't better it, thought, and Mikes men sank another. The same thing happened again, and the cheering high schcolers and Balcony rooters alike came closc to raising the roof. It began to get to that Announcer Don Pe- gues, broadcasting the game, could hardly make his voice heard over the din
 Juneau Leads, Then
 Then, with the score at l9 to IS in favor of the Night Owls for Douglas, Herbie Mead sank two free throws and again gained the lead for Juneau That was the last time Juneau was ahead, in fact the last points they got in the game. In the closing minutes, in spite of all that Juneau seemed able to do, the Mikes made three field goals to put tte game on ice. Last second efforts by Ju- neau were too late, and failed.
 High scorer of the game was Asp of the Night Owls, with nine joints. Juneau Highs O'Connor was a free throw behind, with eight points. Twelve fouls were called against Juneau, and 10 against the Mikes.
 second Game
 In the second game the PAA fly boys showed surprising strength against their favored opponents, the Imperials. In the first quarter PAA trailed closely, checking off every point Wlth one or thelr own. the beginning of the second saw the score at 10 for the Imperials, 9 for PAA.
 Gccd Long Shots
 skillful sinking of free throws by PA team members and some beau- tiful long shots racked up by Hartfield put the flytoys in the lead. and the surprised Imperials found themselves on the short end of a 20 to r score at half time. In the first two quarters the Inn perials had made only one of their six free throw shots, while PAA missed only two out of eight.
 PAA team members, who were out of condition frcm a lack of prac- tice during past weeks, began to tire toward the end of the third quart CT. Jack Pasquan began to find the basket more often than In the first half, and his teammate Powers got one. The quarter ended with the Imperials trailing closely, 70 +A