Black 2000, Strickland 1000

#1 posting 2.15.2007
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MINNESOTA REPORTS
TONIGHT'S MARQUEE EVENT:
AAA #3 Rogers travels to #1 Becker in a Mississippi 8 showdown. Becker won the first contest.

MCAA TOURNAMENT TONIGHT
Semifinals take place at West Lutheran with #1 seed New Life facing SW Christian (Chaska) and #2 Heritage Christian seeing #3 Maranatha. Game times are 6 and 7:45 pm.

RECENT MILESTONES
St. Paul Central's Ebony Black scored her 2000th point on a twisting layup with 9:30 left in the second half Tuesday night at Humboldt. She needed 3 points and that what she scored in limited action after missing the last 4 games with an ankle injury.

Kiara Strickland, Mpls Roosevelt 2008 has also passed the 1000 point mark and did it on Feb 1 vs Como Park.

CANCELLATION
Eden Prairie cancelled the game with Mpls Roosevelt on Tuesday. No reason has been given.

FEATURE AND Q&A
Sami Mattson, Esko, has a feature in the Duluth News Tribune about her basketball and archery. She also answers a few Q&As.

LATE REPORTS
#3 AA Crookston's win over DGF is covered in the Crookston Times.

#10 AA Crosby-Ironton edged #9 Esko 62-61 in a 7AA match up on Tuesday. From the Brainerd Dispatch.

Mpls Southwest vs Richfield sectional preview game went to over time and Fitz, Miller, and Goetz each fouled out for SW before the end of regulation and was down by 4 or more. SW did win 60-58.

Mounds View beat Stillwater on Tuesday 51-41. From the Stillwater Gazette.

Thanks for all the N&I sent in by the readers of this blog.

Next up: parade of states, college report, and out & about later tonight.