Game of the Day Friday December 30: High School Tournaments Conclude

What Happened


Best Buy for Boys


There are full game reports on all 4 games, but briefly:

Hopkins thrashed Johnson 100-74 for the title. Zach Stahl and Siyani Chambers scored 28 and 23.

Chanhassan thrashed Henry Sibley 66-43 for 3rd place.

Minnetonka rallied past Duluth East 80-73 for 5th place, though the Greyhounds' Taylor Stafford lit it up for 35.

Las Vegas Durango  defeated Mpls. Henry 79-71 for 7th though Darius Hill and Tim Gill of the Patriots combined for 56 points.

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Hopkins thrashed Eden Prairie in a repeat of last March's state title game. This time it was 83-51 as the Coffey girls out-scored EP's Shayne Mullaney and Jackie Johnson 35-28.

Osseo beat St. Paul Central 64-61 in OT for 3rd as Mikayla Bailey scored 20 for the winners.

Milwaukee Rufus King took 5rd place 58-55 over Prior Lake.

Hutchinson beat Maple Grove for 7th 57-54.

Elsewhere

A pair of huge upsets. Well, Wayzata's win over Hill-Murray in the Pioneers' own tournament was a shocker only by virtue of the margin of victory, 66-27. It was 43-14 at the half. Marissa Grossfeld scored 18 for Wayzata.

And Spring Lake Park won the Tartan tournament, beating the hosts 63-56. Sean Scott scored 22 for the winners.

And the Wayzata boys also came up big, beating Cretin for the Catholic Spirit tournament title. The score was 75-71.

Player of the Day: Zach Stahl with his 28-point effort against St. Paul Johnson.

Coach of the Day: Kenny Novak, Jr., and Brian Cosgriff, Hopkins boys and Hopkins girls, winners of the 2 biggest prizes of this holiday tournament season.


Preview

Several of the "big" (8 team) tournaments conclude today. It seems like most of them can offer a pretty appealing championship game. But whose got more than 1 really good game to offer? Nobody? So here are some finals.

Boys

Best Buy--Hopkins vs. St. Paul Johnson. 2 years ago these 2 teams played in this same finale, and Johnson won one of the best regular season games I've ever seen 86-78. P.S. One Web site has today's games starting at 2 p.m., but the official Web site for the tournament says the 1st game is at 3 p.m. I will be at Augsburg today for all 4 games. Watch for my reports late tonight and/or early tomorrow morning.

Tartan--Tartan vs. Spring Lake Park
Catholic Spirit--Cretin-Derham Hall vs. Wayzata

Girls

Dick's--Hopkins vs. Eden Prairie in a replay of last year's AAAA title game.
Hill-Murray--Hill-Murray vs. Wayzata
Roseville--Buffalo vs. Eau Claire Regis. Roseville was upset by Buffalo yesterday.