Minnesota Playoff Central: Henry Stang Steps Up!

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Maple Grove guard [player_tooltip player_id='1293966' first='Henry' last='Stang']e had a massive game leading his team to a first round playoff win. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Playoff Central.</strong> [player_tooltip player_id='1293966' first='Henry' last='Stang'] might have been the story of Wednesday night. Maple Grove defeated Roseville 96-73 and Henry had 45 points on 15 shots! Let me say that again, 45 points on 15 shots! He made 12 of those 15 plus he sunk 18 of 20 foul shots. Throw in the 11 assists and seven boards and [player_tooltip player_id='1293966' first='Henry' last='Stang']'s contribution to that 96 was massive. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Upset City</strong>. I don't think anybody wants to deal with Eastview in the playoffs even though they won only four games this year. Park of Cottage Grove was 13-13 in the regular season but Eastview was way too big for them up front. Johnathan Mekonnen had 26, Nolan Senger had 25 and Eastview at one point had a 30 points lead. Final score was 87-67. The neighborhood battle of Eastview vs Apple Valley is next. AV just got by Burnsville 65-62. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>The Big Stage.</strong>  The Big Stage last night was also Upset City. The Mayo Civic Center. Fillmore Central knocked off top ten Spring Grove and Goodhue beat Rushford Peterson. Kyle Daniels made the game winner to get the 56-55 win for Fillmore Central. The team hit 13 threes around that Spring Grove defense. Sophomore [player_tooltip player_id='1951088' first='Luke' last='Roschen'] scored 28 leading Goodhue tot he 75-64 win over RP. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Top Performers</strong>. [player_tooltip player_id='1579885' first='Nolan' last='Groves'] scored 53 points with 11 rebounds and eight assists while [player_tooltip player_id='1484016' first='Brady' last='Wooley'] had 24 points and 13 rebounds leading Orono past Cooper 113-92. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Nice game from [player_tooltip player_id='1284137' first='Grady' last='Guida'] scoring 21 for Buffalo who knocked off Brainerd 63-47. Buffalo, a three seed at 12-14 despite losing to four seed 18-9 Sauk Rapids-Rice and six seed 17-9 Brainerd, proved their spot with the 16 point win. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1574223' first='CJ' last='Armstrong'] of Richfield scored 28 points hitting four threes leading the [program_tooltip program_id='2075852' first='Spartans' last=''] to a 93-76 win over Mound-Westonka. David Lee had 20. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Minneapolis Roosevelt earned the upset win over Harding led by 22 points from [player_tooltip player_id='2423563' first='Obie' last='Esparza']. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1288720' first='Patrick' last='Rowe'] scored 20 leading Chisago Lakes past Grand Rapids 82-57. UND Head Coach Paul Sather watched the game. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Tip of the Hat to the Career</strong>. [player_tooltip player_id='1284133' first='Elijah' last='Solum'] was looking to get back to state but it wasn't to be. The Spring Grove leader came back from a knee injury that forced him to miss the football season and the first third of the basketball season. Elijah came back from a knee injury to have a nice season. Teammate [player_tooltip player_id='1834616' first='Jaxon' last='Strinmoen'] took up the spot as a go to guy on the floor with Elijah out and coming back, and Jaxon had a nice 17 point, 8 rebound per game season. So tip of the hat to a couple Spring Grove Lions. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->