The Southeast Conference will make Juneau its home this weekend.
All four SEC teams — Juneau-Douglas, Thunder Mountain, North Pole, Ketchikan — play in the capital city tonight and tomorrow. The Ketchikan Kings (0-6, 0-1 SEC) make their second and final trip of the season to Juneau to play the Falcons (4-1, 1-0 SEC) tonight.
The 7 p.m. conference game at TMHS will be the second time in three weeks the two sides have played one another.
It’s technically the final home game of the season for Thunder Mountain, who finishes out the regular season next week against Juneau-Douglas (3-2, 1-0 SEC) at Adair-Kennedy Memorial Field.
On Saturday, North Pole plays the Crimson Bears in both teams’ first meeting of the season at Adair-Kennedy at 6 p.m.
A home team victory for either team clinches a spot in the Oct. 7 ASAA First National Bowl Division II (medium schools) semifinals at Palmer High School.
The Soldotna Stars lead the hunt for the playoffs in the Northern Lights Conference, the other medium schools conference. The Stars (6-0, 2-0 NLC) boast a 55-game win streak that dates back to 2012.
The No. 2 seed to come out of the SEC will almost certainly matchup against Soldotna, the likely Northern Lights Conference Champions and No. 1 NLC seed.
The Falcons won the conference title last season for the first time in school history. TMHS defeated North Pole (22-20), Ketchikan (80-6) and Juneau-Douglas (37-0) in the final three weeks of the regular season to clinch one of two No. 1 playoff seeds.
Despite losing to the Falcons last year, North Pole knocked off the other two conference teams in Juneau-Douglas (48-6) and Ketchikan (58-14) to earn the No. 2 seed.
Ticket prices
TMHS — $8 adults/$5 students, seniors
JDHS — $10/$5 students (Season passes available for $25)
Weather
Tonight: Showers likely. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 50.
Saturday night: Rain. High near 51.
