An Afternoon at St. Kate’s
Well, one out of 3 ain’t bad. That’s how many winners I picked in the 2nd half of the 4th Annual Fury MLK Classic at St. Kate’s. White Bear took the lead for good against Prior Lake at 10-8 and…
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Continue ReadingWell, one out of 3 ain’t bad. That’s how many winners I picked in the 2nd half of the 4th Annual Fury MLK Classic at St. Kate’s. White Bear took the lead for good against Prior Lake at 10-8 and neither trailed after that nor quite put the Lakers away in Game #4. See our Game of the Week report for more on this game.
In Game #5, Class AA NYA shocked Class AAAA Cretin-Derham Hall 47-46. The Raiders—oh, wait, they’re both Raiders, so the NYA Raiders—took the lead for good at 6-4 and led by as much as 28-12, but neither trailed after that nor quite put the other Raiders away. Cretin got within 43-42, 45-44 and 47-46, the latter at the final buzzer. Bren Fox was a tower of strength for the, er, NYA Raiders with 17 points, 17 rebounds, 2 assists and 3 blocked shots. Elizabeth Edinger and Frannie Hottinger led the, er, well, Cretin Raiders with 15 and 13 points respectively.
Finally, Somerset (WI) and guard Tori Martell manhandled Glencoe-Silver Lake 71-52, as Martell scored 24 points, exactly the same as the 3 Monahan sisters combined—McKenna had 13, Maddie had 8 and Miah had 3—for Glencoe. This game featured the play of the game in which:
Martell threw a lob pass from the point to Kaitlyn Struemke at the FT line, but Struemke stumbled as the pass approached her and received it sitting on her rear end, then tossed it to Rachel Germain on the right wing, who then skipped it over to Avery Gunther on the left wing, and from there Gunther canned a rainbow 3. For awhile in the 2nd half it was raining 3s as Somerset extended a 35-21 halftime lead to 68-39.
And, so, the evening ended two games and at least 3 hours early, which is, well, not exactly a good thing. The KM-Waseca and Hutch-Winona games were by far the most anxiously awaited of all. But on the other hand, the Glencoe-Somerset game ended at about 7:00, a half hour after the KM-Waseca game was supposed to start. So we would undoubtedly have been at the Butler Center until 10:30 p.m. or later, by which time the roads here in the metro probably would have been as icy as apparently they were around KM and Winona. It reportedly was the KoMets and Winhawks who decided to cancel their trips to St. Kate's. I would have been happy at least to see Waseca vs. Hutch but that's not what was scheduled. It is what it is.