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Max Lundberg looks for a pin.

Senior Max Lundberg is one of three returning Kubasaki Far East champions. (Dave Ornauer/Stars and Stripes)

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KADENA AIR BASE, Okinawa – When it happens not just once, but twice, and on your home court, the memories burn that much brighter, Kadena’s coach and players said.

The senior guard was part of a Panthers boys basketball team that lost in heartbreaking, last-second fashion to Nile C. Kinnick in last January’s Far East Division I tournament final.

That was a year after the Panthers also fell in the D-I final, that one via blowout against St. Mary’s, and again on Kadena’s home court.

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