North Tartan Larson Scares Boo

#1 posting 7.29.2007
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NIKE NATIONALS
North Tartan Larson battled Boo Williams to overtime before falling to the AAU 16u champs in the first round of Nike Nationals. NTL played All Ohio last night, and will play CyFair and OGDL today. NTL has also added Shakila Boler, Bloomington Kennedy and NT 14, to their roster for this event.

MORE MELTDOWN
All the results are now posted with tourneyville providing the results.
43Hoops 15s finished the AAU season out strong. In the finals they beat North Tartan 47-43 in the Ruby Division.

The Southern Minny Elite playing out of Rochester, MN finished their last month of play 14-3. The SME captured the Emerald bracket of the North Tartan Meltdown with a perfect 5 and 0 record. Shooting guard Emily Greiner, 2008, of Kingsland led the SME in scoring at the Meltdown averaging 19 points a game. Greiner poured in a three year team record single game scoring mark of 31 points versus a tough Legends team from Green Bay,WI. Greiner was 4 of 6 from 2 point range, 5 of 6 from three and 8 for 8 from the free throw line for the 31 point total at a blistering 85 % shooting clip overall.

Cami Koehn, 2008, of Colman-Egan SD played very well all round. Her sharing of the ball and ball handling along with her 10 points per game was a very welcome addition to the SME team for the Meltdown.

Alise Holst, 2008, of Plainview averaged 8.5 ppg and shut down opponent's scoring forwards very effectively. Holst really pounded the boards all weekend.

Sam Lynn of Adrian, Megan Quiram of Cannon Valley Lutheran, Abby Kenealy of Farmington all averaged 6 ppg. Molly Greiner of Kingsland and Jodi Batzel of Dover Eyota followed very close behind in scoring.

Molly Greiner, 2011, Emily's younger sister, joined SME team for the these last 17 games."Molly does so many things that do not show up in summer basketball statistics. She dives on loose balls, she helps on defense, she ties people up, she forces traveling calls on the opponents, she steals the ball, she finishes her scoring opportunities and has to be the leading 5-7 rebounder in southern Minnesota. Not the only reason, but a significant factor why we finished our season 14 and 3 this past month" marveled SME coach Mark Radtke. Radtke added, "Obviously, everyone played really well the last month of the season!"

The Southern Minny Elite returns guards Sam Lynn and Megan King, 2009. 6-0 Jodi Batzel, 2010, 6-3 Megan Quiram, 2010, who has early Division I interest and Molly Greiner. SME is looking to add three or four more quality people for the 2008 spring/summer season. If interested please contact coach Radtke at mdmark999@yahoo.com

USJN SUMMER FINAL
The Heat won their opening 2 games in pool play, knocking off IL Wolverines Black 62-56 and IL West Central Cougars 77-46.
The Wolverines game was not as close as the score indicated. The Wolverines last lead was 8-7 early and largest was 4. NC Heat led most of the game by 8-14 points although IL cut it to 5 with about 2 minutes left. Fe Holmes made 4/4 free throws down the stretch to preserve the lead. Tayler Hill provided all the early offense for NC Heat scoring 16 of their first 22 points. Stats:
Tayler Hill, Minneapolis South 25 pts, 6 stls, 3 asts
Ephesia Holmes, Minneapolis South 12 pts
Brianna Edwards, Minneapolis North 1 pt
Katya Leick, Park-Cottage Grove 6 pts
Megan Nipe, Centennial 10 pts
Mandy Poke, Richfield 6 pts, 8 rebs
Taquoia Hammick, Minneapolis South 2 pts

In game 2 it was never close. When the starters took their first breather it was 24-4.
Stats:
Tayler Hill, Minneapolis South 15 pts, 5 asts
Ephesia Holmes, Minneapolis South 6 pts
Megan Nipe, Centennial 24 pts, 3 stls
Katya Leick, Park-Cottage Grove 11 pts, 7 rebs
Brianna Edwards, Minneapolis North 8 pts
Brittany Dyshaw, Eagan 5 pts
Mandy Poke, Richfield 2 pts
Taquoia Hammick, Minneapolis South 4 pts
Rudy Ruffin, Wayzata 2 pts

Rudy Ruffin (Wayzata) and Akilah Hudnell (DeLaSalle) were added in place of Annie Berner (injury) and Carly Rothfusz (church trip).

SUMMER SLAM
The Nebraska Bison CSS team is 2-0 in tournament bracket play, and has advanced to the semis of the elite division. They defeated the Ohio Legends 17U team today, and defeated the Minnesota Stars (Hested) 80-56 in the quarterfinals. The Bison team had a balance attack by their 3 D1 guards, who all scored in double digits.

The Nebraska Judds CSS (15U) team is 2-1 for the tournament playing up in the elite blue division, and 1-1 in bracket play. They were defeated by the AAU 5th place finisher Ohio-Penn Valley Blue storm in the first round, and then defeated "The future" to advance to the consolation semis. They were lead in scoring by their 6'4 Freshman standout Alyssa Kamphaus who has 38 points in the 10 point win against the future.

The Cornhusker Shooting Stars (14U) 8th grade team is 3-0, and playing in the 15U semis. They defeated Boone Grove High School, Indiana Elite 15's, and the Peoria PT Players.

FAB FIVE FRESHMEN
Diamond Lane has registered for High school at De LaSalle and she also played in the team camp over the weekend with the Varsity. Many consider this group the top incoming Freshman class in the state (Sarina Baker, Chelsey Jaycox, Tori Rule, Diamond Lane & Jasmine Randle).

Thanks to the readers for the great help. Go to my profile to email your news.

Next up: more state news. later today the out & abouts for the Hopkins vs DeLaSalle Gopher Camp final and the Pearl Championship between the Mpls Lady Cats and the Gym Rats.