Tech vs. Apollo boys and girls

I saw both the boys play last night and the girls play on tuesday. Here are my thoughts on both games.

Tuesday Night- Lady Tigers travel to visit the Lady Eagles. Apollo comes out in a press, but doesn't trap out of it. Freshman guard Anessa Roesch slices through it and drops off a lot of nice passes or take the layups herself. Apollo hangs around with some nice play from Alison Gray. It's 28 all before Tech goes on a 6-0 run to end the half. Second half is Zweiner time as both sisters hit early shots and Apollo goes down 13. Apollo still in the press with no traps, and Roesch still slicing it, lead gets to 18 with 4 minutes to play when Maddox Lewis tosses his popcorn bag under the bleachers and we decide it's time to leave. Gray with 20, Courtney Lynch with 18. For the Tigers Roesch had 17, Zweiners both in double figures.

Thursday Night- What a game, fantastic crowd, Mike Much from MN Preps in the stands and by my count 9 college coaches as well. Neither student section got as rowdy as they have in the past but they cheered loudly throughout the night, sometimes you forget what a great crowd can do for the atmosphere at a HS game.

Starting the game Tigers are all over the Eagles, Wolters is getting wherever he wants, and Apollo seems content to settle for a lot of jumpers. A Banked 3 by Alex Hanks puts them up 11 at 24-13. Apollo battles back as Bergstrasser get's an and 1, and Garth steals the missed Ft and lays it back in. Back and forth we go and it's 40-33 at the half. The second half is where one of the best shootout's between two players, I have ever seen happened. 4 minutes into the half, Andre Garth and Nate Wolters go bananas, Each of them scoring at will, on the other defense. It's 52-51 Tech when Apollo commits a turnover, and on the fast break back Ibrahim Abukar get's called for an intentional foul as he and a Tech kid collided and on their way to the floor, Abukar grabs his jersey. He did grab a jersey but no intent to injure at all, it was a very soft call. Down the stretch Apollo is gassed and Wolters goes for the throat, getting to the rack at will. The game comes too easy for Nate, he is really good. I posted alot of my thoughts on mnpreps already, so I will keep this brief. Mark Kaczor was Co MVP for Tech. Great game by him.

Wolters 39 Eurhle 17 Hanks 15 for Tech

Garth 39 Maslonkowski 15 Bergstrasser 14 Abukar 12 for Apollo