Neither team could break the deadlock and two
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 3:47 am
Maier was selected the Player of the Game for the Crimson Bears, one of the many memories he will take away from the season.
“Oh man a lot of things,” Maier said. “This is a great group of people, so much fun all the trips have been awesome and it has really just helped me grow as a person.”
Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé sophomore Sonny Mazon (2) works a ball away from West Anchorage juniors Luca Driscoll (6) and Adoum Abakaarabdou (8) during the Crimson Bears’ 3-2 loss to the Eagles on Friday in the 2025 ASAA/First National Bank Alaska Soccer State Championship semifinals at Wasilla High School. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé sophomore Sonny Mazon (2) works a ball away from West Anchorage juniors Luca Driscoll (6) and Adoum Abakaarabdou (8) during the Crimson Bears’ 3-2 loss to the Eagles on Friday in the 2025 ASAA/First National Bank Alaska Soccer State Championship semifinals at Wasilla High School. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
West junior Luca Driscoll was the Eagles Player of the Game. country wise email marketing list Among his many highlights was a shot from 25 yards out that rose over the JDHS keeper and made the score 2-0 with two minutes left in the first half.
“It feels good,” Driscoll said. “It was not just me it was the whole team’s effort. The team worked very hard, it was a good game from everyone…It as a nice evening to play soccer…I feel we are very connected as a team. We all fight for each other, we all play for the badge…Juneau was a good matchup, they played very hard. We expected them to as well because we went down there and beat them so it was good they came out with a fight in this game.”
JDHS came out of halftime as if awakened from a healthy slumber and began to immediately forage for goals and shots just missed and rebounds were knocked away by West.
With 64 minutes elapsed in the game Ciambor blasted a shot that the West keeper Gideon Plikat covered. Roughly 10 minutes later JDHS senior Caden Haygood drilled a shot from 20 yards out to pull the Crimson Bears to within one goal.
And in stoppage time, with their season looking bleak, Ciambor was brought down and awarded a penalty kick which he converted to time the game at 2-2.
“I think this year, compared to all the other years we just collectively love each other as a team,” Ciambor said. “I don’t think I can name two people who dislike each other in this program. Everybody is basically a family and we all just enough each other’s company and I think that goes a long way in a team sport like this.”
“Oh man a lot of things,” Maier said. “This is a great group of people, so much fun all the trips have been awesome and it has really just helped me grow as a person.”
Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé sophomore Sonny Mazon (2) works a ball away from West Anchorage juniors Luca Driscoll (6) and Adoum Abakaarabdou (8) during the Crimson Bears’ 3-2 loss to the Eagles on Friday in the 2025 ASAA/First National Bank Alaska Soccer State Championship semifinals at Wasilla High School. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé sophomore Sonny Mazon (2) works a ball away from West Anchorage juniors Luca Driscoll (6) and Adoum Abakaarabdou (8) during the Crimson Bears’ 3-2 loss to the Eagles on Friday in the 2025 ASAA/First National Bank Alaska Soccer State Championship semifinals at Wasilla High School. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
West junior Luca Driscoll was the Eagles Player of the Game. country wise email marketing list Among his many highlights was a shot from 25 yards out that rose over the JDHS keeper and made the score 2-0 with two minutes left in the first half.
“It feels good,” Driscoll said. “It was not just me it was the whole team’s effort. The team worked very hard, it was a good game from everyone…It as a nice evening to play soccer…I feel we are very connected as a team. We all fight for each other, we all play for the badge…Juneau was a good matchup, they played very hard. We expected them to as well because we went down there and beat them so it was good they came out with a fight in this game.”
JDHS came out of halftime as if awakened from a healthy slumber and began to immediately forage for goals and shots just missed and rebounds were knocked away by West.
With 64 minutes elapsed in the game Ciambor blasted a shot that the West keeper Gideon Plikat covered. Roughly 10 minutes later JDHS senior Caden Haygood drilled a shot from 20 yards out to pull the Crimson Bears to within one goal.
And in stoppage time, with their season looking bleak, Ciambor was brought down and awarded a penalty kick which he converted to time the game at 2-2.
“I think this year, compared to all the other years we just collectively love each other as a team,” Ciambor said. “I don’t think I can name two people who dislike each other in this program. Everybody is basically a family and we all just enough each other’s company and I think that goes a long way in a team sport like this.”