Minneapolis split with Ottawa County Rival Bennington Friday Night

Minneapolis would play their first street sport of the season Friday night time and didn’t should journey far to get there. The Lions would journey to county rival Bennington and would break up on the night with the women profitable 47-41 and the boys dropping a heartbreaker 59-54.

GIRLS – Minneapolis 47, Bennington 41

The girl Lions would off to a sluggish begin for the third sport in a row and must mount a comeback to win the sport within the second half. Bennington would lead 15-6 after the primary quarter and in bother on the street. They might use a stable defensive efficiency within the 2nd quarter solely permitting the girl Bulldogs to attain 4 factors and Minneapolis trailed 19-12 going into halftime.

Minneapolis would use an enormous third quarters behind two 3’s from Sophomore Raelyn Robinson and one from Sophomore Josi Schrader to attain 21 factors within the quarter. They might maintain Bennington to simply 7 factors within the third to take 33-26 lead going into the ultimate stanza.

The girl Bulldogs would rating 15 factors within the 4th in a comeback effort however would in the end surrender 14 factors to Minneapolis and the girl Lions would win the sport 47-41.

Junior Tambryn Watson would lead the scoring for Bennington with 12 factors which was really adequate to guide all scorers. Different scorers for Bennington  had been Rori Miles (8), Kolbie Bartlett (6), Payton Debold (6), Talyn Jilka (4), Tayleigh Watson (3) and Ava Lawson (2).

Minneapolis was lead in scoring by Raelyn Robinson with 10 factors. Additionally scoring for the Woman Lions had been Maci McClure (8), Braedee Weatherman (7), Josi Schrader (7), Maggie Shupe (6), Myka Deronnet (4), Jordan Peck (3) and Alayna Cossart (2).

Nex-Tech Wi-fi Participant of the Recreation goes to Raelyn Robinson for scoring 10 factors off the bench for Minneapolis.

H&R Block of the Recreation goes to Junior Myka Deronnet.

Minneapolis strikes to 3-0 on the season and 2-0 within the Tri-County Basic and can play Solomon tomorrow at 4pm at Mabee Area at Kansas Wesleyan College for a Championship within the match. Bennington drops to 2-1 on the season and can play Ell-Saline tomorrow at 1pm for 2nd within the Tri-County Basic.

Minneapolis – 6 – 6 – 21 – 14 / 47

Bennington – 15 – 4 – 7 – 15 / 41

BOYS – Bennington 59, Minneapolis 54

For the second time this week Minneapolis would lose a detailed sport after trailing huge within the first half. They might path as many as 14 factors within the first half solely to come back up brief on the comeback 59-54.

The Lions would get off to a sluggish begin within the 1st quarter and solely rating 8 factors complete giving up 20 to the Bulldogs and would path by 12 after the first quarter. The 2nd quarter was a lot of the identical as Minneapolis would battle to search out their shot and would go into halftime down 34-20.

A giant third quarter by Minneapolis would assist mount a comeback because the Lions would rating 22 within the quarter together with 9 factors from Senior Mason Scott. Minneapolis would shut the hole to 48-42 going into the 4th quarter.

After a pair huge 3’s by Scott within the 4th quarter the Lions would tie the sport up at 50 however Bennington would edge them out at dwelling within the rivalry with a remaining rating of 59-51.

The Lions had been lead in scoring by Mason Scott who completed with 30 to guide all scorers. Different Lions with factors on the night time embrace Mason Smith (7), Tucker Smith (6), Owen Simply (5), Grant Rice(4) and Dalton Krueger (2).

The Bulldogs had been lead in scoring by Junior Mister Smith with 27 factors which 20 of these got here within the first half. Different scorers included Eli Lawson (19), Talan Pickering (9), Sean Garrett (2) and Kian Wilson (2).

Nex-Tech Wi-fi Participant of the Recreation was Mason Scott for his efforts and placing up 30 factors for the Lions.

H&R Block of the Recreation goes to Junior Ryan Parks.

Minneapolis drops to 0-3 on the season and can play Solomon at 5:30pm Saturday at Kansas Wesleyan hoping to get their first win of the season. Bennington strikes to 3-0 on the season and can play Ell-Saline Saturday at 2:30pm for the Tri-County Championship.

Minneapolis – 8 – 12 – 22 – 12 / 54

Bennington – 20 – 14 – 14 – 11 / 59