CLB’s Fairbanks
has another solid All-Star outing
Bemidji Pioneer
ST.
PAUL – Maroon
easily beat Blue 100-80 and Cass Lake-Bena’s Brady
Fairbanks led Gold over Green 110-109 during the second day of the Minnesota
Coaches Association boys basketball all-star games
Saturday afternoon at Concordia
University.
Fairbanks, who has verbally
committed to Bemidji
State University,
scored a team-high 22 points for Gold behind 6 of 8 from 3-point land. Eric
Carlson of Shakopee and Sal Simmons of St. Paul Johnson added 16 points each in
the win while Dennis Williamson and Moorhead’s
Erik Lien added 15 and 13 respectively.
Trevor Mbakwe
of St. Bernard’s High School led the Green with game-highs of 25 points and 16
rebounds.
Xavier Reed
of Osseo scored a game-high 19 points for Maroon. Santino
Clay led Blue with 18 points.
Mbakwe led the 2-game All-Star series with
43 points while Fairbanks
netted 40. Reed and Clay each tallied 35 points and Alex Nelson of Kingsland
ended with 34.
In addition to Fairbanks, other regional players in action were D.J.
Winfield of Mountain Iron-Buhl (9 points), Andrew VanHavermaet
of Hawley (7), Ryan Shea of Duluth East (9), Landon
Stanfield of Brainerd (6), DeAngelo Brackins of International
Falls (19), and Jake
Driscoll of Dilworth-Glynndon-Felton (10).
Players from the All-Star
series who have signed a National Letter of Intent or have verbally committed
to play college athletics at the NCAA Division I level are Justin Stommes (Rocori, Eastern
Kentucky), Alex Rubin (Robbinsdale Armstrong,
Illinois State), Mbakwe (St. Bernard’s, Marquette),
Al Nolen, Jr. (Minneapolis Henry, Minnesota), Eric Carlson (Shakopee, North
Dakota State), Zach Filzen (Northfield, Northern
Arizona), Drew Lundberg (Owatonna, Northern Iowa), Dennis Williamson (Cooper, Utah
State) and Noah Dahlman (Braham, Wofford).
Playing DII athletics are Fairbanks (Cass Lake-Bena, Bemidji State),
Elijah Blakesley (Maple
River, MSU-Mankato), Preston Whitaker
(St. Cloud Apollo, MSU-Mankato), Taylor Witt (Morris, St.
Cloud State), Trent
Carlson (Belle Plaine, Southwest
Minnesota State),
Matt Theis (Eden Valley-Watkins, St. Cloud State)
and D.J. Winfield (Mountain Iron-Buhl, Minnesota-Duluth). Theis
and Winfield will play football. In addition Eric Hugoson
of Fairmont will play at Bethel
College and DeAngelo
Brackins of International
Falls will stay at home and play
football at Rainey
River Community
College.
Gold 110, Green 109
GOLD: Eric Carlson 8-14 0-0
16, James Granstra 2-3 0-1 4, Eric Hugoson 2-8 3-4 9, Ryan Shea 4-11
0-0 9, Sal Simmons 8-12 0-0 16, Dennis Williamson 7-16 0-2 15, Brady Fairbanks
8-13 0-0 22, Erik Lien 6-12 1-2 13, Alex Rubin 2-5 0-0 4, Justin Stommes 1-9 0-0 2. Totals 48-103 4-9 110.
GREEN: DeAngelo
Brackins 8-16 0-0 19, Aaron Ford 4-7 0-0 8, Mitchell Grundman 2-8 5-5 9, Trevor Mbakwe
12-21 1-4 25, DeAnthony Taylor 3-6 2-4 9, Taylor Witt
5-7 0-0 14, Jake Driscoll 3-8 2-2 10, Drew Lundberg 6-14 0-0 13, Kyle Mathiowetz 1-6 0-0 2. Totals 44-93 10-15
109.
Halftime: Green 58-57.
3-point field goals: Gold 10-26 (Hugoson 2-3, Shea 1-4, Simmons 0-1, Williamson 1-4, Fairbanks 6-8, Lien
0-2, Rubin 0-1, Stommes 0-3), Green 11-29 (Brackins 3-6, Mbakwe 0-1, Taylor
1-1, Witt 4-5, Driscoll 2-6, Lundberg 1-6, Mathiowetz
0-4). Rebounds: Gold 55 (Granstra 10), Green 55 (Mbakwe 16, Ford 12). Assists: Gold 29 (Rubin 14), Green 20
(Taylor, Driscoll 4). Steals: Gold 16 (Simmons 4), Green 14 (Ford 4). Total
fouls: Gold 10, Green 7.
Maroon 100, Blue 80
BLUE: Trent Carlson 3-10 0-0
7, D.J. Winfield 4-9 0-1 9, Brent Egan 2-7 0-2 4, Alex Nelson 4-13 1-2 10,
Landon Stanfield 2-8 0-0 6, Santino Clay 7-15 1-2 18,
Max Hintz 6-16 0-0 13, Matt Theis 3-7 0-0 6, Al Nolen
2-8 4-9 80.
MAROON: Elija
Blakesley 5-8 0-0 10, Andrew VanHavermaet
3-6 0-0 7, Bryce Brunz 3-9 0-0 7, Joe Drapcho 4-9 0-0 9, Xavier Reed 9-16 0-0 19, Zach Filzen 5-16 0-0 13, Dan Fragodt
5-13 2-2 12, Anders Halvorsen 5-10 0-0 10, Seth Jonker 2-6 0-0 4, Preston Whitaker 4-11 0-0 9. Totals
45-104 2-2 100.
Halftime: Maroon 48-38.
3-point field goals: Blue 10-38 (Carlson 1-6, Winfield 1-2, Egan 0-1, Nelson
1-6, Stanfield 2-7, Clay 3-5, Hintz 1-6, Nolen 1-5), Maroon 8-34 (VanHavermaet 1-2, Brunz 1-4, Drapcho 1-3, Reed 1-3, Filzen
3-9, Fradodt 0-3, Halvorsen
0-4, Jonker 0-1, Whitaker 1-5). Rebounds: Blue 57 (Theis 11, Egan, Nelson 10), Maroon 64 (Fragodt
14). Assists: Blue 13 (Nolen 4), Maroon 28 (Brunz 8).
Steals: Blue 8 (Nolen 2), Maroon 16 (Drapcho,
Whitaker 4). Total fouls: Blue 2, Maroon 5.
