Wrangell team scores second place at Juneau gold medal tourney
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Cody Angerman attempts to block a shot against eventual champions Angoon during the Juneau Gold Medal Championship game Saturday evening.
A ten-man Wrangell basketball team grabbed second place at a competitive regional basketball tournament held every spring in Juneau.
The Wrangell Thunderbirds fought their way to Saturday's B-Bracket (for ages 32 and under) Championship game at the Lions Club Gold Medal Basketball tournament undefeated, but succumbed to returning champions Angoon despite beating them in the semifinals, said Cody Angerman, a member of the team.
The championship was close, Angerman said.
"We went back and forth all through the first half," he said. "They might have snuck about seven points on us right at the end...
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