MN GBB: Friday 1.17.2025 action: High Five; 17 Paraders; Ranked Results; Milestones; the Day Ahead plus a review of STMA & EP

recap of Friday action on 1.17.2025

D1 HIGH FIVE

Gianna Kneepkens, Utah, Duluth Marshall 26

Jenna Johnson, Utah, Wayzata 2

Totals: 28

We are back to the high duo. Utah provided both.

POINT PARADE-17

Parade starts at 25. If there is a player missing email kja8067@gmail.com

AAAA-2

Keagan McVicker, Hastings 31

Katelyn Wozniak, Blaine 27

AAA-4

Kendra Harvey, Byron 30

Samantha Voll, Monticello 29

Ajiem Agwa, Austin 28

Mylea Monahan, Glencoe-Silver Lake 27

AA-5

Livia Tennessen, Cannon Falls 30

Maddyn Greenway, Providence 29

Aubrie Klug, Caledonia 29

Laynie Reinertsen, Duluth Denfeld 26

Kendall Huhnerkoch, Redwood Valley 25

A-6

Marissa Tusler, West Lutheran 32

Leah Bode, Nicollet 31

Morgan Mathiowetz, Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s 31

Brielle Janssen, MACCRAY 28

Cara Sarbacker, CHOF 27

Kacey Fischer, Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa 25

RANKED RESULTS

Winner High 102 Providence

Winner Low 39 South St. Paul

Loser High 67 Walker-Hackensack-Akeley

Loser Low 19 Pillager

Biggest Margin 71 Providence v Princeton

Smallest Margin 1 Sibley East v Lake Crystal-Wellcome Memorial; CHOF v United Christian; Spring Grove v LaCrescent-Hokah

Most Combined: 142 Frazee v Park Rapids; Mountain Iron-Buhl v Walker-Hackensack-Akeley

Least combined: 74 Columbia Heights v St. Paul Humboldt

Margins 30 or more 26

Margins 5 or less 7

Average 53.53

Winner Average 65.78

Loser Average 41.28

Average margin 24.50

Average combined 107.10

Ranked Upsets: 1 #5AAAA St. Michael-Albertville handled #3AAAA Eden Prairie 62-41.

AAAA Ave 52.62

AAA Ave 54.82

AA Ave 55.76

A Ave 51.15

AAAA really hit the skids Friday night getting beat by AA and AAA with only a 1.45 better bump that A. Why the anemic scoring? Look to the losing end of the equation: 11 teams could not get to 50. Of those eleven, six failed even to get to 40. Don’t tell me it was wicked defense that did that trick.

AAAA

#5 St. Michael-Albertville 62, #3 Eden Prairie 41

#7 Wayzata 73, Edina 34

#8 Minnetonka 57, Buffalo 46

AAA

#2 Alexandria 81, #8 Hill-Murray 39

#3 Monticello 77, Rogers 52

#7 Mahtomedi 69, Two Rivers 45

#9 Totino-Grace 87, Zimmerman 33

AA

#1 Providence 102, Princeton 31

#4 Minnehaha 83, Blake 46

#5 Sauk Centre 56, Albany 40

#6 Caledonia 68, Hayfield / Schaeffer Academy 24

A

#2 Mayer Lutheran 70, Eagle Ridge Academy 22

#4 Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s 80, Gibbon-Fairfax-Wintrhop 26

#5 Mountain Iron-Buhl 75, #9 Walker-Hackensack-Akeley 67

#7 Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa 63, Pine River-Backus 53

#8 Hancock 75, Ashby 23

MILESTONES 500 + 2 1000 (& 4×1000)

Scott Bergman of Sauk Centre reached the 500 victory mark with a 56-40 win over Albany. He also achieved the 400 victory mark against the Huskies.

