Recap of action from Saturday 1.18.2025
D1 HIGH FIVE
Molly Mogensen, Creighton, Farmington 21
Lauren Jensen, Creighton, Lakeville North 20
Jo Langbehn, St. Thomas MN, Elk River 18
Lily Fandre, Lehigh, Eagan 15
Madison Mathiowetz, South Dakota State, Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s 14
Totals: 88
Four of the five are from AAAA schools. Mogensen was part of the 2020 finalists (no championships due to virus). Creighton provided two, the Summit League provided two. Tallest in this five is Langbehn at 6-2. Mogensen is the smallest at 5-7. This group has two 2020 HS grads: Mogensen & Jensen; 2022s are the youngest in this five: Fandre & Mathiowetz.
POINT PARADE-13
Parade starts at 25. If there is a player missing email kja8067@gmail.com
It was a AAA kind of Saturday with 61.5% of the Paraders. Top parader was Kendra Harvey of Byron with 38.
AAAA-3
Katie Boulanger, New Prague 31
Lyric Singleton, Park Center 28
Jordan Ode, Maple Grove 27
AAA-8
Kendra Harvey, Byron 38
Davis, St. Paul Como Park 32
Ajiem Agwa, Austin 31
Makenzie Carrier, Kasson-Mantorville 29
Madison Ohm, Byron 28
Reese Drake, Marshall 26
Aniiya Johnson, Richfield 26
Jakyah Palmer, Coon Rapids 26
AA-1
Addi Mack, Minnehaha 30
A-1
Samantha Bennett, New Life 31
RANKED RESULTS
Winner High 99 Benilde-St. Margaret’s
Winner Low 41 Nova Classical
Loser High 80 New Ulm
Loser Low 16 Mounds Park Academy
Biggest Margin 77 New Life Academy v Mounds Park Academy
Smallest Margin 3 Kasson-Mantorville v St. Paul Como Park; Willmar v Little Falls; Wheaton/Herman-Norcross v Pelican Rapids
Most Combined: 173 Benilde-St. Margaret’s v Stewartville
Least combined: 64 Nova Classical v Minneapolis Edison
Margins 30 or more 10
Margins 5 or less 3
Average 55.15
Winner Average 66.88
Loser Average 43.43
Average margin 23.45
Average combined 110.31
Ranked Upsets: all higher seeds won
AAAA Ave 57.27
AAA Ave 64.14
AA Ave 46.67
A Ave 51.83
The world was turned upside down on Saturday with AAA smashing the other classes with a 64.14, close to seven points ahead of AAAA. AA was the lowest after enjoying the highest level the day before.
AAAA
#2 Maple Grove 78, #5 St. Michael-Albertville 47
#6 Prior Lake 72, Chanhassen 47
AAA
#1 Marshall 59, Fairmont 40
#6 Benilde-St. Margaret’s 99, Stewartville 74
#10 Delano 66, Waconia 47
AA
#4 Minnehaha 75, #10 Jordan 55
A
#1 Goodhue 67, Winona Cotter 41
#10 Central MN Christian 71, Southwest MN Christian 38
MILESTONES-2
Senior guard Kendra Harvey, soon headed to North Dakota, reached the 2000-point mark with her 38 in the win over New Ulm. Harvey is the seventh player and fifth from the 2025 class to get to 2000 points this season.
Also getting to a milestone at the KM event was the Comet’s own Keigan Cummings, a senior, in the win over Como. She is the second KM player to reach 1000 this year and joins Makenzie Carrier who got there on January 2.
ABOUT LAST NIGHT….3 GAMES AT SW CHRISTIAN
I spent my Saturday at Southwest Christian in Chaska and knocked off four more teams on my to do list. St. Peter, Minnehaha, and the hosts were all victorious. None of the games made it to clutch/crunch time status.
Game 1: St. Peter 63, Two Rivers 39. The one-two punch of the Southworth sisters, senior Annika and sophomore Kylie, KOed Two Rivers. The coach’s daughters scored 46 (22 & 24 respectively) of the Saints points. Both got into the 31 Club (37 & 38 respectively) and made it rain from deep with Kylie sizzling at 5/7 on 3s, and Annika delivering 3/10. Their pp100s were 146.7 and 171.4 respectively. Kylie’s was the best of the day. Annika’s touches per turnover was almost pristine at 99. As a team the Saints were over the century at 103.3. Two Rivers struggled in their back-to-back game with 66.1. For the game SP attempted 60% of the shots from deep. TR tried 41.5% from long distance.
The tone for this game was established early with both teams launching 3s on their first two possessions (neither team connected). Kylie soon solved that by scoring on three straight possessions. That forced a TR timeout at 14:11. Then Kylie connected…. again for four straight 3s. Audrey Menning then made it five straight at a 15-3 St. Peter lead. At half it was 28-19. St. Peter out of the gate in the second half scored four straight possessions and led 37-19 forcing another TR timeout at 15:25.
Game 2: Minnehaha 75, Jordan 55. The #4AA Redhawks created separation in the second half breaking free from a 27-24 score at the break to cage the #10AA Jaguars.
