HIGH FIVE THURSDAY NOVEMBER 20, 2025

D1

There were seventeen schools in action on Thursday.

*Liv McGill, Florida, Hopkins 27-W

*Madison Mathiowetz, South Dakota State, Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s 17-W

*Nunu Agara, Stanford, Hopkins 16-W

*Kierra Wheeler, West Virginia, Cooper 15- W

Regan Juenemann, Omaha, Crosby-Ironton 10-L

Hadley Thul, South Dakota State, Alexandria 10-W

Totals: 85 points, 5-1

Agara and McGill have now made the list five times and are tied with Tori McKinney for the lead for the year. Wheeler, Juenemann, and Thul made the list for the first time bringing the total up to 49 for the year.

A little of every class yesterday with two AAAA (both Hopkins); two AAA; one AA and one A.

All six made the state tournament with McGill, Agara, Wheeler winning titles.

D2

There were ten schools playing on Thursday.

Lydia Haack, Concordia-St. Paul, Elk River 25-W

Abigail O’Reilly, St. Cloud State, Plainview-Elgin-Millville 19-L

Grace Counts, UM Duluth, Providence 18-L

Karly Motschenbacher, West Texas A&M, Park Christian 17-W

Leah Dengerud, Concordia-St. Paul, Totino-Grace 10-W

Lexi Karge, UM Duluth, Mankato East 10-L

Totals: 89 points, 3-3

This is Dengerud’s second time on the list. Haack, O’Reilly, Counts, Motschenbacher, and Karge are first timers. This brings the total D2 count to 24.

There was one AAAA; two AA, two AA and one A.

Haack, Counts, Dengerud, and Karge made the state tournament with Counts & Dengerud winning state titles.

HIGH SCHOOL RESULTS

AAAA

#2 Wayzata 71, Eagan 31

#4 Rosemount 91, Champlin Park 75

AAA

#1 Benilde-St. Margaret’s 79, Monticello 53

#6 Stewartville 68, Red Wing 57

#7 Delano 74, Centennial 51

AA

#1 Providence 72, St. Agnes 25

#7 Goodhue 93, Pine Island 24

#10 Proctor 63, Cloquet 41

A

Perham 77, #10 Breckenridge 69

POINT PARADE

There were thirteen paraders on Thursday. If there is a player missing email kja8067@gmail.com

AAAA-3

Reese Hagenbart, Champlin Park 33

Amisha Ramlall, Rosemount 33

Waldo, Rogers 33

AAA-2

Zenayzia Crite, Minneapolis Camden 35

Brooklyn Lewis, New Ulm 32

AA-5

Callie Oakland, St. Croix Lutheran 31

Isabella Guetzlaff, Red Wing 29

Maddyn Greenway, Providence 27

Aniyrah Gorman, Minneapolis North 26

Jadyn Kor, Pipestone 26

A-3

Tatum Morrison, Deer River 28

Ella Brewer, Pine River-Backus 27

Mimi Bueckers, Pine River-Backus 25

ABOUT LAST NIGHT….Delano v Centennial

I spent the opener at Centennial with #7AAA Tigers of Delano visiting the Cougars in a big cat match up. Both schools have a strong volleyball presence, but Centennial’s athletes are more siloed. There is a cross-over in Delano. The Tigers overcame an early struggle, ramped up their defensive pressure and started connecting on the long ball in a convincing 74-51 win spoiling the coaching debut of Jason Wirtz. Interestingly Delano coach Scott Antl was not on the bench for the varsity game. Antl was in the building earlier and he was once a Centennial assistant back in the late 2000s.

The Delano starters scored 70 of their points with Abbie Pietila scoring a game high 22. She also led all players getting into the 31 Club—I mean the 41 Club—right on at 41. She had a triple double with 10 d stops along with twelve distributions on 26 attempts. She also nailed three 3s on the night. Joining the 31 Club was Addie Iversen with one to spare at 32.

Centennial did have a lead at 20-13 early in the first half. Their first lead came at 13-10 after a three by #11. Delano tied and the Cougars rattled off seven unanswered points. But then a disastrous stretch which saw the hosts go on a twelve-possession drought in which there were seven straight possessions ending in a turnover without a shot being attempted sealed their fate. In that time Delano rattled off 15 straight to lead 28-20. At half it was 40-27 and the needle did not move much in the second half.

Neither team was smoking hot, but Delano’s starters were effective as a unit with a 106.1 pp100 besting their team total of 89.2. Centennial’s starters could only muster 57.1 with their bench pushing that total up slightly to 61.4.

Delano overwhelmed Centennial at the line with 31-12 attempts. The Tigers made 22 free throws, ten more than the Cougars attempted. Delano also hit on eight 3s. The hit for four in a five-possession stretch in the second half which stretched their lead to 58-35.

The Tigers will next be playing at the Tip Off Classic on Saturday at Southwest Christian. Delano is the #7 rated AAA team, but in the brutal section 6AAA they are third behind three-time defending champion Benilde-St. Margaret’s and Orono.

DAY AHEAD

There are 75 games on tap. The Breakdown starts their two-day event at Mayer Lutheran with a pair of A games.