The end of summer is nigh.\u00a0The last tournament of the summer tipped off today at the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph. The Sweet 16, fully participated on the boy\u2019s end, maybe should be renamed the delightful dozen. Class A only had one team brave (or healthy) enough to show up: Red Lake. That means three vacancies alone in that class. The other class that didn\u2019t field a full four came in AAA with one team missing.<\/p>\n
Since it is summer not all the teams involved are not at full strength. Every team in the \u201cEast\u201d pool had key starters missing. Stillwater, the AAAA runner up in March, had three players missing, two of which were starters (Liza Karlen, Grace Cote), for a variety of reasons. Austin and Proctor each had a starter missing.<\/p>\n
In the recent past the \u201cDozen\u201d has devolved into an AAAA fest with the final four usually all AAAA teams. That won\u2019t be the case this year. Stillwater did not hold up their end of the bargain as Austin surgically sliced and diced the Pony defense to rally from a first half deficit to move to the final four. Austin\u2019s reward in the semis: Hopkins. Lakeville North had a close shave with recently demoted (to AA) Fergus Falls (66-64). The AAAA margin today was 26.9, three games had over 40+ differential.<\/p>\n
There is no truth to a rumorama going around that the MSHSL is going to move to a 5 Class system for girls\u2019 basketball: Hopkins in one class, then AAAA, AAA, AA, A. The Royals more than doubled their opposition today.<\/p>\n
I charted only Stillwater games today. \u00a0There will be no stat regurgitation, therefore. Tomorrow I will be dialed in on the semis & championship. Stats will be provided then.<\/p>\n
The pools were named after directions but did not correspond to actual geographic coordinates.<\/p>\n
WEST<\/strong><\/p>\n Hopkins 80, Red Lake 38<\/p>\n Hopkins 78 Minnehaha 35<\/p>\n Minnehaha 70, Red Lake 65<\/p>\n EAST<\/strong><\/p>\n Stillwater 70, Proctor 41<\/p>\n Austin 85, Proctor 55<\/p>\n Austin 74, Stillwater 69<\/p>\n SOUTH<\/strong><\/p>\n Wayzata 66, Waconia 43<\/p>\n Waconia 56, Hawley 51<\/p>\n Wayzata 74, Hawley 26<\/p>\n NORTH<\/strong><\/p>\n Lakeville North 76, Mankato East 40<\/p>\n Lakeville North 66, Fergus Falls 64<\/p>\n Fergus Falls 51, Mankato East 40<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The end of summer is nigh.\u00a0The last tournament of the summer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8CdKT-41Q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19846,"url":"http:\/\/kjasr.com\/live\/?p=19846","url_meta":{"origin":15490,"position":0},"title":"GBB Out & About: A Trio of Sweet 16 Games","date":"August 6, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"It is summer, the final weekend of hoop action. 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