It was the busiest night of this basketball season yet as 17 MN D2 and D3 schools took the court in 13 games, going 5-4 against out-of-state opponents and of course 4-4 among themselves.
The 4 all-MN games included St. Ben's opener, a 52-45 grinder over MN-Morris, who drops to 0-3 with previous exhibition losses to MSU-Moorhead and St. Cloud State. Soph G Megan Thompson (Holy Angels) tied her career high with 18 points for the Bennies, while freshman F McKenzie Holgate (New Prague) added 15. Junior post Alex Johnson (Becker) scored just 5 points but they all came in the 4th quarter, when Johnson and Thompson scored 16 of the Bennies' 19 points. Johnson added 12 boards and 3 blocks. Abby Van Kempen (West Central) and Kendra Raths (Sartell) combined for 20 points and 20 boards for Morris.
Men's Games
The other all-MN games (all men's games) saw St. Cloud State (3-0) blow away Crown 121-81; MSU-Moorhead (4-0) do the same to Concordia (Moorhead) 90-66; and Carleton (1-1) defeated North Central 66-48. The top player across those 3 games was perhaps Moorhead's Gavin Baumgartner, a senior guard from Wayzata, who scored 24 points with 5 boards and 3 steals.
Elsewhere Hamline (1-1) edged WI Superior 75-69 as Connor Knutson, a senior wing from Forest Lake, put up a 26-6-2 block line; UMD (1-2) lost at Northern Michigan 64-52 after leading 35-25 at the half; and St. Olaf lost to WI Stevens Point 54-41 to drop to 0-3.
Other Women's Games
The UMD women succeeded where the Bulldog men failed, which is to say at Northern Michigan. It was a grinder 51-45 as Emma Bohm scored 12 points and Sammy Kozlowski 10 with 4 assists and 2 steals. They won despite shooting just 3 FT and getting out-rebounded 41-21. But, hey, they're 4-0 and are getting up a pretty good head of steam heading into the meat of the season.
Elsewhere MN-Crookston defeated Valley City State 79-64 to get to 4-1 on the year. Freshman point guard Kylie Post (Maranatha) scored 17 points with 3 assists and 2 steals while senior post Issy Odor (Kennedy) scored 17 with 10 boards.
Bemidji State defeated Mayville State 78-71 as sophomore guards Maria Appicelli (Winona) and Sydney Zerr (Shakopee) each scored 14 points. Claire Blascziek (Lakeville North) scored 14 for Mayville.
Concordia St. Paul hammered a very good (but D3) WI Superior team 95-58 as Lindsay Dorr (Rogers) and Sidney Wentland (Elk River) combined for 42 points and 12 boards.
Finally Carleton and St. Olaf took it on the chin. WI River Falls defeated Carleton 67-54 and WI Stout defeated St. Olaf 64-51 despite 14 points by freshman guard K'Lynn Lewis (St. Agnes).
A 5-Pack of Players of the Day
C-Lindsay Dorr, Concordia St. Paul, Sr., Rogers (22 pts-7 reb)
F-Connor Knutson, Hamline, Sr., Forest Lake (26-6-2 blocks)
G-Megan Thompson, St. Ben's, Soph., Holy Angels (18 pts)
G-Gavin Baumgartner, MSU-Moorhead, Sr., Wayzata (24-5-3 stls)
G-Bryden Urie, Concordia Moorhead, Soph., Proctor (17-9-4-2 stls)
Team of the Day--This is a tie among the unbeaten--the MSU-Moorhead and St. Cloud State men, and the UMD women, so they're all in the pool for our Team of the Month in November
Coach of the Day--They're not unbeaten but UM-Crookston coach Mike Roysland is the miracle man with a great recruiting class and his team at 4-1.
So, there, now you're caught up on MN D2 and D3 action, sort of.
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