THE 2010 MINNESOTA STATE HIGH SCHOOL LEAGUE GIRLS STATE TOURNAMENT BEGINS AS LAKEVILLE NORTH TOOK ON NORTHFIELD IN QUARTERFINAL ACTION

The 2010 Minnesota State High School girls’ state basketball tournament quarterfinal action took place at the Target Center in downtown Minneapolis. In the first game it was Lakeville North against Northfield.

Lakeville North won the tipoff. Lakeville North looked to push the ball up the court early in the game. They took their time on the offensive end. They wanted to run as much time off the clock as they could.

Lakeville North looked for Apiew Ojulu to get the ball into the low post. She was able to make a little drop step and made was able to make shots from the low post.

Northfield had a hard time scoring. They were not able to make shots in the early goings of the game.

Northfield played a zone defense. They were not successful in slowing down Lakeville North. Lakeville North was able to do pretty much do what they wanted to do on the offensive end.

Lakeville North was able to effectively use multiple defenses. They did a good job of going back from man-to-man to a zone defense. That really confused Northfield because they were not able to do anything on their offensive end.

With 4:44 left to go in the first half the score was Lakeville North 22 and Northfield 8.

Lakeville North went on a run to close out the first half.

At half time the score was Lakeville North 34 and Northfield 10.

For Northfield they shot 20% 4 of 20 from the field in the first half. Lakeville North shot 53.8%, 14 of 26 from the field in the first half.

As the second half got underway Northfield came out playing aggressively. They didn’t give up even though they were down by a large deficit.

Lakeville North continued to make shots in the second half. The second half saw more of the same from Lakeville North. They were able to make shots. Northfield continued to put up shots but they were not falling.

Northfield picked up at half court. They pulled off the press early in the second half. They kept on playing defense but they were just not able to slow Lakeville North down.

Northfield went to a zone midway through the second half. Lakeville North was mostly man-to man in the second half.

Lakeville North was able to come away with the 52-33 victory over Northfield. Northfield was led in scoring Morgan Zabel. Lakeville North was led in scoring by Cassie Rochel with 17 points. Rachel Banham had 10 points for Lakeville North.