15 More Tickets Punched, 6 #1s Fall, AAA Will Have New Champ

#2 posting 3.8.2008
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MINNESOTA REPORTS
final edition
15 more girls basketball teams punched state tickets last night. The biggest upset---no more unblemished teams as Cedar Mountain-Comfrey upended GHEC 50-48 in the 2A Finals. GHEC wasn't the only #1 to fall. Six dropped. Also of note--there will be a new AAA champ as Becker fell for the third time this season to Rogers.
Also Glaeser's Theorem picked off teams that had the unfortunate luck to have their bad half in the championship. Case in point---New Prague was up at half time 27-18 and lost 39-36 to Austin. Kennedy had their bad half in the second as I reported last night in my out & about. They had a 12 point lead at half time and lost by 2 to Chaska. Holy Family had the opposite problem with their bad half early as they trailed HLWW 35-15 at halftime. The Fire lost 69-61.

7 team punch their state tickets today. The best bet:
Minneapolis Roosevelt vs Jordan at Delano at 3 pm. Both teams met on a Monday in Jordan and it was a tight contest until two Roosevelt players knocked each other out.

LAST NIGHT'S RESULTS
AAAA
1: Owatonna beat #1 seed Rochester JM 49-39. Beth Christensen had 17 for the Huskies. From the Rochester Post Bulletin.

3: I reported on Eastview's win over Park-Cottage Grove. Here is the South Washington County Bulletin version. The StarTribune writes on that game and Chaska's comeback win over Kennedy (again I reported on that last night).

8: The Spy wrote about the Tech win last night. St. Cloud Tech moved on to state beating Brainerd for the third time this year 45-39. From the St. Cloud Times.

AAA
1: Brittney Gibson of Austin hit a game winning 3 in the Packers 39-36 win over New Prague. NP was the #1 seed, but Austin did beat the Trojans early in the year. From the Austin Post Bulletin.
5: Last night I had a spy out & about on the Rogers 54-44 win over defending state champ Becker. Here are the Elk River Star News and the St. Cloud Times versions.
7: Grand Rapids beat Hibbing 56-38. Ashley Runge had 18 for GR. From the Duluth News Tribune.

AA
2: Hayfield beat LeSueur-Henderson 52-43. Sophomores Kiley Severson and Jordan Krekling combined for 38 points. From the Rochester Post Bulletin.
3: MVL beat Fairmont 54-52. This was a revenge match that Fairmont won last year. From the New Ulm Journal, the Fairmont Sentinel, and the Mankato Free Press too.
5: There are no links to any story but Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted beat Holy Family 69-61.
6: Albany beat West Central 77-42. Taylor Voss had 25 for the Huskies. From the St. Cloud Times and Fergus Falls Daily Journal.
8: Crookston beat Pequot Lakes 80-55. Kamille Wahlin had 28 for Crookston. From the Grand Forks Herald.

A
2: Cedar Mountain-Comfrey pulled the big upset yesterday knocking off undefeated GHEC 50-48. Last year CMC was stopped in the subsection finals. From the New Ulm Journal.
3: SW Star beat RTR 59-47 for the first tournament entry for that school (as that combination). From the Worthington Daily Globe.
6: Ada-Borup took revenge on Hancock 60-50. Last season Hancock beat AB in the state A semis. From the Fargo Forum and West Central Tribune.
8: Lake of the Woods went double overtime for their win over the Northern Freeze 45-44. From the Grand Forks Herald.

FEATURE
Former Fulda and TMB girls basketball coach Rick Haberman has turned around the boys team at TMB. From the Marshall Independent.

POINT PARADE
AAA
Briana Mastey, Becker 28 vs Rogers 54-44
AA
Kamille Wahlin, Crookston 28 vs Pequot Lakes 80-55
Becca Friestleben, Holy Family 27 vs Howard Lake-W-W 61-69

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