HIGH FIVE D1
Four schools played on Monday.
*Nora Francois, Arizona, DeLaSalle 8-L
Kendall McGee, Creighton, Benilde-St. Margaret’s 6-L
Ja’Kahla Craft, Seton Hall, St. Michael-Albertville 4-W
This was McGee’s first time on the D1 HF list.
Two were AAA players, Craft alone in AAAA
All three won state titles.
D2
No action.
D3
No action.
AAAA
#3 Rosemount 80, #2AA Crosby-Ironton 64
#4 Maple Grove 61, Alexandria 43
#9 Waconia 67, Buffalo 53
AAA
#3 Hill-Murray 94, Hastings 59
#8 Delano 84, Chaska 61
Coon Rapids 70, #10 Richfield 51
AA
#7 Minnewaska 67, Melrose 28
#9 Red Wing 67, Mankato East 20
#9 Sauk Centre 83, Montevideo 36
A
#2 Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s 69, Cedar Mountain 49
Milaca 58, #10 Braham 43
POINT PARADE
AAAA
Jaycie Helmer, Mounds View 25
AAA
Malin Youngberg, Little Falls 28
AA
Tori Oehrlein, Crosby-Ironton 34
Tatem Votava, East Grand Forks 28
A
Jensyn Storhoff, Lanesboro 30
Ruby Klinger, Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City 28
Morgan Mathiowetz, Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s 27
Olivia Milbrath, Springfield 27
Taylor Berkner, Sleepy Eye 26
Betsy Gillette, Hayfield/Schaeffer Academy 26
RANKED RESULTS
Winner High 94 Hill-Murray
Winner Low 47 Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunberg & Osakis
Loser High 70 Rogers
Loser Low 14 Ortonville
Biggest Margin 61 Rothsay v Ortonville
Smallest Margin 3 Duluth Denfeld v Hibbing
Most Combined: 153 Hill-Murray v Hastings; Mounds View v Rogers
Least combined: 68 Simley v North St. Paul
Margins 30 or more 26 (38.24%)
Margins 5 or less 4 (5.88%)
Average 54.456
Winner Average 66.809
Loser Average 42.103
Ranked Average 69.167
Nonranked Average 53.032
Average margin 24.706
Average combined: 108.91
Ranked losses: 2
AAAA Ave 62.20
AAA Ave 50.947
AA Ave 53.381
A Ave 53.377
ABOUT LAST NIGHT…..MOUNDS VIEW V ROGERS
With the alterations and additions to membership in 8AAAA that meant Rogers was pushed to the east and are now in section 5AAAA. That made Monday’s meeting between the visiting Mustangs and the Royals important for seeding come March. MV proved to be more consistent throughout the game holding a one point advantage at the break, halting the reign of 3s from Rogers and prevailing in a battle of 8s 83-70. Youth was on display all night. The game’s leading scorer, Jaycie Helmer of MV, had 25 points. Rogers started a pair of eighth graders: Paige Fenstra and Madison Waldo. Add in Harper Colligan off the bench and the trio combined for 26 points on the night.
Diaper dandies aside, this game was about the long ball early. Both teams scorched the nets with MV holding a slim 43-42 lead at the break. In the first 18 minutes the hosts connected on nine 3s in 19 attempts. MV was not shabby behind the arc either going five for ten. Both teams were hitting at 134 and 131 pp100s for the half. That production rate would not continue in the second half. The first 18 minutes also saw six lead changes in a see-saw game. Rogers built their largest lead at 29-22 after scoring four 3s in five possessions. That forced MV to adjust their defense away from the zone to a man defense. The Mustangs used a 15-5 run to go up 37-34 on the final lead change with 3:30 left in the half. Their biggest margin in that half came at 41-36. Two 3s on the last two possessions of the half cut that MV lead to 43-42.
In the second half Rogers only converted one 3. That played a part in that lead ballooning out to 75-54 left. Rogers got back into the flow late closing out with a 16-8 advantage, but the hole was too steep to climb out.
By my count MV had six strings on the night with one lasting six possessions on their way to a 71-52 lead. Helmer had five in that string in addition to one distribution and two d stops. Rogers ended up with four strings on the night with two four possession scores separated by one empty possession to finish the game. If we cut out the first nine minutes of the second half Rogers would have won 61-58 with a pp100 of 124.5 to 116.0. But the truth of the matter is a team needs to play and compete for a full 36 minute contest. Fall asleep and the opponent will take advantage.
| Team | Pt | PP100 | OR/DR | FTM/a | 2M/A | 3M/A | TO/TOTO |
| Mounds View | 83 | 120.3 | 15/24 | 18/25 | 22/41 | 7/13 | 13/21.69 |
| Rogers | 70 | 101.4 | 14/17 | 14/23 | 13/36 | 10/24 | 12/31.42 |
Two Mustangs made the exclusive Clubs: Jaycie Helmer made the 41 Club right on the nose. She has a year under her belt as a starter and that shows. She has hesitation moves that create separation and a stop and pop pull up from the elbow areas. She was also golden with a game best 166.7 pp100 for the night going 7/11 on 2s and 3/5 on 3s along with a dozen distributions on 21 set ups. Junior Taylor Whitehill also made the 31 Club right on the nose. She too was gold at 107.1 leading the team with 9 d stops and 7/10 on distributions.
On the nose must have been the theme of the day because two Royals accomplished the same feat: Juniors Kinnley Colligan and Alexa Juntunen. Both also were golden with Colligan at 123.5 going 5/7 on 3s and Juntunen 112.5 cashing in at the line 7/11, the most of any player on the night. The starting eighth graders had double digits scoring with Waldo topping out at 144.4 pp100.
Rogers assistant is Jamie Waldo, who played ball with Eastview at the turn of the century and was Broback then. She later was a head coach at Providence. She was very active coaching in the varsity game, standing, directing, and calling time.
DAY AHEAD
AAAA
#7 Wayzata travels to Chaska
#10 Forest Lake travels to Duluth East
AAA-none
AA
#4 Caledonia travels to Minnehaha
#6 New London-Spicer travels to Albany
A
#9 NRHEG hosts Waseca