Out & About: Hopkins/Eastview

#18 posting 7.18.2007
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LAKEVILLE NORTH SUMMER LEAGUE
Championship
HOPKINS royals 33, EASTVIEW lightning 31

Hopkins won the Lakeville North Girls Basketball summer league championship with a comeback win over Eastview 33-31. Earlier in the summer Eastview downed Hopkins 35-28. Hopkins trailed 27-21 with 6 minutes left before finishing up with a 12-4 run.

Just as in the semis for Hopkins a three opened the scoring. It wasn't on the first possession, but Hanna Muegge delivered. Brittnye McSparron answered right back with her own three. That was the first of three ties, the last coming at 11 all. Hopkins finished the half with the last four points, all by Stephanie Sension. Eastview closed the half with a six possession drought.

Eastview took the lead in the second half on DaNae Moore's three 19-18. Muegge returned the lead to Hopkins after a pass from Lillemoe as Muegge cut through the lane. After that Eastview went on an 8-1 run with Mcsparron providing six of those points, all on drives---including free throws--except the one and one she made after getting a defensive rebound. Sension and Muegge started the 12-4 Hopkins run. Most of the Hopkins points came in the last two minutes. Eastview still had a 28-27 advantage, but the Hopkins defense turned it up a notch. They held the Lightning to five straight non scoring possessions. Sension tied the game with a free throw. Lillemoe hit a jumper with 1:05 left to put Hopkins up 30-28. In this game Hopkins made wiser decisions as the clock wound down. Caitlin Rowland cashed in two free throws with Lillemoe adding another free throw after a McSparron three made it 32-31.

photos: #1 Caitlin Rowland goes up for a shot over Emily Kaus. #2 Brittnye McSparron twists on a drive through the lane. photos by kja

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HOPKINS

STARTERS

Stephanie Sension 9, 13, 69.2, .385 making sharp, aggressive power moves to the glass.

Hanna Muegge 11, 10, 110.0, .500 handled the ball quite a bit. moved without the ball once she gave it up. defensively made McSparron work for her points.

Chelsea Garcia 0, 4, 0.0, .000 looked to shoot the three

Kara Elofson 1, 3, 33.3, .333 banged for boards

Jenna Lillemoe 3, 6, 50.0, .333 guard

BENCH

Caitlin Rowland 7, 8, 87.5, .375 steady, reliable and smart.

Jazmin Mendez 0, 1, 0.0, .000

Tori Joranson 0, 0, 0.0, .000

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EASTVIEW

STARTERS
#12 0, 2, 0.0, .000

Emily Kaus 3, 7, 42.9, .286 hard to move inside. strong. RF: needs to be more consistent at the line.

Sam Mehr 2, 5, 40.0, .200 3 shooter.

Brittnye McSparron 14, 17, 82.3, .353 point guard and main threat. likes to work off the dribble

DaNae Moore 7, 6, 116.7, .500 had a three. likes baseline drives

BENCH

#23 2, 4, 50.0, .250

#4 3, 2, 150.0, .,500

#45 0, 3, 0.0, .000
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TRENCH PLAYER

Hanna Muegge. offensively led team. Defensively assigned to McSparron

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BY THE NUMBERS

Hopkins 33, 45, 73.3, .378

Eastview 31, 46, 67.4, .304

made 3s: Eastview 4, Hopkins 1

made fts: Hopkins 10, Eastview 9

bench: Hopkins 7, Eastview 5

This was the second game where Sension and Muegge faced a Metro Stars Black teammate. This time it was DaNae Moore.

DEFENSIVE WRAPS

HOPKINS

Stephanie Sension 6
Kara Elofson 4

Caitlin Rowland 4

Hanna Muegge 2

Jazmin Mendez 1

Tori Joranson 1

totals: 18

EASTVIEW

Brittnye McSparron 6

DaNae Moore 3

Emily Kaus 2

Sam Mehr 2

#23 1

#4 1

#45 1

totals: 16

Next up: later tonight after the Concordia Summer League Finals.