Senior Allie Haabala of Alexandria scored her 1000 point in a 81-39 victory over Hill-Murray. This is the fourth Cardinal with 1000 points on the roster. Alex is the 8th school to achieve this feat. Three of those teams had four seniors: Browerville/Eagle Valley in 2016 (all five starters, one of which was a junior); GHEC/T/ML in 2017; and now Alexandria in 2025.

Senior Alexiah LaRose of Cass Lake-Bena joined the 1000 point club in the win over Blackduck.

ABOUT LAST NIGHT….#5AAAA St. Michael-Albertville v #3AAAA Eden Prairie

#5AAAA St. Michael-Albertville knocked off a depleted #3AAAA Eden Prairie Eagles squad at home on Friday night 62-41. EP was missing Rae Ehrmann, and played the first half without Ella Hardwick. The combined absence and readjustments caused them issues all night which STMA exploited. It basically all came down to shooting. When you shoot good, you look good. STMA was smoking from 2s at 55.6% to the chilly 23% put up by EP. STMA did have a slight advantage behind the arc at 31.3% to 28% for EP. The translation? STMA’s pp100 was a robust 98.4 just missing the century mark. EP struggled all night with the new lineup combinations and ended up with 65.1 pp100.

EP grabbed an early 9-4 lead on the strength of three 3s, the last two consecutive after three and half minutes elapsed. That encompassed eight possessions by both teams. EP had the lead despite four turnovers. The hosts were not that much better handling the ball with three turnovers. Both teams had a subpar touches per turnover count of 16. Most of these turnovers were lack of focus/concentration or forcing balls into advantageous situations. STMA took the lead, which turned out to be the last lead change, at 11-9. The first half remained somewhat tight until the last five minutes when the Knights had a 10-4 surge to lead 32-23 at the break. The game trajectory didn’t veer too far off that course the rest of the evening.

One area I have dialed in on lately is the offensive rebounding (and corresponding defensive rebounding) percentages. The NBA standard or average is 26.8. Neither team was close to that mark. STMA got to 46.7 offensive rebounds, a tad better at 47.4. Neither of those numbers will be adequate when state rolls around in March.

So where did Ehrmann’s touches end up? Last Friday she had 34% of the EP touches out of a 353 total. The Eagles needed to replace 34%—and this is just touches. The biggest jump went to Tori Schlagel from 8.78% to 20.55. But it should be remembered she was saddled with foul trouble last Friday against Hopkins. That also might explain the high % for Ehrmann. Vanessa Jordan went from 12.46% to 22.22. Camryn Denim jumped from 5.09 to 10.27; Emerson Johnson went from zero to 8.33 in a bigger role. Dropping (due to no first half action) was Hardwick from 25.7 to 9.72. No one took up Ehrmann’s missing scoring slack.

On the individual 31 Club side of the ledger the usual suspects were all there. Each of the three contests I have charted for STMA have Cail Jahnke and Abby Hoselton either there, or just slightly off. No different on Friday. Both had 32. Schlagel, after last week’s foul troubles, was able to stay on the floor and had a day’s best 33. All were close, if not over 100 pp100 with Hoselton the trailer at 94.1. What I found interesting in these three was how they valued the ball. Jahnke was tops my miles with 59 touches per turnover. Schlagel was next, but it wasn’t close at 14.8, and Hoselton was even lower going to single digits at 9.12.

DAY AHEAD

There are 42 games on Saturday with a couple of events going on—There will be five games at Kasson-Mantorville in their Showcase. Two sites will be used in the West Metro Classic. Southwest Christian in Chaska and Waconia will each host three games.  There are also four games at an event in Colman, SD involving Minnesota teams.

RANKED V RANKED

#5AAAA St. Michael-Albertville at #2AAAA Maple Grove.

#4AA Minnehaha v #10AA Jordan at Southwest Christian Chaska

Others

AAAA #6 Prior Lake

AAA #1 Marshall, #6 Benilde-St. Margaret’s, #10 Delano

AA see above

A #1 Goodhue, #10 Central MN Christian

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