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“I’m excited we won, I guess I’ll start with that,” Rumsey said. “I really like our move to DI more than DII. In this game I was defending some of the best players in the league and I like that each team I play is a new challenge. You kind of have to learn how to defend them and by the end hopefully I have figured it out, I try to most of the time. It’s fun. I love playing back there. It’s just a challenge really.”

Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé freshman Troy Edgar controls a ball in the Crimson Bears’ win over Service to open the 2025 ASAA/First National Bank Alaska Soccer State Championships at Wasilla High School on Thursday, May 29, 2025. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)
Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé freshman Troy Edgar controls a ball in the Crimson Bears’ win over Service to open the 2025 ASAA/First National Bank Alaska Soccer State Championships at Wasilla country wise email marketing list High School on Thursday, May 29, 2025. (Klas Stolpe / Juneau Empire)

“The one guy I was on most of the night (senior Bjorn Von Wichman) was a little bit faster than me,” he said. “So it was hard for me to move back and forth, and to limit his movement, and it really took it out of me.”

JDHS will now play at 7 p.m. Friday in a state semifinal against No. 3 seed West Anchorage, a 4-0 winner over No. 6 seed Wasilla. They will play at Colony High School.

In the other half of the bracket No. 1 seed Colony defeated No. 8 seed South 2-1 and No. 5 West Valley topped No. 4 seed Dimond 2-1. Colony will face West Valley in a semifinal at Wasilla High School.

In the DII boys state tournament play the No. 2 seeded Ketchikan boys defeated No. 7 Houston 5-0 and will play a semifinal against No. 3 Palmer (a 5-0 winner of No. 6 Homer) and No. 1 Soldotna (a 3-0 winner over No. 8 North Pole) will face No. 4 Kenai (a 3-0 winner over No. 5 Monroe).

In the DII girls state tournament the No. 7 Kayhi Kings fell to No. 2 Soldotna 1-0 and will play an elimination game against No. 3 Palmer. Kenai faces Monroe and Sohi faces Homer in girls semifinals.

In DI girls semifinals No. 1 Dimond faces No. 5 Colony and No. 3 Wasilla plays No. 2 South.