The Race for Mr. Basketball

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Our top contenders are all separating themselves but we are also getting a pretty strong surge from the second group making cases for the final five!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>The Favorites</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='962214' first='Nolan' last='Winter'] of Lakeville North. Monster week for [player_tooltip player_id='962214' first='Nolan' last='Winter'] who scored 47 to beat Farmington going over 1,000 points for his career followed by a 25 and 10 game last night as the Panthers knocked off fellow top ten team Eastview. Every week somebody steps ahead by a tiny bit and the past seven days it was Nolan. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='962218' first='Nasir' last='Whitlock'] of DeLaSalle. Scored 34 points in a 16 point win over Brooklyn Center and had 23 against Bloomington Kennedy in a win. Islanders are on a nice win streak although the competition has been down compared to some of his fellow favorites. Has a big game against rival CDH and a huge contest with Wayzata in a couple weeks.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='962212' first='Boden' last='Kapke'] of Holy Family. Averaging 23 points and 13.5 rebounds a game for the number one team in Class AA. Had 35 in a blowout against Southwest Christian and then back to back 16 point games in less than 16 minutes in blowouts over Hutch and Providence Academy. Competition has also been down recently for the Fire. Huge road games right around the corner with Maranatha and Delano though. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>The Next Four.</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1167554' first='Hayden' last='Tibbits'] of Wayzata. The climb continues along with his outstanding play. Was the game changer on the floor beating Hopkins scoring 25 and then had 20 and an early seat at the Trojans dominated Edina last night </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='962199' first='CJ' last='O'Hara'] of Park Center. Had 17 against Rogers but just nine in the big win over Totino-Grace last week. Still the PC leading scorer.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1491756' first='Nate' last='Dahl'] of Buffalo. Look who continues to move! Buffalo keeps winning and moving up in Class AAAA and Dahl is moving up with em. He had 38 against Minnetonka, 34 against EP, and 36 against Minnehaha Academy on Monday! What a roll. From non watch list player to the top ten!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1223070' first='Patrick' last='Bath'] of Totino-Grace. Bath had 19 points and 14 rebounds in the match-up with Park Center and then another doble-double in the 28 point win vs Elk River.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p><strong>Five More</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='962224' first='Will' last='Opsahl'] of Goodhue. Will had a game high 19 to beat Hayfield last night beating the team of [player_tooltip player_id='962284' first='Isaac' last='Matti'] and he scored 25 in a two score loss in a huge game against Lake City last Friday.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='962206' first='Max' last='Shikenjanski'] of Stillwater. Had 28 against Mounds View and 25 in the game with Forest Lake last week. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='962198' first='Taison' last='Chatman'] of Totino-Grade. Coming on strong now! Is there time? Had 23 against O'Hara and Park Center last week and a dozen in that Elk River win. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='1189958' first='Isaiah' last='Hagen'] of Orono. Scored 22 and 23 against Chan and Hermantown respectively. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[player_tooltip player_id='962246' first='Ben' last='Kopetzki'] of Andover. The Huskies just got by Anoka and Champlin Park in the past week and Ben had 24 and 25 in those games respectively. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->