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Class 4A quarterfinals
WEDNESDAY
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At Williams Arena
Hopkins 66, White Bear Lake 39
Maple Grove 56, Lakeville North 55
St. Michael-Albertville 68, Rosemount 57
Class 3A quarterfinals
WEDNESDAY
At Maturi Pavilion
Benilde-St. Margaret's 75, Minneapolis Roosevelt 40
Class 2A quarterfinals
WEDNESDAY
At Williams Arena
Perham (26-3) vs. [1] Providence Academy (25-4), 6 p.m.
[5] Crosby-Ironton (24-6) vs. [4] New London-Spicer (28-2), 8 p.m.
At Maturi Pavilion
Rochester Lourdes (21-9) vs. [2] Albany (28-1), 6 p.m.
Waterville-Elysian-Morristown (19-11) vs. [3] Minnehaha Academy (26-3), 8 p.m.
5:46 p.m.
Alexandria's three standouts take down Rock Ridge
Hadley Thul poses plenty of matchup problems. That frees up MaCee Linow and Lauren Beyer on the perimeter.
Alexandria's trio combined for 58 points, leading the No. 3-ranked Cardinals to a 67-50 victory over No. 8 Rock Ridge in the Class 3A quarterfinals at the Maturi Pavilion. Thul and Linow finished with 21 points apiece, and Beyer scored 16.
Rock Ridge is in its first year as a new school, the combination of Virginia and Eveleth-Gilbert. The girls basketball team is in its second year together.
Junior guard Anna Westby led the Wolverines with 20 points.
5:39 p.m.
St. Michael-Albertville turns back Rosemount
Cail Jahnke is listed as a sophomore, but the St. Michael-Albertville is game-hardened beyond her years. Playing like the wily veteran she's become, Jahnke made key play after key play to help the defending champion Knights fend off Rosemount 68-57 in the Class 4A quarterfinals at Williams Arena.
Jahnke had 22 points and seven rebounds for the third-seeded Knights (23-7). Ja'Kahla Craft had 19 points, and Abby Hoselton added 17.
Both teams came in with a wealth of state tournament experience. St Michael-Albertville is the defending Class 4A champion, and Rosemount was the runner-up in 2021 and returned in 2022.
St. Michael-Albertville surged out of the gate to a 21-9 lead, but Rosemount (22-7) outscored St. Michael-Albertville 13-4 over the final 8:48 of the first half and trailed only 32-27 at halftime.
3:37 p.m.
DeLaSalle shuts down Totino-Grace
On the island, DeLaSalle is referred to as "D." It might as well stand for defense.
The No. 1-ranked Islanders had Totino-Grace out of sync from the outset, cruising to an 81-49 victory in the Class 3A quarterfinals Wednesday at the Maturi Pavilion.
Coach James Fassett's squad limited Totino-Grace to 33 percent shooting from the floor while also forcing 16 turnovers.
"We played well defensively," Fassett said. "It was a good two-half game for us."
On offense, DeLaSalle's balanced attack ran Totino-Grace ragged. All five starters for the Islanders (26-3) were in double figures, led by sophomore Madalyn Blaylark and junior Aneisha Scott with 14 apiece.
Junior guard Chloe Nuss scored a game-high 28 points for the Eagles (17-12). She made 10 of their 19 shots.
"Chloe is a good player," Fassett said. "We were able to hold everybody else down."
RON HAGGSTROM
3:26 p.m.
Minnetonka stands tall against Andover
It's a combination that's been tough to beat all season: Minnetonka relied on its superior height and wealth of talent to pull away from Andover 74-48 in the Class 4A quarterfinals Wednesday at Williams Arena.
The No. 2-seeded Skippers improved to 27-2. They were paced, as they have been all season by 6-1 junior guard Aaliyah Crump, who had 31 points. Gophers recruit Tori McKinney added 12.
Minnetonka broke out midway through the first half. After Andover rallied from an early eight-point deficit, Minnetonka shut down the Huskies, keeping them off the offensive glass and holding Andover scoreless for more than eight minutes. During that run, Minnetonka turned an 11-11 tie into a 28-11 advantage. Andover (24-5) never got closer than 16 the rest of the game.
Andover coach Blake Nichols said he expected his team to make a comeback, but Minnetonka wouldn't allow it.
"There's 28 years of high school basketball being played together here," Nichols said of his players. "They understand that teams make runs and you need to be able to stick together through them. We just talked about controlling what we can control. . . . We made some little dents in it, but credit to Minnetonka and their ability to just make us play faster than we wanted to."
JIM PAULSEN
1:41 p.m.
Stewartville shows it remembers St. Peter
Lesson learned.
Stewartville went to school after its last loss, by 31 points to St. Peter the first week of February.
The Tigers avenged that nightmarish setback with a 47-46 victory over St. Peter in the Class 3A quarterfinals Wednesday at the Maturi Pavilion. St. Peter was sixth in the final regular-season Minnesota Basketball News rankings.
"We are a different team than when we played them the first time," Tigers coach Tanner Teige said, referring to that 71-40 loss. "We are playing so much better defensively."
It showed on the last possession. St. Peter called timeouts with 12.8 and 7 seconds remaining to try to get off a game-winning shot. It turned out to be an errant off-balance shot in a clogged lane.
