D1

There were a dozen teams in action Wednesday.

Autumn McCall, St. Thomas MN, Centennial 14-W

Tori Schlagel, South Dakota, Eden Prairie 14-L

*Tori McKinney, Minnesota, Minnetonka 13-W

*Alyssa Sand, St. Thomas, Albany 13-W

Ellie Buzzelle, Green Bay, Rogers 12-W

Totals: 66 points, 4-1

McCall set a personal high Wednesday.

Four of the five were AAAA players—Sand was AA.

Four of the five played at the state tournament….Buzzelle did not. McKinney was a champion.

D2

There were four teams playing Wednesday.

Ray’ven Robinson, Georgia Southwestern, Cretin-Derham Hall 22-L

Teshaya Anderson, Point Park, Osseo 12-L

Keiara Anderson, Lincoln Memorial, St. Cloud Apollo 7-W

Totals: 41 points, 1-2

This is the first time on the D2 HF list for both Andersons. That brings the totals for D2 to 55.

Two AAA, one AAAA player. Two Andersons (not related…to me).

D3

There were 15 teams in action on Wednesday.

Mya Morris, Martin Luther, Perham 24-L

Camille Cummings, Hamline, Centennial 22-L

Natalie Beaver, Luther, Hayfield 21-W

Megan Morgan, St. Benedict, Winona Cotter 21-W

Ayla Olson, St. Mary’s MN, New York Mills 18-W

Totals: 106 points, 3-2

This is the first entry on the D3 HF list for Beaver and Cummings. The total now stands at 47 players for the season. Morgan and Olson set a new personal bests. Morris leads D3 with four entries.

Two each from AA and A schools. Cummings is from AAAA.

Morris, Cummings and Beaver made the state tournament.

HS RESULTS

AAAA

#4 Maple Grove 75, #10 Elk River 61

#8 Lakeville North 62, Lakeville South 48

#2 Wayzata 82, #10AA Minnehaha 45

RANKED RESULTS

Winner High 92 Visitation

Winner Low 31 Hmong Academy

Loser High 68 Princeton

Loser Low 19 Brooklyn Center

Biggest Margin 47 Visitation v Columbia Heights

Smallest Margin 1 Mounds Park Academy v St. Paul Harding

Most Combined: 158 St. Francis v Princeton

Least combined: 51 Hmong Academy v CSE

Margins 30 or more 5 (38.5%)

Margins 5 or less 1 (7.6%)

Average 55.12

Winner Average 66.08

Loser Average 44.15

Ranked Average 65.00

Nonranked Average 52.76

Average margin 21.92

Average combined: 110.20

Ranked Upsets: none

AAAA Ave 62.09

AAA Ave 57.57

AA Ave 43.38

A Ave none

ABOUT LAST NIGHT—MAPLE GROVE V ELK RIVER

The #4AAAA Maple Grove Crimson hosted #10AAAA Elk River in a battle of former Northwest Suburban Conference rivals in a winter storm makeup game from Tuesday. And the Crimson utilized a sizzling strong first half in topping the Elks, who entered the game undefeated at 4-0, 75-61.

MG,  now in the Lake Conference, got the jump early on ER. The Elks were forced to call time at the 10:45 mark with MG up 15-5. The Crimson heated up soon thereafter. They did not get their first scoring string until possession 15-16-17-18-19, a fiver, stretching their lead to 26-7. By half it was 41-21. The Crimson were smoking at 132.3 pp100 for the first half, with starters scorching at 158.3. MG knocked down seven 3s in the opening 18 minutes and shot 50% from 2s. ER, by contrast, struggled on the offensive side of the ledger in the first half only reaching 65.6 pp100. They needed 8.1 touches for every point, nearly twice as much as MG’s 4.15.

ER won the second half 40-34 with a vastly improved 117.6 pp100. MG cooled off but was still a solid 97.1 pp100 in the last 18 minutes. The Elks made it interesting late, closing to 70-57 after a steal and one after calling time out at 2:29 after a pair of free throws to set up their press.

In the four factors battle MG dominated the scoring behind the arc 36-6. For the game MG shot 48% from 3s (12/25) slightly better than the 46.67 from 2s, but the payout was better behind the arc. One more area that impressed me with MG this night was their conversion rate deep in play count. The Crimson was 8/15 or 53.3% when touches reached seven or more. ER was only 3/10. On quicker play counts (3 touches or less) ER was 34.6% better than MG’s 28.9%. MG only had one transition attempt for the night and did not score. ER was 3/5.

Team	Pt	PP100	OR/DR	FTA/m	2A/M	3A/M	TO/TOTO
Maple Grove	75	113.6	13/24	11/16	14/30	12/25	17/19.59
Elk River	61	92.4	11/20	21/29	17/35	2/13	17/19.35

MG’s Katie Holmquist almost made the 31 Club in the first half alone with a 30. She had 16 points at half and was 10/16 on distributions, or, to put it another way, responsible for xx of the MG first half points.  For the night she ended up with a 31 score of 40. She was joined in the 31 Club by Sophia Anderson right on the nose with 31. They had 23 and 22 points respectively for the night. Joanna Talso was the Elk closest to entry to the 31 Club with 27.

The possibility exists that these two teams could be in the state tournament in March. MG finished second last year and is expected to take section 5AAAA. ER’s section 8AAAA had three teams that made the state last year with Alexandria and Monticello moving up, so the field is crowded along with perennial power St. Michael-Albertville and defending section champ Brainerd.

DAY AHEAD

AAAA

#1 Hopkins at #3AAA Marshall

#7 Rochester Mayo hosts #9 Waconia

#10 Elk River hosts St. Michael-Albertville

AAA

#2 Orono at Prior Lake

AA

#1 Providence at Princeton

#3 Rochester Lourdes at #8AAA Bryon

#4 Duluth Marshall hosts Duluth Denfeld

#8 Proctor at Grand Rapids

A

#2 Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s hosts #8 Mayer Lutheran

#6 Central MN Christian hosts Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg

#10 Hayfield/Schaeffer Academy at Grand Meadow