D1

There were 18 teams in action on Saturday.

*Madison Mathiowetz, South Dakota State, Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s 28-W

*Avery Koenen, North Dakota State, Montevideo 21-W

*Alyssa Sand, St. Thomas MN, Albany 21-W

*Savannah McGowan, St. Thomas MN, Armstrong 15-W

*Jada Hood, St. Thomas MN, Roseville 13-W

Totals: 98 points; 5-0

Hood pushes the total D1 HF listing to 61. Mathiowetz set a new personal high yesterday.

There were two AAAA and AA players and one A.

Four made it to state: the exception McGowan. Sand made it to the title game.

D2

There were 41 teams in action on Saturday.

Tori Miller, Rockhurst, Goodhue 24-W

Kassandra Caron, Bemidji State, Holy Angels 23-W

Anna Vaaler, Sioux Falls, Andover 23-W

Taryn Hamling, Minot State, Grand Rapids 21-L

Grace Massaquoi, MSU Moorhead, Holy Angels 21-L

Totals: 112 points, 3-2

Miller & Massaquoi set a new personal bests. Vaaler added to her most entries on the D2 HF list with 7.

There were three players from AAA, two from Holy Angels; one from AAAA and AA.

D3

There were 27 teams in action on Saturday.

Mya Morris, Martin Luther, Perham 32-W

Elly Schmitz, Bethel MN, Hermantown 29-W

Brianna Nusbaum, St. Mary’s MN, Spring Lake Park 24-W

Ava Haus, St. Scholastica, St. Michael-Albertville 23-W

Drew Buslee, St. Benedict, Eagan 19-L

Totals: 127 points, 4-1

With the addition of Haus the D3 HF listing now has 38. Morris, Schmitz set a new personal bests.

There were three AAAA players on the list with one each from AAA and AA.

Four made the state tournament. The exception was Nusbaum. Haus won a state title.

HIGH SCHOOL

AAAA

#8 Rochester Mayo 83, Andover 65

AAA

Caledonia 74, #8 Byron 67

#9 Delano 60, Prior Lake 51

AA

Proctor 62, #2 Minnehaha 48

A

#2 Mountain Iron-Buhl 59, Cass Lake-Bena 41

POINT PARADE

AAAA

Amelia Mills, Rochester Mayo 33

Logan Miller, Andover 25

AAA

Madison Ohm, Byron 29

AA

Aubrie Klug, Caledonia 34

A: not reported

RANKED RESULTS

Winner High 83 Rochester Mayo

Winner Low 39 Burnsville

Loser High 69 Watertown-Mayer

Loser Low 16 Trinity

Biggest Margin 55 St. Croix Lutheran v Trinity

Smallest Margin 2 Brandon-Evansville v Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa

Most Combined: 148 Rochester Mayo v Andover

Least combined: 65 Spring Gove v North Fayette Valley, IA

Margins 30 or more 5

Margins 5 or less 4

Average 53.117

Winner Average 63.133

Loser Average 43.100

Ranked Average 63.400

Nonranked Average 52.182

Average margin 20.030

Average combined: 106.230

Ranked Upsets: 2

AAAA Ave 56.923

AAA Ave 47.100

AA Ave 62.500

A Ave 49.182

ABOUT LAST NIGHT…..ROCHESTER MAYO V ANDOVER

#8AAAA Rochester Mayo traveled to Andover to take on the Huskies in a non-conference battle. This kept the theme of the NW Suburban conference featured during the week (with Totino-Grace, & Blaine). The Spartans, having beat unbeaten Northfield the night before, secured another win to move to 5-1 in the year with a loss to Eastview spoiling their mark.

This game featured a pair of sophs with both surnames starting with “Mill.” There was no “Mill”ing about in this game. Both players produced with guard Amelia Mills from Mayo ending up one shy of the 51 Club with 33 points and a 157.1 pp100 and 6-4 post Logan Miller of Andover knocking down 25 points with a 156.2 pp100. Miller played most of the game with her back to the basket. Along with 6-2 senior Myla Evers, who mainly patrolled the the 3 point line, helped keep the Huskies involved in the game. Both Miller and Evers were made the 31 Club on the nose. Evers pp100 came in at 133.3.

This game attracted the attention of Gopher coach Dawn Plitzuweit who had to be “mill”ing about future Gopher prospects.

Right away for Mayo notched the first scoring string starting on their second possession. Andover had their first string starting on possession eleven and that last four possessions and also tied the game at 17. Miller scored six of their last nine points in that stretch. The game remained tied at 23 with 9:42 left in the first half. After that Mayo finished the half with a 24-14 burst. In that stretch the scored 3s on three of four possessions in the space of 1:20. At the break Mayo enjoyed a 47-37 lead.

Andover started hot in the second half scoring on their first three possession, Miller doing the scoring duties, to take the score to 49-43 Mayo. But a three possession turnover spree shortly thereafter initiated by Mills all three times either with a steal or a forced turnover pushed the margin quickly back up to 55-43. The needle really did not move much after that.

