Fall League Recap--Five Games

#2 posting 9.23.2007
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FALL LEAGUE WEEK 1 RECAPS
Today the MYAS Fall Season opened with action at a variety of sites throughout the metro area. I attended a couple of venues.

At Kennedy in the White division it was defending state AAAA champs St. Paul Central smashing Owatonna 69-34. Bad news for the rest of the state....Central was not at full strength. Georgie Jones, was at Marquette on a visit, and Cyonna West did not play. Owatonna figures to be in the hunt for the Big 9 title.
The next game I watched was in the Purple division and it was a St. Paul City battle. It also was a battle between two teams that did not have a player taller than 5-7. It was Humboldt winning the mighty mite battle over Highland Park 54-32.
After that it was back to the white division. Again it was a Big 9 team facing a metro team. It was Mankato West against Chaska. Courtney Boylan, who had an outstanding summer, picked right up where she left off. It looks as if fall will be more of the same. It was Chaska with a 52-38 win.

After a break (I have volleyball season tickets for the Gophers who beat Indiana). I went to Apple Valley for their Independent Fall League.
In the first game I charted there it was Hill-Murray edging Edina 25-22. The second game featured two Lake conference rivals Eagan and the host school Apple Valley. It was Eagan taking the game 42-35.

In games I didn't see, it was Kennedy beating Holy Angels 41-37 at the Kennedy White division. Woodbury defeated Cretin-Derham Hall in the Independent Apple Valley Fall League. Also Eagan beat Mpls Southwest, because SW didn't have enough players. In fact they borrowed a player from the crowd.

COACHING NEWS
Edina's new athletic director Jenny Johnson, will remain the girls basketball coach for this year according to Edina sources.
Apple Valley has hired Nick Storm as an assistant. Storm is a director for the MN Fury AAU program.

RUMORAMA
If you remember earlier today I wrote about the rumorama a transfer to Kennedy. These are the fact--#1 the player was from Texas, not Georgia. #2 She was 6-3, #3 she was to live with a school official (it was his relative) in Eagan, but Eagan would not sign off on the transfer. So she is now with another relative.

I will report on these games in the next few days with all the pp100, and numbers later in the week. I don't think I will be able to get all five today. Maybe the Central game later tonight. It won't be tonight after all. Look for the reports starting Monday

If you have stories or news from the Fall Leagues, let me know

next up: tomorrow morning