South Triumphs

#2 posting 5.24.2008
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TIGERS ROAR
The Minneapolis South Tigers won the North St. Paul MYAS 17u event today beating three teams. Most of the teams in this tournament were school based teams, but not everyone from the respective schools were there. For example South was missing Tayler Hill and Ameshia Kearney.

The first game featured two teams that finished second in the recent Minnesota State High School tournament--AAAA South and A Barnum. South led most of the first half, but Barnum, behind long range shooting, edged in front 21-19 in the second half with 14:49 to go. That was to be their last points as the Southerners finished with a 23-0 run and Barnum finished with a 18 possession drought.

The second game South beat the Hurricanes handily. However I was watching Fridley beat Barnum 56-29. Fridley earlier had beat the Hurricanes by double figures. In the Fridley/Barnum game the Tigers jumped out to a 19-5 lead as everything was clicking. The one sub Barnum team left a lot of energy on the floor in the South game.

It was a battle of Tigers in the championship. Fridley held an early 7-2 lead, but after that it went South quickly. The Southerners outscored the other Tigers 32-11 the rest of the half and at one point held the Fridley squad scoreless 10 possessions. South triumphed 56-38 in a fairly even second half. Tyisha Smith had 25 points for South in the championship.

I will have detailed out & abouts later in the week, maybe even as early as tomorrow morning. Maybe.

next up: tomorrow morning