If Rankin Inlet claims the title of Hockeytown, Nunavut, you can pencil in Cambridge Bay as Basketballtown, Nunavut.
The Cambridge Bay Basketball Association wrapped up its second season earlier this month with the best-of-five championship series between the Killinik High School Wolverines and Team Juice. It came right down to the wire but the Wolverines came out on top in the decider by a score of 61-52 to win the series, 3-2, and the title.
Peter Ohokanoak, the association's president, said this was the second year in a row that the Wolverines made the finals, falling just short last season.
They're also the team that travels for the territorial championship.
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This year's league had four teams and all four made the playoffs. If there were any surprises, it came in the form of Team Juice, who got out of the gate this season slowly.
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To help Team Juice out, all the team captains agreed to allow the team to add players to its roster.
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Team Juice won the first game of the final but the Wolverines came back to win the next two and looked likely to win Game 4.
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It wasn't meant to be as the Wolverines managed to hold on in Game 5 and snag the championship trophy.
This season featured better parity among the teams than last season, said Ohokanoak, as all four teams had close records and no one team ran away with everything as happened last season.
Ohokanoak confirmed there will be a third season of the association but he will not be president. He's decided to step back and let some other people take the reigns to grow what's been started.
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