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#5 posting 5.13.2007
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Today I traveled to the Richfield AAU thournament. Last week the tournaments were dominated by MN Stars. This week it was the MN Metro Stars turn at showing their teams off.

At the HS division it was MN Metro Stars Black winning the tournament beat a revamped Total Package 62-32. Courtney Boylan (Chaska) of Metro Stars Black had 20 points in the final. Total Package held an early 7-0 lead. A 13-0 run started the Stars down the path to the championship. Earlier in the day they had to beat their fellow Metro Stars teams, and, as usual, civil war games are much tougher. In the quarters Metro Stars Black held off Metro Stars 15 44-38. In the semis Metro Stars Black defeated Metro Stars White 47-39.
I started the day with Southern Minne Magic 19 defeating MN Summit Blue 46-33 in a HS quarterfinal. SMM lost to Total Package in the semis.

I watched one 14u game with the Gym Rats beating MN Stars 13 43-38 (note it was not a Metro Stars team). This game was a quarterfinal matchup.

I also saw a pair of 15u games. The first was a semifinal between WI Heat and MN Southern Stars. This was the most dramatic of the games today with WI Heat rallying from a 42-38 deficit with a minute to go. Courtney Fulk knotted it up and then scored the game winner at the buzzer as she was fouled 44-42. She missed the free throw but the win was the Heat's. That moved them to the finals and they came out on top in a hard fought game 49-44 over the MN Metro Stars 14u team.

As usual the tournament moved games around. The schedule is never the same. The gyms were pretty tight. The HS gym didn't have floor markings for 3s so the older teams were shuffled off to the side gyms. There was absolutely no space for viewers in the older gym 4. The newer gym one was the best floor and that is where the championships were played.

Here is the out & about schedule for the rest of the week.
MONDAY
HS Quarter:
Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted vs Chaska Gold (from the Chaska MYAS tournament Saturday)
14 Quarter, Richfield AAU
Gym Rats 14u vs MN Stars 13u
TUESDAY
15 Semis Richfield AAU
WI Heat 15 vs MN Southern Stars 15
finals Richfield AAU
WI Heat 15 vs MN Metro Stars 14
WEDNESDAY
Quarters Richfield AAU
Southern Minne Magic 19 vs MN Summit Blue 16
Semis Richfield AAU
MN Metro Stars Black 16 vs MN Metro Stars White 16
THURSDAY
finals Richfield AAU
MN Metro Stars Black 16 vs Total Package 16

Next up: tomorrow