The Tuesday Night Elite

<p>Who were the Tuesday Night standouts across the great state of Minnesota?  Prep Hoops runs down the Elite performers of the evening. </p> <p>The cast came off and the hot hand of <strong>[player_tooltip player_id="850710" first="Braeden" last="Carrington"]</strong> – junior from Park Center – is going off. Carrington led the Pirates to a big win over Spring Lake Park last night 79-68 and it was Carrington scored 32 of his team’s points. Last week against Totino-Grace, the Pirates lost 81-87 but Carrington kept the game close scoring 31. The 2020-21 calendar year has been great to Carrington who has completely taken off as a playmaker in addition to being a shooter.</p> <p>Sixth ranked North Woods improved 6-1 last night with a 78-68 win over International Falls. Leading the way for the Grizzlies was junior guard <strong>[player_tooltip player_id="958846" first="TJ" last="Chiabotti"]</strong>. TJ scored 35 points last night boosting his season average to 27 points a game. Also averaging seven boards, five steals, and 4.5 assists each night.</p> <p>Cass Lake-Bena defeated rival Red Lake 88-67 improving to 6-2 on the year. The Panthers were led by the 32 points from junior <strong>[player_tooltip player_id="958847" first="Leroy" last="Fairbanks IV"]</strong> and are now hoping to push back into those Class A top ten rankings. Cass-Lake Bena is the only team that has pushed Nevis from start to finish (four point game) this season.</p> <p>Sleepy Eye 6-foot-7 <strong>[player_tooltip player_id="957217" first="Kegan" last="Heiderscheidt"]</strong> – a Southwest Minnesota State signed player – will never say it because he’s too good of a young man but he has to carry his team in a lot of ways. Last night Kegan scored 37 of his team’s 53 points in a one score loss to G-F-W. Kegan not only scored 70 percent of his team’s points but he also grabbed nine boards, handled the ball a lot, and scored inside and out.</p> <p>The balanced Andover attack improved to 6-2 on the year knocking off Osseo 70-64. Sophomore <strong>[player_tooltip player_id="962246" first="Ben" last="Kopetzki"]</strong> led the way with 21 points. Ben and fellow sophomore Sam Musungu continue to lead a balanced Andover team that put together a big one for their program. Next up tomorrow? Park Center.</p> <p>One of the best surprises of this season has been the Northland Eagles from a 13-14 team to a 7-2 squad with wins over North Woods, Deer River, and last night, Littlefork-Big Falls. Five-foot-9 sophomore playmaker <strong>[player_tooltip player_id="962322" first="Alec" last="Wake"]</strong> topped the 1,000 point barrier for his career last night with 30 points in the victory.</p> <p>Richfield wins games with balance and that was the case again last night when they defeated DeLaSalle. [player_tooltip player_id="774836" first="Lamar" last="Grayson"] continued his spectacular year with some clutch shots late and [player_tooltip player_id="774779" first="Ryan" last="Miles"] had 20. The man of the night though was 6-foot-6 post <strong>[player_tooltip player_id="958660" first="Jaden" last="Wollmuth"]</strong>. The 2022 Spartan power forward just gets better and better every night out. Last night may have been his landmark performance scoring 24 points in a game between top five Class AAA teams.</p> <p>[player_tooltip player_id="962200" first="Jack" last="Janicki"] of White Bear Lake may have had the performance of the night but we hope to dive into that later today in The Rundown.</p>