The Tuesday Night Starting Five: Dec 31

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>There were eight games on New Year's Eve and today we honor who closed out 2024 with the best games! Our Tuesday Night Starting Five!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Starting Five</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='2618399' first='Grant' last='Freking'] of Jackson County Central (6'5 Sr). JCC got a big overtime win over a good Marshall team 71-67 and they are winning games without [player_tooltip player_id='1601069' first='Roman' last='Voss']. Grant gave his team 26 points, 11 rebounds and five assists as JCC continues to look like a team we better start talking about as a state contender. They are 8-0 as a top five area team and they still don't have their best player! Impressive. Big game from Freking the 6'5 senior who plays a lot of spots. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1628773' first='Isaac' last='Asmus'] of Aitkin (6'9 Jr). Asmus went for 35 points dominating the middle as Aitkin earned an 82-62 win over Mille Lacs. It was the second win for Aitkin and it was an impressive dominating performance for their best player. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Sam Rupnow of Liberty (Jr). Sam scored 32 points for his team helping father (John Towlee) beat son (Zach Towle) in a fun game 86-77. Sam is scoring nearly 29 points a game for Liberty so far this season! </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1560867' first='Christian' last='Wiggins'] of Wayzata (6'4 Jr). The Wayzata four star recruit knocked out four threes scoring 21 points helping the [program_tooltip program_id='2075965' first='Trojans' last=''] get a 92-65 win over Shakopee. It was a four-five score game most of the time and then the [program_tooltip program_id='2075965' first='Trojans' last=''] really pulled away late </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Job Ogeka of Windom (6'1 Sr). Windom improved to 6-4 on the season with a 105-72 win over MACCRAY. They were led by the 26 points game from Job who two days before that had a 15 assist game for his team! And two days before that Job had a 23 point, nine assist game! </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Earned a spot! </strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Gavin Gillette of Murray County Central (6'0 Sr). Two days in a row for the MCC senior guard! Gavin made all seven of his foul shots scoring 16 points and then got an early seat as MCC beat Minneota 68-31.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Alex Fanson of Marshall (6'1 Sr). Marshall may have lost a game but they are having a heck of a run so far. Alex had 20 yesterday. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1560778' first='Nolen' last='Anderson'] of Wayzata (6'7 Jr). Also scoring 20 was [player_tooltip player_id='1560778' first='Nolen' last='Anderson'] who hit another four threes as Wayzata beat Shako. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->