Comets Shootout: 16U Sunday
The Comets Shootout 16U was taken by Storm this weekend, as in a Storm from South Dakota that blew away the opposition with their team defense and offensive execution.
Wayzata’s future continues to look bright and you can see on this stage their teachings of the program stay with them at all times. The defensive work of Keaton Heide along with perimeter shooting helped build Fury Kaupa an early lead. He and Luke Paulson both led the team defensively plus hit multiple deep jumpers. You add these two with Jacob Beeninga for the next two years and the backcourt play at Wayzata will remain strong.
Mark Richelson scored another 15 remaining one of the 2019 classes most dependable players. Numbers that you can count on. Mr. Dependable for both Fury Kaupa and Providence Academy. Rolling Thunder meets Mr. Dependable. That’s Mark.
Comets K made a nice comeback after getting down 15 and a lot of that came from Lester Prairie guard Michael Ziermann. The six foot playmaker had a rough start finishing in the first few minutes but turned things around with attacking And1 finishes touching in scores over length. He continues to score giving his team 15.
South Dakota Storm moved to the semi-finals with a dominating win over WOTN. The biggest part of the victory was their defensive work but offensive execution was excellent as well. Sioux Falls Christian shooter Gavin Schipper took advantage of that halfcourt execution cutting into space for five three point makes and nine threes. A definite sharp shooter to know the next two seasons of play for the Storm and for the Chargers.
Love the way that Justin Hohn ran the Storm. From his give and go cuts into finishes to his assists simply rotating the ball to open shooters Hohn was a big reason that the Storm took the right shots nearly every time down the floor.
Then in the quarters the South Dakota Storm pulled off another good win beating Comets Stump by one. Hohn scored 15 only attacking with the right space making the right decision when the time was right. Nothing wasted, capitalized on everything. Gavin led with 18 knocking out three more treys as he continues to be the best shooter I’ve seen all weekend.
Fosston’s Karsten Broadley (playing with the top Comets 16s) had people flipping through the books or asking their neighbor “who is 30?” The 6-foot-6 forward is an agile, well built young man who has the frame of a stand up edge rusher or Adam Theisen style wide open. I got with football because that’s who he moves up the floor fluidly covering ground and completing.
Dakota went on to win the 16U division 91-80 over Minnesota Select. Jackson Schipper and Justin Hohn were incredible all tournament long. Both had big number performances in the final and are likely the Co-MVPS of the tournament.