Minnesota High School Basketball: Opening Night Starting Five

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Who were the state's top performers on opening night in the state of Minnesota? Here is our opening night starting five!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>First Five</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Mabel-Canton senior [player_tooltip player_id='1284098' first='Cayden' last='Tollefsrud'] went off for 40 of his team's 70 points in a 70-55 win over Glenville-Emmons. Cayden hit four threes. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Potentially the top scoring duo in the state - junior [player_tooltip player_id='1574212' first='Anthony' last='Smith'] and sophomore [player_tooltip player_id='1550877' first='Jayden' last='Moore'] of Hopkins - combined to score 60 points leading Hopkins over Orono 93-75. Smith led with 32 while had 28 and the duo did a good job of turning Orono over numerous times. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Five-foot-9 junior guard Charles Hanson scored five points a game last season for Morris Area. Last night he hit four threes and opened his season with 25 points leading the Tigers to a one score win (68-66) over New London-Spicer. Wildcat senior [player_tooltip player_id='2372690' first='Grant' last='Paffrath'] had 31 points in the loss. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Cherry sophomore [player_tooltip player_id='1601068' first='Noah' last='Asuma'] scored 20 points with eight rebounds in the 109-50 win over Deer River which was not only an eye opening win over a team that we expected to be very good, but Noah went over 1,000 points for his career. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>In the game of the night junior [player_tooltip player_id='1411178' first='Brayson' last='Boike'] led his Dawson-Boyd squad past RTR with 32 points and 16 rebounds! A monster showing that led his team to a 75-62 win. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Reserves</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Rogers senior [player_tooltip player_id='1734188' first='Blake' last='Dalluge'] had 26 leading the Royals to an eye-opening win over Brainerd seven points. Dalluge scored 16.2 a game last season. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Senior [player_tooltip player_id='1845254' first='Isaac' last='Post'] scored 21 for MACCRAY who knocked off Hancock 80-43. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Camden Hungerholdt scored 34 for Leroy-Ostrander hitting six threes in a 77-69 win. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>LCWM senior 5'9 guard Ethan Wiens had 18 in his team's win over Martin County West (66-34). </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1451145' first='Ethan' last='Carter'] scored 27 points leading St. Paul Academy over St. Cloud Cathedral.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Senior [player_tooltip player_id='2375097' first='Michael' last='Foley'] had 28 for Watertown-Mayer who beat Lester Prairie 77-63.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Minnesota State-Mankato signed [player_tooltip player_id='1355507' first='Carson' last='Schweim'] had 22 points, 11 rebounds and four blocks leading East over St. Peter</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->