D1
Only one team in action Friday.
But no Minnesota player scored. One played, but failed to light up the scoreboard.
D2
Again only one team in action Friday.
But no Minnesota player scored….again. Twice in one night.
D3
Six teams played on Friday.
The drought is over! We have players that scored!
Mya Morris, Martin Luther, Perham 29-W
Ava Haus, St. Scholastica, St. Michael-Albertville 22-W
Evie Schmitz, St. Scholastica, St. Louis Park 15-W
Audrey Whitney, Carleton, Rochester Century 15-L
Kloey Lind, St. Scholastica, Pine City 10-W
Totals: 91 points, 4-1
Lind and Whitney are first timers on the D3 HF list and that increases the totals for the year to 51. Morris adds to her highest times on the list to five.
Three were AAAA players, two AA. Morris and Haus made it to state.
HS
AAAA
#5 Wayzata 101, Chanhassen 70
#6 Eastview 79, Edina 66
#7 Rochester Mayo 92, Rochester JM 12
Prior Lake 44, #8 Lakeville North 43
AAA
#3 Marshall 83, Tri-City United 41
#4 Hill-Murray 73, Two Rivers 56
#5 Cretin-Derham Hall 58, Stillwater 28
Delano 70, #7 Totino-Grace 49
#9 Northfield 49, #6AA Red Wing 44
AA
#2 Crosby-Ironton 75, #7 Braham 47
#5 New London-Spicer 95, Rockford 41
#6 Caledonia 68, Fillmore Central 44
Minnewaska 56, #9 Sauk Centre 44
A
#1 Mountain Iron-Buhl 84, South Ridge 21
#2 Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s 70, Springfield 36
#3 Northome/Kelliher 92, Cass Lake-Bena 32
#4 Hillcrest Lutheran 83, Brandon-Evansville 39
#9 MACCRAY 67, Ortonville 21
#5 EGF Sacred Heart 54, Warren-Alvarado-Oslo 29
RANKED RESULTS
Winner High 114 BOLD
Winner Low 36 International School
Loser High 81 Windom
Loser Low 9 Albert Lea, Nova Classical
Biggest Margin 93 BOLD v Montevideo
Smallest Margin 1 Prior Lake v Lakeville North
Most Combined: 179 St. James v Windom
Least combined: 51 International School v Math & Science
Margins 30 or more 45 (37.19%)
Margins 5 or less 11 (9.09%)
Average 54.93
Winner Average 67.94
Loser Average 41.93
Ranked Average 69.05
Nonranked Average 53.59
Average margin 26.02
Average combined: 109.90
Ranked losses: five
AAAA Ave 58.05
AAA Ave 57.19
AA Ave 53.75
A Ave 53.74
POINT PARADE—13 (reported)
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AAAA
Kate Arnold, Chanhassen 29
AAA—none reported
AA
Brylee Miller, Fairmont 33
Tori Oehrlein, Crosby-Ironton 32
Alyvia Engler, Plainview-Elgin-Millville 30
Reagan Essig, Triton 30
Aubrie Klug, Caledonia 28
Tatem Votava, East Grand Forks 27
A
Lilly Henriksen, BOLD 38
Aubrey Steffl, Cedar Mountain 33
Kaida Helgenset, Benson 30
Natalee Hoie, Bagley 28
Morgan Mathiowetz, Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s 28
Emma Thein, MACCRAY 26
ABOUT LAST NIGHT….NORTHFIELD V RED WING
Two ranked teams from the Big 9 tangled in Northfield on Friday night with the #9AAA host Raiders taking the contest 49-44 over the #6AA Wingers. Both these teams made their debut in the polls this week. And RW dropped a class in the latest MSHSL shifting of the classes. These former Missota Conference rivals may not be playing in the future as much as RW is due to exit the Big 9 next year for the Hiawatha Valley League. Before that departure, the Wingers almost pulled off a Maryland v Gopher miracle comeback. RW trailed 42-31 with 3:30 left in the game. Then the Wingers got hot. They strung together five straight scores with three of those possessions coming behind the arc narrowing the margin to 47-44 with 23.9 seconds left. Northfield, with 7.5 seconds left was fouled, missed the front end of a one and one, but grabbed the miss. Senior Grace Mostad preserved the victory by cashing in on both charity stripe shots for the final margin.
RW had their five string very late in the game and the Wingers almost pulled a Lazurus. Northfield got their string early with a five straight scoring possession starting on possession five. In that initial burst the Raiders scored four of their five first half 3s taking them from a 4-0 deficit to a 14-4 lead. The similarity with RW was during their five possession string they knocked down three of their five 3s on the night. Together, both teams shot 6-for-38 (15.79%) for the remainder of the night. On their combined hot streaks they were sensational at 7/7.
So why was the game so low scoring punctuated by two hot strings? Play counts were high with Northfield scoring 9/28 on seven or more touches, RW 7/21. Neither side was strong in quick play touches with RW 4/19. Northfield was 8/24. I only charted three transition attempts all night with the Raiders converting twice, RW came up empty. Paint touches were also hard to achieve with RW topping Northfield 45-42. Just as a rule of thumb, paint touches usually come close to matching the final score.
Both teams were relatively stable between halves with Northfield scoring 96.6 pp100 in the first, before cooling off in the second to 77.8. RW came in with 73.3 in the first half and improved to 81.5 in the second half.
One help for Northfield came from their bench which outscored RW 11-0.
| Team | Pt | PP100 | OR/DR | FTA/m | 2A/M | 3A/M | TO/TOTO |
| Northfield | 49 | 87.50 | 14/22 | 9/14 | 8/23 | 8/26 | 15/28.33 |
| Red Wing | 44 | 77.20 | 13/20 | 5/10 | 12/31 | 5/19 | 16/23.69 |
No player made the 31 Club. In fact it was difficult to reach the 21 Club. RW’s best was 23 by Hallie Johnson with a pair close behind at 21. Northfield best was Mostad at 22.
Going forward both teams will be chasing front runner & #8AAAA Rochester Mayo the rest of the way for the Big 9 title. Northfield’s only blemish on the year is a nine point loss to the Spartans in Rochester. This was the Wingers first loss in conference. They face Mayo next Friday.
As for the section races Stewartville and Byron, both HVL teams, are the competition for Northfield. RW drops down to 1AA and already has a solid 68-49 win over Goodhue, who moved up from 1A. It should help RW playing a hybrid AAAA/AAA schedule and then dropping down to AA. Caledonia and Lourdes also await in March ready to clip some Wingers. Both teams will take on RW later in the season along with #1AAA Benilde-St. Margaret’s.
DAY AHEAD
AAAA
#1 Hopkins hosts St. Paul Como Park
#2 Minnetonka travels to Moorhead
#9 Waconia travels to Eagan
AAA
No ranked action
AA
#2 Crosby-Ironton hosts Anoka
#6 Caledonia hosts LaCrescent-Hokah
#6 Red Wing travels to Mankato East
A
#8 Mayer Lutheran hosts #10 Hayfield/Schaeffer Academy
#6 Central MN Christian travels to Hull Western Christian, IA