A New Season, is UNDERWAY! (WDA UPDATE PART 2)
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Part 1 we touched base on Minot, Century, Bismarck, Legacy, St.Mary and Dickinson. Let’s take a look at the rest of the WDA, and the statistical leaders up to this point. Manda High School: Mandan started off their season at…
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Continue ReadingPart 1 we touched base on Minot, Century, Bismarck, Legacy, St.Mary and Dickinson. Let’s take a look at the rest of the WDA, and the statistical leaders up to this point.
Manda High School: Mandan started off their season at home against #5 West Fargo Sheyenne in a big home outscoring the Mustangs 66-58. Probably the biggest excitement of the night other than the win was Junior Jayden Wiest Jayden Wiest 5'5" | CG Mandan | 2024 State ND making her comeback after sitting out all of last year due to injury. She put up 25 points and was 5/8 from deep and tallied up 5 assists. I think it’s safe to say welcome back Jayden! Their next game was a tough physical game against Bismarck High where they fell short 46-62. The Braves are shooting 28.6% from the field and led in scoring by Jayden Wiest Jayden Wiest 5'5" | CG Mandan | 2024 State ND , McKenna Johnson McKenna Johnson 6'2" | PF Mandan | 2025 State ND , Emma Bogner Emma Bogner 5'10" | C Mandan | 2024 State ND and Hailey Markle. (Due to a Blizzard 2 of their games have been rescheduled)
Watford City: The Wolves started their season off traveling to Sidney, MT for a non-conference game where they picked up a 52-41 win. Following that they took on Legacy at Legacy in a hard-fought game but came up short 40-86. The Wolves are looking to hit their stride this year with some talented shooters and size to match. Unfortunately, 2 of their games were also rescheduled due to blizzard conditions. So far, the Wolves are shooting 34% from the field and led by Jessica Mogen Jessica Mogen 5'9" | CG Watford City | 2024 State ND , Gracen Breitbach Gracen Breitbach 5'9" | SG Watford City | 2023 State ND and Bailey Mattson Bailey Mattson 5'8" | SG Watford City | 2026 State ND in the scoring column.
TMCHS: Much like other teams TMCHS has had 2 of their games rescheduled as well and are 0-2 to start the season. TMCHS played a hard-fought close game against Dickinson 54-64, and against Century 47-98. With their next game not scheduled till January 6th against Watford City, they will be looking for almost a fresh start to their season and come back in 2023 ready to pick up tallies in the win column. So far in the 2 games they have played they are shooting 32.7% from the field and lead by Tiyahha Trottier, Quinn Laducer and All-Stater Amya Gourneau Amya Gourneau 5'7" | PG Turtle Mountain | 2023 State ND .
Jamestown: The Blue jays are off and flying for the 22-23′ season! They kicked off their year against St. Mary’s in a close game 49-62, followed by another battle against Bismarck High in a loss 48-63. The Blue jays are looking to hit their stride in the next coming weeks against Valley City in a non-conference match up, followed by Minot high on the 22nd. Jamestown has all the pieces to the puzzle, and are led by scorers Ella Falk Ella Falk 5'10" | SG Jamestown | 2023 State ND , Katie Falk Katie Falk 5'8" | SF Jamestown | 2023 State ND and Breanna Oettle. On the inside Ella Falk Ella Falk 5'10" | SG Jamestown | 2023 State ND has already picked up 27 rebounds in 2 games, she keeps that up she will be a huge tool for the blue jays this season.
—-WDA STAT LEADERS—- (please keep in mind, some teams have only had 2 games so far this season, these numbers will change significantly over the next week or so)
Scoring:
Logan Nissley Logan Nissley 6'0" | CG Bismarck Century | 2023 State ND 88pts/22ppg,
Leelee Bell Leelee Bell 6'0" | SF Minot | 2026 State ND 65pts/21.7ppg,
Bergan Kinnebrew Bergan Kinnebrew 5'11" | CG Bismarck Century | 2023 State ND 82pts/20.5ppg,
Taury Hight Taury Hight 5'5" | CG Minot | 2023 State ND 55pts/18.3
Rebounding:
Ella Falk Ella Falk 5'10" | SG Jamestown | 2023 State ND 27/13.5RPG
McKenna Johnson McKenna Johnson 6'2" | PF Mandan | 2025 State ND 21/10.5RPG
Leelee Bell Leelee Bell 6'0" | SF Minot | 2026 State ND 30/10.0RPG
Katie Falk Katie Falk 5'8" | SF Jamestown | 2023 State ND 18/9.0RPG
Blocks:
McKenna Johnson McKenna Johnson 6'2" | PF Mandan | 2025 State ND 7/3.5BPG
Leelee Bell Leelee Bell 6'0" | SF Minot | 2026 State ND 10/3.3BPG
Tiyahha Trottier 5/2.5BPG
Brooklynn Felchle Brooklynn Felchle 6'3" | C Bismarck Legacy | 2025 State ND 4/2.0BPG
Assists:
Amya Gourneau Amya Gourneau 5'7" | PG Turtle Mountain | 2023 State ND 12/6.0 APG
Maggie Fricke Maggie Fricke 5'7" | PG Minot | 2025 ND 18/6.0 APG
Peyton Neumiller Peyton Neumiller 5'10" | SG Bismarck High | 2023 State ND 11/5.5 APG
Jayden Wiest Jayden Wiest 5'5" | CG Mandan | 2024 State ND 10/5.0 APG
Field Goals/FG%
Brooklynn Felchle Brooklynn Felchle 6'3" | C Bismarck Legacy | 2025 State ND 13-19/68.4%
Taury Hight Taury Hight 5'5" | CG Minot | 2023 State ND 19-30/63.3%
Bergan Kinnebrew Bergan Kinnebrew 5'11" | CG Bismarck Century | 2023 State ND 25-48/52.1%