Minnehaha got out to a 13-6 and that forced Jordan to talk about it at 11:49 in the first half. After relentless offensive rebounding garnered a score for Jordan making it 22-16 it was MA’s turn to discuss the situation. At the break the Redhawks had a 27-24 lead. I was anticipating a chance to test out the clutch/crunch time performances if the situation held. It didn’t. The first four minutes of the second half MA went on a 9-3 start and they kept on building on that advantage. Despite Jordan scoring on five straight possessions starting with seven minutes remaining, they could not make up any ground. Jordan Staloch had nine of 17 points in that stretch. MA earlier had a five possession string. Keeping MA dialed in was Terrapin bound Addi Mack who finished with 30 points, the best of the day. Also best of the day was her ability to get to the 51 Club with a score of 55. She racked up 16 d stops and just missed out on a genuine kjasr triple double with nine distributions. Her set up passes were 64% (9/14). She had a solid 130.4 pp100. And she was flawless from the floor with 81 touches and no turnovers. Helping in the victory was Amina Allen, who got to the 31 Club with one to spare. She ended up with 17 points and and even better pp100 of 154.5. She too was gold from the ball handling/decision making end of the equation with 62 touches per turnover. Staloch missed out on the 31 Club by one, and teammate Savi Borowicz was two shy.
The clear separation in this game was on shooting with MA connecting on 54% of the 2 attempts to only 34.8 for Jordan.
Game 3: Southwest Christian Chaska 61, St. Clair 50. The Stars kept the Cyclones away with a game that had stretches for each team of dominance. SWC had more to preserve the win. The Stars started out with five straight scores starting on their third possession and built a 10-3 lead and prompting St. Clair to call time after three and a half minutes. That did not do the trick. The Cyclones needed another break with 10:43 left and down 21-3. That did the trick. For the next three minutes the momentum shifted over to the visitors who proceeded to score 12 unanswered points to make it 21-13. That was a nine-possession drought for the hosts and a time out at 7:05 didn’t change the equation. SWC somewhat righted the ship to cruise into half with a 29-18 lead. St. Clair managed to narrow the gap to 35-29 after four straight scores spearheaded by Brooklyn Hinze’s eight points in the 10-2 surge. An 18-3 counter surge delivering on nine straight possessions (with Maddy Hamdorf notching two 3s in the run) helped reestablish the Stars control at 53-32 with 9:26 left in the game. The Cyclones made up ground from that point with an 18-9 finish, but the hole was too deep to make significant progress.
Senior guard Aubrey Burkhart led SWC with 23 points and made the 41 Club on the nose. She had 14 d stops as well with a pp100 of 109.5. Hinze had 18 points and got to 38 in the 31 Club. She had 17 d stops. However her pp100 was only 66.7. St. Clair spent most of their time on offense looking for the deep ball with 56% of their attempts from that neighborhood. SWC had 42% of their shots from behind the arc.
UNBEATEN
Nothing changed….again. 11 still remain standing.
AAAA-0
None.
AAA-2
Marshall, Monticello
AA-7
New London-Spicer, KMS, Providence, Royalton, Sauk Centre, Crosby-Ironton, Menahga
A-2
Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s, Hillcrest Lutheran
STREAKING
Another category that was unchanged. Look for changes next week.
AAAA: 9 Owatonna
AAA: 17 Marshall
AA: 26 Providence (11 last year +15 this year)
A: 14 Hillcrest Lutheran, Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s
QUEST FOR..
THE QRF
All categories were up (again) last week. 80% is now within sight for 50, 100 is close to happening at 20.
1-10 10/10-1.000
1-20 19/20-.950
1-30 25/30-.833
1-40 31/40-.775
1-50 39/50-.780
Biggest fish left to fry….#17 Marshall.
TOP 10s
Improvement overall of three.
AAAA 10/10-1.000
AAA 9/10-.900 missing Marshall
AA 6/10-.600
A 4/10-.500
Overall that is 29/40 or .725
#1s EACH SECTION
Slipped down one in AA.
AAAA 8/8—1.000
AAA 5/8-.625
AA 4/9-.444 (section 3AA is split)
A 5/12-.417
Overall, 22/37 or .595.
SEEDING THE STATE
#1s remain the same. Four teams Join the lists this week in AAAA: Prior Lake & Anoka; AAA: Stewartville; AA: Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton.
AAAA
- Hopkins (6)
- Maple Grove (5)
- Eastview (3)
- Michael-Albertville (8)
- Prior Lake (2)
- Lakeville North (1)
- Anoka (7)
- East Ridge (4)
AAA
- Marshall (2)
- Alexandria (8)
- Orono (6)
- Monticello (5)
- DeLaSalle (4)
- Stewartville (1)
- Rock Ridge (7)
- Cretin-Derham Hall (3)
AA
- Providence (5)
- Crosby-Ironton (7)
- New London-Spicer (3)
- Minnehaha (4)
- Sauk Centre (6)
- Caledonia (1)
- Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton (8)
- Tri-City United (2)
A
- Goodhue (1)
- Mayer Lutheran (4)
- Hillcrest Lutheran (6)
- Mountain Iron-Buhl (7)
- Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s (2)
- Kittson County Central (8)
- Central MN Christian (3)
- Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa (5)
THE WEEK AHEAD
The last full week of January (already) opens and closes with events: on Monday, with the Martin Luther King holiday, there will be six games in the MLK Classic at St. Kate’s starting at 10 am. Six non-metro teams make their appearance. Perhaps the most intriguing match up is Minnetonka vs. Minnehaha at 5 pm. As usual the busiest day of the week falls on Tuesday with 152 contests followed by the slowest day of the week Wednesday with a mere seven. Friday re-establishes their superiority over Thursday 121-95. Saturday closes with 36 games featuring three games at Cretin-Derham Hall in the Collision. The early games feature Lake vs South Suburban contests. There also is a four-game border battle between South Dakota and Minnesota teams at Elkton, SD.