The Galena Junior Varsity Hawks and Lady Hawks went to their first tournament this year in Huslia for basketball on January 22.

            Junior Varsity has been practicing with the varsity girls since December. This is the first year for Tyler Wilson, the girl’s JV coach, and Jerry Floyd is the boy’s JV coach.             There were four other teams that the JV girls competed against. The teams they played against were Huslia Hustlers, Nulato Wolves, Wainwright Huskies, and Tanana Wolves.

            “The girls played well and extremely hard, considering it being their first tournament,” said coach Wilson. 

            The Galena JV teams had games everyday from Thursday to Saturday. In the JV Lady Hawks’ first game on Thursday, they lost against the Wainwright Lady Huskies. They won against the Tanana Lady Wolves on Friday. They won against the Nulato Lady Wolves on Saturday afternoon, but lost against the Huslia Hustlers in the evening .

            “All the teams they played against were varsity and we still won a couple games and I’m very pleased about that,” says Wilson.

            Huslia is a small village with about 300 people. The basketball players stayed at their school in classrooms. There was food provided for them during breakfast, lunch, and dinner.