Miller had seven offensive boards on the day, three more than the Mayo team. That should tell you something of the Mayo shooting. They converted on 2s at a 65.5% rate and s 38.7% rate on 3s leaving few offensive boards to be gathered. Indeed, the Spartans were scorching in the first half behind the arc going 10/20 on their way to a 47-37 advantage. At that stage Mayo was scoring at a 120.5 pp100 rate with the starters hotter at 142.4. Andover was a solid 94.9 as a team with their starters 114.3. Both teams cooled off in the second half with Mayo was still north of 100 with a 105.9 pp100 but their starters dropped to a still healthy 106.2. The hosts dropped to 82.4 as a team with starters coming in at 84.6 in the second half.

The issue for Andover got hammered on was turnovers. They won big time the battle of the board 41-21. But Mayo crushed them on the turnover war 27-9. The Huskies were turning it over every 13.07 touches while Mayo tripled that touch total to 39.89. Mills was especially effective at this aspect of the game seven d stops alone in the second half to go along with three distruptions. For the game she had 11 d stops with 5 disruptions. That showcased her game reading skills. On the offensive side her body control and ability to finish put her at 10/12 on 2s and 3/7 on 3s were impressive. Tack on one turnover in over 81 touches putting her at an elevated status.

Team	Pt	PP100	OR/DR	FTA/m	2A/M	3A/M	TO/TOTO
Rochester Mayo	83	113.7	4/17	9/16	19/29	12/31	9/39.89
Andover	65	87.8	14/27	8/11	18/32	7/23	27/13.07

This is the second charting for Mayo this year. Earlier they beat Maple Grove in the Breakdown Tip Off at Southwest Christian in Chaska. So how do they compare then & now? On November 22 the Spartans pp100 was 97.5 with Mills scoring 32 points on the way to 118.5 pp10. Teammate Maggie Dyer did one point better with 33 points and a 143.5 pp100; Mills notched the same 50 for her 31 Club score while Dyer was not far behind at 48. Yesterday Dyer had 17 points and a 121.4 pp100 while her 31 Club score fell to 27. Perhaps the 6-4 interior defensive presence explains some of this. Siri Kirkeby had a much better showing Saturday just missing out on the 31 Club by one. Her pp100 was a solid 120. She delivered 4/7 behind the arc.

UNBEATEN

The number of unbeaten teams are dropping like the temps. Last week there were 110 left. Seven days later there are now 58. Once a class gets to ten teams left I will list them. So far AAAA and AAA qualify.

AAAA: 8 Alexandria, Elk River, Forest Lake, Minnetonka, Park Center, Rosemount, Spring Lake Park, Waconia

AAA: 7 Benilde-St. Margaret’s, Fergus Falls, Little Falls, Marshall, Minneapolis Roosevelt, Richfield, Rock Ridge

AA: 19

A: 24

STREAKING

The Red Knights are the only one with a double-digit win streak. Mahtomedi is their only game this week on the road Tuesday.

AAAA: 6 Waconia

AAA: 16 Benilde-St. Margaret’s (12 from 2025 +4 2026)

AA: 5 St. Clair and Windom

A: 5 Chisholm; East Grand Forks Sacred Heart; Mountain Iron-Buhl; Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s

QUEST FOR

QRF—not in operation yet & will not be up until some point in December.

TOP 10S

The AAAA listing is complete (as of last week’s polls). The other three classes have work to cut that margin down.

AAAA: 10/10-1.000

AAA: 4/10-.400

AA: 2/10-.200

A: 4/10-.300

Overall, it is 20/41 (there were ties in last week’s poll) .488.

#1S IN EACH SECTION

Only AAAA is north of .500. Still shut out in AA.

AAAA: 5/8-.625

AAA: 2/8-.250

AA: 0/9-.000

A: 1/10-.100

Grand totals: 8/35-.229…..pretty, pretty low. Obvious work to be done here too.

SEEDING THE STATE

Five of the selections in A are privates. Half of AAA is private; three in AA. There are no privates in AAAA.

AAAA

1. Minnetonka (2)
2. Hopkins (6)
3. Rosemount (3)
4. Maple Grove (5)
5. Rochester Mayo (1)
6. Elk River (8)
7. East Ridge (4)
8. Forest Lake (7)

AAA

1. Benilde-St. Margaret’s (6)
2. Marshall (2)
3. Stewartville (1)
4. Cretin-Derham Hall (3)
5. Hill-Murray (4)
6. Totino-Grace (5)
7. Rock Ridge (7)
8. Fergus Falls (8)

AA

1. Providence (5)
2. Crosby-Ironton (7)
3. Rochester Lourdes (1)
4. New London-Spicer (3)
5. Minnehaha (4)
6. Sauk Centre (6)
7. Menahga (8)
8. Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton (2)

A

1. Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s (2)
2. Mountain Iron-Buhl (7)
3. Central MN Christian (3)
4. East Grand Forks Sacred Heart (8)
5. Hillcrest Lutheran (6)
6. Mayer Lutheran (4)
7. NRHEG (1)
8. Pine River-Backus (5)

WEEK AHEAD

New London-Spicer coach Mike Dreier is on pace to reach 1100 career wins on Friday. The Wildcats will need to take down Minnewaska on Tuesday before traveling to Rockford with their rendezvous with destiny.