D1 HIGH FIVE
There were five teams in action Monday.
*Jocelyn Land, Montana, Holy Family 20-W
*Olivia Olson, Michigan, Benilde-St. Margaret’s 14-L
*Aby Shubert, Montana, Kasson-Mantorville 11-W
Rae Ehrman, Montana, Eden Prairie 5-W
*Ella Johnson, Montana State, Elk River 4-W
Totals: 54 points, 4-1
MMMMM. Many Montanas in the mix.
Two AAAA and AAA players with one AA.
D2
There were two teams in action Monday.
Emma Kanz, Converse, Maple Grove 7-L
Kaylynn Asberry, Edward Waters, St. Paul Como Park 7-W
Totals: 14 points, 1-1
D3—no action
MN GBB RESULTS
AAAA
#8 Eastview 72, #5AAA Cretin-Derham Hall 59
AAA
#3 Stewartville 59, #9AA Minnehaha 49
AA
#1 Providence 107, Faribault 52
#3 New London-Spicer 93, Kekhoven-Murdock-Sunburg 30
#4 Duluth Marshall 86, River Falls, WI 50
#5 Red Wing 68, Winona 32
#7 Rochester Lourdes 71, St. Croix Lutheran 33
#8 Fairmont 66, Redwood Valley 17
#10 Caledonia 74, #6A Mayer Lutheran 44
A
#1 Mountain Iron-Buhl 72, Winona Cotter 47
#2 Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s 68, New Ulm Cathedral 24
RANKED RESULTS
Winner High Providence 107
Winner Low Canby 36
Loser High 69 Lake Crystal-Wellcome Memorial
Loser Low 16 Trinity
Biggest Margin 67 Ely v Bigfork
Smallest Margin 2 White Bear Lake v Goodhue; Lakeview v Murray County Central
Most Combined: 159 Providence v Faribault
Least combined: 69 Canby v Russell-Tyler-Ruthton
Margins 30 or more 22 (38.597%)
Margins 5 or less 9 (15.790%)
Average 54.123
Winner Average 66.386
Loser Average 41.860
Ranked Average 70.571
Nonranked Average 51.82
Average margin 24.526
Average combined: 108.25
Ranked Losses: three
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AAA Ave 54.333
AA Ave 58.703
A Ave 50.951
POINT PARADE
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AAAA—not listed
AAA—not listed
AA
Aubrie Klug, Caledonia 32
Brylee Miller, Fairmont 26
Chenee Skrien, International Falls 25
A
Kaida Helgenset, Benson 33
Lilly Henriksen, BOLD 30
Morgan Mathiowetz, Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s 28
Ashton Reierson, Heron Lake-Okabena/Fulda 25
MILESTONE
Morgan Mahtiowetz of Sleepy Eye St. Mary’s reached the 3000 point mark in the 66-24 win over New Ulm Cathedral. She ended up with 28 points.
ABOUT LAST NIGHT….FOUR GAMES FROM ST. CATHERINE’S
I spent my day at St. Catherine’s for the Martin Luther King Day event. I charted four games with four new teams checked including the biggest fish remaining in the QRF—#15 Stewartville. Now the biggest fish falls to #26 Woodbury. Stewartville also pushes the AAA ranked and #1 sections to better marks. Also crossed off the to do list included #63 White Bear Lake; #81 Goodhue; and #156 Winona Cotter. As you can tell there was a strong southeast MN contingent with Hiawatha Valley and Three Rivers to go along with the 1AA listing. The other theme of the day was the Suburban East with WBL and CDH. Four ranked teams were charted.
The opener (for me) was #1A Mountain Iron-Buhl v Winona Cotter. Both teams play similar styles and the Rangers were only ahead by four at the break. A 14 possession drought lasting seven minutes killed any Cotter hopes for a victory in the second half.
Bigger school WBL edged out Goodhue in the closest game of the day. The Bears were gold behind the arc making a day’s best 13. Three starters were able to stretch the floor with Chloe Theissen, Amelia Post and Sophie Menier all scoring at least three 3s. WBL shot 54.16% from deep. What is ironic is that was better than the Wildcats at the free throw line (15/28 for 53.57%). Those misses will haunt Goodhue and they need to address that for a deeper run in the loaded 1AA field.
