Juneau’s Alaska Legion baseball team opens season

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Juneau’s Auke Bay Post 25 opened their 2025 Alaska Legion Baseball season over the weekend in a four-game series against visiting South Post 4 at Adair-Kennedy Memorial Park.

Only allowed to practice after the state high school championships end, the Juneau team had put in less than a week of team training, but has a roster composed of current Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé players and two returning graduates. The mix of players should be beneficial.

“I like that we have the two guys that came back and that there are a couple guys that didn’t play this year for high school, and they should have, but now want to play,” Auke Bay Post 25 head coach Joe Tompkins said. “It is going to make a difference. I think we will be doing good.”

The three-day series featured non-conference games c level contact list on Friday and Sunday, and a conference doubleheader on Saturday.

In the Saturday games, Juneau went down to the wire in each, falling 3-2 in both contests.

Saturday’s first game featured strong fielding performances as Juneau faced a South roster filled with players fresh off a state tournament team that had fallen by two runs to the eventual state title winner, Sitka.