Northstar Girls Top Performer
Welcome back to our continuing series, formerly known as Player of the Week. We've renamed this feature for reasons that have been explained elsewhere. Henceforth our weekly awards will be known as our Top Performer, our Top Team, and so…
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Continue ReadingWelcome back to our continuing series, formerly known as Player of the Week. We've renamed this feature for reasons that have been explained elsewhere. Henceforth our weekly awards will be known as our Top Performer, our Top Team, and so on in that vein.
This week our Top Performer is going to be somebody pretty spectacular–no matter which of our 6 candidates we actually choose for #1. It was a big week for big performances, as you will see. So let's just get to it. Our 6 candidates for Top Performer for last week are as follows (and, then, the winner is found down below). While the winner of our new feature, the Southwest Metro Athlete of the Week, gets a free month of training from Redline Athletics, our Top Performer each week gets something even greater–and that is the praise and admiration of her peers.
Mallory Brake, Hastings, 6-0, sophomore, forward-guard
Brake, Hastings do-it-all junior, scored 43 points and added 32 rebounds, 4 assists, 5 steals and 5 blocked shots in 2 wins this past week. She was a key part of a terrific team defensive effort, as her team clobbered Eagan 70-32 and East Ridge 54-17. Among her 23 points against Eagan was her 1,000th of her career.
Paige Bueckers, Hopkins, 5-9, sophomore, point guard
Bueckers keeps outplaying her toughest competitor, which is herself. Which is to say, she keeps getting better and better, and fast. Last week she scored 29, 30 and 27 points against 3 tough teams—Centennial, Minnetonka and the #1 team in Iowa, Iowa City West.
Sam Haiby, Moorhead, 5-10, senior, combo guard
Already our top performer once this year, Sam Haiby outdid even herself this week. She scored 41 points in a 75-73 win over Fargo Davies, and among those 41 points was the 2,000th of her career. Then she scored 46 of her team’s 54 points in a 54-49 win over White Bear Lake at the Breakdown Invitational on Saturday.
Morgan Hill, Mpls. South, 5-10, senior, shooting guard
Morgan Hill matched Sam Haiby by scoring 33 points, including her 2,000th point, in an 84-60 win over Burnsville. She then added 26 in a 76-49 win over South St. Paul, and 30 more in a 68-57 win over Chaska. All 3 were road games. I wonder what she’ll do on her own home court in an upcoming 5-game home stand.
Abbey McDonald, Hibbing, 5-5, junior, point guard
McDonald scored 83 points as Hibbing continued its early surge, beating Bemidji 73-68, North Branch 71-51 and Princeton 73-62. Hibbing is now 6-1 and has jumped into our top 20, thanks in very large part to McDonald’s sharpshooting.
McKenna Monahan, Glencoe-Silver Lake, 5-8, senior, combo guard
Monahan broke loose for 40 points to lead Glencoe to an 89-82 upset of visiting Hutchinson. Glencoe, now 3-0, moves into our top 20 as a result of the win.
The Envelope, Please!
For the second time this year, already, our Top Performer is Sam Haiby, Moorhead, senior guard extraordinaire.