After winning three of the last four large schools softball state championships, Juneau-Douglas returns perhaps its deepest, most complete roster ever from top to bottom.

The Crimson Bears, who return 15 seniors, begin defense of their 2010 state crown in a doubleheader starting at 5 p.m. today against Sitka, and then Ketchikan at 7 p.m. in the nightcap at Melvin Park.

Manager Dave Massey, the National Fastpitch Coaches Association 2010 West Region Coach of the Year, said he’s never had the luxury of having so much talent.

It was the seventh consecutive clean sheet for Juneau-Douglas, but it wasn’t the type of match the Crimson Bears boys’ soccer team has come to expect.

It looked like another runaway early as JDHS put its recent stretch of slow starts behind it and exploded out of the gate. The Bears scored two goals in the opening eight minutes of the game, but didn’t score again until tacking on another in the 76th minute to win 3-0 in the second of a two-game Southeast Conference series with Ketchikan at Adair-Kennedy Memorial Park.

Another day, another blowout win for the Juneau-Douglas boys’ soccer team.

The Crimson Bears broke open a 1-0 lead at intermission, scoring four goals within the first 20 minutes of the second half to take a 5-0 victory over visiting Ketchikan on Monday evening at Adair-Kennedy Memorial Park. Since Juneau-Douglas returned from its trip to Washington — during which they went 0-3-1 — they have yet to surrender a single goal in five in-state games.

2011 Ketchikan Invitational

April 22-23

Fawn Mountain Field

Girls’ results:

Long jump — 1. Shayla Reeves, TMHS, 14 1/2; 2. Sydney Thorne, TMHS, 13-8; 3. Maya Rieselbach, JDHS, 13-5; 4. Julia Buschmann, Petersburg, 12-9 1/4; 5. Clara Medalen, Petersburg, 12-9; 6. Karley Fuller, Sitka, 12-9 1/4; 6. Jean Cumlat, JDHS, 12-6 1/4.