The #8AAAA Lightning were also fire from long distance racking up eleven 3s in their win over #5AAA CDH. This was the best game of the day if one is measuring the pp100 of the losing team. The Raiders were centurions at 101.7. The problem was Eastview was 120 and an impressive 138.7 in the first half. CDH improved on their 87.1 pp100 first half numbers. Combining all three shooting numbers Eastview was at 174.3 best for the day. CDH was not bad at 159.
The last game had the lowest pp100 for the winning team with the #3AAA Tigers of Stewartville grinding out a 59-49 win over #9AA Minnehaha. The 3 point shooting cooled off from the first three games (9 made, to 20, to 19 to only 6 total). I think veteran experience and chemistry helped prevail here. The youthful Redhawks faced pressure and turned it over more frequently.
BOLD indicates the day’s best.
| Team | Pt | PP100 | OR/DR | FTM/a | 2M/A | 3M/A | TO/TOTO |
| Mountain Iron-Buhl | 72 | 97.3 | 15/19 | 5/11 | 23/36 | 7/23 | 24/14.54 |
| Winona Cotter | 47 | 63.5 | 10/18 | 11/17 | 15/25 | 2/18 | 34/11.76 |
| White Bear Lake | 64 | 95.5 | 7/27 | 5/8 | 10/19 | 13/24 | 27/15.37 |
| Goodhue | 62 | 93.9 | 21/16 | 15/28 | 13/34 | 7/30 | 11/35.71 |
| Eastview | 72 | 120.0 | 8/19 | 13/17 | 13/25 | 11/24 | 9/34.22 |
| Cretin-Derham Hall | 59 | 101.7 | 11/19 | 7/9 | 14/38 | 8/18 | 12/26.00 |
| Stewartville | 59 | 83.1 | 10/19 | 6/7 | 22/41 | 3/14 | 21/15.57 |
| Minnehaha | 49 | 70.0 | 11/22 | 4/8 | 18/37 | 3/13 | 28/12.32 |
The 31 Club had a restricted access on Monday. Only two players were able to garner enough to enter. Six of the eight teams were left in the cold. The last two games combined had a goose egg. Jayda Wilson was closest for the Lightning with a 29. That was one ahead of the Raiders Isabella DeLeeuw. The top score of the day was Goodhue guard Lola Christianson with 36 with 22 points. Sami Warwas of Mountain Iron-Buhl matched her with 22 points, and was one behind in the 31 Club with 35. Warwas had a better pp100 mark with 157.1. Of note Warwas was 7/10 on set up passes.
| Player | School | 31Club | PP100 |
| Sami Warwas | Mt. Iron-Buhl | 35 | 157.1 |
| Lola Christianson | Goodhue | 36 | 110.0 |
DAY AHEAD
29 ranked teams are in action on a busy Tuesday.
AAAA
#1 Hopkins travels to #5 Minnetonka
#2 Rosemount travels to Prior Lake
#3 Wayzata travels to Eden Prairie
#6 Rochester Mayo hosts Austin
#7 East Ridge hosts Stillwater
#8 Eastview travels to Lakeville South
#9 Waconia travels to #4AAA Benilde-St. Margaret’s
#10 Elk River hosts Brainerd
AAA
#1 Orono travels to Chaska
#2 Hill-Murray hosts Mahtomedi
#3 Stewartville travels to Lake City
#5 Cretin-Derham Hall hosts Park-Cottage Grove
#6 Marshall travels to Worthington
#8 Northfield travels to Owatonna
#10 DeLaSalle hosts Visitation
AA
#2 Crosby-Ironton hosts Mille Lacs
#3 New London-Spicer travels to Norwood-Young America
#4 Duluth Marshall travels to Proctor
#5 Red Wing hosts Albert Lea
#8 Fairmont hosts Blue Earth
A
#3 Hillcrest Lutheran travels to Battle Lake
#4 Northome/Kelliher hosts Laporte
#5 NRHEG travels to Grand Meadow
#6 Mayer Lutheran travels to Southwest Christian Chaska
#7 Braham travels to Mora
#9 Hayfield hosts Triton
#10 Central MN Christian hosts Canby