Three Up, Three Down: Class AAAA

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>What Class AAAA teams are on a roll? What teams have hit a struggle? We give you both today!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Three Up</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Rochester JM (10-2). The Rockets have been on quite a run since they lost an early December game to Burnsville. They've won seven of their last eight games with the lone loss coming to top ten Anoka. JM has knocked off former top ten Farmington, Northfield, Hastings and Owatonna who are playing well, top ten Faribault and then Mayo who was red hot. [player_tooltip player_id='1450098' first='Eli' last='Ladu'] is scoring 20 a game, [player_tooltip player_id='2422068' first='Brayson' last='Sawyer'] is scoring 14 a game from the wing, and [player_tooltip player_id='2381222' first='Deng' last='Lueth'] and [player_tooltip player_id='2422069' first='Angok' last='Kucha'] have been strong up front. Ladu had 26 in the Mayo win. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Moorhead (10-3). The Spuds have played six of their ten games against North Dakota teams so far and they have a 4-2 record against those North Dakota teams. They are 6-1 against Minnesota teams with the loss happened early in the year to Buffalo by two scores but they've beaten top team teams STMA and Sauk Rapids-Rice this month already. Should they be top ten? Maybe, especially after Buffalo just beat STMA. But the loss to Horace is attached to Horace losing to struggling Andover. That said, the guard group of [player_tooltip player_id='2423573' first='Reign' last='Battle'], [player_tooltip player_id='2451500' first='David' last='Mack'], and Brian Zarazua has been outstanding. They play Osseo and Alexandria in the coming days. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Minnetonka (8-4). After starting 3-4 the Skippers have won five games in a row beating Park Center, Chan, Johnson, STMA, and Burnsville. [player_tooltip player_id='1567964' first='Isa' last='El-Amin'] had 71 points combined in the two holiday event games and then had 27 points and seven assists in the win over Johnson. El-Amin is averaging 24 a game since his return and he has balance around him with 11 a game from [player_tooltip player_id='1574218' first='Duke' last='Richardson'], ten a game from Caleb Francois, and 12 a game from [player_tooltip player_id='2760056' first='Malachi' last='Boadi']. At the end of the month the Skippers play Wayzata and Hopkins and there are four games before that to get ready. A five game winning streak has them on a good path.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Three Down</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Farmington (5-6). The Tigers schedule has been quite a menace but the Tigers have lost five of six games. Losing to Shakopee by 15 and then losing to Apple Valley by 17 is more than you would expect and then Farmington lost to Rosemount which was the 4th win of the season for the Irish. The Tigers have five guys averaging double figures but they don't have a chemistry right now. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Spring Lake Park (8-6). A week ago we had the Panthers in the "Three Up" column! And then seven days later they've lost games to Anoka, which makes sense as they are a top ten team, Armstrong, who is 3-11, and Blaine who is a surprising 6-6 on the year. They have six days off right now to right the ship and winnable games against Centennial, Elk River and Coon Rapids are coming up. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Andover (6-8). It's been quite a roller coaster for the Huskies. They lost three of their first four games, won five in a row, but have now lost games consecutively to Hudson, Spring Lake Park, Totino-Grace, Anoka and that pesky 3-11 Armstrong team that seems to be getting things going all of a sudden (they've helped put two in this column this week keeping themselves out of it!). Andover has been without leading scorer [player_tooltip player_id='1617679' first='Alex' last='Kopetzki'] which doesn't help. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->