"We locked down defensively the last 12 seconds of the game," Teige said. "We figured being down one and in the bonus that they wanted to get downhill and to the basket. We wanted to clog the lane up."
Senior guard Savannah Hedin's basket with 1 minute, 36 seconds remaining gave the Tigers a 45-44 lead. She blocked a shot 10 seconds later, leading to Audrey Shindelar's basket and a three-point lead.
"I was kind of nervous," Hedin said. "I didn't want to lose."
Hedin finished with 15 points and Shindelar 13.
The Saints (27-3) pulled within one on senior forward Abby Maloney's basket. She scored all 12 of her points in the second half. The Tigers (22-8) missed a shot before the final sequence.
"We wanted to get the ball inside, and we did a better job of that in the second half," Saints coach Bob Southworth said. "It was a battle. There weren't any easy baskets throughout the game. I knew it was going to come down to the end."
RON HAGGSTROM
1:35 p.m.
Maple Grove's last-second lob sinks Lakeville North
An inbounds passing play drawn up in the morning shootaround gave Maple Grove a 56-55 victory against Lakeville North in the second Class 4A quarterfinal game played at Williams Arena.
Senior Ava Cossette took the ball out and fired it toward senior Claire Stern, who made the layup as time expired. They successfully executed a play called "Iowa," introduced by Crimson assistant coach Stacie Olson. The first two trial runs gave no indication of a happy ending.
In practice, Cossette bonked Stern in the head twice.
Panthers senior center Trinity Wilson, who led all players in points (17) and rebounds (15), said her team has a similar play called "Fudge," which typically works.
The No. 4 seed Crimson (25-4) led 31-22 at halftime. But No. 5 seed Lakeville North (24-6) climbed back into the game. The Panthers grabbed a 55-54 lead with 29.8 seconds remaining.
It held until "Iowa" was called and run to a T.
"It was really nice to have that play in our toolbox," Stern said.
The victory earns Maple Grove a semifinal meeting with No. 1 seed Hopkins at 6 p.m. Thursday at Williams Arena.
DAVID LA VAQUE
12:03 p.m.
Hopkins starts fast, pulls away from White Bear Lake
Top seed Hopkins barely had to break a sweat as the overwhelming Royals broke the game open early in a 66-39 defeat of White Bear Lake in the first Class 4A quarterfinal at Williams Arena.
Limited by early foul trouble, Hopkins senior guard Liv McGill received less than eight minutes of playing time in the first half. Not even the absence of McGill, the Star Tribune Metro Player of Year, fazed the Royals (26-3). They led 10-0 when McGill checked out and built an 18-6 lead by the time McGill checked back into the game.
White Bear Lake (21-8) trailed 39-16 at halftime.
DAVID LA VAQUE
11:38 a.m.
Benilde-St. Margaret's rolls against Minneapolis Roosevelt
It was inevitable.
Benilde-St. Margaret's was too tall, too fast, too skilled for Minneapolis Roosevelt in the opening Class 3A quarterfinal at the Maturi Pavilion. The Red Knights scored 25 unanswered points in the second half, pulling away for a 75-40 victory over the Teddies, a first-time state tournament entrant.
Senior guard Olivia Olson, a Michigan recruit, scored 16 of her game-high 35 points in the run. She had 16 points in the first half, and the Red Knights held a slim 33-27 lead at halftime.
"We just had to slow down," Olson said. "It was our time. We've been here before. I want to go out with another state championship."
The Red Knights (25-5) had a 5-inch height advantage per starter and took advantage of it, getting inside at will and hitting the offensive glass.
Senior guard Olivia Wren, the tallest starter for the Teddies (23-8) at 5-8, did her best to keep the Minneapolis school close. Two Teddies starters stand 5-2 and another 5-5; the Red Knights' shortest starter was 5-9.
Wren's two free throws stopped the Red Knights' second-half run. She finished with 17 points before fouling out with 4:22 remaining.
"We played amazing in the first half," Roosevelt coach Tyesha Wright said. "We fell short in the second half."
RON HAGGSTROM
Class 1A quarterfinals
THURSDAY
At Maturi Pavilion
[1] Goodhue (25-5) vs. Mayer Lutheran (19-10), 11 p.m.
[5] Southwest Minnesota Christian (28-2) vs. [4] Underwood (27-3), 1 p.m.
Walker-Hackensack-Akeley (24-6) vs. [2] Mountain Iron-Buhl (27-3), 3 p.m.
[3] Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart (27-3) vs. Fosston (29-2), 5 p.m.
Semifinals
Thursday at Williams Arena
Class 4A: [4] Maple Grove vs. [1] Hopkins, 6 p.m.
Class 3A: [5] Stewartville vs. [1] Benilde-St. Margaret's, noon
Friday at Williams Arena
Championship games
Saturday at Williams Arena
Tournament brackets
Class 4A | Class 3A | Class 2A | Class 1A
. . .Tickets, TV
Ch. 45 will televise the semifinals and championship games starting Thursday. Quarterfinal games are available for a fee on NSPN. Tickets to the event range from $11 to $22 and are available at mshsl.org/tickets.
. . .More coverage
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. . .Tournament information
