LET THE TOURNAMENTS BEGIN

It’s March, the regular season is over and now its section tournament time. The first section game that I am covering took me to Minneapolis South for one of the toughest sections I have ever seen for the girl's side of tings. Robinsdale Armstong took on the Minneapolis Southwest Lakers. Armstrong came into the game as a number 3 seed and Southwest came into the game with the number 6 seed.

Minneapolis Southwest Lakers started the game playing strong zone defense. Southwest was able to get good open looks at the basket in the early goings. Both teams looked strong in the early goings.


Southwest looked to push the ball up the up the court. They wanted to penetrate against the Armstrong defense. It was a tight first half midway through the first half. Each team traded baskets in the first half.


Armstrong backed off the press midway through the first half. They started playing defense at the half court line. The first half went up and down neither team game up in the first half. Both teams looked like they were evenly matched.

At half time the score was Armstrong 17 and Minneapolis Southwest 15.

As the second half got underway both teams came out with a lot of intensity. Both of these teams looked to push the ball up the court and go after each other.

Alyssa Marschner for Armstrong played really aggressively. She went after balls and she dove after them.

Both teams battled in the second half. Southwest went on a run mid way through the second half. They battled back into this game in the end. Both teams traded baskets and this game came down to the wire. There was a lot of defense played in the game. Southwest hangs on and wins the final of the of the contest was Minneapolis Southwest 38 and Armstrong 36.