The Wrangell Wolves varsity basketball squad put in two days of ferocious play during the Region V 2A tournament at Mt. Edgecumbe High School last weekend – and kept it close in a Friday game that saw them eliminated by the slightest of margins.

Entering into the tournament as the 4th seed on Thursday, the Wolves drew the Craig Panthers as their opponent. The Panthers won the game by a 73-46 final score.

Wrangell led the Panthers 11-8 in the first period off the quartet of Jacob Marshall, Blaine Wilson, Bryce Gerald and Blake Stokes. Gerald bolstered the 11-point tally as he sank a pair o...